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 Genesis	Gen	1	1	1	In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
 Genesis	Gen	1	1	2   The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters.
 Genesis	Gen	1	1	3	And God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.
 Genesis	Gen	1	1	4	And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.
 Genesis	Gen	1	1	5	God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
 Genesis	Gen	1	1	6	And God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	1	7	And God made the firmament and separated the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament. And it was so.
 Genesis	Gen	1	1	8	And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
 Genesis	Gen	1	1	9	And God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so.
 Genesis	Gen	1	1	10	God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
 Genesis	Gen	1	1	11	And God said, “Let the earth put forth vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, upon the earth.” And it was so.
 Genesis	Gen	1	1	12	The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
 Genesis	Gen	1	1	13	And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.
 Genesis	Gen	1	1	14	And God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years,
 Genesis	Gen	1	1	15	and let them be lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth.” And it was so.
 Genesis	Gen	1	1	16	And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars also.
 Genesis	Gen	1	1	17	And God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth,
 Genesis	Gen	1	1	18	to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
 Genesis	Gen	1	1	19	And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
 Genesis	Gen	1	1	20	And God said, “Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the firmament of the heavens.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	1	21	So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
 Genesis	Gen	1	1	22	And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	1	23	And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
 Genesis	Gen	1	1	24	And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.
 Genesis	Gen	1	1	25	And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the cattle according to their kinds, and everything that creeps upon the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
 Genesis	Gen	1	1	26	Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	1	27	So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
 Genesis	Gen	1	1	28	And God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	1	29	And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food.
 Genesis	Gen	1	1	30	And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.
 Genesis	Gen	1	1	31	And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
 Genesis	Gen	1	2	1	Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
 Genesis	Gen	1	2	2	And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.
 Genesis	Gen	1	2	3	So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all his work which he had done in creation.
 Genesis	Gen	1	2	4	These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. In the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
 Genesis	Gen	1	2	5	when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lor God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to till the ground;
 Genesis	Gen	1	2	6	but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground—
 Genesis	Gen	1	2	7	then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
 Genesis	Gen	1	2	8	And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
 Genesis	Gen	1	2	9	And out of the ground the Lord God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
 Genesis	Gen	1	2	10	A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers.
 Genesis	Gen	1	2	11	The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
 Genesis	Gen	1	2	12	and the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there.
 Genesis	Gen	1	2	13	The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which flows around the whole land of Cush.
 Genesis	Gen	1	2	14	And the name of the third river is Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
 Genesis	Gen	1	2	15	The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it.
 Genesis	Gen	1	2	16	And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;
 Genesis	Gen	1	2	17	but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	2	18	Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	2	19	So out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
 Genesis	Gen	1	2	20	The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for the man there was not found a helper fit for him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	2	21	So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh;
 Genesis	Gen	1	2	22	and the rib which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.
 Genesis	Gen	1	2	23	Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	2	24	Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh.
 Genesis	Gen	1	2	25	And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed.
 Genesis	Gen	1	3	1	Now the serpent was more subtle than any other wild creature that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	3	2	And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden;
 Genesis	Gen	1	3	3	but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’”
 Genesis	Gen	1	3	4	But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not die.
 Genesis	Gen	1	3	5	For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	3	6	So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband, and he ate.
 Genesis	Gen	1	3	7	Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.
 Genesis	Gen	1	3	8	And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
 Genesis	Gen	1	3	9	But the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	3	10	And he said, “I heard the sound of thee in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	3	11	He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	3	12	The man said, “The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	3	13	Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent beguiled me, and I ate.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	3	14	The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above all wild animals; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.
 Genesis	Gen	1	3	15	I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	3	16	To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	3	17	And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
 Genesis	Gen	1	3	18	thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.
 Genesis	Gen	1	3	19	In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	3	20	The man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
 Genesis	Gen	1	3	21	And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins, and clothed them.
 Genesis	Gen	1	3	22	Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever”—
 Genesis	Gen	1	3	23	therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
 Genesis	Gen	1	3	24	He drove out the man; and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
 Genesis	Gen	1	4	1	Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	4	2	And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a tiller of the ground.
 Genesis	Gen	1	4	3	In the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground,
 Genesis	Gen	1	4	4	and Abel brought of the firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering,
 Genesis	Gen	1	4	5	but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.
 Genesis	Gen	1	4	6	The Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your countenance fallen?
 Genesis	Gen	1	4	7	If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master it.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	4	8	Cain said to Abel his brother, “Let us go out to the field.” And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and killed him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	4	9	Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” He said, “I do not know; am I my brother’s keeper?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	4	10	And the Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to me from the ground.
 Genesis	Gen	1	4	11	And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
 Genesis	Gen	1	4	12	When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength; you shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	4	13	Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.
 Genesis	Gen	1	4	14	Behold, thou hast driven me this day away from the ground; and from thy face I shall be hidden; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will slay me.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	4	15	Then the Lord said to him, “Not so! If any one slays Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.” And the Lord put a mark on Cain, lest any who came upon him should kill him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	4	16	Then Cain went away from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
 Genesis	Gen	1	4	17	Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch; and he built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch.
 Genesis	Gen	1	4	18	To Enoch was born Irad; and Irad was the father of Me-huja-el, and Me-huja-el the father of Me-thusha-el, and Me-thusha-el the father of Lamech.
 Genesis	Gen	1	4	19	And Lamech took two wives; the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
 Genesis	Gen	1	4	20	Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have cattle.
 Genesis	Gen	1	4	21	His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe.
 Genesis	Gen	1	4	22	Zillah bore Tubal-cain; he was the forger of all instruments of bronze and iron. The sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
 Genesis	Gen	1	4	23	Lamech said to his wives: “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; you wives of Lamech, hearken to what I say: I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me.
 Genesis	Gen	1	4	24	If Cain is avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	4	25	And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and called his name Seth, for she said, “God has appointed for me another child instead of Abel, for Cain slew him.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	4	26	To Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that time men began to call upon the name of the Lord.
 Genesis	Gen	1	5	1	This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.
 Genesis	Gen	1	5	2	Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.
 Genesis	Gen	1	5	3	When Adam had lived a hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
 Genesis	Gen	1	5	4	The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years; and he had other sons and daughters.
 Genesis	Gen	1	5	5	Thus all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.
 Genesis	Gen	1	5	6	When Seth had lived a hundred and five years, he became the father of Enosh.
 Genesis	Gen	1	5	7	Seth lived after the birth of Enosh eight hundred and seven years, and had other sons and daughters.
 Genesis	Gen	1	5	8	Thus all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years; and he died.
 Genesis	Gen	1	5	9	When Enosh had lived ninety years, he became the father of Kenan.
 Genesis	Gen	1	5	10	Enosh lived after the birth of Kenan eight hundred and fifteen years, and had other sons and daughters.
 Genesis	Gen	1	5	11	Thus all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years; and he died.
 Genesis	Gen	1	5	12	When Kenan had lived seventy years, he became the father of Ma-halalel.
 Genesis	Gen	1	5	13	Kenan lived after the birth of Ma-halalel eight hundred and forty years, and had other sons and daughters.
 Genesis	Gen	1	5	14	Thus all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years; and he died.
 Genesis	Gen	1	5	15	When Ma-halalel had lived sixty-five years, he became the father of Jared.
 Genesis	Gen	1	5	16	Ma-halalel lived after the birth of Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and had other sons and daughters.
 Genesis	Gen	1	5	17	Thus all the days of Ma-halalel were eight hundred and ninety-five years; and he died.
 Genesis	Gen	1	5	18	When Jared had lived a hundred and sixty-two years he became the father of Enoch.
 Genesis	Gen	1	5	19	Jared lived after the birth of Enoch eight hundred years, and had other sons and daughters.
 Genesis	Gen	1	5	20	Thus all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years; and he died.
 Genesis	Gen	1	5	21	When Enoch had lived sixty-five years, he became the father of Methuselah.
 Genesis	Gen	1	5	22	Enoch walked with God after the birth of Methuselah three hundred years, and had other sons and daughters.
 Genesis	Gen	1	5	23	Thus all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.
 Genesis	Gen	1	5	24	Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	5	25	When Methuselah had lived a hundred and eighty-seven years, he became the father of Lamech.
 Genesis	Gen	1	5	26	Methuselah lived after the birth of Lamech seven hundred and eighty-two years, and had other sons and daughters.
 Genesis	Gen	1	5	27	Thus all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years; and he died.
 Genesis	Gen	1	5	28	When Lamech had lived a hundred and eighty-two years, he became the father of a son,
 Genesis	Gen	1	5	29	and called his name Noah, saying, “Out of the ground which the Lord has cursed this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the toil of our hands.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	5	30	Lamech lived after the birth of Noah five hundred and ninety-five years, and had other sons and daughters.
 Genesis	Gen	1	5	31	Thus all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years; and he died.
 Genesis	Gen	1	5	32	After Noah was five hundred years old, Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
 Genesis	Gen	1	6	1	When men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them,
 Genesis	Gen	1	6	2	the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took to wife such of them as they chose.
 Genesis	Gen	1	6	3	Then the Lord said, “My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for he is flesh, but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	6	4	The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.
 Genesis	Gen	1	6	5	The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
 Genesis	Gen	1	6	6	And the Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.
 Genesis	Gen	1	6	7	So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the ground, man and beast and creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	6	8	But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.
 Genesis	Gen	1	6	9	These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.
 Genesis	Gen	1	6	10	And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
 Genesis	Gen	1	6	11	Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence.
 Genesis	Gen	1	6	12	And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
 Genesis	Gen	1	6	13	And God said to Noah, “I have determined to make an end of all flesh; for the earth is filled with violence through them; behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
 Genesis	Gen	1	6	14	Make yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch.
 Genesis	Gen	1	6	15	This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
 Genesis	Gen	1	6	16	Make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above; and set the door of the ark in its side; make it with lower, second, and third decks.
 Genesis	Gen	1	6	17	For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall die.
 Genesis	Gen	1	6	18	But I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
 Genesis	Gen	1	6	19	And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.
 Genesis	Gen	1	6	20	Of the birds according to their kinds, and of the animals according to their kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind, two of every sort shall come in to you, to keep them alive.
 Genesis	Gen	1	6	21	Also take with you every sort of food that is eaten, and store it up; and it shall serve as food for you and for them.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	6	22	Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	7	1	Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.
 Genesis	Gen	1	7	2	Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate; and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate;
 Genesis	Gen	1	7	3	and seven pairs of the birds of the air also, male and female, to keep their kind alive upon the face of all the earth.
 Genesis	Gen	1	7	4	For in seven days I will send rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	7	5	And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	7	6	Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth.
 Genesis	Gen	1	7	7	And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him went into the ark, to escape the waters of the flood.
 Genesis	Gen	1	7	8	Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground,
 Genesis	Gen	1	7	9	two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah.
 Genesis	Gen	1	7	10	And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.
 Genesis	Gen	1	7	11	In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.
 Genesis	Gen	1	7	12	And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
 Genesis	Gen	1	7	13	On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark,
 Genesis	Gen	1	7	14	they and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle according to their kinds, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, every bird of every sort.
 Genesis	Gen	1	7	15	They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.
 Genesis	Gen	1	7	16	And they that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the Lord shut him in.
 Genesis	Gen	1	7	17	The flood continued forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.
 Genesis	Gen	1	7	18	The waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark floated on the face of the waters.
 Genesis	Gen	1	7	19	And the waters prevailed so mightily upon the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered;
 Genesis	Gen	1	7	20	the waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep.
 Genesis	Gen	1	7	21	And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, birds, cattle, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm upon the earth, and every man;
 Genesis	Gen	1	7	22	everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.
 Genesis	Gen	1	7	23	He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark.
 Genesis	Gen	1	7	24	And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.
 Genesis	Gen	1	8	1	But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided;
 Genesis	Gen	1	8	2	the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained,
 Genesis	Gen	1	8	3	and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters had abated;
 Genesis	Gen	1	8	4	and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest upon the mountains of Ararat.
 Genesis	Gen	1	8	5	And the waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
 Genesis	Gen	1	8	6	At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made,
 Genesis	Gen	1	8	7	and sent forth a raven; and it went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth.
 Genesis	Gen	1	8	8	Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground;
 Genesis	Gen	1	8	9	but the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put forth his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	8	10	He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;
 Genesis	Gen	1	8	11	and the dove came back to him in the evening, and lo, in her mouth a freshly plucked olive leaf; so Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth.
 Genesis	Gen	1	8	12	Then he waited another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she did not return to him any more.
 Genesis	Gen	1	8	13	In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry.
 Genesis	Gen	1	8	14	In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
 Genesis	Gen	1	8	15	Then God said to Noah,
 Genesis	Gen	1	8	16	“Go forth from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.
 Genesis	Gen	1	8	17	Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	8	18	So Noah went forth, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	8	19	And every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves upon the earth, went forth by families out of the ark.
 Genesis	Gen	1	8	20	Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
 Genesis	Gen	1	8	21	And when the Lord smelled the pleasing odor, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done.
 Genesis	Gen	1	8	22	While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	9	1	And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
 Genesis	Gen	1	9	2	The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the air, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are delivered.
 Genesis	Gen	1	9	3	Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.
 Genesis	Gen	1	9	4	Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
 Genesis	Gen	1	9	5	For your lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning; of every beast I will require it and of man; of every man’s brother I will require the life of man.
 Genesis	Gen	1	9	6	Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for God made man in his own image.
 Genesis	Gen	1	9	7	And you, be fruitful and multiply, bring forth abundantly on the earth and multiply in it.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	9	8	Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him,
 Genesis	Gen	1	9	9	“Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your descendants after you,
 Genesis	Gen	1	9	10	and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark.
 Genesis	Gen	1	9	11	I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	9	12	And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations:
 Genesis	Gen	1	9	13	I set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
 Genesis	Gen	1	9	14	When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds,
 Genesis	Gen	1	9	15	I will remember my covenant which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.
 Genesis	Gen	1	9	16	When the bow is in the clouds, I will look upon it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	9	17	God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	9	18	The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan.
 Genesis	Gen	1	9	19	These three were the sons of Noah; and from these the whole earth was peopled.
 Genesis	Gen	1	9	20	Noah was the first tiller of the soil. He planted a vineyard;
 Genesis	Gen	1	9	21	and he drank of the wine, and became drunk, and lay uncovered in his tent.
 Genesis	Gen	1	9	22	And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
 Genesis	Gen	1	9	23	Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it upon both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father’s nakedness.
 Genesis	Gen	1	9	24	When Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him,
 Genesis	Gen	1	9	25	he said, “Cursed be Canaan; a slave of slaves shall he be to his brothers.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	9	26	He also said, “Blessed by the Lord my God be Shem; and let Canaan be his slave.
 Genesis	Gen	1	9	27	God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem; and let Canaan be his slave.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	9	28	After the flood Noah lived three hundred and fifty years.
 Genesis	Gen	1	9	29	All the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.
 Genesis	Gen	1	10	1	These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth; sons were born to them after the flood.
 Genesis	Gen	1	10	2	The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
 Genesis	Gen	1	10	3	The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
 Genesis	Gen	1	10	4	The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
 Genesis	Gen	1	10	5	From these the coastland peoples spread. These are the sons of Japheth in their lands, each with his own language, by their families, in their nations.
 Genesis	Gen	1	10	6	The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.
 Genesis	Gen	1	10	7	The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
 Genesis	Gen	1	10	8	Cush became the father of Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man.
 Genesis	Gen	1	10	9	He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	10	10	The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, and Accad, all of them in the land of Shinar.
 Genesis	Gen	1	10	11	From that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and
 Genesis	Gen	1	10	12	Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.
 Genesis	Gen	1	10	13	Egypt became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naph-tuhim,
 Genesis	Gen	1	10	14	Pathrusim, Casluhim (whence came the Philistines), and Caphtorim.
 Genesis	Gen	1	10	15	Canaan became the father of Sidon his first-born, and Heth,
 Genesis	Gen	1	10	16	and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
 Genesis	Gen	1	10	17	the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
 Genesis	Gen	1	10	18	the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
 Genesis	Gen	1	10	19	And the territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon, in the direction of Gerar, as far as Gaza, and in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
 Genesis	Gen	1	10	20	These are the sons of Ham, by their families, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
 Genesis	Gen	1	10	21	To Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, children were born.
 Genesis	Gen	1	10	22	The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
 Genesis	Gen	1	10	23	The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
 Genesis	Gen	1	10	24	Arpachshad became the father of Shelah; and Shelah became the father of Eber.
 Genesis	Gen	1	10	25	To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother’s name was Joktan.
 Genesis	Gen	1	10	26	Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
 Genesis	Gen	1	10	27	Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
 Genesis	Gen	1	10	28	Obal, Abima-el, Sheba,
 Genesis	Gen	1	10	29	Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.
 Genesis	Gen	1	10	30	The territory in which they lived extended from Mesha in the direction of Sephar to the hill country of the east.
 Genesis	Gen	1	10	31	These are the sons of Shem, by their families, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
 Genesis	Gen	1	10	32	These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, in their nations; and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.
 Genesis	Gen	1	11	1	Now the whole earth had one language and few words.
 Genesis	Gen	1	11	2	And as men migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
 Genesis	Gen	1	11	3	And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.
 Genesis	Gen	1	11	4	Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	11	5	And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men had built.
 Genesis	Gen	1	11	6	And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.
 Genesis	Gen	1	11	7	Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	11	8	So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.
 Genesis	Gen	1	11	9	Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
 Genesis	Gen	1	11	10	These are the descendants of Shem. When Shem was a hundred years old, he became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood;
 Genesis	Gen	1	11	11	and Shem lived after the birth of Arpachshad five hundred years, and had other sons and daughters.
 Genesis	Gen	1	11	12	When Arpachshad had lived thirty-five years, he became the father of Shelah;
 Genesis	Gen	1	11	13	and Arpachshad lived after the birth of Shelah four hundred and three years, and had other sons and daughters.
 Genesis	Gen	1	11	14	When Shelah had lived thirty years, he became the father of Eber;
 Genesis	Gen	1	11	15	and Shelah lived after the birth of Eber four hundred and three years, and had other sons and daughters.
 Genesis	Gen	1	11	16	When Eber had lived thirty-four years, he became the father of Peleg;
 Genesis	Gen	1	11	17	and Eber lived after the birth of Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and had other sons and daughters.
 Genesis	Gen	1	11	18	When Peleg had lived thirty years, he became the father of Reu;
 Genesis	Gen	1	11	19	and Peleg lived after the birth of Reu two hundred and nine years, and had other sons and daughters.
 Genesis	Gen	1	11	20	When Reu had lived thirty-two years, he became the father of Serug;
 Genesis	Gen	1	11	21	and Reu lived after the birth of Serug two hundred and seven years, and had other sons and daughters.
 Genesis	Gen	1	11	22	When Serug had lived thirty years, he became the father of Nahor;
 Genesis	Gen	1	11	23	and Serug lived after the birth of Nahor two hundred years, and had other sons and daughters.
 Genesis	Gen	1	11	24	When Nahor had lived twenty-nine years, he became the father of Terah;
 Genesis	Gen	1	11	25	and Nahor lived after the birth of Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and had other sons and daughters.
 Genesis	Gen	1	11	26	When Terah had lived seventy years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
 Genesis	Gen	1	11	27	Now these are the descendants of Terah. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.
 Genesis	Gen	1	11	28	Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
 Genesis	Gen	1	11	29	And Abram and Nahor took wives; the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah.
 Genesis	Gen	1	11	30	Now Sarai was barren; she had no child.
 Genesis	Gen	1	11	31	Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan; but when they came to Haran, they settled there.
 Genesis	Gen	1	11	32	The days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.
 Genesis	Gen	1	12	1	Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.
 Genesis	Gen	1	12	2	And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
 Genesis	Gen	1	12	3	I will bless those who bless you, and him who curses you I will curse; and by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	12	4	So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
 Genesis	Gen	1	12	5	And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions which they had gathered, and the persons that they had gotten in Haran; and they set forth to go to the land of Canaan. When they had come to the land of Canaan,
 Genesis	Gen	1	12	6	Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
 Genesis	Gen	1	12	7	Then the Lord appeared to Abram, and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	12	8	Thence he removed to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.
 Genesis	Gen	1	12	9	And Abram journeyed on, still going toward the Negeb.
 Genesis	Gen	1	12	10	Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.
 Genesis	Gen	1	12	11	When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “I know that you are a woman beautiful to behold;
 Genesis	Gen	1	12	12	and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife’; then they will kill me, but they will let you live.
 Genesis	Gen	1	12	13	Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared on your account.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	12	14	When Abram entered Egypt the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
 Genesis	Gen	1	12	15	And when the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
 Genesis	Gen	1	12	16	And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, he-asses, menservants, maidservants, she-asses, and camels.
 Genesis	Gen	1	12	17	But the Lord afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
 Genesis	Gen	1	12	18	So Pharaoh called Abram, and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
 Genesis	Gen	1	12	19	Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife, take her, and be gone.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	12	20	And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him; and they set him on the way, with his wife and all that he had.
 Genesis	Gen	1	13	1	So Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negeb.
 Genesis	Gen	1	13	2	Now Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
 Genesis	Gen	1	13	3	And he journeyed on from the Negeb as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
 Genesis	Gen	1	13	4	to the place where he had made an altar at the first; and there Abram called on the name of the Lord.
 Genesis	Gen	1	13	5	And Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents,
 Genesis	Gen	1	13	6	so that the land could not support both of them dwelling together; for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together,
 Genesis	Gen	1	13	7	and there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdsmen of Lot’s cattle. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites dwelt in the land.
 Genesis	Gen	1	13	8	Then Abram said to Lot, “Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are kinsmen.
 Genesis	Gen	1	13	9	Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me. If you take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if you take the right hand, then I will go to the left.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	13	10	And Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw that the Jordan valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar; this was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
 Genesis	Gen	1	13	11	So Lot chose for himself all the Jordan valley, and Lot journeyed east; thus they separated from each other.
 Genesis	Gen	1	13	12	Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, while Lot dwelt among the cities of the valley and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
 Genesis	Gen	1	13	13	Now the men of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the Lord.
 Genesis	Gen	1	13	14	The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward;
 Genesis	Gen	1	13	15	for all the land which you see I will give to you and to your descendants for ever.
 Genesis	Gen	1	13	16	I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your descendants also can be counted.
 Genesis	Gen	1	13	17	Arise, walk through the length and the breadth of the land, for I will give it to you.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	13	18	So Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron; and there he built an altar to the Lord.
 Genesis	Gen	1	14	1	In the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Ched-or-laomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim,
 Genesis	Gen	1	14	2	these kings made war with Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).
 Genesis	Gen	1	14	3	And all these joined forces in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).
 Genesis	Gen	1	14	4	Twelve years they had served Ched-or-laomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
 Genesis	Gen	1	14	5	In the fourteenth year Ched-or-laomer and the kings who were with him came and subdued the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
 Genesis	Gen	1	14	6	and the Horites in their Mount Seir as far as El-paran on the border of the wilderness;
 Genesis	Gen	1	14	7	then they turned back and came to Enmishpat (that is, Kadesh), and subdued all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who dwelt in Hazazon-tamar.
 Genesis	Gen	1	14	8	Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out, and they joined battle in the Valley of Siddim
 Genesis	Gen	1	14	9	with Ched-or-laomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar, four kings against five.
 Genesis	Gen	1	14	10	Now the Valley of Siddim was full of bitumen pits; and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them, and the rest fled to the mountain.
 Genesis	Gen	1	14	11	So the enemy took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their provisions, and went their way;
 Genesis	Gen	1	14	12	they also took Lot, the son of Abram’s brother, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
 Genesis	Gen	1	14	13	Then one who had escaped came, and told Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and of Aner; these were allies of Abram.
 Genesis	Gen	1	14	14	When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen of them, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
 Genesis	Gen	1	14	15	And he divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and routed them and pursued them to Hobah, north of Damascus.
 Genesis	Gen	1	14	16	Then he brought back all the goods, and also brought back his kinsman Lot with his goods, and the women and the people.
 Genesis	Gen	1	14	17	After his return from the defeat of Ched-or-laomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).
 Genesis	Gen	1	14	18	And Mel-chizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was priest of God Most High.
 Genesis	Gen	1	14	19	And he blessed him and said, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, maker of heaven and earth;
 Genesis	Gen	1	14	20	and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!” And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
 Genesis	Gen	1	14	21	And the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the persons, but take the goods for yourself.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	14	22	But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have sworn to the Lord God Most High, maker of heaven and earth,
 Genesis	Gen	1	14	23	that I would not take a thread or a sandal-thong or anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’
 Genesis	Gen	1	14	24	I will take nothing but what the young men have eaten, and the share of the men who went with me; let Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre take their share.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	15	1	After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	15	2	But Abram said, “O Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	15	3	And Abram said, “Behold, thou hast given me no offspring; and a slave born in my house will be my heir.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	15	4	And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, “This man shall not be your heir; your own son shall be your heir.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	15	5	And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	15	6	And he believed the Lord; and he reckoned it to him as righteousness.
 Genesis	Gen	1	15	7	And he said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	15	8	But he said, “O Lord GOD, how am I to know that I shall possess it?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	15	9	He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a she-goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	15	10	And he brought him all these, cut them in two, and laid each half over against the other; but he did not cut the birds in two.
 Genesis	Gen	1	15	11	And when birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
 Genesis	Gen	1	15	12	As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram; and lo, a dread and great darkness fell upon him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	15	13	Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know of a surety that your descendants will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and will be slaves there, and they will be oppressed for four hundred years;
 Genesis	Gen	1	15	14	but I will bring judgment on the nation which they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
 Genesis	Gen	1	15	15	As for yourself, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.
 Genesis	Gen	1	15	16	And they shall come back here in the fourth generation; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	15	17	When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.
 Genesis	Gen	1	15	18	On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,
 Genesis	Gen	1	15	19	the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
 Genesis	Gen	1	15	20	the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
 Genesis	Gen	1	15	21	the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	16	1	Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar;
 Genesis	Gen	1	16	2	and Sarai said to Abram, “Behold now, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children; go in to my maid; it may be that I shall obtain children by her.” And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
 Genesis	Gen	1	16	3	So, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her maid, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife.
 Genesis	Gen	1	16	4	And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress.
 Genesis	Gen	1	16	5	And Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my maid to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the Lord judge between you and me!”
 Genesis	Gen	1	16	6	But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your power; do to her as you please.” Then Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her.
 Genesis	Gen	1	16	7	The angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur.
 Genesis	Gen	1	16	8	And he said, “Hagar, maid of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from my mistress Sarai.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	16	9	The angel of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit to her.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	16	10	The angel of the Lord also said to her, “I will so greatly multiply your descendants that they cannot be numbered for multitude.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	16	11	And the angel of the Lord said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and shall bear a son; you shall call his name Ishmael; because the Lord has given heed to your affliction.
 Genesis	Gen	1	16	12	He shall be a wild ass of a man, his hand against every man and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	16	13	So she called the name of the Lor who spoke to her, “Thou art a God of seeing”; for she said, “Have I really seen God and remained alive after seeing him?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	16	14	Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; it lies between Kadesh and Bered.
 Genesis	Gen	1	16	15	And Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
 Genesis	Gen	1	16	16	Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.
 Genesis	Gen	1	17	1	When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless.
 Genesis	Gen	1	17	2	And I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	17	3	Then Abram fell on his face; and God said to him,
 Genesis	Gen	1	17	4	“Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.
 Genesis	Gen	1	17	5	No longer shall your name be Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
 Genesis	Gen	1	17	6	I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come forth from you.
 Genesis	Gen	1	17	7	And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.
 Genesis	Gen	1	17	8	And I will give to you, and to your descendants after you, the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	17	9	And God said to Abraham, “As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.
 Genesis	Gen	1	17	10	This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your descendants after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.
 Genesis	Gen	1	17	11	You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.
 Genesis	Gen	1	17	12	He that is eight days old among you shall be circumcised; every male throughout your generations, whether born in your house, or bought with your money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring,
 Genesis	Gen	1	17	13	both he that is born in your house and he that is bought with your money, shall be circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant.
 Genesis	Gen	1	17	14	Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	17	15	And God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.
 Genesis	Gen	1	17	16	I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her; I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	17	17	Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said to himself, “Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	17	18	And Abraham said to God, “O that Ishmael might live in thy sight!”
 Genesis	Gen	1	17	19	God said, “No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	17	20	As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I will bless him and make him fruitful and multiply him exceedingly; he shall be the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
 Genesis	Gen	1	17	21	But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this season next year.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	17	22	When he had finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.
 Genesis	Gen	1	17	23	Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all the slaves born in his house or bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had said to him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	17	24	Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
 Genesis	Gen	1	17	25	And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
 Genesis	Gen	1	17	26	That very day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised;
 Genesis	Gen	1	17	27	and all the men of his house, those born in the house and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	18	1	And the Lord appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day.
 Genesis	Gen	1	18	2	He lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men stood in front of him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them, and bowed himself to the earth,
 Genesis	Gen	1	18	3	and said, “My lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by your servant.
 Genesis	Gen	1	18	4	Let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree,
 Genesis	Gen	1	18	5	while I fetch a morsel of bread, that you may refresh yourselves, and after that you may pass on—since you have come to your servant.” So they said, “Do as you have said.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	18	6	And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	18	7	And Abraham ran to the herd, and took a calf, tender and good, and gave it to the servant, who hastened to prepare it.
 Genesis	Gen	1	18	8	Then he took curds, and milk, and the calf which he had prepared, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree while they ate.
 Genesis	Gen	1	18	9	They said to him, “Where is Sarah your wife?” And he said, “She is in the tent.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	18	10	The Lord said, “I will surely return to you in the spring, and Sarah your wife shall have a son.” And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	18	11	Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in age; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
 Genesis	Gen	1	18	12	So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I have grown old, and my husband is old, shall I have pleasure?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	18	13	The Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, and say, ‘Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?’
 Genesis	Gen	1	18	14	Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, in the spring, and Sarah shall have a son.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	18	15	But Sarah denied, saying, “I did not laugh”; for she was afraid. He said, “No, but you did laugh.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	18	16	Then the men set out from there, and they looked toward Sodom; and Abraham went with them to set them on their way.
 Genesis	Gen	1	18	17	The Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do,
 Genesis	Gen	1	18	18	seeing that Abraham shall become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by him?
 Genesis	Gen	1	18	19	No, for I have chosen him, that he may charge his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice; so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	18	20	Then the Lord said, “Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave,
 Genesis	Gen	1	18	21	I will go down to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry which has come to me; and if not, I will know.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	18	22	So the men turned from there, and went toward Sodom; but Abraham still stood before the Lord.
 Genesis	Gen	1	18	23	Then Abraham drew near, and said, “Wilt thou indeed destroy the righteous with the wicked?
 Genesis	Gen	1	18	24	Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city; wilt thou then destroy the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it?
 Genesis	Gen	1	18	25	Far be it from thee to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from thee! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	18	26	And the Lord said, “If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	18	27	Abraham answered, “Behold, I have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.
 Genesis	Gen	1	18	28	Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking? Wilt thou destroy the whole city for lack of five?” And he said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	18	29	Again he spoke to him, and said, “Suppose forty are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of forty I will not do it.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	18	30	Then he said, “Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Suppose thirty are found there.” He answered, “I will not do it, if I find thirty there.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	18	31	He said, “Behold, I have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord. Suppose twenty are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of twenty I will not destroy it.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	18	32	Then he said, “Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak again but this once. Suppose ten are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of ten I will not destroy it.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	18	33	And the Lord went his way, when he had finished speaking to Abraham; and Abraham returned to his place.
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	1	The two angels came to Sodom in the evening; and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, and bowed himself with his face to the earth,
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	2	and said, “My lords, turn aside, I pray you, to your servant’s house and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise up early and go on your way.” They said, “No; we will spend the night in the street.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	3	But he urged them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	4	But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house;
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	5	and they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	6	Lot went out of the door to the men, shut the door after him,
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	7	and said, “I beg you, my brothers, do not act so wickedly.
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	8	Behold, I have two daughters who have not known man; let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please; only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shelter of my roof.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	9	But they said, “Stand back!” And they said, “This fellow came to sojourn, and he would play the judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with them.” Then they pressed hard against the man Lot, and drew near to break the door.
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	10	But the men put forth their hands and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	11	And they struck with blindness the men who were at the door of the house, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves groping for the door.
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	12	Then the men said to Lot, “Have you any one else here? Sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or any one you have in the city, bring them out of the place;
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	13	for we are about to destroy this place, because the outcry against its people has become great before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	14	So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, “Up, get out of this place; for the Lord is about to destroy the city.” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting.
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	15	When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the punishment of the city.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	16	But he lingered; so the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the Lord being merciful to him, and they brought him forth and set him outside the city.
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	17	And when they had brought them forth, they said, “Flee for your life; do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley; flee to the hills, lest you be consumed.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	18	And Lot said to them, “Oh, no, my lords;
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	19	behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life; but I cannot flee to the hills, lest the disaster overtake me, and I die.
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	20	Behold, yonder city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one. Let me escape there—is it not a little one?—and my life will be saved!”
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	21	He said to him, “Behold, I grant you this favor also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	22	Make haste, escape there; for I can do nothing till you arrive there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	23	The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	24	Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	25	and he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	26	But Lot’s wife behind him looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	27	And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord;
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	28	and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley, and beheld, and lo, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	29	So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	30	Now Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to dwell in Zoar; so he dwelt in a cave with his two daughters.
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	31	And the first-born said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth.
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	32	Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring through our father.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	33	So they made their father drink wine that night; and the first-born went in, and lay with her father; he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	34	And on the next day, the first-born said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve offspring through our father.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	35	So they made their father drink wine that night also; and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	36	Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father.
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	37	The first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.
 Genesis	Gen	1	19	38	The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi; he is the father of the Ammonites to this day.
 Genesis	Gen	1	20	1	From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.
 Genesis	Gen	1	20	2	And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.
 Genesis	Gen	1	20	3	But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man’s wife.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	20	4	Now Abimelech had not approached her; so he said, “Lord, wilt thou slay an innocent people?
 Genesis	Gen	1	20	5	Did he not himself say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	20	6	Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning against me; therefore I did not let you touch her.
 Genesis	Gen	1	20	7	Now then restore the man’s wife; for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you do not restore her, know that you shall surely die, you, and all that are yours.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	20	8	So Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told them all these things; and the men were very much afraid.
 Genesis	Gen	1	20	9	Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, “What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	20	10	And Abimelech said to Abraham, “What were you thinking of, that you did this thing?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	20	11	Abraham said, “I did it because I thought, There is no fear of God at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.
 Genesis	Gen	1	20	12	Besides she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
 Genesis	Gen	1	20	13	And when God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is the kindness you must do me: at every place to which we come, say of me, He is my brother.’”
 Genesis	Gen	1	20	14	Then Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and male and female slaves, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah his wife to him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	20	15	And Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you; dwell where it pleases you.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	20	16	To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver; it is your vindication in the eyes of all who are with you; and before every one you are righted.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	20	17	Then Abraham prayed to God; and God healed Abimelech, and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore children.
 Genesis	Gen	1	20	18	For the Lord had closed all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
 Genesis	Gen	1	21	1	The Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did to Sarah as he had promised.
 Genesis	Gen	1	21	2	And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	21	3	Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore him, Isaac.
 Genesis	Gen	1	21	4	And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	21	5	Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	21	6	And Sarah said, “God has made laughter for me; every one who hears will laugh over me.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	21	7	And she said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would suckle children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	21	8	And the child grew, and was weaned; and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
 Genesis	Gen	1	21	9	But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, playing with her son Isaac.
 Genesis	Gen	1	21	10	So she said to Abraham, “Cast out this slave woman with her son; for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	21	11	And the thing was very displeasing to Abraham on account of his son.
 Genesis	Gen	1	21	12	But God said to Abraham, “Be not displeased because of the lad and because of your slave woman; whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your descendants be named.
 Genesis	Gen	1	21	13	And I will make a nation of the son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	21	14	So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.
 Genesis	Gen	1	21	15	When the water in the skin was gone, she cast the child under one of the bushes.
 Genesis	Gen	1	21	16	Then she went, and sat down over against him a good way off, about the distance of a bowshot; for she said, “Let me not look upon the death of the child.” And as she sat over against him, the child lifted up his voice and wept.
 Genesis	Gen	1	21	17	And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not; for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is.
 Genesis	Gen	1	21	18	Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him fast with your hand; for I will make him a great nation.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	21	19	Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the skin with water, and gave the lad a drink.
 Genesis	Gen	1	21	20	And God was with the lad, and he grew up; he lived in the wilderness, and became an expert with the bow.
 Genesis	Gen	1	21	21	He lived in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
 Genesis	Gen	1	21	22	At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do;
 Genesis	Gen	1	21	23	now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my offspring or with my posterity, but as I have dealt loyally with you, you will deal with me and with the land where you have sojourned.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	21	24	And Abraham said, “I will swear.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	21	25	When Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well of water which Abimelech’s servants had seized,
 Genesis	Gen	1	21	26	Abimelech said, “I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, and I have not heard of it until today.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	21	27	So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant.
 Genesis	Gen	1	21	28	Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock apart.
 Genesis	Gen	1	21	29	And Abimelech said to Abraham, “What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs which you have set apart?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	21	30	He said, “These seven ewe lambs you will take from my hand, that you may be a witness for me that I dug this well.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	21	31	Therefore that place was called Beer-sheba; because there both of them swore an oath.
 Genesis	Gen	1	21	32	So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines.
 Genesis	Gen	1	21	33	Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.
 Genesis	Gen	1	21	34	And Abraham sojourned many days in the land of the Philistines.
 Genesis	Gen	1	22	1	After these things God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here am I.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	22	2	He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering upon one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	22	3	So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac; and he cut the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	22	4	On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place afar off.
 Genesis	Gen	1	22	5	Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the ass; I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	22	6	And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both of them together.
 Genesis	Gen	1	22	7	And Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” And he said, “Here am I, my son.” He said, “Behold, the fire and the wood; but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	22	8	Abraham said, “God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they went both of them together.
 Genesis	Gen	1	22	9	When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.
 Genesis	Gen	1	22	10	Then Abraham put forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
 Genesis	Gen	1	22	11	But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven, and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here am I.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	22	12	He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	22	13	And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
 Genesis	Gen	1	22	14	So Abraham called the name of that place The Lord will provide; as it is said to this day, “On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	22	15	And the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven,
 Genesis	Gen	1	22	16	and said, “By myself I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this, and have not withheld your son, your only son,
 Genesis	Gen	1	22	17	I will indeed bless you, and I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore. And your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies,
 Genesis	Gen	1	22	18	and by your descendants shall all the nations of the earth bless themselves, because you have obeyed my voice.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	22	19	So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.
 Genesis	Gen	1	22	20	Now after these things it was told Abraham, “Behold, Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor:
 Genesis	Gen	1	22	21	Uz the first-born, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,
 Genesis	Gen	1	22	22	Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	22	23	Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
 Genesis	Gen	1	22	24	Moreover, his concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
 Genesis	Gen	1	23	1	Sarah lived a hundred and twenty-seven years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.
 Genesis	Gen	1	23	2	And Sarah died at Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan; and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.
 Genesis	Gen	1	23	3	And Abraham rose up from before his dead, and said to the Hittites,
 Genesis	Gen	1	23	4	“I am a stranger and a sojourner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	23	5	The Hittites answered Abraham,
 Genesis	Gen	1	23	6	“Hear us, my lord; you are a mighty prince among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our sepulchres; none of us will withhold from you his sepulchre, or hinder you from burying your dead.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	23	7	Abraham rose and bowed to the Hittites, the people of the land.
 Genesis	Gen	1	23	8	And he said to them, “If you are willing that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me Ephron the son of Zohar,
 Genesis	Gen	1	23	9	that he may give me the cave of Mach-pelah, which he owns; it is at the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me in your presence as a possession for a burying place.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	23	10	Now Ephron was sitting among the Hittites; and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites, of all who went in at the gate of his city,
 Genesis	Gen	1	23	11	“No, my lord, hear me; I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it; in the presence of the sons of my people I give it to you; bury your dead.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	23	12	Then Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.
 Genesis	Gen	1	23	13	And he said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, “But if you will, hear me; I will give the price of the field; accept it from me, that I may bury my dead there.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	23	14	Ephron answered Abraham,
 Genesis	Gen	1	23	15	“My lord, listen to me; a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	23	16	Abraham agreed with Ephron; and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.
 Genesis	Gen	1	23	17	So the field of Ephron in Mach-pelah, which was to the east of Mamre, the field with the cave which was in it and all the trees that were in the field, throughout its whole area, was made over
 Genesis	Gen	1	23	18	to Abraham as a possession in the presence of the Hittites, before all who went in at the gate of his city.
 Genesis	Gen	1	23	19	After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Mach-pelah east of Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
 Genesis	Gen	1	23	20	The field and the cave that is in it were made over to Abraham as a possession for a burying place by the Hittites.
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	1	Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years; and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	2	And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his house, who had charge of all that he had, “Put your hand under my thigh,
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	3	and I will make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell,
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	4	but will go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	5	The servant said to him, “Perhaps the woman may not be willing to follow me to this land; must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	6	Abraham said to him, “See to it that you do not take my son back there.
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	7	The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from the land of my birth, and who spoke to me and swore to me, ‘To your descendants I will give this land,’ he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	8	But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this oath of mine; only you must not take my son back there.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	9	So the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	10	Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed, taking all sorts of choice gifts from his master; and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	11	And he made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time when women go out to draw water.
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	12	And he said, “O Lord, God of my master Abraham, grant me success today, I pray thee, and show steadfast love to my master Abraham.
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	13	Behold, I am standing by the spring of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	14	Let the maiden to whom I shall say, ‘Pray let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who shall say, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels’—let her be the one whom thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac. By this I shall know that thou hast shown steadfast love to my master.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	15	Before he had done speaking, behold, Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, came out with her water jar upon her shoulder.
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	16	The maiden was very fair to look upon, a virgin, whom no man had known. She went down to the spring, and filled her jar, and came up.
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	17	Then the servant ran to meet her, and said, “Pray give me a little water to drink from your jar.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	18	She said, “Drink, my lord”; and she quickly let down her jar upon her hand, and gave him a drink.
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	19	When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I will draw for your camels also, until they have done drinking.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	20	So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran again to the well to draw, and she drew for all his camels.
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	21	The man gazed at her in silence to learn whether the Lord had prospered his journey or not.
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	22	When the camels had done drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half shekel, and two bracelets for her arms weighing ten gold shekels,
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	23	and said, “Tell me whose daughter you are. Is there room in your father’s house for us to lodge in?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	24	She said to him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	25	She added, “We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	26	The man bowed his head and worshiped the Lord,
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	27	and said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his steadfast love and his faithfulness toward my master. As for me, the Lord has led me in the way to the house of my master’s kinsmen.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	28	Then the maiden ran and told her mother’s household about these things.
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	29	Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban; and Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	30	When he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s arms, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, “Thus the man spoke to me,” he went to the man; and behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	31	He said, “Come in, O blessed of the Lord; why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	32	So the man came into the house; and Laban ungirded the camels, and gave him straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	33	Then food was set before him to eat; but he said, “I will not eat until I have told my errand.” He said, “Speak on.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	34	So he said, “I am Abraham’s servant.
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	35	The Lord has greatly blessed my master, and he has become great; he has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, menservants and maidservants, camels and asses.
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	36	And Sarah my master’s wife bore a son to my master when she was old; and to him he has given all that he has.
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	37	My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell;
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	38	but you shall go to my father’s house and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son.’
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	39	I said to my master, ‘Perhaps the woman will not follow me.’
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	40	But he said to me, ‘The Lord, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you and prosper your way; and you shall take a wife for my son from my kindred and from my father’s house;
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	41	then you will be free from my oath, when you come to my kindred; and if they will not give her to you, you will be free from my oath.’
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	42	“I came today to the spring, and said, ‘O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if now thou wilt prosper the way which I go,
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	43	behold, I am standing by the spring of water; let the young woman who comes out to draw, to whom I shall say, “Pray give me a little water from your jar to drink,”
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	44	and who will say to me, “Drink, and I will draw for your camels also,” let her be the woman whom the Lord has appointed for my master’s son.’
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	45	“Before I had done speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her water jar on her shoulder; and she went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, ‘Pray let me drink.’
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	46	She quickly let down her jar from her shoulder, and said, ‘Drink, and I will give your camels drink also.’ So I drank, and she gave the camels drink also.
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	47	Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bore to him. ‘So I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her arms.
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	48	Then I bowed my head and worshiped the Lord, and blessed the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me by the right way to take the daughter of my master’s kinsman for his son.
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	49	Now then, if you will deal loyally and truly with my master, tell me; and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand or to the left.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	50	Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “The thing comes from the Lord; we cannot speak to you bad or good.
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	51	Behold, Rebekah is before you, take her and go, and let her be the wife of your master’s son, as the Lord has spoken.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	52	When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed himself to the earth before the Lord.
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	53	And the servant brought forth jewelry of silver and of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave to her brother and to her mother costly ornaments.
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	54	And he and the men who were with him ate and drank, and they spent the night there. When they arose in the morning, he said, “Send me back to my master.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	55	Her brother and her mother said, “Let the maiden remain with us a while, at least ten days; after that she may go.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	56	But he said to them, “Do not delay me, since the Lord has prospered my way; let me go that I may go to my master.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	57	They said, “We will call the maiden, and ask her.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	58	And they called Rebekah, and said to her, “Will you go with this man?” She said, “I will go.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	59	So they sent away Rebekah their sister and her nurse, and Abraham’s servant and his men.
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	60	And they blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, be the mother of thousands of ten thousands; and may your descendants possess the gate of those who hate them!”
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	61	Then Rebekah and her maids arose, and rode upon the camels and followed the man; thus the servant took Rebekah, and went his way.
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	62	Now Isaac had come from Beer-lahai-roi, and was dwelling in the Negeb.
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	63	And Isaac went out to meditate in the field in the evening; and he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, there were camels coming.
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	64	And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she alighted from the camel,
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	65	and said to the servant, “Who is the man yonder, walking in the field to meet us?” The servant said, “It is my master.” So she took her veil and covered herself.
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	66	And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.
 Genesis	Gen	1	24	67	Then Isaac brought her into the tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
 Genesis	Gen	1	25	1	Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah.
 Genesis	Gen	1	25	2	She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
 Genesis	Gen	1	25	3	Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Le-ummim.
 Genesis	Gen	1	25	4	The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.
 Genesis	Gen	1	25	5	Abraham gave all he had to Isaac.
 Genesis	Gen	1	25	6	But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still living he sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward to the east country.
 Genesis	Gen	1	25	7	These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life, a hundred and seventy-five years.
 Genesis	Gen	1	25	8	Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
 Genesis	Gen	1	25	9	Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Mach-pelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, east of Mamre,
 Genesis	Gen	1	25	10	the field which Abraham purchased from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried, with Sarah his wife.
 Genesis	Gen	1	25	11	After the death of Abraham God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac dwelt at Beer-lahai-roi.
 Genesis	Gen	1	25	12	These are the descendants of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maid, bore to Abraham.
 Genesis	Gen	1	25	13	These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, named in the order of their birth: Nebaioth, the first-born of Ishmael; and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
 Genesis	Gen	1	25	14	Mishma, Dumah, Massa,
 Genesis	Gen	1	25	15	Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
 Genesis	Gen	1	25	16	These are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names, by their villages and by their encampments, twelve princes according to their tribes.
 Genesis	Gen	1	25	17	(These are the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred and thirty-seven years; he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his kindred.)
 Genesis	Gen	1	25	18	They dwelt from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt in the direction of Assyria; he settled over against all his people.
 Genesis	Gen	1	25	19	These are the descendants of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham was the father of Isaac,
 Genesis	Gen	1	25	20	and Isaac was forty years old when he took to wife Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean.
 Genesis	Gen	1	25	21	And Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife, because she was barren; and the Lor granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
 Genesis	Gen	1	25	22	The children struggled together within her; and she said, “If it is thus, why do I live?” So she went to inquire of the Lord.
 Genesis	Gen	1	25	23	And the Lord said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples, born of you, shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the elder shall serve the younger.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	25	24	When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
 Genesis	Gen	1	25	25	The first came forth red, all his body like a hairy mantle; so they called his name Esau.
 Genesis	Gen	1	25	26	Afterward his brother came forth, and his hand had taken hold of Esau’s heel; so his name was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.
 Genesis	Gen	1	25	27	When the boys grew up, Esau was a skilful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.
 Genesis	Gen	1	25	28	Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of his game; but Rebekah loved Jacob.
 Genesis	Gen	1	25	29	Once when Jacob was boiling pottage, Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.
 Genesis	Gen	1	25	30	And Esau said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red pottage, for I am famished!” (Therefore his name was called Edom.)
 Genesis	Gen	1	25	31	Jacob said, “First sell me your birthright.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	25	32	Esau said, “I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	25	33	Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob.
 Genesis	Gen	1	25	34	Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils, and he ate and drank, and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	1	Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar, to Abimelech king of the Philistines.
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	2	And the Lord appeared to him, and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land of which I shall tell you.
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	3	Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you; for to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will fulfil the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	4	I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give to your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves:
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	5	because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	6	So Isaac dwelt in Gerar.
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	7	When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister”; for he feared to say, “My wife,” thinking, “lest the men of the place should kill me for the sake of Rebekah”; because she was fair to look upon.
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	8	When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac fondling Rebekah his wife.
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	9	So Abimelech called Isaac, and said, “Behold, she is your wife; how then could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac said to him, “Because I thought, ‘Lest I die because of her.’”
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	10	Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	11	So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, “Whoever touches this man or his wife shall be put to death.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	12	And Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. The Lord blessed him,
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	13	and the man became rich, and gained more and more until he became very wealthy.
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	14	He had possessions of flocks and herds, and a great household, so that the Philistines envied him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	15	(Now the Philistines had stopped and filled with earth all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father.)
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	16	And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us; for you are much mightier than we.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	17	So Isaac departed from there, and encamped in the valley of Gerar and dwelt there.
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	18	And Isaac dug again the wells of water which had been dug in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham; and he gave them the names which his father had given them.
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	19	But when Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found there a well of springing water,
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	20	the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	21	Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that also; so he called its name Sitnah.
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	22	And he moved from there and dug another well, and over that they did not quarrel; so he called its name Rehoboth, saying, “For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	23	From there he went up to Beer-sheba.
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	24	And the Lord appeared to him the same night and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father; fear not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your descendants for my servant Abraham’s sake.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	25	So he built an altar there and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac’s servants dug a well.
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	26	Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army.
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	27	Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, seeing that you hate me and have sent me away from you?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	28	They said, “We see plainly that the Lord is with you; so we say, let there be an oath between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you,
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	29	that you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of the Lord.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	30	So he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	31	In the morning they rose early and took oath with one another; and Isaac set them on their way, and they departed from him in peace.
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	32	That same day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	33	He called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day.
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	34	When Esau was forty years old, he took to wife Judith the daughter of Be-eri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite;
 Genesis	Gen	1	26	35	and they made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	1	When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called Esau his older son, and said to him, “My son”; and he answered, “Here I am.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	2	He said, “Behold, I am old; I do not know the day of my death.
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	3	Now then, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and hunt game for me,
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	4	and prepare for me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat; that I may bless you before I die.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	5	Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game and bring it,
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	6	Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “I heard your father speak to your brother Esau,
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	7	‘Bring me game, and prepare for me savory food, that I may eat it, and bless you before the Lord before I die.’
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	8	Now therefore, my son, obey my word as I command you.
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	9	Go to the flock, and fetch me two good kids, that I may prepare from them savory food for your father, such as he loves;
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	10	and you shall bring it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	11	But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	12	Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be mocking him, and bring a curse upon myself and not a blessing.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	13	His mother said to him, “Upon me be your curse, my son; only obey my word, and go, fetch them to me.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	14	So he went and took them and brought them to his mother; and his mother prepared savory food, such as his father loved.
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	15	Then Rebekah took the best garments of Esau her older son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son;
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	16	and the skins of the kids she put upon his hands and upon the smooth part of his neck;
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	17	and she gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	18	So he went in to his father, and said, “My father”; and he said, “Here I am; who are you, my son?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	19	Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your first-born. I have done as you told me; now sit up and eat of my game, that you may bless me.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	20	But Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” He answered, “Because the Lord your God granted me success.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	21	Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near, that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	22	So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, who felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	23	And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands; so he blessed him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	24	He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He answered, “I am.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	25	Then he said, “Bring it to me, that I may eat of my son’s game and bless you.” So he brought it to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	26	Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come near and kiss me, my son.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	27	So he came near and kissed him; and he smelled the smell of his garments, and blessed him, and said, “See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the Lord has blessed!
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	28	May God give you of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine.
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	29	Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be every one who curses you, and blessed be every one who blesses you!”
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	30	As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, when Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	31	He also prepared savory food, and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, “Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s game, that you may bless me.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	32	His father Isaac said to him, “Who are you?” He answered, “I am your son, your first-born, Esau.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	33	Then Isaac trembled violently, and said, “Who was it then that hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate it all before you came, and I have blessed him?—yes, and he shall be blessed.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	34	When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, O my father!”
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	35	But he said, “Your brother came with guile, and he has taken away your blessing.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	36	Esau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright; and behold, now he has taken away my blessing.” Then he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	37	Isaac answered Esau, “Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants, and with grain and wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	38	Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father.” And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	39	Then Isaac his father answered him: “Behold, away from the fatness of the earth shall your dwelling be, and away from the dew of heaven on high.
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	40	By your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother; but when you break loose you shall break his yoke from your neck.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	41	Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	42	But the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah; so she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself by planning to kill you.
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	43	Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; arise, flee to Laban my brother in Haran,
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	44	and stay with him a while, until your brother’s fury turns away;
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	45	until your brother’s anger turns away, and he forgets what you have done to him; then I will send, and fetch you from there. Why should I be bereft of you both in one day?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	27	46	Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women such as these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	28	1	Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, and charged him, “You shall not marry one of the Canaanite women.
 Genesis	Gen	1	28	2	Arise, go to Paddan-aram to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father; and take as wife from there one of the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother.
 Genesis	Gen	1	28	3	God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples.
 Genesis	Gen	1	28	4	May he give the blessing of Abraham to you and to your descendants with you, that you may take possession of the land of your sojournings which God gave to Abraham!”
 Genesis	Gen	1	28	5	Thus Isaac sent Jacob away; and he went to Paddan-aram to Laban, the son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.
 Genesis	Gen	1	28	6	Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he charged him, “You shall not marry one of the Canaanite women,”
 Genesis	Gen	1	28	7	and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
 Genesis	Gen	1	28	8	So when Esau saw that the Canaanite women did not please Isaac his father,
 Genesis	Gen	1	28	9	Esau went to Ishmael and took to wife, besides the wives he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth.
 Genesis	Gen	1	28	10	Jacob left Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.
 Genesis	Gen	1	28	11	And he came to a certain place, and stayed there that night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place to sleep.
 Genesis	Gen	1	28	12	And he dreamed that there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!
 Genesis	Gen	1	28	13	And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, “I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and to your descendants;
 Genesis	Gen	1	28	14	and your descendants shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and by you and your descendants shall all the families of the earth bless themselves.
 Genesis	Gen	1	28	15	Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done that of which I have spoken to you.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	28	16	Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place; and I did not know it.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	28	17	And he was afraid, and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	28	18	So Jacob rose early in the morning, and he took the stone which he had put under his head and set it up for a pillar and poured oil on the top of it.
 Genesis	Gen	1	28	19	He called the name of that place Bethel; but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
 Genesis	Gen	1	28	20	Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear,
 Genesis	Gen	1	28	21	so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God,
 Genesis	Gen	1	28	22	and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God’s house; and of all that thou givest me I will give the tenth to thee.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	1	Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the people of the east.
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	2	As he looked, he saw a well in the field, and lo, three flocks of sheep lying beside it; for out of that well the flocks were watered. The stone on the well’s mouth was large,
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	3	and when all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone from the mouth of the well, and water the sheep, and put the stone back in its place upon the mouth of the well.
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	4	Jacob said to them, “My brothers, where do you come from?” They said, “We are from Haran.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	5	He said to them, “Do you know Laban the son of Nahor?” They said, “We know him.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	6	He said to them, “Is it well with him?” They said, “It is well; and see, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep!”
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	7	He said, “Behold, it is still high day, it is not time for the animals to be gathered together; water the sheep, and go, pasture them.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	8	But they said, “We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together, and the stone is rolled from the mouth of the well; then we water the sheep.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	9	While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep; for she kept them.
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	10	Now when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, Jacob went up and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	11	Then Jacob kissed Rachel, and wept aloud.
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	12	And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s kinsman, and that he was Rebekah’s son; and she ran and told her father.
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	13	When Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister’s son, he ran to meet him, and embraced him and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things,
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	14	and Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh!” And he stayed with him a month.
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	15	Then Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my kinsman, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	16	Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	17	Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful and lovely.
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	18	Jacob loved Rachel; and he said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	19	Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	20	So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	21	Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my time is completed.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	22	So Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	23	But in the evening he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob; and he went in to her.
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	24	(Laban gave his maid Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her maid.)
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	25	And in the morning, behold, it was Leah; and Jacob said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	26	Laban said, “It is not so done in our country, to give the younger before the first-born.
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	27	Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also in return for serving me another seven years.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	28	Jacob did so, and completed her week; then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to wife.
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	29	(Laban gave his maid Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her maid.)
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	30	So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban for another seven years.
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	31	When the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	32	And Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben; for she said, “Because the Lord has looked upon my affliction; surely now my husband will love me.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	33	She conceived again and bore a son, and said, “Because the Lord has heard that I am hated, he has given me this son also”; and she called his name Simeon.
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	34	Again she conceived and bore a son, and said, “Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons”; therefore his name was called Levi.
 Genesis	Gen	1	29	35	And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, “This time I will praise the Lord”; therefore she called his name Judah; then she ceased bearing.
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	1	When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister; and she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!”
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	2	Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	3	Then she said, “Here is my maid Bilhah; go in to her, that she may bear upon my knees, and even I may have children through her.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	4	So she gave him her maid Bilhah as a wife; and Jacob went in to her.
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	5	And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	6	Then Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice and given me a son”; therefore she called his name Dan.
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	7	Rachel’s maid Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	8	Then Rachel said, “With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed”; so she called his name Naphtali.
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	9	When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her maid Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	10	Then Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	11	And Leah said, “Good fortune!” so she called his name Gad.
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	12	Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	13	And Leah said, “Happy am I! For the women will call me happy”; so she called his name Asher.
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	14	In the days of wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Give me, I pray, some of your son’s mandrakes.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	15	But she said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes also?” Rachel said, “Then he may lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	16	When Jacob came from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him, and said, “You must come in to me; for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he lay with her that night.
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	17	And God hearkened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	18	Leah said, “God has given me my hire because I gave my maid to my husband”; so she called his name Issachar.
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	19	And Leah conceived again, and she bore Jacob a sixth son.
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	20	Then Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good dowry; now my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons”; so she called his name Zebulun.
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	21	Afterwards she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	22	Then God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her and opened her womb.
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	23	She conceived and bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach”;
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	24	and she called his name Joseph, saying, “May the Lord add to me another son!”
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	25	When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own home and country.
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	26	Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know the service which I have given you.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	27	But Laban said to him, “If you will allow me to say so, I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you;
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	28	name your wages, and I will give it.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	29	Jacob said to him, “You yourself know how I have served you, and how your cattle have fared with me.
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	30	For you had little before I came, and it has increased abundantly; and the Lord has blessed you wherever I turned. But now when shall I provide for my own household also?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	31	He said, “What shall I give you?” Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything; if you will do this for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it:
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	32	let me pass through all your flock today, removing from it every speckled and spotted sheep and every black lamb, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and such shall be my wages.
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	33	So my honesty will answer for me later, when you come to look into my wages with you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the lambs, if found with me, shall be counted stolen.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	34	Laban said, “Good! Let it be as you have said.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	35	But that day Laban removed the he-goats that were striped and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white on it, and every lamb that was black, and put them in charge of his sons;
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	36	and he set a distance of three days’ journey between himself and Jacob; and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flock.
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	37	Then Jacob took fresh rods of poplar and almond and plane, and peeled white streaks in them, exposing the white of the rods.
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	38	He set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the runnels, that is, the watering troughs, where the flocks came to drink. And since they bred when they came to drink,
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	39	the flocks bred in front of the rods and so the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	40	And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban; and he put his own droves apart, and did not put them with Laban’s flock.
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	41	Whenever the stronger of the flock were breeding Jacob laid the rods in the runnels before the eyes of the flock, that they might breed among the rods,
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	42	but for the feebler of the flock he did not lay them there; so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
 Genesis	Gen	1	30	43	Thus the man grew exceedingly rich, and had large flocks, maidservants and menservants, and camels and asses.
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	1	Now Jacob heard that the sons of Laban were saying, “Jacob has taken all that was our father’s; and from what was our father’s he has gained all this wealth.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	2	And Jacob saw that Laban did not regard him with favor as before.
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	3	Then the Lord said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	4	So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah into the field where his flock was,
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	5	and said to them, “I see that your father does not regard me with favor as he did before. But the God of my father has been with me.
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	6	You know that I have served your father with all my strength;
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	7	yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not permit him to harm me.
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	8	If he said, ‘The spotted shall be your wages,’ then all the flock bore spotted; and if he said, ‘The striped shall be your wages,’ then all the flock bore striped.
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	9	Thus God has taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	10	In the mating season of the flock I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream that the he-goats which leaped upon the flock were striped, spotted, and mottled.
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	11	Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am!’
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	12	And he said, ‘Lift up your eyes and see, all the goats that leap upon the flock are striped, spotted, and mottled; for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	13	I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now arise, go forth from this land, and return to the land of your birth.’”
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	14	Then Rachel and Leah answered him, “Is there any portion or inheritance left to us in our father’s house?
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	15	Are we not regarded by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and he has been using up the money given for us.
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	16	All the property which God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children; now then, whatever God has said to you, do.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	17	So Jacob arose, and set his sons and his wives on camels;
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	18	and he drove away all his cattle, all his livestock which he had gained, the cattle in his possession which he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to the land of Canaan to his father Isaac.
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	19	Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father’s household gods.
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	20	And Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean, in that he did not tell him that he intended to flee.
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	21	He fled with all that he had, and arose and crossed the Euphrates, and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	22	When it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled,
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	23	he took his kinsmen with him and pursued him for seven days and followed close after him into the hill country of Gilead.
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	24	But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night, and said to him, “Take heed that you say not a word to Jacob, either good or bad.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	25	And Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban with his kinsmen encamped in the hill country of Gilead.
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	26	And Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have cheated me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	27	Why did you flee secretly, and cheat me, and did not tell me, so that I might have sent you away with mirth and songs, with tambourine and lyre?
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	28	And why did you not permit me to kiss my sons and my daughters farewell? Now you have done foolishly.
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	29	It is in my power to do you harm; but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Take heed that you speak to Jacob neither good nor bad.’
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	30	And now you have gone away because you longed greatly for your father’s house, but why did you steal my gods?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	31	Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force.
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	32	Any one with whom you find your gods shall not live. In the presence of our kinsmen point out what I have that is yours, and take it.” Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	33	So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two maidservants, but he did not find them. And he went out of Leah’s tent, and entered Rachel’s.
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	34	Now Rachel had taken the household gods and put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat upon them. Laban felt all about the tent, but did not find them.
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	35	And she said to her father, “Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the way of women is upon me.” So he searched, but did not find the household gods.
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	36	Then Jacob became angry, and upbraided Laban; Jacob said to Laban, “What is my offense? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	37	Although you have felt through all my goods, what have you found of all your household goods? Set it here before my kinsmen and your kinsmen, that they may decide between us two.
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	38	These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your she-goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams of your flocks.
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	39	That which was torn by wild beasts I did not bring to you; I bore the loss of it myself; of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	40	Thus I was; by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	41	These twenty years I have been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	42	If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	43	Then Laban answered and said to Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	44	Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be a witness between you and me.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	45	So Jacob took a stone, and set it up as a pillar.
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	46	And Jacob said to his kinsmen, “Gather stones,” and they took stones, and made a heap; and they ate there by the heap.
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	47	Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	48	Laban said, “This heap is a witness between you and me today.” Therefore he named it Galeed,
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	49	and the pillar Mizpah, for he said, “The Lord watch between you and me, when we are absent one from the other.
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	50	If you ill-treat my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no man is with us, remember, God is witness between you and me.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	51	Then Laban said to Jacob, “See this heap and the pillar, which I have set between you and me.
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	52	This heap is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	53	The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac,
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	54	and Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and called his kinsmen to eat bread; and they ate bread and tarried all night on the mountain.
 Genesis	Gen	1	31	55	Early in the morning Laban arose, and kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them; then he departed and returned home.
 Genesis	Gen	1	32	1	Jacob went on his way and the angels of God met him;
 Genesis	Gen	1	32	2	and when Jacob saw them he said, “This is God’s army!” So he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
 Genesis	Gen	1	32	3	And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of Seir, the country of Edom,
 Genesis	Gen	1	32	4	instructing them, “Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: Thus says your servant Jacob, ‘I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now;
 Genesis	Gen	1	32	5	and I have oxen, asses, flocks, menservants, and maidservants; and I have sent to tell my lord, in order that I may find favor in your sight.’”
 Genesis	Gen	1	32	6	And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau, and he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men with him.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	32	7	Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two companies,
 Genesis	Gen	1	32	8	thinking, “If Esau comes to the one company and destroys it, then the company which is left will escape.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	32	9	And Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord who didst say to me, ‘Return to your country and to your kindred, and I will do you good,’
 Genesis	Gen	1	32	10	I am not worthy of the least of all the steadfast love and all the faithfulness which thou hast shown to thy servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.
 Genesis	Gen	1	32	11	Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, lest he come and slay us all, the mothers with the children.
 Genesis	Gen	1	32	12	But thou didst say, ‘I will do you good, and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’”
 Genesis	Gen	1	32	13	So he lodged there that night, and took from what he had with him a present for his brother Esau,
 Genesis	Gen	1	32	14	two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
 Genesis	Gen	1	32	15	thirty milch camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten he-asses.
 Genesis	Gen	1	32	16	These he delivered into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass on before me, and put a space between drove and drove.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	32	17	He instructed the foremost, “When Esau my brother meets you, and asks you, ‘To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these before you?’
 Genesis	Gen	1	32	18	then you shall say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob; they are a present sent to my lord Esau; and moreover he is behind us.’”
 Genesis	Gen	1	32	19	He likewise instructed the second and the third and all who followed the droves, “You shall say the same thing to Esau when you meet him,
 Genesis	Gen	1	32	20	and you shall say, ‘Moreover your servant Jacob is behind us.’” For he thought, “I may appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterwards I shall see his face; perhaps he will accept me.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	32	21	So the present passed on before him; and he himself lodged that night in the camp.
 Genesis	Gen	1	32	22	The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
 Genesis	Gen	1	32	23	He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had.
 Genesis	Gen	1	32	24	And Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.
 Genesis	Gen	1	32	25	When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and Jacob’s thigh was put out of joint as he wrestled with him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	32	26	Then he said, “Let me go, for the day is breaking.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go, unless you bless me.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	32	27	And he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	32	28	Then he said, “Your name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	32	29	Then Jacob asked him, “Tell me, I pray, your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And there he blessed him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	32	30	So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	32	31	The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping because of his thigh.
 Genesis	Gen	1	32	32	Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the sinew of the hip which is upon the hollow of the thigh, because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh on the sinew of the hip.
 Genesis	Gen	1	33	1	And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two maids.
 Genesis	Gen	1	33	2	And he put the maids with their children in front, then Leah with her children, and Rachel and Joseph last of all.
 Genesis	Gen	1	33	3	He himself went on before them, bowing himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
 Genesis	Gen	1	33	4	But Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.
 Genesis	Gen	1	33	5	And when Esau raised his eyes and saw the women and children, he said, “Who are these with you?” Jacob said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	33	6	Then the maids drew near, they and their children, and bowed down;
 Genesis	Gen	1	33	7	Leah likewise and her children drew near and bowed down; and last Joseph and Rachel drew near, and they bowed down.
 Genesis	Gen	1	33	8	Esau said, “What do you mean by all this company which I met?” Jacob answered, “To find favor in the sight of my lord.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	33	9	But Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; keep what you have for yourself.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	33	10	Jacob said, “No, I pray you, if I have found favor in your sight, then accept my present from my hand; for truly to see your face is like seeing the face of God, with such favor have you received me.
 Genesis	Gen	1	33	11	Accept, I pray you, my gift that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” Thus he urged him, and he took it.
 Genesis	Gen	1	33	12	Then Esau said, “Let us journey on our way, and I will go before you.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	33	13	But Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are frail, and that the flocks and herds giving suck are a care to me; and if they are overdriven for one day, all the flocks will die.
 Genesis	Gen	1	33	14	Let my lord pass on before his servant, and I will lead on slowly, according to the pace of the cattle which are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	33	15	So Esau said, “Let me leave with you some of the men who are with me.” But he said, “What need is there? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	33	16	So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.
 Genesis	Gen	1	33	17	But Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built himself a house, and made booths for his cattle; therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
 Genesis	Gen	1	33	18	And Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, on his way from Paddan-aram; and he camped before the city.
 Genesis	Gen	1	33	19	And from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, he bought for a hundred pieces of money the piece of land on which he had pitched his tent.
 Genesis	Gen	1	33	20	There he erected an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.
 Genesis	Gen	1	34	1	Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land;
 Genesis	Gen	1	34	2	and when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he seized her and lay with her and humbled her.
 Genesis	Gen	1	34	3	And his soul was drawn to Dinah the daughter of Jacob; he loved the maiden and spoke tenderly to her.
 Genesis	Gen	1	34	4	So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, “Get me this maiden for my wife.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	34	5	Now Jacob heard that he had defiled his daughter Dinah; but his sons were with his cattle in the field, so Jacob held his peace until they came.
 Genesis	Gen	1	34	6	And Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	34	7	The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard of it; and the men were indignant and very angry, because he had wrought folly in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter, for such a thing ought not to be done.
 Genesis	Gen	1	34	8	But Hamor spoke with them, saying, “The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter; I pray you, give her to him in marriage.
 Genesis	Gen	1	34	9	Make marriages with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
 Genesis	Gen	1	34	10	You shall dwell with us; and the land shall be open to you; dwell and trade in it, and get property in it.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	34	11	Shechem also said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you say to me I will give.
 Genesis	Gen	1	34	12	Ask of me ever so much as marriage present and gift, and I will give according as you say to me; only give me the maiden to be my wife.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	34	13	The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully, because he had defiled their sister Dinah.
 Genesis	Gen	1	34	14	They said to them, “We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a disgrace to us.
 Genesis	Gen	1	34	15	Only on this condition will we consent to you: that you will become as we are and every male of you be circumcised.
 Genesis	Gen	1	34	16	Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to ourselves, and we will dwell with you and become one people.
 Genesis	Gen	1	34	17	But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter, and we will be gone.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	34	18	Their words pleased Hamor and Hamor’s son Shechem.
 Genesis	Gen	1	34	19	And the young man did not delay to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter. Now he was the most honored of all his family.
 Genesis	Gen	1	34	20	So Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying,
 Genesis	Gen	1	34	21	“These men are friendly with us; let them dwell in the land and trade in it, for behold, the land is large enough for them; let us take their daughters in marriage, and let us give them our daughters.
 Genesis	Gen	1	34	22	Only on this condition will the men agree to dwell with us, to become one people: that every male among us be circumcised as they are circumcised.
 Genesis	Gen	1	34	23	Will not their cattle, their property and all their beasts be ours? Only let us agree with them, and they will dwell with us.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	34	24	And all who went out of the gate of his city hearkened to Hamor and his son Shechem; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.
 Genesis	Gen	1	34	25	On the third day, when they were sore, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took their swords and came upon the city unawares, and killed all the males.
 Genesis	Gen	1	34	26	They slew Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.
 Genesis	Gen	1	34	27	And the sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and plundered the city, because their sister had been defiled;
 Genesis	Gen	1	34	28	they took their flocks and their herds, their asses, and whatever was in the city and in the field;
 Genesis	Gen	1	34	29	all their wealth, all their little ones and their wives, all that was in the houses, they captured and made their prey.
 Genesis	Gen	1	34	30	Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites; my numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	34	31	But they said, “Should he treat our sister as a harlot?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	35	1	God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there; and make there an altar to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	35	2	So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your garments;
 Genesis	Gen	1	35	3	then let us arise and go up to Bethel, that I may make there an altar to the God who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	35	4	So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was near Shechem.
 Genesis	Gen	1	35	5	And as they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities that were round about them, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
 Genesis	Gen	1	35	6	And Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him,
 Genesis	Gen	1	35	7	and there he built an altar, and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.
 Genesis	Gen	1	35	8	And Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel; so the name of it was called Allon-bacuth.
 Genesis	Gen	1	35	9	God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	35	10	And God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; no longer shall your name be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name.” So his name was called Israel.
 Genesis	Gen	1	35	11	And God said to him, “I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall spring from you.
 Genesis	Gen	1	35	12	The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your descendants after you.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	35	13	Then God went up from him in the place where he had spoken with him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	35	14	And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had spoken with him, a pillar of stone; and he poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.
 Genesis	Gen	1	35	15	So Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him, Bethel.
 Genesis	Gen	1	35	16	Then they journeyed from Bethel; and when they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor.
 Genesis	Gen	1	35	17	And when she was in her hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Fear not; for now you will have another son.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	35	18	And as her soul was departing (for she died), she called his name Ben-oni; but his father called his name Benjamin.
 Genesis	Gen	1	35	19	So Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem),
 Genesis	Gen	1	35	20	and Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave; it is the pillar of Rachel’s tomb, which is there to this day.
 Genesis	Gen	1	35	21	Israel journeyed on, and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.
 Genesis	Gen	1	35	22	While Israel dwelt in that land Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine; and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
 Genesis	Gen	1	35	23	The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s first-born), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
 Genesis	Gen	1	35	24	The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
 Genesis	Gen	1	35	25	The sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s maid: Dan and Naphtali.
 Genesis	Gen	1	35	26	The sons of Zilpah, Leah’s maid: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
 Genesis	Gen	1	35	27	And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.
 Genesis	Gen	1	35	28	Now the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.
 Genesis	Gen	1	35	29	And Isaac breathed his last; and he died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	1	These are the descendants of Esau (that is, Edom).
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	2	Esau took his wives from the Canaanites: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah the daughter of Anah the son of Zibeon the Hivite,
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	3	and Basemath, Ishmael’s daughter, the sister of Nebaioth.
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	4	And Adah bore to Esau, Eliphaz; Basemath bore Reuel;
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	5	and Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan.
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	6	Then Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, his cattle, all his beasts, and all his property which he had acquired in the land of Canaan; and he went into a land away from his brother Jacob.
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	7	For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together; the land of their sojournings could not support them because of their cattle.
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	8	So Esau dwelt in the hill country of Seir; Esau is Edom.
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	9	These are the descendants of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir.
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	10	These are the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Basemath the wife of Esau.
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	11	The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	12	(Timna was a concubine of Eliphaz, Esau’s son; she bore Amalek to Eliphaz.) These are the sons of Adah, Esau’s wife.
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	13	These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These are the sons of Basemath, Esau’s wife.
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	14	These are the sons of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah the son of Zibeon, Esau’s wife: she bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	15	These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz the first-born of Esau: the chiefs Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	16	Korah, Gatam, and Amalek; these are the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; they are the sons of Adah.
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	17	These are the sons of Reuel, Esau’s son: the chiefs Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah; these are the chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom; they are the sons of Basemath, Esau’s wife.
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	18	These are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau’s wife: the chiefs Jeush, Jalam, and Korah; these are the chiefs born of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau’s wife.
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	19	These are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these are their chiefs.
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	20	These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	21	Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan; these are the chiefs of the Horites, the sons of Seir in the land of Edom.
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	22	The sons of Lotan were Hori and Heman; and Lotan’s sister was Timna.
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	23	These are the sons of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	24	These are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah; he is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he pastured the asses of Zibeon his father.
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	25	These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah.
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	26	These are the sons of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	27	These are the sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	28	These are the sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	29	These are the chiefs of the Horites: the chiefs Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	30	Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan; these are the chiefs of the Horites, according to their clans in the land of Seir.
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	31	These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the Israelites.
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	32	Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom, the name of his city being Dinhabah.
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	33	Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	34	Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his stead.
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	35	Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, reigned in his stead, the name of his city being Avith.
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	36	Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	37	Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth on the Euphrates reigned in his stead.
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	38	Shaul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	39	Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his stead, the name of his city being Pau; his wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, daughter of Mezahab.
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	40	These are the names of the chiefs of Esau, according to their families and their dwelling places, by their names: the chiefs Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	41	Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon,
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	42	Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,
 Genesis	Gen	1	36	43	Magdiel, and Iram; these are the chiefs of Edom (that is, Esau, the father of Edom), according to their dwelling places in the land of their possession.
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	1	Jacob dwelt in the land of his father’s sojournings, in the land of Canaan.
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	2	This is the history of the family of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers; he was a lad with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives; and Joseph brought an ill report of them to their father.
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	3	Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a long robe with sleeves.
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	4	But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	5	Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they only hated him the more.
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	6	He said to them, “Hear this dream which I have dreamed:
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	7	behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and lo, my sheaf arose and stood upright; and behold, your sheaves gathered round it, and bowed down to my sheaf.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	8	His brothers said to him, “Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to have dominion over us?” So they hated him yet more for his dreams and for his words.
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	9	Then he dreamed another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have dreamed another dream; and behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	10	But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him, and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	11	And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind.
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	12	Now his brothers went to pasture their father’s flock near Shechem.
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	13	And Israel said to Joseph, “Are not your brothers pasturing the flock at Shechem? Come, I will send you to them.” And he said to him, “Here I am.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	14	So he said to him, “Go now, see if it is well with your brothers, and with the flock; and bring me word again.” So he sent him from the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	15	And a man found him wandering in the fields; and the man asked him, “What are you seeking?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	16	“I am seeking my brothers,” he said, “tell me, I pray you, where they are pasturing the flock.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	17	And the man said, “They have gone away, for I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’” So Joseph went after his brothers, and found them at Dothan.
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	18	They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them they conspired against him to kill him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	19	They said to one another, “Here comes this dreamer.
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	20	Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits; then we shall say that a wild beast has devoured him, and we shall see what will become of his dreams.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	21	But when Reuben heard it, he delivered him out of their hands, saying, “Let us not take his life.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	22	And Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood; cast him into this pit here in the wilderness, but lay no hand upon him”—that he might rescue him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	23	So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe, the long robe with sleeves that he wore;
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	24	and they took him and cast him into a pit. The pit was empty, there was no water in it.
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	25	Then they sat down to eat; and looking up they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing gum, balm, and myrrh, on their way to carry it down to Egypt.
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	26	Then Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood?
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	27	Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And his brothers heeded him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	28	Then Midianite traders passed by; and they drew Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver; and they took Joseph to Egypt.
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	29	When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in the pit, he rent his clothes
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	30	and returned to his brothers, and said, “The lad is gone; and I, where shall I go?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	31	Then they took Joseph’s robe, and killed a goat, and dipped the robe in the blood;
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	32	and they sent the long robe with sleeves and brought it to their father, and said, “This we have found; see now whether it is your son’s robe or not.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	33	And he recognized it, and said, “It is my son’s robe; a wild beast has devoured him; Joseph is without doubt torn to pieces.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	34	Then Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	35	All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted, and said, “No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” Thus his father wept for him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	37	36	Meanwhile the Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Poti-phar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard.
 Genesis	Gen	1	38	1	It happened at that time that Judah went down from his brothers, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
 Genesis	Gen	1	38	2	There Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua; he married her and went in to her,
 Genesis	Gen	1	38	3	and she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Er.
 Genesis	Gen	1	38	4	Again she conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Onan.
 Genesis	Gen	1	38	5	Yet again she bore a son, and she called his name Shelah. She was in Chezib when she bore him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	38	6	And Judah took a wife for Er his first-born, and her name was Tamar.
 Genesis	Gen	1	38	7	But Er, Judah’s first-born, was wicked in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord slew him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	38	8	Then Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	38	9	But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so when he went in to his brother’s wife he spilled the semen on the ground, lest he should give offspring to his brother.
 Genesis	Gen	1	38	10	And what he did was displeasing in the sight of the Lord, and he slew him also.
 Genesis	Gen	1	38	11	Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house, till Shelah my son grows up”—for he feared that he would die, like his brothers. So Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house.
 Genesis	Gen	1	38	12	In course of time the wife of Judah, Shua’s daughter, died; and when Judah was comforted, he went up to Timnah to his sheepshearers, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
 Genesis	Gen	1	38	13	And when Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”
 Genesis	Gen	1	38	14	she put off her widow’s garments, and put on a veil, wrapping herself up, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she had not been given to him in marriage.
 Genesis	Gen	1	38	15	When Judah saw her, he thought her to be a harlot, for she had covered her face.
 Genesis	Gen	1	38	16	He went over to her at the road side, and said, “Come, let me come in to you,” for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	38	17	He answered, “I will send you a kid from the flock.” And she said, “Will you give me a pledge, till you send it?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	38	18	He said, “What pledge shall I give you?” She replied, “Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand.” So he gave them to her, and went in to her, and she conceived by him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	38	19	Then she arose and went away, and taking off her veil she put on the garments of her widowhood.
 Genesis	Gen	1	38	20	When Judah sent the kid by his friend the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand, he could not find her.
 Genesis	Gen	1	38	21	And he asked the men of the place, “Where is the harlot who was at Enaim by the wayside?” And they said, “No harlot has been here.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	38	22	So he returned to Judah, and said, “I have not found her; and also the men of the place said, ‘No harlot has been here.’”
 Genesis	Gen	1	38	23	And Judah replied, “Let her keep the things as her own, lest we be laughed at; you see, I sent this kid, and you could not find her.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	38	24	About three months later Judah was told, “Tamar your daughter-in-law has played the harlot; and moreover she is with child by harlotry.” And Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	38	25	As she was being brought out, she sent word to her father-in-law, “By the man to whom these belong, I am with child.” And she said, “Mark, I pray you, whose these are, the signet and the cord and the staff.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	38	26	Then Judah acknowledged them and said, “She is more righteous than I, inasmuch as I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not lie with her again.
 Genesis	Gen	1	38	27	When the time of her delivery came, there were twins in her womb.
 Genesis	Gen	1	38	28	And when she was in labor, one put out a hand; and the midwife took and bound on his hand a scarlet thread, saying, “This came out first.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	38	29	But as he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out; and she said, “What a breach you have made for yourself!” Therefore his name was called Perez.
 Genesis	Gen	1	38	30	Afterward his brother came out with the scarlet thread upon his hand; and his name was called Zerah.
 Genesis	Gen	1	39	1	Now Joseph was taken down to Egypt, and Poti-phar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there.
 Genesis	Gen	1	39	2	The Lord was with Joseph, and he became a successful man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian,
 Genesis	Gen	1	39	3	and his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord caused all that he did to prosper in his hands.
 Genesis	Gen	1	39	4	So Joseph found favor in his sight and attended him, and he made him overseer of his house and put him in charge of all that he had.
 Genesis	Gen	1	39	5	From the time that he made him overseer in his house and over all that he had the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake; the blessing of the Lord was upon all that he had, in house and field.
 Genesis	Gen	1	39	6	So he left all that he had in Joseph’s charge; and having him he had no concern for anything but the food which he ate. Now Joseph was handsome and good-looking.
 Genesis	Gen	1	39	7	And after a time his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph, and said, “Lie with me.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	39	8	But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “Lo, having me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my hand;
 Genesis	Gen	1	39	9	he is not greater in this house than I am; nor has he kept back anything from me except yourself, because you are his wife; how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	39	10	And although she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not listen to her, to lie with her or to be with her.
 Genesis	Gen	1	39	11	But one day, when he went into the house to do his work and none of the men of the house was there in the house,
 Genesis	Gen	1	39	12	she caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me.” But he left his garment in her hand, and fled and got out of the house.
 Genesis	Gen	1	39	13	And when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had fled out of the house,
 Genesis	Gen	1	39	14	she called to the men of her household and said to them, “See, he has brought among us a Hebrew to insult us; he came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice;
 Genesis	Gen	1	39	15	and when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment with me, and fled and got out of the house.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	39	16	Then she laid up his garment by her until his master came home,
 Genesis	Gen	1	39	17	and she told him the same story, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought among us, came in to me to insult me;
 Genesis	Gen	1	39	18	but as soon as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment with me, and fled out of the house.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	39	19	When his master heard the words which his wife spoke to him, “This is the way your servant treated me,” his anger was kindled.
 Genesis	Gen	1	39	20	And Joseph’s master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined, and he was there in prison.
 Genesis	Gen	1	39	21	But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
 Genesis	Gen	1	39	22	And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s care all the prisoners who were in the prison; and whatever was done there, he was the doer of it;
 Genesis	Gen	1	39	23	the keeper of the prison paid no heed to anything that was in Joseph’s care, because the Lord was with him; and whatever he did, the Lord made it prosper.
 Genesis	Gen	1	40	1	Some time after this, the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord the king of Egypt.
 Genesis	Gen	1	40	2	And Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief butler and the chief baker,
 Genesis	Gen	1	40	3	and he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison where Joseph was confined.
 Genesis	Gen	1	40	4	The captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he waited on them; and they continued for some time in custody.
 Genesis	Gen	1	40	5	And one night they both dreamed—the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison—each his own dream, and each dream with its own meaning.
 Genesis	Gen	1	40	6	When Joseph came to them in the morning and saw them, they were troubled.
 Genesis	Gen	1	40	7	So he asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, “Why are your faces downcast today?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	40	8	They said to him, “We have had dreams, and there is no one to interpret them.” And Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell them to me, I pray you.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	40	9	So the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, “In my dream there was a vine before me,
 Genesis	Gen	1	40	10	and on the vine there were three branches; as soon as it budded, its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters ripened into grapes.
 Genesis	Gen	1	40	11	Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	40	12	Then Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days;
 Genesis	Gen	1	40	13	within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office; and you shall place Pharaoh’s cup in his hand as formerly, when you were his butler.
 Genesis	Gen	1	40	14	But remember me, when it is well with you, and do me the kindness, I pray you, to make mention of me to Pharaoh, and so get me out of this house.
 Genesis	Gen	1	40	15	For I was indeed stolen out of the land of the Hebrews; and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	40	16	When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, “I also had a dream: there were three cake baskets on my head,
 Genesis	Gen	1	40	17	and in the uppermost basket there were all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating it out of the basket on my head.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	40	18	And Joseph answered, “This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days;
 Genesis	Gen	1	40	19	within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head—from you!—and hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat the flesh from you.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	40	20	On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and lifted up the head of the chief butler and the head of the chief baker among his servants.
 Genesis	Gen	1	40	21	He restored the chief butler to his butlership, and he placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand;
 Genesis	Gen	1	40	22	but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
 Genesis	Gen	1	40	23	Yet the chief butler did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	1	After two whole years, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile,
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	2	and behold, there came up out of the Nile seven cows sleek and fat, and they fed in the reed grass.
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	3	And behold, seven other cows, gaunt and thin, came up out of the Nile after them, and stood by the other cows on the bank of the Nile.
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	4	And the gaunt and thin cows ate up the seven sleek and fat cows. And Pharaoh awoke.
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	5	And he fell asleep and dreamed a second time; and behold, seven ears of grain, plump and good, were growing on one stalk.
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	6	And behold, after them sprouted seven ears, thin and blighted by the east wind.
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	7	And the thin ears swallowed up the seven plump and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	8	So in the morning his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men; and Pharaoh told them his dream, but there was none who could interpret it to Pharaoh.
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	9	Then the chief butler said to Pharaoh, “I remember my faults today.
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	10	When Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me and the chief baker in custody in the house of the captain of the guard,
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	11	we dreamed on the same night, he and I, each having a dream with its own meaning.
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	12	A young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard; and when we told him, he interpreted our dreams to us, giving an interpretation to each man according to his dream.
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	13	And as he interpreted to us, so it came to pass; I was restored to my office, and the baker was hanged.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	14	Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon; and when he had shaved himself and changed his clothes, he came in before Pharaoh.
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	15	And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it; and I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	16	Joseph answered Pharaoh, “It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	17	Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Behold, in my dream I was standing on the banks of the Nile;
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	18	and seven cows, fat and sleek, came up out of the Nile and fed in the reed grass;
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	19	and seven other cows came up after them, poor and very gaunt and thin, such as I had never seen in all the land of Egypt.
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	20	And the thin and gaunt cows ate up the first seven fat cows,
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	21	but when they had eaten them no one would have known that they had eaten them, for they were still as gaunt as at the beginning. Then I awoke.
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	22	I also saw in my dream seven ears growing on one stalk, full and good;
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	23	and seven ears, withered, thin, and blighted by the east wind, sprouted after them,
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	24	and the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears. And I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	25	Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dream of Pharaoh is one; God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	26	The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years; the dream is one.
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	27	The seven lean and gaunt cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven empty ears blighted by the east wind are also seven years of famine.
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	28	It is as I told Pharaoh, God has shown to Pharaoh what he is about to do.
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	29	There will come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt,
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	30	but after them there will arise seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt; the famine will consume the land,
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	31	and the plenty will be unknown in the land by reason of that famine which will follow, for it will be very grievous.
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	32	And the doubling of Pharaoh’s dream means that the thing is fixed by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	33	Now therefore let Pharaoh select a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	34	Let Pharaoh proceed to appoint overseers over the land, and take the fifth part of the produce of the land of Egypt during the seven plenteous years.
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	35	And let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming, and lay up grain under the authority of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	36	That food shall be a reserve for the land against the seven years of famine which are to befall the land of Egypt, so that the land may not perish through the famine.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	37	This proposal seemed good to Pharaoh and to all his servants.
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	38	And Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find such a man as this, in whom is the Spirit of God?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	39	So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has shown you all this, there is none so discreet and wise as you are;
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	40	you shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command; only as regards the throne will I be greater than you.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	41	And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	42	Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in garments of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	43	and he made him to ride in his second chariot; and they cried before him, “Bow the knee!” Thus he set him over all the land of Egypt.
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	44	Moreover Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, and without your consent no man shall lift up hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	45	And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him in marriage Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On. So Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	46	Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went through all the land of Egypt.
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	47	During the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth abundantly,
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	48	and he gathered up all the food of the seven years when there was plenty in the land of Egypt, and stored up food in the cities; he stored up in every city the food from the fields around it.
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	49	And Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, like the sand of the sea, until he ceased to measure it, for it could not be measured.
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	50	Before the year of famine came, Joseph had two sons, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	51	Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh, “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s house.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	52	The name of the second he called Ephraim, “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	53	The seven years of plenty that prevailed in the land of Egypt came to an end;
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	54	and the seven years of famine began to come, as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	55	When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph; what he says to you, do.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	56	So when the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
 Genesis	Gen	1	41	57	Moreover, all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	1	When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	2	And he said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down and buy grain for us there, that we may live, and not die.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	3	So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt.
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	4	But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers, for he feared that harm might befall him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	5	Thus the sons of Israel came to buy among the others who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	6	Now Joseph was governor over the land; he it was who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brothers came, and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	7	Joseph saw his brothers, and knew them, but he treated them like strangers and spoke roughly to them. “Where do you come from?” he said. They said, “From the land of Canaan, to buy food.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	8	Thus Joseph knew his brothers, but they did not know him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	9	And Joseph remembered the dreams which he had dreamed of them; and he said to them, “You are spies, you have come to see the weakness of the land.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	10	They said to him, “No, my lord, but to buy food have your servants come.
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	11	We are all sons of one man, we are honest men, your servants are not spies.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	12	He said to them, “No, it is the weakness of the land that you have come to see.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	13	And they said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	14	But Joseph said to them, “It is as I said to you, you are spies.
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	15	By this you shall be tested: by the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go from this place unless your youngest brother comes here.
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	16	Send one of you, and let him bring your brother, while you remain in prison, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you; or else, by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	17	And he put them all together in prison for three days.
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	18	On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, for I fear God:
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	19	if you are honest men, let one of your brothers remain confined in your prison, and let the rest go and carry grain for the famine of your households,
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	20	and bring your youngest brother to me; so your words will be verified, and you shall not die.” And they did so.
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	21	Then they said to one another, “In truth we are guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he besought us and we would not listen; therefore is this distress come upon us.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	22	And Reuben answered them, “Did I not tell you not to sin against the lad? But you would not listen. So now there comes a reckoning for his blood.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	23	They did not know that Joseph understood them, for there was an interpreter between them.
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	24	Then he turned away from them and wept; and he returned to them and spoke to them. And he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes.
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	25	And Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, and to replace every man’s money in his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. This was done for them.
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	26	Then they loaded their asses with their grain, and departed.
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	27	And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender at the lodging place, he saw his money in the mouth of his sack;
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	28	and he said to his brothers, “My money has been put back; here it is in the mouth of my sack!” At this their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	29	When they came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had befallen them, saying,
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	30	“The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us, and took us to be spies of the land.
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	31	But we said to him, ‘We are honest men, we are not spies;
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	32	we are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.’
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	33	Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I shall know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your households, and go your way.
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	34	Bring your youngest brother to me; then I shall know that you are not spies but honest men, and I will deliver to you your brother, and you shall trade in the land.’”
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	35	As they emptied their sacks, behold, every man’s bundle of money was in his sack; and when they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were dismayed.
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	36	And Jacob their father said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin; all this has come upon me.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	37	Then Reuben said to his father, “Slay my two sons if I do not bring him back to you; put him in my hands, and I will bring him back to you.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	42	38	But he said, “My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm should befall him on the journey that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	43	1	Now the famine was severe in the land.
 Genesis	Gen	1	43	2	And when they had eaten the grain which they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little food.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	43	3	But Judah said to him, “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’
 Genesis	Gen	1	43	4	If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food;
 Genesis	Gen	1	43	5	but if you will not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’”
 Genesis	Gen	1	43	6	Israel said, “Why did you treat me so ill as to tell the man that you had another brother?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	43	7	They replied, “The man questioned us carefully about ourselves and our kindred, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?’ What we told him was in answer to these questions; could we in any way know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down’?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	43	8	And Judah said to Israel his father, “Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live and not die, both we and you and also our little ones.
 Genesis	Gen	1	43	9	I will be surety for him; of my hand you shall require him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame for ever;
 Genesis	Gen	1	43	10	for if we had not delayed, we would now have returned twice.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	43	11	Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: take some of the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down to the man a present, a little balm and a little honey, gum, myrrh, pistachio nuts, and almonds.
 Genesis	Gen	1	43	12	Take double the money with you; carry back with you the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks; perhaps it was an oversight.
 Genesis	Gen	1	43	13	Take also your brother, and arise, go again to the man;
 Genesis	Gen	1	43	14	may God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, that he may send back your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	43	15	So the men took the present, and they took double the money with them, and Benjamin; and they arose and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
 Genesis	Gen	1	43	16	When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, “Bring the men into the house, and slaughter an animal and make ready, for the men are to dine with me at noon.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	43	17	The man did as Joseph bade him, and brought the men to Joseph’s house.
 Genesis	Gen	1	43	18	And the men were afraid because they were brought to Joseph’s house, and they said, “It is because of the money, which was replaced in our sacks the first time, that we are brought in, so that he may seek occasion against us and fall upon us, to make slaves of us and seize our asses.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	43	19	So they went up to the steward of Joseph’s house, and spoke with him at the door of the house,
 Genesis	Gen	1	43	20	and said, “Oh, my lord, we came down the first time to buy food;
 Genesis	Gen	1	43	21	and when we came to the lodging place we opened our sacks, and there was every man’s money in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight; so we have brought it again with us,
 Genesis	Gen	1	43	22	and we have brought other money down in our hand to buy food. We do not know who put our money in our sacks.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	43	23	He replied, “Rest assured, do not be afraid; your God and the God of your father must have put treasure in your sacks for you; I received your money.” Then he brought Simeon out to them.
 Genesis	Gen	1	43	24	And when the man had brought the men into Joseph’s house, and given them water, and they had washed their feet, and when he had given their asses provender,
 Genesis	Gen	1	43	25	they made ready the present for Joseph’s coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.
 Genesis	Gen	1	43	26	When Joseph came home, they brought into the house to him the present which they had with them, and bowed down to him to the ground.
 Genesis	Gen	1	43	27	And he inquired about their welfare, and said, “Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	43	28	They said, “Your servant our father is well, he is still alive.” And they bowed their heads and made obeisance.
 Genesis	Gen	1	43	29	And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, and said, “Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me? God be gracious to you, my son!”
 Genesis	Gen	1	43	30	Then Joseph made haste, for his heart yearned for his brother, and he sought a place to weep. And he entered his chamber and wept there.
 Genesis	Gen	1	43	31	Then he washed his face and came out; and controlling himself he said, “Let food be served.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	43	32	They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.
 Genesis	Gen	1	43	33	And they sat before him, the first-born according to his birthright and the youngest according to his youth; and the men looked at one another in amazement.
 Genesis	Gen	1	43	34	Portions were taken to them from Joseph’s table, but Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. So they drank and were merry with him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	44	1	Then he commanded the steward of his house, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in the mouth of his sack,
 Genesis	Gen	1	44	2	and put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, with his money for the grain.” And he did as Joseph told him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	44	3	As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away with their asses.
 Genesis	Gen	1	44	4	When they had gone but a short distance from the city, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men; and when you overtake them, say to them, ‘Why have you returned evil for good? Why have you stolen my silver cup?
 Genesis	Gen	1	44	5	Is it not from this that my lord drinks, and by this that he divines? You have done wrong in so doing.’”
 Genesis	Gen	1	44	6	When he overtook them, he spoke to them these words.
 Genesis	Gen	1	44	7	They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!
 Genesis	Gen	1	44	8	Behold, the money which we found in the mouth of our sacks, we brought back to you from the land of Canaan; how then should we steal silver or gold from your lord’s house?
 Genesis	Gen	1	44	9	With whomever of your servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	44	10	He said, “Let it be as you say: he with whom it is found shall be my slave, and the rest of you shall be blameless.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	44	11	Then every man quickly lowered his sack to the ground, and every man opened his sack.
 Genesis	Gen	1	44	12	And he searched, beginning with the eldest and ending with the youngest; and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
 Genesis	Gen	1	44	13	Then they rent their clothes, and every man loaded his ass, and they returned to the city.
 Genesis	Gen	1	44	14	When Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, he was still there; and they fell before him to the ground.
 Genesis	Gen	1	44	15	Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Do you not know that such a man as I can indeed divine?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	44	16	And Judah said, “What shall we say to my lord? What shall we speak? Or how can we clear ourselves? God has found out the guilt of your servants; behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we and he also in whose hand the cup has been found.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	44	17	But he said, “Far be it from me that I should do so! Only the man in whose hand the cup was found shall be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	44	18	Then Judah went up to him and said, “O my lord, let your servant, I pray you, speak a word in my lord’s ears, and let not your anger burn against your servant; for you are like Pharaoh himself.
 Genesis	Gen	1	44	19	My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’
 Genesis	Gen	1	44	20	And we said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a young brother, the child of his old age; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother’s children; and his father loves him.’
 Genesis	Gen	1	44	21	Then you said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes upon him.’
 Genesis	Gen	1	44	22	We said to my lord, ‘The lad cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’
 Genesis	Gen	1	44	23	Then you said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall see my face no more.’
 Genesis	Gen	1	44	24	When we went back to your servant my father we told him the words of my lord.
 Genesis	Gen	1	44	25	And when our father said, ‘Go again, buy us a little food,’
 Genesis	Gen	1	44	26	we said, ‘We cannot go down. If our youngest brother goes with us, then we will go down; for we cannot see the man’s face unless our youngest brother is with us.’
 Genesis	Gen	1	44	27	Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons;
 Genesis	Gen	1	44	28	one left me, and I said, Surely he has been torn to pieces; and I have never seen him since.
 Genesis	Gen	1	44	29	If you take this one also from me, and harm befalls him, you will bring down my gray hairs in sorrow to Sheol.’
 Genesis	Gen	1	44	30	Now therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, then, as his life is bound up in the lad’s life,
 Genesis	Gen	1	44	31	when he sees that the lad is not with us, he will die; and your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.
 Genesis	Gen	1	44	32	For your servant became surety for the lad to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame in the sight of my father all my life.’
 Genesis	Gen	1	44	33	Now therefore, let your servant, I pray you, remain instead of the lad as a slave to my lord; and let the lad go back with his brothers.
 Genesis	Gen	1	44	34	For how can I go back to my father if the lad is not with me? I fear to see the evil that would come upon my father.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	45	1	Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him; and he cried, “Make every one go out from me.” So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
 Genesis	Gen	1	45	2	And he wept aloud, so that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard it.
 Genesis	Gen	1	45	3	And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph; is my father still alive?” But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed at his presence.
 Genesis	Gen	1	45	4	So Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, I pray you.” And they came near. And he said, “I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.
 Genesis	Gen	1	45	5	And now do not be distressed, or angry with yourselves, because you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve life.
 Genesis	Gen	1	45	6	For the famine has been in the land these two years; and there are yet five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.
 Genesis	Gen	1	45	7	And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors.
 Genesis	Gen	1	45	8	So it was not you who sent me here, but God; and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
 Genesis	Gen	1	45	9	Make haste and go up to my father and say to him, ‘Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me, do not tarry;
 Genesis	Gen	1	45	10	you shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children’s children, and your flocks, your herds, and all that you have;
 Genesis	Gen	1	45	11	and there I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come; lest you and your household, and all that you have, come to poverty.’
 Genesis	Gen	1	45	12	And now your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.
 Genesis	Gen	1	45	13	You must tell my father of all my splendor in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. Make haste and bring my father down here.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	45	14	Then he fell upon his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
 Genesis	Gen	1	45	15	And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them; and after that his brothers talked with him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	45	16	When the report was heard in Pharaoh’s house, “Joseph’s brothers have come,” it pleased Pharaoh and his servants well.
 Genesis	Gen	1	45	17	And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Say to your brothers, ‘Do this: load your beasts and go back to the land of Canaan;
 Genesis	Gen	1	45	18	and take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land.’
 Genesis	Gen	1	45	19	Command them also, ‘Do this: take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
 Genesis	Gen	1	45	20	Give no thought to your goods, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.’”
 Genesis	Gen	1	45	21	The sons of Israel did so; and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the command of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the journey.
 Genesis	Gen	1	45	22	To each and all of them he gave festal garments; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver and five festal garments.
 Genesis	Gen	1	45	23	To his father he sent as follows: ten asses loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses loaded with grain, bread, and provision for his father on the journey.
 Genesis	Gen	1	45	24	Then he sent his brothers away, and as they departed, he said to them, “Do not quarrel on the way.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	45	25	So they went up out of Egypt, and came to the land of Canaan to their father Jacob.
 Genesis	Gen	1	45	26	And they told him, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” And his heart fainted, for he did not believe them.
 Genesis	Gen	1	45	27	But when they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them, and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of their father Jacob revived;
 Genesis	Gen	1	45	28	and Israel said, “It is enough; Joseph my son is still alive; I will go and see him before I die.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	46	1	So Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
 Genesis	Gen	1	46	2	And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here am I.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	46	3	Then he said, “I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt; for I will there make of you a great nation.
 Genesis	Gen	1	46	4	I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again; and Joseph’s hand shall close your eyes.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	46	5	Then Jacob set out from Beer-sheba; and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	46	6	They also took their cattle and their goods, which they had gained in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him,
 Genesis	Gen	1	46	7	his sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters; all his offspring he brought with him into Egypt.
 Genesis	Gen	1	46	8	Now these are the names of the descendants of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons. Reuben, Jacob’s first-born,
 Genesis	Gen	1	46	9	and the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
 Genesis	Gen	1	46	10	The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanitish woman.
 Genesis	Gen	1	46	11	The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
 Genesis	Gen	1	46	12	The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan); and the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
 Genesis	Gen	1	46	13	The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.
 Genesis	Gen	1	46	14	The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel
 Genesis	Gen	1	46	15	(these are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, together with his daughter Dinah; altogether his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three).
 Genesis	Gen	1	46	16	The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.
 Genesis	Gen	1	46	17	The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, with Serah their sister. And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchi-el
 Genesis	Gen	1	46	18	(these are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bore to Jacob—sixteen persons).
 Genesis	Gen	1	46	19	The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
 Genesis	Gen	1	46	20	And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera the priest of On, bore to him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	46	21	And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard
 Genesis	Gen	1	46	22	(these are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob—fourteen persons in all).
 Genesis	Gen	1	46	23	The sons of Dan: Hushim.
 Genesis	Gen	1	46	24	The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem
 Genesis	Gen	1	46	25	(these are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob—seven persons in all).
 Genesis	Gen	1	46	26	All the persons belonging to Jacob who came into Egypt, who were his own offspring, not including Jacob’s sons’ wives, were sixty-six persons in all;
 Genesis	Gen	1	46	27	and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two; all the persons of the house of Jacob, that came into Egypt, were seventy.
 Genesis	Gen	1	46	28	He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to appear before him in Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.
 Genesis	Gen	1	46	29	Then Joseph made ready his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen; and he presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
 Genesis	Gen	1	46	30	Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	46	31	Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and will say to him, ‘My brothers and my father’s household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me;
 Genesis	Gen	1	46	32	and the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.’
 Genesis	Gen	1	46	33	When Pharaoh calls you, and says, ‘What is your occupation?’
 Genesis	Gen	1	46	34	you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of cattle from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,’ in order that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	47	1	So Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all that they possess, have come from the land of Canaan; they are now in the land of Goshen.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	47	2	And from among his brothers he took five men and presented them to Pharaoh.
 Genesis	Gen	1	47	3	Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?” And they said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, as our fathers were.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	47	4	They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to sojourn in the land; for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan; and now, we pray you, let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	47	5	Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.
 Genesis	Gen	1	47	6	The land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land; let them dwell in the land of Goshen; and if you know any able men among them, put them in charge of my cattle.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	47	7	Then Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
 Genesis	Gen	1	47	8	And Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many are the days of the years of your life?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	47	9	And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are a hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	47	10	And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.
 Genesis	Gen	1	47	11	Then Joseph settled his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
 Genesis	Gen	1	47	12	And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with food, according to the number of their dependents.
 Genesis	Gen	1	47	13	Now there was no food in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished by reason of the famine.
 Genesis	Gen	1	47	14	And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought; and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.
 Genesis	Gen	1	47	15	And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, “Give us food; why should we die before your eyes? For our money is gone.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	47	16	And Joseph answered, “Give your cattle, and I will give you food in exchange for your cattle, if your money is gone.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	47	17	So they brought their cattle to Joseph; and Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses, the flocks, the herds, and the asses: and he supplied them with food in exchange for all their cattle that year.
 Genesis	Gen	1	47	18	And when that year was ended, they came to him the following year, and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord that our money is all spent; and the herds of cattle are my lord’s; there is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our lands.
 Genesis	Gen	1	47	19	Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be slaves to Pharaoh; and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	47	20	So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for all the Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine was severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh’s;
 Genesis	Gen	1	47	21	and as for the people, he made slaves of them from one end of Egypt to the other.
 Genesis	Gen	1	47	22	Only the land of the priests he did not buy; for the priests had a fixed allowance from Pharaoh, and lived on the allowance which Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land.
 Genesis	Gen	1	47	23	Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have this day bought you and your land for Pharaoh. Now here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.
 Genesis	Gen	1	47	24	And at the harvests you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four fifths shall be your own, as seed for the field and as food for yourselves and your households, and as food for your little ones.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	47	25	And they said, “You have saved our lives; may it please my lord, we will be slaves to Pharaoh.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	47	26	So Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt, and it stands to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; the land of the priests alone did not become Pharaoh’s.
 Genesis	Gen	1	47	27	Thus Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied exceedingly.
 Genesis	Gen	1	47	28	And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; so the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred and forty-seven years.
 Genesis	Gen	1	47	29	And when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh, and promise to deal loyally and truly with me. Do not bury me in Egypt,
 Genesis	Gen	1	47	30	but let me lie with my fathers; carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burying place.” He answered, “I will do as you have said.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	47	31	And he said, “Swear to me”; and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself upon the head of his bed.
 Genesis	Gen	1	48	1	After this Joseph was told, “Behold, your father is ill”; so he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
 Genesis	Gen	1	48	2	And it was told to Jacob, “Your son Joseph has come to you”; then Israel summoned his strength, and sat up in bed.
 Genesis	Gen	1	48	3	And Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me,
 Genesis	Gen	1	48	4	and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your descendants after you for an everlasting possession.’
 Genesis	Gen	1	48	5	And now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are.
 Genesis	Gen	1	48	6	And the offspring born to you after them shall be yours; they shall be called by the name of their brothers in their inheritance.
 Genesis	Gen	1	48	7	For when I came from Paddan, Rachel to my sorrow died in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath; and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).”
 Genesis	Gen	1	48	8	When Israel saw Joseph’s sons, he said, “Who are these?”
 Genesis	Gen	1	48	9	Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” And he said, “Bring them to me, I pray you, that I may bless them.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	48	10	Now the eyes of Israel were dim with age, so that he could not see. So Joseph brought them near him; and he kissed them and embraced them.
 Genesis	Gen	1	48	11	And Israel said to Joseph, “I had not thought to see your face; and lo, God has let me see your children also.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	48	12	Then Joseph removed them from his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
 Genesis	Gen	1	48	13	And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them near him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	48	14	And Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it upon the head of Ephraim, who was the younger, and his left hand upon the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands, for Manasseh was the first-born.
 Genesis	Gen	1	48	15	And he blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has led me all my life long to this day,
 Genesis	Gen	1	48	16	the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and in them let my name be perpetuated, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	48	17	When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him; and he took his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.
 Genesis	Gen	1	48	18	And Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father; for this one is the first-born; put your right hand upon his head.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	48	19	But his father refused, and said, “I know, my son, I know; he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great; nevertheless his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	48	20	So he blessed them that day, saying, “By you Israel will pronounce blessings, saying, ‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh’”; and thus he put Ephraim before Manasseh.
 Genesis	Gen	1	48	21	Then Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you, and will bring you again to the land of your fathers.
 Genesis	Gen	1	48	22	Moreover I have given to you rather than to your brothers one mountain slope which I took from the hand of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	49	1	Then Jacob called his sons, and said, “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you what shall befall you in days to come.
 Genesis	Gen	1	49	2	Assemble and hear, O sons of Jacob, and hearken to Israel your father.
 Genesis	Gen	1	49	3	Reuben, you are my first-born, my might, and the first fruits of my strength, pre-eminent in pride and pre-eminent in power.
 Genesis	Gen	1	49	4	Unstable as water, you shall not have pre-eminence because you went up to your father’s bed; then you defiled it—you went up to my couch!
 Genesis	Gen	1	49	5	Simeon and Levi are brothers; weapons of violence are their swords.
 Genesis	Gen	1	49	6	O my soul, come not into their council; O my spirit, be not joined to their company; for in their anger they slay men, and in their wantonness they hamstring oxen.
 Genesis	Gen	1	49	7	Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce; and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
 Genesis	Gen	1	49	8	Judah, your brothers shall praise you; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father’s sons shall bow down before you.
 Genesis	Gen	1	49	9	Judah is a lion’s whelp; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as a lioness; who dares rouse him up?
 Genesis	Gen	1	49	10	The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
 Genesis	Gen	1	49	11	Binding his foal to the vine and his ass’s colt to the choice vine, he washes his garments in wine and his vesture in the blood of grapes;
 Genesis	Gen	1	49	12	his eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
 Genesis	Gen	1	49	13	Zebulun shall dwell at the shore of the sea; he shall become a haven for ships, and his border shall be at Sidon.
 Genesis	Gen	1	49	14	Issachar is a strong ass, crouching between the sheepfolds;
 Genesis	Gen	1	49	15	he saw that a resting place was good, and that the land was pleasant; so he bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a slave at forced labor.
 Genesis	Gen	1	49	16	Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.
 Genesis	Gen	1	49	17	Dan shall be a serpent in the way, a viper by the path, that bites the horse’s heels so that his rider falls backward.
 Genesis	Gen	1	49	18	I wait for thy salvation, O Lord.
 Genesis	Gen	1	49	19	Raiders shall raid Gad, but he shall raid at their heels.
 Genesis	Gen	1	49	20	Asher’s food shall be rich, and he shall yield royal dainties.
 Genesis	Gen	1	49	21	Naphtali is a hind let loose, that bears comely fawns.
 Genesis	Gen	1	49	22	Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring; his branches run over the wall.
 Genesis	Gen	1	49	23	The archers fiercely attacked him, shot at him, and harassed him sorely;
 Genesis	Gen	1	49	24	yet his bow remained unmoved, his arms were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob (by the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel),
 Genesis	Gen	1	49	25	by the God of your father who will help you, by God Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that couches beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
 Genesis	Gen	1	49	26	The blessings of your father are mighty beyond the blessings of the eternal mountains, the bounties of the everlasting hills; may they be on the head of Joseph, and on the brow of him who was separate from his brothers.
 Genesis	Gen	1	49	27	Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, in the morning devouring the prey, and at even dividing the spoil.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	49	28	All these are the twelve tribes of Israel; and this is what their father said to them as he blessed them, blessing each with the blessing suitable to him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	49	29	Then he charged them, and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
 Genesis	Gen	1	49	30	in the cave that is in the field at Mach-pelah, to the east of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.
 Genesis	Gen	1	49	31	There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah—
 Genesis	Gen	1	49	32	the field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	49	33	When Jacob finished charging his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed, and breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.
 Genesis	Gen	1	50	1	Then Joseph fell on his father’s face, and wept over him, and kissed him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	50	2	And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel;
 Genesis	Gen	1	50	3	forty days were required for it, for so many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
 Genesis	Gen	1	50	4	And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
 Genesis	Gen	1	50	5	My father made me swear, saying, ‘I am about to die: in my tomb which I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me.’ Now therefore let me go up, I pray you, and bury my father; then I will return.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	50	6	And Pharaoh answered, “Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	50	7	So Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
 Genesis	Gen	1	50	8	as well as all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s household; only their children, their flocks, and their herds were left in the land of Goshen.
 Genesis	Gen	1	50	9	And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen; it was a very great company.
 Genesis	Gen	1	50	10	When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and sorrowful lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
 Genesis	Gen	1	50	11	When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning on the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians.” Therefore the place was named Abel-mizraim; it is beyond the Jordan.
 Genesis	Gen	1	50	12	Thus his sons did for him as he had commanded them;
 Genesis	Gen	1	50	13	for his sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field at Mach-pelah, to the east of Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite, to possess as a burying place.
 Genesis	Gen	1	50	14	After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.
 Genesis	Gen	1	50	15	When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil which we did to him.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	50	16	So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father gave this command before he died,
 Genesis	Gen	1	50	17	‘Say to Joseph, Forgive, I pray you, the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.’ And now, we pray you, forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
 Genesis	Gen	1	50	18	His brothers also came and fell down before him, and said, “Behold, we are your servants.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	50	19	But Joseph said to them, “Fear not, for am I in the place of God?
 Genesis	Gen	1	50	20	As for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
 Genesis	Gen	1	50	21	So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones.” Thus he reassured them and comforted them.
 Genesis	Gen	1	50	22	So Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his father’s house; and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.
 Genesis	Gen	1	50	23	And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation; the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born upon Joseph’s knees.
 Genesis	Gen	1	50	24	And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die; but God will visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	50	25	Then Joseph took an oath of the sons of Israel, saying, “God will visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”
 Genesis	Gen	1	50	26	So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
 Exodus	Ex	2	1	1	These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household:
 Exodus	Ex	2	1	2	Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
 Exodus	Ex	2	1	3	Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
 Exodus	Ex	2	1	4	Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
 Exodus	Ex	2	1	5	All the offspring of Jacob were seventy persons; Joseph was already in Egypt.
 Exodus	Ex	2	1	6	Then Joseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation.
 Exodus	Ex	2	1	7	But the descendants of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong; so that the land was filled with them.
 Exodus	Ex	2	1	8	Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
 Exodus	Ex	2	1	9	And he said to his people, “Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us.
 Exodus	Ex	2	1	10	Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war befall us, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	1	11	Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens; and they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Ra-amses.
 Exodus	Ex	2	1	12	But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel.
 Exodus	Ex	2	1	13	So they made the people of Israel serve with rigor,
 Exodus	Ex	2	1	14	and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field; in all their work they made them serve with rigor.
 Exodus	Ex	2	1	15	Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,
 Exodus	Ex	2	1	16	“When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, she shall live.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	1	17	But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live.
 Exodus	Ex	2	1	18	So the king of Egypt called the midwives, and said to them, “Why have you done this, and let the male children live?”
 Exodus	Ex	2	1	19	The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and are delivered before the midwife comes to them.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	1	20	So God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and grew very strong.
 Exodus	Ex	2	1	21	And because the midwives feared God he gave them families.
 Exodus	Ex	2	1	22	Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	2	1	Now a man from the house of Levi went and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
 Exodus	Ex	2	2	2	The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
 Exodus	Ex	2	2	3	And when she could hide him no longer she took for him a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with bitumen and pitch; and she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds at the river’s brink.
 Exodus	Ex	2	2	4	And his sister stood at a distance, to know what would be done to him.
 Exodus	Ex	2	2	5	Now the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, and her maidens walked beside the river; she saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid to fetch it.
 Exodus	Ex	2	2	6	When she opened it she saw the child; and lo, the babe was crying. She took pity on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	2	7	Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?”
 Exodus	Ex	2	2	8	And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” So the girl went and called the child’s mother.
 Exodus	Ex	2	2	9	And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him.
 Exodus	Ex	2	2	10	And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son; and she named him Moses, for she said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	2	11	One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people.
 Exodus	Ex	2	2	12	He looked this way and that, and seeing no one he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
 Exodus	Ex	2	2	13	When he went out the next day, behold, two Hebrews were struggling together; and he said to the man that did the wrong, “Why do you strike your fellow?”
 Exodus	Ex	2	2	14	He answered, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid, and thought, “Surely the thing is known.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	2	15	When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh, and stayed in the land of Midian; and he sat down by a well.
 Exodus	Ex	2	2	16	Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
 Exodus	Ex	2	2	17	The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
 Exodus	Ex	2	2	18	When they came to their father Reuel, he said, “How is it that you have come so soon today?”
 Exodus	Ex	2	2	19	They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and even drew water for us and watered the flock.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	2	20	He said to his daughters, “And where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	2	21	And Moses was content to dwell with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah.
 Exodus	Ex	2	2	22	She bore a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	2	23	In the course of those many days the king of Egypt died. And the people of Israel groaned under their bondage, and cried out for help, and their cry under bondage came up to God.
 Exodus	Ex	2	2	24	And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
 Exodus	Ex	2	2	25	And God saw the people of Israel, and God knew their condition.
 Exodus	Ex	2	3	1	Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian; and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
 Exodus	Ex	2	3	2	And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush; and he looked, and lo, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.
 Exodus	Ex	2	3	3	And Moses said, “I will turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	3	4	When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here am I.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	3	5	Then he said, “Do not come near; put off your shoes from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	3	6	And he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
 Exodus	Ex	2	3	7	Then the Lord said, “I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters; I know their sufferings,
 Exodus	Ex	2	3	8	and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
 Exodus	Ex	2	3	9	And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
 Exodus	Ex	2	3	10	Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring forth my people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	3	11	But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?”
 Exodus	Ex	2	3	12	He said, “But I will be with you; and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought forth the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God upon this mountain.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	3	13	Then Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?”
 Exodus	Ex	2	3	14	God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
 Exodus	Ex	2	3	15	God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you’: this is my name for ever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.
 Exodus	Ex	2	3	16	Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and say to them, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have observed you and what has been done to you in Egypt;
 Exodus	Ex	2	3	17	and I promise that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt, to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey.”’
 Exodus	Ex	2	3	18	And they will hearken to your voice; and you and the elders of Israel shall go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us; and now, we pray you, let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.’
 Exodus	Ex	2	3	19	I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless compelled by a mighty hand.
 Exodus	Ex	2	3	20	So I will stretch out my hand and smite Egypt with all the wonders which I will do in it; after that he will let you go.
 Exodus	Ex	2	3	21	And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians; and when you go, you shall not go empty,
 Exodus	Ex	2	3	22	but each woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her who sojourns in her house, jewelry of silver and of gold, and clothing, and you shall put them on your sons and on your daughters; thus you shall despoil the Egyptians.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	4	1	Then Moses answered, “But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you.’”
 Exodus	Ex	2	4	2	The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A rod.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	4	3	And he said, “Cast it on the ground.” So he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from it.
 Exodus	Ex	2	4	4	But the Lord said to Moses, “Put out your hand, and take it by the tail”—so he put out his hand and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand—
 Exodus	Ex	2	4	5	“that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	4	6	Again, the Lord said to him, “Put your hand into your bosom.” And he put his hand into his bosom; and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.
 Exodus	Ex	2	4	7	Then God said, “Put your hand back into your bosom.” So he put his hand back into his bosom; and when he took it out, behold, it was restored like the rest of his flesh.
 Exodus	Ex	2	4	8	“If they will not believe you,” God said, “or heed the first sign, they may believe the latter sign.
 Exodus	Ex	2	4	9	If they will not believe even these two signs or heed your voice, you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it upon the dry ground; and the water which you shall take from the Nile will become blood upon the dry ground.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	4	10	But Moses said to the Lord, “Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either heretofore or since thou hast spoken to thy servant; but I am slow of speech and of tongue.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	4	11	Then the Lord said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Who makes him dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?
 Exodus	Ex	2	4	12	Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	4	13	But he said, “Oh, my Lord, send, I pray, some other person.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	4	14	Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses and he said, “Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well; and behold, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you he will be glad in his heart.
 Exodus	Ex	2	4	15	And you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.
 Exodus	Ex	2	4	16	He shall speak for you to the people; and he shall be a mouth for you, and you shall be to him as God.
 Exodus	Ex	2	4	17	And you shall take in your hand this rod, with which you shall do the signs.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	4	18	Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Let me go back, I pray, to my kinsmen in Egypt and see whether they are still alive.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	4	19	And the Lord said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt; for all the men who were seeking your life are dead.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	4	20	So Moses took his wife and his sons and set them on an ass, and went back to the land of Egypt; and in his hand Moses took the rod of God.
 Exodus	Ex	2	4	21	And the Lord said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles which I have put in your power; but I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go.
 Exodus	Ex	2	4	22	And you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, Israel is my first-born son,
 Exodus	Ex	2	4	23	and I say to you, “Let my son go that he may serve me”; if you refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay your first-born son.’”
 Exodus	Ex	2	4	24	At a lodging place on the way the Lord met him and sought to kill him.
 Exodus	Ex	2	4	25	Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin, and touched Moses’ feet with it, and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!”
 Exodus	Ex	2	4	26	So he let him alone. Then it was that she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.
 Exodus	Ex	2	4	27	The Lord said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” So he went, and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him.
 Exodus	Ex	2	4	28	And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord with which he had sent him, and all the signs which he had charged him to do.
 Exodus	Ex	2	4	29	Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the people of Israel.
 Exodus	Ex	2	4	30	And Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
 Exodus	Ex	2	4	31	And the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord had visited the people of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped.
 Exodus	Ex	2	5	1	Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’”
 Exodus	Ex	2	5	2	But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should heed his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	5	3	Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us; let us go, we pray, a three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	5	4	But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you take the people away from their work? Get to your burdens.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	5	5	And Pharaoh said, “Behold, the people of the land are now many and you make them rest from their burdens!”
 Exodus	Ex	2	5	6	The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen,
 Exodus	Ex	2	5	7	“You shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks, as heretofore; let them go and gather straw for themselves.
 Exodus	Ex	2	5	8	But the number of bricks which they made heretofore you shall lay upon them, you shall by no means lessen it; for they are idle; therefore they cry, ‘Let us go and offer sacrifice to our God.’
 Exodus	Ex	2	5	9	Let heavier work be laid upon the men that they may labor at it and pay no regard to lying words.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	5	10	So the taskmasters and the foremen of the people went out and said to the people, “Thus says Pharaoh, ‘I will not give you straw.
 Exodus	Ex	2	5	11	Go yourselves, get your straw wherever you can find it; but your work will not be lessened in the least.’”
 Exodus	Ex	2	5	12	So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt, to gather stubble for straw.
 Exodus	Ex	2	5	13	The taskmasters were urgent, saying, “Complete your work, your daily task, as when there was straw.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	5	14	And the foremen of the people of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, “Why have you not done all your task of making bricks today, as hitherto?”
 Exodus	Ex	2	5	15	Then the foremen of the people of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, “Why do you deal thus with your servants?
 Exodus	Ex	2	5	16	No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ And behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	5	17	But he said, “You are idle, you are idle; therefore you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.’
 Exodus	Ex	2	5	18	Go now, and work; for no straw shall be given you, yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	5	19	The foremen of the people of Israel saw that they were in evil plight, when they said, “You shall by no means lessen your daily number of bricks.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	5	20	They met Moses and Aaron, who were waiting for them, as they came forth from Pharaoh;
 Exodus	Ex	2	5	21	and they said to them, “The Lord look upon you and judge, because you have made us offensive in the sight of Pharaoh and his servants, and have put a sword in their hand to kill us.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	5	22	Then Moses turned again to the Lord and said, “O Lord, why hast thou done evil to this people? Why didst thou ever send me?
 Exodus	Ex	2	5	23	For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he has done evil to this people, and thou hast not delivered thy people at all.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	6	1	But the Lord said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he will send them out, yea, with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	6	2	And God said to Moses, “I am the Lord.
 Exodus	Ex	2	6	3	I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the Lord I did not make myself known to them.
 Exodus	Ex	2	6	4	I also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they dwelt as sojourners.
 Exodus	Ex	2	6	5	Moreover I have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold in bondage and I have remembered my covenant.
 Exodus	Ex	2	6	6	Say therefore to the people of Israel, ‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment,
 Exodus	Ex	2	6	7	and I will take you for my people, and I will be your God; and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
 Exodus	Ex	2	6	8	And I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; I will give it to you for a possession. I am the Lord.’”
 Exodus	Ex	2	6	9	Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel; but they did not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and their cruel bondage.
 Exodus	Ex	2	6	10	And the Lord said to Moses,
 Exodus	Ex	2	6	11	“Go in, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the people of Israel go out of his land.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	6	12	But Moses said to the Lord, “Behold, the people of Israel have not listened to me; how then shall Pharaoh listen to me, who am a man of uncircumcised lips?”
 Exodus	Ex	2	6	13	But the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, and gave them a charge to the people of Israel and to Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
 Exodus	Ex	2	6	14	These are the heads of their fathers’ houses: the sons of Reuben, the first-born of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben.
 Exodus	Ex	2	6	15	The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the families of Simeon.
 Exodus	Ex	2	6	16	These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, the years of the life of Levi being a hundred and thirty-seven years.
 Exodus	Ex	2	6	17	The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shime-i, by their families.
 Exodus	Ex	2	6	18	The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, the years of the life of Kohath being a hundred and thirty-three years.
 Exodus	Ex	2	6	19	The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.
 Exodus	Ex	2	6	20	Amram took to wife Jochebed his father’s sister and she bore him Aaron and Moses, the years of the life of Amram being one hundred and thirty-seven years.
 Exodus	Ex	2	6	21	The sons of Izhar: Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri.
 Exodus	Ex	2	6	22	And the sons of Uzziel: Misha-el, Elzaphan, and Sithri.
 Exodus	Ex	2	6	23	Aaron took to wife Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and the sister of Nahshon; and she bore him Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
 Exodus	Ex	2	6	24	The sons of Korah: Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites.
 Exodus	Ex	2	6	25	Eleazar, Aaron’s son, took to wife one of the daughters of Puti-el; and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites by their families.
 Exodus	Ex	2	6	26	These are the Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord said: “Bring out the people of Israel from the land of Egypt by their hosts.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	6	27	It was they who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt about bringing out the people of Israel from Egypt, this Moses and this Aaron.
 Exodus	Ex	2	6	28	On the day when the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,
 Exodus	Ex	2	6	29	the Lord said to Moses, “I am the Lord; tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say to you.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	6	30	But Moses said to the Lord, “Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips; how then shall Pharaoh listen to me?”
 Exodus	Ex	2	7	1	And the Lord said to Moses, “See, I make you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.
 Exodus	Ex	2	7	2	You shall speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother shall tell Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go out of his land.
 Exodus	Ex	2	7	3	But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,
 Exodus	Ex	2	7	4	Pharaoh will not listen to you; then I will lay my hand upon Egypt and bring forth my hosts, my people the sons of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment.
 Exodus	Ex	2	7	5	And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch forth my hand upon Egypt and bring out the people of Israel from among them.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	7	6	And Moses and Aaron did so; they did as the Lord commanded them.
 Exodus	Ex	2	7	7	Now Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
 Exodus	Ex	2	7	8	And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
 Exodus	Ex	2	7	9	“When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Prove yourselves by working a miracle,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your rod and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it may become a serpent.’”
 Exodus	Ex	2	7	10	So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did as the Lord commanded; Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent.
 Exodus	Ex	2	7	11	Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers; and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same by their secret arts.
 Exodus	Ex	2	7	12	For every man cast down his rod, and they became serpents. But Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.
 Exodus	Ex	2	7	13	Still Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them; as the Lord had said.
 Exodus	Ex	2	7	14	Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is hardened, he refuses to let the people go.
 Exodus	Ex	2	7	15	Go to Pharaoh in the morning, as he is going out to the water; wait for him by the river’s brink, and take in your hand the rod which was turned into a serpent.
 Exodus	Ex	2	7	16	And you shall say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, “Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness; and behold, you have not yet obeyed.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	7	17	Thus says the Lord, “By this you shall know that I am the Lord: behold, I will strike the water that is in the Nile with the rod that is in my hand, and it shall be turned to blood,
 Exodus	Ex	2	7	18	and the fish in the Nile shall die, and the Nile shall become foul, and the Egyptians will loathe to drink water from the Nile.”’”
 Exodus	Ex	2	7	19	And the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your rod and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, their canals, and their ponds, and all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’”
 Exodus	Ex	2	7	20	Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded; in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, he lifted up the rod and struck the water that was in the Nile, and all the water that was in the Nile turned to blood.
 Exodus	Ex	2	7	21	And the fish in the Nile died; and the Nile became foul, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
 Exodus	Ex	2	7	22	But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts; so Pharaoh’s heart remained hardened, and he would not listen to them; as the Lord had said.
 Exodus	Ex	2	7	23	Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he did not lay even this to heart.
 Exodus	Ex	2	7	24	And all the Egyptians dug round about the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink the water of the Nile.
 Exodus	Ex	2	7	25	Seven days passed after the Lord had struck the Nile.
 Exodus	Ex	2	8	1	Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.
 Exodus	Ex	2	8	2	But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your country with frogs;
 Exodus	Ex	2	8	3	the Nile shall swarm with frogs which shall come up into your house, and into your bedchamber and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and of your people, and into your ovens and your kneading bowls;
 Exodus	Ex	2	8	4	the frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your servants.”’”
 Exodus	Ex	2	8	5	And the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your rod over the rivers, over the canals, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come upon the land of Egypt!’”
 Exodus	Ex	2	8	6	So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.
 Exodus	Ex	2	8	7	But the magicians did the same by their secret arts, and brought frogs upon the land of Egypt.
 Exodus	Ex	2	8	8	Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron, and said, “Entreat the Lord to take away the frogs from me and from my people; and I will let the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	8	9	Moses said to Pharaoh, “Be pleased to command me when I am to entreat, for you and for your servants and for your people, that the frogs be destroyed from you and your houses and be left only in the Nile.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	8	10	And he said, “Tomorrow.” Moses said, “Be it as you say, that you may know that there is no one like the Lord our God.
 Exodus	Ex	2	8	11	The frogs shall depart from you and your houses and your servants and your people; they shall be left only in the Nile.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	8	12	So Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh; and Moses cried to the Lord concerning the frogs, as he had agreed with Pharaoh.
 Exodus	Ex	2	8	13	And the Lord did according to the word of Moses; the frogs died out of the houses and courtyards and out of the fields.
 Exodus	Ex	2	8	14	And they gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.
 Exodus	Ex	2	8	15	But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and would not listen to them; as the Lord had said.
 Exodus	Ex	2	8	16	Then the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your rod and strike the dust of the earth, that it may become gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.’”
 Exodus	Ex	2	8	17	And they did so; Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and struck the dust of the earth, and there came gnats on man and beast; all the dust of the earth became gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.
 Exodus	Ex	2	8	18	The magicians tried by their secret arts to bring forth gnats, but they could not. So there were gnats on man and beast.
 Exodus	Ex	2	8	19	And the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is the finger of God.” But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them; as the Lord had said.
 Exodus	Ex	2	8	20	Then the Lord said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning and wait for Pharaoh, as he goes out to the water, and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.
 Exodus	Ex	2	8	21	Else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you and your servants and your people, and into your houses; and the houses of the Egyptians shall be filled with swarms of flies, and also the ground on which they stand.
 Exodus	Ex	2	8	22	But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where my people dwell, so that no swarms of flies shall be there; that you may know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth.
 Exodus	Ex	2	8	23	Thus I will put a division between my people and your people. By tomorrow shall this sign be.”’”
 Exodus	Ex	2	8	24	And the Lord did so; there came great swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh and into his servants’ houses, and in all the land of Egypt the land was ruined by reason of the flies.
 Exodus	Ex	2	8	25	Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron, and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God within the land.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	8	26	But Moses said, “It would not be right to do so; for we shall sacrifice to the Lord our God offerings abominable to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice offerings abominable to the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not stone us?
 Exodus	Ex	2	8	27	We must go three days’ journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the Lord our God as he will command us.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	8	28	So Pharaoh said, “I will let you go, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness; only you shall not go very far away. Make entreaty for me.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	8	29	Then Moses said, “Behold, I am going out from you and I will pray to the Lord that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow; only let not Pharaoh deal falsely again by not letting the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	8	30	So Moses went out from Pharaoh and prayed to the Lord.
 Exodus	Ex	2	8	31	And the Lord did as Moses asked, and removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; not one remained.
 Exodus	Ex	2	8	32	But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and did not let the people go.
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	1	Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	2	For if you refuse to let them go and still hold them,
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	3	behold, the hand of the Lord will fall with a very severe plague upon your cattle which are in the field, the horses, the asses, the camels, the herds, and the flocks.
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	4	But the Lord will make a distinction between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt, so that nothing shall die of all that belongs to the people of Israel.”’”
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	5	And the Lord set a time, saying, “Tomorrow the Lord will do this thing in the land.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	6	And on the morrow the Lord did this thing; all the cattle of the Egyptians died, but of the cattle of the people of Israel not one died.
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	7	And Pharaoh sent, and behold, not one of the cattle of the Israelites was dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go.
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	8	And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of ashes from the kiln, and let Moses throw them toward heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	9	And it shall become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and become boils breaking out in sores on man and beast throughout all the land of Egypt.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	10	So they took ashes from the kiln, and stood before Pharaoh, and Moses threw them toward heaven, and it became boils breaking out in sores on man and beast.
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	11	And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were upon the magicians and upon all the Egyptians.
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	12	But the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not listen to them; as the Lord had spoken to Moses.
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	13	Then the Lord said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	14	For this time I will send all my plagues upon your heart, and upon your servants and your people, that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	15	For by now I could have put forth my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth;
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	16	but for this purpose have I let you live, to show you my power, so that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	17	You are still exalting yourself against my people, and will not let them go.
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	18	Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause very heavy hail to fall, such as never has been in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	19	Now therefore send, get your cattle and all that you have in the field into safe shelter; for the hail shall come down upon every man and beast that is in the field and is not brought home, and they shall die.”’”
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	20	Then he who feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh made his slaves and his cattle flee into the houses;
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	21	but he who did not regard the word of the Lord left his slaves and his cattle in the field.
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	22	And the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch forth your hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man and beast and every plant of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	23	Then Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven; and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. And the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt;
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	24	there was hail, and fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, very heavy hail, such as had never been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	25	The hail struck down everything that was in the field throughout all the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and the hail struck down every plant of the field, and shattered every tree of the field.
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	26	Only in the land of Goshen, where the people of Israel were, there was no hail.
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	27	Then Pharaoh sent, and called Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “I have sinned this time; the Lord is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong.
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	28	Entreat the Lord; for there has been enough of this thunder and hail; I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	29	Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will stretch out my hands to the Lord; the thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, that you may know that the earth is the Lord’s.
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	30	But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the Lord God.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	31	(The flax and the barley were ruined, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud.
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	32	But the wheat and the spelt were not ruined, for they are late in coming up.)
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	33	So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and stretched out his hands to the Lord; and the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured upon the earth.
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	34	But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned yet again, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
 Exodus	Ex	2	9	35	So the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people of Israel go; as the Lord had spoken through Moses.
 Exodus	Ex	2	10	1	Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh; for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these signs of mine among them,
 Exodus	Ex	2	10	2	and that you may tell in the hearing of your son and of your son’s son how I have made sport of the Egyptians and what signs I have done among them; that you may know that I am the Lord.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	10	3	So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
 Exodus	Ex	2	10	4	For if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,
 Exodus	Ex	2	10	5	and they shall cover the face of the land, so that no one can see the land; and they shall eat what is left to you after the hail, and they shall eat every tree of yours which grows in the field,
 Exodus	Ex	2	10	6	and they shall fill your houses, and the houses of all your servants and of all the Egyptians; as neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen, from the day they came on earth to this day.’” Then he turned and went out from Pharaoh.
 Exodus	Ex	2	10	7	And Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God; do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined?”
 Exodus	Ex	2	10	8	So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh; and he said to them, “Go, serve the Lord your God; but who are to go?”
 Exodus	Ex	2	10	9	And Moses said, “We will go with our young and our old; we will go with our sons and daughters and with our flocks and herds, for we must hold a feast to the Lord.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	10	10	And he said to them, “The Lord be with you, if ever I let you and your little ones go! Look, you have some evil purpose in mind.
 Exodus	Ex	2	10	11	No! Go, the men among you, and serve the Lord, for that is what you desire.” And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.
 Exodus	Ex	2	10	12	Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come upon the land of Egypt, and eat every plant in the land, all that the hail has left.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	10	13	So Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night; and when it was morning the east wind had brought the locusts.
 Exodus	Ex	2	10	14	And the locusts came up over all the land of Egypt, and settled on the whole country of Egypt, such a dense swarm of locusts as had never been before, nor ever shall be again.
 Exodus	Ex	2	10	15	For they covered the face of the whole land, so that the land was darkened, and they ate all the plants in the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left; not a green thing remained, neither tree nor plant of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
 Exodus	Ex	2	10	16	Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron in haste, and said, “I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you.
 Exodus	Ex	2	10	17	Now therefore, forgive my sin, I pray you, only this once, and entreat the Lord your God only to remove this death from me.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	10	18	So he went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the Lord.
 Exodus	Ex	2	10	19	And the Lord turned a very strong west wind, which lifted the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea; not a single locust was left in all the country of Egypt.
 Exodus	Ex	2	10	20	But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go.
 Exodus	Ex	2	10	21	Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness to be felt.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	10	22	So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days;
 Exodus	Ex	2	10	23	they did not see one another, nor did any rise from his place for three days; but all the people of Israel had light where they dwelt.
 Exodus	Ex	2	10	24	Then Pharaoh called Moses, and said, “Go, serve the Lord; your children also may go with you; only let your flocks and your herds remain behind.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	10	25	But Moses said, “You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.
 Exodus	Ex	2	10	26	Our cattle also must go with us; not a hoof shall be left behind, for we must take of them to serve the Lord our God, and we do not know with what we must serve the Lord until we arrive there.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	10	27	But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let them go.
 Exodus	Ex	2	10	28	Then Pharaoh said to him, “Get away from me; take heed to yourself; never see my face again; for in the day you see my face you shall die.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	10	29	Moses said, “As you say! I will not see your face again.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	11	1	The Lord said to Moses, “Yet one plague more I will bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence; when he lets you go, he will drive you away completely.
 Exodus	Ex	2	11	2	Speak now in the hearing of the people, that they ask, every man of his neighbor and every woman of her neighbor, jewelry of silver and of gold.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	11	3	And the Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants and in the sight of the people.
 Exodus	Ex	2	11	4	And Moses said, “Thus says the Lord: About midnight I will go forth in the midst of Egypt;
 Exodus	Ex	2	11	5	and all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh who sits upon his throne, even to the first-born of the maidservant who is behind the mill; and all the first-born of the cattle.
 Exodus	Ex	2	11	6	And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has never been, nor ever shall be again.
 Exodus	Ex	2	11	7	But against any of the people of Israel, either man or beast, not a dog shall growl; that you may know that the Lord makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.
 Exodus	Ex	2	11	8	And all these your servants shall come down to me, and bow down to me, saying, ‘Get you out, and all the people who follow you.’ And after that I will go out.” And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.
 Exodus	Ex	2	11	9	Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not listen to you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	11	10	Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh; and the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the people of Israel go out of his land.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	1	The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	2	“This month shall be for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year for you.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	3	Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month they shall take every man a lamb according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household;
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	4	and if the household is too small for a lamb, then a man and his neighbor next to his house shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	5	Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old; you shall take it from the sheep or from the goats;
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	6	and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs in the evening.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	7	Then they shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat them.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	8	They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	9	Do not eat any of it raw or boiled with water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	10	And you shall let none of it remain until the morning, anything that remains until the morning you shall burn.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	11	In this manner you shall eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s passover.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	12	For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	13	The blood shall be a sign for you, upon the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall fall upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	14	“This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations you shall observe it as an ordinance for ever.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	15	Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; on the first day you shall put away leaven out of your houses, for if any one eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	16	On the first day you shall hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly; no work shall be done on those days; but what every one must eat, that only may be prepared by you.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	17	And you shall observe the feast of unleavened bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt: therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as an ordinance for ever.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	18	In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, and so until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	19	For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses; for if any one eats what is leavened, that person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	20	You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	21	Then Moses called all the elders of Israel, and said to them, “Select lambs for yourselves according to your families, and kill the passover lamb.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	22	Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood which is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	23	For the Lord will pass through to slay the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to slay you.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	24	You shall observe this rite as an ordinance for you and for your sons for ever.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	25	And when you come to the land which the Lord will give you, as he has promised, you shall keep this service.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	26	And when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	27	you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he slew the Egyptians but spared our houses.’” And the people bowed their heads and worshiped.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	28	Then the people of Israel went and did so; as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	29	At midnight the Lord smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the first-born of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the first-born of the cattle.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	30	And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where one was not dead.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	31	And he summoned Moses and Aaron by night, and said, “Rise up, go forth from among my people, both you and the people of Israel; and go, serve the Lord, as you have said.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	32	Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!”
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	33	And the Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste; for they said, “We are all dead men.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	34	So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their mantles on their shoulders.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	35	The people of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they had asked of the Egyptians jewelry of silver and of gold, and clothing;
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	36	and the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they despoiled the Egyptians.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	37	And the people of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	38	A mixed multitude also went up with them, and very many cattle, both flocks and herds.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	39	And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they had brought out of Egypt, for it was not leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any provisions.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	40	The time that the people of Israel dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	41	And at the end of four hundred and thirty years, on that very day, all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	42	It was a night of watching by the Lord, to bring them out of the land of Egypt; so this same night is a night of watching kept to the Lord by all the people of Israel throughout their generations.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	43	And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the passover: no foreigner shall eat of it;
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	44	but every slave that is bought for money may eat of it after you have circumcised him.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	45	No sojourner or hired servant may eat of it.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	46	In one house shall it be eaten; you shall not carry forth any of the flesh outside the house; and you shall not break a bone of it.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	47	All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	48	And when a stranger shall sojourn with you and would keep the passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, then he may come near and keep it; he shall be as a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	49	There shall be one law for the native and for the stranger who sojourns among you.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	50	Thus did all the people of Israel; as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
 Exodus	Ex	2	12	51	And on that very day the Lord brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.
 Exodus	Ex	2	13	1	The Lord said to Moses,
 Exodus	Ex	2	13	2	“Consecrate to me all the first-born; whatever is the first to open the womb among the people of Israel, both of man and of beast, is mine.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	13	3	And Moses said to the people, “Remember this day, in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage, for by strength of hand the Lord brought you out from this place; no leavened bread shall be eaten.
 Exodus	Ex	2	13	4	This day you are to go forth, in the month of Abib.
 Exodus	Ex	2	13	5	And when the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you shall keep this service in this month.
 Exodus	Ex	2	13	6	Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the Lord.
 Exodus	Ex	2	13	7	Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days; no leavened bread shall be seen with you, and no leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory.
 Exodus	Ex	2	13	8	And you shall tell your son on that day, ‘It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’
 Exodus	Ex	2	13	9	And it shall be to you as a sign on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand the Lord has brought you out of Egypt.
 Exodus	Ex	2	13	10	You shall therefore keep this ordinance at its appointed time from year to year.
 Exodus	Ex	2	13	11	“And when the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and your fathers, and shall give it to you,
 Exodus	Ex	2	13	12	you shall set apart to the Lord all that first opens the womb. All the firstlings of your cattle that are males shall be the Lord’s.
 Exodus	Ex	2	13	13	Every firstling of an ass you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. Every first-born of man among your sons you shall redeem.
 Exodus	Ex	2	13	14	And when in time to come your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you shall say to him, ‘By strength of hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
 Exodus	Ex	2	13	15	For when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the Lord slew all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both the first-born of man and the first-born of cattle. Therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all the males that first open the womb; but all the first-born of my sons I redeem.’
 Exodus	Ex	2	13	16	It shall be as a mark on your hand or frontlets between your eyes; for by a strong hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	13	17	When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, “Lest the people repent when they see war, and return to Egypt.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	13	18	But God led the people round by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. And the people of Israel went up out of the land of Egypt equipped for battle.
 Exodus	Ex	2	13	19	And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him; for Joseph had solemnly sworn the people of Israel, saying, “God will visit you; then you must carry my bones with you from here.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	13	20	And they moved on from Succoth, and encamped at Etham, on the edge of the wilderness.
 Exodus	Ex	2	13	21	And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night;
 Exodus	Ex	2	13	22	the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night did not depart from before the people.
 Exodus	Ex	2	14	1	Then the Lord said to Moses,
 Exodus	Ex	2	14	2	“Tell the people of Israel to turn back and encamp in front of Pi-ha-hiroth, between Migdol and the sea, in front of Baal-zephon; you shall encamp over against it, by the sea.
 Exodus	Ex	2	14	3	For Pharaoh will say of the people of Israel, ‘They are entangled in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.’
 Exodus	Ex	2	14	4	And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host; and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord.” And they did so.
 Exodus	Ex	2	14	5	When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, the mind of Pharaoh and his servants was changed toward the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?”
 Exodus	Ex	2	14	6	So he made ready his chariot and took his army with him,
 Exodus	Ex	2	14	7	and took six hundred picked chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them.
 Exodus	Ex	2	14	8	And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt and he pursued the people of Israel as they went forth defiantly.
 Exodus	Ex	2	14	9	The Egyptians pursued them, all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and his horsemen and his army, and overtook them encamped at the sea, by Pi-ha-hiroth, in front of Baal-zephon.
 Exodus	Ex	2	14	10	When Pharaoh drew near, the people of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were in great fear. And the people of Israel cried out to the Lord;
 Exodus	Ex	2	14	11	and they said to Moses, “Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us, in bringing us out of Egypt?
 Exodus	Ex	2	14	12	Is not this what we said to you in Egypt, ‘Let us alone and let us serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	14	13	And Moses said to the people, “Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will work for you today; for the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again.
 Exodus	Ex	2	14	14	The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be still.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	14	15	The Lord said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Tell the people of Israel to go forward.
 Exodus	Ex	2	14	16	Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, that the people of Israel may go on dry ground through the sea.
 Exodus	Ex	2	14	17	And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they shall go in after them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, his chariots, and his horsemen.
 Exodus	Ex	2	14	18	And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I have gotten glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	14	19	Then the angel of God who went before the host of Israel moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them,
 Exodus	Ex	2	14	20	coming between the host of Egypt and the host of Israel. And there was the cloud and the darkness; and the night passed without one coming near the other all night.
 Exodus	Ex	2	14	21	Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
 Exodus	Ex	2	14	22	And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
 Exodus	Ex	2	14	23	The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
 Exodus	Ex	2	14	24	And in the morning watch the Lord in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down upon the host of the Egyptians, and discomfited the host of the Egyptians,
 Exodus	Ex	2	14	25	clogging their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily; and the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from before Israel; for the Lord fights for them against the Egyptians.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	14	26	Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	14	27	So Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its wonted flow when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled into it, and the Lord routed the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
 Exodus	Ex	2	14	28	The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen and all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea; not so much as one of them remained.
 Exodus	Ex	2	14	29	But the people of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
 Exodus	Ex	2	14	30	Thus the Lord saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore.
 Exodus	Ex	2	14	31	And Israel saw the great work which the Lord did against the Egyptians, and the people feared the Lord; and they believed in the Lord and in his servant Moses.
 Exodus	Ex	2	15	1	Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord, saying, “I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
 Exodus	Ex	2	15	2	The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
 Exodus	Ex	2	15	3	The Lord is a man of war; the Lord is his name.
 Exodus	Ex	2	15	4	“Pharaoh’s chariots and his host he cast into the sea; and his picked officers are sunk in the Red Sea.
 Exodus	Ex	2	15	5	The floods cover them; they went down into the depths like a stone.
 Exodus	Ex	2	15	6	Thy right hand, O Lord, glorious in power, thy right hand, O Lord, shatters the enemy.
 Exodus	Ex	2	15	7	In the greatness of thy majesty thou overthrowest thy adversaries; thou sendest forth thy fury, it consumes them like stubble.
 Exodus	Ex	2	15	8	At the blast of thy nostrils the waters piled up, the floods stood up in a heap; the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.
 Exodus	Ex	2	15	9	The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.’
 Exodus	Ex	2	15	10	Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them; they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
 Exodus	Ex	2	15	11	“Who is like thee, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like thee, majestic in holiness, terrible in glorious deeds, doing wonders?
 Exodus	Ex	2	15	12	Thou didst stretch out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.
 Exodus	Ex	2	15	13	“Thou hast led in thy steadfast love the people whom thou hast redeemed, thou hast guided them by thy strength to thy holy abode.
 Exodus	Ex	2	15	14	The peoples have heard, they tremble; pangs have seized on the inhabitants of Philistia.
 Exodus	Ex	2	15	15	Now are the chiefs of Edom dismayed; the leaders of Moab, trembling seizes them; all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.
 Exodus	Ex	2	15	16	Terror and dread fall upon them; because of the greatness of thy arm, they are as still as a stone, till thy people, O Lord, pass by, till the people pass by whom thou hast purchased.
 Exodus	Ex	2	15	17	Thou wilt bring them in, and plant them on thy own mountain, the place, O Lord, which thou hast made for thy abode, the sanctuary, Lord, which thy hands have established.
 Exodus	Ex	2	15	18	The Lord will reign for ever and ever.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	15	19	For when the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, the Lord brought back the waters of the sea upon them; but the people of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea.
 Exodus	Ex	2	15	20	Then Miriam, the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and dancing.
 Exodus	Ex	2	15	21	And Miriam sang to them: “Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	15	22	Then Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Shur; they went three days in the wilderness and found no water.
 Exodus	Ex	2	15	23	When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah.U
 Exodus	Ex	2	15	24	And the people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”
 Exodus	Ex	2	15	25	And he cried to the Lord; and the Lord showed him a tree, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the Lord made for them a statute and an ordinance and there he proved them,
 Exodus	Ex	2	15	26	saying, “If you will diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give heed to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon you which I put upon the Egyptians; for I am the Lord, your healer.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	15	27	Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees; and they encamped there by the water.
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	1	They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt.
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	2	And the whole congregation of the people of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness,
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	3	and said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots and ate bread to the full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	4	Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law or not.
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	5	On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather daily.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	6	So Moses and Aaron said to all the people of Israel, “At evening you shall know that it was the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	7	and in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord, because he has heard your murmurings against the Lord. For what are we, that you murmur against us?”
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	8	And Moses said, “When the Lord gives you in the evening flesh to eat and in the morning bread to the full, because the Lord has heard your murmurings which you murmur against him—what are we? Your murmurings are not against us but against the Lord.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	9	And Moses said to Aaron, “Say to the whole congregation of the people of Israel, ‘Come near before the Lord, for he has heard your murmurings.’”
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	10	And as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the people of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud.
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	11	And the Lord said to Moses,
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	12	“I have heard the murmurings of the people of Israel; say to them, ‘At twilight you shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread; then you shall know that I am the Lord your God.’”
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	13	In the evening quails came up and covered the camp; and in the morning dew lay round about the camp.
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	14	And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, flake-like thing, fine as hoarfrost on the ground.
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	15	When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “It is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat.
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	16	This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Gather of it, every man of you, as much as he can eat; you shall take an omer apiece, according to the number of the persons whom each of you has in his tent.’”
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	17	And the people of Israel did so; they gathered, some more, some less.
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	18	But when they measured it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; each gathered according to what he could eat.
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	19	And Moses said to them, “Let no man leave any of it till the morning.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	20	But they did not listen to Moses; some left part of it till the morning, and it bred worms and became foul; and Moses was angry with them.
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	21	Morning by morning they gathered it, each as much as he could eat; but when the sun grew hot, it melted.
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	22	On the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers apiece; and when all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses,
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	23	he said to them, “This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Tomorrow is a day of solemn rest, a holy sabbath to the Lord; bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over lay by to be kept till the morning.’”
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	24	So they laid it by till the morning, as Moses bade them; and it did not become foul, and there were no worms in it.
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	25	Moses said, “Eat it today, for today is a sabbath to the Lord; today you will not find it in the field.
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	26	Six days you shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is a sabbath, there will be none.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	27	On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	28	And the Lord said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	29	See! The Lord has given you the sabbath, therefore on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days; remain every man of you in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	30	So the people rested on the seventh day.
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	31	Now the house of Israel called its name manna; it was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	32	And Moses said, “This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Let an omer of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	33	And Moses said to Aaron, “Take a jar, and put an omer of manna in it, and place it before the Lord, to be kept throughout your generations.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	34	As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the testimony, to be kept.
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	35	And the people of Israel ate the manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land; they ate the manna, till they came to the border of the land of Canaan.
 Exodus	Ex	2	16	36	(An omer is the tenth part of an ephah.)
 Exodus	Ex	2	17	1	All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the Lord, and camped at Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.
 Exodus	Ex	2	17	2	Therefore the people found fault with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you find fault with me? Why do you put the Lord to the proof?”
 Exodus	Ex	2	17	3	But the people thirsted there for water, and the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?”
 Exodus	Ex	2	17	4	So Moses cried to the Lord, “What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	17	5	And the Lord said to Moses, “Pass on before the people, taking with you some of the elders of Israel; and take in your hand the rod with which you struck the Nile, and go.
 Exodus	Ex	2	17	6	Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, that the people may drink.” And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel.
 Exodus	Ex	2	17	7	And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the faultfinding of the children of Israel, and because they put the Lord to the proof by saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”
 Exodus	Ex	2	17	8	Then came Amalek and fought with Israel at Rephidim.
 Exodus	Ex	2	17	9	And Moses said to Joshua, “Choose for us men, and go out, fight with Amalek; tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	17	10	So Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
 Exodus	Ex	2	17	11	Whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed; and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed.
 Exodus	Ex	2	17	12	But Moses’ hands grew weary; so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat upon it, and Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side; so his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
 Exodus	Ex	2	17	13	And Joshua mowed down Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
 Exodus	Ex	2	17	14	And the Lord said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	17	15	And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The Lord is my banner,
 Exodus	Ex	2	17	16	saying, “A hand upon the banner of the Lord! The Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	18	1	Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, how the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt.
 Exodus	Ex	2	18	2	Now Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, had taken Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her away,
 Exodus	Ex	2	18	3	and her two sons, of whom the name of the one was Gershom (for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land”),
 Exodus	Ex	2	18	4	and the name of the other, Eliezer (for he said, “The God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”).
 Exodus	Ex	2	18	5	And Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness where he was encamped at the mountain of God.
 Exodus	Ex	2	18	6	And when one told Moses, “Lo, your father-in-law Jethro is coming to you with your wife and her two sons with her,”
 Exodus	Ex	2	18	7	Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and did obeisance and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare, and went into the tent.
 Exodus	Ex	2	18	8	Then Moses told his father-in-law all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardship that had come upon them in the way, and how the Lord had delivered them.
 Exodus	Ex	2	18	9	And Jethro rejoiced for all the good which the Lord had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.
 Exodus	Ex	2	18	10	And Jethro said, “Blessed be the Lord, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharaoh.
 Exodus	Ex	2	18	11	Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods, because he delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians, when they dealt arrogantly with them.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	18	12	And Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, offered a burnt offering and sacrifices to God; and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God.
 Exodus	Ex	2	18	13	On the morrow Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood about Moses from morning till evening.
 Exodus	Ex	2	18	14	When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, “What is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand about you from morning till evening?”
 Exodus	Ex	2	18	15	And Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God;
 Exodus	Ex	2	18	16	when they have a dispute, they come to me and I decide between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God and his decisions.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	18	17	Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good.
 Exodus	Ex	2	18	18	You and the people with you will wear yourselves out, for the thing is too heavy for you; you are not able to perform it alone.
 Exodus	Ex	2	18	19	Listen now to my voice; I will give you counsel, and God be with you! You shall represent the people before God, and bring their cases to God;
 Exodus	Ex	2	18	20	and you shall teach them the statutes and the decisions, and make them know the way in which they must walk and what they must do.
 Exodus	Ex	2	18	21	Moreover choose able men from all the people, such as fear God, men who are trustworthy and who hate a bribe; and place such men over the people as rulers of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.
 Exodus	Ex	2	18	22	And let them judge the people at all times; every great matter they shall bring to you, but any small matter they shall decide themselves; so it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you.
 Exodus	Ex	2	18	23	If you do this, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all this people also will go to their place in peace.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	18	24	So Moses gave heed to the voice of his father-in-law and did all that he had said.
 Exodus	Ex	2	18	25	Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.
 Exodus	Ex	2	18	26	And they judged the people at all times; hard cases they brought to Moses, but any small matter they decided themselves.
 Exodus	Ex	2	18	27	Then Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way to his own country.
 Exodus	Ex	2	19	1	On the third new moon after the people of Israel had gone forth out of the land of Egypt, on that day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.
 Exodus	Ex	2	19	2	And when they set out from Rephidim and came into the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mountain.
 Exodus	Ex	2	19	3	And Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him out of the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel:
 Exodus	Ex	2	19	4	You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.
 Exodus	Ex	2	19	5	Now therefore, if you will obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my own possession among all peoples; for all the earth is mine,
 Exodus	Ex	2	19	6	and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	19	7	So Moses came and called the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which the Lord had commanded him.
 Exodus	Ex	2	19	8	And all the people answered together and said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do.” And Moses reported the words of the people to the Lord.
 Exodus	Ex	2	19	9	And the Lord said to Moses, “Lo, I am coming to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you for ever.” Then Moses told the words of the people to the Lord.
 Exodus	Ex	2	19	10	And the Lord said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments,
 Exodus	Ex	2	19	11	and be ready by the third day; for on the third day the Lord will come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
 Exodus	Ex	2	19	12	And you shall set bounds for the people round about, saying, ‘Take heed that you do not go up into the mountain or touch the border of it; whoever touches the mountain shall be put to death;
 Exodus	Ex	2	19	13	no hand shall touch him, but he shall be stoned or shot; whether beast or man, he shall not live.’ When the trumpet sounds a long blast, they shall come up to the mountain.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	19	14	So Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and consecrated the people; and they washed their garments.
 Exodus	Ex	2	19	15	And he said to the people, “Be ready by the third day; do not go near a woman.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	19	16	On the morning of the third day there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled.
 Exodus	Ex	2	19	17	Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God; and they took their stand at the foot of the mountain.
 Exodus	Ex	2	19	18	And Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire; and the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.
 Exodus	Ex	2	19	19	And as the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him in thunder.
 Exodus	Ex	2	19	20	And the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain; and the Lord called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.
 Exodus	Ex	2	19	21	And the Lord said to Moses, “Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to the Lord to gaze and many of them perish.
 Exodus	Ex	2	19	22	And also let the priests who come near to the Lord consecrate themselves, lest the Lord break out upon them.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	19	23	And Moses said to the Lord, “The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai; for thou thyself didst charge us, saying, ‘Set bounds about the mountain, and consecrate it.’”
 Exodus	Ex	2	19	24	And the Lord said to him, “Go down, and come up bringing Aaron with you; but do not let the priests and the people break through to come up to the Lord, lest he break out against them.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	19	25	So Moses went down to the people and told them.
 Exodus	Ex	2	20	1	And God spoke all these words, saying,
 Exodus	Ex	2	20	2	“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
 Exodus	Ex	2	20	3	“You shall have no other gods before me.
 Exodus	Ex	2	20	4	“You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;
 Exodus	Ex	2	20	5	you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,
 Exodus	Ex	2	20	6	but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
 Exodus	Ex	2	20	7	“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
 Exodus	Ex	2	20	8	“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
 Exodus	Ex	2	20	9	Six days you shall labor, and do all your work;
 Exodus	Ex	2	20	10	but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your manservant, or your maidservant, or your cattle, or the sojourner who is within your gates;
 Exodus	Ex	2	20	11	for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and hallowed it.
 Exodus	Ex	2	20	12	“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
 Exodus	Ex	2	20	13	“You shall not kill.
 Exodus	Ex	2	20	14	“You shall not commit adultery.
 Exodus	Ex	2	20	15	“You shall not steal.
 Exodus	Ex	2	20	16	“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
 Exodus	Ex	2	20	17	“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	20	18	Now when all the people perceived the thunderings and the lightnings and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were afraid and trembled; and they stood afar off,
 Exodus	Ex	2	20	19	and said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will hear; but let not God speak to us, lest we die.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	20	20	And Moses said to the people, “Do not fear; for God has come to prove you, and that the fear of him may be before your eyes, that you may not sin.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	20	21	And the people stood afar off, while Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.
 Exodus	Ex	2	20	22	And the Lord said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the people of Israel: ‘You have seen for yourselves that I have talked with you from heaven.
 Exodus	Ex	2	20	23	You shall not make gods of silver to be with me, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold.
 Exodus	Ex	2	20	24	An altar of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen; in every place where I cause my name to be remembered I will come to you and bless you.
 Exodus	Ex	2	20	25	And if you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones; for if you wield your tool upon it you profane it.
 Exodus	Ex	2	20	26	And you shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness be not exposed on it.’
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	1	“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	2	When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing.
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	3	If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him.
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	4	If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s and he shall go out alone.
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	5	But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	6	then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for life.
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	7	“When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	8	If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed; he shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt faithlessly with her.
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	9	If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter.
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	10	If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	11	And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	12	“Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death.
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	13	But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand, then I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee.
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	14	But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him treacherously, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	15	“Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	16	“Whoever steals a man, whether he sells him or is found in possession of him, shall be put to death.
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	17	“Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	18	“When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist and the man does not die but keeps his bed,
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	19	then if the man rises again and walks abroad with his staff, he that struck him shall be clear; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall have him thoroughly healed.
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	20	“When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished.
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	21	But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be punished; for the slave is his money.
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	22	“When men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that there is a miscarriage, and yet no harm follows, the one who hurt her shall be fined, according as the woman’s husband shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	23	If any harm follows, then you shall give life for life,
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	24	eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	25	burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	26	“When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free for the eye’s sake.
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	27	If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he shall let the slave go free for the tooth’s sake.
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	28	“When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be clear.
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	29	But if the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has been warned but has not kept it in, and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	30	If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid upon him.
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	31	If it gores a man’s son or daughter, he shall be dealt with according to this same rule.
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	32	If the ox gores a slave, male or female, the owner shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	33	“When a man leaves a pit open, or when a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or an ass falls into it,
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	34	the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money to its owner, and the dead beast shall be his.
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	35	“When one man’s ox hurts another’s, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide the price of it; and the dead beast also they shall divide.
 Exodus	Ex	2	21	36	Or if it is known that the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall pay ox for ox, and the dead beast shall be his.
 Exodus	Ex	2	22	1	“If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. He shall make restitution; if he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
 Exodus	Ex	2	22	4	If the stolen beast is found alive in his possession, whether it is an ox or an ass or a sheep, he shall pay double.
 Exodus	Ex	2	22	2	“If a thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him;
 Exodus	Ex	2	22	3	but if the sun has risen upon him, there shall be bloodguilt for him.
 Exodus	Ex	2	22	5	“When a man causes a field or vineyard to be grazed over, or lets his beast loose and it feeds in another man’s field, he shall make restitution from the best in his own field and in his own vineyard.
 Exodus	Ex	2	22	6	“When fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain or the standing grain or the field is consumed, he that kindled the fire shall make full restitution.
 Exodus	Ex	2	22	7	“If a man delivers to his neighbor money or goods to keep, and it is stolen out of the man’s house, then, if the thief is found, he shall pay double.
 Exodus	Ex	2	22	8	If the thief is not found, the owner of the house shall come near to God, to show whether or not he has put his hand to his neighbor’s goods.
 Exodus	Ex	2	22	9	“For every breach of trust, whether it is for ox, for ass, for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, of which one says, ‘This is it,’ the case of both parties shall come before God; he whom God shall condemn shall pay double to his neighbor.
 Exodus	Ex	2	22	10	“If a man delivers to his neighbor an ass or an ox or a sheep or any beast to keep, and it dies or is hurt or is driven away, without any one seeing it,
 Exodus	Ex	2	22	11	an oath by the Lord shall be between them both to see whether he has not put his hand to his neighbor’s property; and the owner shall accept the oath, and he shall not make restitution.
 Exodus	Ex	2	22	12	But if it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its owner.
 Exodus	Ex	2	22	13	If it is torn by beasts, let him bring it as evidence; he shall not make restitution for what has been torn.
 Exodus	Ex	2	22	14	“If a man borrows anything of his neighbor, and it is hurt or dies, the owner not being with it, he shall make full restitution.
 Exodus	Ex	2	22	15	If the owner was with it, he shall not make restitution; if it was hired, it came for its hire.
 Exodus	Ex	2	22	16	“If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed, and lies with her, he shall give the marriage present for her, and make her his wife.
 Exodus	Ex	2	22	17	If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equivalent to the marriage present for virgins.
 Exodus	Ex	2	22	18	“You shall not permit a sorceress to live.
 Exodus	Ex	2	22	19	“Whoever lies with a beast shall be put to death.
 Exodus	Ex	2	22	20	“Whoever sacrifices to any god, save to the Lord only, shall be utterly destroyed.
 Exodus	Ex	2	22	21	“You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
 Exodus	Ex	2	22	22	You shall not afflict any widow or orphan.
 Exodus	Ex	2	22	23	If you do afflict them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry;
 Exodus	Ex	2	22	24	and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.
 Exodus	Ex	2	22	25	“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor, and you shall not exact interest from him.
 Exodus	Ex	2	22	26	If ever you take your neighbor’s garment in pledge, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down;
 Exodus	Ex	2	22	27	for that is his only covering, it is his mantle for his body; in what else shall he sleep? And if he cries to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.
 Exodus	Ex	2	22	28	“You shall not revile God, nor curse a ruler of your people.
 Exodus	Ex	2	22	29	“You shall not delay to offer from the fulness of your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. “The first-born of your sons you shall give to me.
 Exodus	Ex	2	22	30	You shall do likewise with your oxen and with your sheep: seven days it shall be with its dam; on the eighth day you shall give it to me.
 Exodus	Ex	2	22	31	“You shall be men consecrated to me; therefore you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by beasts in the field; you shall cast it to the dogs.
 Exodus	Ex	2	23	1	“You shall not utter a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man, to be a malicious witness.
 Exodus	Ex	2	23	2	You shall not follow a multitude to do evil; nor shall you bear witness in a suit, turning aside after a multitude, so as to pervert justice;
 Exodus	Ex	2	23	3	nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his suit.
 Exodus	Ex	2	23	4	“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, you shall bring it back to him.
 Exodus	Ex	2	23	5	If you see the ass of one who hates you lying under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it, you shall help him to lift it up.
 Exodus	Ex	2	23	6	“You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his suit.
 Exodus	Ex	2	23	7	Keep far from a false charge, and do not slay the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.
 Exodus	Ex	2	23	8	And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the officials, and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.
 Exodus	Ex	2	23	9	“You shall not oppress a stranger; you know the heart of a stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
 Exodus	Ex	2	23	10	“For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield;
 Exodus	Ex	2	23	11	but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the wild beasts may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.
 Exodus	Ex	2	23	12	“Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your ass may have rest, and the son of your bondmaid, and the alien, may be refreshed.
 Exodus	Ex	2	23	13	Take heed to all that I have said to you; and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let such be heard out of your mouth.
 Exodus	Ex	2	23	14	“Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me.
 Exodus	Ex	2	23	15	You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread; as I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. None shall appear before me empty-handed.
 Exodus	Ex	2	23	16	You shall keep the feast of harvest, of the first fruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the feast of ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor.
 Exodus	Ex	2	23	17	Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord GOD.
 Exodus	Ex	2	23	18	“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, or let the fat of my feast remain until the morning.
 Exodus	Ex	2	23	19	“The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God. “You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.
 Exodus	Ex	2	23	20	“Behold, I send an angel before you, to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place which I have prepared.
 Exodus	Ex	2	23	21	Give heed to him and hearken to his voice, do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression; for my name is in him.
 Exodus	Ex	2	23	22	“But if you hearken attentively to his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
 Exodus	Ex	2	23	23	“When my angel goes before you, and brings you in to the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I blot them out,
 Exodus	Ex	2	23	24	you shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their works, but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their pillars in pieces.
 Exodus	Ex	2	23	25	You shall serve the Lord your God, and I will bless your bread and your water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of you.
 Exodus	Ex	2	23	26	None shall cast her young or be barren in your land; I will fulfil the number of your days.
 Exodus	Ex	2	23	27	I will send my terror before you, and will throw into confusion all the people against whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
 Exodus	Ex	2	23	28	And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out Hivite, Canaanite, and Hittite from before you.
 Exodus	Ex	2	23	29	I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild beasts multiply against you.
 Exodus	Ex	2	23	30	Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you are increased and possess the land.
 Exodus	Ex	2	23	31	And I will set your bounds from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.
 Exodus	Ex	2	23	32	You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.
 Exodus	Ex	2	23	33	They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	24	1	And he said to Moses, “Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship afar off.
 Exodus	Ex	2	24	2	Moses alone shall come near to the Lord; but the others shall not come near, and the people shall not come up with him.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	24	3	Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, “All the words which the Lord has spoken we will do.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	24	4	And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord. And he rose early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
 Exodus	Ex	2	24	5	And he sent young men of the people of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the Lord.
 Exodus	Ex	2	24	6	And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he threw against the altar.
 Exodus	Ex	2	24	7	Then he took the book of the covenant, and read it in the hearing of the people; and they said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	24	8	And Moses took the blood and threw it upon the people, and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	24	9	Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up,
 Exodus	Ex	2	24	10	and they saw the God of Israel; and there was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness.
 Exodus	Ex	2	24	11	And he did not lay his hand on the chief men of the people of Israel; they beheld God, and ate and drank.
 Exodus	Ex	2	24	12	The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain, and wait there; and I will give you the tables of stone, with the law and the commandment, which I have written for their instruction.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	24	13	So Moses rose with his servant Joshua, and Moses went up into the mountain of God.
 Exodus	Ex	2	24	14	And he said to the elders, “Tarry here for us, until we come to you again; and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you; whoever has a cause, let him go to them.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	24	15	Then Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
 Exodus	Ex	2	24	16	The glory of the Lord settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days; and on the seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
 Exodus	Ex	2	24	17	Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the sight of the people of Israel.
 Exodus	Ex	2	24	18	And Moses entered the cloud, and went up on the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	1	The Lord said to Moses,
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	2	“Speak to the people of Israel, that they take for me an offering; from every man whose heart makes him willing you shall receive the offering for me.
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	3	And this is the offering which you shall receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze,
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	4	blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen, goats’ hair,
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	5	tanned rams’ skins, goatskins, acacia wood,
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	6	oil for the lamps, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	7	onyx stones, and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece.
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	8	And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst.
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	9	According to all that I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle, and of all its furniture, so you shall make it.
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	10	“They shall make an ark of acacia wood; two cubits and a half shall be its length, a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	11	And you shall overlay it with pure gold, within and without shall you overlay it, and you shall make upon it a molding of gold round about.
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	12	And you shall cast four rings of gold for it and put them on its four feet, two rings on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	13	You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	14	And you shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark by them.
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	15	The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be taken from it.
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	16	And you shall put into the ark the testimony which I shall give you.
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	17	Then you shall make a mercy seat of pure gold; two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	18	And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work shall you make them, on the two ends of the mercy seat.
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	19	Make one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end; of one piece with the mercy seat shall you make the cherubim on its two ends.
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	20	The cherubim shall spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be.
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	21	And you shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark; and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I shall give you.
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	22	There I will meet with you, and from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim that are upon the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you of all that I will give you in commandment for the people of Israel.
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	23	“And you shall make a table of acacia wood; two cubits shall be its length, a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	24	You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a molding of gold around it.
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	25	And you shall make around it a frame a handbreadth wide, and a molding of gold around the frame.
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	26	And you shall make for it four rings of gold, and fasten the rings to the four corners at its four legs.
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	27	Close to the frame the rings shall lie, as holders for the poles to carry the table.
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	28	You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, and the table shall be carried with these.
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	29	And you shall make its plates and dishes for incense, and its flagons and bowls with which to pour libations; of pure gold you shall make them.
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	30	And you shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before me always.
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	31	“And you shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The base and the shaft of the lampstand shall be made of hammered work; its cups, its capitals, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it;
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	32	and there shall be six branches going out of its sides, three branches of the lampstand out of one side of it and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side of it;
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	33	three cups made like almonds, each with capital and flower, on one branch, and three cups made like almonds, each with capital and flower, on the other branch—so for the six branches going out of the lampstand;
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	34	and on the lampstand itself four cups made like almonds, with their capitals and flowers,
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	35	and a capital of one piece with it under each pair of the six branches going out from the lampstand.
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	36	Their capitals and their branches shall be of one piece with it, the whole of it one piece of hammered work of pure gold.
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	37	And you shall make the seven lamps for it; and the lamps shall be set up so as to give light upon the space in front of it.
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	38	Its snuffers and their trays shall be of pure gold.
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	39	Of a talent of pure gold shall it be made, with all these utensils.
 Exodus	Ex	2	25	40	And see that you make them after the pattern for them, which is being shown you on the mountain.
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	1	“Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet stuff; with cherubim skilfully worked shall you make them.
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	2	The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains shall have one measure.
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	3	Five curtains shall be coupled to one another; and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another.
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	4	And you shall make loops of blue on the edge of the outmost curtain in the first set; and likewise you shall make loops on the edge of the outmost curtain in the second set.
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	5	Fifty loops you shall make on the one curtain, and fifty loops you shall make on the edge of the curtain that is in the second set; the loops shall be opposite one another.
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	6	And you shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to the other with the clasps, that the tabernacle may be one whole.
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	7	“You shall also make curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; eleven curtains shall you make.
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	8	The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; the eleven curtains shall have the same measure.
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	9	And you shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and the sixth curtain you shall double over at the front of the tent.
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	10	And you shall make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outmost in one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which is outmost in the second set.
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	11	“And you shall make fifty clasps of bronze, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together that it may be one whole.
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	12	And the part that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	13	And the cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side, of what remains in the length of the curtains of the tent shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle, on this side and that side, to cover it.
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	14	And you shall make for the tent a covering of tanned rams’ skins and goatskins.
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	15	“And you shall make upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood.
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	16	Ten cubits shall be the length of a frame, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each frame.
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	17	There shall be two tenons in each frame, for fitting together; so shall you do for all the frames of the tabernacle.
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	18	You shall make the frames for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the south side;
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	19	and forty bases of silver you shall make under the twenty frames, two bases under one frame for its two tenons, and two bases under another frame for its two tenons;
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	20	and for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side twenty frames,
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	21	and their forty bases of silver, two bases under one frame, and two bases under another frame;
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	22	and for the rear of the tabernacle westward you shall make six frames.
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	23	And you shall make two frames for corners of the tabernacle in the rear;
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	24	they shall be separate beneath, but joined at the top, at the first ring; thus shall it be with both of them; they shall form the two corners.
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	25	And there shall be eight frames, with their bases of silver, sixteen bases; two bases under one frame, and two bases under another frame.
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	26	“And you shall make bars of acacia wood, five for the frames of the one side of the tabernacle,
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	27	and five bars for the frames of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames of the side of the tabernacle at the rear westward.
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	28	The middle bar, halfway up the frames, shall pass through from end to end.
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	29	You shall overlay the frames with gold, and shall make their rings of gold for holders for the bars; and you shall overlay the bars with gold.
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	30	And you shall erect the tabernacle according to the plan for it which has been shown you on the mountain.
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	31	“And you shall make a veil of blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen; in skilled work shall it be made, with cherubim;
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	32	and you shall hang it upon four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold, with hooks of gold, upon four bases of silver.
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	33	And you shall hang the veil from the clasps, and bring the ark of the testimony in thither within the veil; and the veil shall separate for you the holy place from the most holy.
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	34	You shall put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	35	And you shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand on the south side of the tabernacle opposite the table; and you shall put the table on the north side.
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	36	“And you shall make a screen for the door of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework.
 Exodus	Ex	2	26	37	And you shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, and you shall cast five bases of bronze for them.
 Exodus	Ex	2	27	1	“You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits broad; the altar shall be square, and its height shall be three cubits.
 Exodus	Ex	2	27	2	And you shall make horns for it on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze.
 Exodus	Ex	2	27	3	You shall make pots for it to receive its ashes, and shovels and basins and forks and firepans; all its utensils you shall make of bronze.
 Exodus	Ex	2	27	4	You shall also make for it a grating, a network of bronze; and upon the net you shall make four bronze rings at its four corners.
 Exodus	Ex	2	27	5	And you shall set it under the ledge of the altar so that the net shall extend halfway down the altar.
 Exodus	Ex	2	27	6	And you shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze;
 Exodus	Ex	2	27	7	and the poles shall be put through the rings, so that the poles shall be upon the two sides of the altar, when it is carried.
 Exodus	Ex	2	27	8	You shall make it hollow, with boards; as it has been shown you on the mountain, so shall it be made.
 Exodus	Ex	2	27	9	“You shall make the court of the tabernacle. On the south side the court shall have hangings of fine twined linen a hundred cubits long for one side;
 Exodus	Ex	2	27	10	their pillars shall be twenty and their bases twenty, of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.
 Exodus	Ex	2	27	11	And likewise for its length on the north side there shall be hangings a hundred cubits long, their pillars twenty and their bases twenty, of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.
 Exodus	Ex	2	27	12	And for the breadth of the court on the west side there shall be hangings for fifty cubits, with ten pillars and ten bases.
 Exodus	Ex	2	27	13	The breadth of the court on the front to the east shall be fifty cubits.
 Exodus	Ex	2	27	14	The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits, with three pillars and three bases.
 Exodus	Ex	2	27	15	On the other side the hangings shall be fifteen cubits, with three pillars and three bases.
 Exodus	Ex	2	27	16	For the gate of the court there shall be a screen twenty cubits long, of blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework; it shall have four pillars and with them four bases.
 Exodus	Ex	2	27	17	All the pillars around the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their bases of bronze.
 Exodus	Ex	2	27	18	The length of the court shall be a hundred cubits, the breadth fifty, and the height five cubits, with hangings of fine twined linen and bases of bronze.
 Exodus	Ex	2	27	19	All the utensils of the tabernacle for every use, and all its pegs and all the pegs of the court, shall be of bronze.
 Exodus	Ex	2	27	20	“And you shall command the people of Israel that they bring to you pure beaten olive oil for the light, that a lamp may be set up to burn continually.
 Exodus	Ex	2	27	21	In the tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall tend it from evening to morning before the Lord. It shall be a statute for ever to be observed throughout their generations by the people of Israel.
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	1	“Then bring near to you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the people of Israel, to serve me as priests—Aaron and Aaron’s sons, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	2	And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	3	And you shall speak to all who have ability, whom I have endowed with an able mind, that they make Aaron’s garments to consecrate him for my priesthood.
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	4	These are the garments which they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a coat of checker work, a turban, and a girdle; they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons to serve me as priests.
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	5	“They shall receive gold, blue and purple and scarlet stuff, and fine twined linen.
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	6	And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet stuff, and of fine twined linen, skilfully worked.
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	7	It shall have two shoulder-pieces attached to its two edges, that it may be joined together.
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	8	And the skilfully woven band upon it, to gird it on, shall be of the same workmanship and materials, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet stuff, and fine twined linen.
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	9	And you shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel,
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	10	six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the remaining six on the other stone, in the order of their birth.
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	11	As a jeweler engraves signets, so shall you engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel; you shall enclose them in settings of gold filigree.
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	12	And you shall set the two stones upon the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, as stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel; and Aaron shall bear their names before the Lord upon his two shoulders for remembrance.
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	13	And you shall make settings of gold filigree,
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	14	and two chains of pure gold, twisted like cords; and you shall attach the corded chains to the settings.
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	15	“And you shall make a breastpiece of judgment, in skilled work; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, blue and purple and scarlet stuff, and fine twined linen shall you make it.
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	16	It shall be square and double, a span its length and a span its breadth.
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	17	And you shall set in it four rows of stones. A row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle shall be the first row;
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	18	and the second row an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond;
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	19	and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	20	and the fourth row a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper; they shall be set in gold filigree.
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	21	There shall be twelve stones with their names according to the names of the sons of Israel; they shall be like signets, each engraved with its name, for the twelve tribes.
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	22	And you shall make for the breastpiece twisted chains like cords, of pure gold;
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	23	and you shall make for the breastpiece two rings of gold, and put the two rings on the two edges of the breastpiece.
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	24	And you shall put the two cords of gold in the two rings at the edges of the breastpiece;
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	25	the two ends of the two cords you shall attach to the two settings of filigree, and so attach it in front to the shoulder-pieces of the ephod.
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	26	And you shall make two rings of gold, and put them at the two ends of the breastpiece, on its inside edge next to the ephod.
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	27	And you shall make two rings of gold, and attach them in front to the lower part of the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod, at its joining above the skilfully woven band of the ephod.
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	28	And they shall bind the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may lie upon the skilfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastpiece shall not come loose from the ephod.
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	29	So Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of Israel in the breastpiece of judgment upon his heart, when he goes into the holy place, to bring them to continual remembrance before the Lord.
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	30	And in the breastpiece of judgment you shall put the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be upon Aaron’s heart, when he goes in before the Lord; thus Aaron shall bear the judgment of the people of Israel upon his heart before the Lord continually.
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	31	“And you shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue.
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	32	It shall have in it an opening for the head, with a woven binding around the opening, like the opening in a garment, that it may not be torn.
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	33	On its skirts you shall make pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet stuff, around its skirts, with bells of gold between them,
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	34	a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, round about on the skirts of the robe.
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	35	And it shall be upon Aaron when he ministers, and its sound shall be heard when he goes into the holy place before the Lord, and when he comes out, lest he die.
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	36	“And you shall make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet, ‘Holy to the Lord.’
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	37	And you shall fasten it on the turban by a lace of blue; it shall be on the front of the turban.
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	38	It shall be upon Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall take upon himself any guilt incurred in the holy offering which the people of Israel hallow as their holy gifts; it shall always be upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the Lord.
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	39	“And you shall weave the coat in checker work of fine linen, and you shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a girdle embroidered with needlework.
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	40	“And for Aaron’s sons you shall make coats and girdles and caps; you shall make them for glory and beauty.
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	41	And you shall put them upon Aaron your brother, and upon his sons with him, and shall anoint them and ordain them and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests.
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	42	And you shall make for them linen breeches to cover their naked flesh; from the loins to the thighs they shall reach;
 Exodus	Ex	2	28	43	and they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they go into the tent of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister in the holy place; lest they bring guilt upon themselves and die. This shall be a perpetual statute for him and for his descendants after him.
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	1	“Now this is what you shall do to them to consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests. Take one young bull and two rams without blemish,
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	2	and unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil. You shall make them of fine wheat flour.
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	3	And you shall put them in one basket and bring them in the basket, and bring the bull and the two rams.
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	4	You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent of meeting, and wash them with water.
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	5	And you shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the coat and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastpiece, and gird him with the skilfully woven band of the ephod;
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	6	and you shall set the turban on his head, and put the holy crown upon the turban.
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	7	And you shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head and anoint him.
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	8	Then you shall bring his sons, and put coats on them,
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	9	and you shall gird them with girdles and bind caps on them; and the priesthood shall be theirs by a perpetual statute. Thus you shall ordain Aaron and his sons.
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	10	“Then you shall bring the bull before the tent of meeting. Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the bull,
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	11	and you shall kill the bull before the Lord, at the door of the tent of meeting,
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	12	and shall take part of the blood of the bull and put it upon the horns of the altar with your finger, and the rest of the blood you shall pour out at the base of the altar.
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	13	And you shall take all the fat that covers the entrails, and the appendage of the liver, and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and burn them upon the altar.
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	14	But the flesh of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	15	“Then you shall take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the ram,
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	16	and you shall slaughter the ram, and shall take its blood and throw it against the altar round about.
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	17	Then you shall cut the ram into pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and its head,
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	18	and burn the whole ram upon the altar; it is a burnt offering to the Lord; it is a pleasing odor, an offering by fire to the Lord.
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	19	“You shall take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the ram,
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	20	and you shall kill the ram, and take part of its blood and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron and upon the tips of the right ears of his sons, and upon the thumbs of their right hands, and upon the great toes of their right feet, and throw the rest of the blood against the altar round about.
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	21	Then you shall take part of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron and his garments, and upon his sons and his sons’ garments with him; and he and his garments shall be holy, and his sons and his sons’ garments with him.
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	22	“You shall also take the fat of the ram, and the fat tail, and the fat that covers the entrails, and the appendage of the liver, and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of ordination),
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	23	and one loaf of bread, and one cake of bread with oil, and one wafer, out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before the Lord;
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	24	and you shall put all these in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons, and wave them for a wave offering before the Lord.
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	25	Then you shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar in addition to the burnt offering, as a pleasing odor before the Lord; it is an offering by fire to the Lord.
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	26	“And you shall take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s ordination and wave it for a wave offering before the Lor; and it shall be your portion.
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	27	And you shall consecrate the breast of the wave offering, and the thigh of the priests’ portion, which is waved, and which is offered from the ram of ordination, since it is for Aaron and for his sons.
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	28	It shall be for Aaron and his sons as a perpetual due from the people of Israel, for it is the priests’ portion to be offered by the people of Israel from their peace offerings; it is their offering to the Lord.
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	29	“The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them and ordained in them.
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	30	The son who is priest in his place shall wear them seven days, when he comes into the tent of meeting to minister in the holy place.
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	31	“You shall take the ram of ordination, and boil its flesh in a holy place;
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	32	and Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the tent of meeting.
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	33	They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to ordain and consecrate them, but an outsider shall not eat of them, because they are holy.
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	34	And if any of the flesh for the ordination, or of the bread, remain until the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire; it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	35	“Thus you shall do to Aaron and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you; through seven days shall you ordain them,
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	36	and every day you shall offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement. Also you shall offer a sin offering for the altar, when you make atonement for it, and shall anoint it, to consecrate it.
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	37	Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and consecrate it, and the altar shall be most holy; whatever touches the altar shall become holy.
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	38	“Now this is what you shall offer upon the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually.
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	39	One lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer in the evening;
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	40	and with the first lamb a tenth measure of fine flour mingled with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine for a libation.
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	41	And the other lamb you shall offer in the evening, and shall offer with it a cereal offering and its libation, as in the morning, for a pleasing odor, an offering by fire to the Lord.
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	42	It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tent of meeting before the Lord, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you.
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	43	There I will meet with the people of Israel, and it shall be sanctified by my glory;
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	44	I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar; Aaron also and his sons I will consecrate, to serve me as priests.
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	45	And I will dwell among the people of Israel, and will be their God.
 Exodus	Ex	2	29	46	And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt that I might dwell among them; I am the Lord their God.
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	1	“You shall make an altar to burn incense upon; of acacia wood shall you make it.
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	2	A cubit shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth; it shall be square, and two cubits shall be its height; its horns shall be of one piece with it.
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	3	And you shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and its sides round about and its horns; and you shall make for it a molding of gold round about.
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	4	And two golden rings shall you make for it; under its molding on two opposite sides of it shall you make them, and they shall be holders for poles with which to carry it.
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	5	You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	6	And you shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you.
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	7	And Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it; every morning when he dresses the lamps he shall burn it,
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	8	and when Aaron sets up the lamps in the evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before the Lord throughout your generations.
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	9	You shall offer no unholy incense thereon, nor burnt offering, nor cereal offering; and you shall pour no libation thereon.
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	10	Aaron shall make atonement upon its horns once a year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement he shall make atonement for it once in the year throughout your generations; it is most holy to the Lord.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	11	The Lord said to Moses,
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	12	“When you take the census of the people of Israel, then each shall give a ransom for himself to the Lord when you number them, that there be no plague among them when you number them.
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	13	Each who is numbered in the census shall give this: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as an offering to the Lord.
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	14	Every one who is numbered in the census, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the Lord’s offering.
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	15	The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when you give the Lord’s offering to make atonement for yourselves.
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	16	And you shall take the atonement money from the people of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the tent of meeting; that it may bring the people of Israel to remembrance before the Lord, so as to make atonement for yourselves.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	17	The Lord said to Moses,
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	18	“You shall also make a laver of bronze, with its base of bronze, for washing. And you shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it,
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	19	with which Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet.
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	20	When they go into the tent of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister, to burn an offering by fire to the Lord, they shall wash with water, lest they die.
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	21	They shall wash their hands and their feet, lest they die: it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his descendants throughout their generations.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	22	Moreover, the Lord said to Moses,
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	23	“Take the finest spices: of liquid myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet-smelling cinnamon half as much, that is, two hundred and fifty, and of aromatic cane two hundred and fifty,
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	24	and of cassia five hundred, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil a hin;
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	25	and you shall make of these a sacred anointing oil blended as by the perfumer; a holy anointing oil it shall be.
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	26	And you shall anoint with it the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony,
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	27	and the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense,
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	28	and the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils and the laver and its base;
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	29	you shall consecrate them, that they may be most holy; whatever touches them will become holy.
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	30	And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests.
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	31	And you shall say to the people of Israel, ‘This shall be my holy anointing oil throughout your generations.
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	32	It shall not be poured upon the bodies of ordinary men, and you shall make no other like it in composition; it is holy, and it shall be holy to you.
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	33	Whoever compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people.’”
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	34	And the Lord said to Moses, “Take sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense (of each shall there be an equal part),
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	35	and make an incense blended as by the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy;
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	36	and you shall beat some of it very small, and put part of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting where I shall meet with you; it shall be for you most holy.
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	37	And the incense which you shall make according to its composition, you shall not make for yourselves; it shall be for you holy to the Lord.
 Exodus	Ex	2	30	38	Whoever makes any like it to use as perfume shall be cut off from his people.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	31	1	The Lord said to Moses,
 Exodus	Ex	2	31	2	“See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:
 Exodus	Ex	2	31	3	and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship,
 Exodus	Ex	2	31	4	to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze,
 Exodus	Ex	2	31	5	in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, for work in every craft.
 Exodus	Ex	2	31	6	And behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and I have given to all able men ability, that they may make all that I have commanded you:
 Exodus	Ex	2	31	7	the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy seat that is thereon, and all the furnishings of the tent,
 Exodus	Ex	2	31	8	the table and its utensils, and the pure lampstand with all its utensils, and the altar of incense,
 Exodus	Ex	2	31	9	and the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the laver and its base,
 Exodus	Ex	2	31	10	and the finely worked garments, the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons, for their service as priests,
 Exodus	Ex	2	31	11	and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense for the holy place. According to all that I have commanded you they shall do.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	31	12	And the Lord said to Moses,
 Exodus	Ex	2	31	13	“Say to the people of Israel, ‘You shall keep my sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I, the Lord, sanctify you.
 Exodus	Ex	2	31	14	You shall keep the sabbath, because it is holy for you; every one who profanes it shall be put to death; whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
 Exodus	Ex	2	31	15	Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does any work on the sabbath day shall be put to death.
 Exodus	Ex	2	31	16	Therefore the people of Israel shall keep the sabbath, observing the sabbath throughout their generations, as a perpetual covenant.
 Exodus	Ex	2	31	17	It is a sign for ever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.’”
 Exodus	Ex	2	31	18	And he gave to Moses, when he had made an end of speaking with him upon Mount Sinai, the two tables of the testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	1	When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, “Up, make us gods, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	2	And Aaron said to them, “Take off the rings of gold which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	3	So all the people took off the rings of gold which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	4	And he received the gold at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made a molten calf; and they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	5	When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation and said, “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the Lord.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	6	And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	7	And the Lord said to Moses, “Go down; for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves;
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	8	they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them; they have made for themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’”
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	9	And the Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people;
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	10	now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them; but of you I will make a great nation.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	11	But Moses besought the Lord his God, and said, “O Lord, why does thy wrath burn hot against thy people, whom thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	12	Why should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent did he bring them forth, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	13	Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou didst swear by thine own self, and didst say to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it for ever.’”
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	14	And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do to his people.
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	15	And Moses turned, and went down from the mountain with the two tables of the testimony in his hands, tables that were written on both sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	16	And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	17	When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is a noise of war in the camp.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	18	But he said, “It is not the sound of shouting for victory, or the sound of the cry of defeat, but the sound of singing that I hear.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	19	And as soon as he came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses’ anger burned hot, and he threw the tables out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	20	And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, and ground it to powder, and scattered it upon the water, and made the people of Israel drink it.
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	21	And Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you that you have brought a great sin upon them?”
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	22	And Aaron said, “Let not the anger of my lord burn hot; you know the people, that they are set on evil.
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	23	For they said to me, ‘Make us gods, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	24	And I said to them, ‘Let any who have gold take it off’; so they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and there came out this calf.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	25	And when Moses saw that the people had broken loose (for Aaron had let them break loose, to their shame among their enemies),
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	26	then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, “Who is on the Lord’s side? Come to me.” And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	27	And he said to them, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel, ‘Put every man his sword on his side, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.’”
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	28	And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses; and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	29	And Moses said, “Today you have ordained yourselves for the service of the Lord, each one at the cost of his son and of his brother, that he may bestow a blessing upon you this day.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	30	On the morrow Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to the Lord; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	31	So Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Alas, this people have sinned a great sin; they have made for themselves gods of gold.
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	32	But now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	33	But the Lord said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	34	But now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you; behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	32	35	And the Lord sent a plague upon the people, because they made the calf which Aaron made.
 Exodus	Ex	2	33	1	The Lord said to Moses, “Depart, go up hence, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To your descendants I will give it.’
 Exodus	Ex	2	33	2	And I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
 Exodus	Ex	2	33	3	Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, lest I consume you in the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	33	4	When the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned; and no man put on his ornaments.
 Exodus	Ex	2	33	5	For the Lord had said to Moses, “Say to the people of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people; if for a single moment I should go up among you, I would consume you. So now put off your ornaments from you, that I may know what to do with you.’”
 Exodus	Ex	2	33	6	Therefore the people of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments, from Mount Horeb onward.
 Exodus	Ex	2	33	7	Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far off from the camp; and he called it the tent of meeting. And every one who sought the Lord would go out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp.
 Exodus	Ex	2	33	8	Whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people rose up, and every man stood at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he had gone into the tent.
 Exodus	Ex	2	33	9	When Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the door of the tent, and the Lord would speak with Moses.
 Exodus	Ex	2	33	10	And when all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the door of the tent, all the people would rise up and worship, every man at his tent door.
 Exodus	Ex	2	33	11	Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tent.
 Exodus	Ex	2	33	12	Moses said to the Lord, “See, thou sayest to me, ‘Bring up this people’; but thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.’
 Exodus	Ex	2	33	13	Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found favor in thy sight, show me now thy ways, that I may know thee and find favor in thy sight. Consider too that this nation is thy people.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	33	14	And he said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	33	15	And he said to him, “If thy presence will not go with me, do not carry us up from here.
 Exodus	Ex	2	33	16	For how shall it be known that I have found favor in thy sight, I and thy people? Is it not in thy going with us, so that we are distinct, I and thy people, from all other people that are upon the face of the earth?”
 Exodus	Ex	2	33	17	And the Lord said to Moses, “This very thing that you have spoken I will do; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	33	18	Moses said, “I pray thee, show me thy glory.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	33	19	And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim before you my name ‘The Lord’; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.
 Exodus	Ex	2	33	20	But,” he said, “you cannot see my face; for man shall not see me and live.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	33	21	And the Lord said, “Behold, there is a place by me where you shall stand upon the rock;
 Exodus	Ex	2	33	22	and while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by;
 Exodus	Ex	2	33	23	then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back; but my face shall not be seen.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	1	The Lord said to Moses, “Cut two tables of stone like the first; and I will write upon the tables the words that were on the first tables, which you broke.
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	2	Be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain.
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	3	No man shall come up with you, and let no man be seen throughout all the mountain; let no flocks or herds feed before that mountain.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	4	So Moses cut two tables of stone like the first; and he rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand two tables of stone.
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	5	And the Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord.
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	6	The Lord passed before him, and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	7	keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	8	And Moses made haste to bow his head toward the earth, and worshiped.
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	9	And he said, “If now I have found favor in thy sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in the midst of us, although it is a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thy inheritance.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	10	And he said, “Behold, I make a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been wrought in all the earth or in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the Lord; for it is a terrible thing that I will do with you.
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	11	“Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	12	Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither you go, lest it become a snare in the midst of you.
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	13	You shall tear down their altars, and break their pillars, and cut down their Asherim
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	14	(for you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	15	lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they play the harlot after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and one invites you, you eat of his sacrifice,
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	16	and you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters play the harlot after their gods and make your sons play the harlot after their gods.
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	17	“You shall make for yourself no molten gods.
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	18	“The feast of unleavened bread you shall keep. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt.
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	19	All that opens the womb is mine, all your male cattle, the firstlings of cow and sheep.
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	20	The firstling of an ass you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. All the first-born of your sons you shall redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	21	“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	22	And you shall observe the feast of weeks, the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	23	Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	24	For I will cast out nations before you, and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land, when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year.
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	25	“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left until the morning.
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	26	The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	27	And the Lord said to Moses, “Write these words; in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	28	And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	29	When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tables of the testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God.
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	30	And when Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him.
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	31	But Moses called to them; and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses talked with them.
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	32	And afterward all the people of Israel came near, and he gave them in commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him in Mount Sinai.
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	33	And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil on his face;
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	34	but whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and when he came out, and told the people of Israel what he was commanded,
 Exodus	Ex	2	34	35	the people of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone; and Moses would put the veil upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	1	Moses assembled all the congregation of the people of Israel, and said to them, “These are the things which the Lord has commanded you to do.
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	2	Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a holy sabbath of solemn rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on it shall be put to death;
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	3	you shall kindle no fire in all your habitations on the sabbath day.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	4	Moses said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, “This is the thing which the Lord has commanded.
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	5	Take from among you an offering to the Lord; whoever is of a generous heart, let him bring the Lord’s offering: gold, silver, and bronze;
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	6	blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen; goats’ hair,
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	7	tanned rams’ skins, and goatskins; acacia wood,
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	8	oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	9	and onyx stones and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece.
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	10	“And let every able man among you come and make all that the Lord has commanded: the tabernacle,
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	11	its tent and its covering, its hooks and its frames, its bars, its pillars, and its bases;
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	12	the ark with its poles, the mercy seat, and the veil of the screen;
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	13	the table with its poles and all its utensils, and the bread of the Presence;
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	14	the lampstand also for the light, with its utensils and its lamps, and the oil for the light;
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	15	and the altar of incense, with its poles, and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle;
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	16	the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils, the laver and its base;
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	17	the hangings of the court, its pillars and its bases, and the screen for the gate of the court;
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	18	the pegs of the tabernacle and the pegs of the court, and their cords;
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	19	the finely wrought garments for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, for their service as priests.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	20	Then all the congregation of the people of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	21	And they came, every one whose heart stirred him, and every one whose spirit moved him, and brought the Lord’s offering to be used for the tent of meeting, and for all its service, and for the holy garments.
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	22	So they came, both men and women; all who were of a willing heart brought brooches and earrings and signet rings and armlets, all sorts of gold objects, every man dedicating an offering of gold to the Lord.
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	23	And every man with whom was found blue or purple or scarlet stuff or fine linen or goats’ hair or tanned rams’ skins or goatskins, brought them.
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	24	Every one who could make an offering of silver or bronze brought it as the Lord’s offering; and every man with whom was found acacia wood of any use in the work, brought it.
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	25	And all women who had ability spun with their hands, and brought what they had spun in blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen;
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	26	all the women whose hearts were moved with ability spun the goats’ hair.
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	27	And the leaders brought onyx stones and stones to be set, for the ephod and for the breastpiece,
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	28	and spices and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense.
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	29	All the men and women, the people of Israel, whose heart moved them to bring anything for the work which the Lord had commanded by Moses to be done, brought it as their freewill offering to the Lord.
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	30	And Moses said to the people of Israel, “See, the Lord has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	31	and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability, with intelligence, with knowledge, and with all craftsmanship,
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	32	to devise artistic designs, to work in gold and silver and bronze,
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	33	in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, for work in every skilled craft.
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	34	And he has inspired him to teach, both him and Oholiab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan.
 Exodus	Ex	2	35	35	He has filled them with ability to do every sort of work done by a craftsman or by a designer or by an embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen, or by a weaver—by any sort of workman or skilled designer.
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	1	Bezalel and Oholiab and every able man in whom the Lord has put ability and intelligence to know how to do any work in the construction of the sanctuary shall work in accordance with all that the Lord has commanded.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	2	And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every able man in whose mind the Lord had put ability, every one whose heart stirred him up to come to do the work;
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	3	and they received from Moses all the freewill offering which the people of Israel had brought for doing the work on the sanctuary. They still kept bringing him freewill offerings every morning,
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	4	so that all the able men who were doing every sort of task on the sanctuary came, each from the task that he was doing,
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	5	and said to Moses, “The people bring much more than enough for doing the work which the Lord has commanded us to do.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	6	So Moses gave command, and word was proclaimed throughout the camp, “Let neither man nor woman do anything more for the offering for the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing;
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	7	for the stuff they had was sufficient to do all the work, and more.
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	8	And all the able men among the workmen made the tabernacle with ten curtains; they were made of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet stuff, with cherubim skilfully worked.
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	9	The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains had the same measure.
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	10	And he coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled to one another.
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	11	And he made loops of blue on the edge of the outmost curtain of the first set; likewise he made them on the edge of the outmost curtain of the second set;
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	12	he made fifty loops on the one curtain, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was in the second set; the loops were opposite one another.
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	13	And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to the other with clasps; so the tabernacle was one whole.
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	14	He also made curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; he made eleven curtains.
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	15	The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; the eleven curtains had the same measure.
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	16	He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	17	And he made fifty loops on the edge of the outmost curtain of the one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the other connecting curtain.
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	18	And he made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together that it might be one whole.
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	19	And he made for the tent a covering of tanned rams’ skins and goatskins.
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	20	Then he made the upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood.
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	21	Ten cubits was the length of a frame, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each frame.
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	22	Each frame had two tenons, for fitting together; he did this for all the frames of the tabernacle.
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	23	The frames for the tabernacle he made thus: twenty frames for the south side;
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	24	and he made forty bases of silver under the twenty frames, two bases under one frame for its two tenons, and two bases under another frame for its two tenons.
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	25	And for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty frames
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	26	and their forty bases of silver, two bases under one frame and two bases under another frame.
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	27	And for the rear of the tabernacle westward he made six frames.
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	28	And he made two frames for corners of the tabernacle in the rear.
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	29	And they were separate beneath, but joined at the top, at the first ring; he made two of them thus, for the two corners.
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	30	There were eight frames with their bases of silver: sixteen bases, under every frame two bases.
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	31	And he made bars of acacia wood, five for the frames of the one side of the tabernacle,
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	32	and five bars for the frames of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames of the tabernacle at the rear westward.
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	33	And he made the middle bar to pass through from end to end halfway up the frames.
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	34	And he overlaid the frames with gold, and made their rings of gold for holders for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	35	And he made the veil of blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen; with cherubim skilfully worked he made it.
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	36	And for it he made four pillars of acacia, and overlaid them with gold; their hooks were of gold, and he cast for them four bases of silver.
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	37	He also made a screen for the door of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework;
 Exodus	Ex	2	36	38	and its five pillars with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals, and their fillets were of gold, but their five bases were of bronze.
 Exodus	Ex	2	37	1	Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood; two cubits and a half was its length, a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.
 Exodus	Ex	2	37	2	And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a molding of gold around it.
 Exodus	Ex	2	37	3	And he cast for it four rings of gold for its four corners, two rings on its one side and two rings on its other side.
 Exodus	Ex	2	37	4	And he made poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold,
 Exodus	Ex	2	37	5	and put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark.
 Exodus	Ex	2	37	6	And he made a mercy seat of pure gold; two cubits and a half was its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.
 Exodus	Ex	2	37	7	And he made two cherubim of hammered gold; on the two ends of the mercy seat he made them,
 Exodus	Ex	2	37	8	one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end; of one piece with the mercy seat he made the cherubim on its two ends.
 Exodus	Ex	2	37	9	The cherubim spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat were the faces of the cherubim.
 Exodus	Ex	2	37	10	He also made the table of acacia wood; two cubits was its length, a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height;
 Exodus	Ex	2	37	11	and he overlaid it with pure gold, and made a molding of gold around it.
 Exodus	Ex	2	37	12	And he made around it a frame a handbreadth wide, and made a molding of gold around the frame.
 Exodus	Ex	2	37	13	He cast for it four rings of gold, and fastened the rings to the four corners at its four legs.
 Exodus	Ex	2	37	14	Close to the frame were the rings, as holders for the poles to carry the table.
 Exodus	Ex	2	37	15	He made the poles of acacia wood to carry the table, and overlaid them with gold.
 Exodus	Ex	2	37	16	And he made the vessels of pure gold which were to be upon the table, its plates and dishes for incense, and its bowls and flagons with which to pour libations.
 Exodus	Ex	2	37	17	He also made the lampstand of pure gold. The base and the shaft of the lampstand were made of hammered work; its cups, its capitals, and its flowers were of one piece with it.
 Exodus	Ex	2	37	18	And there were six branches going out of its sides, three branches of the lampstand out of one side of it and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side of it;
 Exodus	Ex	2	37	19	three cups made like almonds, each with capital and flower, on one branch, and three cups made like almonds, each with capital and flower, on the other branch—so for the six branches going out of the lampstand.
 Exodus	Ex	2	37	20	And on the lampstand itself were four cups made like almonds, with their capitals and flowers,
 Exodus	Ex	2	37	21	and a capital of one piece with it under each pair of the six branches going out of it.
 Exodus	Ex	2	37	22	Their capitals and their branches were of one piece with it; the whole of it was one piece of hammered work of pure gold.
 Exodus	Ex	2	37	23	And he made its seven lamps and its snuffers and its trays of pure gold.
 Exodus	Ex	2	37	24	He made it and all its utensils of a talent of pure gold.
 Exodus	Ex	2	37	25	He made the altar of incense of acacia wood; its length was a cubit, and its breadth was a cubit; it was square, and two cubits was its height; its horns were of one piece with it.
 Exodus	Ex	2	37	26	He overlaid it with pure gold, its top, and its sides round about, and its horns; and he made a molding of gold round about it,
 Exodus	Ex	2	37	27	and made two rings of gold on it under its molding, on two opposite sides of it, as holders for the poles with which to carry it.
 Exodus	Ex	2	37	28	And he made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.
 Exodus	Ex	2	37	29	He made the holy anointing oil also, and the pure fragrant incense, blended as by the perfumer.
 Exodus	Ex	2	38	1	He made the altar of burnt offering also of acacia wood; five cubits was its length, and five cubits its breadth; it was square, and three cubits was its height.
 Exodus	Ex	2	38	2	He made horns for it on its four corners; its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.
 Exodus	Ex	2	38	3	And he made all the utensils of the altar, the pots, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the firepans: all its utensils he made of bronze.
 Exodus	Ex	2	38	4	And he made for the altar a grating, a network of bronze, under its ledge, extending halfway down.
 Exodus	Ex	2	38	5	He cast four rings on the four corners of the bronze grating as holders for the poles;
 Exodus	Ex	2	38	6	he made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with bronze.
 Exodus	Ex	2	38	7	And he put the poles through the rings on the sides of the altar, to carry it with them; he made it hollow, with boards.
 Exodus	Ex	2	38	8	And he made the laver of bronze and its base of bronze, from the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door of the tent of meeting.
 Exodus	Ex	2	38	9	And he made the court; for the south side the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, a hundred cubits;
 Exodus	Ex	2	38	10	their pillars were twenty and their bases twenty, of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
 Exodus	Ex	2	38	11	And for the north side a hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, their bases twenty, of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
 Exodus	Ex	2	38	12	And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
 Exodus	Ex	2	38	13	And for the front to the east, fifty cubits.
 Exodus	Ex	2	38	14	The hangings for one side of the gate were fifteen cubits, with three pillars and three bases.
 Exodus	Ex	2	38	15	And so for the other side; on this hand and that hand by the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits, with three pillars and three bases.
 Exodus	Ex	2	38	16	All the hangings round about the court were of fine twined linen.
 Exodus	Ex	2	38	17	And the bases for the pillars were of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver; the overlaying of their capitals was also of silver, and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.
 Exodus	Ex	2	38	18	And the screen for the gate of the court was embroidered with needlework in blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen; it was twenty cubits long and five cubits high in its breadth, corresponding to the hangings of the court.
 Exodus	Ex	2	38	19	And their pillars were four; their four bases were of bronze, their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals and their fillets of silver.
 Exodus	Ex	2	38	20	And all the pegs for the tabernacle and for the court round about were of bronze.
 Exodus	Ex	2	38	21	This is the sum of the things for the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were counted at the commandment of Moses, for the work of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
 Exodus	Ex	2	38	22	Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the Lord commanded Moses;
 Exodus	Ex	2	38	23	and with him was Oholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, a craftsman and designer and embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen.
 Exodus	Ex	2	38	24	All the gold that was used for the work, in all the construction of the sanctuary, the gold from the offering, was twenty-nine talents and seven hundred and thirty shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary.
 Exodus	Ex	2	38	25	And the silver from those of the congregation who were numbered was a hundred talents and a thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary:
 Exodus	Ex	2	38	26	a beka a head (that is, half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary), for every one who was numbered in the census, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty men.
 Exodus	Ex	2	38	27	The hundred talents of silver were for casting the bases of the sanctuary, and the bases of the veil; a hundred bases for the hundred talents, a talent for a base.
 Exodus	Ex	2	38	28	And of the thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their capitals and made fillets for them.
 Exodus	Ex	2	38	29	And the bronze that was contributed was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels;
 Exodus	Ex	2	38	30	with it he made the bases for the door of the tent of meeting, the bronze altar and the bronze grating for it and all the utensils of the altar,
 Exodus	Ex	2	38	31	the bases round about the court, and the bases of the gate of the court, all the pegs of the tabernacle, and all the pegs round about the court.
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	1	And of the blue and purple and scarlet stuff they made finely wrought garments, for ministering in the holy place; they made the holy garments for Aaron; as the Lord had commanded Moses.
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	2	And he made the ephod of gold, blue and purple and scarlet stuff, and fine twined linen.
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	3	And gold leaf was hammered out and cut into threads to work into the blue and purple and the scarlet stuff, and into the fine twined linen, in skilled design.
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	4	They made for the ephod shoulder-pieces, joined to it at its two edges.
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	5	And the skilfully woven band upon it, to gird it on, was of the same materials and workmanship, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet stuff, and fine twined linen; as the Lord had commanded Moses.
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	6	The onyx stones were prepared, enclosed in settings of gold filigree and engraved like the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the sons of Israel.
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	7	And he set them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, to be stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel; as the Lord had commanded Moses.
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	8	He made the breastpiece, in skilled work, like the work of the ephod, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet stuff, and fine twined linen.
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	9	It was square; the breastpiece was made double, a span its length and a span its breadth when doubled.
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	10	And they set in it four rows of stones. A row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle was the first row;
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	11	and the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond;
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	12	and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	13	and the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper; they were enclosed in settings of gold filigree.
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	14	There were twelve stones with their names according to the names of the sons of Israel; they were like signets, each engraved with its name, for the twelve tribes.
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	15	And they made on the breastpiece twisted chains like cords, of pure gold;
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	16	and they made two settings of gold filigree and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two edges of the breastpiece;
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	17	and they put the two cords of gold in the two rings at the edges of the breastpiece.
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	18	Two ends of the two cords they had attached to the two settings of filigree; thus they attached it in front to the shoulder-pieces of the ephod.
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	19	Then they made two rings of gold, and put them at the two ends of the breastpiece, on its inside edge next to the ephod.
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	20	And they made two rings of gold, and attached them in front to the lower part of the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod, at its joining above the skilfully woven band of the ephod.
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	21	And they bound the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, so that it should lie upon the skilfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastpiece should not come loose from the ephod; as the Lord had commanded Moses.
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	22	He also made the robe of the ephod woven all of blue;
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	23	and the opening of the robe in it was like the opening in a garment, with a binding around the opening, that it might not be torn.
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	24	On the skirts of the robe they made pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen.
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	25	They also made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the skirts of the robe round about, between the pomegranates;
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	26	a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate round about upon the skirts of the robe for ministering; as the Lord had commanded Moses.
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	27	They also made the coats, woven of fine linen, for Aaron and his sons,
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	28	and the turban of fine linen, and the caps of fine linen, and the linen breeches of fine twined linen,
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	29	and the girdle of fine twined linen and of blue and purple and scarlet stuff, embroidered with needlework; as the Lord had commanded Moses.
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	30	And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it an inscription, like the engraving of a signet, “Holy to the Lord.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	31	And they tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above; as the Lord had commanded Moses.
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	32	Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting was finished; and the people of Israel had done according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses; so had they done.
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	33	And they brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent and all its utensils, its hooks, its frames, its bars, its pillars, and its bases;
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	34	the covering of tanned rams’ skins and goatskins, and the veil of the screen;
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	35	the ark of the testimony with its poles and the mercy seat;
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	36	the table with all its utensils, and the bread of the Presence;
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	37	the lampstand of pure gold and its lamps with the lamps set and all its utensils, and the oil for the light;
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	38	the golden altar, the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the screen for the door of the tent;
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	39	the bronze altar, and its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils; the laver and its base;
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	40	the hangings of the court, its pillars, and its bases, and the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, and its pegs; and all the utensils for the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting;
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	41	the finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons to serve as priests.
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	42	According to all that the Lord had commanded Moses, so the people of Israel had done all the work.
 Exodus	Ex	2	39	43	And Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it; as the Lord had commanded, so had they done it. And Moses blessed them.
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	1	The Lord said to Moses,
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	2	“On the first day of the first month you shall erect the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	3	And you shall put in it the ark of the testimony, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	4	And you shall bring in the table, and set its arrangements in order; and you shall bring in the lampstand, and set up its lamps.
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	5	And you shall put the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and set up the screen for the door of the tabernacle.
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	6	You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting,
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	7	and place the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it.
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	8	And you shall set up the court round about, and hang up the screen for the gate of the court.
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	9	Then you shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and consecrate it and all its furniture; and it shall become holy.
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	10	You shall also anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar; and the altar shall be most holy.
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	11	You shall also anoint the laver and its base, and consecrate it.
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	12	Then you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent of meeting, and shall wash them with water,
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	13	and put upon Aaron the holy garments, and you shall anoint him and consecrate him, that he may serve me as priest.
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	14	You shall bring his sons also and put coats on them,
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	15	and anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may serve me as priests: and their anointing shall admit them to a perpetual priesthood throughout their generations.”
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	16	Thus did Moses; according to all that the Lord commanded him, so he did.
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	17	And in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was erected.
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	18	Moses erected the tabernacle; he laid its bases, and set up its frames, and put in its poles, and raised up its pillars;
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	19	and he spread the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent over it, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	20	And he took the testimony and put it into the ark, and put the poles on the ark, and set the mercy seat above on the ark;
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	21	and he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony; as the Lord had commanded Moses.
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	22	And he put the table in the tent of meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil,
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	23	and set the bread in order on it before the Lord; as the Lord had commanded Moses.
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	24	And he put the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle,
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	25	and set up the lamps before the Lord; as the Lord had commanded Moses.
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	26	And he put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil,
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	27	and burnt fragrant incense upon it; as the Lord had commanded Moses.
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	28	And he put in place the screen for the door of the tabernacle.
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	29	And he set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the cereal offering; as the Lord had commanded Moses.
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	30	And he set the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it for washing,
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	31	with which Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet;
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	32	when they went into the tent of meeting, and when they approached the altar, they washed; as the Lord commanded Moses.
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	33	And he erected the court round the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	34	Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	35	And Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting, because the cloud abode upon it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	36	Throughout all their journeys, whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the people of Israel would go onward;
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	37	but if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not go onward till the day that it was taken up.
 Exodus	Ex	2	40	38	For throughout all their journeys the cloud of the Lord was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	1	1	The Lord called Moses, and spoke to him from the tent of meeting, saying,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	1	2	“Speak to the people of Israel, and say to them, When any man of you brings an offering to the Lord, you shall bring your offering of cattle from the herd or from the flock.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	1	3	“If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish; he shall offer it at the door of the tent of meeting, that he may be accepted before the Lord;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	1	4	he shall lay his hand upon the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	1	5	Then he shall kill the bull before the Lord; and Aaron’s sons the priests shall present the blood, and throw the blood round about against the altar that is at the door of the tent of meeting.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	1	6	And he shall flay the burnt offering and cut it into pieces;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	1	7	and the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar, and lay wood in order upon the fire;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	1	8	and Aaron’s sons the priests shall lay the pieces, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire upon the altar;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	1	9	but its entrails and its legs he shall wash with water. And the priest shall burn the whole on the altar, as a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	1	10	“If his gift for a burnt offering is from the flock, from the sheep or goats, he shall offer a male without blemish;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	1	11	and he shall kill it on the north side of the altar before the Lord, and Aaron’s sons the priests shall throw its blood against the altar round about.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	1	12	And he shall cut it into pieces, with its head and its fat, and the priest shall lay them in order upon the wood that is on the fire upon the altar;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	1	13	but the entrails and the legs he shall wash with water. And the priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on the altar; it is a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	1	14	“If his offering to the Lord is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves or of young pigeons.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	1	15	And the priest shall bring it to the altar and wring off its head, and burn it on the altar; and its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	1	16	and he shall take away its crop with the feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east side, in the place for ashes;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	1	17	he shall tear it by its wings, but shall not divide it asunder. And the priest shall burn it on the altar, upon the wood that is on the fire; it is a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	2	1	“When any one brings a cereal offering as an offering to the Lord, his offering shall be of fine flour; he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense on it,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	2	2	and bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests. And he shall take from it a handful of the fine flour and oil, with all of its frankincense; and the priest shall burn this as its memorial portion upon the altar, an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	2	3	And what is left of the cereal offering shall be for Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the offerings by fire to the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	2	4	“When you bring a cereal offering baked in the oven as an offering, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers spread with oil.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	2	5	And if your offering is a cereal offering baked on a griddle, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mixed with oil;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	2	6	you shall break it in pieces, and pour oil on it; it is a cereal offering.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	2	7	And if your offering is a cereal offering cooked in a pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	2	8	And you shall bring the cereal offering that is made of these things to the Lord; and when it is presented to the priest, he shall bring it to the altar.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	2	9	And the priest shall take from the cereal offering its memorial portion and burn this on the altar, an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	2	10	And what is left of the cereal offering shall be for Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the offerings by fire to the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	2	11	“No cereal offering which you bring to the Lord shall be made with leaven; for you shall burn no leaven nor any honey as an offering by fire to the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	2	12	As an offering of first fruits you may bring them to the Lord, but they shall not be offered on the altar for a pleasing odor.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	2	13	You shall season all your cereal offerings with salt; you shall not let the salt of the covenant with your God be lacking from your cereal offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	2	14	“If you offer a cereal offering of first fruits to the Lord, you shall offer for the cereal offering of your first fruits crushed new grain from fresh ears, parched with fire.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	2	15	And you shall put oil upon it, and lay frankincense on it; it is a cereal offering.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	2	16	And the priest shall burn as its memorial portion part of the crushed grain and of the oil with all of its frankincense; it is an offering by fire to the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	3	1	“If a man’s offering is a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offers an animal from the herd, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	3	2	And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering and kill it at the door of the tent of meeting; and Aaron’s sons the priests shall throw the blood against the altar round about.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	3	3	And from the sacrifice of the peace offering, as an offering by fire to the Lord, he shall offer the fat covering the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	3	4	and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the appendage of the liver which he shall take away with the kidneys.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	3	5	Then Aaron’s sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt offering, which is upon the wood on the fire; it is an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	3	6	“If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering to the Lord is an animal from the flock, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	3	7	If he offers a lamb for his offering, then he shall offer it before the Lord,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	3	8	laying his hand upon the head of his offering and killing it before the tent of meeting; and Aaron’s sons shall throw its blood against the altar round about.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	3	9	Then from the sacrifice of the peace offering as an offering by fire to the Lord he shall offer its fat, the fat tail entire, taking it away close by the backbone, and the fat that covers the entrails, and all the fat that is on the entrails,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	3	10	and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the appendage of the liver which he shall take away with the kidneys.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	3	11	And the priest shall burn it on the altar as food offered by fire to the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	3	12	“If his offering is a goat, then he shall offer it before the Lord,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	3	13	and lay his hand upon its head, and kill it before the tent of meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall throw its blood against the altar round about.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	3	14	Then he shall offer from it, as his offering for an offering by fire to the Lord, the fat covering the entrails, and all the fat that is on the entrails,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	3	15	and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the appendage of the liver which he shall take away with the kidneys.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	3	16	And the priest shall burn them on the altar as food offered by fire for a pleasing odor. All fat is the Lord’s.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	3	17	It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	1	And the Lord said to Moses,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	2	“Say to the people of Israel, If any one sins unwittingly in any of the things which the Lord has commanded not to be done, and does any one of them,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	3	if it is the anointed priest who sins, thus bringing guilt on the people, then let him offer for the sin which he has committed a young bull without blemish to the Lord for a sin offering.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	4	He shall bring the bull to the door of the tent of meeting before the Lord, and lay his hand on the head of the bull, and kill the bull before the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	5	And the anointed priest shall take some of the blood of the bull and bring it to the tent of meeting;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	6	and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle part of the blood seven times before the Lord in front of the veil of the sanctuary.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	7	And the priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense before the Lord which is in the tent of meeting, and the rest of the blood of the bull he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering which is at the door of the tent of meeting.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	8	And all the fat of the bull of the sin offering he shall take from it, the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	9	and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the appendage of the liver which he shall take away with the kidneys
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	10	(just as these are taken from the ox of the sacrifice of the peace offerings), and the priest shall burn them upon the altar of burnt offering.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	11	But the skin of the bull and all its flesh, with its head, its legs, its entrails, and its dung,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	12	the whole bull he shall carry forth outside the camp to a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and shall burn it on a fire of wood; where the ashes are poured out it shall be burned.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	13	“If the whole congregation of Israel commits a sin unwittingly and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they do any one of the things which the Lord has commanded not to be done and are guilty;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	14	when the sin which they have committed becomes known, the assembly shall offer a young bull for a sin offering and bring it before the tent of meeting;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	15	and the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bull before the Lord, and the bull shall be killed before the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	16	Then the anointed priest shall bring some of the blood of the bull to the tent of meeting,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	17	and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the Lord in front of the veil.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	18	And he shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is in the tent of meeting before the Lord; and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering which is at the door of the tent of meeting.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	19	And all its fat he shall take from it and burn upon the altar.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	20	Thus shall he do with the bull; as he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this; and the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	21	And he shall carry forth the bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull; it is the sin offering for the assembly.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	22	“When a ruler sins, doing unwittingly any one of all the things which the Lord his God has commanded not to be done, and is guilty,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	23	if the sin which he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a goat, a male without blemish,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	24	and shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the Lord; it is a sin offering.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	25	Then the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	26	And all its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings; so the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin, and he shall be forgiven.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	27	“If any one of the common people sins unwittingly in doing any one of the things which the Lord has commanded not to be done, and is guilty,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	28	when the sin which he has committed is made known to him he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has committed.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	29	And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	30	And the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	31	And all its fat he shall remove, as the fat is removed from the peace offerings, and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a pleasing odor to the Lord; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	32	“If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without blemish,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	33	and lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	34	Then the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	4	35	And all its fat he shall remove as the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings, and the priest shall burn it on the altar, upon the offerings by fire to the Lord; and the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin which he has committed, and he shall be forgiven.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	5	1	“If any one sins in that he hears a public adjuration to testify and though he is a witness, whether he has seen or come to know the matter, yet does not speak, he shall bear his iniquity.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	5	2	Or if any one touches an unclean thing, whether the carcass of an unclean beast or a carcass of unclean cattle or a carcass of unclean swarming things, and it is hidden from him, and he has become unclean, he shall be guilty.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	5	3	Or if he touches human uncleanness, of whatever sort the uncleanness may be with which one becomes unclean, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it he shall be guilty.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	5	4	Or if any one utters with his lips a rash oath to do evil or to do good, any sort of rash oath that men swear, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it he shall in any of these be guilty.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	5	5	When a man is guilty in any of these, he shall confess the sin he has committed,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	5	6	and he shall bring his guilt offering to the Lord for the sin which he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	5	7	“But if he cannot afford a lamb, then he shall bring, as his guilt offering to the Lord for the sin which he has committed, two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	5	8	He shall bring them to the priest, who shall offer first the one for the sin offering; he shall wring its head from its neck, but shall not sever it,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	5	9	and he shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, while the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar; it is a sin offering.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	5	10	Then he shall offer the second for a burnt offering according to the ordinance; and the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin which he has committed, and he shall be forgiven.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	5	11	“But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he shall bring, as his offering for the sin which he has committed, a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put no oil upon it, and shall put no frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	5	12	And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take a handful of it as its memorial portion and burn this on the altar, upon the offerings by fire to the Lord; it is a sin offering.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	5	13	Thus the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin which he has committed in any one of these things, and he shall be forgiven. And the remainder shall be for the priest, as in the cereal offering.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	5	14	The Lord said to Moses,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	5	15	“If any one commits a breach of faith and sins unwittingly in any of the holy things of the Lord, he shall bring, as his guilt offering to the Lord, a ram without blemish out of the flock, valued by you in shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; it is a guilt offering.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	5	16	He shall also make restitution for what he has done amiss in the holy thing, and shall add a fifth to it and give it to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and he shall be forgiven.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	5	17	“If any one sins, doing any of the things which the Lord has commanded not to be done, though he does not know it, yet he is guilty and shall bear his iniquity.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	5	18	He shall bring to the priest a ram without blemish out of the flock, valued by you at the price for a guilt offering, and the priest shall make atonement for him for the error which he committed unwittingly, and he shall be forgiven.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	5	19	It is a guilt offering; he is guilty before the Lord.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	6	1	The Lord said to Moses,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	6	2	“If any one sins and commits a breach of faith against the Lord by deceiving his neighbor in a matter of deposit or security, or through robbery, or if he has oppressed his neighbor
 Leviticus	Lev	3	6	3	or has found what was lost and lied about it, swearing falsely—in any of all the things which men do and sin therein,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	6	4	when one has sinned and become guilty, he shall restore what he took by robbery, or what he got by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	6	5	or anything about which he has sworn falsely; he shall restore it in full, and shall add a fifth to it, and give it to him to whom it belongs, on the day of his guilt offering.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	6	6	And he shall bring to the priest his guilt offering to the Lord, a ram without blemish out of the flock, valued by you at the price for a guilt offering;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	6	7	and the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord, and he shall be forgiven for any of the things which one may do and thereby become guilty.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	6	8	The Lord said to Moses,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	6	9	“Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering. The burnt offering shall be on the hearth upon the altar all night until the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	6	10	And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and put his linen breeches upon his body, and he shall take up the ashes to which the fire has consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and put them beside the altar.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	6	11	Then he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	6	12	The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it, it shall not go out; the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and he shall lay the burnt offering in order upon it, and shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	6	13	Fire shall be kept burning upon the altar continually; it shall not go out.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	6	14	“And this is the law of the cereal offering. The sons of Aaron shall offer it before the Lord, in front of the altar.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	6	15	And one shall take from it a handful of the fine flour of the cereal offering with its oil and all the frankincense which is on the cereal offering, and burn this as its memorial portion on the altar, a pleasing odor to the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	6	16	And the rest of it Aaron and his sons shall eat; it shall be eaten unleavened in a holy place; in the court of the tent of meeting they shall eat it.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	6	17	It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of my offerings by fire; it is a thing most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	6	18	Every male among the children of Aaron may eat of it, as decreed for ever throughout your generations, from the Lord’s offerings by fire; whoever touches them shall become holy.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	6	19	The Lord said to Moses,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	6	20	“This is the offering which Aaron and his sons shall offer to the Lord on the day when he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a regular cereal offering, half of it in the morning and half in the evening.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	6	21	It shall be made with oil on a griddle; you shall bring it well mixed, in baked pieces like a cereal offering, and offer it for a pleasing odor to the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	6	22	The priest from among Aaron’s sons, who is anointed to succeed him, shall offer it to the Lord as decreed for ever; the whole of it shall be burned.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	6	23	Every cereal offering of a priest shall be wholly burned; it shall not be eaten.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	6	24	The Lord said to Moses,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	6	25	“Say to Aaron and his sons, This is the law of the sin offering. In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the Lord; it is most holy.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	6	26	The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it; in a holy place it shall be eaten, in the court of the tent of meeting.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	6	27	Whatever touches its flesh shall be holy; and when any of its blood is sprinkled on a garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled in a holy place.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	6	28	And the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken; but if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, that shall be scoured, and rinsed in water.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	6	29	Every male among the priests may eat of it; it is most holy.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	6	30	But no sin offering shall be eaten from which any blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the holy place; it shall be burned with fire.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	1	“This is the law of the guilt offering. It is most holy;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	2	in the place where they kill the burnt offering they shall kill the guilt offering, and its blood shall be thrown on the altar round about.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	3	And all its fat shall be offered, the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	4	the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the appendage of the liver which he shall take away with the kidneys;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	5	the priest shall burn them on the altar as an offering by fire to the Lord; it is a guilt offering.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	6	Every male among the priests may eat of it; it shall be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	7	The guilt offering is like the sin offering, there is one law for them; the priest who makes atonement with it shall have it.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	8	And the priest who offers any man’s burnt offering shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has offered.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	9	And every cereal offering baked in the oven and all that is prepared on a pan or a griddle shall belong to the priest who offers it.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	10	And every cereal offering, mixed with oil or dry, shall be for all the sons of Aaron, one as well as another.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	11	“And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings which one may offer to the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	12	If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the thank offering unleavened cakes mixed with oil, unleavened wafers spread with oil, and cakes of fine flour well mixed with oil.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	13	With the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving he shall bring his offering with cakes of leavened bread.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	14	And of such he shall offer one cake from each offering, as an offering to the Lord; it shall belong to the priest who throws the blood of the peace offerings.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	15	And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering; he shall not leave any of it until the morning.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	16	But if the sacrifice of his offering is a votive offering or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice, and on the morrow what remains of it shall be eaten,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	17	but what remains of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	18	If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offering is eaten on the third day, he who offers it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be credited to him; it shall be an abomination, and he who eats of it shall bear his iniquity.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	19	“Flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burned with fire. All who are clean may eat flesh,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	20	but the person who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of the Lord’s peace offerings while an uncleanness is on him, that person shall be cut off from his people.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	21	And if any one touches an unclean thing, whether the uncleanness of man or an unclean beast or any unclean abomination, and then eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of the Lord’s peace offerings, that person shall be cut off from his people.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	22	The Lord said to Moses,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	23	“Say to the people of Israel, You shall eat no fat, of ox, or sheep, or goat.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	24	The fat of an animal that dies of itself, and the fat of one that is torn by beasts, may be put to any other use, but on no account shall you eat it.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	25	For every person who eats of the fat of an animal of which an offering by fire is made to the Lord shall be cut off from his people.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	26	Moreover you shall eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwellings.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	27	Whoever eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	28	The Lord said to Moses,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	29	“Say to the people of Israel, He that offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to the Lord shall bring his offering to the Lord; from the sacrifice of his peace offerings
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	30	he shall bring with his own hands the offerings by fire to the Lord; he shall bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved as a wave offering before the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	31	The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be for Aaron and his sons.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	32	And the right thigh you shall give to the priest as an offering from the sacrifice of your peace offerings;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	33	he among the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace offerings and the fat shall have the right thigh for a portion.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	34	For the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered I have taken from the people of Israel, out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons, as a perpetual due from the people of Israel.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	35	This is the portion of Aaron and of his sons from the offerings made by fire to the Lord, consecrated to them on the day they were presented to serve as priests of the Lord;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	36	the Lord commanded this to be given them by the people of Israel, on the day that they were anointed; it is a perpetual due throughout their generations.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	37	This is the law of the burnt offering, of the cereal offering, of the sin offering, of the guilt offering, of the consecration, and of the peace offerings,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	7	38	which the Lord commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day that he commanded the people of Israel to bring their offerings to the Lord, in the wilderness of Sinai.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	1	The Lord said to Moses,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	2	“Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and the bull of the sin offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	3	and assemble all the congregation at the door of the tent of meeting.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	4	And Moses did as the Lord commanded him; and the congregation was assembled at the door of the tent of meeting.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	5	And Moses said to the congregation, “This is the thing which the Lord has commanded to be done.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	6	And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	7	And he put on him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and girded him with the skilfully woven band of the ephod, binding it to him therewith.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	8	And he placed the breastpiece on him, and in the breastpiece he put the Urim and the Thummim.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	9	And he set the turban upon his head, and on the turban, in front, he set the golden plate, the holy crown, as the Lord commanded Moses.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	10	Then Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	11	And he sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the laver and its base, to consecrate them.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	12	And he poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head, and anointed him, to consecrate him.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	13	And Moses brought Aaron’s sons, and clothed them with coats, and girded them with girdles, and bound caps on them, as the Lord commanded Moses.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	14	Then he brought the bull of the sin offering; and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bull of the sin offering.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	15	And Moses killed it, and took the blood, and with his finger put it on the horns of the altar round about, and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and consecrated it, to make atonement for it.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	16	And he took all the fat that was on the entrails, and the appendage of the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and Moses burned them on the altar.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	17	But the bull, and its skin, and its flesh, and its dung, he burned with fire outside the camp, as the Lord commanded Moses.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	18	Then he presented the ram of the burnt offering; and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	19	And Moses killed it, and threw the blood upon the altar round about.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	20	And when the ram was cut into pieces, Moses burned the head and the pieces and the fat.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	21	And when the entrails and the legs were washed with water, Moses burned the whole ram on the altar, as a burnt offering, a pleasing odor, an offering by fire to the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	22	Then he presented the other ram, the ram of ordination; and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	23	And Moses killed it, and took some of its blood and put it on the tip of Aaron’s right ear and on the thumb of his right hand and on the great toe of his right foot.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	24	And Aaron’s sons were brought, and Moses put some of the blood on the tips of their right ears and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the great toes of their right feet; and Moses threw the blood upon the altar round about.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	25	Then he took the fat, and the fat tail, and all the fat that was on the entrails, and the appendage of the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and the right thigh;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	26	and out of the basket of unleavened bread which was before the Lord he took one unleavened cake, and one cake of bread with oil, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat and on the right thigh;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	27	and he put all these in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons, and waved them as a wave offering before the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	28	Then Moses took them from their hands, and burned them on the altar with the burnt offering, as an ordination offering, a pleasing odor, an offering by fire to the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	29	And Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before the Lord; it was Moses’ portion of the ram of ordination, as the Lord commanded Moses.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	30	Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and of the blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it upon Aaron and his garments, and also upon his sons and his sons’ garments; so he consecrated Aaron and his garments, and his sons and his sons’ garments with him.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	31	And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, “Boil the flesh at the door of the tent of meeting, and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of ordination offerings, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it’;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	32	and what remains of the flesh and the bread you shall burn with fire.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	33	And you shall not go out from the door of the tent of meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are completed, for it will take seven days to ordain you.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	34	As has been done today, the Lord has commanded to be done to make atonement for you.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	35	At the door of the tent of meeting you shall remain day and night for seven days, performing what the Lord has charged, lest you die; for so I am commanded.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	8	36	And Aaron and his sons did all the things which the Lord commanded by Moses.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	9	1	On the eighth day Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	9	2	and he said to Aaron, “Take a bull calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and offer them before the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	9	3	And say to the people of Israel, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both a year old without blemish, for a burnt offering,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	9	4	and an ox and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the Lord, and a cereal offering mixed with oil; for today the Lord will appear to you.’”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	9	5	And they brought what Moses commanded before the tent of meeting; and all the congregation drew near and stood before the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	9	6	And Moses said, “This is the thing which the Lord commanded you to do; and the glory of the Lord will appear to you.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	9	7	Then Moses said to Aaron, “Draw near to the altar, and offer your sin offering and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself and for the people; and bring the offering of the people, and make atonement for them; as the Lord has commanded.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	9	8	So Aaron drew near to the altar, and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	9	9	And the sons of Aaron presented the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood and put it on the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	9	10	but the fat and the kidneys and the appendage of the liver from the sin offering he burned upon the altar, as the Lord commanded Moses.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	9	11	The flesh and the skin he burned with fire outside the camp.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	9	12	And he killed the burnt offering; and Aaron’s sons delivered to him the blood, and he threw it on the altar round about.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	9	13	And they delivered the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and the head; and he burned them upon the altar.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	9	14	And he washed the entrails and the legs, and burned them with the burnt offering on the altar.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	9	15	Then he presented the people’s offering, and took the goat of the sin offering which was for the people, and killed it, and offered it for sin, like the first sin offering.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	9	16	And he presented the burnt offering, and offered it according to the ordinance.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	9	17	And he presented the cereal offering, and filled his hand from it, and burned it upon the altar, besides the burnt offering of the morning.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	9	18	He killed the ox also and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings for the people; and Aaron’s sons delivered to him the blood, which he threw upon the altar round about,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	9	19	and the fat of the ox and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which covers the entrails, and the kidneys, and the appendage of the liver;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	9	20	and they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burned the fat upon the altar,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	9	21	but the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a wave offering before the Lord; as Moses commanded.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	9	22	Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them; and he came down from offering the sin offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	9	23	And Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting; and when they came out they blessed the people, and the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	9	24	And fire came forth from before the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar; and when all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	10	1	Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered unholy fire before the Lord, such as he had not commanded them.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	10	2	And fire came forth from the presence of the Lord and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	10	3	Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord has said, ‘I will show myself holy among those who are near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.’” And Aaron held his peace.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	10	4	And Moses called Misha-el and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, “Draw near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	10	5	So they drew near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp, as Moses had said.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	10	6	And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons, “Do not let the hair of your heads hang loose, and do not rend your clothes, lest you die, and lest wrath come upon all the congregation; but your brethren, the whole house of Israel, may bewail the burning which the Lord has kindled.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	10	7	And do not go out from the door of the tent of meeting, lest you die; for the anointing oil of the Lord is upon you.” And they did according to the word of Moses.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	10	8	And the Lord spoke to Aaron, saying,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	10	9	“Drink no wine nor strong drink, you nor your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, lest you die; it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	10	10	You are to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	10	11	and you are to teach the people of Israel all the statutes which the Lord has spoken to them by Moses.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	10	12	And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons who were left, “Take the cereal offering that remains of the offerings by fire to the Lord, and eat it unleavened beside the altar, for it is most holy;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	10	13	you shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your due and your sons’ due, from the offerings by fire to the Lord; for so I am commanded.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	10	14	But the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered you shall eat in any clean place, you and your sons and your daughters with you; for they are given as your due and your sons’ due, from the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the people of Israel.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	10	15	The thigh that is offered and the breast that is waved they shall bring with the offerings by fire of the fat, to wave for a wave offering before the Lord, and it shall be yours, and your sons’ with you, as a due for ever; as the Lord has commanded.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	10	16	Now Moses diligently inquired about the goat of the sin offering, and behold, it was burned! And he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who were left, saying,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	10	17	“Why have you not eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, since it is a thing most holy and has been given to you that you may bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the Lord?
 Leviticus	Lev	3	10	18	Behold, its blood was not brought into the inner part of the sanctuary. You certainly ought to have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	10	19	And Aaron said to Moses, “Behold, today they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the Lord; and yet such things as these have befallen me! If I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been acceptable in the sight of the Lord?”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	10	20	And when Moses heard that, he was content.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	1	And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	2	“Say to the people of Israel, These are the living things which you may eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	3	Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	4	Nevertheless among those that chew the cud or part the hoof, you shall not eat these: The camel, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	5	And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	6	And the hare, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	7	And the swine, because it parts the hoof and is cloven-footed but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	8	Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch; they are unclean to you.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	9	“These you may eat, of all that are in the waters. Everything in the waters that has fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	10	But anything in the seas or the rivers that has not fins and scales, of the swarming creatures in the waters and of the living creatures that are in the waters, is an abomination to you.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	11	They shall remain an abomination to you; of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall have in abomination.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	12	Everything in the waters that has not fins and scales is an abomination to you.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	13	“And these you shall have in abomination among the birds, they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	14	the kite, the falcon according to its kind,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	15	every raven according to its kind,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	16	the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk according to its kind,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	17	the owl, the cormorant, the ibis,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	18	the water hen, the pelican, the carrion vulture,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	19	the stork, the heron according to its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	20	“All winged insects that go upon all fours are an abomination to you.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	21	Yet among the winged insects that go on all fours you may eat those which have legs above their feet, with which to leap on the earth.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	22	Of them you may eat: the locust according to its kind, the bald locust according to its kind, the cricket according to its kind, and the grasshopper according to its kind.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	23	But all other winged insects which have four feet are an abomination to you.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	24	“And by these you shall become unclean; whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	25	and whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	26	Every animal which parts the hoof but is not cloven-footed or does not chew the cud is unclean to you; every one who touches them shall be unclean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	27	And all that go on their paws, among the animals that go on all fours, are unclean to you; whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	28	and he who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	29	“And these are unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm upon the earth: the weasel, the mouse, the great lizard according to its kind,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	30	the gecko, the land crocodile, the lizard, the sand lizard, and the chameleon.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	31	These are unclean to you among all that swarm; whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until the evening.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	32	And anything upon which any of them falls when they are dead shall be unclean, whether it is an article of wood or a garment or a skin or a sack, any vessel that is used for any purpose; it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; then it shall be clean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	33	And if any of them falls into any earthen vessel, all that is in it shall be unclean, and you shall break it.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	34	Any food in it which may be eaten, upon which water may come, shall be unclean; and all drink which may be drunk from every such vessel shall be unclean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	35	And everything upon which any part of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether oven or stove, it shall be broken in pieces; they are unclean, and shall be unclean to you.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	36	Nevertheless a spring or a cistern holding water shall be clean; but whatever touches their carcass shall be unclean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	37	And if any part of their carcass falls upon any seed for sowing that is to be sown, it is clean;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	38	but if water is put on the seed and any part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	39	“And if any animal of which you may eat dies, he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	40	and he who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; he also who carries the carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	41	“Every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth is an abomination; it shall not be eaten.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	42	Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, all the swarming things that swarm upon the earth, you shall not eat; for they are an abomination.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	43	You shall not make yourselves abominable with any swarming thing that swarms; and you shall not defile yourselves with them, lest you become unclean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	44	For I am the Lord your God; consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls upon the earth.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	45	For I am the Lord who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God; you shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	46	This is the law pertaining to beast and bird and every living creature that moves through the waters and every creature that swarms upon the earth,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	11	47	to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean and between the living creature that may be eaten and the living creature that may not be eaten.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	12	1	The Lord said to Moses,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	12	2	“Say to the people of Israel, If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as at the time of her menstruation, she shall be unclean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	12	3	And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	12	4	Then she shall continue for thirty-three days in the blood of her purifying; she shall not touch any hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	12	5	But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her menstruation; and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying for sixty-six days.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	12	6	“And when the days of her purifying are completed, whether for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door of the tent of meeting a lamb a year old for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	12	7	and he shall offer it before the Lord, and make atonement for her; then she shall be clean from the flow of her blood. This is the law for her who bears a child, either male or female.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	12	8	And if she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	1	The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	2	“When a man has on the skin of his body a swelling or an eruption or a spot, and it turns into a leprous disease on the skin of his body, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	3	and the priest shall examine the diseased spot on the skin of his body; and if the hair in the diseased spot has turned white and the disease appears to be deeper than the skin of his body, it is a leprous disease; when the priest has examined him he shall pronounce him unclean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	4	But if the spot is white in the skin of his body, and appears no deeper than the skin, and the hair in it has not turned white, the priest shall shut up the diseased person for seven days;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	5	and the priest shall examine him on the seventh day, and if in his eyes the disease is checked and the disease has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall shut him up seven days more;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	6	and the priest shall examine him again on the seventh day, and if the diseased spot is dim and the disease has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is only an eruption; and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	7	But if the eruption spreads in the skin, after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall appear again before the priest;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	8	and the priest shall make an examination, and if the eruption has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is leprosy.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	9	“When a man is afflicted with leprosy, he shall be brought to the priest;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	10	and the priest shall make an examination, and if there is a white swelling in the skin, which has turned the hair white, and there is quick raw flesh in the swelling,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	11	it is a chronic leprosy in the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean; he shall not shut him up, for he is unclean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	12	And if the leprosy breaks out in the skin, so that the leprosy covers all the skin of the diseased person from head to foot, so far as the priest can see,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	13	then the priest shall make an examination, and if the leprosy has covered all his body, he shall pronounce him clean of the disease; it has all turned white, and he is clean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	14	But when raw flesh appears on him, he shall be unclean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	15	And the priest shall examine the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean; raw flesh is unclean, for it is leprosy.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	16	But if the raw flesh turns again and is changed to white, then he shall come to the priest,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	17	and the priest shall examine him, and if the disease has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce the diseased person clean; he is clean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	18	“And when there is in the skin of one’s body a boil that has healed,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	19	and in the place of the boil there comes a white swelling or a reddish-white spot, then it shall be shown to the priest;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	20	and the priest shall make an examination, and if it appears deeper than the skin and its hair has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is the disease of leprosy, it has broken out in the boil.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	21	But if the priest examines it, and the hair on it is not white and it is not deeper than the skin, but is dim, then the priest shall shut him up seven days;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	22	and if it spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is diseased.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	23	But if the spot remains in one place and does not spread, it is the scar of the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	24	“Or, when the body has a burn on its skin and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a spot, reddish-white or white,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	25	the priest shall examine it, and if the hair in the spot has turned white and it appears deeper than the skin, then it is leprosy; it has broken out in the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a leprous disease.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	26	But if the priest examines it, and the hair in the spot is not white and it is no deeper than the skin, but is dim, the priest shall shut him up seven days,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	27	and the priest shall examine him the seventh day; if it is spreading in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a leprous disease.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	28	But if the spot remains in one place and does not spread in the skin, but is dim, it is a swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him clean; for it is the scar of the burn.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	29	“When a man or woman has a disease on the head or the beard,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	30	the priest shall examine the disease; and if it appears deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is an itch, a leprosy of the head or the beard.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	31	And if the priest examines the itching disease, and it appears no deeper than the skin and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall shut up the person with the itching disease for seven days,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	32	and on the seventh day the priest shall examine the disease; and if the itch has not spread, and there is in it no yellow hair, and the itch appears to be no deeper than the skin,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	33	then he shall shave himself, but the itch he shall not shave; and the priest shall shut up the person with the itching disease for seven days more;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	34	and on the seventh day the priest shall examine the itch, and if the itch has not spread in the skin and it appears to be no deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	35	But if the itch spreads in the skin after his cleansing,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	36	then the priest shall examine him, and if the itch has spread in the skin, the priest need not seek for the yellow hair; he is unclean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	37	But if in his eyes the itch is checked, and black hair has grown in it, the itch is healed, he is clean; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	38	“When a man or a woman has spots on the skin of the body, white spots,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	39	the priest shall make an examination, and if the spots on the skin of the body are of a dull white, it is tetter that has broken out in the skin; he is clean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	40	“If a man’s hair has fallen from his head, he is bald but he is clean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	41	And if a man’s hair has fallen from his forehead and temples, he has baldness of the forehead but he is clean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	42	But if there is on the bald head or the bald forehead a reddish-white diseased spot, it is leprosy breaking out on his bald head or his bald forehead.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	43	Then the priest shall examine him, and if the diseased swelling is reddish-white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the body,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	44	he is a leprous man, he is unclean; the priest must pronounce him unclean; his disease is on his head.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	45	“The leper who has the disease shall wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head hang loose, and he shall cover his upper lip and cry, ‘Unclean, unclean.’
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	46	He shall remain unclean as long as he has the disease; he is unclean; he shall dwell alone in a habitation outside the camp.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	47	“When there is a leprous disease in a garment, whether a woolen or a linen garment,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	48	in warp or woof of linen or wool, or in a skin or in anything made of skin,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	49	if the disease shows greenish or reddish in the garment, whether in warp or woof or in skin or in anything made of skin, it is a leprous disease and shall be shown to the priest.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	50	And the priest shall examine the disease, and shut up that which has the disease for seven days;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	51	then he shall examine the disease on the seventh day. If the disease has spread in the garment, in warp or woof, or in the skin, whatever be the use of the skin, the disease is a malignant leprosy; it is unclean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	52	And he shall burn the garment, whether diseased in warp or woof, woolen or linen, or anything of skin, for it is a malignant leprosy; it shall be burned in the fire.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	53	“And if the priest examines, and the disease has not spread in the garment in warp or woof or in anything of skin,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	54	then the priest shall command that they wash the thing in which is the disease, and he shall shut it up seven days more;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	55	and the priest shall examine the diseased thing after it has been washed. And if the diseased spot has not changed color, though the disease has not spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire, whether the leprous spot is on the back or on the front.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	56	“But if the priest examines, and the disease is dim after it is washed, he shall tear the spot out of the garment or the skin or the warp or woof;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	57	then if it appears again in the garment, in warp or woof, or in anything of skin, it is spreading; you shall burn with fire that in which is the disease.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	58	But the garment, warp or woof, or anything of skin from which the disease departs when you have washed it, shall then be washed a second time, and be clean.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	13	59	This is the law for a leprous disease in a garment of wool or linen, either in warp or woof, or in anything of skin, to decide whether it is clean or unclean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	1	The Lord said to Moses,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	2	“This shall be the law of the leper for the day of his cleansing. He shall be brought to the priest;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	3	and the priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest shall make an examination. Then, if the leprous disease is healed in the leper,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	4	the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living clean birds and cedarwood and scarlet stuff and hyssop;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	5	and the priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	6	He shall take the living bird with the cedarwood and the scarlet stuff and the hyssop, and dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	7	and he shall sprinkle it seven times upon him who is to be cleansed of leprosy; then he shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird go into the open field.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	8	And he who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water, and he shall be clean; and after that he shall come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven days.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	9	And on the seventh day he shall shave all his hair off his head; he shall shave off his beard and his eyebrows, all his hair. Then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe his body in water, and he shall be clean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	10	“And on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and a cereal offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, and one log of oil.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	11	And the priest who cleanses him shall set the man who is to be cleansed and these things before the Lord, at the door of the tent of meeting.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	12	And the priest shall take one of the male lambs, and offer it for a guilt offering, along with the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the Lord;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	13	and he shall kill the lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place; for the guilt offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the priest; it is most holy.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	14	The priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	15	Then the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	16	and dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and sprinkle some oil with his finger seven times before the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	17	And some of the oil that remains in his hand the priest shall put on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the guilt offering;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	18	and the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed. Then the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	19	The priest shall offer the sin offering, to make atonement for him who is to be cleansed from his uncleanness. And afterward he shall kill the burnt offering;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	20	and the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the cereal offering on the altar. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	21	“But if he is poor and cannot afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a guilt offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering, and a log of oil;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	22	also two turtledoves or two young pigeons, such as he can afford; the one shall be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	23	And on the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the door of the tent of meeting, before the Lord;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	24	and the priest shall take the lamb of the guilt offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	25	And he shall kill the lamb of the guilt offering; and the priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	26	And the priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	27	and shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the Lord;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	28	and the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and the great toe of his right foot, in the place where the blood of the guilt offering was put;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	29	and the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	30	And he shall offer, of the turtledoves or young pigeons such as he can afford,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	31	one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, along with a cereal offering; and the priest shall make atonement before the Lord for him who is being cleansed.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	32	This is the law for him in whom is a leprous disease, who cannot afford the offerings for his cleansing.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	33	The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	34	“When you come into the land of Canaan, which I give you for a possession, and I put a leprous disease in a house in the land of your possession,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	35	then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, ‘There seems to me to be some sort of disease in my house.’
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	36	Then the priest shall command that they empty the house before the priest goes to examine the disease, lest all that is in the house be declared unclean; and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	37	And he shall examine the disease; and if the disease is in the walls of the house with greenish or reddish spots, and if it appears to be deeper than the surface,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	38	then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	39	And the priest shall come again on the seventh day, and look; and if the disease has spread in the walls of the house,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	40	then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the disease and throw them into an unclean place outside the city;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	41	and he shall cause the inside of the house to be scraped round about, and the plaster that they scrape off they shall pour into an unclean place outside the city;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	42	then they shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones, and he shall take other plaster and plaster the house.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	43	“If the disease breaks out again in the house, after he has taken out the stones and scraped the house and plastered it,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	44	then the priest shall go and look; and if the disease has spread in the house, it is a malignant leprosy in the house; it is unclean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	45	And he shall break down the house, its stones and timber and all the plaster of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city to an unclean place.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	46	Moreover he who enters the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	47	and he who lies down in the house shall wash his clothes; and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	48	“But if the priest comes and makes an examination, and the disease has not spread in the house after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, for the disease is healed.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	49	And for the cleansing of the house he shall take two small birds, with cedarwood and scarlet stuff and hyssop,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	50	and shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	51	and shall take the cedarwood and the hyssop and the scarlet stuff, along with the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the bird that was killed and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	52	Thus he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet stuff;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	53	and he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open field; so he shall make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	54	This is the law for any leprous disease: for an itch,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	55	for leprosy in a garment or in a house,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	56	and for a swelling or an eruption or a spot,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	14	57	to show when it is unclean and when it is clean. This is the law for leprosy.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	15	1	The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	15	2	“Say to the people of Israel, When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	15	3	And this is the law of his uncleanness for a discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body is stopped from discharge, it is uncleanness in him.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	15	4	Every bed on which he who has the discharge lies shall be unclean; and everything on which he sits shall be unclean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	15	5	And any one who touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	15	6	And whoever sits on anything on which he who has the discharge has sat shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	15	7	And whoever touches the body of him who has the discharge shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	15	8	And if he who has the discharge spits on one who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	15	9	And any saddle on which he who has the discharge rides shall be unclean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	15	10	And whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening; and he who carries such a thing shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	15	11	Any one whom he that has the discharge touches without having rinsed his hands in water shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	15	12	And the earthen vessel which he who has the discharge touches shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	15	13	“And when he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count for himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his body in running water, and shall be clean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	15	14	And on the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and come before the Lord to the door of the tent of meeting, and give them to the priest;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	15	15	and the priest shall offer them, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord for his discharge.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	15	16	“And if a man has an emission of semen, he shall bathe his whole body in water, and be unclean until the evening.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	15	17	And every garment and every skin on which the semen comes shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	15	18	If a man lies with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them shall bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	15	19	“When a woman has a discharge of blood which is her regular discharge from her body, she shall be in her impurity for seven days, and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	15	20	And everything upon which she lies during her impurity shall be unclean; everything also upon which she sits shall be unclean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	15	21	And whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	15	22	And whoever touches anything upon which she sits shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	15	23	whether it is the bed or anything upon which she sits, when he touches it he shall be unclean until the evening.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	15	24	And if any man lies with her, and her impurity is on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	15	25	“If a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, not at the time of her impurity, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her impurity, all the days of the discharge she shall continue in uncleanness; as in the days of her impurity, she shall be unclean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	15	26	Every bed on which she lies, all the days of her discharge, shall be to her as the bed of her impurity; and everything on which she sits shall be unclean, as in the uncleanness of her impurity.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	15	27	And whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	15	28	But if she is cleansed of her discharge, she shall count for herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	15	29	And on the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the tent of meeting.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	15	30	And the priest shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her before the Lord for her unclean discharge.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	15	31	“Thus you shall keep the people of Israel separate from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness by defiling my tabernacle that is in their midst.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	15	32	This is the law for him who has a discharge and for him who has an emission of semen, becoming unclean thereby;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	15	33	also for her who is sick with her impurity; that is, for any one, male or female, who has a discharge, and for the man who lies with a woman who is unclean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	16	1	The Lord spoke to Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near before the Lord and died;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	16	2	and the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at all times into the holy place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is upon the ark, lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	16	3	But thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	16	4	He shall put on the holy linen coat, and shall have the linen breeches on his body, be girded with the linen girdle, and wear the linen turban; these are the holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water, and then put them on.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	16	5	And he shall take from the congregation of the people of Israel two male goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	16	6	“And Aaron shall offer the bull as a sin offering for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	16	7	Then he shall take the two goats, and set them before the Lord at the door of the tent of meeting;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	16	8	and Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats, one lot for the Lord and the other lot for Azazel.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	16	9	And Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot fell for the Lord, and offer it as a sin offering;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	16	10	but the goat on which the lot fell for Azazel shall be presented alive before the Lord to make atonement over it, that it may be sent away into the wilderness to Azazel.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	16	11	“Aaron shall present the bull as a sin offering for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house; he shall kill the bull as a sin offering for himself.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	16	12	And he shall take a censer full of coals of fire from the altar before the Lord, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small; and he shall bring it within the veil
 Leviticus	Lev	3	16	13	and put the incense on the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat which is upon the testimony, lest he die;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	16	14	and he shall take some of the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it with his finger on the front of the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle the blood with his finger seven times.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	16	15	“Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering which is for the people, and bring its blood within the veil, and do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bull, sprinkling it upon the mercy seat and before the mercy seat;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	16	16	thus he shall make atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleannesses of the people of Israel, and because of their transgressions, all their sins; and so he shall do for the tent of meeting, which abides with them in the midst of their uncleannesses.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	16	17	There shall be no man in the tent of meeting when he enters to make atonement in the holy place until he comes out and has made atonement for himself and for his house and for all the assembly of Israel.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	16	18	Then he shall go out to the altar which is before the Lord and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the blood of the bull and of the blood of the goat, and put it on the horns of the altar round about.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	16	19	And he shall sprinkle some of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it and hallow it from the uncleannesses of the people of Israel.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	16	20	“And when he has made an end of atoning for the holy place and the tent of meeting and the altar, he shall present the live goat;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	16	21	and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the people of Israel, and all their transgressions, all their sins; and he shall put them upon the head of the goat, and send him away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is in readiness.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	16	22	The goat shall bear all their iniquities upon him to a solitary land; and he shall let the goat go in the wilderness.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	16	23	“Then Aaron shall come into the tent of meeting, and shall put off the linen garments which he put on when he went into the holy place, and shall leave them there;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	16	24	and he shall bathe his body in water in a holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	16	25	And the fat of the sin offering he shall burn upon the altar.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	16	26	And he who lets the goat go to Azazel shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	16	27	And the bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall be carried forth outside the camp; their skin and their flesh and their dung shall be burned with fire.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	16	28	And he who burns them shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	16	29	“And it shall be a statute to you for ever that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict yourselves, and shall do no work, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	16	30	for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins you shall be clean before the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	16	31	It is a sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; it is a statute for ever.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	16	32	And the priest who is anointed and consecrated as priest in his father’s place shall make atonement, wearing the holy linen garments;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	16	33	he shall make atonement for the sanctuary, and he shall make atonement for the tent of meeting and for the altar, and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	16	34	And this shall be an everlasting statute for you, that atonement may be made for the people of Israel once in the year because of all their sins.” And Moses did as the Lord commanded him.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	17	1	And the Lord said to Moses,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	17	2	“Say to Aaron and his sons, and to all the people of Israel, This is the thing which the Lord has commanded.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	17	3	If any man of the house of Israel kills an ox or a lamb or a goat in the camp, or kills it outside the camp,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	17	4	and does not bring it to the door of the tent of meeting, to offer it as a gift to the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord, bloodguilt shall be imputed to that man; he has shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	17	5	This is to the end that the people of Israel may bring their sacrifices which they slay in the open field, that they may bring them to the Lord, to the priest at the door of the tent of meeting, and slay them as sacrifices of peace offerings to the Lord;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	17	6	and the priest shall sprinkle the blood on the altar of the Lord at the door of the tent of meeting, and burn the fat for a pleasing odor to the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	17	7	So they shall no more slay their sacrifices for satyrs, after whom they play the harlot. This shall be a statute for ever to them throughout their generations.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	17	8	“And you shall say to them, Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	17	9	and does not bring it to the door of the tent of meeting, to sacrifice it to the Lord; that man shall be cut off from his people.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	17	10	“If any man of the house of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	17	11	For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it for you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement, by reason of the life.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	17	12	Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	17	13	Any man also of the people of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten shall pour out its blood and cover it with dust.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	17	14	“For the life of every creature is the blood of it; therefore I have said to the people of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	17	15	And every person that eats what dies of itself or what is torn by beasts, whether he is a native or a sojourner, shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening; then he shall be clean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	17	16	But if he does not wash them or bathe his flesh, he shall bear his iniquity.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	18	1	And the Lord said to Moses,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	18	2	“Say to the people of Israel, I am the Lord your God.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	18	3	You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you dwelt, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	18	4	You shall do my ordinances and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	18	5	You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, by doing which a man shall live: I am the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	18	6	“None of you shall approach any one near of kin to him to uncover nakedness. I am the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	18	7	You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother, you shall not uncover her nakedness.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	18	8	You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	18	9	You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home or born abroad.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	18	10	You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son’s daughter or of your daughter’s daughter, for their nakedness is your own nakedness.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	18	11	You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, begotten by your father, since she is your sister.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	18	12	You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister; she is your father’s near kinswoman.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	18	13	You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s near kinswoman.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	18	14	You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother, that is, you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	18	15	You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	18	16	You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; she is your brother’s nakedness.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	18	17	You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, and you shall not take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are your near kinswomen; it is wickedness.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	18	18	And you shall not take a woman as a rival wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is yet alive.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	18	19	“You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	18	20	And you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife, and defile yourself with her.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	18	21	You shall not give any of your children to devote them by fire to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	18	22	You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	18	23	And you shall not lie with any beast and defile yourself with it, neither shall any woman give herself to a beast to lie with it: it is perversion.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	18	24	“Do not defile yourselves by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am casting out before you defiled themselves;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	18	25	and the land became defiled, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	18	26	But you shall keep my statutes and my ordinances and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you
 Leviticus	Lev	3	18	27	(for all of these abominations the men of the land did, who were before you, so that the land became defiled);
 Leviticus	Lev	3	18	28	lest the land vomit you out, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	18	29	For whoever shall do any of these abominations, the persons that do them shall be cut off from among their people.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	18	30	So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable customs which were practiced before you, and never to defile yourselves by them: I am the Lord your God.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	1	And the Lord said to Moses,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	2	“Say to all the congregation of the people of Israel, You shall be holy; for I the Lord your God am holy.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	3	Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	4	Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	5	“When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	6	It shall be eaten the same day you offer it, or on the morrow; and anything left over until the third day shall be burned with fire.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	7	If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination; it will not be accepted,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	8	and every one who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned a holy thing of the Lord; and that person shall be cut off from his people.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	9	“When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field to its very border, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	10	And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	11	“You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	12	And you shall not swear by my name falsely, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	13	“You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	14	You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	15	“You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	16	You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand forth against the life of your neighbor: I am the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	17	“You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason with your neighbor, lest you bear sin because of him.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	18	You shall not take vengeance or bear any grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	19	“You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; nor shall there come upon you a garment of cloth made of two kinds of stuff.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	20	“If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave, betrothed to another man and not yet ransomed or given her freedom, an inquiry shall be held. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	21	but he shall bring a guilt offering for himself to the Lord, to the door of the tent of meeting, a ram for a guilt offering.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	22	And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before the Lord for his sin which he has committed; and the sin which he has committed shall be forgiven him.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	23	“When you come into the land and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden; three years it shall be forbidden to you, it must not be eaten.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	24	And in the fourth year all their fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	25	But in the fifth year you may eat of their fruit, that they may yield more richly for you: I am the Lord your God.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	26	“You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not practice augury or witchcraft.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	27	You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	28	You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh on account of the dead or tattoo any marks upon you: I am the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	29	“Do not profane your daughter by making her a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry and the land become full of wickedness.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	30	You shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	31	“Do not turn to mediums or wizards; do not seek them out, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	32	“You shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	33	“When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	34	The stranger who sojourns with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	35	“You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	36	You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	19	37	And you shall observe all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them: I am the Lord.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	20	1	The Lord said to Moses,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	20	2	“Say to the people of Israel, Any man of the people of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, who gives any of his children to Molech shall be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	20	3	I myself will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given one of his children to Molech, defiling my sanctuary and profaning my holy name.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	20	4	And if the people of the land do at all hide their eyes from that man, when he gives one of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	20	5	then I will set my face against that man and against his family, and will cut them off from among their people, him and all who follow him in playing the harlot after Molech.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	20	6	“If a person turns to mediums and wizards, playing the harlot after them, I will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	20	7	Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am the Lord your God.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	20	8	Keep my statutes, and do them; I am the Lord who sanctify you.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	20	9	For every one who curses his father or his mother shall be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother, his blood is upon him.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	20	10	“If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	20	11	The man who lies with his father’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness; both of them shall be put to death, their blood is upon them.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	20	12	If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall be put to death; they have committed incest, their blood is upon them.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	20	13	If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	20	14	If a man takes a wife and her mother also, it is wickedness; they shall be burned with fire, both he and they, that there may be no wickedness among you.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	20	15	If a man lies with a beast, he shall be put to death; and you shall kill the beast.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	20	16	If a woman approaches any beast and lies with it, you shall kill the woman and the beast; they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	20	17	“If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a shameful thing, and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people; he has uncovered his sister’s nakedness, he shall bear his iniquity.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	20	18	If a man lies with a woman having her sickness, and uncovers her nakedness, he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood; both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	20	19	You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister or of your father’s sister, for that is to make naked one’s near kin; they shall bear their iniquity.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	20	20	If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness; they shall bear their sin, they shall die childless.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	20	21	If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is impurity; he has uncovered his brother’s nakedness, they shall be childless.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	20	22	“You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them; that the land where I am bringing you to dwell may not vomit you out.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	20	23	And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	20	24	But I have said to you, ‘You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.’ I am the Lord your God, who have separated you from the peoples.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	20	25	You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean; you shall not make yourselves abominable by beast or by bird or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	20	26	You shall be holy to me; for I the Lord am holy, and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	20	27	“A man or a woman who is a medium or a wizard shall be put to death; they shall be stoned with stones, their blood shall be upon them.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	21	1	And the Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them that none of them shall defile himself for the dead among his people,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	21	2	except for his nearest of kin, his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	21	3	or his virgin sister (who is near to him because she has had no husband; for her he may defile himself).
 Leviticus	Lev	3	21	4	He shall not defile himself as a husband among his people and so profane himself.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	21	5	They shall not make tonsures upon their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	21	6	They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God; for they offer the offerings by fire to the Lord, the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	21	7	They shall not marry a harlot or a woman who has been defiled; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband; for the priest is holy to his God.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	21	8	You shall consecrate him, for he offers the bread of your God; he shall be holy to you; for I the Lord, who sanctify you, am holy.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	21	9	And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the harlot, profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	21	10	“The priest who is chief among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and who has been consecrated to wear the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose, nor rend his clothes;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	21	11	he shall not go in to any dead body, nor defile himself, even for his father or for his mother;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	21	12	neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	21	13	And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	21	14	A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a harlot, these he shall not marry; but he shall take to wife a virgin of his own people,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	21	15	that he may not profane his children among his people; for I am the Lord who sanctify him.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	21	16	And the Lord said to Moses,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	21	17	“Say to Aaron, None of your descendants throughout their generations who has a blemish may approach to offer the bread of his God.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	21	18	For no one who has a blemish shall draw near, a man blind or lame, or one who has a mutilated face or a limb too long,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	21	19	or a man who has an injured foot or an injured hand,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	21	20	or a hunchback, or a dwarf, or a man with a defect in his sight or an itching disease or scabs or crushed testicles;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	21	21	no man of the descendants of Aaron the priest who has a blemish shall come near to offer the Lord’s offerings by fire; since he has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	21	22	He may eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy things,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	21	23	but he shall not come near the veil or approach the altar, because he has a blemish, that he may not profane my sanctuaries; for I am the Lord who sanctify them.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	21	24	So Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the people of Israel.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	22	1	And the Lord said to Moses,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	22	2	“Tell Aaron and his sons to keep away from the holy things of the people of Israel, which they dedicate to me, so that they may not profane my holy name; I am the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	22	3	Say to them, ‘If any one of all your descendants throughout your generations approaches the holy things, which the people of Israel dedicate to the Lord, while he has an uncleanness, that person shall be cut off from my presence: I am the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	22	4	None of the line of Aaron who is a leper or suffers a discharge may eat of the holy things until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean through contact with the dead or a man who has had an emission of semen,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	22	5	and whoever touches a creeping thing by which he may be made unclean or a man from whom he may take uncleanness, whatever his uncleanness may be—
 Leviticus	Lev	3	22	6	the person who touches any such shall be unclean until the evening and shall not eat of the holy things unless he has bathed his body in water.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	22	7	When the sun is down he shall be clean; and afterward he may eat of the holy things, because such are his food.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	22	8	That which dies of itself or is torn by beasts he shall not eat, defiling himself by it: I am the Lord.’
 Leviticus	Lev	3	22	9	They shall therefore keep my charge, lest they bear sin for it and die thereby when they profane it: I am the Lord who sanctify them.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	22	10	“An outsider shall not eat of a holy thing. A sojourner of the priest’s or a hired servant shall not eat of a holy thing;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	22	11	but if a priest buys a slave as his property for money, the slave may eat of it; and those that are born in his house may eat of his food.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	22	12	If a priest’s daughter is married to an outsider she shall not eat of the offering of the holy things.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	22	13	But if a priest’s daughter is a widow or divorced, and has no child, and returns to her father’s house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s food; yet no outsider shall eat of it.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	22	14	And if a man eats of a holy thing unwittingly, he shall add the fifth of its value to it, and give the holy thing to the priest.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	22	15	The priests shall not profane the holy things of the people of Israel, which they offer to the Lord,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	22	16	and so cause them to bear iniquity and guilt, by eating their holy things: for I am the Lord who sanctify them.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	22	17	And the Lord said to Moses,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	22	18	“Say to Aaron and his sons and all the people of Israel, When any one of the house of Israel or of the sojourners in Israel presents his offering, whether in payment of a vow or as a freewill offering which is offered to the Lord as a burnt offering,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	22	19	to be accepted you shall offer a male without blemish, of the bulls or the sheep or the goats.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	22	20	You shall not offer anything that has a blemish, for it will not be acceptable for you.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	22	21	And when any one offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, to fulfil a vow or as a freewill offering, from the herd or from the flock, to be accepted it must be perfect; there shall be no blemish in it.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	22	22	Animals blind or disabled or mutilated or having a discharge or an itch or scabs, you shall not offer to the Lord or make of them an offering by fire upon the altar to the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	22	23	A bull or a lamb which has a part too long or too short you may present for a freewill offering; but for a votive offering it cannot be accepted.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	22	24	Any animal which has its testicles bruised or crushed or torn or cut, you shall not offer to the Lord or sacrifice within your land;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	22	25	neither shall you offer as the bread of your God any such animals gotten from a foreigner. Since there is a blemish in them, because of their mutilation, they will not be accepted for you.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	22	26	And the Lord said to Moses,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	22	27	“When a bull or sheep or goat is born, it shall remain seven days with its mother; and from the eighth day on it shall be acceptable as an offering by fire to the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	22	28	And whether the mother is a cow or a ewe, you shall not kill both her and her young in one day.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	22	29	And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	22	30	It shall be eaten on the same day, you shall leave none of it until morning: I am the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	22	31	“So you shall keep my commandments and do them: I am the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	22	32	And you shall not profane my holy name, but I will be hallowed among the people of Israel; I am the Lord who sanctify you,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	22	33	who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am the Lord.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	1	The Lord said to Moses,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	2	“Say to the people of Israel, The appointed feasts of the Lord which you shall proclaim as holy convocations, my appointed feasts, are these.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	3	Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no work; it is a sabbath to the Lord in all your dwellings.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	4	“These are the appointed feasts of the Lord, the holy convocations, which you shall proclaim at the time appointed for them.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	5	In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is the Lord’s passover.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	6	And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to the Lord; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	7	On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	8	But you shall present an offering by fire to the Lord seven days; on the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	9	And the Lord said to Moses,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	10	“Say to the people of Israel, When you come into the land which I give you and reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	11	and he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, that you may find acceptance; on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	12	And on the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb a year old without blemish as a burnt offering to the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	13	And the cereal offering with it shall be two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, to be offered by fire to the Lord, a pleasing odor; and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, a fourth of a hin.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	14	And you shall eat neither bread nor grain parched or fresh until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God: it is a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	15	“And you shall count from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven full weeks shall they be,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	16	counting fifty days to the morrow after the seventh sabbath; then you shall present a cereal offering of new grain to the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	17	You shall bring from your dwellings two loaves of bread to be waved, made of two tenths of an ephah; they shall be of fine flour, they shall be baked with leaven, as first fruits to the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	18	And you shall present with the bread seven lambs a year old without blemish, and one young bull, and two rams; they shall be a burnt offering to the Lord, with their cereal offering and their drink offerings, an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	19	And you shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old as a sacrifice of peace offerings.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	20	And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits as a wave offering before the Lord, with the two lambs; they shall be holy to the Lord for the priest.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	21	And you shall make proclamation on the same day; you shall hold a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work: it is a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	22	“And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field to its very border, nor shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest; you shall leave them for the poor and for the stranger: I am the Lord your God.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	23	And the Lord said to Moses,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	24	“Say to the people of Israel, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a day of solemn rest, a memorial proclaimed with blast of trumpets, a holy convocation.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	25	You shall do no laborious work; and you shall present an offering by fire to the Lord.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	26	And the Lord said to Moses,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	27	“On the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement; it shall be for you a time of holy convocation, and you shall afflict yourselves and present an offering by fire to the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	28	And you shall do no work on this same day; for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before the Lord your God.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	29	For whoever is not afflicted on this same day shall be cut off from his people.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	30	And whoever does any work on this same day, that person I will destroy from among his people.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	31	You shall do no work: it is a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	32	It shall be to you a sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict yourselves; on the ninth day of the month beginning at evening, from evening to evening shall you keep your sabbath.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	33	And the Lord said to Moses,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	34	“Say to the people of Israel, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the feast of booths to the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	35	On the first day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	36	Seven days you shall present offerings by fire to the Lord; on the eighth day you shall hold a holy convocation and present an offering by fire to the Lord; it is a solemn assembly; you shall do no laborious work.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	37	“These are the appointed feasts of the Lord, which you shall proclaim as times of holy convocation, for presenting to the Lord offerings by fire, burnt offerings and cereal offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its proper day;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	38	besides the sabbaths of the Lord, and besides your gifts, and besides all your votive offerings, and besides all your freewill offerings, which you give to the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	39	“On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall keep the feast of the Lord seven days; on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	40	And you shall take on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	41	You shall keep it as a feast to the Lord seven days in the year; it is a statute for ever throughout your generations; you shall keep it in the seventh month.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	42	You shall dwell in booths for seven days; all that are native in Israel shall dwell in booths,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	43	that your generations may know that I made the people of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	23	44	Thus Moses declared to the people of Israel the appointed feasts of the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	24	1	The Lord said to Moses,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	24	2	“Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil from beaten olives for the lamp, that a light may be kept burning continually.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	24	3	Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning before the Lord continually; it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	24	4	He shall keep the lamps in order upon the lampstand of pure gold before the Lord continually.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	24	5	“And you shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it; two tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	24	6	And you shall set them in two rows, six in a row, upon the table of pure gold.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	24	7	And you shall put pure frankincense with each row, that it may go with the bread as a memorial portion to be offered by fire to the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	24	8	Every sabbath day Aaron shall set it in order before the Lord continually on behalf of the people of Israel as a covenant for ever.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	24	9	And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, since it is for him a most holy portion out of the offerings by fire to the Lord, a perpetual due.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	24	10	Now an Israelite woman’s son, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the people of Israel; and the Israelite woman’s son and a man of Israel quarreled in the camp,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	24	11	and the Israelite woman’s son blasphemed the Name, and cursed. And they brought him to Moses. His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	24	12	And they put him in custody, till the will of the Lord should be declared to them.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	24	13	And the Lord said to Moses,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	24	14	“Bring out of the camp him who cursed; and let all who heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	24	15	And say to the people of Israel, Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	24	16	He who blasphemes the name of the Lord shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him; the sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	24	17	He who kills a man shall be put to death.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	24	18	He who kills a beast shall make it good, life for life.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	24	19	When a man causes a disfigurement in his neighbor, as he has done it shall be done to him,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	24	20	fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has disfigured a man, he shall be disfigured.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	24	21	He who kills a beast shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	24	22	You shall have one law for the sojourner and for the native; for I am the Lord your God.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	24	23	So Moses spoke to the people of Israel; and they brought him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. Thus the people of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	1	The Lord said to Moses on Mount Sinai,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	2	“Say to the people of Israel, When you come into the land which I give you, the land shall keep a sabbath to the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	3	Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruits;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	4	but in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to the Lord; you shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	5	What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your undressed vine you shall not gather; it shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	6	The sabbath of the land shall provide food for you, for yourself and for your male and female slaves and for your hired servant and the sojourner who lives with you;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	7	for your cattle also and for the beasts that are in your land all its yield shall be for food.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	8	“And you shall count seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of the seven weeks of years shall be to you forty-nine years.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	9	Then you shall send abroad the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of atonement you shall send abroad the trumpet throughout all your land.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	10	And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants; it shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of you shall return to his family.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	11	A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be to you; in it you shall neither sow, nor reap what grows of itself, nor gather the grapes from the undressed vines.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	12	For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you; you shall eat what it yields out of the field.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	13	“In this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his property.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	14	And if you sell to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	15	According to the number of years after the jubilee, you shall buy from your neighbor, and according to the number of years for crops he shall sell to you.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	16	If the years are many you shall increase the price, and if the years are few you shall diminish the price, for it is the number of the crops that he is selling to you.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	17	You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the Lord your God.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	18	“Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and perform them; so you will dwell in the land securely.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	19	The land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill, and dwell in it securely.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	20	And if you say, ‘What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we may not sow or gather in our crop?’
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	21	I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that it will bring forth fruit for three years.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	22	When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating old produce; until the ninth year, when its produce comes in, you shall eat the old.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	23	The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with me.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	24	And in all the country you possess, you shall grant a redemption of the land.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	25	“If your brother becomes poor, and sells part of his property, then his next of kin shall come and redeem what his brother has sold.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	26	If a man has no one to redeem it, and then himself becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	27	let him reckon the years since he sold it and pay back the overpayment to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	28	But if he has not sufficient means to get it back for himself, then what he sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the year of jubilee; in the jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	29	“If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, he may redeem it within a whole year after its sale; for a full year he shall have the right of redemption.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	30	If it is not redeemed within a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him who bought it, throughout his generations; it shall not be released in the jubilee.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	31	But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country; they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the jubilee.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	32	Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	33	And if one of the Levites does not exercise his right of redemption, then the house that was sold in a city of their possession shall be released in the jubilee; for the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the people of Israel.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	34	But the fields of common land belonging to their cities may not be sold; for that is their perpetual possession.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	35	“And if your brother becomes poor, and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall maintain him; as a stranger and a sojourner he shall live with you.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	36	Take no interest from him or increase, but fear your God; that your brother may live beside you.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	37	You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	38	I am the Lord your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	39	“And if your brother becomes poor beside you, and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	40	he shall be with you as a hired servant and as a sojourner. He shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	41	then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his own family, and return to the possession of his fathers.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	42	For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	43	You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	44	As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are round about you.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	45	You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their families that are with you, who have been born in your land; and they may be your property.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	46	You may bequeath them to your sons after you, to inherit as a possession for ever; you may make slaves of them, but over your brethren the people of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	47	“If a stranger or sojourner with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him becomes poor and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner with you, or to a member of the stranger’s family,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	48	then after he is sold he may be redeemed; one of his brothers may redeem him,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	49	or his uncle, or his cousin may redeem him, or a near kinsman belonging to his family may redeem him; or if he grows rich he may redeem himself.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	50	He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year when he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the price of his release shall be according to the number of years; the time he was with his owner shall be rated as the time of a hired servant.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	51	If there are still many years, according to them he shall refund out of the price paid for him the price for his redemption.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	52	If there remain but a few years until the year of jubilee, he shall make a reckoning with him; according to the years of service due from him he shall refund the money for his redemption.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	53	As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him; he shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	54	And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the year of jubilee, he and his children with him.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	25	55	For to me the people of Israel are servants, they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	1	“You shall make for yourselves no idols and erect no graven image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land, to bow down to them; for I am the Lord your God.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	2	You shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	3	“If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	4	then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	5	And your threshing shall last to the time of vintage, and the vintage shall last to the time for sowing; and you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land securely.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	6	And I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid; and I will remove evil beasts from the land, and the sword shall not go through your land.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	7	And you shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	8	Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	9	And I will have regard for you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and will confirm my covenant with you.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	10	And you shall eat old store long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	11	And I will make my abode among you, and my soul shall not abhor you.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	12	And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you shall be my people.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	13	I am the Lord your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves; and I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	14	“But if you will not hearken to me, and will not do all these commandments,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	15	if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	16	I will do this to you: I will appoint over you sudden terror, consumption, and fever that waste the eyes and cause life to pine away. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	17	I will set my face against you, and you shall be smitten before your enemies; those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when none pursues you.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	18	And if in spite of this you will not hearken to me, then I will chastise you again sevenfold for your sins,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	19	and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like brass;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	20	and your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	21	“Then if you walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to me, I will bring more plagues upon you, sevenfold as many as your sins.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	22	And I will let loose the wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number, so that your ways shall become desolate.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	23	“And if by this discipline you are not turned to me, but walk contrary to me,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	24	then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will smite you sevenfold for your sins.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	25	And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant; and if you gather within your cities I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	26	When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and shall deliver your bread again by weight; and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	27	“And if in spite of this you will not hearken to me, but walk contrary to me,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	28	then I will walk contrary to you in fury, and chastise you myself sevenfold for your sins.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	29	You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	30	And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	31	And I will lay your cities waste, and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing odors.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	32	And I will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be astonished at it.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	33	And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you; and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	34	“Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its sabbaths.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	35	As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, the rest which it had not in your sabbaths when you dwelt upon it.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	36	And as for those of you that are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	37	They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues; and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	38	And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	39	And those of you that are left shall pine away in your enemies’ lands because of their iniquity; and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away like them.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	40	“But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery which they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	41	so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	42	then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	43	But the land shall be left by them, and enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	44	Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them; for I am the Lord their God;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	45	but I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	26	46	These are the statutes and ordinances and laws which the Lord made between him and the people of Israel on Mount Sinai by Moses.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	27	1	The Lord said to Moses,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	27	2	“Say to the people of Israel, When a man makes a special vow of persons to the Lord at your valuation,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	27	3	then your valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	27	4	If the person is a female, your valuation shall be thirty shekels.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	27	5	If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, your valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	27	6	If the person is from a month old up to five years old, your valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	27	7	And if the person is sixty years old and upward, then your valuation for a male shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	27	8	And if a man is too poor to pay your valuation, then he shall bring the person before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability of him who vowed the priest shall value him.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	27	9	“If it is an animal such as men offer as an offering to the Lord, all of such that any man gives to the Lord is holy.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	27	10	He shall not substitute anything for it or exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; and if he makes any exchange of beast for beast, then both it and that for which it is exchanged shall be holy.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	27	11	And if it is an unclean animal such as is not offered as an offering to the Lord, then the man shall bring the animal before the priest,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	27	12	and the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as you, the priest, value it, so it shall be.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	27	13	But if he wishes to redeem it, he shall add a fifth to the valuation.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	27	14	“When a man dedicates his house to be holy to the Lord, the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	27	15	And if he who dedicates it wishes to redeem his house, he shall add a fifth of the valuation in money to it, and it shall be his.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	27	16	“If a man dedicates to the Lord part of the land which is his by inheritance, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it; a sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	27	17	If he dedicates his field from the year of jubilee, it shall stand at your full valuation;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	27	18	but if he dedicates his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall compute the money-value for it according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and a deduction shall be made from your valuation.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	27	19	And if he who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, then he shall add a fifth of the valuation in money to it, and it shall remain his.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	27	20	But if he does not wish to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more;
 Leviticus	Lev	3	27	21	but the field, when it is released in the jubilee, shall be holy to the Lord, as a field that has been devoted; the priest shall be in possession of it.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	27	22	If he dedicates to the Lord a field which he has bought, which is not a part of his possession by inheritance,
 Leviticus	Lev	3	27	23	then the priest shall compute the valuation for it up to the year of jubilee, and the man shall give the amount of the valuation on that day as a holy thing to the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	27	24	In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession by inheritance.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	27	25	Every valuation shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall make a shekel.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	27	26	“But a firstling of animals, which as a firstling belongs to the Lord, no man may dedicate; whether ox or sheep, it is the Lord’s.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	27	27	And if it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back at your valuation, and add a fifth to it; or, if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at your valuation.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	27	28	“But no devoted thing that a man devotes to the Lord, of anything that he has, whether of man or beast, or of his inherited field, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	27	29	No one devoted, who is to be utterly destroyed from among men, shall be ransomed; he shall be put to death.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	27	30	“All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the Lord’s; it is holy to the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	27	31	If a man wishes to redeem any of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	27	32	And all the tithe of herds and flocks, every tenth animal of all that pass under the herdsman’s staff, shall be holy to the Lord.
 Leviticus	Lev	3	27	33	A man shall not inquire whether it is good or bad, neither shall he exchange it; and if he exchanges it, then both it and that for which it is exchanged shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.”
 Leviticus	Lev	3	27	34	These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses for the people of Israel on Mount Sinai.
 Numbers	Num	4	1	1	The Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
 Numbers	Num	4	1	2	“Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by families, by fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head;
 Numbers	Num	4	1	3	from twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go forth to war, you and Aaron shall number them, company by company.
 Numbers	Num	4	1	4	And there shall be with you a man from each tribe, each man being the head of the house of his fathers.
 Numbers	Num	4	1	5	And these are the names of the men who shall attend you. From Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur;
 Numbers	Num	4	1	6	from Simeon, Shelumi-el the son of Zurishaddai;
 Numbers	Num	4	1	7	from Judah, Nahshon the son of Amminadab;
 Numbers	Num	4	1	8	from Issachar, Nethanel the son of Zuar;
 Numbers	Num	4	1	9	from Zebulun, Eliab the son of Helon;
 Numbers	Num	4	1	10	from the sons of Joseph, from Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud, and from Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur;
 Numbers	Num	4	1	11	from Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gideoni;
 Numbers	Num	4	1	12	from Dan, Ahi-ezer the son of Ammishaddai;
 Numbers	Num	4	1	13	from Asher, Pagiel the son of Ochran;
 Numbers	Num	4	1	14	from Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel;
 Numbers	Num	4	1	15	from Naphtali, Ahira the son of Enan.”
 Numbers	Num	4	1	16	These were the ones chosen from the congregation, the leaders of their ancestral tribes, the heads of the clans of Israel.
 Numbers	Num	4	1	17	Moses and Aaron took these men who have been named,
 Numbers	Num	4	1	18	and on the first day of the second month, they assembled the whole congregation together, who registered themselves by families, by fathers’ houses, according to the number of names from twenty years old and upward, head by head,
 Numbers	Num	4	1	19	as the Lord commanded Moses. So he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
 Numbers	Num	4	1	20	The people of Reuben, Israel’s first-born, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war:
 Numbers	Num	4	1	21	the number of the tribe of Reuben was forty-six thousand five hundred.
 Numbers	Num	4	1	22	Of the people of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, those of them that were numbered, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war:
 Numbers	Num	4	1	23	the number of the tribe of Simeon was fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
 Numbers	Num	4	1	24	Of the people of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war:
 Numbers	Num	4	1	25	the number of the tribe of Gad was forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.
 Numbers	Num	4	1	26	Of the people of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go forth to war:
 Numbers	Num	4	1	27	the number of the tribe of Judah was seventy-four thousand six hundred.
 Numbers	Num	4	1	28	Of the people of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go forth to war:
 Numbers	Num	4	1	29	the number of the tribe of Issachar was fifty-four thousand four hundred.
 Numbers	Num	4	1	30	Of the people of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go forth to war:
 Numbers	Num	4	1	31	the number of the tribe of Zebulun was fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
 Numbers	Num	4	1	32	Of the people of Joseph, namely, of the people of Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go forth to war:
 Numbers	Num	4	1	33	the number of the tribe of Ephraim was forty thousand five hundred.
 Numbers	Num	4	1	34	Of the people of Manasseh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go forth to war:
 Numbers	Num	4	1	35	the number of the tribe of Manasseh was thirty-two thousand two hundred.
 Numbers	Num	4	1	36	Of the people of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go forth to war:
 Numbers	Num	4	1	37	the number of the tribe of Benjamin was thirty-five thousand four hundred.
 Numbers	Num	4	1	38	Of the people of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go forth to war:
 Numbers	Num	4	1	39	the number of the tribe of Dan was sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
 Numbers	Num	4	1	40	Of the people of Asher, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go forth to war:
 Numbers	Num	4	1	41	the number of the tribe of Asher was forty-one thousand five hundred.
 Numbers	Num	4	1	42	Of the people of Naphtali, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go forth to war:
 Numbers	Num	4	1	43	the number of the tribe of Naphtali was fifty-three thousand four hundred.
 Numbers	Num	4	1	44	These are those who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered with the help of the leaders of Israel, twelve men, each representing his fathers’ house.
 Numbers	Num	4	1	45	So the whole number of the people of Israel, by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go forth to war in Israel—
 Numbers	Num	4	1	46	their whole number was six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.
 Numbers	Num	4	1	47	But the Levites were not numbered by their ancestral tribe along with them.
 Numbers	Num	4	1	48	For the Lord said to Moses,
 Numbers	Num	4	1	49	“Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, and you shall not take a census of them among the people of Israel;
 Numbers	Num	4	1	50	but appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it; they are to carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings, and they shall tend it, and shall encamp around the tabernacle.
 Numbers	Num	4	1	51	When the tabernacle is to set out, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up. And if any one else comes near, he shall be put to death.
 Numbers	Num	4	1	52	The people of Israel shall pitch their tents by their companies, every man by his own camp and every man by his own standard;
 Numbers	Num	4	1	53	but the Levites shall encamp around the tabernacle of the testimony, that there may be no wrath upon the congregation of the people of Israel; and the Levites shall keep charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.”
 Numbers	Num	4	1	54	Thus did the people of Israel; they did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses.
 Numbers	Num	4	2	1	The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
 Numbers	Num	4	2	2	“The people of Israel shall encamp each by his own standard, with the ensigns of their fathers’ houses; they shall encamp facing the tent of meeting on every side.
 Numbers	Num	4	2	3	Those to encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah by their companies, the leader of the people of Judah being Nahshon the son of Amminadab,
 Numbers	Num	4	2	4	his host as numbered being seventy-four thousand six hundred.
 Numbers	Num	4	2	5	Those to encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar, the leader of the people of Issachar being Nethanel the son of Zuar,
 Numbers	Num	4	2	6	his host as numbered being fifty-four thousand four hundred.
 Numbers	Num	4	2	7	Then the tribe of Zebulun, the leader of the people of Zebulun being Eliab the son of Helon,
 Numbers	Num	4	2	8	his host as numbered being fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
 Numbers	Num	4	2	9	The whole number of the camp of Judah, by their companies, is a hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred. They shall set out first on the march.
 Numbers	Num	4	2	10	“On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben by their companies, the leader of the people of Reuben being Elizur the son of Shedeur,
 Numbers	Num	4	2	11	his host as numbered being forty-six thousand five hundred.
 Numbers	Num	4	2	12	And those to encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon, the leader of the people of Simeon being Shelumi-el the son of Zurishaddai,
 Numbers	Num	4	2	13	his host as numbered being fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
 Numbers	Num	4	2	14	Then the tribe of Gad, the leader of the people of Gad being Eliasaph the son of Reuel,
 Numbers	Num	4	2	15	his host as numbered being forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.
 Numbers	Num	4	2	16	The whole number of the camp of Reuben, by their companies, is a hundred and fifty-one thousand four hundred and fifty. They shall set out second.
 Numbers	Num	4	2	17	“Then the tent of meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps; as they encamp, so shall they set out, each in position, standard by standard.
 Numbers	Num	4	2	18	“On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim by their companies, the leader of the people of Ephraim being Elishama the son of Ammihud,
 Numbers	Num	4	2	19	his host as numbered being forty thousand five hundred.
 Numbers	Num	4	2	20	And next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh, the leader of the people of Manasseh being Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur,
 Numbers	Num	4	2	21	his host as numbered being thirty-two thousand two hundred.
 Numbers	Num	4	2	22	Then the tribe of Benjamin, the leader of the people of Benjamin being Abidan the son of Gideoni,
 Numbers	Num	4	2	23	his host as numbered being thirty-five thousand four hundred.
 Numbers	Num	4	2	24	The whole number of the camp of Ephraim, by their companies, is a hundred and eight thousand one hundred. They shall set out third on the march.
 Numbers	Num	4	2	25	“On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan by their companies, the leader of the people of Dan being Ahi-ezer the son of Ammishaddai,
 Numbers	Num	4	2	26	his host as numbered being sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
 Numbers	Num	4	2	27	And those to encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Asher, the leader of the people of Asher being Pagiel the son of Ochran,
 Numbers	Num	4	2	28	his host as numbered being forty-one thousand five hundred.
 Numbers	Num	4	2	29	Then the tribe of Naphtali, the leader of the people of Naphtali being Ahira the son of Enan,
 Numbers	Num	4	2	30	his host as numbered being fifty-three thousand four hundred.
 Numbers	Num	4	2	31	The whole number of the camp of Dan is a hundred and fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall set out last, standard by standard.”
 Numbers	Num	4	2	32	These are the people of Israel as numbered by their fathers’ houses; all in the camps who were numbered by their companies were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.
 Numbers	Num	4	2	33	But the Levites were not numbered among the people of Israel, as the Lord commanded Moses.
 Numbers	Num	4	2	34	Thus did the people of Israel. According to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards, and so they set out, every one in his family, according to his fathers’ house.
 Numbers	Num	4	3	1	These are the generations of Aaron and Moses at the time when the Lord spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.
 Numbers	Num	4	3	2	These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the first-born, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar;
 Numbers	Num	4	3	3	these are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whom he ordained to minister in the priest’s office.
 Numbers	Num	4	3	4	But Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord when they offered unholy fire before the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai; and they had no children. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests in the lifetime of Aaron their father.
 Numbers	Num	4	3	5	And the Lord said to Moses,
 Numbers	Num	4	3	6	“Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him.
 Numbers	Num	4	3	7	They shall perform duties for him and for the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, as they minister at the tabernacle;
 Numbers	Num	4	3	8	they shall have charge of all the furnishings of the tent of meeting, and attend to the duties for the people of Israel as they minister at the tabernacle.
 Numbers	Num	4	3	9	And you shall give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they are wholly given to him from among the people of Israel.
 Numbers	Num	4	3	10	And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall attend to their priesthood; but if any one else comes near, he shall be put to death.”
 Numbers	Num	4	3	11	And the Lord said to Moses,
 Numbers	Num	4	3	12	“Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the people of Israel instead of every first-born that opens the womb among the people of Israel. The Levites shall be mine,
 Numbers	Num	4	3	13	for all the first-born are mine; on the day that I slew all the first-born in the land of Egypt, I consecrated for my own all the first-born in Israel, both of man and of beast; they shall be mine: I am the Lord.”
 Numbers	Num	4	3	14	And the Lord said to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai,
 Numbers	Num	4	3	15	“Number the sons of Levi, by fathers’ houses and by families; every male from a month old and upward you shall number.”
 Numbers	Num	4	3	16	So Moses numbered them according to the word of the Lord, as he was commanded.
 Numbers	Num	4	3	17	And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon and Kohath and Merari.
 Numbers	Num	4	3	18	And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shime-i.
 Numbers	Num	4	3	19	And the sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
 Numbers	Num	4	3	20	And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites, by their fathers’ houses.
 Numbers	Num	4	3	21	Of Gershon were the family of the Libnites and the family of the Shime-ites; these were the families of the Gershonites.
 Numbers	Num	4	3	22	Their number according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward was seven thousand five hundred.
 Numbers	Num	4	3	23	The families of the Gershonites were to encamp behind the tabernacle on the west,
 Numbers	Num	4	3	24	with Eliasaph, the son of Lael as head of the fathers’ house of the Gershonites.
 Numbers	Num	4	3	25	And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting was to be the tabernacle, the tent with its covering, the screen for the door of the tent of meeting,
 Numbers	Num	4	3	26	the hangings of the court, the screen for the door of the court which is around the tabernacle and the altar, and its cords; all the service pertaining to these.
 Numbers	Num	4	3	27	Of Kohath were the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites; these are the families of the Kohathites.
 Numbers	Num	4	3	28	According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred, attending to the duties of the sanctuary.
 Numbers	Num	4	3	29	The families of the sons of Kohath were to encamp on the south side of the tabernacle,
 Numbers	Num	4	3	30	with Eli-zaphan the son of Uzziel as head of the fathers’ house of the families of the Kohathites.
 Numbers	Num	4	3	31	And their charge was to be the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which the priests minister, and the screen; all the service pertaining to these.
 Numbers	Num	4	3	32	And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest was to be chief over the leaders of the Levites, and to have oversight of those who had charge of the sanctuary.
 Numbers	Num	4	3	33	Of Merari were the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites: these are the families of Merari.
 Numbers	Num	4	3	34	Their number according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward was six thousand two hundred.
 Numbers	Num	4	3	35	And the head of the fathers’ house of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail; they were to encamp on the north side of the tabernacle.
 Numbers	Num	4	3	36	And the appointed charge of the sons of Merari was to be the frames of the tabernacle, the bars, the pillars, the bases, and all their accessories; all the service pertaining to these;
 Numbers	Num	4	3	37	also the pillars of the court round about, with their bases and pegs and cords.
 Numbers	Num	4	3	38	And those to encamp before the tabernacle on the east, before the tent of meeting toward the sunrise, were Moses and Aaron and his sons, having charge of the rites within the sanctuary, whatever had to be done for the people of Israel; and any one else who came near was to be put to death.
 Numbers	Num	4	3	39	All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the Lord, by families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.
 Numbers	Num	4	3	40	And the Lord said to Moses, “Number all the first-born males of the people of Israel, from a month old and upward, taking their number by names.
 Numbers	Num	4	3	41	And you shall take the Levites for me—I am the Lord—instead of all the first-born among the people of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the people of Israel.”
 Numbers	Num	4	3	42	So Moses numbered all the first-born among the people of Israel, as the Lord commanded him.
 Numbers	Num	4	3	43	And all the first-born males, according to the number of names, from a month old and upward as numbered were twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.
 Numbers	Num	4	3	44	And the Lord said to Moses,
 Numbers	Num	4	3	45	“Take the Levites instead of all the first-born among the people of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am the Lord.
 Numbers	Num	4	3	46	And for the redemption of the two hundred and seventy-three of the first-born of the people of Israel, over and above the number of the male Levites,
 Numbers	Num	4	3	47	you shall take five shekels apiece; reckoning by the shekel of the sanctuary, the shekel of twenty gerahs, you shall take them,
 Numbers	Num	4	3	48	and give the money by which the excess number of them is redeemed to Aaron and his sons.”
 Numbers	Num	4	3	49	So Moses took the redemption money from those who were over and above those redeemed by the Levites;
 Numbers	Num	4	3	50	from the first-born of the people of Israel he took the money, one thousand three hundred and sixty-five shekels, reckoned by the shekel of the sanctuary;
 Numbers	Num	4	3	51	and Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and his sons, according to the word of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.
 Numbers	Num	4	4	1	The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
 Numbers	Num	4	4	2	“Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families and their fathers’ houses,
 Numbers	Num	4	4	3	from thirty years old up to fifty years old, all who can enter the service, to do the work in the tent of meeting.
 Numbers	Num	4	4	4	This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting: the most holy things.
 Numbers	Num	4	4	5	When the camp is to set out, Aaron and his sons shall go in and take down the veil of the screen, and cover the ark of the testimony with it;
 Numbers	Num	4	4	6	then they shall put on it a covering of goatskin, and spread over that a cloth all of blue, and shall put in its poles.
 Numbers	Num	4	4	7	And over the table of the bread of the Presence they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put upon it the plates, the dishes for incense, the bowls, and the flagons for the drink offering; the continual bread also shall be on it;
 Numbers	Num	4	4	8	then they shall spread over them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of goatskin, and shall put in its poles.
 Numbers	Num	4	4	9	And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the lampstand for the light, with its lamps, its snuffers, its trays, and all the vessels for oil with which it is supplied:
 Numbers	Num	4	4	10	and they shall put it with all its utensils in a covering of goatskin and put it upon the carrying frame.
 Numbers	Num	4	4	11	And over the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of goatskin, and shall put in its poles;
 Numbers	Num	4	4	12	and they shall take all the vessels of the service which are used in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of goatskin, and put them on the carrying frame.
 Numbers	Num	4	4	13	And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth over it;
 Numbers	Num	4	4	14	and they shall put on it all the utensils of the altar, which are used for the service there, the firepans, the forks, the shovels, and the basins, all the utensils of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of goatskin, and shall put in its poles.
 Numbers	Num	4	4	15	And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, as the camp sets out, after that the sons of Kohath shall come to carry these, but they must not touch the holy things, lest they die. These are the things of the tent of meeting which the sons of Kohath are to carry.
 Numbers	Num	4	4	16	“And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall have charge of the oil for the light, the fragrant incense, the continual cereal offering, and the anointing oil, with the oversight of all the tabernacle and all that is in it, of the sanctuary and its vessels.”
 Numbers	Num	4	4	17	The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
 Numbers	Num	4	4	18	“Let not the tribe of the families of the Kohathites be destroyed from among the Levites;
 Numbers	Num	4	4	19	but deal thus with them, that they may live and not die when they come near to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint them each to his task and to his burden,
 Numbers	Num	4	4	20	but they shall not go in to look upon the holy things even for a moment, lest they die.”
 Numbers	Num	4	4	21	The Lord said to Moses,
 Numbers	Num	4	4	22	“Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their families and their fathers’ houses;
 Numbers	Num	4	4	23	from thirty years old up to fifty years old, you shall number them, all who can enter for service, to do the work in the tent of meeting.
 Numbers	Num	4	4	24	This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and bearing burdens:
 Numbers	Num	4	4	25	they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tent of meeting with its covering, and the covering of goatskin that is on top of it, and the screen for the door of the tent of meeting,
 Numbers	Num	4	4	26	and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the entrance of the gate of the court which is around the tabernacle and the altar, and their cords, and all the equipment for their service; and they shall do all that needs to be done with regard to them.
 Numbers	Num	4	4	27	All the service of the sons of the Gershonites shall be at the command of Aaron and his sons, in all that they are to carry, and in all that they have to do; and you shall assign to their charge all that they are to carry.
 Numbers	Num	4	4	28	This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites in the tent of meeting, and their work is to be under the oversight of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
 Numbers	Num	4	4	29	“As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them by their families and their fathers’ houses;
 Numbers	Num	4	4	30	from thirty years old up to fifty years old, you shall number them, every one that can enter the service, to do the work of the tent of meeting.
 Numbers	Num	4	4	31	And this is what they are charged to carry, as the whole of their service in the tent of meeting: the frames of the tabernacle, with its bars, pillars, and bases,
 Numbers	Num	4	4	32	and the pillars of the court round about with their bases, pegs, and cords, with all their equipment and all their accessories; and you shall assign by name the objects which they are required to carry.
 Numbers	Num	4	4	33	This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, the whole of their service in the tent of meeting, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.”
 Numbers	Num	4	4	34	And Moses and Aaron and the leaders of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites, by their families and their fathers’ houses,
 Numbers	Num	4	4	35	from thirty years old up to fifty years old, every one that could enter the service, for work in the tent of meeting;
 Numbers	Num	4	4	36	and their number by families was two thousand seven hundred and fifty.
 Numbers	Num	4	4	37	This was the number of the families of the Kohathites, all who served in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the Lord by Moses.
 Numbers	Num	4	4	38	The number of the sons of Gershon, by their families and their fathers’ houses,
 Numbers	Num	4	4	39	from thirty years old up to fifty years old, every one that could enter the service for work in the tent of meeting—
 Numbers	Num	4	4	40	their number by their families and their fathers’ houses was two thousand six hundred and thirty.
 Numbers	Num	4	4	41	This was the number of the families of the sons of Gershon, all who served in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the Lord.
 Numbers	Num	4	4	42	The number of the families of the sons of Merari, by their families and their fathers’ houses,
 Numbers	Num	4	4	43	from thirty years old up to fifty years old, every one that could enter the service, for work in the tent of meeting—
 Numbers	Num	4	4	44	their number by families was three thousand two hundred.
 Numbers	Num	4	4	45	These are those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the Lord by Moses.
 Numbers	Num	4	4	46	All those who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the leaders of Israel numbered, by their families and their fathers’ houses,
 Numbers	Num	4	4	47	from thirty years old up to fifty years old, every one that could enter to do the work of service and the work of bearing burdens in the tent of meeting,
 Numbers	Num	4	4	48	those who were numbered of them were eight thousand five hundred and eighty.
 Numbers	Num	4	4	49	According to the commandment of the Lord through Moses they were appointed, each to his task of serving or carrying; thus they were numbered by him, as the Lord commanded Moses.
 Numbers	Num	4	5	1	The Lord said to Moses,
 Numbers	Num	4	5	2	“Command the people of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one having a discharge, and every one that is unclean through contact with the dead;
 Numbers	Num	4	5	3	you shall put out both male and female, putting them outside the camp, that they may not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.”
 Numbers	Num	4	5	4	And the people of Israel did so, and drove them outside the camp; as the Lord said to Moses, so the people of Israel did.
 Numbers	Num	4	5	5	And the Lord said to Moses,
 Numbers	Num	4	5	6	“Say to the people of Israel, When a man or woman commits any of the sins that men commit by breaking faith with the Lord, and that person is guilty,
 Numbers	Num	4	5	7	he shall confess his sin which he has committed; and he shall make full restitution for his wrong, adding a fifth to it, and giving it to him to whom he did the wrong.
 Numbers	Num	4	5	8	But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution for wrong shall go to the Lord for the priest, in addition to the ram of atonement with which atonement is made for him.
 Numbers	Num	4	5	9	And every offering, all the holy things of the people of Israel, which they bring to the priest, shall be his;
 Numbers	Num	4	5	10	and every man’s holy things shall be his; whatever any man gives to the priest shall be his.”
 Numbers	Num	4	5	11	And the Lord said to Moses,
 Numbers	Num	4	5	12	“Say to the people of Israel, If any man’s wife goes astray and acts unfaithfully against him,
 Numbers	Num	4	5	13	if a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected though she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, since she was not taken in the act;
 Numbers	Num	4	5	14	and if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him, and he is jealous of his wife who has defiled herself; or if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him, and he is jealous of his wife, though she has not defiled herself;
 Numbers	Num	4	5	15	then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and bring the offering required of her, a tenth of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it and put no frankincense on it, for it is a cereal offering of jealousy, a cereal offering of remembrance, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
 Numbers	Num	4	5	16	“And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the Lord;
 Numbers	Num	4	5	17	and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.
 Numbers	Num	4	5	18	And the priest shall set the woman before the Lord, and unbind the hair of the woman’s head, and place in her hands the cereal offering of remembrance, which is the cereal offering of jealousy. And in his hand the priest shall have the water of bitterness that brings the curse.
 Numbers	Num	4	5	19	Then the priest shall make her take an oath, saying, ‘If no man has lain with you, and if you have not turned aside to uncleanness, while you were under your husband’s authority, be free from this water of bitterness that brings the curse.
 Numbers	Num	4	5	20	But if you have gone astray, though you are under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself, and some man other than your husband has lain with you,
 Numbers	Num	4	5	21	then’ (let the priest make the woman take the oath of the curse, and say to the woman) ‘the Lord make you an execration and an oath among your people, when the Lord makes your thigh fall away and your body swell;
 Numbers	Num	4	5	22	may this water that brings the curse pass into your bowels and make your body swell and your thigh fall away.’ And the woman shall say, ‘Amen, Amen.’
 Numbers	Num	4	5	23	“Then the priest shall write these curses in a book, and wash them off into the water of bitterness;
 Numbers	Num	4	5	24	and he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that brings the curse, and the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain.
 Numbers	Num	4	5	25	And the priest shall take the cereal offering of jealousy out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the cereal offering before the Lord and bring it to the altar;
 Numbers	Num	4	5	26	and the priest shall take a handful of the cereal offering, as its memorial portion, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.
 Numbers	Num	4	5	27	And when he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and has acted unfaithfully against her husband, the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain, and her body shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away, and the woman shall become an execration among her people.
 Numbers	Num	4	5	28	But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, then she shall be free and shall conceive children.
 Numbers	Num	4	5	29	“This is the law in cases of jealousy, when a wife, though under her husband’s authority, goes astray and defiles herself,
 Numbers	Num	4	5	30	or when the spirit of jealousy comes upon a man and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before the Lord, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.
 Numbers	Num	4	5	31	The man shall be free from iniquity, but the woman shall bear her iniquity.”
 Numbers	Num	4	6	1	And the Lord said to Moses,
 Numbers	Num	4	6	2	“Say to the people of Israel, When either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the Lord,
 Numbers	Num	4	6	3	he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink, and shall not drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried.
 Numbers	Num	4	6	4	All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine, not even the seeds or the skins.
 Numbers	Num	4	6	5	“All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall come upon his head; until the time is completed for which he separates himself to the Lord, he shall be holy; he shall let the locks of hair of his head grow long.
 Numbers	Num	4	6	6	“All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he shall not go near a dead body.
 Numbers	Num	4	6	7	Neither for his father nor for his mother, nor for brother or sister, if they die, shall he make himself unclean; because his separation to God is upon his head.
 Numbers	Num	4	6	8	All the days of his separation he is holy to the Lord.
 Numbers	Num	4	6	9	“And if any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles his consecrated head, then he shall shave his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he shall shave it.
 Numbers	Num	4	6	10	On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest to the door of the tent of meeting,
 Numbers	Num	4	6	11	and the priest shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead body. And he shall consecrate his head that same day,
 Numbers	Num	4	6	12	and separate himself to the Lord for the days of his separation, and bring a male lamb a year old for a guilt offering; but the former time shall be void, because his separation was defiled.
 Numbers	Num	4	6	13	“And this is the law for the Nazirite, when the time of his separation has been completed: he shall be brought to the door of the tent of meeting,
 Numbers	Num	4	6	14	and he shall offer his gift to the Lord, one male lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish as a sin offering, and one ram without blemish as a peace offering,
 Numbers	Num	4	6	15	and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil, and their cereal offering and their drink offerings.
 Numbers	Num	4	6	16	And the priest shall present them before the Lord and offer his sin offering and his burnt offering,
 Numbers	Num	4	6	17	and he shall offer the ram as a sacrifice of peace offering to the Lord, with the basket of unleavened bread; the priest shall offer also its cereal offering and its drink offering.
 Numbers	Num	4	6	18	And the Nazirite shall shave his consecrated head at the door of the tent of meeting, and shall take the hair from his consecrated head and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offering.
 Numbers	Num	4	6	19	And the priest shall take the shoulder of the ram, when it is boiled, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazirite, after he has shaven the hair of his consecration,
 Numbers	Num	4	6	20	and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord; they are a holy portion for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered; and after that the Nazirite may drink wine.
 Numbers	Num	4	6	21	“This is the law for the Nazirite who takes a vow. His offering to the Lord shall be according to his vow as a Nazirite, apart from what else he can afford; in accordance with the vow which he takes, so shall he do according to the law for his separation as a Nazirite.”
 Numbers	Num	4	6	22	The Lord said to Moses,
 Numbers	Num	4	6	23	“Say to Aaron and his sons, Thus you shall bless the people of Israel: you shall say to them,
 Numbers	Num	4	6	24	The Lord bless you and keep you:
 Numbers	Num	4	6	25	The Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you:
 Numbers	Num	4	6	26	The Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace.
 Numbers	Num	4	6	27	“So shall they put my name upon the people of Israel, and I will bless them.”
 Numbers	Num	4	7	1	On the day when Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed and consecrated it with all its furnishings, and had anointed and consecrated the altar with all its utensils,
 Numbers	Num	4	7	2	the leaders of Israel, heads of their fathers’ houses, the leaders of the tribes, who were over those who were numbered,
 Numbers	Num	4	7	3	offered and brought their offerings before the Lord, six covered wagons and twelve oxen, a wagon for every two of the leaders, and for each one an ox; they offered them before the tabernacle.
 Numbers	Num	4	7	4	Then the Lord said to Moses,
 Numbers	Num	4	7	5	“Accept these from them, that they may be used in doing the service of the tent of meeting, and give them to the Levites, to each man according to his service.”
 Numbers	Num	4	7	6	So Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites.
 Numbers	Num	4	7	7	Two wagons and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon, according to their service;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	8	and four wagons and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
 Numbers	Num	4	7	9	But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because they were charged with the care of the holy things which had to be carried on the shoulder.
 Numbers	Num	4	7	10	And the leaders offered offerings for the dedication of the altar on the day it was anointed; and the leaders offered their offering before the altar.
 Numbers	Num	4	7	11	And the Lord said to Moses, “They shall offer their offerings, one leader each day, for the dedication of the altar.”
 Numbers	Num	4	7	12	He who offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	13	and his offering was one silver plate whose weight was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	14	one golden dish of ten shekels, full of incense;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	15	one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	16	one male goat for a sin offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	17	and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
 Numbers	Num	4	7	18	On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, the leader of Issachar, made an offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	19	he offered for his offering one silver plate, whose weight was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	20	one golden dish of ten shekels, full of incense;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	21	one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	22	one male goat for a sin offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	23	and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nethanel the son of Zuar.
 Numbers	Num	4	7	24	On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, the leader of the men of Zebulun:
 Numbers	Num	4	7	25	his offering was one silver plate, whose weight was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	26	one golden dish of ten shekels, full of incense;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	27	one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	28	one male goat for a sin offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	29	and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.
 Numbers	Num	4	7	30	On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, the leader of the men of Reuben:
 Numbers	Num	4	7	31	his offering was one silver plate whose weight was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	32	one golden dish of ten shekels, full of incense;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	33	one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	34	one male goat for a sin offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	35	and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.
 Numbers	Num	4	7	36	On the fifth day Shelumi-el the son of Zurishaddai, the leader of the men of Simeon:
 Numbers	Num	4	7	37	his offering was one silver plate, whose weight was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	38	one golden dish of ten shekels, full of incense;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	39	one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	40	one male goat for a sin offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	41	and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Shelumi-el the son of Zurishaddai.
 Numbers	Num	4	7	42	On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, the leader of the men of Gad:
 Numbers	Num	4	7	43	his offering was one silver plate, whose weight was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	44	one golden dish of ten shekels, full of incense;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	45	one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	46	one male goat for a sin offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	47	and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
 Numbers	Num	4	7	48	On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, the leader of the men of Ephraim:
 Numbers	Num	4	7	49	his offering was one silver plate, whose weight was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	50	one golden dish of ten shekels, full of incense;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	51	one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	52	one male goat for a sin offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	53	and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.
 Numbers	Num	4	7	54	On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, the leader of the men of Manasseh:
 Numbers	Num	4	7	55	his offering was one silver plate, whose weight was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	56	one golden dish of ten shekels, full of incense;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	57	one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	58	one male goat for a sin offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	59	and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
 Numbers	Num	4	7	60	On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, the leader of the men of Benjamin:
 Numbers	Num	4	7	61	his offering was one silver plate, whose weight was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	62	one golden dish of ten shekels, full of incense;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	63	one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	64	one male goat for a sin offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	65	and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.
 Numbers	Num	4	7	66	On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, the leader of the men of Dan:
 Numbers	Num	4	7	67	his offering was one silver plate, whose weight was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	68	one golden dish of ten shekels, full of incense;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	69	one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	70	one male goat for a sin offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	71	and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
 Numbers	Num	4	7	72	On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ochran, the leader of the men of Asher:
 Numbers	Num	4	7	73	his offering was one silver plate, whose weight was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	74	one golden dish of ten shekels, full of incense;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	75	one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	76	one male goat for a sin offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	77	and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ochran.
 Numbers	Num	4	7	78	On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, the leader of the men of Naphtali:
 Numbers	Num	4	7	79	his offering was one silver plate, whose weight was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	80	one golden dish of ten shekels, full of incense;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	81	one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	82	one male goat for a sin offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	83	and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.
 Numbers	Num	4	7	84	This was the dedication offering for the altar, on the day when it was anointed, from the leaders of Israel: twelve silver plates, twelve silver basins, twelve golden dishes,
 Numbers	Num	4	7	85	each silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels and each basin seventy, all the silver of the vessels two thousand four hundred shekels according to the shekel of the sanctuary,
 Numbers	Num	4	7	86	the twelve golden dishes, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece according to the shekel of the sanctuary, all the gold of the dishes being a hundred and twenty shekels;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	87	all the cattle for the burnt offering twelve bulls, twelve rams, twelve male lambs a year old, with their cereal offering; and twelve male goats for a sin offering;
 Numbers	Num	4	7	88	and all the cattle for the sacrifice of peace offerings twenty-four bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, the male lambs a year old sixty. This was the dedication offering for the altar, after it was anointed.
 Numbers	Num	4	7	89	And when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with the Lord, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was upon the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim; and it spoke to him.
 Numbers	Num	4	8	1	Now the Lord said to Moses,
 Numbers	Num	4	8	2	“Say to Aaron, When you set up the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lampstand.”
 Numbers	Num	4	8	3	And Aaron did so; he set up its lamps to give light in front of the lampstand, as the Lord commanded Moses.
 Numbers	Num	4	8	4	And this was the workmanship of the lampstand, hammered work of gold; from its base to its flowers, it was hammered work; according to the pattern which the Lord had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.
 Numbers	Num	4	8	5	And the Lord said to Moses,
 Numbers	Num	4	8	6	“Take the Levites from among the people of Israel, and cleanse them.
 Numbers	Num	4	8	7	And thus you shall do to them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of expiation upon them, and let them go with a razor over all their body, and wash their clothes and cleanse themselves.
 Numbers	Num	4	8	8	Then let them take a young bull and its cereal offering of fine flour mixed with oil, and you shall take another young bull for a sin offering.
 Numbers	Num	4	8	9	And you shall present the Levites before the tent of meeting, and assemble the whole congregation of the people of Israel.
 Numbers	Num	4	8	10	When you present the Levites before the Lord, the people of Israel shall lay their hands upon the Levites,
 Numbers	Num	4	8	11	and Aaron shall offer the Levites before the Lord as a wave offering from the people of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of the Lord.
 Numbers	Num	4	8	12	Then the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bulls; and you shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to the Lord, to make atonement for the Levites.
 Numbers	Num	4	8	13	And you shall cause the Levites to attend Aaron and his sons, and shall offer them as a wave offering to the Lord.
 Numbers	Num	4	8	14	“Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the people of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.
 Numbers	Num	4	8	15	And after that the Levites shall go in to do service at the tent of meeting, when you have cleansed them and offered them as a wave offering.
 Numbers	Num	4	8	16	For they are wholly given to me from among the people of Israel; instead of all that open the womb, the first-born of all the people of Israel, I have taken them for myself.
 Numbers	Num	4	8	17	For all the first-born among the people of Israel are mine, both of man and of beast; on the day that I slew all the first-born in the land of Egypt I consecrated them for myself,
 Numbers	Num	4	8	18	and I have taken the Levites instead of all the first-born among the people of Israel.
 Numbers	Num	4	8	19	And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the people of Israel, to do the service for the people of Israel at the tent of meeting, and to make atonement for the people of Israel, that there may be no plague among the people of Israel in case the people of Israel should come near the sanctuary.”
 Numbers	Num	4	8	20	Thus did Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the people of Israel to the Levites; according to all that the Lord commanded Moses concerning the Levites, the people of Israel did to them.
 Numbers	Num	4	8	21	And the Levites purified themselves from sin, and washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them as a wave offering before the Lord, and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.
 Numbers	Num	4	8	22	And after that the Levites went in to do their service in the tent of meeting in attendance upon Aaron and his sons; as the Lord had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.
 Numbers	Num	4	8	23	And the Lord said to Moses,
 Numbers	Num	4	8	24	“This is what pertains to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to perform the work in the service of the tent of meeting;
 Numbers	Num	4	8	25	and from the age of fifty years they shall withdraw from the work of the service and serve no more,
 Numbers	Num	4	8	26	but minister to their brethren in the tent of meeting, to keep the charge, and they shall do no service. Thus shall you do to the Levites in assigning their duties.”
 Numbers	Num	4	9	1	And the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
 Numbers	Num	4	9	2	“Let the people of Israel keep the passover at its appointed time.
 Numbers	Num	4	9	3	On the fourteenth day of this month, in the evening, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and all its ordinances you shall keep it.”
 Numbers	Num	4	9	4	So Moses told the people of Israel that they should keep the passover.
 Numbers	Num	4	9	5	And they kept the passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the people of Israel did.
 Numbers	Num	4	9	6	And there were certain men who were unclean through touching the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the passover on that day; and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day;
 Numbers	Num	4	9	7	and those men said to him, “We are unclean through touching the dead body of a man; why are we kept from offering the Lord’s offering at its appointed time among the people of Israel?”
 Numbers	Num	4	9	8	And Moses said to them, “Wait, that I may hear what the Lord will command concerning you.”
 Numbers	Num	4	9	9	The Lord said to Moses,
 Numbers	Num	4	9	10	“Say to the people of Israel, If any man of you or of your descendants is unclean through touching a dead body, or is afar off on a journey, he shall still keep the passover to the Lord.
 Numbers	Num	4	9	11	In the second month on the fourteenth day in the evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
 Numbers	Num	4	9	12	They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it; according to all the statute for the passover they shall keep it.
 Numbers	Num	4	9	13	But the man who is clean and is not on a journey, yet refrains from keeping the passover, that person shall be cut off from his people, because he did not offer the Lord’s offering at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin.
 Numbers	Num	4	9	14	And if a stranger sojourns among you, and will keep the passover to the Lord, according to the statute of the passover and according to its ordinance, so shall he do; you shall have one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native.”
 Numbers	Num	4	9	15	On the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony; and at evening it was over the tabernacle like the appearance of fire until morning.
 Numbers	Num	4	9	16	So it was continually; the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.
 Numbers	Num	4	9	17	And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tent, after that the people of Israel set out; and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the people of Israel encamped.
 Numbers	Num	4	9	18	At the command of the Lord the people of Israel set out, and at the command of the Lord they encamped; as long as the cloud rested over the tabernacle, they remained in camp.
 Numbers	Num	4	9	19	Even when the cloud continued over the tabernacle many days, the people of Israel kept the charge of the Lord, and did not set out.
 Numbers	Num	4	9	20	Sometimes the cloud was a few days over the tabernacle, and according to the command of the Lord they remained in camp; then according to the command of the Lord they set out.
 Numbers	Num	4	9	21	And sometimes the cloud remained from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they set out, or if it continued for a day and a night, when the cloud was taken up they set out.
 Numbers	Num	4	9	22	Whether it was two days, or a month, or a longer time, that the cloud continued over the tabernacle, abiding there, the people of Israel remained in camp and did not set out; but when it was taken up they set out.
 Numbers	Num	4	9	23	At the command of the Lord they encamped, and at the command of the Lord they set out; they kept the charge of the Lord, at the command of the Lord by Moses.
 Numbers	Num	4	10	1	The Lord said to Moses,
 Numbers	Num	4	10	2	“Make two silver trumpets; of hammered work you shall make them; and you shall use them for summoning the congregation, and for breaking camp.
 Numbers	Num	4	10	3	And when both are blown, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
 Numbers	Num	4	10	4	But if they blow only one, then the leaders, the heads of the tribes of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.
 Numbers	Num	4	10	5	When you blow an alarm, the camps that are on the east side shall set out.
 Numbers	Num	4	10	6	And when you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that are on the south side shall set out. An alarm is to be blown whenever they are to set out.
 Numbers	Num	4	10	7	But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm.
 Numbers	Num	4	10	8	And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. The trumpets shall be to you for a perpetual statute throughout your generations.
 Numbers	Num	4	10	9	And when you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be remembered before the Lord your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.
 Numbers	Num	4	10	10	On the day of your gladness also, and at your appointed feasts, and at the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; they shall serve you for remembrance before your God: I am the Lord your God.”
 Numbers	Num	4	10	11	In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the testimony,
 Numbers	Num	4	10	12	and the people of Israel set out by stages from the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud settled down in the wilderness of Paran.
 Numbers	Num	4	10	13	They set out for the first time at the command of the Lord by Moses.
 Numbers	Num	4	10	14	The standard of the camp of the men of Judah set out first by their companies; and over their host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
 Numbers	Num	4	10	15	And over the host of the tribe of the men of Issachar was Nethanel the son of Zuar.
 Numbers	Num	4	10	16	And over the host of the tribe of the men of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon.
 Numbers	Num	4	10	17	And when the tabernacle was taken down, the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who carried the tabernacle, set out.
 Numbers	Num	4	10	18	And the standard of the camp of Reuben set out by their companies; and over their host was Elizur the son of Shedeur.
 Numbers	Num	4	10	19	And over the host of the tribe of the men of Simeon was Shelumi-el the son of Zurishaddai.
 Numbers	Num	4	10	20	And over the host of the tribe of the men of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
 Numbers	Num	4	10	21	Then the Kohathites set out, carrying the holy things, and the tabernacle was set up before their arrival.
 Numbers	Num	4	10	22	And the standard of the camp of the men of Ephraim set out by their companies; and over their host was Elishama the son of Ammihud.
 Numbers	Num	4	10	23	And over the host of the tribe of the men of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
 Numbers	Num	4	10	24	And over the host of the tribe of the men of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni.
 Numbers	Num	4	10	25	Then the standard of the camp of the men of Dan, acting as the rear guard of all the camps, set out by their companies; and over their host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
 Numbers	Num	4	10	26	And over the host of the tribe of the men of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ochran.
 Numbers	Num	4	10	27	And over the host of the tribe of the men of Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan.
 Numbers	Num	4	10	28	This was the order of march of the people of Israel according to their hosts, when they set out.
 Numbers	Num	4	10	29	And Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are setting out for the place of which the Lord said, ‘I will give it to you’; come with us, and we will do you good; for the Lord has promised good to Israel.”
 Numbers	Num	4	10	30	But he said to him, “I will not go; I will depart to my own land and to my kindred.”
 Numbers	Num	4	10	31	And he said, “Do not leave us, I pray you, for you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you will serve as eyes for us.
 Numbers	Num	4	10	32	And if you go with us, whatever good the Lord will do to us, the same will we do to you.”
 Numbers	Num	4	10	33	So they set out from the mount of the Lor three days’ journey; and the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them three days’ journey, to seek out a resting place for them.
 Numbers	Num	4	10	34	And the cloud of the Lord was over them by day, whenever they set out from the camp.
 Numbers	Num	4	10	35	And whenever the ark set out, Moses said, “Arise, O Lord, and let thy enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.”
 Numbers	Num	4	10	36	And when it rested, he said, “Return, O Lord, to the ten thousand thousands of Israel.”
 Numbers	Num	4	11	1	And the people complained in the hearing of the Lord about their misfortunes; and when the Lord heard it, his anger was kindled, and the fire of the Lord burned among them, and consumed some outlying parts of the camp.
 Numbers	Num	4	11	2	Then the people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to the Lord, and the fire abated.
 Numbers	Num	4	11	3	So the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the Lor burned among them.
 Numbers	Num	4	11	4	Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving; and the people of Israel also wept again, and said, “O that we had meat to eat!
 Numbers	Num	4	11	5	We remember the fish we ate in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic;
 Numbers	Num	4	11	6	but now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at.”
 Numbers	Num	4	11	7	Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like that of bdellium.
 Numbers	Num	4	11	8	The people went about and gathered it, and ground it in mills or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it; and the taste of it was like the taste of cakes baked with oil.
 Numbers	Num	4	11	9	When the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.
 Numbers	Num	4	11	10	Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent; and the anger of the Lord blazed hotly, and Moses was displeased.
 Numbers	Num	4	11	11	Moses said to the Lord, “Why hast thou dealt ill with thy servant? And why have I not found favor in thy sight, that thou dost lay the burden of all this people upon me?
 Numbers	Num	4	11	12	Did I conceive all this people? Did I bring them forth, that thou shouldst say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries the sucking child, to the land which thou didst swear to give their fathers?’
 Numbers	Num	4	11	13	Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me and say, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’
 Numbers	Num	4	11	14	I am not able to carry all this people alone, the burden is too heavy for me.
 Numbers	Num	4	11	15	If thou wilt deal thus with me, kill me at once, if I find favor in thy sight, that I may not see my wretchedness.”
 Numbers	Num	4	11	16	And the Lord said to Moses, “Gather for me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you.
 Numbers	Num	4	11	17	And I will come down and talk with you there; and I will take some of the spirit which is upon you and put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you may not bear it yourself alone.
 Numbers	Num	4	11	18	And say to the people, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept in the hearing of the Lord, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt.” Therefore the Lord will give you meat, and you shall eat.
 Numbers	Num	4	11	19	You shall not eat one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days,
 Numbers	Num	4	11	20	but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have rejected the Lord who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, “Why did we come forth out of Egypt?”’”
 Numbers	Num	4	11	21	But Moses said, “The people among whom I am number six hundred thousand on foot; and thou hast said, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month!’
 Numbers	Num	4	11	22	Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to suffice them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?”
 Numbers	Num	4	11	23	And the Lord said to Moses, “Is the Lord’s hand shortened? Now you shall see whether my word will come true for you or not.”
 Numbers	Num	4	11	24	So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and placed them round about the tent.
 Numbers	Num	4	11	25	Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the spirit that was upon him and put it upon the seventy elders; and when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But they did so no more.
 Numbers	Num	4	11	26	Now two men remained in the camp, one named Eldad, and the other named Medad, and the spirit rested upon them; they were among those registered, but they had not gone out to the tent, and so they prophesied in the camp.
 Numbers	Num	4	11	27	And a young man ran and told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”
 Numbers	Num	4	11	28	And Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, one of his chosen men, said, “My lord Moses, forbid them.”
 Numbers	Num	4	11	29	But Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the Lord’s people were prophets, that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!”
 Numbers	Num	4	11	30	And Moses and the elders of Israel returned to the camp.
 Numbers	Num	4	11	31	And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and it brought quails from the sea, and let them fall beside the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and a day’s journey on the other side, round about the camp, and about two cubits above the face of the earth.
 Numbers	Num	4	11	32	And the people rose all that day, and all night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails; he who gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.
 Numbers	Num	4	11	33	While the meat was yet between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague.
 Numbers	Num	4	11	34	Therefore the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had the craving.
 Numbers	Num	4	11	35	From Kibroth-hattaavah the people journeyed to Hazeroth; and they remained at Hazeroth.
 Numbers	Num	4	12	1	Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman;
 Numbers	Num	4	12	2	and they said, “Has the Lord indeed spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken through us also?” And the Lord heard it.
 Numbers	Num	4	12	3	Now the man Moses was very meek, more than all men that were on the face of the earth.
 Numbers	Num	4	12	4	And suddenly the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron and Miriam, “Come out, you three, to the tent of meeting.” And the three of them came out.
 Numbers	Num	4	12	5	And the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forward.
 Numbers	Num	4	12	6	And he said, “Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord make myself known to him in a vision, I speak with him in a dream.
 Numbers	Num	4	12	7	Not so with my servant Moses; he is entrusted with all my house.
 Numbers	Num	4	12	8	With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in dark speech; and he beholds the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”
 Numbers	Num	4	12	9	And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them, and he departed;
 Numbers	Num	4	12	10	and when the cloud removed from over the tent, behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. And Aaron turned towards Miriam, and behold, she was leprous.
 Numbers	Num	4	12	11	And Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, do not punish us because we have done foolishly and have sinned.
 Numbers	Num	4	12	12	Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”
 Numbers	Num	4	12	13	And Moses cried to the Lord, “Heal her, O God, I beseech thee.”
 Numbers	Num	4	12	14	But the Lord said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be shamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside the camp seven days, and after that she may be brought in again.”
 Numbers	Num	4	12	15	So Miriam was shut up outside the camp seven days; and the people did not set out on the march till Miriam was brought in again.
 Numbers	Num	4	12	16	After that the people set out from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.
 Numbers	Num	4	13	1	The Lord said to Moses,
 Numbers	Num	4	13	2	“Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the people of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers shall you send a man, every one a leader among them.”
 Numbers	Num	4	13	3	So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, according to the command of the Lord, all of them men who were heads of the people of Israel.
 Numbers	Num	4	13	4	And these were their names: From the tribe of Reuben, Shammu-a the son of Zaccur;
 Numbers	Num	4	13	5	from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori;
 Numbers	Num	4	13	6	from the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh;
 Numbers	Num	4	13	7	from the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph;
 Numbers	Num	4	13	8	from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun;
 Numbers	Num	4	13	9	from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu;
 Numbers	Num	4	13	10	from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi;
 Numbers	Num	4	13	11	from the tribe of Joseph (that is from the tribe of Manasseh), Gaddi the son of Susi;
 Numbers	Num	4	13	12	from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli;
 Numbers	Num	4	13	13	from the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael;
 Numbers	Num	4	13	14	from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi;
 Numbers	Num	4	13	15	from the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
 Numbers	Num	4	13	16	These were the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
 Numbers	Num	4	13	17	Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, “Go up into the Negeb yonder, and go up into the hill country,
 Numbers	Num	4	13	18	and see what the land is, and whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many,
 Numbers	Num	4	13	19	and whether the land that they dwell in is good or bad, and whether the cities that they dwell in are camps or strongholds,
 Numbers	Num	4	13	20	and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether there is wood in it or not. Be of good courage, and bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes.
 Numbers	Num	4	13	21	So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, near the entrance of Hamath.
 Numbers	Num	4	13	22	They went up into the Negeb, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
 Numbers	Num	4	13	23	And they came to the Valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with a single cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a pole between two of them; they brought also some pomegranates and figs.
 Numbers	Num	4	13	24	That place was called the Valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the men of Israel cut down from there.
 Numbers	Num	4	13	25	At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land.
 Numbers	Num	4	13	26	And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
 Numbers	Num	4	13	27	And they told him, “We came to the land to which you sent us; it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
 Numbers	Num	4	13	28	Yet the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large; and besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there.
 Numbers	Num	4	13	29	The Amalekites dwell in the land of the Negeb; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill country; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan.”
 Numbers	Num	4	13	30	But Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once, and occupy it; for we are well able to overcome it.”
 Numbers	Num	4	13	31	Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.”
 Numbers	Num	4	13	32	So they brought to the people of Israel an evil report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land, through which we have gone, to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants; and all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature.
 Numbers	Num	4	13	33	And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim); and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”
 Numbers	Num	4	14	1	Then all the congregation raised a loud cry; and the people wept that night.
 Numbers	Num	4	14	2	And all the people of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron; the whole congregation said to them, “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!
 Numbers	Num	4	14	3	Why does the Lord bring us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become a prey; would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”
 Numbers	Num	4	14	4	And they said to one another, “Let us choose a captain, and go back to Egypt.”
 Numbers	Num	4	14	5	Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the people of Israel.
 Numbers	Num	4	14	6	And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, rent their clothes,
 Numbers	Num	4	14	7	and said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land.
 Numbers	Num	4	14	8	If the Lord delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land which flows with milk and honey.
 Numbers	Num	4	14	9	Only, do not rebel against the Lord; and do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us; their protection is removed from them, and the Lord is with us; do not fear them.”
 Numbers	Num	4	14	10	But all the congregation said to stone them with stones. Then the glory of the Lord appeared at the tent of meeting to all the people of Israel.
 Numbers	Num	4	14	11	And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs which I have wrought among them?
 Numbers	Num	4	14	12	I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
 Numbers	Num	4	14	13	But Moses said to the Lord, “Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for thou didst bring up this people in thy might from among them,
 Numbers	Num	4	14	14	and they will tell the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that thou, O Lord, art in the midst of this people; for thou, O Lord, art seen face to face, and thy cloud stands over them and thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.
 Numbers	Num	4	14	15	Now if thou dost kill this people as one man, then the nations who have heard thy fame will say,
 Numbers	Num	4	14	16	‘Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to give to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.’
 Numbers	Num	4	14	17	And now, I pray thee, let the power of the Lord be great as thou hast promised, saying,
 Numbers	Num	4	14	18	‘The Lord is slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of fathers upon children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.’
 Numbers	Num	4	14	19	Pardon the iniquity of this people, I pray thee, according to the greatness of thy steadfast love, and according as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”
 Numbers	Num	4	14	20	Then the Lord said, “I have pardoned, according to your word;
 Numbers	Num	4	14	21	but truly, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord,
 Numbers	Num	4	14	22	none of the men who have seen my glory and my signs which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the proof these ten times and have not hearkened to my voice,
 Numbers	Num	4	14	23	shall see the land which I swore to give to their fathers; and none of those who despised me shall see it.
 Numbers	Num	4	14	24	But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.
 Numbers	Num	4	14	25	Now, since the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valleys, turn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”
 Numbers	Num	4	14	26	And the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron,
 Numbers	Num	4	14	27	“How long shall this wicked congregation murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the people of Israel, which they murmur against me.
 Numbers	Num	4	14	28	Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘what you have said in my hearing I will do to you:
 Numbers	Num	4	14	29	your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and of all your number, numbered from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,
 Numbers	Num	4	14	30	not one shall come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
 Numbers	Num	4	14	31	But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised.
 Numbers	Num	4	14	32	But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.
 Numbers	Num	4	14	33	And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.
 Numbers	Num	4	14	34	According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day a year, you shall bear your iniquity, forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.’
 Numbers	Num	4	14	35	I, the Lord, have spoken; surely this will I do to all this wicked congregation that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die.”
 Numbers	Num	4	14	36	And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, and who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing up an evil report against the land,
 Numbers	Num	4	14	37	the men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by plague before the Lord.
 Numbers	Num	4	14	38	But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive, of those men who went to spy out the land.
 Numbers	Num	4	14	39	And Moses told these words to all the people of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.
 Numbers	Num	4	14	40	And they rose early in the morning, and went up to the heights of the hill country, saying, “See, we are here, we will go up to the place which the Lord has promised; for we have sinned.”
 Numbers	Num	4	14	41	But Moses said, “Why now are you transgressing the command of the Lord, for that will not succeed?
 Numbers	Num	4	14	42	Do not go up lest you be struck down before your enemies, for the Lord is not among you.
 Numbers	Num	4	14	43	For there the Amalekites and the Canaanites are before you, and you shall fall by the sword; because you have turned back from following the Lord, the Lord will not be with you.”
 Numbers	Num	4	14	44	But they presumed to go up to the heights of the hill country, although neither the ark of the covenant of the Lord, nor Moses, departed out of the camp.
 Numbers	Num	4	14	45	Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who dwelt in that hill country came down, and defeated them and pursued them, even to Hormah.
 Numbers	Num	4	15	1	The Lord said to Moses,
 Numbers	Num	4	15	2	“Say to the people of Israel, When you come into the land you are to inhabit, which I give you,
 Numbers	Num	4	15	3	and you offer to the Lord from the herd or from the flock an offering by fire or a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfil a vow or as a freewill offering or at your appointed feasts, to make a pleasing odor to the Lord,
 Numbers	Num	4	15	4	then he who brings his offering shall offer to the Lord a cereal offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a fourth of a hin of oil;
 Numbers	Num	4	15	5	and wine for the drink offering, a fourth of a hin, you shall prepare with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.
 Numbers	Num	4	15	6	Or for a ram, you shall prepare for a cereal offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil;
 Numbers	Num	4	15	7	and for the drink offering you shall offer a third of a hin of wine, a pleasing odor to the Lord.
 Numbers	Num	4	15	8	And when you prepare a bull for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice, to fulfil a vow, or for peace offerings to the Lord,
 Numbers	Num	4	15	9	then one shall offer with the bull a cereal offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with half a hin of oil,
 Numbers	Num	4	15	10	and you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, as an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the Lord.
 Numbers	Num	4	15	11	“Thus it shall be done for each bull or ram, or for each of the male lambs or the kids.
 Numbers	Num	4	15	12	According to the number that you prepare, so shall you do with every one according to their number.
 Numbers	Num	4	15	13	All who are native shall do these things in this way, in offering an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the Lord.
 Numbers	Num	4	15	14	And if a stranger is sojourning with you, or any one is among you throughout your generations, and he wishes to offer an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the Lord, he shall do as you do.
 Numbers	Num	4	15	15	For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you, a perpetual statute throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the sojourner be before the Lord.
 Numbers	Num	4	15	16	One law and one ordinance shall be for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you.”
 Numbers	Num	4	15	17	The Lord said to Moses,
 Numbers	Num	4	15	18	“Say to the people of Israel, When you come into the land to which I bring you
 Numbers	Num	4	15	19	and when you eat of the food of the land, you shall present an offering to the Lord.
 Numbers	Num	4	15	20	Of the first of your coarse meal you shall present a cake as an offering; as an offering from the threshing floor, so shall you present it.
 Numbers	Num	4	15	21	Of the first of your coarse meal you shall give to the Lord an offering throughout your generations.
 Numbers	Num	4	15	22	“But if you err, and do not observe all these commandments which the Lord has spoken to Moses,
 Numbers	Num	4	15	23	all that the Lord has commanded you by Moses, from the day that the Lord gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations,
 Numbers	Num	4	15	24	then if it was done unwittingly without the knowledge of the congregation, all the congregation shall offer one young bull for a burnt offering, a pleasing odor to the Lord, with its cereal offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering.
 Numbers	Num	4	15	25	And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the people of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; because it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering by fire to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord, for their error.
 Numbers	Num	4	15	26	And all the congregation of the people of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger who sojourns among them, because the whole population was involved in the error.
 Numbers	Num	4	15	27	“If one person sins unwittingly, he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering.
 Numbers	Num	4	15	28	And the priest shall make atonement before the Lord for the person who commits an error, when he sins unwittingly, to make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven.
 Numbers	Num	4	15	29	You shall have one law for him who does anything unwittingly, for him who is native among the people of Israel, and for the stranger who sojourns among them.
 Numbers	Num	4	15	30	But the person who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native or a sojourner, reviles the Lord, and that person shall be cut off from among his people.
 Numbers	Num	4	15	31	Because he has despised the word of the Lord, and has broken his commandment, that person shall be utterly cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.”
 Numbers	Num	4	15	32	While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day.
 Numbers	Num	4	15	33	And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation.
 Numbers	Num	4	15	34	They put him in custody, because it had not been made plain what should be done to him.
 Numbers	Num	4	15	35	And the Lord said to Moses, “The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.”
 Numbers	Num	4	15	36	And all the congregation brought him outside the camp, and stoned him to death with stones, as the Lord commanded Moses.
 Numbers	Num	4	15	37	The Lord said to Moses,
 Numbers	Num	4	15	38	“Speak to the people of Israel, and bid them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put upon the tassel of each corner a cord of blue;
 Numbers	Num	4	15	39	and it shall be to you a tassel to look upon and remember all the commandments of the Lord, to do them, not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to go after wantonly.
 Numbers	Num	4	15	40	So you shall remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.
 Numbers	Num	4	15	41	I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the Lord your God.”
 Numbers	Num	4	16	1	Now Korah the son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben,
 Numbers	Num	4	16	2	took men; and they rose up before Moses, with a number of the people of Israel, two hundred and fifty leaders of the congregation, chosen from the assembly, well-known men;
 Numbers	Num	4	16	3	and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You have gone too far! For all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them; why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the Lord?”
 Numbers	Num	4	16	4	When Moses heard it, he fell on his face;
 Numbers	Num	4	16	5	and he said to Korah and all his company, “In the morning the Lord will show who is his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him; him whom he will choose he will cause to come near to him.
 Numbers	Num	4	16	6	Do this: take censers, Korah and all his company;
 Numbers	Num	4	16	7	put fire in them and put incense upon them before the Lord tomorrow, and the man whom the Lord chooses shall be the holy one. You have gone too far, sons of Levi!”
 Numbers	Num	4	16	8	And Moses said to Korah, “Hear now, you sons of Levi:
 Numbers	Num	4	16	9	is it too small a thing for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do service in the tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them;
 Numbers	Num	4	16	10	and that he has brought you near him, and all your brethren the sons of Levi with you? And would you seek the priesthood also?
 Numbers	Num	4	16	11	Therefore it is against the Lord that you and all your company have gathered together; what is Aaron that you murmur against him?”
 Numbers	Num	4	16	12	And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab; and they said, “We will not come up.
 Numbers	Num	4	16	13	Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that you must also make yourself a prince over us?
 Numbers	Num	4	16	14	Moreover you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.”
 Numbers	Num	4	16	15	And Moses was very angry, and said to the Lord, “Do not respect their offering. I have not taken one ass from them, and I have not harmed one of them.”
 Numbers	Num	4	16	16	And Moses said to Korah, “Be present, you and all your company, before the Lord, you and they, and Aaron, tomorrow;
 Numbers	Num	4	16	17	and let every one of you take his censer, and put incense upon it, and every one of you bring before the Lord his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; you also, and Aaron, each his censer.”
 Numbers	Num	4	16	18	So every man took his censer, and they put fire in them and laid incense upon them, and they stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron.
 Numbers	Num	4	16	19	Then Korah assembled all the congregation against them at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And the glory of the Lord appeared to all the congregation.
 Numbers	Num	4	16	20	And the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron,
 Numbers	Num	4	16	21	“Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.”
 Numbers	Num	4	16	22	And they fell on their faces, and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be angry with all the congregation?”
 Numbers	Num	4	16	23	And the Lord said to Moses,
 Numbers	Num	4	16	24	“Say to the congregation, Get away from about the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.”
 Numbers	Num	4	16	25	Then Moses rose and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.
 Numbers	Num	4	16	26	And he said to the congregation, “Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be swept away with all their sins.”
 Numbers	Num	4	16	27	So they got away from about the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram; and Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the door of their tents, together with their wives, their sons, and their little ones.
 Numbers	Num	4	16	28	And Moses said, “Hereby you shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, and that it has not been of my own accord.
 Numbers	Num	4	16	29	If these men die the common death of all men, or if they are visited by the fate of all men, then the Lord has not sent me.
 Numbers	Num	4	16	30	But if the Lord creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up, with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the Lord.”
 Numbers	Num	4	16	31	And as he finished speaking all these words, the ground under them split asunder;
 Numbers	Num	4	16	32	and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men that belonged to Korah and all their goods.
 Numbers	Num	4	16	33	So they and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol; and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.
 Numbers	Num	4	16	34	And all Israel that were round about them fled at their cry; for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”
 Numbers	Num	4	16	35	And fire came forth from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men offering the incense.
 Numbers	Num	4	16	36	Then the Lord said to Moses,
 Numbers	Num	4	16	37	“Tell Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest to take up the censers out of the blaze; then scatter the fire far and wide. For they are holy,
 Numbers	Num	4	16	38	the censers of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives; so let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they offered them before the Lord; therefore they are holy. Thus they shall be a sign to the people of Israel.”
 Numbers	Num	4	16	39	So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burned had offered; and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar,
 Numbers	Num	4	16	40	to be a reminder to the people of Israel, so that no one who is not a priest, who is not of the descendants of Aaron, should draw near to burn incense before the Lord, lest he become as Korah and as his company—as the Lord said to Eleazar through Moses.
 Numbers	Num	4	16	41	But on the morrow all the congregation of the people of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed the people of the Lord.”
 Numbers	Num	4	16	42	And when the congregation had assembled against Moses and against Aaron, they turned toward the tent of meeting; and behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.
 Numbers	Num	4	16	43	And Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting,
 Numbers	Num	4	16	44	and the Lord said to Moses,
 Numbers	Num	4	16	45	“Get away from the midst of this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.” And they fell on their faces.
 Numbers	Num	4	16	46	And Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone forth from the Lord, the plague has begun.”
 Numbers	Num	4	16	47	So Aaron took it as Moses said, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and behold, the plague had already begun among the people; and he put on the incense, and made atonement for the people.
 Numbers	Num	4	16	48	And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stopped.
 Numbers	Num	4	16	49	Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those who died in the affair of Korah.
 Numbers	Num	4	16	50	And Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the tent of meeting, when the plague was stopped.
 Numbers	Num	4	17	1	The Lord said to Moses,
 Numbers	Num	4	17	2	“Speak to the people of Israel, and get from them rods, one for each fathers’ house, from all their leaders according to their fathers’ houses, twelve rods. Write each man’s name upon his rod,
 Numbers	Num	4	17	3	and write Aaron’s name upon the rod of Levi. For there shall be one rod for the head of each fathers’ house.
 Numbers	Num	4	17	4	Then you shall deposit them in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you.
 Numbers	Num	4	17	5	And the rod of the man whom I choose shall sprout; thus I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the people of Israel, which they murmur against you.”
 Numbers	Num	4	17	6	Moses spoke to the people of Israel; and all their leaders gave him rods, one for each leader, according to their fathers’ houses, twelve rods; and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.
 Numbers	Num	4	17	7	And Moses deposited the rods before the Lord in the tent of the testimony.
 Numbers	Num	4	17	8	And on the morrow Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted and put forth buds, and produced blossoms, and it bore ripe almonds.
 Numbers	Num	4	17	9	Then Moses brought out all the rods from before the Lord to all the people of Israel; and they looked, and each man took his rod.
 Numbers	Num	4	17	10	And the Lord said to Moses, “Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept as a sign for the rebels, that you may make an end of their murmurings against me, lest they die.”
 Numbers	Num	4	17	11	Thus did Moses; as the Lord commanded him, so he did.
 Numbers	Num	4	17	12	And the people of Israel said to Moses, “Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone.
 Numbers	Num	4	17	13	Every one who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of the Lord, shall die. Are we all to perish?”
 Numbers	Num	4	18	1	So the Lord said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your fathers’ house with you shall bear iniquity in connection with the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear iniquity in connection with your priesthood.
 Numbers	Num	4	18	2	And with you bring your brethren also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may join you, and minister to you while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony.
 Numbers	Num	4	18	3	They shall attend you and attend to all duties of the tent; but shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary or to the altar, lest they, and you, die.
 Numbers	Num	4	18	4	They shall join you, and attend to the tent of meeting, for all the service of the tent; and no one else shall come near you.
 Numbers	Num	4	18	5	And you shall attend to the duties of the sanctuary and the duties of the altar, that there be wrath no more upon the people of Israel.
 Numbers	Num	4	18	6	And behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the people of Israel; they are a gift to you, given to the Lord, to do the service of the tent of meeting.
 Numbers	Num	4	18	7	And you and your sons with you shall attend to your priesthood for all that concerns the altar and that is within the veil; and you shall serve. I give your priesthood as a gift, and any one else who comes near shall be put to death.”
 Numbers	Num	4	18	8	Then the Lord said to Aaron, “And behold, I have given you whatever is kept of the offerings made to me, all the consecrated things of the people of Israel; I have given them to you as a portion, and to your sons as a perpetual due.
 Numbers	Num	4	18	9	This shall be yours of the most holy things, reserved from the fire; every offering of theirs, every cereal offering of theirs and every sin offering of theirs and every guilt offering of theirs, which they render to me, shall be most holy to you and to your sons.
 Numbers	Num	4	18	10	In a most holy place shall you eat of it; every male may eat of it; it is holy to you.
 Numbers	Num	4	18	11	This also is yours, the offering of their gift, all the wave offerings of the people of Israel; I have given them to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due; every one who is clean in your house may eat of it.
 Numbers	Num	4	18	12	All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine and of the grain, the first fruits of what they give to the Lord, I give to you.
 Numbers	Num	4	18	13	The first ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to the Lord, shall be yours; every one who is clean in your house may eat of it.
 Numbers	Num	4	18	14	Every devoted thing in Israel shall be yours.
 Numbers	Num	4	18	15	Everything that opens the womb of all flesh, whether man or beast, which they offer to the Lord, shall be yours; nevertheless the first-born of man you shall redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts you shall redeem.
 Numbers	Num	4	18	16	And their redemption price (at a month old you shall redeem them) you shall fix at five shekels in silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.
 Numbers	Num	4	18	17	But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shall burn their fat as an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the Lord;
 Numbers	Num	4	18	18	but their flesh shall be yours, as the breast that is waved and as the right thigh are yours.
 Numbers	Num	4	18	19	All the holy offerings which the people of Israel present to the Lord I give to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due; it is a covenant of salt for ever before the Lord for you and for your offspring with you.”
 Numbers	Num	4	18	20	And the Lord said to Aaron, “You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them; I am your portion and your inheritance among the people of Israel.
 Numbers	Num	4	18	21	“To the Levites I have given every tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, their service in the tent of meeting.
 Numbers	Num	4	18	22	And henceforth the people of Israel shall not come near the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin and die.
 Numbers	Num	4	18	23	But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations; and among the people of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
 Numbers	Num	4	18	24	For the tithe of the people of Israel, which they present as an offering to the Lord, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance; therefore I have said of them that they shall have no inheritance among the people of Israel.”
 Numbers	Num	4	18	25	And the Lord said to Moses,
 Numbers	Num	4	18	26	“Moreover you shall say to the Levites, ‘When you take from the people of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall present an offering from it to the Lord, a tithe of the tithe.
 Numbers	Num	4	18	27	And your offering shall be reckoned to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fulness of the wine press.
 Numbers	Num	4	18	28	So shall you also present an offering to the Lord from all your tithes, which you receive from the people of Israel; and from it you shall give the Lord’s offering to Aaron the priest.
 Numbers	Num	4	18	29	Out of all the gifts to you, you shall present every offering due to the Lord, from all the best of them, giving the hallowed part from them.’
 Numbers	Num	4	18	30	Therefore you shall say to them, ‘When you have offered from it the best of it, then the rest shall be reckoned to the Levites as produce of the threshing floor, and as produce of the wine press;
 Numbers	Num	4	18	31	and you may eat it in any place, you and your households; for it is your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting.
 Numbers	Num	4	18	32	And you shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have offered the best of it. And you shall not profane the holy things of the people of Israel, lest you die.’”
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	1	These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di-zahab.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	2	It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	3	And in the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the people of Israel according to all that the Lord had given him in commandment to them,
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	4	after he had defeated Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth and in Edre-i.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	5	Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to explain this law, saying,
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	6	“The Lord our God said to us in Horeb, ‘You have stayed long enough at this mountain;
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	7	turn and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland, and in the Negeb, and by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	8	Behold, I have set the land before you; go in and take possession of the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their descendants after them.’
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	9	“At that time I said to you, ‘I am not able alone to bear you;
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	10	the Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	11	May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	12	How can I bear alone the weight and burden of you and your strife?
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	13	Choose wise, understanding, and experienced men, according to your tribes, and I will appoint them as your heads.’
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	14	And you answered me, ‘The thing that you have spoken is good for us to do.’
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	15	So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and experienced men, and set them as heads over you, commanders of thousands, commanders of hundreds, commanders of fifties, commanders of tens, and officers, throughout your tribes.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	16	And I charged your judges at that time, ‘Hear the cases between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien that is with him.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	17	You shall not be partial in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s; and the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.’
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	18	And I commanded you at that time all the things that you should do.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	19	“And we set out from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	20	And I said to you, ‘You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God gives us.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	21	Behold, the Lord your God has set the land before you; go up, take possession, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has told you; do not fear or be dismayed.’
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	22	Then all of you came near me, and said, ‘Let us send men before us, that they may explore the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up and the cities into which we shall come.’
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	23	The thing seemed good to me, and I took twelve men of you, one man for each tribe;
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	24	and they turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied it out.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	25	And they took in their hands some of the fruit of the land and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, ‘It is a good land which the Lord our God gives us.’
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	26	“Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God;
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	27	and you murmured in your tents, and said, ‘Because the Lord hated us he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	28	Whither are we going up? Our brethren have made our hearts melt, saying, “The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.”’
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	29	Then I said to you, ‘Do not be in dread or afraid of them.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	30	The Lord your God who goes before you will himself fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	31	and in the wilderness, where you have seen how the Lord your God bore you, as a man bears his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.’
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	32	Yet in spite of this word you did not believe the Lord your God,
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	33	who went before you in the way to seek you out a place to pitch your tents, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	34	“And the Lord heard your words, and was angered, and he swore,
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	35	‘Not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land which I swore to give to your fathers,
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	36	except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him and to his children I will give the land upon which he has trodden, because he has wholly followed the Lord!’
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	37	The Lord was angry with me also on your account, and said, ‘You also shall not go in there;
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	38	Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall enter; encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	39	Moreover your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, shall go in there, and to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	40	But as for you, turn, and journey into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea.’
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	41	“Then you answered me, ‘We have sinned against the Lord; we will go up and fight, just as the Lord our God commanded us.’ And every man of you girded on his weapons of war, and thought it easy to go up into the hill country.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	42	And the Lord said to me, ‘Say to them, Do not go up or fight, for I am not in the midst of you; lest you be defeated before your enemies.’
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	43	So I spoke to you, and you would not hearken; but you rebelled against the command of the Lord, and were presumptuous and went up into the hill country.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	44	Then the Amorites who lived in that hill country came out against you and chased you as bees do and beat you down in Seir as far as Hormah.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	45	And you returned and wept before the Lord; but the Lord did not hearken to your voice or give ear to you.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	1	46	So you remained at Kadesh many days, the days that you remained there.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	1	“Then we turned, and journeyed into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea, as the Lord told me; and for many days we went about Mount Seir.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	2	Then the Lord said to me,
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	3	‘You have been going about this mountain country long enough; turn northward.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	4	And command the people, You are about to pass through the territory of your brethren the sons of Esau, who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. So take good heed;
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	5	do not contend with them; for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	6	You shall purchase food from them for money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water of them for money, that you may drink.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	7	For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands; he knows your going through this great wilderness; these forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.’
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	8	So we went on, away from our brethren the sons of Esau who live in Seir, away from the Arabah road from Elath and Ezion-geber. “And we turned and went in the direction of the wilderness of Moab.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	9	And the Lord said to me, ‘Do not harass Moab or contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the sons of Lot for a possession.’
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	10	(The Emim formerly lived there, a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim;
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	11	like the Anakim they are also known as Rephaim, but the Moabites call them Emim.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	12	The Horites also lived in Seir formerly, but the sons of Esau dispossessed them, and destroyed them from before them, and settled in their stead; as Israel did to the land of their possession, which the Lord gave to them.)
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	13	‘Now rise up, and go over the brook Zered.’ So we went over the brook Zered.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	14	And the time from our leaving Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until the entire generation, that is, the men of war, had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	15	For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from the camp, until they had perished.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	16	“So when all the men of war had perished and were dead from among the people,
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	17	the Lord said to me,
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	18	‘This day you are to pass over the boundary of Moab at Ar;
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	19	and when you approach the frontier of the sons of Ammon, do not harass them or contend with them, for I will not give you any of the land of the sons of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the sons of Lot for a possession.’
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	20	(That also is known as a land of Rephaim; Rephaim formerly lived there, but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	21	a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim; but the Lord destroyed them before them; and they dispossessed them, and settled in their stead;
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	22	as he did for the sons of Esau, who live in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites before them, and they dispossessed them, and settled in their stead even to this day.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	23	As for the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and settled in their stead.)
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	24	‘Rise up, take your journey, and go over the valley of the Arnon; behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to take possession, and contend with him in battle.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	25	This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the peoples that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.’
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	26	“So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon the king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying,
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	27	‘Let me pass through your land; I will go only by the road, I will turn aside neither to the right nor to the left.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	28	You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat, and give me water for money, that I may drink; only let me pass through on foot,
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	29	as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I go over the Jordan into the land which the Lord our God gives to us.’
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	30	But Sihon the king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for the Lord your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might give him into your hand, as at this day.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	31	And the Lord said to me, ‘Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you; begin to take possession, that you may occupy his land.’
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	32	Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	33	And the Lord our God gave him over to us; and we defeated him and his sons and all his people.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	34	And we captured all his cities at that time and utterly destroyed every city, men, women, and children; we left none remaining;
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	35	only the cattle we took as spoil for ourselves, with the booty of the cities which we captured.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	36	From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us; the Lord our God gave all into our hands.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	2	37	Only to the land of the sons of Ammon you did not draw near, that is, to all the banks of the river Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, and wherever the Lord our God forbade us.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	3	1	“Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan; and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edre-i.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	3	2	But the Lord said to me, ‘Do not fear him; for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hand; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.’
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	3	3	So the Lord our God gave into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people; and we smote him until no survivor was left to him.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	3	4	And we took all his cities at that time—there was not a city which we did not take from them—sixty cities, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	3	5	All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides very many unwalled villages.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	3	6	And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon the king of Heshbon, destroying every city, men, women, and children.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	3	7	But all the cattle and the spoil of the cities we took as our booty.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	3	8	So we took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	3	9	(the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, while the Amorites call it Senir),
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	3	10	all the cities of the tableland and all Gilead and all Bashan, as far as Salecah and Edre-i, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	3	11	(For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the common cubit.)
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	3	12	“When we took possession of this land at that time, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory beginning at Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities;
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	3	13	the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, that is, all the region of Argob, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (The whole of that Bashan is called the land of Rephaim.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	3	14	Jair the Manassite took all the region of Argob, that is, Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Ma-acathites, and called the villages after his own name, Havvoth-jair, as it is to this day.)
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	3	15	To Machir I gave Gilead,
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	3	16	and to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead as far as the valley of the Arnon, with the middle of the valley as a boundary, as far over as the river Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites;
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	3	17	the Arabah also, with the Jordan as the boundary, from Chinnereth as far as the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah on the east.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	3	18	“And I commanded you at that time, saying, ‘The Lord your God has given you this land to possess; all your men of valor shall pass over armed before your brethren the people of Israel.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	3	19	But your wives, your little ones, and your cattle (I know that you have many cattle) shall remain in the cities which I have given you,
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	3	20	until the Lord gives rest to your brethren, as to you, and they also occupy the land which the Lord your God gives them beyond the Jordan; then you shall return every man to his possession which I have given you.’
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	3	21	And I commanded Joshua at that time, ‘Your eyes have seen all that the Lord your God has done to these two kings; so will the Lord do to all the kingdoms into which you are going over.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	3	22	You shall not fear them; for it is the Lord your God who fights for you.’
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	3	23	“And I besought the Lord at that time, saying,
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	3	24	‘O Lord GOD, thou hast only begun to show thy servant thy greatness and thy mighty hand; for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as thine?
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	3	25	Let me go over, I pray, and see the good land beyond the Jordan, that goodly hill country, and Lebanon.’
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	3	26	But the Lord was angry with me on your account, and would not hearken to me; and the Lord said to me, ‘Let it suffice you; speak no more to me of this matter.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	3	27	Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward, and behold it with your eyes; for you shall not go over this Jordan.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	3	28	But charge Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him; for he shall go over at the head of this people, and he shall put them in possession of the land which you shall see.’
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	3	29	So we remained in the valley opposite Beth-peor.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	1	“And now, O Israel, give heed to the statutes and the ordinances which I teach you, and do them; that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, gives you.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	2	You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it; that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	3	Your eyes have seen what the Lord did at Baal-peor; for the Lord your God destroyed from among you all the men who followed the Baal of Peor;
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	4	but you who held fast to the Lord your God are all alive this day.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	5	Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land which you are entering to take possession of it.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	6	Keep them and do them; for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	7	For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the Lord our God is to us, whenever we call upon him?
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	8	And what great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I set before you this day?
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	9	“Only take heed, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; make them known to your children and your children’s children—
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	10	how on the day that you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, the Lord said to me, ‘Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children so.’
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	11	And you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, while the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, wrapped in darkness, cloud, and gloom.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	12	Then the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire; you heard the sound of words, but saw no form; there was only a voice.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	13	And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, that is, the ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	14	And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land which you are going over to possess.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	15	“Therefore take good heed to yourselves. Since you saw no form on the day that the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire,
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	16	beware lest you act corruptly by making a graven image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	17	the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air,
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	18	the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	19	And beware lest you lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and worship them and serve them, things which the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	20	But the Lord has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people of his own possession, as at this day.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	21	Furthermore the Lord was angry with me on your account, and he swore that I should not cross the Jordan, and that I should not enter the good land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	22	For I must die in this land, I must not go over the Jordan; but you shall go over and take possession of that good land.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	23	Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and make a graven image in the form of anything which the Lord your God has forbidden you.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	24	For the Lord your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	25	“When you beget children and children’s children, and have grown old in the land, if you act corruptly by making a graven image in the form of anything, and by doing what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, so as to provoke him to anger,
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	26	I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you are going over the Jordan to possess; you will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	27	And the Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	28	And there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of men’s hands, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	29	But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	30	When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, you will return to the Lord your God and obey his voice,
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	31	for the Lord your God is a merciful God; he will not fail you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers which he swore to them.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	32	“For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	33	Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live?
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	34	Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	35	To you it was shown, that you might know that the Lord is God; there is no other besides him.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	36	Out of heaven he let you hear his voice, that he might discipline you; and on earth he let you see his great fire, and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	37	And because he loved your fathers and chose their descendants after them, and brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power,
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	38	driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as at this day;
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	39	know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart, that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	40	Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which the Lord your God gives you for ever.”
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	41	Then Moses set apart three cities in the east beyond the Jordan,
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	42	that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally, without being at enmity with him in time past, and that by fleeing to one of these cities he might save his life:
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	43	Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland for the Reubenites, and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	44	This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel;
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	45	these are the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spoke to the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt,
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	46	beyond the Jordan in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel defeated when they came out of Egypt.
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	47	And they took possession of his land and the land of Og the king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who lived to the east beyond the Jordan;
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	48	from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, as far as Mount Sirion (that is, Hermon),
 Deuteronomy	Deut	5	4	49	together with all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan as far as the Sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
 Joshua	Josh	6	1	1	After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ minister,
 Joshua	Josh	6	1	2	“Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land which I am giving to them, to the people of Israel.
 Joshua	Josh	6	1	3	Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, as I promised to Moses.
 Joshua	Josh	6	1	4	From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory.
 Joshua	Josh	6	1	5	No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not fail you or forsake you.
 Joshua	Josh	6	1	6	Be strong and of good courage; for you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.
 Joshua	Josh	6	1	7	Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you; turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.
 Joshua	Josh	6	1	8	This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
 Joshua	Josh	6	1	9	Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; be not frightened, neither be dismayed; for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	1	10	Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people,
 Joshua	Josh	6	1	11	“Pass through the camp, and command the people, ‘Prepare your provisions; for within three days you are to pass over this Jordan, to go in to take possession of the land which the Lord your God gives you to possess.’”
 Joshua	Josh	6	1	12	And to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh Joshua said,
 Joshua	Josh	6	1	13	“Remember the word which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, saying, ‘The Lord your God is providing you a place of rest, and will give you this land.’
 Joshua	Josh	6	1	14	Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle shall remain in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but all the men of valor among you shall pass over armed before your brethren and shall help them,
 Joshua	Josh	6	1	15	until the Lord gives rest to your brethren as well as to you, and they also take possession of the land which the Lord your God is giving them; then you shall return to the land of your possession, and shall possess it, the land which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	1	16	And they answered Joshua, “All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.
 Joshua	Josh	6	1	17	Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you; only may the Lord your God be with you, as he was with Moses!
 Joshua	Josh	6	1	18	Whoever rebels against your commandment and disobeys your words, whatever you command him, shall be put to death. Only be strong and of good courage.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	2	1	And Joshua the son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” And they went, and came into the house of a harlot whose name was Rahab, and lodged there.
 Joshua	Josh	6	2	2	And it was told the king of Jericho, “Behold, certain men of Israel have come here tonight to search out the land.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	2	3	Then the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, “Bring forth the men that have come to you, who entered your house; for they have come to search out all the land.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	2	4	But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them; and she said, “True, men came to me, but I did not know where they came from;
 Joshua	Josh	6	2	5	and when the gate was to be closed, at dark, the men went out; where the men went I do not know; pursue them quickly, for you will overtake them.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	2	6	But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax which she had laid in order on the roof.
 Joshua	Josh	6	2	7	So the men pursued after them on the way to the Jordan as far as the fords; and as soon as the pursuers had gone out, the gate was shut.
 Joshua	Josh	6	2	8	Before they lay down, she came up to them on the roof,
 Joshua	Josh	6	2	9	and said to the men, “I know that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.
 Joshua	Josh	6	2	10	For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites that were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed.
 Joshua	Josh	6	2	11	And as soon as we heard it, our hearts melted, and there was no courage left in any man, because of you; for the Lord your God is he who is God in heaven above and on earth beneath.
 Joshua	Josh	6	2	12	Now then, swear to me by the Lord that as I have dealt kindly with you, you also will deal kindly with my father’s house, and give me a sure sign,
 Joshua	Josh	6	2	13	and save alive my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and deliver our lives from death.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	2	14	And the men said to her, “Our life for yours! If you do not tell this business of ours, then we will deal kindly and faithfully with you when the Lord gives us the land.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	2	15	Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was built into the city wall, so that she dwelt in the wall.
 Joshua	Josh	6	2	16	And she said to them, “Go into the hills, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned; then afterward you may go your way.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	2	17	The men said to her, “We will be guiltless with respect to this oath of yours which you have made us swear.
 Joshua	Josh	6	2	18	Behold, when we come into the land, you shall bind this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down; and you shall gather into your house your father and mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household.
 Joshua	Josh	6	2	19	If any one goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we shall be guiltless; but if a hand is laid upon any one who is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head.
 Joshua	Josh	6	2	20	But if you tell this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless with respect to your oath which you have made us swear.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	2	21	And she said, “According to your words, so be it.” Then she sent them away, and they departed; and she bound the scarlet cord in the window.
 Joshua	Josh	6	2	22	They departed, and went into the hills, and remained there three days, until the pursuers returned; for the pursuers had made search all along the way and found nothing.
 Joshua	Josh	6	2	23	Then the two men came down again from the hills, and passed over and came to Joshua the son of Nun; and they told him all that had befallen them.
 Joshua	Josh	6	2	24	And they said to Joshua, “Truly the Lord has given all the land into our hands; and moreover all the inhabitants of the land are fainthearted because of us.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	3	1	Early in the morning Joshua rose and set out from Shittim, with all the people of Israel; and they came to the Jordan, and lodged there before they passed over.
 Joshua	Josh	6	3	2	At the end of three days the officers went through the camp
 Joshua	Josh	6	3	3	and commanded the people, “When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God being carried by the Levitical priests, then you shall set out from your place and follow it,
 Joshua	Josh	6	3	4	that you may know the way you shall go, for you have not passed this way before. Yet there shall be a space between you and it, a distance of about two thousand cubits; do not come near it.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	3	5	And Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	3	6	And Joshua said to the priests, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass on before the people.” And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.
 Joshua	Josh	6	3	7	And the Lord said to Joshua, “This day I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.
 Joshua	Josh	6	3	8	And you shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, ‘When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.’”
 Joshua	Josh	6	3	9	And Joshua said to the people of Israel, “Come hither, and hear the words of the Lord your God.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	3	10	And Joshua said, “Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
 Joshua	Josh	6	3	11	Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is to pass over before you into the Jordan.
 Joshua	Josh	6	3	12	Now therefore take twelve men from the tribes of Israel, from each tribe a man.
 Joshua	Josh	6	3	13	And when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan shall be stopped from flowing, and the waters coming down from above shall stand in one heap.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	3	14	So, when the people set out from their tents, to pass over the Jordan with the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people,
 Joshua	Josh	6	3	15	and when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests bearing the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (the Jordan overflows all its banks throughout the time of harvest),
 Joshua	Josh	6	3	16	the waters coming down from above stood and rose up in a heap far off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, and those flowing down toward the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off; and the people passed over opposite Jericho.
 Joshua	Josh	6	3	17	And while all Israel were passing over on dry ground, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, until all the nation finished passing over the Jordan.
 Joshua	Josh	6	4	1	When all the nation had finished passing over the Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua,
 Joshua	Josh	6	4	2	“Take twelve men from the people, from each tribe a man,
 Joshua	Josh	6	4	3	and command them, ‘Take twelve stones from here out of the midst of the Jordan, from the very place where the priests’ feet stood, and carry them over with you, and lay them down in the place where you lodge tonight.’”
 Joshua	Josh	6	4	4	Then Joshua called the twelve men from the people of Israel, whom he had appointed, a man from each tribe;
 Joshua	Josh	6	4	5	and Joshua said to them, “Pass on before the ark of the Lord your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take up each of you a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel,
 Joshua	Josh	6	4	6	that this may be a sign among you, when your children ask in time to come, ‘What do those stones mean to you?’
 Joshua	Josh	6	4	7	Then you shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; when it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. So these stones shall be to the people of Israel a memorial for ever.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	4	8	And the men of Israel did as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel, as the Lord told Joshua; and they carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.
 Joshua	Josh	6	4	9	And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant had stood; and they are there to this day.
 Joshua	Josh	6	4	10	For the priests who bore the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan, until everything was finished that the Lord commanded Joshua to tell the people, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua. The people passed over in haste;
 Joshua	Josh	6	4	11	and when all the people had finished passing over, the ark of the Lord and the priests passed over before the people.
 Joshua	Josh	6	4	12	The sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh passed over armed before the people of Israel, as Moses had bidden them;
 Joshua	Josh	6	4	13	about forty thousand ready armed for war passed over before the Lord for battle, to the plains of Jericho.
 Joshua	Josh	6	4	14	On that day the Lord exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they stood in awe of him, as they had stood in awe of Moses, all the days of his life.
 Joshua	Josh	6	4	15	And the Lord said to Joshua,
 Joshua	Josh	6	4	16	“Command the priests who bear the ark of the testimony to come up out of the Jordan.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	4	17	Joshua therefore commanded the priests, “Come up out of the Jordan.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	4	18	And when the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the Lord came up from the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet were lifted up on dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and overflowed all its banks, as before.
 Joshua	Josh	6	4	19	The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they encamped in Gilgal on the east border of Jericho.
 Joshua	Josh	6	4	20	And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal.
 Joshua	Josh	6	4	21	And he said to the people of Israel, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, ‘What do these stones mean?’
 Joshua	Josh	6	4	22	then you shall let your children know, ‘Israel passed over this Jordan on dry ground.’
 Joshua	Josh	6	4	23	For the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you passed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up for us until we passed over,
 Joshua	Josh	6	4	24	so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the Lord is mighty; that you may fear the Lord your God for ever.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	5	1	When all the kings of the Amorites that were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites that were by the sea, heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan for the people of Israel until they had crossed over, their heart melted, and there was no longer any spirit in them, because of the people of Israel.
 Joshua	Josh	6	5	2	At that time the Lord said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the people of Israel again the second time.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	5	3	So Joshua made flint knives, and circumcised the people of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.
 Joshua	Josh	6	5	4	And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the men of war, had died on the way in the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt.
 Joshua	Josh	6	5	5	Though all the people who came out had been circumcised, yet all the people that were born on the way in the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised.
 Joshua	Josh	6	5	6	For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the nation, the men of war that came forth out of Egypt, perished, because they did not hearken to the voice of the Lord; to them the Lord swore that he would not let them see the land which the Lord had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
 Joshua	Josh	6	5	7	So it was their children, whom he raised up in their stead, that Joshua circumcised; for they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the way.
 Joshua	Josh	6	5	8	When the circumcising of all the nation was done, they remained in their places in the camp till they were healed.
 Joshua	Josh	6	5	9	And the Lord said to Joshua, “This day I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” And so the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day.
 Joshua	Josh	6	5	10	While the people of Israel were encamped in Gilgal they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.
 Joshua	Josh	6	5	11	And on the morrow after the passover, on that very day, they ate of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain.
 Joshua	Josh	6	5	12	And the manna ceased on the morrow, when they ate of the produce of the land; and the people of Israel had manna no more, but ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
 Joshua	Josh	6	5	13	When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood before him with his drawn sword in his hand; and Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our adversaries?”
 Joshua	Josh	6	5	14	And he said, “No; but as commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.” And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshiped, and said to him, “What does my lord bid his servant?”
 Joshua	Josh	6	5	15	And the commander of the Lord’s army said to Joshua, “Put off your shoes from your feet; for the place where you stand is holy.” And Joshua did so.
 Joshua	Josh	6	6	1	Now Jericho was shut up from within and from without because of the people of Israel; none went out, and none came in.
 Joshua	Josh	6	6	2	And the Lord said to Joshua, “See, I have given into your hand Jericho, with its king and mighty men of valor.
 Joshua	Josh	6	6	3	You shall march around the city, all the men of war going around the city once. Thus shall you do for six days.
 Joshua	Josh	6	6	4	And seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark; and on the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, the priests blowing the trumpets.
 Joshua	Josh	6	6	5	And when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, as soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city will fall down flat, and the people shall go up every man straight before him.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	6	6	So Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the Lord.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	6	7	And he said to the people, “Go forward; march around the city, and let the armed men pass on before the ark of the Lord.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	6	8	And as Joshua had commanded the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the Lord went forward, blowing the trumpets, with the ark of the covenant of the Lord following them.
 Joshua	Josh	6	6	9	And the armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard came after the ark, while the trumpets blew continually.
 Joshua	Josh	6	6	10	But Joshua commanded the people, “You shall not shout or let your voice be heard, neither shall any word go out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then you shall shout.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	6	11	So he caused the ark of the Lord to compass the city, going about it once; and they came into the camp, and spent the night in the camp.
 Joshua	Josh	6	6	12	Then Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord.
 Joshua	Josh	6	6	13	And the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the Lord passed on, blowing the trumpets continually; and the armed men went before them, and the rear guard came after the ark of the Lord, while the trumpets blew continually.
 Joshua	Josh	6	6	14	And the second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. So they did for six days.
 Joshua	Josh	6	6	15	On the seventh day they rose early at the dawn of day, and marched around the city in the same manner seven times: it was only on that day that they marched around the city seven times.
 Joshua	Josh	6	6	16	And at the seventh time, when the priests had blown the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, “Shout; for the Lord has given you the city.
 Joshua	Josh	6	6	17	And the city and all that is within it shall be devoted to the Lord for destruction; only Rahab the harlot and all who are with her in her house shall live, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
 Joshua	Josh	6	6	18	But you, keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted them you take any of the devoted things and make the camp of Israel a thing for destruction, and bring trouble upon it.
 Joshua	Josh	6	6	19	But all silver and gold, and vessels of bronze and iron, are sacred to the Lord; they shall go into the treasury of the Lord.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	6	20	So the people shouted, and the trumpets were blown. As soon as the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people raised a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
 Joshua	Josh	6	6	21	Then they utterly destroyed all in the city, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and asses, with the edge of the sword.
 Joshua	Josh	6	6	22	And Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the harlot’s house, and bring out from it the woman, and all who belong to her, as you swore to her.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	6	23	So the young men who had been spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father and mother and brothers and all who belonged to her; and they brought all her kindred, and set them outside the camp of Israel.
 Joshua	Josh	6	6	24	And they burned the city with fire, and all within it; only the silver and gold, and the vessels of bronze and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord.
 Joshua	Josh	6	6	25	But Rahab the harlot, and her father’s household, and all who belonged to her, Joshua saved alive; and she dwelt in Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
 Joshua	Josh	6	6	26	Joshua laid an oath upon them at that time, saying, “Cursed before the Lord be the man that rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho. At the cost of his first-born shall he lay its foundation, and at the cost of his youngest son shall he set up its gates.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	6	27	So the Lord was with Joshua; and his fame was in all the land.
 Joshua	Josh	6	7	1	But the people of Israel broke faith in regard to the devoted things; for Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things; and the anger of the Lord burned against the people of Israel.
 Joshua	Josh	6	7	2	Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “Go up and spy out the land.” And the men went up and spied out Ai.
 Joshua	Josh	6	7	3	And they returned to Joshua, and said to him, “Let not all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai; do not make the whole people toil up there, for they are but few.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	7	4	So about three thousand went up there from the people; and they fled before the men of Ai,
 Joshua	Josh	6	7	5	and the men of Ai killed about thirty-six men of them, and chased them before the gate as far as Shebarim, and slew them at the descent. And the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.
 Joshua	Josh	6	7	6	Then Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust upon their heads.
 Joshua	Josh	6	7	7	And Joshua said, “Alas, O Lord GOD, why hast thou brought this people over the Jordan at all, to give us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would that we had been content to dwell beyond the Jordan!
 Joshua	Josh	6	7	8	O Lord, what can I say, when Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!
 Joshua	Josh	6	7	9	For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth; and what wilt thou do for thy great name?”
 Joshua	Josh	6	7	10	The Lord said to Joshua, “Arise, why have you thus fallen upon your face?
 Joshua	Josh	6	7	11	Israel has sinned; they have transgressed my covenant which I commanded them; they have taken some of the devoted things; they have stolen, and lied, and put them among their own stuff.
 Joshua	Josh	6	7	12	Therefore the people of Israel cannot stand before their enemies; they turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become a thing for destruction. I will be with you no more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.
 Joshua	Josh	6	7	13	Up, sanctify the people, and say, ‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow; for thus says the Lord, God of Israel, “There are devoted things in the midst of you, O Israel; you cannot stand before your enemies, until you take away the devoted things from among you.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	7	14	In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes; and the tribe which the Lord takes shall come near by families; and the family which the Lord takes shall come near by households; and the household which the Lord takes shall come near man by man.
 Joshua	Josh	6	7	15	And he who is taken with the devoted things shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and because he has done a shameful thing in Israel.’”
 Joshua	Josh	6	7	16	So Joshua rose early in the morning, and brought Israel near tribe by tribe, and the tribe of Judah was taken;
 Joshua	Josh	6	7	17	and he brought near the families of Judah, and the family of the Zerahites was taken; and he brought near the family of the Zerahites man by man, and Zabdi was taken;
 Joshua	Josh	6	7	18	and he brought near his household man by man, and Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.
 Joshua	Josh	6	7	19	Then Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the Lord God of Israel, and render praise to him; and tell me now what you have done; do not hide it from me.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	7	20	And Achan answered Joshua, “Of a truth I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel, and this is what I did:
 Joshua	Josh	6	7	21	when I saw among the spoil a beautiful mantle from Shinar, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them, and took them; and behold, they are hidden in the earth inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	7	22	So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and behold, it was hidden in his tent with the silver underneath.
 Joshua	Josh	6	7	23	And they took them out of the tent and brought them to Joshua and all the people of Israel; and they laid them down before the Lord.
 Joshua	Josh	6	7	24	And Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver and the mantle and the bar of gold, and his sons and daughters, and his oxen and asses and sheep, and his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the Valley of Achor.
 Joshua	Josh	6	7	25	And Joshua said, “Why did you bring trouble on us? The Lord brings trouble on you today.” And all Israel stoned him with stones; they burned them with fire, and stoned them with stones.
 Joshua	Josh	6	7	26	And they raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day; then the Lord turned from his burning anger. Therefore to this day the name of that place is called the Valley of Achor.
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	1	And the Lord said to Joshua, “Do not fear or be dismayed; take all the fighting men with you, and arise, go up to Ai; see, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, his city, and his land;
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	2	and you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king; only its spoil and its cattle you shall take as booty for yourselves; lay an ambush against the city, behind it.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	3	So Joshua arose, and all the fighting men, to go up to Ai; and Joshua chose thirty thousand mighty men of valor, and sent them forth by night.
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	4	And he commanded them, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind it; do not go very far from the city, but hold yourselves all in readiness;
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	5	and I, and all the people who are with me, will approach the city. And when they come out against us, as before, we shall flee before them;
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	6	and they will come out after us, till we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, ‘They are fleeing from us, as before.’ So we will flee from them;
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	7	then you shall rise up from the ambush, and seize the city; for the Lord your God will give it into your hand.
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	8	And when you have taken the city, you shall set the city on fire, doing as the Lord has bidden; see, I have commanded you.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	9	So Joshua sent them forth; and they went to the place of ambush, and lay between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai; but Joshua spent that night among the people.
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	10	And Joshua arose early in the morning and mustered the people, and went up, with the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	11	And all the fighting men who were with him went up, and drew near before the city, and encamped on the north side of Ai, with a ravine between them and Ai.
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	12	And he took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	13	So they stationed the forces, the main encampment which was north of the city and its rear guard west of the city. But Joshua spent that night in the valley.
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	14	And when the king of Ai saw this he and all his people, the men of the city, made haste and went out early to the descent toward the Arabah to meet Israel in battle; but he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	15	And Joshua and all Israel made a pretense of being beaten before them, and fled in the direction of the wilderness.
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	16	So all the people who were in the city were called together to pursue them, and as they pursued Joshua they were drawn away from the city.
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	17	There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, who did not go out after Israel; they left the city open, and pursued Israel.
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	18	Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai; for I will give it into your hand.” And Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	19	And the ambush rose quickly out of their place, and as soon as he had stretched out his hand, they ran and entered the city and took it; and they made haste to set the city on fire.
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	20	So when the men of Ai looked back, behold, the smoke of the city went up to heaven; and they had no power to flee this way or that, for the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	21	And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city went up, then they turned back and smote the men of Ai.
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	22	And the others came forth from the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side; and Israel smote them, until there was left none that survived or escaped.
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	23	But the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	24	When Israel had finished slaughtering all the inhabitants of Ai in the open wilderness where they pursued them and all of them to the very last had fallen by the edge of the sword, all Israel returned to Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	25	And all who fell that day, both men and women, were twelve thousand, all the people of Ai.
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	26	For Joshua did not draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	27	Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took as their booty, according to the word of the Lord which he commanded Joshua.
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	28	So Joshua burned Ai, and made it for ever a heap of ruins, as it is to this day.
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	29	And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening; and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised over it a great heap of stones, which stands there to this day.
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	30	Then Joshua built an altar in Mount Ebal to the Lord, the God of Israel,
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	31	as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the people of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, “an altar of unhewn stones, upon which no man has lifted an iron tool”; and they offered on it burnt offerings to the Lord, and sacrificed peace offerings.
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	32	And there, in the presence of the people of Israel, he wrote upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written.
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	33	And all Israel, sojourner as well as homeborn, with their elders and officers and their judges, stood on opposite sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	34	And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.
 Joshua	Josh	6	8	35	There was not a word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the sojourners who lived among them.
 Joshua	Josh	6	9	1	When all the kings who were beyond the Jordan in the hill country and in the lowland all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, heard of this,
 Joshua	Josh	6	9	2	they gathered together with one accord to fight Joshua and Israel.
 Joshua	Josh	6	9	3	But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,
 Joshua	Josh	6	9	4	they on their part acted with cunning, and went and made ready provisions, and took worn-out sacks upon their asses, and wineskins, worn-out and torn and mended,
 Joshua	Josh	6	9	5	with worn-out, patched sandals on their feet, and worn-out clothes; and all their provisions were dry and moldy.
 Joshua	Josh	6	9	6	And they went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, “We have come from a far country; so now make a covenant with us.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	9	7	But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you live among us; then how can we make a covenant with you?”
 Joshua	Josh	6	9	8	They said to Joshua, “We are your servants.” And Joshua said to them, “Who are you? And where do you come from?”
 Joshua	Josh	6	9	9	They said to him, “From a very far country your servants have come, because of the name of the Lord your God; for we have heard a report of him, and all that he did in Egypt,
 Joshua	Josh	6	9	10	and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who dwelt in Ashtaroth.
 Joshua	Josh	6	9	11	And our elders and all the inhabitants of our country said to us, ‘Take provisions in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and say to them, “We are your servants; come now, make a covenant with us.”’
 Joshua	Josh	6	9	12	Here is our bread; it was still warm when we took it from our houses as our food for the journey, on the day we set forth to come to you, but now, behold, it is dry and moldy;
 Joshua	Josh	6	9	13	these wineskins were new when we filled them, and behold, they are burst; and these garments and shoes of ours are worn out from the very long journey.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	9	14	So the men partook of their provisions, and did not ask direction from the Lord.
 Joshua	Josh	6	9	15	And Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live; and the leaders of the congregation swore to them.
 Joshua	Josh	6	9	16	At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they dwelt among them.
 Joshua	Josh	6	9	17	And the people of Israel set out and reached their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Be-eroth, and Kiriath-jearim.
 Joshua	Josh	6	9	18	But the people of Israel did not kill them, because the leaders of the congregation had sworn to them by the Lord, the God of Israel. Then all the congregation murmured against the leaders.
 Joshua	Josh	6	9	19	But all the leaders said to all the congregation, “We have sworn to them by the Lord, the God of Israel, and now we may not touch them.
 Joshua	Josh	6	9	20	This we will do to them, and let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we swore to them.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	9	21	And the leaders said to them, “Let them live.” So they became hewers of wood and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the leaders had said of them.
 Joshua	Josh	6	9	22	Joshua summoned them, and he said to them, “Why did you deceive us, saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ when you dwell among us?
 Joshua	Josh	6	9	23	Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you shall always be slaves, hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	9	24	They answered Joshua, “Because it was told to your servants for a certainty that the Lord your God had commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you; so we feared greatly for our lives because of you, and did this thing.
 Joshua	Josh	6	9	25	And now, behold, we are in your hand: do as it seems good and right in your sight to do to us.”
 Joshua	Josh	6	9	26	So he did to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the people of Israel; and they did not kill them.
 Joshua	Josh	6	9	27	But Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the Lord, to continue to this day, in the place which he should choose.
 Judges	Judg	7	1	1	After the death of Joshua the people of Israel inquired of the Lord, “Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them?”
 Judges	Judg	7	1	2	The Lord said, “Judah shall go up; behold, I have given the land into his hand.”
 Judges	Judg	7	1	3	And Judah said to Simeon his brother, “Come up with me into the territory allotted to me, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with you into the territory allotted to you.” So Simeon went with him.
 Judges	Judg	7	1	4	Then Judah went up and the Lord gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand; and they defeated ten thousand of them at Bezek.
 Judges	Judg	7	1	5	They came upon Adoni-bezek at Bezek, and fought against him, and defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
 Judges	Judg	7	1	6	Adoni-bezek fled; but they pursued him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
 Judges	Judg	7	1	7	And Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and their great toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table; as I have done, so God has requited me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
 Judges	Judg	7	1	8	And the men of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.
 Judges	Judg	7	1	9	And afterward the men of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who dwelt in the hill country, in the Negeb, and in the lowland.
 Judges	Judg	7	1	10	And Judah went against the Canaanites who dwelt in Hebron (now the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba); and they defeated Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai.
 Judges	Judg	7	1	11	From there they went against the inhabitants of Debir. The name of Debir was formerly Kiriath-sepher.
 Judges	Judg	7	1	12	And Caleb said, “He who attacks Kiriath-sepher and takes it, I will give him Achsah my daughter as wife.”
 Judges	Judg	7	1	13	And Othni-el the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it; and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.
 Judges	Judg	7	1	14	When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field; and she alighted from her ass, and Caleb said to her, “What do you wish?”
 Judges	Judg	7	1	15	She said to him, “Give me a present; since you have set me in the land of the Negeb, give me also springs of water.” And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
 Judges	Judg	7	1	16	And the descendants of the Kenite, Moses’ father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah from the city of palms into the wilderness of Judah, which lies in the Negeb near Arad; and they went and settled with the people.
 Judges	Judg	7	1	17	And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they defeated the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. So the name of the city was called Hormah.
 Judges	Judg	7	1	18	Judah also took Gaza with its territory, and Ashkelon with its territory, and Ekron with its territory.
 Judges	Judg	7	1	19	And the Lord was with Judah, and he took possession of the hill country, but he could not drive out the inhabitants of the plain, because they had chariots of iron.
 Judges	Judg	7	1	20	And Hebron was given to Caleb, as Moses had said; and he drove out from it the three sons of Anak.
 Judges	Judg	7	1	21	But the people of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who dwelt in Jerusalem; so the Jebusites have dwelt with the people of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.
 Judges	Judg	7	1	22	The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel; and the Lord was with them.
 Judges	Judg	7	1	23	And the house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (Now the name of the city was formerly Luz.)
 Judges	Judg	7	1	24	And the spies saw a man coming out of the city, and they said to him, “Pray, show us the way into the city, and we will deal kindly with you.”
 Judges	Judg	7	1	25	And he showed them the way into the city; and they smote the city with the edge of the sword, but they let the man and all his family go.
 Judges	Judg	7	1	26	And the man went to the land of the Hittites and built a city, and called its name Luz; that is its name to this day.
 Judges	Judg	7	1	27	Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and its villages, or Taa-nach and its villages, or the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages; but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.
 Judges	Judg	7	1	28	When Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not utterly drive them out.
 Judges	Judg	7	1	29	And Ephraim did not drive out the Canaanites who dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.
 Judges	Judg	7	1	30	Zebulun did not drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, or the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became subject to forced labor.
 Judges	Judg	7	1	31	Asher did not drive out the inhabitants of Acco, or the inhabitants of Sidon, or of Ahlab, or of Achzib, or of Helbah, or of Aphik, or of Rehob;
 Judges	Judg	7	1	32	but the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; for they did not drive them out.
 Judges	Judg	7	1	33	Naphtali did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh, or the inhabitants of Beth-anath, but dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and of Beth-anath became subject to forced labor for them.
 Judges	Judg	7	1	34	The Amorites pressed the Danites back into the hill country, for they did not allow them to come down to the plain;
 Judges	Judg	7	1	35	the Amorites persisted in dwelling in Har-heres, in Aijalon, and in Sha-albim, but the hand of the house of Joseph rested heavily upon them, and they became subject to forced labor.
 Judges	Judg	7	1	36	And the border of the Amorites ran from the ascent of Akrabbim, from Sela and upward.
 Judges	Judg	7	2	1	Now the angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, “I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you into the land which I swore to give to your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you,
 Judges	Judg	7	2	2	and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed my command. What is this you have done?
 Judges	Judg	7	2	3	So now I say, I will not drive them out before you; but they shall become adversaries to you, and their gods shall be a snare to you.”
 Judges	Judg	7	2	4	When the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the people of Israel, the people lifted up their voices and wept.
 Judges	Judg	7	2	5	And they called the name of that place Bochim; and they sacrificed there to the Lord.
 Judges	Judg	7	2	6	When Joshua dismissed the people, the people of Israel went each to his inheritance to take possession of the land.
 Judges	Judg	7	2	7	And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work which the Lord had done for Israel.
 Judges	Judg	7	2	8	And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died at the age of one hundred and ten years.
 Judges	Judg	7	2	9	And they buried him within the bounds of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of the mountain of Gaash.
 Judges	Judg	7	2	10	And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers; and there arose another generation after them, who did not know the Lord or the work which he had done for Israel.
 Judges	Judg	7	2	11	And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals;
 Judges	Judg	7	2	12	and they forsook the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; they went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were round about them, and bowed down to them; and they provoked the Lord to anger.
 Judges	Judg	7	2	13	They forsook the Lord, and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth.
 Judges	Judg	7	2	14	So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them; and he sold them into the power of their enemies round about, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.
 Judges	Judg	7	2	15	Whenever they marched out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had warned, and as the Lord had sworn to them; and they were in sore straits.
 Judges	Judg	7	2	16	Then the Lord raised up judges, who saved them out of the power of those who plundered them.
 Judges	Judg	7	2	17	And yet they did not listen to their judges; for they played the harlot after other gods and bowed down to them; they soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord, and they did not do so.
 Judges	Judg	7	2	18	Whenever the Lord raised up judges for them, the Lord was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the Lord was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them.
 Judges	Judg	7	2	19	But whenever the judge died, they turned back and behaved worse than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them; they did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.
 Judges	Judg	7	2	20	So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel; and he said, “Because this people have transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not obeyed my voice,
 Judges	Judg	7	2	21	I will not henceforth drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died,
 Judges	Judg	7	2	22	that by them I may test Israel, whether they will take care to walk in the way of the Lord as their fathers did, or not.”
 Judges	Judg	7	2	23	So the Lord left those nations, not driving them out at once, and he did not give them into the power of Joshua.
 Judges	Judg	7	3	1	Now these are the nations which the Lord left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had no experience of any war in Canaan;
 Judges	Judg	7	3	2	it was only that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, that he might teach war to such at least as had not known it before.
 Judges	Judg	7	3	3	These are the nations: the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites who dwelt on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as the entrance of Hamath.
 Judges	Judg	7	3	4	They were for the testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by Moses.
 Judges	Judg	7	3	5	So the people of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites;
 Judges	Judg	7	3	6	and they took their daughters to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons; and they served their gods.
 Judges	Judg	7	3	7	And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lor, forgetting the Lord their God, and serving the Baals and the Asheroth.
 Judges	Judg	7	3	8	Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia; and the people of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.
 Judges	Judg	7	3	9	But when the people of Israel cried to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer for the people of Israel, who delivered them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.
 Judges	Judg	7	3	10	The Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he judged Israel; he went out to war, and the Lord gave Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed over Cushan-rishathaim.
 Judges	Judg	7	3	11	So the land had rest forty years. Then Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
 Judges	Judg	7	3	12	And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
 Judges	Judg	7	3	13	He gathered to himself the Ammonites and the Amalekites, and went and defeated Israel; and they took possession of the city of palms.
 Judges	Judg	7	3	14	And the people of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
 Judges	Judg	7	3	15	But when the people of Israel cried to the Lord, the Lord raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The people of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.
 Judges	Judg	7	3	16	And Ehud made for himself a sword with two edges, a cubit in length; and he girded it on his right thigh under his clothes.
 Judges	Judg	7	3	17	And he presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.
 Judges	Judg	7	3	18	And when Ehud had finished presenting the tribute, he sent away the people that carried the tribute.
 Judges	Judg	7	3	19	But he himself turned back at the sculptured stones near Gilgal, and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.” And he commanded, “Silence.” And all his attendants went out from his presence.
 Judges	Judg	7	3	20	And Ehud came to him, as he was sitting alone in his cool roof chamber. And Ehud said, “I have a message from God for you.” And he arose from his seat.
 Judges	Judg	7	3	21	And Ehud reached with his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly;
 Judges	Judg	7	3	22	and the hilt also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not draw the sword out of his belly; and the dirt came out.
 Judges	Judg	7	3	23	Then Ehud went out into the vestibule, and closed the doors of the roof chamber upon him, and locked them.
 Judges	Judg	7	3	24	When he had gone, the servants came; and when they saw that the doors of the roof chamber were locked, they thought, “He is only relieving himself in the closet of the cool chamber.”
 Judges	Judg	7	3	25	And they waited till they were utterly at a loss; but when he still did not open the doors of the roof chamber, they took the key and opened them; and there lay their lord dead on the floor.
 Judges	Judg	7	3	26	Ehud escaped while they delayed, and passed beyond the sculptured stones, and escaped to Se-irah.
 Judges	Judg	7	3	27	When he arrived, he sounded the trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim; and the people of Israel went down with him from the hill country, having him at their head.
 Judges	Judg	7	3	28	And he said to them, “Follow after me; for the Lord has given your enemies the Moabites into your hand.” So they went down after him, and seized the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and allowed not a man to pass over.
 Judges	Judg	7	3	29	And they killed at that time about ten thousand of the Moabites, all strong, able-bodied men; not a man escaped.
 Judges	Judg	7	3	30	So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest for eighty years.
 Judges	Judg	7	3	31	After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed six hundred of the Philistines with an oxgoad; and he too delivered Israel.
 Judges	Judg	7	4	1	And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, after Ehud died.
 Judges	Judg	7	4	2	And the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; the commander of his army was Sisera, who dwelt in Harosheth-ha-goiim.
 Judges	Judg	7	4	3	Then the people of Israel cried to the Lord for help; for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years.
 Judges	Judg	7	4	4	Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.
 Judges	Judg	7	4	5	She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the people of Israel came up to her for judgment.
 Judges	Judg	7	4	6	She sent and summoned Barak the son of Abino-am from Kedesh in Naphtali, and said to him, “The Lord, the God of Israel, commands you, ‘Go, gather your men at Mount Tabor, taking ten thousand from the tribe of Naphtali and the tribe of Zebulun.
 Judges	Judg	7	4	7	And I will draw out Sisera, the general of Jabin’s army, to meet you by the river Kishon with his chariots and his troops; and I will give him into your hand.’”
 Judges	Judg	7	4	8	Barak said to her, “If you will go with me, I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go.”
 Judges	Judg	7	4	9	And she said, “I will surely go with you; nevertheless, the road on which you are going will not lead to your glory, for the Lord will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.” Then Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
 Judges	Judg	7	4	10	And Barak summoned Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and ten thousand men went up at his heels; and Deborah went up with him.
 Judges	Judg	7	4	11	Now Heber the Kenite had separated from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far away as the oak in Za-anannim, which is near Kedesh.
 Judges	Judg	7	4	12	When Sisera was told that Barak the son of Abino-am had gone up to Mount Tabor,
 Judges	Judg	7	4	13	Sisera called out all his chariots, nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the men who were with him, from Harosheth-ha-goiim to the river Kishon.
 Judges	Judg	7	4	14	And Deborah said to Barak, “Up! For this is the day in which the Lord has given Sisera into your hand. Does not the Lord go out before you?” So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.
 Judges	Judg	7	4	15	And the Lord routed Sisera and all his chariots and all his army before Barak at the edge of the sword; and Sisera alighted from his chariot and fled away on foot.
 Judges	Judg	7	4	16	And Barak pursued the chariots and the army to Harosheth-ha-goiim, and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; not a man was left.
 Judges	Judg	7	4	17	But Sisera fled away on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
 Judges	Judg	7	4	18	And Jael came out to meet Sisera, and said to him, “Turn aside, my lord, turn aside to me; have no fear.” So he turned aside to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.
 Judges	Judg	7	4	19	And he said to her, “Pray, give me a little water to drink; for I am thirsty.” So she opened a skin of milk and gave him a drink and covered him.
 Judges	Judg	7	4	20	And he said to her, “Stand at the door of the tent, and if any man comes and asks you, ‘Is any one here?’ say, No.”
 Judges	Judg	7	4	21	But Jael the wife of Heber took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple, till it went down into the ground, as he was lying fast asleep from weariness. So he died.
 Judges	Judg	7	4	22	And behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael went out to meet him, and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man whom you are seeking.” So he went in to her tent; and there lay Sisera dead, with the tent peg in his temple.
 Judges	Judg	7	4	23	So on that day God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the people of Israel.
 Judges	Judg	7	4	24	And the hand of the people of Israel bore harder and harder on Jabin the king of Canaan, until they destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.
 Judges	Judg	7	5	1	Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abino-am on that day:
 Judges	Judg	7	5	2	“That the leaders took the lead in Israel, that the people offered themselves willingly, bless the Lord!
 Judges	Judg	7	5	3	“Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes; to the Lord I will sing, I will make melody to the Lord, the God of Israel.
 Judges	Judg	7	5	4	“Lord, when thou didst go forth from Seir, when thou didst march from the region of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, yea, the clouds dropped water.
 Judges	Judg	7	5	5	The mountains quaked before the Lord, yon Sinai before the Lord, the God of Israel.
 Judges	Judg	7	5	6	“In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath, in the days of Jael, caravans ceased and travelers kept to the byways.
 Judges	Judg	7	5	7	The peasantry ceased in Israel, they ceased until you arose, Deborah, arose as a mother in Israel.
 Judges	Judg	7	5	8	When new gods were chosen, then war was in the gates. Was shield or spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?
 Judges	Judg	7	5	9	My heart goes out to the commanders of Israel who offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless the Lord.
 Judges	Judg	7	5	10	“Tell of it, you who ride on tawny asses, you who sit on rich carpets and you who walk by the way.
 Judges	Judg	7	5	11	To the sound of musicians at the watering places, there they repeat the triumphs of the Lord, the triumphs of his peasantry in Israel. “Then down to the gates marched the people of the Lord.
 Judges	Judg	7	5	12	“Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, lead away your captives, O son of Abino-am.
 Judges	Judg	7	5	13	Then down marched the remnant of the noble; the people of the Lord marched down for him against the mighty.
 Judges	Judg	7	5	14	From Ephraim they set out thither into the valley, following you, Benjamin, with your kinsmen; from Machir marched down the commanders, and from Zebulun those who bear the marshal’s staff;
 Judges	Judg	7	5	15	the princes of Issachar came with Deborah, and Issachar faithful to Barak; into the valley they rushed forth at his heels. Among the clans of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
 Judges	Judg	7	5	16	Why did you tarry among the sheepfolds, to hear the piping for the flocks? Among the clans of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
 Judges	Judg	7	5	17	Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan; and Dan, why did he abide with the ships? Asher sat still at the coast of the sea, settling down by his landings.
 Judges	Judg	7	5	18	Zebulun is a people that jeoparded their lives to the death; Naphtali too, on the heights of the field.
 Judges	Judg	7	5	19	“The kings came, they fought; then fought the kings of Canaan, at Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo; they got no spoils of silver.
 Judges	Judg	7	5	20	From heaven fought the stars, from their courses they fought against Sisera.
 Judges	Judg	7	5	21	The torrent Kishon swept them away, the onrushing torrent, the torrent Kishon. March on, my soul, with might!
 Judges	Judg	7	5	22	“Then loud beat the horses’ hoofs with the galloping, galloping of his steeds.
 Judges	Judg	7	5	23	“Curse Meroz, says the angel of the Lord, curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
 Judges	Judg	7	5	24	“Most blessed of women be Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, of tent-dwelling women most blessed.
 Judges	Judg	7	5	25	He asked water and she gave him milk, she brought him curds in a lordly bowl.
 Judges	Judg	7	5	26	She put her hand to the tent peg and her right hand to the workmen’s mallet; she struck Sisera a blow, she crushed his head, she shattered and pierced his temple.
 Judges	Judg	7	5	27	He sank, he fell, he lay still at her feet; at her feet he sank, he fell; where he sank, there he fell dead.
 Judges	Judg	7	5	28	“Out of the window she peered, the mother of Sisera gazed through the lattice: ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the hoofbeats of his chariots?’
 Judges	Judg	7	5	29	Her wisest ladies make answer, nay, she gives answer to herself,
 Judges	Judg	7	5	30	‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoil?— A maiden or two for every man; spoil of dyed stuffs for Sisera, spoil of dyed stuffs embroidered, two pieces of dyed work embroidered for my neck as spoil?’
 Judges	Judg	7	5	31	“So perish all thine enemies, O Lord! But thy friends be like the sun as he rises in his might.” And the land had rest for forty years.
 Judges	Judg	7	6	1	The people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord gave them into the hand of Midian seven years.
 Judges	Judg	7	6	2	And the hand of Midian prevailed over Israel; and because of Midian the people of Israel made for themselves the dens which are in the mountains, and the caves and the strongholds.
 Judges	Judg	7	6	3	For whenever the Israelites put in seed the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East would come up and attack them;
 Judges	Judg	7	6	4	they would encamp against them and destroy the produce of the land, as far as the neighborhood of Gaza, and leave no sustenance in Israel, and no sheep or ox or ass.
 Judges	Judg	7	6	5	For they would come up with their cattle and their tents, coming like locusts for number; both they and their camels could not be counted; so that they wasted the land as they came in.
 Judges	Judg	7	6	6	And Israel was brought very low because of Midian; and the people of Israel cried for help to the Lord.
 Judges	Judg	7	6	7	When the people of Israel cried to the Lord on account of the Midianites,
 Judges	Judg	7	6	8	the Lord sent a prophet to the people of Israel; and he said to them, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I led you up from Egypt, and brought you out of the house of bondage;
 Judges	Judg	7	6	9	and I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians, and from the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out before you, and gave you their land;
 Judges	Judg	7	6	10	and I said to you, ‘I am the Lord your God; you shall not pay reverence to the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.’ But you have not given heed to my voice.”
 Judges	Judg	7	6	11	Now the angel of the Lord came and sat under the oak at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, as his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Midianites.
 Judges	Judg	7	6	12	And the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, “The Lord is with you, you mighty man of valor.”
 Judges	Judg	7	6	13	And Gideon said to him, “Pray, sir, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this befallen us? And where are all his wonderful deeds which our fathers recounted to us, saying, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has cast us off, and given us into the hand of Midian.”
 Judges	Judg	7	6	14	And the Lord turned to him and said, “Go in this might of yours and deliver Israel from the hand of Midian; do not I send you?”
 Judges	Judg	7	6	15	And he said to him, “Pray, Lord, how can I deliver Israel? Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.”
 Judges	Judg	7	6	16	And the Lord said to him, “But I will be with you, and you shall smite the Midianites as one man.”
 Judges	Judg	7	6	17	And he said to him, “If now I have found favor with thee, then show me a sign that it is thou who speakest with me.
 Judges	Judg	7	6	18	Do not depart from here, I pray thee, until I come to thee, and bring out my present, and set it before thee.” And he said, “I will stay till you return.”
 Judges	Judg	7	6	19	So Gideon went into his house and prepared a kid, and unleavened cakes from an ephah of flour; the meat he put in a basket, and the broth he put in a pot, and brought them to him under the oak and presented them.
 Judges	Judg	7	6	20	And the angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and put them on this rock, and pour the broth over them.” And he did so.
 Judges	Judg	7	6	21	Then the angel of the Lord reached out the tip of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and there sprang up fire from the rock and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and the angel of the Lord vanished from his sight.
 Judges	Judg	7	6	22	Then Gideon perceived that he was the angel of the Lord; and Gideon said, “Alas, O Lord GOD! For now I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face.”
 Judges	Judg	7	6	23	But the Lord said to him, “Peace be to you; do not fear, you shall not die.”
 Judges	Judg	7	6	24	Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord, and called it, The Lord is peace. To this day it still stands at Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiezrites.
 Judges	Judg	7	6	25	That night the Lord said to him, “Take your father’s bull, the second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal which your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is beside it;
 Judges	Judg	7	6	26	and build an altar to the Lord your God on the top of the stronghold here, with stones laid in due order; then take the second bull, and offer it as a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down.”
 Judges	Judg	7	6	27	So Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the Lord had told him; but because he was too afraid of his family and the men of the town to do it by day, he did it by night.
 Judges	Judg	7	6	28	When the men of the town rose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah beside it was cut down, and the second bull was offered upon the altar which had been built.
 Judges	Judg	7	6	29	And they said to one another, “Who has done this thing?” And after they had made search and inquired, they said, “Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing.”
 Judges	Judg	7	6	30	Then the men of the town said to Joash, “Bring out your son, that he may die, for he has pulled down the altar of Baal and cut down the Asherah beside it.”
 Judges	Judg	7	6	31	But Joash said to all who were arrayed against him, “Will you contend for Baal? Or will you defend his cause? Whoever contends for him shall be put to death by morning. If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because his altar has been pulled down.”
 Judges	Judg	7	6	32	Therefore on that day he was called Jerubbaal, that is to say, “Let Baal contend against him,” because he pulled down his altar.
 Judges	Judg	7	6	33	Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East came together, and crossing the Jordan they encamped in the Valley of Jezreel.
 Judges	Judg	7	6	34	But the Spirit of the Lord took possession of Gideon; and he sounded the trumpet, and the Abiezrites were called out to follow him.
 Judges	Judg	7	6	35	And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; and they too were called out to follow him. And he sent messengers to Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali; and they went up to meet them.
 Judges	Judg	7	6	36	Then Gideon said to God, “If thou wilt deliver Israel by my hand, as thou hast said,
 Judges	Judg	7	6	37	behold, I am laying a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there is dew on the fleece alone, and it is dry on all the ground, then I shall know that thou wilt deliver Israel by my hand, as thou hast said.”
 Judges	Judg	7	6	38	And it was so. When he rose early next morning and squeezed the fleece, he wrung enough dew from the fleece to fill a bowl with water.
 Judges	Judg	7	6	39	Then Gideon said to God, “Let not thy anger burn against me, let me speak but this once; pray, let me make trial only this once with the fleece; pray, let it be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew.”
 Judges	Judg	7	6	40	And God did so that night; for it was dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground there was dew.
 Judges	Judg	7	7	1	Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him rose early and encamped beside the spring of Harod; and the camp of Midian was north of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
 Judges	Judg	7	7	2	The Lord said to Gideon, “The people with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, ‘My own hand has delivered me.’
 Judges	Judg	7	7	3	Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return home.’” And Gideon tested them; twenty-two thousand returned, and ten thousand remained.
 Judges	Judg	7	7	4	And the Lord said to Gideon, “The people are still too many; take them down to the water and I will test them for you there; and he of whom I say to you, ‘This man shall go with you,’ shall go with you; and any of whom I say to you, ‘This man shall not go with you,’ shall not go.”
 Judges	Judg	7	7	5	So he brought the people down to the water; and the Lord said to Gideon, “Every one that laps the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set by himself; likewise every one that kneels down to drink.”
 Judges	Judg	7	7	6	And the number of those that lapped, putting their hands to their mouths, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people knelt down to drink water.
 Judges	Judg	7	7	7	And the Lord said to Gideon, “With the three hundred men that lapped I will deliver you, and give the Midianites into your hand; and let all the others go every man to his home.”
 Judges	Judg	7	7	8	So he took the jars of the people from their hands, and their trumpets; and he sent all the rest of Israel every man to his tent, but retained the three hundred men; and the camp of Midian was below him in the valley.
 Judges	Judg	7	7	9	That same night the Lord said to him, “Arise, go down against the camp; for I have given it into your hand.
 Judges	Judg	7	7	10	But if you fear to go down, go down to the camp with Purah your servant;
 Judges	Judg	7	7	11	and you shall hear what they say, and afterward your hands shall be strengthened to go down against the camp.” Then he went down with Purah his servant to the outposts of the armed men that were in the camp.
 Judges	Judg	7	7	12	And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the East lay along the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is upon the seashore for multitude.
 Judges	Judg	7	7	13	When Gideon came, behold, a man was telling a dream to his comrade; and he said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream; and lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, and came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.”
 Judges	Judg	7	7	14	And his comrade answered, “This is no other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel; into his hand God has given Midian and all the host.”
 Judges	Judg	7	7	15	When Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, he worshiped; and he returned to the camp of Israel, and said, “Arise; for the Lord has given the host of Midian into your hand.”
 Judges	Judg	7	7	16	And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and put trumpets into the hands of all of them and empty jars, with torches inside the jars.
 Judges	Judg	7	7	17	And he said to them, “Look at me, and do likewise; when I come to the outskirts of the camp, do as I do.
 Judges	Judg	7	7	18	When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and shout, ‘For the Lord and for Gideon.’”
 Judges	Judg	7	7	19	So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when they had just set the watch; and they blew the trumpets and smashed the jars that were in their hands.
 Judges	Judg	7	7	20	And the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the jars, holding in their left hands the torches, and in their right hands the trumpets to blow; and they cried, “A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!”
 Judges	Judg	7	7	21	They stood every man in his place round about the camp, and all the army ran; they cried out and fled.
 Judges	Judg	7	7	22	When they blew the three hundred trumpets, the Lord set every man’s sword against his fellow and against all the army; and the army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.
 Judges	Judg	7	7	23	And the men of Israel were called out from Naphtali and from Asher and from all Manasseh, and they pursued after Midian.
 Judges	Judg	7	7	24	And Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against the Midianites and seize the waters against them, as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan.” So all the men of Ephraim were called out, and they seized the waters as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan.
 Judges	Judg	7	7	25	And they took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they killed at the wine press of Zeeb, as they pursued Midian; and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.
 Judges	Judg	7	8	1	And the men of Ephraim said to him, “What is this that you have done to us, not to call us when you went to fight with Midian?” And they upbraided him violently.
 Judges	Judg	7	8	2	And he said to them, “What have I done now in comparison with you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abi-ezer?
 Judges	Judg	7	8	3	God has given into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; what have I been able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger against him was abated, when he had said this.
 Judges	Judg	7	8	4	And Gideon came to the Jordan and passed over, he and the three hundred men who were with him, faint yet pursuing.
 Judges	Judg	7	8	5	So he said to the men of Succoth, “Pray, give loaves of bread to the people who follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”
 Judges	Judg	7	8	6	And the officials of Succoth said, “Are Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?”
 Judges	Judg	7	8	7	And Gideon said, “Well then, when the Lord has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will flail your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.”
 Judges	Judg	7	8	8	And from there he went up to Penuel, and spoke to them in the same way; and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.
 Judges	Judg	7	8	9	And he said to the men of Penuel, “When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.”
 Judges	Judg	7	8	10	Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the people of the East; for there had fallen a hundred and twenty thousand men who drew the sword.
 Judges	Judg	7	8	11	And Gideon went up by the caravan route east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and attacked the army; for the army was off its guard.
 Judges	Judg	7	8	12	And Zebah and Zalmunna fled; and he pursued them and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and he threw all the army into a panic.
 Judges	Judg	7	8	13	Then Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle by the ascent of Heres.
 Judges	Judg	7	8	14	And he caught a young man of Succoth, and questioned him; and he wrote down for him the officials and elders of Succoth, seventy-seven men.
 Judges	Judg	7	8	15	And he came to the men of Succoth, and said, “Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me, saying, ‘Are Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are faint?’”
 Judges	Judg	7	8	16	And he took the elders of the city and he took thorns of the wilderness and briers and with them taught the men of Succoth.
 Judges	Judg	7	8	17	And he broke down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city.
 Judges	Judg	7	8	18	Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “Where are the men whom you slew at Tabor?” They answered, “As you are, so were they, every one of them; they resembled the sons of a king.”
 Judges	Judg	7	8	19	And he said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother; as the Lord lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not slay you.”
 Judges	Judg	7	8	20	And he said to Jether his first-born, “Rise, and slay them.” But the youth did not draw his sword; for he was afraid, because he was still a youth.
 Judges	Judg	7	8	21	Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Rise yourself, and fall upon us; for as the man is, so is his strength.” And Gideon arose and slew Zebah and Zalmunna; and he took the crescents that were on the necks of their camels.
 Judges	Judg	7	8	22	Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, you and your son and your grandson also; for you have delivered us out of the hand of Midian.”
 Judges	Judg	7	8	23	Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the Lord will rule over you.”
 Judges	Judg	7	8	24	And Gideon said to them, “Let me make a request of you; give me every man of you the earrings of his spoil.” (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)
 Judges	Judg	7	8	25	And they answered, “We will willingly give them.” And they spread a garment, and every man cast in it the earrings of his spoil.
 Judges	Judg	7	8	26	And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was one thousand seven hundred shekels of gold; besides the crescents and the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian, and besides the collars that were about the necks of their camels.
 Judges	Judg	7	8	27	And Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his city, in Ophrah; and all Israel played the harlot after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family.
 Judges	Judg	7	8	28	So Midian was subdued before the people of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. And the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.
 Judges	Judg	7	8	29	Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.
 Judges	Judg	7	8	30	Now Gideon had seventy sons, his own offspring, for he had many wives.
 Judges	Judg	7	8	31	And his concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he called his name Abimelech.
 Judges	Judg	7	8	32	And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, at Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
 Judges	Judg	7	8	33	As soon as Gideon died, the people of Israel turned again and played the harlot after the Baals, and made Baal-berith their god.
 Judges	Judg	7	8	34	And the people of Israel did not remember the Lord their God, who had rescued them from the hand of all their enemies on every side;
 Judges	Judg	7	8	35	and they did not show kindness to the family of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) in return for all the good that he had done to Israel.
 Judges	Judg	7	9	1	Now Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s kinsmen and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother’s family,
 Judges	Judg	7	9	2	“Say in the ears of all the citizens of Shechem, ‘Which is better for you, that all seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal rule over you, or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.”
 Judges	Judg	7	9	3	And his mother’s kinsmen spoke all these words on his behalf in the ears of all the men of Shechem; and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, “He is our brother.”
 Judges	Judg	7	9	4	And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows, who followed him.
 Judges	Judg	7	9	5	And he went to his father’s house at Ophrah, and slew his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, upon one stone; but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.
 Judges	Judg	7	9	6	And all the citizens of Shechem came together, and all Beth-millo, and they went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar at Shechem.
 Judges	Judg	7	9	7	When it was told to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim, and cried aloud and said to them, “Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.
 Judges	Judg	7	9	8	The trees once went forth to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’
 Judges	Judg	7	9	9	But the olive tree said to them, ‘Shall I leave my fatness, by which gods and men are honored, and go to sway over the trees?’
 Judges	Judg	7	9	10	And the trees said to the fig tree, ‘Come you, and reign over us.’
 Judges	Judg	7	9	11	But the fig tree said to them, ‘Shall I leave my sweetness and my good fruit, and go to sway over the trees?’
 Judges	Judg	7	9	12	And the trees said to the vine, ‘Come you, and reign over us.’
 Judges	Judg	7	9	13	But the vine said to them, ‘Shall I leave my wine which cheers gods and men, and go to sway over the trees?’
 Judges	Judg	7	9	14	Then all the trees said to the bramble, ‘Come you, and reign over us.’
 Judges	Judg	7	9	15	And the bramble said to the trees, ‘If in good faith you are anointing me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; but if not, let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’
 Judges	Judg	7	9	16	“Now therefore, if you acted in good faith and honor when you made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done to him as his deeds deserved—
 Judges	Judg	7	9	17	for my father fought for you, and risked his life, and rescued you from the hand of Midian;
 Judges	Judg	7	9	18	and you have risen up against my father’s house this day, and have slain his sons, seventy men on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the citizens of Shechem, because he is your kinsman—
 Judges	Judg	7	9	19	if you then have acted in good faith and honor with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you;
 Judges	Judg	7	9	20	but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the citizens of Shechem, and Beth-millo; and let fire come out from the citizens of Shechem, and from Beth-millo, and devour Abimelech.”
 Judges	Judg	7	9	21	And Jotham ran away and fled, and went to Beer and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.
 Judges	Judg	7	9	22	Abimelech ruled over Israel three years.
 Judges	Judg	7	9	23	And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech;
 Judges	Judg	7	9	24	that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, who slew them, and upon the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to slay his brothers.
 Judges	Judg	7	9	25	And the men of Shechem put men in ambush against him on the mountain tops, and they robbed all who passed by them along that way; and it was told Abimelech.
 Judges	Judg	7	9	26	And Gaal the son of Ebed moved into Shechem with his kinsmen; and the men of Shechem put confidence in him.
 Judges	Judg	7	9	27	And they went out into the field, and gathered the grapes from their vineyards and trod them, and held festival, and went into the house of their god, and ate and drank and reviled Abimelech.
 Judges	Judg	7	9	28	And Gaal the son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who are we of Shechem, that we should serve him? Did not the son of Jerubbaal and Zebul his officer serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem? Why then should we serve him?
 Judges	Judg	7	9	29	Would that this people were under my hand! then I would remove Abimelech. I would say to Abimelech, ‘Increase your army, and come out.’”
 Judges	Judg	7	9	30	When Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled.
 Judges	Judg	7	9	31	And he sent messengers to Abimelech at Arumah, saying, “Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his kinsmen have come to Shechem, and they are stirring up the city against you.
 Judges	Judg	7	9	32	Now therefore, go by night, you and the men that are with you, and lie in wait in the fields.
 Judges	Judg	7	9	33	Then in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, rise early and rush upon the city; and when he and the men that are with him come out against you, you may do to them as occasion offers.”
 Judges	Judg	7	9	34	And Abimelech and all the men that were with him rose up by night, and laid wait against Shechem in four companies.
 Judges	Judg	7	9	35	And Gaal the son of Ebed went out and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city; and Abimelech and the men that were with him rose from the ambush.
 Judges	Judg	7	9	36	And when Gaal saw the men, he said to Zebul, “Look, men are coming down from the mountain tops!” And Zebul said to him, “You see the shadow of the mountains as if they were men.”
 Judges	Judg	7	9	37	Gaal spoke again and said, “Look, men are coming down from the center of the land, and one company is coming from the direction of the Diviners’ Oak.”
 Judges	Judg	7	9	38	Then Zebul said to him, “Where is your mouth now, you who said, ‘Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?’ Are not these the men whom you despised? Go out now and fight with them.”
 Judges	Judg	7	9	39	And Gaal went out at the head of the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech.
 Judges	Judg	7	9	40	And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him; and many fell wounded, up to the entrance of the gate.
 Judges	Judg	7	9	41	And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah; and Zebul drove out Gaal and his kinsmen, so that they could not live on at Shechem.
 Judges	Judg	7	9	42	On the following day the men went out into the fields. And Abimelech was told.
 Judges	Judg	7	9	43	He took his men and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the fields; and he looked and saw the men coming out of the city, and he rose against them and slew them.
 Judges	Judg	7	9	44	Abimelech and the company that was with him rushed forward and stood at the entrance of the gate of the city, while the two companies rushed upon all who were in the fields and slew them.
 Judges	Judg	7	9	45	And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; he took the city, and killed the people that were in it; and he razed the city and sowed it with salt.
 Judges	Judg	7	9	46	When all the people of the Tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered the stronghold of the house of El-berith.
 Judges	Judg	7	9	47	Abimelech was told that all the people of the Tower of Shechem were gathered together.
 Judges	Judg	7	9	48	And Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the men that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bundle of brushwood, and took it up and laid it on his shoulder. And he said to the men that were with him, “What you have seen me do, make haste to do, as I have done.”
 Judges	Judg	7	9	49	So every one of the people cut down his bundle and following Abimelech put it against the stronghold, and they set the stronghold on fire over them, so that all the people of the Tower of Shechem also died, about a thousand men and women.
 Judges	Judg	7	9	50	Then Abimelech went to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.
 Judges	Judg	7	9	51	But there was a strong tower within the city, and all the people of the city fled to it, all the men and women, and shut themselves in; and they went to the roof of the tower.
 Judges	Judg	7	9	52	And Abimelech came to the tower, and fought against it, and drew near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
 Judges	Judg	7	9	53	And a certain woman threw an upper millstone upon Abimelech’s head, and crushed his skull.
 Judges	Judg	7	9	54	Then he called hastily to the young man his armor-bearer, and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, lest men say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’” And his young man thrust him through, and he died.
 Judges	Judg	7	9	55	And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man to his home.
 Judges	Judg	7	9	56	Thus God requited the crime of Abimelech, which he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers;
 Judges	Judg	7	9	57	and God also made all the wickedness of the men of Shechem fall back upon their heads, and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.
 Judges	Judg	7	10	1	After Abimelech there arose to deliver Israel Tola the son of Puah, son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he lived at Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.
 Judges	Judg	7	10	2	And he judged Israel twenty-three years. Then he died, and was buried at Shamir.
 Judges	Judg	7	10	3	After him arose Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years.
 Judges	Judg	7	10	4	And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty asses; and they had thirty cities, called Havvoth-jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
 Judges	Judg	7	10	5	And Jair died, and was buried in Kamon.
 Judges	Judg	7	10	6	And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines; and they forsook the Lord, and did not serve him.
 Judges	Judg	7	10	7	And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the Ammonites,
 Judges	Judg	7	10	8	and they crushed and oppressed the children of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the people of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
 Judges	Judg	7	10	9	And the Ammonites crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah and against Benjamin and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sorely distressed.
 Judges	Judg	7	10	10	And the people of Israel cried to the Lord, saying, “We have sinned against thee, because we have forsaken our God and have served the Baals.”
 Judges	Judg	7	10	11	And the Lord said to the people of Israel, “Did I not deliver you from the Egyptians and from the Amorites, from the Ammonites and from the Philistines?
 Judges	Judg	7	10	12	The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, oppressed you; and you cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.
 Judges	Judg	7	10	13	Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods; therefore I will deliver you no more.
 Judges	Judg	7	10	14	Go and cry to the gods whom you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your distress.”
 Judges	Judg	7	10	15	And the people of Israel said to the Lord, “We have sinned; do to us whatever seems good to thee; only deliver us, we pray thee, this day.”
 Judges	Judg	7	10	16	So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord; and he became indignant over the misery of Israel.
 Judges	Judg	7	10	17	Then the Ammonites were called to arms, and they encamped in Gilead; and the people of Israel came together, and they encamped at Mizpah.
 Judges	Judg	7	10	18	And the people, the leaders of Gilead, said one to another, “Who is the man that will begin to fight against the Ammonites? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”
 Judges	Judg	7	11	1	Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior, but he was the son of a harlot. Gilead was the father of Jephthah.
 Judges	Judg	7	11	2	And Gilead’s wife also bore him sons; and when his wife’s sons grew up, they thrust Jephthah out, and said to him, “You shall not inherit in our father’s house; for you are the son of another woman.”
 Judges	Judg	7	11	3	Then Jephthah fled from his brothers, and dwelt in the land of Tob; and worthless fellows collected round Jephthah, and went raiding with him.
 Judges	Judg	7	11	4	After a time the Ammonites made war against Israel.
 Judges	Judg	7	11	5	And when the Ammonites made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to bring Jephthah from the land of Tob;
 Judges	Judg	7	11	6	and they said to Jephthah, “Come and be our leader, that we may fight with the Ammonites.”
 Judges	Judg	7	11	7	But Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me, and drive me out of my father’s house? Why have you come to me now when you are in trouble?”
 Judges	Judg	7	11	8	And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “That is why we have turned to you now, that you may go with us and fight with the Ammonites, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”
 Judges	Judg	7	11	9	Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you bring me home again to fight with the Ammonites, and the Lord gives them over to me, I will be your head.”
 Judges	Judg	7	11	10	And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The Lord will be witness between us; we will surely do as you say.”
 Judges	Judg	7	11	11	So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and leader over them; and Jephthah spoke all his words before the Lord at Mizpah.
 Judges	Judg	7	11	12	Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites and said, “What have you against me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?”
 Judges	Judg	7	11	13	And the king of the Ammonites answered the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel on coming from Egypt took away my land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan; now therefore restore it peaceably.”
 Judges	Judg	7	11	14	And Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the Ammonites
 Judges	Judg	7	11	15	and said to him, “Thus says Jephthah: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites,
 Judges	Judg	7	11	16	but when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh.
 Judges	Judg	7	11	17	Israel then sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Let us pass, we pray, through your land’; but the king of Edom would not listen. And they sent also to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel remained at Kadesh.
 Judges	Judg	7	11	18	Then they journeyed through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and arrived on the east side of the land of Moab, and camped on the other side of the Arnon; but they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the boundary of Moab.
 Judges	Judg	7	11	19	Israel then sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, ‘Let us pass, we pray, through your land to our country.’
 Judges	Judg	7	11	20	But Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory; so Sihon gathered all his people together, and encamped at Jahaz, and fought with Israel.
 Judges	Judg	7	11	21	And the Lord, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they defeated them; so Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites, who inhabited that country.
 Judges	Judg	7	11	22	And they took possession of all the territory of the Amorites from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan.
 Judges	Judg	7	11	23	So then the Lord, the God of Israel, dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel; and are you to take possession of them?
 Judges	Judg	7	11	24	Will you not possess what Chemosh your god gives you to possess? And all that the Lord our God has dispossessed before us, we will possess.
 Judges	Judg	7	11	25	Now are you any better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever go to war with them?
 Judges	Judg	7	11	26	While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, three hundred years, why did you not recover them within that time?
 Judges	Judg	7	11	27	I therefore have not sinned against you, and you do me wrong by making war on me; the Lord, the Judge, decide this day between the people of Israel and the people of Ammon.”
 Judges	Judg	7	11	28	But the king of the Ammonites did not heed the message of Jephthah which he sent to him.
 Judges	Judg	7	11	29	Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh, and passed on to Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed on to the Ammonites.
 Judges	Judg	7	11	30	And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord, and said, “If thou wilt give the Ammonites into my hand,
 Judges	Judg	7	11	31	then whoever comes forth from the doors of my house to meet me, when I return victorious from the Ammonites, shall be the Lord’s, and I will offer him up for a burnt offering.”
 Judges	Judg	7	11	32	So Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonites to fight against them; and the Lord gave them into his hand.
 Judges	Judg	7	11	33	And he smote them from Aroer to the neighborhood of Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel-keramim, with a very great slaughter. So the Ammonites were subdued before the people of Israel.
 Judges	Judg	7	11	34	Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances; she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.
 Judges	Judg	7	11	35	And when he saw her, he rent his clothes, and said, “Alas, my daughter! you have brought me very low, and you have become the cause of great trouble to me; for I have opened my mouth to the Lord, and I cannot take back my vow.”
 Judges	Judg	7	11	36	And she said to him, “My father, if you have opened your mouth to the Lord, do to me according to what has gone forth from your mouth, now that the Lord has avenged you on your enemies, on the Ammonites.”
 Judges	Judg	7	11	37	And she said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me; let me alone two months, that I may go and wander on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.”
 Judges	Judg	7	11	38	And he said, “Go.” And he sent her away for two months; and she departed, she and her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.
 Judges	Judg	7	11	39	And at the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had made. She had never known a man. And it became a custom in Israel
 Judges	Judg	7	11	40	that the daughters of Israel went year by year to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year.
 Judges	Judg	7	12	1	The men of Ephraim were called to arms, and they crossed to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, “Why did you cross over to fight against the Ammonites, and did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house over you with fire.”
 Judges	Judg	7	12	2	And Jephthah said to them, “I and my people had a great feud with the Ammonites; and when I called you, you did not deliver me from their hand.
 Judges	Judg	7	12	3	And when I saw that you would not deliver me, I took my life in my hand, and crossed over against the Ammonites, and the Lord gave them into my hand; why then have you come up to me this day, to fight against me?”
 Judges	Judg	7	12	4	Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, “You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim and Manasseh.”
 Judges	Judg	7	12	5	And the Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. And when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, “Let me go over,” the men of Gilead said to him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” When he said, “No,”
 Judges	Judg	7	12	6	they said to him, “Then say Shibboleth,” and he said, “Sibboleth,” for he could not pronounce it right; then they seized him and slew him at the fords of the Jordan. And there fell at that time forty-two thousand of the Ephraimites.
 Judges	Judg	7	12	7	Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in his city in Gilead.
 Judges	Judg	7	12	8	After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
 Judges	Judg	7	12	9	He had thirty sons; and thirty daughters he gave in marriage outside his clan, and thirty daughters he brought in from outside for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.
 Judges	Judg	7	12	10	Then Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem.
 Judges	Judg	7	12	11	After him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.
 Judges	Judg	7	12	12	Then Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried at Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.
 Judges	Judg	7	12	13	After him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel.
 Judges	Judg	7	12	14	He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy asses; and he judged Israel eight years.
 Judges	Judg	7	12	15	Then Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried at Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.
 Judges	Judg	7	13	1	And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.
 Judges	Judg	7	13	2	And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren and had no children.
 Judges	Judg	7	13	3	And the angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, “Behold, you are barren and have no children; but you shall conceive and bear a son.
 Judges	Judg	7	13	4	Therefore beware, and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean,
 Judges	Judg	7	13	5	for lo, you shall conceive and bear a son. No razor shall come upon his head, for the boy shall be a Nazirite to God from birth; and he shall begin to deliver Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”
 Judges	Judg	7	13	6	Then the woman came and told her husband, “A man of God came to me, and his countenance was like the countenance of the angel of God, very terrible; I did not ask him whence he was, and he did not tell me his name;
 Judges	Judg	7	13	7	but he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son; so then drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, for the boy shall be a Nazirite to God from birth to the day of his death.’”
 Judges	Judg	7	13	8	Then Manoah entreated the Lord, and said, “O, Lord, I pray thee, let the man of God whom thou didst send come again to us, and teach us what we are to do with the boy that will be born.”
 Judges	Judg	7	13	9	And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field; but Manoah her husband was not with her.
 Judges	Judg	7	13	10	And the woman ran in haste and told her husband, “Behold, the man who came to me the other day has appeared to me.”
 Judges	Judg	7	13	11	And Manoah arose and went after his wife, and came to the man and said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to this woman?” And he said, “I am.”
 Judges	Judg	7	13	12	And Manoah said, “Now when your words come true, what is to be the boy’s manner of life, and what is he to do?”
 Judges	Judg	7	13	13	And the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, “Of all that I said to the woman let her beware.
 Judges	Judg	7	13	14	She may not eat of anything that comes from the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, or eat any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her observe.”
 Judges	Judg	7	13	15	Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, “Pray, let us detain you, and prepare a kid for you.”
 Judges	Judg	7	13	16	And the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, “If you detain me, I will not eat of your food; but if you make ready a burnt offering, then offer it to the Lord.” (For Manoah did not know that he was the angel of the Lord.)
 Judges	Judg	7	13	17	And Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, “What is your name, so that, when your words come true, we may honor you?”
 Judges	Judg	7	13	18	And the angel of the Lord said to him, “Why do you ask my name, seeing it is wonderful?”
 Judges	Judg	7	13	19	So Manoah took the kid with the cereal offering, and offered it upon the rock to the Lord, to him who works wonders.
 Judges	Judg	7	13	20	And when the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar while Manoah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground.
 Judges	Judg	7	13	21	The angel of the Lord appeared no more to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the Lord.
 Judges	Judg	7	13	22	And Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, for we have seen God.”
 Judges	Judg	7	13	23	But his wife said to him, “If the Lord had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and a cereal offering at our hands, or shown us all these things, or now announced to us such things as these.”
 Judges	Judg	7	13	24	And the woman bore a son, and called his name Samson; and the boy grew, and the Lord blessed him.
 Judges	Judg	7	13	25	And the Spirit of the Lord began to stir him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshta-ol.
 Judges	Judg	7	14	1	Samson went down to Timnah, and at Timnah he saw one of the daughters of the Philistines.
 Judges	Judg	7	14	2	Then he came up, and told his father and mother, “I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah; now get her for me as my wife.”
 Judges	Judg	7	14	3	But his father and mother said to him, “Is there not a woman among the daughters of your kinsmen, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me; for she pleases me well.”
 Judges	Judg	7	14	4	His father and mother did not know that it was from the Lord; for he was seeking an occasion against the Philistines. At that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.
 Judges	Judg	7	14	5	Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Timnah, and he came to the vineyards of Timnah. And behold, a young lion roared against him;
 Judges	Judg	7	14	6	and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and he tore the lion asunder as one tears a kid; and he had nothing in his hand. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done.
 Judges	Judg	7	14	7	Then he went down and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well.
 Judges	Judg	7	14	8	And after a while he returned to take her; and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.
 Judges	Judg	7	14	9	He scraped it out into his hands, and went on, eating as he went; and he came to his father and mother, and gave some to them, and they ate. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the carcass of the lion.
 Judges	Judg	7	14	10	And his father went down to the woman, and Samson made a feast there; for so the young men used to do.
 Judges	Judg	7	14	11	And when the people saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.
 Judges	Judg	7	14	12	And Samson said to them, “Let me now put a riddle to you; if you can tell me what it is, within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty festal garments;
 Judges	Judg	7	14	13	but if you cannot tell me what it is, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty festal garments.” And they said to him, “Put your riddle, that we may hear it.”
 Judges	Judg	7	14	14	And he said to them, “Out of the eater came something to eat. Out of the strong came something sweet.” And they could not in three days tell what the riddle was.
 Judges	Judg	7	14	15	On the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband to tell us what the riddle is, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you invited us here to impoverish us?”
 Judges	Judg	7	14	16	And Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, “You only hate me, you do not love me; you have put a riddle to my countrymen, and you have not told me what it is.” And he said to her, “Behold, I have not told my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?”
 Judges	Judg	7	14	17	She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted; and on the seventh day he told her, because she pressed him hard. Then she told the riddle to her countrymen.
 Judges	Judg	7	14	18	And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?” And he said to them, “If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have found out my riddle.”
 Judges	Judg	7	14	19	And the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon and killed thirty men of the town, and took their spoil and gave the festal garments to those who had told the riddle. In hot anger he went back to his father’s house.
 Judges	Judg	7	14	20	And Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man.
 Judges	Judg	7	15	1	After a while, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife with a kid; and he said, “I will go in to my wife in the chamber.” But her father would not allow him to go in.
 Judges	Judg	7	15	2	And her father said, “I really thought that you utterly hated her; so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister fairer than she? Pray take her instead.”
 Judges	Judg	7	15	3	And Samson said to them, “This time I shall be blameless in regard to the Philistines, when I do them mischief.”
 Judges	Judg	7	15	4	So Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches; and he turned them tail to tail, and put a torch between each pair of tails.
 Judges	Judg	7	15	5	And when he had set fire to the torches, he let the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up the shocks and the standing grain, as well as the olive orchards.
 Judges	Judg	7	15	6	Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?” And they said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion.” And the Philistines came up, and burned her and her father with fire.
 Judges	Judg	7	15	7	And Samson said to them, “If this is what you do, I swear I will be avenged upon you, and after that I will quit.”
 Judges	Judg	7	15	8	And he smote them hip and thigh with great slaughter; and he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
 Judges	Judg	7	15	9	Then the Philistines came up and encamped in Judah, and made a raid on Lehi.
 Judges	Judg	7	15	10	And the men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?” They said, “We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he did to us.”
 Judges	Judg	7	15	11	Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?” And he said to them, “As they did to me, so have I done to them.”
 Judges	Judg	7	15	12	And they said to him, “We have come down to bind you, that we may give you into the hands of the Philistines.” And Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not fall upon me yourselves.”
 Judges	Judg	7	15	13	They said to him, “No; we will only bind you and give you into their hands; we will not kill you.” So they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.
 Judges	Judg	7	15	14	When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him; and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and the ropes which were on his arms became as flax that has caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands.
 Judges	Judg	7	15	15	And he found a fresh jawbone of an ass, and put out his hand and seized it, and with it he slew a thousand men.
 Judges	Judg	7	15	16	And Samson said, “With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of an ass have I slain a thousand men.”
 Judges	Judg	7	15	17	When he had finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath-lehi.
 Judges	Judg	7	15	18	And he was very thirsty, and he called on the Lord and said, “Thou hast granted this great deliverance by the hand of thy servant; and shall I now die of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
 Judges	Judg	7	15	19	And God split open the hollow place that is at Lehi, and there came water from it; and when he drank, his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore the name of it was called En-hakkore; it is at Lehi to this day.
 Judges	Judg	7	15	20	And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
 Judges	Judg	7	16	1	Samson went to Gaza, and there he saw a harlot, and he went in to her.
 Judges	Judg	7	16	2	The Gazites were told, “Samson has come here,” and they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the gate of the city. They kept quiet all night, saying, “Let us wait till the light of the morning; then we will kill him.”
 Judges	Judg	7	16	3	But Samson lay till midnight, and at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city and the two posts, and pulled them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that is before Hebron.
 Judges	Judg	7	16	4	After this he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
 Judges	Judg	7	16	5	And the lords of the Philistines came to her and said to her, “Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to subdue him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”
 Judges	Judg	7	16	6	And Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me wherein your great strength lies, and how you might be bound, that one could subdue you.”
 Judges	Judg	7	16	7	And Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings which have not been dried, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man.”
 Judges	Judg	7	16	8	Then the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
 Judges	Judg	7	16	9	Now she had men lying in wait in an inner chamber. And she said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” But he snapped the bowstrings, as a string of tow snaps when it touches the fire. So the secret of his strength was not known.
 Judges	Judg	7	16	10	And Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies; please tell me how you might be bound.”
 Judges	Judg	7	16	11	And he said to her, “If they bind me with new ropes that have not been used, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man.”
 Judges	Judg	7	16	12	So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And the men lying in wait were in an inner chamber. But he snapped the ropes off his arms like a thread.
 Judges	Judg	7	16	13	And Delilah said to Samson, “Until now you have mocked me, and told me lies; tell me how you might be bound.” And he said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web and make it tight with the pin, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man.”
 Judges	Judg	7	16	14	So while he slept, Delilah took the seven locks of his head and wove them into the web. And she made them tight with the pin, and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” But he awoke from his sleep, and pulled away the pin, the loom, and the web.
 Judges	Judg	7	16	15	And she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and you have not told me wherein your great strength lies.”
 Judges	Judg	7	16	16	And when she pressed him hard with her words day after day, and urged him, his soul was vexed to death.
 Judges	Judg	7	16	17	And he told her all his mind, and said to her, “A razor has never come upon my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I be shaved, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.”
 Judges	Judg	7	16	18	When Delilah saw that he had told her all his mind, she sent and called the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up this once, for he has told me all his mind.” Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought the money in their hands.
 Judges	Judg	7	16	19	She made him sleep upon her knees; and she called a man, and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began to torment him, and his strength left him.
 Judges	Judg	7	16	20	And she said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And he awoke from his sleep, and said, “I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free.” And he did not know that the Lord had left him.
 Judges	Judg	7	16	21	And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with bronze fetters; and he ground at the mill in the prison.
 Judges	Judg	7	16	22	But the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaved.
 Judges	Judg	7	16	23	Now the lords of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, “Our god has given Samson our enemy into our hand.”
 Judges	Judg	7	16	24	And when the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, “Our god has given our enemy into our hand, the ravager of our country, who has slain many of us.”
 Judges	Judg	7	16	25	And when their hearts were merry, they said, “Call Samson, that he may make sport for us.” So they called Samson out of the prison, and he made sport before them. They made him stand between the pillars;
 Judges	Judg	7	16	26	and Samson said to the lad who held him by the hand, “Let me feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean against them.”
 Judges	Judg	7	16	27	Now the house was full of men and women; all the lords of the Philistines were there, and on the roof there were about three thousand men and women, who looked on while Samson made sport.
 Judges	Judg	7	16	28	Then Samson called to the Lord and said, “O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be avenged upon the Philistines for one of my two eyes.”
 Judges	Judg	7	16	29	And Samson grasped the two middle pillars upon which the house rested, and he leaned his weight upon them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other.
 Judges	Judg	7	16	30	And Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” Then he bowed with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords and upon all the people that were in it. So the dead whom he slew at his death were more than those whom he had slain during his life.
 Judges	Judg	7	16	31	Then his brothers and all his family came down and took him and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshta-ol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had judged Israel twenty years.
 Judges	Judg	7	17	1	There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
 Judges	Judg	7	17	2	And he said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver which were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it.” And his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the Lord.”
 Judges	Judg	7	17	3	And he restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother; and his mother said, “I consecrate the silver to the Lord from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image; now therefore I will restore it to you.”
 Judges	Judg	7	17	4	So when he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave it to the silversmith, who made it into a graven image and a molten image; and it was in the house of Micah.
 Judges	Judg	7	17	5	And the man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and teraphim, and installed one of his sons, who became his priest.
 Judges	Judg	7	17	6	In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.
 Judges	Judg	7	17	7	Now there was a young man of Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.
 Judges	Judg	7	17	8	And the man departed from the town of Bethlehem in Judah, to live where he could find a place; and as he journeyed, he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah.
 Judges	Judg	7	17	9	And Micah said to him, “From where do you come?” And he said to him, “I am a Levite of Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to sojourn where I may find a place.”
 Judges	Judg	7	17	10	And Micah said to him, “Stay with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year, and a suit of apparel, and your living.”
 Judges	Judg	7	17	11	And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man became to him like one of his sons.
 Judges	Judg	7	17	12	And Micah installed the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
 Judges	Judg	7	17	13	Then Micah said, “Now I know that the Lord will prosper me, because I have a Levite as priest.”
 Judges	Judg	7	18	1	In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking for itself an inheritance to dwell in; for until then no inheritance among the tribes of Israel had fallen to them.
 Judges	Judg	7	18	2	So the Danites sent five able men from the whole number of their tribe, from Zorah and from Eshta-ol, to spy out the land and to explore it; and they said to them, “Go and explore the land.” And they came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
 Judges	Judg	7	18	3	When they were by the house of Micah, they recognized the voice of the young Levite; and they turned aside and said to him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?”
 Judges	Judg	7	18	4	And he said to them, “Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me: he has hired me, and I have become his priest.”
 Judges	Judg	7	18	5	And they said to him, “Inquire of God, we pray thee, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed.”
 Judges	Judg	7	18	6	And the priest said to them, “Go in peace. The journey on which you go is under the eye of the Lord.”
 Judges	Judg	7	18	7	Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people who were there, how they dwelt in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting, lacking nothing that is in the earth, and possessing wealth, and how they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with any one.
 Judges	Judg	7	18	8	And when they came to their brethren at Zorah and Eshta-ol, their brethren said to them, “What do you report?”
 Judges	Judg	7	18	9	They said, “Arise, and let us go up against them; for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very fertile. And will you do nothing? Do not be slow to go, and enter in and possess the land.
 Judges	Judg	7	18	10	When you go, you will come to an unsuspecting people. The land is broad; yea, God has given it into your hands, a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”
 Judges	Judg	7	18	11	And six hundred men of the tribe of Dan, armed with weapons of war, set forth from Zorah and Eshta-ol,
 Judges	Judg	7	18	12	and went up and encamped at Kiriath-jearim in Judah. On this account that place is called Mahaneh-dan to this day; behold, it is west of Kiriath-jearim.
 Judges	Judg	7	18	13	And they passed on from there to the hill country of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.
 Judges	Judg	7	18	14	Then the five men who had gone to spy out the country of Laish said to their brethren, “Do you know that in these houses there are an ephod, teraphim, a graven image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what you will do.”
 Judges	Judg	7	18	15	And they turned aside thither, and came to the house of the young Levite, at the home of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.
 Judges	Judg	7	18	16	Now the six hundred men of the Danites, armed with their weapons of war, stood by the entrance of the gate;
 Judges	Judg	7	18	17	and the five men who had gone to spy out the land went up, and entered and took the graven image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image, while the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.
 Judges	Judg	7	18	18	And when these went into Micah’s house and took the graven image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”
 Judges	Judg	7	18	19	And they said to him, “Keep quiet, put your hand upon your mouth, and come with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and family in Israel?”
 Judges	Judg	7	18	20	And the priest’s heart was glad; he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.
 Judges	Judg	7	18	21	So they turned and departed, putting the little ones and the cattle and the goods in front of them.
 Judges	Judg	7	18	22	When they were a good way from the home of Micah, the men who were in the houses near Micah’s house were called out, and they overtook the Danites.
 Judges	Judg	7	18	23	And they shouted to the Danites, who turned round and said to Micah, “What ails you that you come with such a company?”
 Judges	Judg	7	18	24	And he said, “You take my gods which I made, and the priest, and go away, and what have I left? How then do you ask me, ‘What ails you?’”
 Judges	Judg	7	18	25	And the Danites said to him, “Do not let your voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall upon you, and you lose your life with the lives of your household.”
 Judges	Judg	7	18	26	Then the Danites went their way; and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his home.
 Judges	Judg	7	18	27	And taking what Micah had made, and the priest who belonged to him, the Danites came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and burned the city with fire.
 Judges	Judg	7	18	28	And there was no deliverer because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with any one. It was in the valley which belongs to Beth-rehob. And they rebuilt the city, and dwelt in it.
 Judges	Judg	7	18	29	And they named the city Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor, who was born to Israel; but the name of the city was Laish at the first.
 Judges	Judg	7	18	30	And the Danites set up the graven image for themselves; and Jonathan the son of Gershom, son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.
 Judges	Judg	7	18	31	So they set up Micah’s graven image which he made, as long as the house of God was at Shiloh.
 Judges	Judg	7	19	1	In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.
 Judges	Judg	7	19	2	And his concubine became angry with him, and she went away from him to her father’s house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there some four months.
 Judges	Judg	7	19	3	Then her husband arose and went after her, to speak kindly to her and bring her back. He had with him his servant and a couple of asses. And he came to her father’s house; and when the girl’s father saw him, he came with joy to meet him.
 Judges	Judg	7	19	4	And his father-in-law, the girl’s father, made him stay, and he remained with him three days; so they ate and drank, and lodged there.
 Judges	Judg	7	19	5	And on the fourth day they arose early in the morning, and he prepared to go; but the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, “Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and after that you may go.”
 Judges	Judg	7	19	6	So the two men sat and ate and drank together; and the girl’s father said to the man, “Be pleased to spend the night, and let your heart be merry.”
 Judges	Judg	7	19	7	And when the man rose up to go, his father-in-law urged him, till he lodged there again.
 Judges	Judg	7	19	8	And on the fifth day he arose early in the morning to depart; and the girl’s father said, “Strengthen your heart, and tarry until the day declines.” So they ate, both of them.
 Judges	Judg	7	19	9	And when the man and his concubine and his servant rose up to depart, his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him, “Behold, now the day has waned toward evening; pray tarry all night. Behold, the day draws to its close; lodge here and let your heart be merry; and tomorrow you shall arise early in the morning for your journey, and go home.”
 Judges	Judg	7	19	10	But the man would not spend the night; he rose up and departed, and arrived opposite Jebus (that is, Jerusalem). He had with him a couple of saddled asses, and his concubine was with him.
 Judges	Judg	7	19	11	When they were near Jebus, the day was far spent, and the servant said to his master, “Come now, let us turn aside to this city of the Jebusites, and spend the night in it.”
 Judges	Judg	7	19	12	And his master said to him, “We will not turn aside into the city of foreigners, who do not belong to the people of Israel; but we will pass on to Gibe-ah.”
 Judges	Judg	7	19	13	And he said to his servant, “Come and let us draw near to one of these places, and spend the night at Gibe-ah or at Ramah.”
 Judges	Judg	7	19	14	So they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down on them near Gibe-ah, which belongs to Benjamin,
 Judges	Judg	7	19	15	and they turned aside there, to go in and spend the night at Gibe-ah. And he went in and sat down in the open square of the city; for no man took them into his house to spend the night.
 Judges	Judg	7	19	16	And behold, an old man was coming from his work in the field at evening; the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he was sojourning in Gibe-ah; the men of the place were Benjaminites.
 Judges	Judg	7	19	17	And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfarer in the open square of the city; and the old man said, “Where are you going? and whence do you come?”
 Judges	Judg	7	19	18	And he said to him, “We are passing from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, from which I come. I went to Bethlehem in Judah; and I am going to my home; and nobody takes me into his house.
 Judges	Judg	7	19	19	We have straw and provender for our asses, with bread and wine for me and your maidservant and the young man with your servants; there is no lack of anything.”
 Judges	Judg	7	19	20	And the old man said, “Peace be to you; I will care for all your wants; only, do not spend the night in the square.”
 Judges	Judg	7	19	21	So he brought him into his house, and gave the asses provender; and they washed their feet, and ate and drank.
 Judges	Judg	7	19	22	As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, base fellows, beset the house round about, beating on the door; and they said to the old man, the master of the house, “Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him.”
 Judges	Judg	7	19	23	And the man, the master of the house, went out to them and said to them, “No, my brethren, do not act so wickedly; seeing that this man has come into my house, do not do this vile thing.
 Judges	Judg	7	19	24	Behold, here are my virgin daughter and his concubine; let me bring them out now. Ravish them and do with them what seems good to you; but against this man do not do so vile a thing.”
 Judges	Judg	7	19	25	But the men would not listen to him. So the man seized his concubine, and put her out to them; and they knew her, and abused her all night until the morning. And as the dawn began to break, they let her go.
 Judges	Judg	7	19	26	And as morning appeared, the woman came and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her master was, till it was light.
 Judges	Judg	7	19	27	And her master rose up in the morning, and when he opened the doors of the house and went out to go on his way, behold, there was his concubine lying at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold.
 Judges	Judg	7	19	28	He said to her, “Get up, let us be going.” But there was no answer. Then he put her upon the ass; and the man rose up and went away to his home.
 Judges	Judg	7	19	29	And when he entered his house, he took a knife, and laying hold of his concubine he divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the territory of Israel.
 Judges	Judg	7	19	30	And all who saw it said, “Such a thing has never happened or been seen from the day that the people of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt until this day; consider it, take counsel, and speak.”
 Judges	Judg	7	20	1	Then all the people of Israel came out, from Dan to Beer-sheba, including the land of Gilead, and the congregation assembled as one man to the Lord at Mizpah.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	2	And the chiefs of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand men on foot that drew the sword.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	3	(Now the Benjaminites heard that the people of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) And the people of Israel said, “Tell us, how was this wickedness brought to pass?”
 Judges	Judg	7	20	4	And the Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered and said, “I came to Gibe-ah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend the night.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	5	And the men of Gibe-ah rose against me, and beset the house round about me by night; they meant to kill me, and they ravished my concubine, and she is dead.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	6	And I took my concubine and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed abomination and wantonness in Israel.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	7	Behold, you people of Israel, all of you, give your advice and counsel here.”
 Judges	Judg	7	20	8	And all the people arose as one man, saying, “We will not any of us go to his tent, and none of us will return to his house.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	9	But now this is what we will do to Gibe-ah: we will go up against it by lot,
 Judges	Judg	7	20	10	and we will take ten men of a hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand of ten thousand, to bring provisions for the people, that when they come they may requite Gibe-ah of Benjamin, for all the wanton crime which they have committed in Israel.”
 Judges	Judg	7	20	11	So all the men of Israel gathered against the city, united as one man.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	12	And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What wickedness is this that has taken place among you?
 Judges	Judg	7	20	13	Now therefore give up the men, the base fellows in Gibe-ah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel.” But the Benjaminites would not listen to the voice of their brethren, the people of Israel.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	14	And the Benjaminites came together out of the cities to Gibe-ah, to go out to battle against the people of Israel.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	15	And the Benjaminites mustered out of their cities on that day twenty-six thousand men that drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibe-ah, who mustered seven hundred picked men.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	16	Among all these were seven hundred picked men who were left-handed; every one could sling a stone at a hair, and not miss.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	17	And the men of Israel, apart from Benjamin, mustered four hundred thousand men that drew sword; all these were men of war.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	18	The people of Israel arose and went up to Bethel, and inquired of God, “Which of us shall go up first to battle against the Benjaminites?” And the Lord said, “Judah shall go up first.”
 Judges	Judg	7	20	19	Then the people of Israel rose in the morning, and encamped against Gibe-ah.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	20	And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel drew up the battle line against them at Gibe-ah.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	21	The Benjaminites came out of Gibe-ah, and felled to the ground on that day twenty-two thousand men of the Israelites.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	22	But the people, the men of Israel, took courage, and again formed the battle line in the same place where they had formed it on the first day.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	23	And the people of Israel went up and wept before the Lord until the evening; and they inquired of the Lord, “Shall we again draw near to battle against our brethren the Benjaminites?” And the Lord said, “Go up against them.”
 Judges	Judg	7	20	24	So the people of Israel came near against the Benjaminites the second day.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	25	And Benjamin went against them out of Gibe-ah the second day, and felled to the ground eighteen thousand men of the people of Israel; all these were men who drew the sword.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	26	Then all the people of Israel, the whole army, went up and came to Bethel and wept; they sat there before the Lord, and fasted that day until evening, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	27	And the people of Israel inquired of the Lord (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
 Judges	Judg	7	20	28	and Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, ministered before it in those days), saying, “Shall we yet again go out to battle against our brethren the Benjaminites, or shall we cease?” And the Lord said, “Go up; for tomorrow I will give them into your hand.”
 Judges	Judg	7	20	29	So Israel set men in ambush round about Gibe-ah.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	30	And the people of Israel went up against the Benjaminites on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibe-ah, as at other times.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	31	And the Benjaminites went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and as at other times they began to smite and kill some of the people, in the highways, one of which goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibe-ah, and in the open country, about thirty men of Israel.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	32	And the Benjaminites said, “They are routed before us, as at the first.” But the men of Israel said, “Let us flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways.”
 Judges	Judg	7	20	33	And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and set themselves in array at Baal-tamar; and the men of Israel who were in ambush rushed out of their place west of Geba.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	34	And there came against Gibe-ah ten thousand picked men out of all Israel, and the battle was hard; but the Benjaminites did not know that disaster was close upon them.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	35	And the Lord defeated Benjamin before Israel; and the men of Israel destroyed twenty-five thousand one hundred men of Benjamin that day; all these were men who drew the sword.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	36	So the Benjaminites saw that they were defeated. The men of Israel gave ground to Benjamin, because they trusted to the men in ambush whom they had set against Gibe-ah.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	37	And the men in ambush made haste and rushed upon Gibe-ah; the men in ambush moved out and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	38	Now the appointed signal between the men of Israel and the men in ambush was that when they made a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city
 Judges	Judg	7	20	39	the men of Israel should turn in battle. Now Benjamin had begun to smite and kill about thirty men of Israel; they said, “Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.”
 Judges	Judg	7	20	40	But when the signal began to rise out of the city in a column of smoke, the Benjaminites looked behind them; and behold, the whole of the city went up in smoke to heaven.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	41	Then the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed, for they saw that disaster was close upon them.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	42	Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel in the direction of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them, and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in the midst of them.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	43	Cutting down the Benjaminites, they pursued them and trod them down from Nohah as far as opposite Gibe-ah on the east.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	44	Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell, all of them men of valor.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	45	And they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon; five thousand men of them were cut down in the highways, and they were pursued hard to Gidom, and two thousand men of them were slain.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	46	So all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men that drew the sword, all of them men of valor.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	47	But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and abode at the rock of Rimmon four months.
 Judges	Judg	7	20	48	And the men of Israel turned back against the Benjaminites, and smote them with the edge of the sword, men and beasts and all that they found. And all the towns which they found they set on fire.
 Judges	Judg	7	21	1	Now the men of Israel had sworn at Mizpah, “No one of us shall give his daughter in marriage to Benjamin.”
 Judges	Judg	7	21	2	And the people came to Bethel, and sat there till evening before God, and they lifted up their voices and wept bitterly.
 Judges	Judg	7	21	3	And they said, “O Lord, the God of Israel, why has this come to pass in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel?”
 Judges	Judg	7	21	4	And on the morrow the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
 Judges	Judg	7	21	5	And the people of Israel said, “Which of all the tribes of Israel did not come up in the assembly to the Lord?” For they had taken a great oath concerning him who did not come up to the Lord to Mizpah, saying, “He shall be put to death.”
 Judges	Judg	7	21	6	And the people of Israel had compassion for Benjamin their brother, and said, “One tribe is cut off from Israel this day.
 Judges	Judg	7	21	7	What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since we have sworn by the Lord that we will not give them any of our daughters for wives?”
 Judges	Judg	7	21	8	And they said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel that did not come up to the Lord to Mizpah?” And behold, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh-gilead, to the assembly.
 Judges	Judg	7	21	9	For when the people were mustered, behold, not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead was there.
 Judges	Judg	7	21	10	So the congregation sent thither twelve thousand of their bravest men, and commanded them, “Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword; also the women and the little ones.
 Judges	Judg	7	21	11	This is what you shall do; every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall utterly destroy.”
 Judges	Judg	7	21	12	And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
 Judges	Judg	7	21	13	Then the whole congregation sent word to the Benjaminites who were at the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.
 Judges	Judg	7	21	14	And Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead; but they did not suffice for them.
 Judges	Judg	7	21	15	And the people had compassion on Benjamin because the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
 Judges	Judg	7	21	16	Then the elders of the congregation said, “What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?”
 Judges	Judg	7	21	17	And they said, “There must be an inheritance for the survivors of Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out from Israel.
 Judges	Judg	7	21	18	Yet we cannot give them wives of our daughters.” For the people of Israel had sworn, “Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin.”
 Judges	Judg	7	21	19	So they said, “Behold, there is the yearly feast of the Lord at Shiloh, which is north of Bethel, on the east of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”
 Judges	Judg	7	21	20	And they commanded the Benjaminites, saying, “Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,
 Judges	Judg	7	21	21	and watch; if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards and seize each man his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
 Judges	Judg	7	21	22	And when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously to us; because we did not take for each man of them his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, else you would now be guilty.’”
 Judges	Judg	7	21	23	And the Benjaminites did so, and took their wives, according to their number, from the dancers whom they carried off; then they went and returned to their inheritance, and rebuilt the towns, and dwelt in them.
 Judges	Judg	7	21	24	And the people of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and family, and they went out from there every man to his inheritance.
 Judges	Judg	7	21	25	In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	1	1	In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	1	2	The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion; they were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	1	3	But Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	1	4	These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years;
 Ruth	Ruth	8	1	5	and both Mahlon and Chilion died, so that the woman was bereft of her two sons and her husband.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	1	6	Then she started with her daughters-in-law to return from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the country of Moab that the Lord had visited his people and given them food.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	1	7	So she set out from the place where she was, with her two daughters-in-law, and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	1	8	But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother’s house. May the Lord deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	1	9	The Lord grant that you may find a home, each of you in the house of her husband!” Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices and wept.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	1	10	And they said to her, “No, we will return with you to your people.”
 Ruth	Ruth	8	1	11	But Naomi said, “Turn back, my daughters, why will you go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb that they may become your husbands?
 Ruth	Ruth	8	1	12	Turn back, my daughters, go your way, for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say I have hope, even if I should have a husband this night and should bear sons,
 Ruth	Ruth	8	1	13	would you therefore wait till they were grown? Would you therefore refrain from marrying? No, my daughters, for it is exceedingly bitter to me for your sake that the hand of the Lord has gone forth against me.”
 Ruth	Ruth	8	1	14	Then they lifted up their voices and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	1	15	And she said, “See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.”
 Ruth	Ruth	8	1	16	But Ruth said, “Entreat me not to leave you or to return from following you; for where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God;
 Ruth	Ruth	8	1	17	where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if even death parts me from you.”
 Ruth	Ruth	8	1	18	And when Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	1	19	So the two of them went on until they came to Bethlehem. And when they came to Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them; and the women said, “Is this Naomi?”
 Ruth	Ruth	8	1	20	She said to them, “Do not call me Naomi, call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	1	21	I went away full, and the Lord has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi, when the Lord has afflicted me and the Almighty has brought calamity upon me?”
 Ruth	Ruth	8	1	22	So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess her daughter-in-law with her, who returned from the country of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	2	1	Now Naomi had a kinsman of her husband’s, a man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	2	2	And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Let me go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor.” And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.”
 Ruth	Ruth	8	2	3	So she set forth and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers; and she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	2	4	And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem; and he said to the reapers, “The Lord be with you!” And they answered, “The Lord bless you.”
 Ruth	Ruth	8	2	5	Then Boaz said to his servant who was in charge of the reapers, “Whose maiden is this?”
 Ruth	Ruth	8	2	6	And the servant who was in charge of the reapers answered, “It is the Moabite maiden, who came back with Naomi from the country of Moab.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	2	7	She said, ‘Pray, let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the reapers.’ So she came, and she has continued from early morning until now, without resting even for a moment.”
 Ruth	Ruth	8	2	8	Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Now, listen, my daughter, do not go to glean in another field or leave this one, but keep close to my maidens.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	2	9	Let your eyes be upon the field which they are reaping, and go after them. Have I not charged the young men not to molest you? And when you are thirsty, go to the vessels and drink what the young men have drawn.”
 Ruth	Ruth	8	2	10	Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, when I am a foreigner?”
 Ruth	Ruth	8	2	11	But Boaz answered her, “All that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband has been fully told me, and how you left your father and mother and your native land and came to a people that you did not know before.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	2	12	The Lord recompense you for what you have done, and a full reward be given you by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge!”
 Ruth	Ruth	8	2	13	Then she said, “You are most gracious to me, my lord, for you have comforted me and spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not one of your maidservants.”
 Ruth	Ruth	8	2	14	And at mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come here, and eat some bread, and dip your morsel in the wine.” So she sat beside the reapers, and he passed to her parched grain; and she ate until she was satisfied, and she had some left over.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	2	15	When she rose to glean, Boaz instructed his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not reproach her.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	2	16	And also pull out some from the bundles for her, and leave it for her to glean, and do not rebuke her.”
 Ruth	Ruth	8	2	17	So she gleaned in the field until evening; then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	2	18	And she took it up and went into the city; she showed her mother-in-law what she had gleaned, and she also brought out and gave her what food she had left over after being satisfied.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	2	19	And her mother-in-law said to her, “Where did you glean today? And where have you worked? Blessed be the man who took notice of you.” So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, and said, “The man’s name with whom I worked today is Boaz.”
 Ruth	Ruth	8	2	20	And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “Blessed be he by the Lord, whose kindness has not forsaken the living or the dead!” Naomi also said to her, “The man is a relative of ours, one of our nearest kin.”
 Ruth	Ruth	8	2	21	And Ruth the Moabitess said, “Besides, he said to me, ‘You shall keep close by my servants, till they have finished all my harvest.’”
 Ruth	Ruth	8	2	22	And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, “It is well, my daughter, that you go out with his maidens, lest in another field you be molested.”
 Ruth	Ruth	8	2	23	So she kept close to the maidens of Boaz, gleaning until the end of the barley and wheat harvests; and she lived with her mother-in-law.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	3	1	Then Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, should I not seek a home for you, that it may be well with you?
 Ruth	Ruth	8	3	2	Now is not Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens you were? See, he is winnowing barley tonight at the threshing floor.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	3	3	Wash therefore and anoint yourself, and put on your best clothes and go down to the threshing floor; but do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	3	4	But when he lies down, observe the place where he lies; then, go and uncover his feet and lie down; and he will tell you what to do.”
 Ruth	Ruth	8	3	5	And she replied, “All that you say I will do.”
 Ruth	Ruth	8	3	6	So she went down to the threshing floor and did just as her mother-in-law had told her.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	3	7	And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. Then she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and lay down.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	3	8	At midnight the man was startled, and turned over, and behold, a woman lay at his feet!
 Ruth	Ruth	8	3	9	He said, “Who are you?” And she answered, “I am Ruth, your maidservant; spread your skirt over your maidservant, for you are next of kin.”
 Ruth	Ruth	8	3	10	And he said, “May you be blessed by the Lord, my daughter; you have made this last kindness greater than the first, in that you have not gone after young men, whether poor or rich.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	3	11	And now, my daughter, do not fear, I will do for you all that you ask, for all my fellow townsmen know that you are a woman of worth.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	3	12	And now it is true that I am a near kinsman, yet there is a kinsman nearer than I.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	3	13	Remain this night, and in the morning, if he will do the part of the next of kin for you, well; let him do it; but if he is not willing to do the part of the next of kin for you, then, as the Lord lives, I will do the part of the next of kin for you. Lie down until the morning.”
 Ruth	Ruth	8	3	14	So she lay at his feet until the morning, but arose before one could recognize another; and he said, “Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor.”
 Ruth	Ruth	8	3	15	And he said, “Bring the mantle you are wearing and hold it out.” So she held it, and he measured out six measures of barley, and laid it upon her; then she went into the city.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	3	16	And when she came to her mother-in-law, she said, “How did you fare, my daughter?” Then she told her all that the man had done for her,
 Ruth	Ruth	8	3	17	saying, “These six measures of barley he gave to me, for he said, ‘You must not go back empty-handed to your mother-in-law.’”
 Ruth	Ruth	8	3	18	She replied, “Wait, my daughter, until you learn how the matter turns out, for the man will not rest, but will settle the matter today.”
 Ruth	Ruth	8	4	1	And Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there; and behold, the next of kin, of whom Boaz had spoken, came by. So Boaz said, “Turn aside, friend; sit down here”; and he turned aside and sat down.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	4	2	And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down here”; so they sat down.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	4	3	Then he said to the next of kin, “Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land which belonged to our kinsman Elimelech.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	4	4	So I thought I would tell you of it, and say, Buy it in the presence of those sitting here, and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not, tell me, that I may know, for there is no one besides you to redeem it, and I come after you.” And he said, “I will redeem it.”
 Ruth	Ruth	8	4	5	Then Boaz said, “The day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you are also buying Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of the dead, in order to restore the name of the dead to his inheritance.”
 Ruth	Ruth	8	4	6	Then the next of kin said, “I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I impair my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption yourself, for I cannot redeem it.”
 Ruth	Ruth	8	4	7	Now this was the custom in former times in Israel concerning redeeming and exchanging: to confirm a transaction, the one drew off his sandal and gave it to the other, and this was the manner of attesting in Israel.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	4	8	So when the next of kin said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself,” he drew off his sandal.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	4	9	Then Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses this day that I have bought from the hand of Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech and all that belonged to Chilion and to Mahlon.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	4	10	Also Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, I have bought to be my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brethren and from the gate of his native place; you are witnesses this day.”
 Ruth	Ruth	8	4	11	Then all the people who were at the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman, who is coming into your house, like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you prosper in Ephrathah and be renowned in Bethlehem;
 Ruth	Ruth	8	4	12	and may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the children that the Lord will give you by this young woman.”
 Ruth	Ruth	8	4	13	So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and the Lord gave her conception, and she bore a son.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	4	14	Then the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the Lord, who has not left you this day without next of kin; and may his name be renowned in Israel!
 Ruth	Ruth	8	4	15	He shall be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age; for your daughter-in-law who loves you, who is more to you than seven sons, has borne him.”
 Ruth	Ruth	8	4	16	Then Naomi took the child and laid him in her bosom, and became his nurse.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	4	17	And the women of the neighborhood gave him a name, saying, “A son has been born to Naomi.” They named him Obed; he was the father of Jesse, the father of David.
 Ruth	Ruth	8	4	18	Now these are the descendants of Perez: Perez was the father of Hezron,
 Ruth	Ruth	8	4	19	Hezron of Ram, Ram of Amminadab,
 Ruth	Ruth	8	4	20	Amminadab of Nahshon, Nahshon of Salmon,
 Ruth	Ruth	8	4	21	Salmon of Boaz, Boaz of Obed,
 Ruth	Ruth	8	4	22	Obed of Jesse, and Jesse of David.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	1	1	There was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	1	2	He had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	1	3	Now this man used to go up year by year from his city to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts at Shiloh, where the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests of the Lord.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	1	4	On the day when Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and daughters;
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	1	5	and, although he loved Hannah, he would give Hannah only one portion, because the Lord had closed her womb.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	1	6	And her rival used to provoke her sorely, to irritate her, because the Lord had closed her womb.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	1	7	So it went on year by year; as often as she went up to the house of the Lord, she used to provoke her. Therefore Hannah wept and would not eat.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	1	8	And Elkanah, her husband, said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? And why do you not eat? And why is your heart sad? Am I not more to you than ten sons?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	1	9	After they had eaten and drunk in Shiloh, Hannah rose. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat beside the doorpost of the temple of the Lord.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	1	10	She was deeply distressed and prayed to the Lord, and wept bitterly.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	1	11	And she vowed a vow and said, “O Lord of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thy maidservant, and remember me, and not forget thy maidservant, but wilt give to thy maidservant a son, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall touch his head.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	1	12	As she continued praying before the Lord, Eli observed her mouth.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	1	13	Hannah was speaking in her heart; only her lips moved, and her voice was not heard; therefore Eli took her to be a drunken woman.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	1	14	And Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunken? Put away your wine from you.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	1	15	But Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman sorely troubled; I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have been pouring out my soul before the Lord.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	1	16	Do not regard your maidservant as a base woman, for all along I have been speaking out of my great anxiety and vexation.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	1	17	Then Eli answered, “Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant your petition which you have made to him.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	1	18	And she said, “Let your maidservant find favor in your eyes.” Then the woman went her way and ate, and her countenance was no longer sad.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	1	19	They rose early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord; then they went back to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord remembered her;
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	1	20	and in due time Hannah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Samuel, for she said, “I have asked him of the Lord.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	1	21	And the man Elkanah and all his house went up to offer to the Lord the yearly sacrifice, and to pay his vow.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	1	22	But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, “As soon as the child is weaned, I will bring him, that he may appear in the presence of the Lord, and abide there for ever.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	1	23	Elkanah her husband said to her, “Do what seems best to you, wait until you have weaned him; only, may the Lord establish his word.” So the woman remained and nursed her son, until she weaned him.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	1	24	And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine; and she brought him to the house of the Lord at Shiloh; and the child was young.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	1	25	Then they slew the bull, and they brought the child to Eli.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	1	26	And she said, “Oh, my lord! As you live, my lord, I am the woman who was standing here in your presence, praying to the Lord.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	1	27	For this child I prayed; and the Lord has granted me my petition which I made to him.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	1	28	Therefore I have lent him to the Lord; as long as he lives, he is lent to the Lord.” And they worshiped the Lord there.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	1	Hannah also prayed and said, “My heart exults in the Lord; my strength is exalted in the Lord. My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in thy salvation.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	2	“There is none holy like the Lord, there is none besides thee; there is no rock like our God.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	3	Talk no more so very proudly, let not arrogance come from your mouth; for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	4	The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble gird on strength.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	5	Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry have ceased to hunger. The barren has borne seven, but she who has many children is forlorn.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	6	The Lord kills and brings to life; he brings down to Sheol and raises up.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	7	The Lord makes poor and makes rich; he brings low, he also exalts.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	8	He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap, to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and on them he has set the world.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	9	“He will guard the feet of his faithful ones; but the wicked shall be cut off in darkness; for not by might shall a man prevail.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	10	The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; against them he will thunder in heaven. The Lord will judge the ends of the earth; he will give strength to his king, and exalt the power of his anointed.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	11	Then Elkanah went home to Ramah. And the boy ministered to the Lord, in the presence of Eli the priest.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	12	Now the sons of Eli were worthless men; they had no regard for the Lord.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	13	The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice, the priest’s servant would come, while the meat was boiling, with a three-pronged fork in his hand,
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	14	and he would thrust it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fork brought up the priest would take for himself. So they did at Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	15	Moreover, before the fat was burned, the priest’s servant would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give meat for the priest to roast; for he will not accept boiled meat from you, but raw.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	16	And if the man said to him, “Let them burn the fat first, and then take as much as you wish,” he would say, “No, you must give it now; and if not, I will take it by force.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	17	Thus the sin of the young men was very great in the sight of the Lord; for the men treated the offering of the Lord with contempt.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	18	Samuel was ministering before the Lord, a boy girded with a linen ephod.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	19	And his mother used to make for him a little robe and take it to him each year, when she went up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	20	Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and say, “The Lord give you children by this woman for the loan which she lent to the Lord”; so then they would return to their home.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	21	And the Lord visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. And the boy Samuel grew in the presence of the Lord.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	22	Now Eli was very old, and he heard all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	23	And he said to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all the people.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	24	No, my sons; it is no good report that I hear the people of the Lord spreading abroad.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	25	If a man sins against a man, God will mediate for him; but if a man sins against the Lord, who can intercede for him?” But they would not listen to the voice of their father; for it was the will of the Lord to slay them.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	26	Now the boy Samuel continued to grow both in stature and in favor with the Lord and with men.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	27	And there came a man of God to Eli, and said to him, “Thus the Lord has said, ‘I revealed myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt subject to the house of Pharaoh.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	28	And I chose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me; and I gave to the house of your father all my offerings by fire from the people of Israel.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	29	Why then look with greedy eye at my sacrifices and my offerings which I commanded, and honor your sons above me by fattening yourselves upon the choicest parts of every offering of my people Israel?’
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	30	Therefore the Lord the God of Israel declares: ‘I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me for ever’; but now the Lord declares: ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	31	Behold, the days are coming, when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that there will not be an old man in your house.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	32	Then in distress you will look with envious eye on all the prosperity which shall be bestowed upon Israel; and there shall not be an old man in your house for ever.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	33	The man of you whom I shall not cut off from my altar shall be spared to weep out his eyes and grieve his heart; and all the increase of your house shall die by the sword of men.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	34	And this which shall befall your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, shall be the sign to you: both of them shall die on the same day.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	35	And I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind; and I will build him a sure house, and he shall go in and out before my anointed for ever.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	2	36	And every one who is left in your house shall come to implore him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread, and shall say, “Put me, I pray you, in one of the priest’s places, that I may eat a morsel of bread.”’”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	3	1	Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord under Eli. And the word of the Lord was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	3	2	At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see, was lying down in his own place;
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	3	3	the lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down within the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	3	4	Then the Lord called, “Samuel! Samuel!” and he said, “Here I am!”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	3	5	and ran to Eli, and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” But he said, “I did not call; lie down again.” So he went and lay down.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	3	6	And the Lord called again, “Samuel!” And Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” But he said, “I did not call, my son; lie down again.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	3	7	Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, and the word of the Lord had not yet been revealed to him.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	3	8	And the Lord called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli, and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” Then Eli perceived that the Lord was calling the boy.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	3	9	Therefore Eli said to Samuel, “Go, lie down; and if he calls you, you shall say, ‘Speak, Lord, for thy servant hears.’” So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	3	10	And the Lord came and stood forth, calling as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” And Samuel said, “Speak, for thy servant hears.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	3	11	Then the Lord said to Samuel, “Behold, I am about to do a thing in Israel, at which the two ears of every one that hears it will tingle.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	3	12	On that day I will fulfil against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	3	13	And I tell him that I am about to punish his house for ever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	3	14	Therefore I swear to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be expiated by sacrifice or offering for ever.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	3	15	Samuel lay until morning; then he opened the doors of the house of the Lord. And Samuel was afraid to tell the vision to Eli.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	3	16	But Eli called Samuel and said, “Samuel, my son.” And he said, “Here I am.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	3	17	And Eli said, “What was it that he told you? Do not hide it from me. May God do so to you and more also, if you hide anything from me of all that he told you.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	3	18	So Samuel told him everything and hid nothing from him. And he said, “It is the Lord; let him do what seems good to him.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	3	19	And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	3	20	And all Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba knew that Samuel was established as a prophet of the Lord.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	3	21	And the Lord appeared again at Shiloh, for the Lord revealed himself to Samuel at Shiloh by the word of the Lord.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	4	1	And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out to battle against the Philistines; they encamped at Ebenezer, and the Philistines encamped at Aphek.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	4	2	The Philistines drew up in line against Israel, and when the battle spread, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who slew about four thousand men on the field of battle.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	4	3	And when the troops came to the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why has the Lord put us to rout today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord here from Shiloh, that he may come among us and save us from the power of our enemies.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	4	4	So the people sent to Shiloh, and brought from there the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts, who is enthroned on the cherubim; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	4	5	When the ark of the covenant of the Lord came into the camp, all Israel gave a mighty shout, so that the earth resounded.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	4	6	And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shouting, they said, “What does this great shouting in the camp of the Hebrews mean?” And when they learned that the ark of the Lord had come to the camp,
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	4	7	the Philistines were afraid; for they said, “A god has come into the camp.” And they said, “Woe to us! For nothing like this has happened before.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	4	8	Woe to us! Who can deliver us from the power of these mighty gods? These are the gods who smote the Egyptians with every sort of plague in the wilderness.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	4	9	Take courage, and acquit yourselves like men, O Philistines, lest you become slaves to the Hebrews as they have been to you; acquit yourselves like men and fight.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	4	10	So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and they fled, every man to his home; and there was a very great slaughter, for there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot soldiers.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	4	11	And the ark of God was captured; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	4	12	A man of Benjamin ran from the battle line, and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes rent and with earth upon his head.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	4	13	When he arrived, Eli was sitting upon his seat by the road watching, for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city and told the news, all the city cried out.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	4	14	When Eli heard the sound of the outcry, he said, “What is this uproar?” Then the man hastened and came and told Eli.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	4	15	Now Eli was ninety-eight years old and his eyes were set, so that he could not see.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	4	16	And the man said to Eli, “I am he who has come from the battle; I fled from the battle today.” And he said, “How did it go, my son?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	4	17	He who brought the tidings answered and said, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has also been a great slaughter among the people; your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	4	18	When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell over backward from his seat by the side of the gate; and his neck was broken and he died, for he was an old man, and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	4	19	Now his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was with child, about to give birth. And when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was captured, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed and gave birth; for her pains came upon her.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	4	20	And about the time of her death the women attending her said to her, “Fear not, for you have borne a son.” But she did not answer or give heed.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	4	21	And she named the child Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel!” because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	4	22	And she said, “The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	5	1	When the Philistines captured the ark of God, they carried it from Ebenezer to Ashdod;
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	5	2	then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it up beside Dagon.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	5	3	And when the people of Ashdod rose early the next day, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the Lord. So they took Dagon and put him back in his place.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	5	4	But when they rose early on the next morning, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the Lord, and the head of Dagon and both his hands were lying cut off upon the threshold; only the trunk of Dagon was left to him.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	5	5	This is why the priests of Dagon and all who enter the house of Dagon do not tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	5	6	The hand of the Lord was heavy upon the people of Ashdod, and he terrified and afflicted them with tumors, both Ashdod and its territory.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	5	7	And when the men of Ashdod saw how things were, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel must not remain with us; for his hand is heavy upon us and upon Dagon our god.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	5	8	So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?” They answered, “Let the ark of the God of Israel be brought around to Gath.” So they brought the ark of the God of Israel there.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	5	9	But after they had brought it around, the hand of the Lord was against the city, causing a very great panic, and he afflicted the men of the city, both young and old, so that tumors broke out upon them.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	5	10	So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. But when the ark of God came to Ekron, the people of Ekron cried out, “They have brought around to us the ark of the God of Israel to slay us and our people.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	5	11	They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it return to its own place, that it may not slay us and our people.” For there was a deathly panic throughout the whole city. The hand of God was very heavy there;
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	5	12	the men who did not die were stricken with tumors, and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	6	1	The ark of the Lord was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	6	2	And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the Lor? Tell us with what we shall send it to its place.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	6	3	They said, “If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it empty, but by all means return him a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and it will be known to you why his hand does not turn away from you.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	6	4	And they said, “What is the guilt offering that we shall return to him?” They answered, “Five golden tumors and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines; for the same plague was upon all of you and upon your lords.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	6	5	So you must make images of your tumors and images of your mice that ravage the land, and give glory to the God of Israel; perhaps he will lighten his hand from off you and your gods and your land.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	6	6	Why should you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? After he had made sport of them, did not they let the people go, and they departed?
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	6	7	Now then, take and prepare a new cart and two milch cows upon which there has never come a yoke, and yoke the cows to the cart, but take their calves home, away from them.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	6	8	And take the ark of the Lord and place it on the cart, and put in a box at its side the figures of gold, which you are returning to him as a guilt offering. Then send it off, and let it go its way.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	6	9	And watch; if it goes up on the way to its own land, to Beth-shemesh, then it is he who has done us this great harm; but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us, it happened to us by chance.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	6	10	The men did so, and took two milch cows and yoked them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	6	11	And they put the ark of the Lord on the cart, and the box with the golden mice and the images of their tumors.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	6	12	And the cows went straight in the direction of Beth-shemesh along one highway, lowing as they went; they turned neither to the right nor to the left, and the lords of the Philistines went after them as far as the border of Beth-shemesh.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	6	13	Now the people of Beth-shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley; and when they lifted up their eyes and saw the ark, they rejoiced to see it.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	6	14	The cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh, and stopped there. A great stone was there; and they split up the wood of the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the Lord.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	6	15	And the Levites took down the ark of the Lord and the box that was beside it, in which were the golden figures, and set them upon the great stone; and the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices on that day to the Lord.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	6	16	And when the five lords of the Philistines saw it, they returned that day to Ekron.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	6	17	These are the golden tumors, which the Philistines returned as a guilt offering to the Lord: one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron;
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	6	18	also the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both fortified cities and unwalled villages. The great stone, beside which they set down the ark of the Lord, is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	6	19	And he slew some of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they looked into the ark of the Lord; he slew seventy men of them, and the people mourned because the Lord had made a great slaughter among the people.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	6	20	Then the men of Beth-shemesh said, “Who is able to stand before the Lord, this holy God? And to whom shall he go up away from us?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	6	21	So they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath-jearim, saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of the Lord. Come down and take it up to you.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	7	1	And the men of Kiriath-jearim came and took up the ark of the Lord, and brought it to the house of Abinadab on the hill; and they consecrated his son, Eleazar, to have charge of the ark of the Lord.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	7	2	From the day that the ark was lodged at Kiriath-jearim, a long time passed, some twenty years, and all the house of Israel lamented after the Lord.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	7	3	Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your heart to the Lord, and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	7	4	So Israel put away the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and they served the Lord only.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	7	5	Then Samuel said, “Gather all Israel at Mizpah, and I will pray to the Lord for you.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	7	6	So they gathered at Mizpah, and drew water and poured it out before the Lord, and fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against the Lord.” And Samuel judged the people of Israel at Mizpah.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	7	7	Now when the Philistines heard that the people of Israel had gathered at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the people of Israel heard of it they were afraid of the Philistines.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	7	8	And the people of Israel said to Samuel, “Do not cease to cry to the Lord our God for us, that he may save us from the hand of the Philistines.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	7	9	So Samuel took a sucking lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the Lord; and Samuel cried to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord answered him.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	7	10	As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to attack Israel; but the Lord thundered with a mighty voice that day against the Philistines and threw them into confusion; and they were routed before Israel.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	7	11	And the men of Israel went out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistines, and smote them, as far as below Beth-car.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	7	12	Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Jeshanah, and called its name Ebenezer; for he said, “Hitherto the Lord has helped us.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	7	13	So the Philistines were subdued and did not again enter the territory of Israel. And the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	7	14	The cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron to Gath; and Israel rescued their territory from the hand of the Philistines. There was peace also between Israel and the Amorites.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	7	15	Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	7	16	And he went on a circuit year by year to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all these places.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	7	17	Then he would come back to Ramah, for his home was there, and there also he administered justice to Israel. And he built there an altar to the Lord.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	8	1	When Samuel became old, he made his sons judges over Israel.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	8	2	The name of his first-born son was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah; they were judges in Beer-sheba.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	8	3	Yet his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after gain; they took bribes and perverted justice.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	8	4	Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah,
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	8	5	and said to him, “Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways; now appoint for us a king to govern us like all the nations.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	8	6	But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to govern us.” And Samuel prayed to the Lord.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	8	7	And the Lord said to Samuel, “Hearken to the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	8	8	According to all the deeds which they have done to me, from the day I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are also doing to you.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	8	9	Now then, hearken to their voice; only, you shall solemnly warn them, and show them the ways of the king who shall reign over them.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	8	10	So Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking a king from him.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	8	11	He said, “These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen, and to run before his chariots;
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	8	12	and he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	8	13	He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	8	14	He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his servants.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	8	15	He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	8	16	He will take your menservants and maidservants, and the best of your cattle and your asses, and put them to his work.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	8	17	He will take the tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	8	18	And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves; but the Lord will not answer you in that day.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	8	19	But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No! but we will have a king over us,
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	8	20	that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may govern us and go out before us and fight our battles.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	8	21	And when Samuel had heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the ears of the Lord.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	8	22	And the Lord said to Samuel, “Hearken to their voice, and make them a king.” Samuel then said to the men of Israel, “Go every man to his city.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	9	1	There was a man of Benjamin whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, son of Zeror, son of Becorath, son of Aphiah, a Benjaminite, a man of wealth;
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	9	2	and he had a son whose name was Saul, a handsome young man. There was not a man among the people of Israel more handsome than he; from his shoulders upward he was taller than any of the people.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	9	3	Now the asses of Kish, Saul’s father, were lost. So Kish said to Saul his son, “Take one of the servants with you, and arise, go and look for the asses.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	9	4	And they passed through the hill country of Ephraim and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they did not find them. And they passed through the land of Shaalim, but they were not there. Then they passed through the land of Benjamin, but did not find them.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	9	5	When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, “Come, let us go back, lest my father cease to care about the asses and become anxious about us.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	9	6	But he said to him, “Behold, there is a man of God in this city, and he is a man that is held in honor; all that he says comes true. Let us go there; perhaps he can tell us about the journey on which we have set out.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	9	7	Then Saul said to his servant, “But if we go, what can we bring the man? For the bread in our sacks is gone, and there is no present to bring to the man of God. What have we?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	9	8	The servant answered Saul again, “Here, I have with me the fourth part of a shekel of silver, and I will give it to the man of God, to tell us our way.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	9	9	(Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said, “Come, let us go to the seer”; for he who is now called a prophet was formerly called a seer.)
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	9	10	And Saul said to his servant, “Well said; come, let us go.” So they went to the city where the man of God was.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	9	11	As they went up the hill to the city, they met young maidens coming out to draw water, and said to them, “Is the seer here?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	9	12	They answered, “He is; behold, he is just ahead of you. Make haste; he has come just now to the city, because the people have a sacrifice today on the high place.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	9	13	As soon as you enter the city, you will find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat; for the people will not eat till he comes, since he must bless the sacrifice; afterward those eat who are invited. Now go up, for you will meet him immediately.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	9	14	So they went up to the city. As they were entering the city, they saw Samuel coming out toward them on his way up to the high place.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	9	15	Now the day before Saul came, the Lord had revealed to Samuel:
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	9	16	“Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines; for I have seen the affliction of my people, because their cry has come to me.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	9	17	When Samuel saw Saul, the Lord told him, “Here is the man of whom I spoke to you! He it is who shall rule over my people.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	9	18	Then Saul approached Samuel in the gate, and said, “Tell me where is the house of the seer?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	9	19	Samuel answered Saul, “I am the seer; go up before me to the high place, for today you shall eat with me, and in the morning I will let you go and will tell you all that is on your mind.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	9	20	As for your asses that were lost three days ago, do not set your mind on them, for they have been found. And for whom is all that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for you and for all your father’s house?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	9	21	Saul answered, “Am I not a Benjaminite, from the least of the tribes of Israel? And is not my family the humblest of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then have you spoken to me in this way?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	9	22	Then Samuel took Saul and his servant and brought them into the hall and gave them a place at the head of those who had been invited, who were about thirty persons.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	9	23	And Samuel said to the cook, “Bring the portion I gave you, of which I said to you, ‘Put it aside.’”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	9	24	So the cook took up the leg and the upper portion and set them before Saul; and Samuel said, “See, what was kept is set before you. Eat; because it was kept for you until the hour appointed, that you might eat with the guests.” So Saul ate with Samuel that day.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	9	25	And when they came down from the high place into the city, a bed was spread for Saul upon the roof, and he lay down to sleep.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	9	26	Then at the break of dawn Samuel called to Saul upon the roof, “Up, that I may send you on your way.” So Saul arose, and both he and Samuel went out into the street.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	9	27	As they were going down to the outskirts of the city, Samuel said to Saul, “Tell the servant to pass on before us, and when he has passed on stop here yourself for a while, that I may make known to you the word of God.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	10	1	Then Samuel took a vial of oil and poured it on his head, and kissed him and said, “Has not the Lord anointed you to be prince over his people Israel? And you shall reign over the people of the Lord and you will save them from the hand of their enemies round about. And this shall be the sign to you that the Lord has anointed you to be prince over his heritage.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	10	2	When you depart from me today you will meet two men by Rachel’s tomb in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah, and they will say to you, ‘The asses which you went to seek are found, and now your father has ceased to care about the asses and is anxious about you, saying, “What shall I do about my son?”’
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	10	3	Then you shall go on from there further and come to the oak of Tabor; three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three kids, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	10	4	And they will greet you and give you two loaves of bread, which you shall accept from their hand.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	10	5	After that you shall come to Gibe-ath-elohim, where there is a garrison of the Philistines; and there, as you come to the city, you will meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place with harp, tambourine, flute, and lyre before them, prophesying.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	10	6	Then the spirit of the Lord will come mightily upon you, and you shall prophesy with them and be turned into another man.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	10	7	Now when these signs meet you, do whatever your hand finds to do, for God is with you.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	10	8	And you shall go down before me to Gilgal; and behold, I am coming to you to offer burnt offerings and to sacrifice peace offerings. Seven days you shall wait, until I come to you and show you what you shall do.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	10	9	When he turned his back to leave Samuel, God gave him another heart; and all these signs came to pass that day.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	10	10	When they came to Gibe-ah, behold, a band of prophets met him; and the spirit of God came mightily upon him, and he prophesied among them.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	10	11	And when all who knew him before saw how he prophesied with the prophets, the people said to one another, “What has come over the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	10	12	And a man of the place answered, “And who is their father?” Therefore it became a proverb, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	10	13	When he had finished prophesying, he came to the high place.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	10	14	Saul’s uncle said to him and to his servant, “Where did you go?” And he said, “To seek the asses; and when we saw they were not to be found, we went to Samuel.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	10	15	And Saul’s uncle said, “Pray, tell me what Samuel said to you.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	10	16	And Saul said to his uncle, “He told us plainly that the asses had been found.” But about the matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel had spoken, he did not tell him anything.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	10	17	Now Samuel called the people together to the Lord at Mizpah;
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	10	18	and he said to the people of Israel, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.’
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	10	19	But you have this day rejected your God, who saves you from all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said, ‘No! but set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and by your thousands.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	10	20	Then Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was taken by lot.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	10	21	He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by its families, and the family of the Matrites was taken by lot; finally he brought the family of the Matrites near man by man, and Saul the son of Kish was taken by lot. But when they sought him, he could not be found.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	10	22	So they inquired again of the Lord, “Did the man come hither?” and the Lord said, “Behold, he has hidden himself among the baggage.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	10	23	Then they ran and fetched him from there; and when he stood among the people, he was taller than any of the people from his shoulders upward.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	10	24	And Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see him whom the Lord has chosen? There is none like him among all the people.” And all the people shouted, “Long live the king!”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	10	25	Then Samuel told the people the rights and duties of the kingship; and he wrote them in a book and laid it up before the Lord. Then Samuel sent all the people away, each one to his home.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	10	26	Saul also went to his home at Gibe-ah, and with him went men of valor whose hearts God had touched.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	10	27	But some worthless fellows said, “How can this man save us?” And they despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	11	1	Then Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged Jabesh-gilead; and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	11	2	But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “On this condition I will make a treaty with you, that I gouge out all your right eyes, and thus put disgrace upon all Israel.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	11	3	The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Give us seven days respite that we may send messengers through all the territory of Israel. Then, if there is no one to save us, we will give ourselves up to you.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	11	4	When the messengers came to Gibe-ah of Saul, they reported the matter in the ears of the people; and all the people wept aloud.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	11	5	Now Saul was coming from the field behind the oxen; and Saul said, “What ails the people, that they are weeping?” So they told him the tidings of the men of Jabesh.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	11	6	And the spirit of God came mightily upon Saul when he heard these words, and his anger was greatly kindled.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	11	7	He took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces and sent them throughout all the territory of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, “Whoever does not come out after Saul and Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen!” Then the dread of the Lord fell upon the people, and they came out as one man.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	11	8	When he mustered them at Bezek, the men of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	11	9	And they said to the messengers who had come, “Thus shall you say to the men of Jabesh-gilead: ‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you shall have deliverance.’” When the messengers came and told the men of Jabesh, they were glad.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	11	10	Therefore the men of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will give ourselves up to you, and you may do to us whatever seems good to you.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	11	11	And on the morrow Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch, and cut down the Ammonites until the heat of the day; and those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	11	12	Then the people said to Samuel, “Who is it that said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Bring the men, that we may put them to death.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	11	13	But Saul said, “Not a man shall be put to death this day, for today the Lord has wrought deliverance in Israel.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	11	14	Then Samuel said to the people, “Come, let us go to Gilgal and there renew the kingdom.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	11	15	So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the Lord in Gilgal. There they sacrificed peace offerings before the Lord, and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	12	1	And Samuel said to all Israel, “Behold, I have hearkened to your voice in all that you have said to me, and have made a king over you.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	12	2	And now, behold, the king walks before you; and I am old and gray, and behold, my sons are with you; and I have walked before you from my youth until this day.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	12	3	Here I am; testify against me before the Lord and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose ass have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify against me and I will restore it to you.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	12	4	They said, “You have not defrauded us or oppressed us or taken anything from any man’s hand.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	12	5	And he said to them, “The Lord is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand.” And they said, “He is witness.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	12	6	And Samuel said to the people, “The Lord is witness, who appointed Moses and Aaron and brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	12	7	Now therefore stand still, that I may plead with you before the Lord concerning all the saving deeds of the Lord which he performed for you and for your fathers.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	12	8	When Jacob went into Egypt and the Egyptians oppressed them, then your fathers cried to the Lord and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, who brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	12	9	But they forgot the Lord their God; and he sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of the army of Jabin king of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab; and they fought against them.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	12	10	And they cried to the Lord, and said, ‘We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord, and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth; but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee.’
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	12	11	And the Lord sent Jerubbaal and Barak, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side; and you dwelt in safety.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	12	12	And when you saw that Nahash the king of the Ammonites came against you, you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us,’ when the Lord your God was your king.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	12	13	And now behold the king whom you have chosen, for whom you have asked; behold, the Lord has set a king over you.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	12	14	If you will fear the Lord and serve him and hearken to his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the Lord, and if both you and the king who reigns over you will follow the Lord your God, it will be well;
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	12	15	but if you will not hearken to the voice of the Lord, but rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then the hand of the Lord will be against you and your king.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	12	16	Now therefore stand still and see this great thing, which the Lord will do before your eyes.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	12	17	Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call upon the Lord, that he may send thunder and rain; and you shall know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the Lord, in asking for yourselves a king.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	12	18	So Samuel called upon the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day; and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	12	19	And all the people said to Samuel, “Pray for your servants to the Lord your God, that we may not die; for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for ourselves a king.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	12	20	And Samuel said to the people, “Fear not; you have done all this evil, yet do not turn aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart;
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	12	21	and do not turn aside after vain things which cannot profit or save, for they are vain.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	12	22	For the Lord will not cast away his people, for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	12	23	Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you; and I will instruct you in the good and the right way.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	12	24	Only fear the Lord, and serve him faithfully with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	12	25	But if you still do wickedly, you shall be swept away, both you and your king.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	13	1	Saul was … years old when he began to reign; and he reigned … and two years over Israel.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	13	2	Saul chose three thousand men of Israel; two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibe-ah of Benjamin; the rest of the people he sent home, every man to his tent.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	13	3	Jonathan defeated the garrison of the Philistines which was at Geba; and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, “Let the Hebrews hear.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	13	4	And all Israel heard it said that Saul had defeated the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel had become odious to the Philistines. And the people were called out to join Saul at Gilgal.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	13	5	And the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude; they came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	13	6	When the men of Israel saw that they were in straits (for the people were hard pressed), the people hid themselves in caves and in holes and in rocks and in tombs and in cisterns,
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	13	7	or crossed the fords of the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul was still at Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	13	8	He waited seven days, the time appointed by Samuel; but Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the people were scattering from him.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	13	9	So Saul said, “Bring the burnt offering here to me, and the peace offerings.” And he offered the burnt offering.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	13	10	As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him and salute him.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	13	11	Samuel said, “What have you done?” And Saul said, “When I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines had mustered at Michmash,
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	13	12	I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down upon me at Gilgal, and I have not entreated the favor of the Lord’; so I forced myself, and offered the burnt offering.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	13	13	And Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God, which he commanded you; for now the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel for ever.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	13	14	But now your kingdom shall not continue; the Lord has sought out a man after his own heart; and the Lord has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	13	15	And Samuel arose, and went up from Gilgal to Gibe-ah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people who were present with him, about six hundred men.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	13	16	And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people who were present with them, stayed in Geba of Benjamin; but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	13	17	And raiders came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies; one company turned toward Ophrah, to the land of Shual,
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	13	18	another company turned toward Beth-horon, and another company turned toward the border that looks down upon the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	13	19	Now there was no smith to be found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears”;
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	13	20	but every one of the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, or his sickle;
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	13	21	and the charge was a pim for the plowshares and for the mattocks, and a third of a shekel for sharpening the axes and for setting the goads.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	13	22	So on the day of the battle there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people with Saul and Jonathan; but Saul and Jonathan his son had them.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	13	23	And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	1	One day Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come, let us go over to the Philistine garrison on yonder side.” But he did not tell his father.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	2	Saul was staying in the outskirts of Gibe-ah under the pomegranate tree which is at Migron; the people who were with him were about six hundred men,
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	3	and Ahijah the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, son of Phinehas, son of Eli, the priest of the Lord in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people did not know that Jonathan had gone.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	4	In the pass, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistine garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side and a rocky crag on the other side; the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	5	The one crag rose on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	6	And Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; it may be that the Lord will work for us; for nothing can hinder the Lord from saving by many or by few.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	7	And his armor-bearer said to him, “Do all that your mind inclines to; behold, I am with you, as is your mind so is mine.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	8	Then said Jonathan, “Behold, we will cross over to the men, and we will show ourselves to them.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	9	If they say to us, ‘Wait until we come to you,’ then we will stand still in our place, and we will not go up to them.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	10	But if they say, ‘Come up to us,’ then we will go up; for the Lord has given them into our hand. And this shall be the sign to us.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	11	So both of them showed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines; and the Philistines said, “Look, Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have hid themselves.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	12	And the men of the garrison hailed Jonathan and his armor-bearer, and said, “Come up to us, and we will show you a thing.” And Jonathan said to his armor-bearer, “Come up after me; for the Lord has given them into the hand of Israel.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	13	Then Jonathan climbed up on his hands and feet, and his armor-bearer after him. And they fell before Jonathan, and his armor-bearer killed them after him;
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	14	and that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armor-bearer made, was of about twenty men within as it were half a furrow’s length in an acre of land.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	15	And there was a panic in the camp, in the field, and among all the people; the garrison and even the raiders trembled; the earth quaked; and it became a very great panic.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	16	And the watchmen of Saul in Gibe-ah of Benjamin looked; and behold, the multitude was surging hither and thither.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	17	Then Saul said to the people who were with him, “Number and see who has gone from us.” And when they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armor-bearer were not there.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	18	And Saul said to Ahijah, “Bring hither the ark of God.” For the ark of God went at that time with the people of Israel.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	19	And while Saul was talking to the priest, the tumult in the camp of the Philistines increased more and more; and Saul said to the priest, “Withdraw your hand.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	20	Then Saul and all the people who were with him rallied and went into the battle; and behold, every man’s sword was against his fellow, and there was very great confusion.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	21	Now the Hebrews who had been with the Philistines before that time and who had gone up with them into the camp, even they also turned to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	22	Likewise, when all the men of Israel who had hid themselves in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines were fleeing, they too followed hard after them in the battle.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	23	So the Lord delivered Israel that day; and the battle passed beyond Beth-aven.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	24	And the men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul laid an oath on the people, saying, “Cursed be the man who eats food until it is evening and I am avenged on my enemies.” So none of the people tasted food.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	25	And all the people came into the forest; and there was honey on the ground.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	26	And when the people entered the forest, behold, the honey was dropping, but no man put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared the oath.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	27	But Jonathan had not heard his father charge the people with the oath; so he put forth the tip of the staff that was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes became bright.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	28	Then one of the people said, “Your father strictly charged the people with an oath, saying, ‘Cursed be the man who eats food this day.’” And the people were faint.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	29	Then Jonathan said, “My father has troubled the land; see how my eyes have become bright, because I tasted a little of this honey.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	30	How much better if the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found; for now the slaughter among the Philistines has not been great.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	31	They struck down the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. And the people were very faint;
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	32	the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep and oxen and calves, and slew them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	33	Then they told Saul, “Behold, the people are sinning against the Lord, by eating with the blood.” And he said, “You have dealt treacherously; roll a great stone to me here.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	34	And Saul said, “Disperse yourselves among the people, and say to them, ‘Let every man bring his ox or his sheep, and slay them here, and eat; and do not sin against the Lord by eating with the blood.’” So every one of the people brought his ox with him that night, and slew them there.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	35	And Saul built an altar to the Lord; it was the first altar that he built to the Lord.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	36	Then Saul said, “Let us go down after the Philistines by night and despoil them until the morning light; let us not leave a man of them.” And they said, “Do whatever seems good to you.” But the priest said, “Let us draw near hither to God.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	37	And Saul inquired of God, “Shall I go down after the Philistines? Wilt thou give them into the hand of Israel?” But he did not answer him that day.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	38	And Saul said, “Come hither, all you leaders of the people; and know and see how this sin has arisen today.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	39	For as the Lord lives who saves Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die.” But there was not a man among all the people that answered him.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	40	Then he said to all Israel, “You shall be on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side.” And the people said to Saul, “Do what seems good to you.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	41	Therefore Saul said, “O Lord God of Israel, why hast thou not answered thy servant this day? If this guilt is in me or in Jonathan my son, O Lord, God of Israel, give Urim; but if this guilt is in thy people Israel, give Thummim.” And Jonathan and Saul were taken, but the people escaped.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	42	Then Saul said, “Cast the lot between me and my son Jonathan.” And Jonathan was taken.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	43	Then Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done.” And Jonathan told him, “I tasted a little honey with the tip of the staff that was in my hand; here I am, I will die.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	44	And Saul said, “God do so to me and more also; you shall surely die, Jonathan.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	45	Then the people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has wrought this great victory in Israel? Far from it! As the Lord lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has wrought with God this day.” So the people ransomed Jonathan, that he did not die.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	46	Then Saul went up from pursuing the Philistines; and the Philistines went to their own place.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	47	When Saul had taken the kingship over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, against the Ammonites, against Edom, against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines; wherever he turned he put them to the worse.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	48	And he did valiantly, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who plundered them.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	49	Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchishua; and the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the first-born was Merab, and the name of the younger Michal;
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	50	and the name of Saul’s wife was Ahino-am the daughter of Ahima-az. And the name of the commander of his army was Abner the son of Ner, Saul’s uncle;
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	51	Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	14	52	There was hard fighting against the Philistines all the days of Saul; and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he attached him to himself.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	1	And Samuel said to Saul, “The Lord sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore hearken to the words of the Lord.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	2	Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘I will punish what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way, when they came up out of Egypt.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	3	Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.’”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	4	So Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand men on foot, and ten thousand men of Judah.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	5	And Saul came to the city of Amalek, and lay in wait in the valley.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	6	And Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the people of Israel when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	7	And Saul defeated the Amalekites, from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	8	And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	9	But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them; all that was despised and worthless they utterly destroyed.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	10	The word of the Lord came to Samuel:
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	11	“I repent that I have made Saul king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” And Samuel was angry; and he cried to the Lord all night.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	12	And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and it was told Samuel, “Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	13	And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, “Blessed be you to the Lord; I have performed the commandment of the Lord.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	14	And Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	15	Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice to the Lord your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	16	Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stop! I will tell you what the Lord said to me this night.” And he said to him, “Say on.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	17	And Samuel said, “Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The Lord anointed you king over Israel.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	18	And the Lord sent you on a mission, and said, ‘Go, utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	19	Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? Why did you swoop on the spoil, and do what was evil in the sight of the Lord?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	20	And Saul said to Samuel, “I have obeyed the voice of the Lord, I have gone on the mission on which the Lord sent me, I have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and I have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	21	But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	22	And Samuel said, “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	23	For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has also rejected you from being king.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	24	And Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	25	Now therefore, I pray, pardon my sin, and return with me, that I may worship the Lord.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	26	And Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you; for you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	27	As Samuel turned to go away, Saul laid hold upon the skirt of his robe, and it tore.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	28	And Samuel said to him, “The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	29	And also the Glory of Israel will not lie or repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	30	Then he said, “I have sinned; yet honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may worship the Lord your God.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	31	So Samuel turned back after Saul; and Saul worshiped the Lord.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	32	Then Samuel said, “Bring here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites.” And Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	33	And Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women.” And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	34	Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house in Gibe-ah of Saul.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	15	35	And Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death, but Samuel grieved over Saul. And the Lord repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	16	1	The Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul, seeing I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	16	2	And Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.” And the Lord said, “Take a heifer with you, and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	16	3	And invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do; and you shall anoint for me him whom I name to you.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	16	4	Samuel did what the Lord commanded, and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, “Do you come peaceably?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	16	5	And he said, “Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the Lord; consecrate yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.” And he consecrated Jesse and his sons, and invited them to the sacrifice.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	16	6	When they came, he looked on Eliab and thought, “Surely the Lord’s anointed is before him.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	16	7	But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for the Lord sees not as man sees; man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	16	8	Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, “Neither has the Lord chosen this one.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	16	9	Then Jesse made Shammah pass by. And he said, “Neither has the Lord chosen this one.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	16	10	And Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, “The Lord has not chosen these.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	16	11	And Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your sons here?” And he said, “There remains yet the youngest, but behold, he is keeping the sheep.” And Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and fetch him; for we will not sit down till he comes here.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	16	12	And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and had beautiful eyes, and was handsome. And the Lord said, “Arise, anoint him; for this is he.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	16	13	Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	16	14	Now the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord tormented him.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	16	15	And Saul’s servants said to him, “Behold now, an evil spirit from God is tormenting you.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	16	16	Let our lord now command your servants, who are before you, to seek out a man who is skilful in playing the lyre; and when the evil spirit from God is upon you, he will play it, and you will be well.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	16	17	So Saul said to his servants, “Provide for me a man who can play well, and bring him to me.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	16	18	One of the young men answered, “Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skilful in playing, a man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a man of good presence; and the Lord is with him.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	16	19	Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, “Send me David your son, who is with the sheep.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	16	20	And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a skin of wine and a kid, and sent them by David his son to Saul.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	16	21	And David came to Saul, and entered his service. And Saul loved him greatly, and he became his armor-bearer.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	16	22	And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, “Let David remain in my service, for he has found favor in my sight.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	16	23	And whenever the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, David took the lyre and played it with his hand; so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	1	Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle; and they were gathered at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	2	And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered, and encamped in the valley of Elah, and drew up in line of battle against the Philistines.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	3	And the Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side, with a valley between them.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	4	And there came out from the camp of the Philistines a champion named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	5	He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	6	And he had greaves of bronze upon his legs, and a javelin of bronze slung between his shoulders.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	7	And the shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron; and his shield-bearer went before him.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	8	He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why have you come out to draw up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	9	If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants; but if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	10	And the Philistine said, “I defy the ranks of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	11	When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	12	Now David was the son of an Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah, named Jesse, who had eight sons. In the days of Saul the man was already old and advanced in years.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	13	The three eldest sons of Jesse had followed Saul to the battle; and the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the first-born, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	14	David was the youngest; the three eldest followed Saul,
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	15	but David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	16	For forty days the Philistine came forward and took his stand, morning and evening.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	17	And Jesse said to David his son, “Take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers;
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	18	also take these ten cheeses to the commander of their thousand. See how your brothers fare, and bring some token from them.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	19	Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	20	And David rose early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took the provisions, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the encampment as the host was going forth to the battle line, shouting the war cry.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	21	And Israel and the Philistines drew up for battle, army against army.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	22	And David left the things in charge of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to the ranks, and went and greeted his brothers.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	23	As he talked with them, behold, the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, came up out of the ranks of the Philistines, and spoke the same words as before. And David heard him.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	24	All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were much afraid.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	25	And the men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel; and the man who kills him, the king will enrich with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father’s house free in Israel.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	26	And David said to the men who stood by him, “What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	27	And the people answered him in the same way, “So shall it be done to the man who kills him.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	28	Now Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumption, and the evil of your heart; for you have come down to see the battle.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	29	And David said, “What have I done now? Was it not but a word?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	30	And he turned away from him toward another, and spoke in the same way; and the people answered him again as before.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	31	When the words which David spoke were heard, they repeated them before Saul; and he sent for him.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	32	And David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail because of him; your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	33	And Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth, and he has been a man of war from his youth.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	34	But David said to Saul, “Your servant used to keep sheep for his father; and when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb from the flock,
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	35	I went after him and smote him and delivered it out of his mouth; and if he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him and killed him.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	36	Your servant has killed both lions and bears; and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	37	And David said, “The Lord who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” And Saul said to David, “Go, and the Lord be with you!”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	38	Then Saul clothed David with his armor; he put a helmet of bronze on his head, and clothed him with a coat of mail.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	39	And David girded his sword over his armor, and he tried in vain to go, for he was not used to them. Then David said to Saul, “I cannot go with these; for I am not used to them.” And David put them off.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	40	Then he took his staff in his hand, and chose five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in his shepherd’s bag or wallet; his sling was in his hand, and he drew near to the Philistine.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	41	And the Philistine came on and drew near to David, with his shield-bearer in front of him.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	42	And when the Philistine looked, and saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth, ruddy and comely in appearance.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	43	And the Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	44	The Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the field.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	45	Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin; but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	46	This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down, and cut off your head; and I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	47	and that all this assembly may know that the Lord saves not with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord’s and he will give you into our hand.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	48	When the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet the Philistine.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	49	And David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone, and slung it, and struck the Philistine on his forehead; the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	50	So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine, and killed him; there was no sword in the hand of David.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	51	Then David ran and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath, and killed him, and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	52	And the men of Israel and Judah rose with a shout and pursued the Philistines as far as Gath and the gates of Ekron, so that the wounded Philistines fell on the way from Sha-araim as far as Gath and Ekron.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	53	And the Israelites came back from chasing the Philistines, and they plundered their camp.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	54	And David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armor in his tent.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	55	When Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this youth?” And Abner said, “As your soul lives, O king, I cannot tell.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	56	And the king said, “Inquire whose son the stripling is.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	57	And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	17	58	And Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, young man?” And David answered, “I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	18	1	When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	18	2	And Saul took him that day, and would not let him return to his father’s house.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	18	3	Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	18	4	And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his armor, and even his sword and his bow and his girdle.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	18	5	And David went out and was successful wherever Saul sent him; so that Saul set him over the men of war. And this was good in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of Saul’s servants.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	18	6	As they were coming home, when David returned from slaying the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with timbrels, with songs of joy, and with instruments of music.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	18	7	And the women sang to one another as they made merry, “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	18	8	And Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him; he said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed thousands; and what more can he have but the kingdom?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	18	9	And Saul eyed David from that day on.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	18	10	And on the morrow an evil spirit from God rushed upon Saul, and he raved within his house, while David was playing the lyre, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand;
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	18	11	and Saul cast the spear, for he thought, “I will pin David to the wall.” But David evaded him twice.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	18	12	Saul was afraid of David, because the Lord was with him but had departed from Saul.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	18	13	So Saul removed him from his presence, and made him a commander of a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	18	14	And David had success in all his undertakings; for the Lord was with him.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	18	15	And when Saul saw that he had great success, he stood in awe of him.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	18	16	But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	18	17	Then Saul said to David, “Here is my elder daughter Merab; I will give her to you for a wife; only be valiant for me and fight the Lord’s battles.’ For Saul thought, “Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	18	18	And David said to Saul, “Who am I, and who are my kinsfolk, my father’s family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	18	19	But at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite for a wife.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	18	20	Now Saul’s daughter Michal loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	18	21	Saul thought, “Let me give her to him, that she may be a snare for him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David a second time, “You shall now be my son-in-law.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	18	22	And Saul commanded his servants, “Speak to David in private and say, ‘Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you; now then become the king’s son-in-law.’”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	18	23	And Saul’s servants spoke those words in the ears of David. And David said, “Does it seem to you a little thing to become the king’s son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man and of no repute?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	18	24	And the servants of Saul told him, “Thus and so did David speak.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	18	25	Then Saul said, “Thus shall you say to David, ‘The king desires no marriage present except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, that he may be avenged of the king’s enemies.’” Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	18	26	And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son-in-law. Before the time had expired,
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	18	27	David arose and went, along with his men, and killed two hundred of the Philistines; and David brought their foreskins, which were given in full number to the king, that he might become the king’s son-in-law. And Saul gave him his daughter Michal for a wife.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	18	28	But when Saul saw and knew that the Lord was with David, and that all Israel loved him,
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	18	29	Saul was still more afraid of David. So Saul was David’s enemy continually.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	18	30	Then the princes of the Philistines came out to battle, and as often as they came out David had more success than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was highly esteemed.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	19	1	And Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, delighted much in David.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	19	2	And Jonathan told David, “Saul my father seeks to kill you; therefore take heed to yourself in the morning, stay in a secret place and hide yourself;
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	19	3	and I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will speak to my father about you; and if I learn anything I will tell you.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	19	4	And Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father, and said to him, “Let not the king sin against his servant David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his deeds have been of good service to you;
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	19	5	for he took his life in his hand and he slew the Philistine, and the Lord wrought a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced; why then will you sin against innocent blood by killing David without cause?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	19	6	And Saul hearkened to the voice of Jonathan; Saul swore, “As the Lord lives, he shall not be put to death.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	19	7	And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all these things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence as before.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	19	8	And there was war again; and David went out and fought with the Philistines, and made a great slaughter among them, so that they fled before him.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	19	9	Then an evil spirit from the Lord came upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand; and David was playing the lyre.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	19	10	And Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear; but he eluded Saul, so that he struck the spear into the wall. And David fled, and escaped.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	19	11	That night Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him, that he might kill him in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, told him, “If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	19	12	So Michal let David down through the window; and he fled away and escaped.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	19	13	Michal took an image and laid it on the bed and put a pillow of goats’ hair at its head, and covered it with the clothes.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	19	14	And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	19	15	Then Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	19	16	And when the messengers came in, behold, the image was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at its head.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	19	17	Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me thus, and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?” And Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go; why should I kill you?’”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	19	18	Now David fled and escaped, and he came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt at Naioth.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	19	19	And it was told Saul, “Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	19	20	Then Saul sent messengers to take David; and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	19	21	When it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	19	22	Then he himself went to Ramah, and came to the great well that is in Secu; and he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” And one said, “Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	19	23	And he went from there to Naioth in Ramah; and the Spirit of God came upon him also, and as he went he prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	19	24	And he too stripped off his clothes, and he too prophesied before Samuel, and lay naked all that day and all that night. Hence it is said, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	1	Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my guilt? And what is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	2	And he said to him, “Far from it! You shall not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small without disclosing it to me; and why should my father hide this from me? It is not so.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	3	But David replied, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he thinks, ‘Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved.’ But truly, as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	4	Then said Jonathan to David, “Whatever you say, I will do for you.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	5	David said to Jonathan, “Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit at table with the king; but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field till the third day at evening.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	6	If your father misses me at all, then say, ‘David earnestly asked leave of me to run to Bethlehem his city; for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.’
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	7	If he says, ‘Good!’ it will be well with your servant; but if he is angry, then know that evil is determined by him.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	8	Therefore deal kindly with your servant, for you have brought your servant into a sacred covenant with you. But if there is guilt in me, slay me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	9	And Jonathan said, “Far be it from you! If I knew that it was determined by my father that evil should come upon you, would I not tell you?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	10	Then said David to Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you roughly?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	11	And Jonathan said to David, “Come, let us go out into the field.” So they both went out into the field.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	12	And Jonathan said to David, “The Lord, the God of Israel, be witness! When I have sounded my father, about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if he is well disposed toward David, shall I not then send and disclose it to you?
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	13	But should it please my father to do you harm, the Lord do so to Jonathan, and more also, if I do not disclose it to you, and send you away, that you may go in safety. May the Lord be with you, as he has been with my father.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	14	If I am still alive, show me the loyal love of the Lord, that I may not die;
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	15	and do not cut off your loyalty from my house for ever. When the Lord cuts off every one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth,
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	16	let not the name of Jonathan be cut off from the house of David. And may the Lord take vengeance on David’s enemies.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	17	And Jonathan made David swear again by his love for him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	18	Then Jonathan said to him, “Tomorrow is the new moon; and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	19	And on the third day you will be greatly missed; then go to the place where you hid yourself when the matter was in hand, and remain beside yonder stone heap.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	20	And I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as though I shot at a mark.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	21	And behold, I will send the lad, saying, ‘Go, find the arrows.’ If I say to the lad, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you, take them,’ then you are to come, for, as the Lord lives, it is safe for you and there is no danger.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	22	But if I say to the youth, ‘Look, the arrows are beyond you,’ then go; for the Lord has sent you away.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	23	And as for the matter of which you and I have spoken, behold, the Lord is between you and me for ever.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	24	So David hid himself in the field; and when the new moon came, the king sat down to eat food.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	25	The king sat upon his seat, as at other times, upon the seat by the wall; Jonathan sat opposite, and Abner sat by Saul’s side, but David’s place was empty.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	26	Yet Saul did not say anything that day; for he thought, “Something has befallen him; he is not clean, surely he is not clean.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	27	But on the second day, the morrow after the new moon, David’s place was empty. And Saul said to Jonathan his son, “Why has not the son of Jesse come to the meal, either yesterday or today?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	28	Jonathan answered Saul, “David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem;
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	29	he said, ‘Let me go; for our family holds a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has commanded me to be there. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away, and see my brothers.’ For this reason he has not come to the king’s table.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	30	Then Saul’s anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse, rebellious woman, do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	31	For as long as the son of Jesse lives upon the earth, neither you nor your kingdom shall be established. Therefore send and fetch him to me, for he shall surely die.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	32	Then Jonathan answered Saul his father, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	33	But Saul cast his spear at him to smite him; so Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	34	And Jonathan rose from the table in fierce anger and ate no food the second day of the month, for he was grieved for David, because his father had disgraced him.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	35	In the morning Jonathan went out into the field to the appointment with David, and with him a little lad.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	36	And he said to his lad, “Run and find the arrows which I shoot.” As the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	37	And when the lad came to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan called after the lad and said, “Is not the arrow beyond you?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	38	And Jonathan called after the lad, “Hurry, make haste, stay not.” So Jonathan’s lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	39	But the lad knew nothing; only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	40	And Jonathan gave his weapons to his lad, and said to him, “Go and carry them to the city.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	41	And as soon as the lad had gone, David rose from beside the stone heap and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed three times; and they kissed one another, and wept with one another, until David recovered himself.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	20	42	Then Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘The Lord shall be between me and you, and between my descendants and your descendants, for ever.’” And he rose and departed; and Jonathan went into the city.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	21	1	Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest; and Abimelech came to meet David trembling, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one with you?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	21	2	And David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has charged me with a matter, and said to me, ‘Let no one know anything of the matter about which I send you, and with which I have charged you.’ I have made an appointment with the young men for such and such a place.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	21	3	Now then, what have you at hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	21	4	And the priest answered David, “I have no common bread at hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	21	5	And David answered the priest, “Of a truth women have been kept from us as always when I go on an expedition; the vessels of the young men are holy, even when it is a common journey; how much more today will their vessels be holy?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	21	6	So the priest gave him the holy bread; for there was no bread there but the bread of the Presence, which is removed from before the Lord, to be replaced by hot bread on the day it is taken away.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	21	7	Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the Lord; his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul’s herdsmen.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	21	8	And David said to Ahimelech, “And have you not here a spear or a sword at hand? For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	21	9	And the priest said, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod; if you will take that, take it, for there is none but that here.” And David said, “There is none like that; give it to me.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	21	10	And David rose and fled that day from Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	21	11	And the servants of Achish said to him, “Is not this David the king of the land? Did they not sing to one another of him in dances, ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands’?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	21	12	And David took these words to heart, and was much afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	21	13	So he changed his behavior before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and made marks on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle run down his beard.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	21	14	Then said Achish to his servants, “Lo, you see the man is mad; why then have you brought him to me?
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	21	15	Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	22	1	David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam; and when his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	22	2	And every one who was in distress, and every one who was in debt, and every one who was discontented, gathered to him; and he became captain over them. And there were with him about four hundred men.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	22	3	And David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab; and he said to the king of Moab, “Pray let my father and my mother stay with you, till I know what God will do for me.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	22	4	And he left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	22	5	Then the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not remain in the stronghold; depart, and go into the land of Judah.” So David departed, and went into the forest of Hereth.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	22	6	Now Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men who were with him. Saul was sitting at Gibe-ah, under the tamarisk tree on the height, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	22	7	And Saul said to his servants who stood about him, “Hear now, you Benjaminites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, will he make you all commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds,
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	22	8	that all of you have conspired against me? No one discloses to me when my son makes a league with the son of Jesse, none of you is sorry for me or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	22	9	Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub,
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	22	10	and he inquired of the Lord for him, and gave him provisions, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	22	11	Then the king sent to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were at Nob; and all of them came to the king.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	22	12	And Saul said, “Hear now, son of Ahitub.” And he answered, “Here I am, my lord.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	22	13	And Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, so that he has risen against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	22	14	Then Ahimelech answered the king, “And who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, and captain over your bodyguard, and honored in your house?
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	22	15	Is today the first time that I have inquired of God for him? No! Let not the king impute anything to his servant or to all the house of my father; for your servant has known nothing of all this, much or little.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	22	16	And the king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	22	17	And the king said to the guard who stood about him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord; because their hand also is with David, and they knew that he fled, and did not disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the Lord.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	22	18	Then the king said to Doeg, “You turn and fall upon the priests.” And Doeg the Edomite turned and fell upon the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore the linen ephod.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	22	19	And Nob, the city of the priests, he put to the sword; both men and women, children and sucklings, oxen, asses and sheep, he put to the sword.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	22	20	But one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled after David.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	22	21	And Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests of the Lord.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	22	22	And David said to Abiathar, “I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I have occasioned the death of all the persons of your father’s house.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	22	23	Stay with me, fear not; for he that seeks my life seeks your life; with me you shall be in safekeeping.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	23	1	Now they told David, “Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	23	2	Therefore David inquired of the Lord, “Shall I go and attack these Philistines?” And the Lord said to David, “Go and attack the Philistines and save Keilah.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	23	3	But David’s men said to him, “Behold, we are afraid here in Judah; how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	23	4	Then David inquired of the Lord again. And the Lord answered him, “Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will give the Philistines into your hand.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	23	5	And David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and made a great slaughter among them. So David delivered the inhabitants of Keilah.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	23	6	When Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, he came down with an ephod in his hand.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	23	7	Now it was told Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, “God has given him into my hand; for he has shut himself in by entering a town that has gates and bars.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	23	8	And Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	23	9	David knew that Saul was plotting evil against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	23	10	Then said David, “O Lord, the God of Israel, thy servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city on my account.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	23	11	Will the men of Keilah surrender me into his hand? Will Saul come down, as thy servant has heard? O Lord, the God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant.” And the Lord said, “He will come down.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	23	12	Then said David, “Will the men of Keilah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul?” And the Lord said, “They will surrender you.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	23	13	Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah, and they went wherever they could go. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he gave up the expedition.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	23	14	And David remained in the strongholds in the wilderness, in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not give him into his hand.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	23	15	And David was afraid because Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the Wilderness of Ziph at Horesh.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	23	16	And Jonathan, Saul’s son, rose, and went to David at Horesh, and strengthened his hand in God.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	23	17	And he said to him, “Fear not; for the hand of Saul my father shall not find you; you shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to you; Saul my father also knows this.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	23	18	And the two of them made a covenant before the Lord; David remained at Horesh, and Jonathan went home.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	23	19	Then the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibe-ah, saying, “Does not David hide among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah, which is south of Jeshimon?
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	23	20	Now come down, O king, according to all your heart’s desire to come down; and our part shall be to surrender him into the king’s hand.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	23	21	And Saul said, “May you be blessed by the Lord; for you have had compassion on me.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	23	22	Go, make yet more sure; know and see the place where his haunt is, and who has seen him there; for it is told me that he is very cunning.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	23	23	See therefore, and take note of all the lurking places where he hides, and come back to me with sure information. Then I will go with you; and if he is in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	23	24	And they arose, and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah to the south of Jeshimon.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	23	25	And Saul and his men went to seek him. And David was told; therefore he went down to the rock which is in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	23	26	Saul went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men on the other side of the mountain; and David was making haste to get away from Saul, as Saul and his men were closing in upon David and his men to capture them,
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	23	27	when a messenger came to Saul, saying, “Make haste and come; for the Philistines have made a raid upon the land.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	23	28	So Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines; therefore that place was called the Rock of Escape.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	23	29	And David went up from there, and dwelt in the strongholds of En-gedi.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	24	1	When Saul returned from following the Philistines, he was told, “Behold, David is in the wilderness of En-gedi.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	24	2	Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men in front of the Wildgoats’ Rocks.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	24	3	And he came to the sheepfolds by the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were sitting in the innermost parts of the cave.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	24	4	And the men of David said to him, “Here is the day of which the Lord said to you, ‘Behold, I will give your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.’” Then David arose and stealthily cut off the skirt of Saul’s robe.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	24	5	And afterward David’s heart smote him, because he had cut off Saul’s skirt.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	24	6	He said to his men, “The Lord forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the Lord’s anointed, to put forth my hand against him, seeing he is the Lord’s anointed.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	24	7	So David persuaded his men with these words, and did not permit them to attack Saul. And Saul rose up and left the cave, and went upon his way.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	24	8	Afterward David also arose, and went out of the cave, and called after Saul, “My lord the king!” And when Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth, and did obeisance.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	24	9	And David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of men who say, ‘Behold, David seeks your hurt’?
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	24	10	Lo, this day your eyes have seen how the Lord gave you today into my hand in the cave; and some bade me kill you, but I spared you. I said, ‘I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is the Lord’s anointed.’
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	24	11	See, my father, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for by the fact that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and did not kill you, you may know and see that there is no wrong or treason in my hands. I have not sinned against you, though you hunt my life to take it.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	24	12	May the Lord judge between me and you, may the Lord avenge me upon you; but my hand shall not be against you.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	24	13	As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness’; but my hand shall not be against you.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	24	14	After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom do you pursue? After a dead dog! After a flea!
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	24	15	May the Lord therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see to it, and plead my cause, and deliver me from your hand.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	24	16	When David had finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, “Is this your voice, my son David?” And Saul lifted up his voice and wept.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	24	17	He said to David, “You are more righteous than I; for you have repaid me good, whereas I have repaid you evil.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	24	18	And you have declared this day how you have dealt well with me, in that you did not kill me when the Lord put me into your hands.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	24	19	For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away safe? So may the Lord reward you with good for what you have done to me this day.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	24	20	And now, behold, I know that you shall surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hand.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	24	21	Swear to me therefore by the Lord that you will not cut off my descendants after me, and that you will not destroy my name out of my father’s house.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	24	22	And David swore this to Saul. Then Saul went home; but David and his men went up to the stronghold.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	1	Now Samuel died; and all Israel assembled and mourned for him, and they buried him in his house at Ramah. Then David rose and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	2	And there was a man in Maon, whose business was in Carmel. The man was very rich; he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. He was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	3	Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. The woman was of good understanding and beautiful, but the man was churlish and ill-behaved; he was a Calebite.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	4	David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	5	So David sent ten young men; and David said to the young men, “Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	6	And thus you shall salute him: ‘Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	7	I hear that you have shearers; now your shepherds have been with us, and we did them no harm, and they missed nothing, all the time they were in Carmel.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	8	Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let my young men find favor in your eyes; for we come on a feast day. Pray, give whatever you have at hand to your servants and to your son David.’”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	9	When David’s young men came, they said all this to Nabal in the name of David; and then they waited.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	10	And Nabal answered David’s servants, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants nowadays who are breaking away from their masters.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	11	Shall I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who come from I do not know where?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	12	So David’s young men turned away, and came back and told him all this.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	13	And David said to his men, “Every man gird on his sword!” And every man of them girded on his sword; David also girded on his sword; and about four hundred men went up after David, while two hundred remained with the baggage.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	14	But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, “Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed at them.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	15	Yet the men were very good to us, and we suffered no harm, and we did not miss anything when we were in the fields, as long as we went with them;
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	16	they were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	17	Now therefore know this and consider what you should do; for evil is determined against our master and against all his house, and he is so ill-natured that one cannot speak to him.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	18	Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two skins of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched grain, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	19	And she said to her young men, “Go on before me; behold, I come after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	20	And as she rode on the ass, and came down under cover of the mountain, behold, David and his men came down toward her; and she met them.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	21	Now David had said, “Surely in vain have I guarded all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him; and he has returned me evil for good.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	22	God do so to David and more also, if by morning I leave so much as one male of all who belong to him.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	23	When Abigail saw David, she made haste, and alighted from the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed to the ground.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	24	She fell at his feet and said, “Upon me alone, my lord, be the guilt; pray let your handmaid speak in your ears, and hear the words of your handmaid.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	25	Let not my lord regard this ill-natured fellow, Nabal; for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; but I your handmaid did not see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	26	Now then, my lord, as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, seeing the Lord has restrained you from bloodguilt, and from taking vengeance with your own hand, now then let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	27	And now let this present which your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	28	Pray forgive the trespass of your handmaid; for the Lord will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord is fighting the battles of the Lord; and evil shall not be found in you so long as you live.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	29	If men rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living in the care of the Lord your God; and the lives of your enemies he shall sling out as from the hollow of a sling.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	30	And when the Lord has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you prince over Israel,
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	31	my lord shall have no cause of grief, or pangs of conscience, for having shed blood without cause or for my lord taking vengeance himself. And when the Lord has dealt well with my lord, then remember your handmaid.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	32	And David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me!
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	33	Blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodguilt and from avenging myself with my own hand!
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	34	For as surely as the Lord the God of Israel lives, who has restrained me from hurting you, unless you had made haste and come to meet me, truly by morning there had not been left to Nabal so much as one male.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	35	Then David received from her hand what she had brought him; and he said to her, “Go up in peace to your house; see, I have hearkened to your voice, and I have granted your petition.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	36	And Abigail came to Nabal; and, lo, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; so she told him nothing at all until the morning light.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	37	And in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	38	And about ten days later the Lord smote Nabal; and he died.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	39	When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed be the Lord who has avenged the insult I received at the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil; the Lord has returned the evil-doing of Nabal upon his own head.” Then David sent and wooed Abigail, to make her his wife.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	40	And when the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, they said to her, “David has sent us to you to take you to him as his wife.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	41	And she rose and bowed with her face to the ground, and said, “Behold, your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	42	And Abigail made haste and rose and mounted on an ass, and her five maidens attended her; she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	43	David also took Ahino-am of Jezreel; and both of them became his wives.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	25	44	Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	26	1	Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibe-ah, saying, “Is not David hiding himself on the hill of Hachilah, which is on the east of Jeshimon?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	26	2	So Saul arose and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, with three thousand chosen men of Israel, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	26	3	And Saul encamped on the hill of Hachilah, which is beside the road on the east of Jeshimon. But David remained in the wilderness; and when he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness,
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	26	4	David sent out spies, and learned of a certainty that Saul had come.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	26	5	Then David rose and came to the place where Saul had encamped; and David saw the place where Saul lay, with Abner the son of Ner, the commander of his army; Saul was lying within the encampment, while the army was encamped around him.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	26	6	Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Joab’s brother Abishai the son of Zeruiah, “Who will go down with me into the camp to Saul?” And Abishai said, “I will go down with you.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	26	7	So David and Abishai went to the army by night; and there lay Saul sleeping within the encampment, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the army lay around him.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	26	8	Then said Abishai to David, “God has given your enemy into your hand this day; now therefore let me pin him to the earth with one stroke of the spear, and I will not strike him twice.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	26	9	But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him; for who can put forth his hand against the Lord’s anointed, and be guiltless?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	26	10	And David said, “As the Lord lives, the Lord will smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	26	11	The Lord forbid that I should put forth my hand against the Lord’s anointed; but take now the spear that is at his head, and the jar of water, and let us go.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	26	12	So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul’s head; and they went away. No man saw it, or knew it, nor did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen upon them.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	26	13	Then David went over to the other side, and stood afar off on the top of the mountain, with a great space between them;
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	26	14	and David called to the army, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, “Will you not answer, Abner?” Then Abner answered, “Who are you that calls to the king?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	26	15	And David said to Abner, “Are you not a man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your lord the king? For one of the people came in to destroy the king your lord.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	26	16	This thing that you have done is not good. As the Lord lives, you deserve to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, the Lord’s anointed. And now see where the king’s spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	26	17	Saul recognized David’s voice, and said, “Is this your voice, my son David?” And David said, “It is my voice, my lord, O king.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	26	18	And he said, “Why does my lord pursue after his servant? For what have I done? What guilt is on my hands?
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	26	19	Now therefore let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is the Lord who has stirred you up against me, may he accept an offering; but if it is men, may they be cursed before the Lord, for they have driven me out this day that I should have no share in the heritage of the Lord, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	26	20	Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the Lord; for the king of Israel has come out to seek my life, like one who hunts a partridge in the mountains.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	26	21	Then Saul said, “I have done wrong; return, my son David, for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes this day; behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	26	22	And David made answer, “Here is the spear, O king! Let one of the young men come over and fetch it.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	26	23	The Lord rewards every man for his righteousness and his faithfulness; for the Lord gave you into my hand today, and I would not put forth my hand against the Lord’s anointed.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	26	24	Behold, as your life was precious this day in my sight, so may my life be precious in the sight of the Lord, and may he deliver me out of all tribulation.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	26	25	Then Saul said to David, “Blessed be you, my son David! You will do many things and will succeed in them.” So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	27	1	And David said in his heart, “I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul; there is nothing better for me than that I should escape to the land of the Philistines; then Saul will despair of seeking me any longer within the borders of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	27	2	So David arose and went over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	27	3	And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, and David with his two wives, Ahino-am of Jezreel, and Abigail of Carmel, Nabal’s widow.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	27	4	And when it was told Saul that David had fled to Gath, he sought for him no more.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	27	5	Then David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your eyes, let a place be given me in one of the country towns, that I may dwell there; for why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	27	6	So that day Achish gave him Ziklag; therefore Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah to this day.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	27	7	And the number of the days that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	27	8	Now David and his men went up, and made raids upon the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for these were the inhabitants of the land from of old, as far as Shur, to the land of Egypt.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	27	9	And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, but took away the sheep, the oxen, the asses, the camels, and the garments, and came back to Achish.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	27	10	When Achish asked, “Against whom have you made a raid today?” David would say, “Against the Negeb of Judah,” or “Against the Negeb of the Jerahmeelites,” or, “Against the Negeb of the Kenites.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	27	11	And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring tidings to Gath, thinking, “Lest they should tell about us, and say, ‘So David has done.’” Such was his custom all the while he dwelt in the country of the Philistines.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	27	12	And Achish trusted David, thinking, “He has made himself utterly abhorred by his people Israel; therefore he shall be my servant always.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	28	1	In those days the Philistines gathered their forces for war, to fight against Israel. And Achish said to David, “Understand that you and your men are to go out with me in the army.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	28	2	David said to Achish, “Very well, you shall know what your servant can do.” And Achish said to David, “Very well, I will make you my bodyguard for life.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	28	3	Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had put the mediums and the wizards out of the land.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	28	4	The Philistines assembled, and came and encamped at Shunem; and Saul gathered all Israel, and they encamped at Gilboa.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	28	5	When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	28	6	And when Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord did not answer him, either by dreams, or by Urim, or by prophets.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	28	7	Then Saul said to his servants, “Seek out for me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her.” And his servants said to him, “Behold, there is a medium at Endor.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	28	8	So Saul disguised himself and put on other garments, and went, he and two men with him; and they came to the woman by night. And he said, “Divine for me by a spirit, and bring up for me whomever I shall name to you.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	28	9	The woman said to him, “Surely you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off the mediums and the wizards from the land. Why then are you laying a snare for my life to bring about my death?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	28	10	But Saul swore to her by the Lord, “As the Lord lives, no punishment shall come upon you for this thing.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	28	11	Then the woman said, “Whom shall I bring up for you?” He said, “Bring up Samuel for me.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	28	12	When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice; and the woman said to Saul, “Why have you deceived me? You are Saul.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	28	13	The king said to her, “Have no fear; what do you see?” And the woman said to Saul, “I see a god coming up out of the earth.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	28	14	He said to her, “What is his appearance?” And she said, “An old man is coming up; and he is wrapped in a robe.” And Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground, and did obeisance.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	28	15	Then Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” Saul answered, “I am in great distress; for the Philistines are warring against me, and God has turned away from me and answers me no more, either by prophets or by dreams; therefore I have summoned you to tell me what I shall do.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	28	16	And Samuel said, “Why then do you ask me, since the Lord has turned from you and become your enemy?
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	28	17	The Lord has done to you as he spoke by me; for the Lord has torn the kingdom out of your hand, and given it to your neighbor, David.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	28	18	Because you did not obey the voice of the Lord, and did not carry out his fierce wrath against Amalek, therefore the Lord has done this thing to you this day.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	28	19	Moreover the Lord will give Israel also with you into the hand of the Philistines; and tomorrow you and your sons shall be with me; the Lord will give the army of Israel also into the hand of the Philistines.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	28	20	Then Saul fell at once full length upon the ground, filled with fear because of the words of Samuel; and there was no strength in him, for he had eaten nothing all day and all night.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	28	21	And the woman came to Saul, and when she saw that he was terrified, she said to him, “Behold, your handmaid has hearkened to you; I have taken my life in my hand, and have hearkened to what you have said to me.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	28	22	Now therefore, you also hearken to your handmaid; let me set a morsel of bread before you; and eat, that you may have strength when you go on your way.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	28	23	He refused, and said, “I will not eat.” But his servants, together with the woman, urged him; and he hearkened to their words. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	28	24	Now the woman had a fatted calf in the house, and she quickly killed it, and she took flour, and kneaded it and baked unleavened bread of it,
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	28	25	and she put it before Saul and his servants; and they ate. Then they rose and went away that night.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	29	1	Now the Philistines gathered all their forces at Aphek; and the Israelites were encamped by the fountain which is in Jezreel.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	29	2	As the lords of the Philistines were passing on by hundreds and by thousands, and David and his men were passing on in the rear with Achish,
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	29	3	the commanders of the Philistines said, “What are these Hebrews doing here?” And Achish said to the commanders of the Philistines, “Is not this David, the servant of Saul, king of Israel, who has been with me now for days and years, and since he deserted to me I have found no fault in him to this day.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	29	4	But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with him; and the commanders of the Philistines said to him, “Send the man back, that he may return to the place to which you have assigned him; he shall not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us. For how could this fellow reconcile himself to his lord? Would it not be with the heads of the men here?
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	29	5	Is not this David, of whom they sing to one another in dances, ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands’?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	29	6	Then Achish called David and said to him, “As the Lord lives, you have been honest, and to me it seems right that you should march out and in with me in the campaign; for I have found nothing wrong in you from the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless the lords do not approve of you.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	29	7	So go back now; and go peaceably, that you may not displease the lords of the Philistines.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	29	8	And David said to Achish, “But what have I done? What have you found in your servant from the day I entered your service until now, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	29	9	And Achish made answer to David, “I know that you are as blameless in my sight as an angel of God; nevertheless the commanders of the Philistines have said, ‘He shall not go up with us to the battle.’
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	29	10	Now then rise early in the morning with the servants of your lord who came with you; and start early in the morning, and depart as soon as you have light.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	29	11	So David set out with his men early in the morning, to return to the land of the Philistines. But the Philistines went up to Jezreel.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	30	1	Now when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid upon the Negeb and upon Ziklag. They had overcome Ziklag, and burned it with fire,
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	30	2	and taken captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great; they killed no one, but carried them off, and went their way.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	30	3	And when David and his men came to the city, they found it burned with fire, and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	30	4	Then David and the people who were with him raised their voices and wept, until they had no more strength to weep.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	30	5	David’s two wives also had been taken captive, Ahino-am of Jezreel, and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	30	6	And David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because all the people were bitter in soul, each for his sons and daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	30	7	And David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Bring me the ephod.” So Abiathar brought the ephod to David.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	30	8	And David inquired of the Lord, “Shall I pursue after this band? Shall I overtake them?” He answered him, “Pursue; for you shall surely overtake and shall surely rescue.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	30	9	So David set out, and the six hundred men who were with him, and they came to the brook Besor, where those stayed who were left behind.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	30	10	But David went on with the pursuit, he and four hundred men; two hundred stayed behind, who were too exhausted to cross the brook Besor.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	30	11	They found an Egyptian in the open country, and brought him to David; and they gave him bread and he ate, they gave him water to drink,
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	30	12	and they gave him a piece of a cake of figs and two clusters of raisins. And when he had eaten, his spirit revived; for he had not eaten bread or drunk water for three days and three nights.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	30	13	And David said to him, “To whom do you belong? And where are you from?” He said, “I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me behind because I fell sick three days ago.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	30	14	We had made a raid upon the Negeb of the Cherethites and upon that which belongs to Judah and upon the Negeb of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	30	15	And David said to him, “Will you take me down to this band?” And he said, “Swear to me by God, that you will not kill me, or deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will take you down to this band.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	30	16	And when he had taken him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the land, eating and drinking and dancing, because of all the great spoil they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	30	17	And David smote them from twilight until the evening of the next day; and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who mounted camels and fled.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	30	18	David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	30	19	Nothing was missing, whether small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything that had been taken; David brought back all.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	30	20	David also captured all the flocks and herds; and the people drove those cattle before him, and said, “This is David’s spoil.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	30	21	Then David came to the two hundred men, who had been too exhausted to follow David, and who had been left at the brook Besor; and they went out to meet David and to meet the people who were with him; and when David drew near to the people he saluted them.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	30	22	Then all the wicked and base fellows among the men who had gone with David said, “Because they did not go with us, we will not give them any of the spoil which we have recovered, except that each man may lead away his wife and children, and depart.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	30	23	But David said, “You shall not do so, my brothers, with what the Lord has given us; he has preserved us and given into our hand the band that came against us.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	30	24	Who would listen to you in this matter? For as his share is who goes down into the battle, so shall his share be who stays by the baggage; they shall share alike.”
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	30	25	And from that day forward he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	30	26	When David came to Ziklag, he sent part of the spoil to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, “Here is a present for you from the spoil of the enemies of the Lord”;
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	30	27	it was for those in Bethel, in Ramoth of the Negeb, in Jattir,
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	30	28	in Aroer, in Siphmoth, in Eshtemoa,
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	30	29	in Racal, in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, in the cities of the Kenites,
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	30	30	in Hormah, in Borashan, in Athach,
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	30	31	in Hebron, for all the places where David and his men had roamed.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	31	1	Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines, and fell slain on Mount Gilboa.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	31	2	And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	31	3	The battle pressed hard upon Saul, and the archers found him; and he was badly wounded by the archers.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	31	4	Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and make sport of me.” But his armor-bearer would not; for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword, and fell upon it.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	31	5	And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell upon his sword, and died with him.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	31	6	Thus Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor-bearer, and all his men, on the same day together.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	31	7	And when the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley and those beyond the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook their cities and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	31	8	On the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	31	9	And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines, to carry the good news to their idols and to the people.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	31	10	They put his armor in the temple of Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	31	11	But when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	31	12	all the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan; and they came to Jabesh and burnt them there.
 1 Samuel	1Sam	9	31	13	And they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	1	1	After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, David remained two days in Ziklag;
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	1	2	and on the third day, behold, a man came from Saul’s camp, with his clothes rent and earth upon his head. And when he came to David, he fell to the ground and did obeisance.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	1	3	David said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I have escaped from the camp of Israel.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	1	4	And David said to him, “How did it go? Tell me.” And he answered, “The people have fled from the battle, and many of the people also have fallen and are dead; and Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	1	5	Then David said to the young man who told him, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	1	6	And the young man who told him said, “By chance I happened to be on Mount Gilboa; and there was Saul leaning upon his spear; and lo, the chariots and the horsemen were close upon him.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	1	7	And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called to me. And I answered, ‘Here I am.’
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	1	8	And he said to me, ‘Who are you?’ I answered him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	1	9	And he said to me, ‘Stand beside me and slay me; for anguish has seized me, and yet my life still lingers.’
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	1	10	So I stood beside him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen; and I took the crown which was on his head and the armlet which was on his arm, and I have brought them here to my lord.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	1	11	Then David took hold of his clothes, and rent them; and so did all the men who were with him;
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	1	12	and they mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son and for the people of the Lord and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	1	13	And David said to the young man who told him, “Where do you come from?” And he answered, “I am the son of a sojourner, an Amalekite.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	1	14	David said to him, “How is it you were not afraid to put forth your hand to destroy the Lord’s anointed?”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	1	15	Then David called one of the young men and said, “Go, fall upon him.” And he smote him so that he died.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	1	16	And David said to him, “Your blood be upon your head; for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have slain the Lord’s anointed.’”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	1	17	And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and Jonathan his son,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	1	18	and he said it should be taught to the people of Judah; behold, it is written in the Book of Jashar. He said:
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	1	19	“Thy glory, O Israel, is slain upon thy high places! How are the mighty fallen!
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	1	20	Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	1	21	“Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain upon you, nor upsurging of the deep! For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	1	22	“From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned not back, and the sword of Saul returned not empty.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	1	23	“Saul and Jonathan, beloved and lovely! In life and in death they were not divided; they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	1	24	“Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you daintily in scarlet, who put ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	1	25	“How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! “Jonathan lies slain upon thy high places.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	1	26	I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant have you been to me; your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	1	27	“How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	2	1	After this David inquired of the Lord, “Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?” And the Lord said to him, “Go up.” David said, “To which shall I go up?” And he said, “To Hebron.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	2	2	So David went up there, and his two wives also, Ahino-am of Jezreel, and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	2	3	And David brought up his men who were with him, every one with his household; and they dwelt in the towns of Hebron.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	2	4	And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. When they told David, “It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul,”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	2	5	David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh-gilead, and said to them, “May you be blessed by the Lord, because you showed this loyalty to Saul your lord, and buried him!
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	2	6	Now may the Lord show steadfast love and faithfulness to you! And I will do good to you because you have done this thing.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	2	7	Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and the house of Judah has anointed me king over them.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	2	8	Now Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul’s army, had taken Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	2	9	and he made him king over Gilead and the Ashurites and Jezreel and Ephraim and Benjamin and all Israel.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	2	10	Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	2	11	And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	2	12	Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	2	13	And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out and met them at the pool of Gibeon; and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	2	14	And Abner said to Joab, “Let the young men arise and play before us.” And Joab said, “Let them arise.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	2	15	Then they arose and passed over by number, twelve for Benjamin and Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	2	16	And each caught his opponent by the head, and thrust his sword in his opponent’s side; so they fell down together. Therefore that place was called Helkath-hazzurim, which is at Gibeon.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	2	17	And the battle was very fierce that day; and Abner and the men of Israel were beaten before the servants of David.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	2	18	And the three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was as swift of foot as a wild gazelle;
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	2	19	and Asahel pursued Abner, and as he went he turned neither to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	2	20	Then Abner looked behind him and said, “Is it you, Asahel?” And he answered, “It is I.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	2	21	Abner said to him, “Turn aside to your right hand or to your left, and seize one of the young men, and take his spoil.” But Asahel would not turn aside from following him.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	2	22	And Abner said again to Asahel, “Turn aside from following me; why should I smite you to the ground? How then could I lift up my face to your brother Joab?”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	2	23	But he refused to turn aside; therefore Abner smote him in the belly with the butt of his spear, so that the spear came out at his back; and he fell there, and died where he was. And all who came to the place where Asahel had fallen and died, stood still.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	2	24	But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner; and as the sun was going down they came to the hill of Ammah, which lies before Giah on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	2	25	And the Benjaminites gathered themselves together behind Abner, and became one band, and took their stand on the top of a hill.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	2	26	Then Abner called to Joab, “Shall the sword devour for ever? Do you not know that the end will be bitter? How long will it be before you bid your people turn from the pursuit of their brethren?”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	2	27	And Joab said, “As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely the men would have given up the pursuit of their brethren in the morning.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	2	28	So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the men stopped, and pursued Israel no more, nor did they fight any more.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	2	29	And Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah; they crossed the Jordan, and marching the whole forenoon they came to Mahanaim.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	2	30	Joab returned from the pursuit of Abner; and when he had gathered all the people together, there were missing of David’s servants nineteen men besides Asahel.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	2	31	But the servants of David had slain of Benjamin three hundred and sixty of Abner’s men.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	2	32	And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was at Bethlehem. And Joab and his men marched all night, and the day broke upon them at Hebron.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	1	There was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David; and David grew stronger and stronger, while the house of Saul became weaker and weaker.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	2	And sons were born to David at Hebron: his first-born was Amnon, of Ahino-am of Jezreel;
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	3	and his second, Chile-ab, of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	4	and the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	5	and the sixth, Ithre-am, of Eglah, David’s wife. These were born to David in Hebron.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	6	While there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner was making himself strong in the house of Saul.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	7	Now Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah; and Ish-bosheth said to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	8	Then Abner was very angry over the words of Ish-bosheth, and said, “Am I a dog’s head of Judah? This day I keep showing loyalty to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not given you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me today with a fault concerning a woman.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	9	God do so to Abner, and more also, if I do not accomplish for David what the Lord has sworn to him,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	10	to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul, and set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan to Beer-sheba.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	11	And Ish-bosheth could not answer Abner another word, because he feared him.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	12	And Abner sent messengers to David at Hebron, saying, “To whom does the land belong? Make your covenant with me, and behold, my hand shall be with you to bring over all Israel to you.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	13	And he said, “Good; I will make a covenant with you; but one thing I require of you; that is, you shall not see my face, unless you first bring Michal, Saul’s daughter, when you come to see my face.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	14	Then David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth Saul’s son, saying, “Give me my wife Michal, whom I betrothed at the price of a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	15	And Ish-bosheth sent, and took her from her husband Palti-el the son of Laish.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	16	But her husband went with her, weeping after her all the way to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, “Go, return”; and he returned.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	17	And Abner conferred with the elders of Israel, saying, “For some time past you have been seeking David as king over you.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	18	Now then bring it about; for the Lord has promised David, saying, ‘By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel from the hand of the Philistines, and from the hand of all their enemies.’”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	19	Abner also spoke to Benjamin; and then Abner went to tell David at Hebron all that Israel and the whole house of Benjamin thought good to do.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	20	When Abner came with twenty men to David at Hebron, David made a feast for Abner and the men who were with him.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	21	And Abner said to David, “I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may reign over all that your heart desires.” So David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	22	Just then the servants of David arrived with Joab from a raid, bringing much spoil with them. But Abner was not with David at Hebron, for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	23	When Joab and all the army that was with him came, it was told Joab, “Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has let him go, and he has gone in peace.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	24	Then Joab went to the king and said, “What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you; why is it that you have sent him away, so that he is gone?
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	25	You know that Abner the son of Ner came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you are doing.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	26	When Joab came out from David’s presence, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the cistern of Sirah; but David did not know about it.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	27	And when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him privately, and there he smote him in the belly, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	28	Afterward, when David heard of it, he said, “I and my kingdom are for ever guiltless before the Lord for the blood of Abner the son of Ner.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	29	May it fall upon the head of Joab, and upon all his father’s house; and may the house of Joab never be without one who has a discharge, or who is leprous, or who holds a spindle, or who is slain by the sword, or who lacks bread!”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	30	So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	31	Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, “Rend your clothes, and gird on sackcloth, and mourn before Abner.” And King David followed the bier.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	32	They buried Abner at Hebron; and the king lifted up his voice and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	33	And the king lamented for Abner, saying, “Should Abner die as a fool dies?
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	34	Your hands were not bound, your feet were not fettered; as one falls before the wicked you have fallen.” And all the people wept again over him.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	35	Then all the people came to persuade David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, “God do so to me and more also, if I taste bread or anything else till the sun goes down!”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	36	And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as everything that the king did pleased all the people.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	37	So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it had not been the king’s will to slay Abner the son of Ner.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	38	And the king said to his servants, “Do you not know that a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	3	39	And I am this day weak, though anointed king; these men the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. The Lord requite the evildoer according to his wickedness!”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	4	1	When Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, heard that Abner had died at Hebron, his courage failed, and all Israel was dismayed.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	4	2	Now Saul’s son had two men who were captains of raiding bands; the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, sons of Rimmon a man of Benjamin from Be-eroth (for Be-eroth also is reckoned to Benjamin;
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	4	3	the Be-erothites fled to Gittaim, and have been sojourners there to this day).
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	4	4	Jonathan, the son of Saul, had a son who was crippled in his feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel; and his nurse took him up, and fled; and, as she fled in her haste, he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	4	5	Now the sons of Rimmon the Be-erothite, Rechab and Baanah, set out, and about the heat of the day they came to the house of Ish-bosheth, as he was taking his noonday rest.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	4	6	And behold, the doorkeeper of the house had been cleaning wheat, but she grew drowsy and slept; so Rechab and Baanah his brother slipped in.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	4	7	When they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him. They took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	4	8	and brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron. And they said to the king, “Here is the head of Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life; the Lord has avenged my lord the king this day on Saul and on his offspring.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	4	9	But David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Be-erothite, “As the Lord lives, who has redeemed my life out of every adversity,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	4	10	when one told me, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,’ and thought he was bringing good news, I seized him and slew him at Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	4	11	How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous man in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now require his blood at your hand, and destroy you from the earth?”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	4	12	And David commanded his young men, and they killed them, and cut off their hands and feet, and hanged them beside the pool at Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried it in the tomb of Abner at Hebron.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	5	1	Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and said, “Behold, we are your bone and flesh.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	5	2	In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you that led out and brought in Israel; and the Lord said to you, ‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.’”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	5	3	So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the Lord, and they anointed David king over Israel.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	5	4	David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	5	5	At Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; and at Jerusalem he reigned over all Israel and Judah thirty-three years.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	5	6	And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who said to David, “You will not come in here, but the blind and the lame will ward you off”—thinking, “David cannot come in here.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	5	7	Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	5	8	And David said on that day, “Whoever would smite the Jebusites, let him get up the water shaft to attack the lame and the blind, who are hated by David’s soul.” Therefore it is said, “The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	5	9	And David dwelt in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. And David built the city round about from the Millo inward.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	5	10	And David became greater and greater, for the Lord, the God of hosts, was with him.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	5	11	And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also carpenters and masons who built David a house.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	5	12	And David perceived that the Lord had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	5	13	And David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron; and more sons and daughters were born to David.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	5	14	And these are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammu-a, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	5	15	Ibhar, Elishu-a, Nepheg, Japhia,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	5	16	Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	5	17	When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, all the Philistines went up in search of David; but David heard of it and went down to the stronghold.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	5	18	Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the valley of Rephaim.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	5	19	And David inquired of the Lord, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Wilt thou give them into my hand?” And the Lord said to David, “Go up; for I will certainly give the Philistines into your hand.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	5	20	And David came to Baal-perazim, and David defeated them there; and he said, “The Lord has broken through my enemies before me, like a bursting flood.” Therefore the name of that place is called Baal-perazim.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	5	21	And the Philistines left their idols there, and David and his men carried them away.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	5	22	And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread out in the valley of Rephaim.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	5	23	And when David inquired of the Lord, he said, “You shall not go up; go around to their rear, and come upon them opposite the balsam trees.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	5	24	And when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then bestir yourself; for then the Lord has gone out before you to smite the army of the Philistines.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	5	25	And David did as the Lord commanded him, and smote the Philistines from Geba to Gezer.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	6	1	David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	6	2	And David arose and went with all the people who were with him from Baale-judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name of the Lord of hosts who sits enthroned on the cherubim.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	6	3	And they carried the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab which was on the hill; and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were driving the new cart
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	6	4	with the ark of God; and Ahio went before the ark.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	6	5	And David and all the house of Israel were making merry before the Lord with all their might, with songs and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	6	6	And when they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	6	7	And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there because he put forth his hand to the ark; and he died there beside the ark of God.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	6	8	And David was angry because the Lord had broken forth upon Uzzah; and that place is called Perez-uzzah, to this day.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	6	9	And David was afraid of the Lord that day; and he said, “How can the ark of the Lord come to me?”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	6	10	So David was not willing to take the ark of the Lord into the city of David; but David took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	6	11	And the ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months; and the Lord blessed Obed-edom and all his household.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	6	12	And it was told King David, “The Lord has blessed the household of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God.” So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom to the city of David with rejoicing;
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	6	13	and when those who bore the ark of the Lord had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fatling.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	6	14	And David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	6	15	So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting, and with the sound of the horn.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	6	16	As the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window, and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	6	17	And they brought in the ark of the Lord, and set it in its place, inside the tent which David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	6	18	And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	6	19	and distributed among all the people, the whole multitude of Israel, both men and women, to each a cake of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins. Then all the people departed, each to his house.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	6	20	And David returned to bless his household. But Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, “How the king of Israel honored himself today, uncovering himself today before the eyes of his servants’ maids, as one of the vulgar fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	6	21	And David said to Michal, “It was before the Lord, who chose me above your father, and above all his house, to appoint me as prince over Israel, the people of the Lord—and I will make merry before the Lord.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	6	22	I will make myself yet more contemptible than this, and I will be abased in your eyes; but by the maids of whom you have spoken, by them I shall be held in honor.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	6	23	And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	7	1	Now when the king dwelt in his house, and the Lord had given him rest from all his enemies round about,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	7	2	the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	7	3	And Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart; for the Lord is with you.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	7	4	But that same night the word of the Lord came to Nathan,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	7	5	“Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord: Would you build me a house to dwell in?
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	7	6	I have not dwelt in a house since the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about in a tent for my dwelling.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	7	7	In all places where I have moved with all the people of Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, saying, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?”’
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	7	8	Now therefore thus you shall say to my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel;
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	7	9	and I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	7	10	And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be disturbed no more; and violent men shall afflict them no more, as formerly,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	7	11	from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel; and I will give you rest from all your enemies. Moreover the Lord declares to you that the Lord will make you a house.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	7	12	When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come forth from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	7	13	He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	7	14	I will be his father, and he shall be my son. When he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men;
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	7	15	but I will not take my steadfast love from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	7	16	And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure for ever before me; your throne shall be established for ever.’”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	7	17	In accordance with all these words, and in accordance with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	7	18	Then King David went in and sat before the Lord, and said, “Who am I, O Lord GOD, and what is my house, that thou hast brought me thus far?
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	7	19	And yet this was a small thing in thy eyes, O Lord GOD; thou hast spoken also of thy servant’s house for a great while to come, and hast shown me future generations, O Lord GOD!
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	7	20	And what more can David say to thee? For thou knowest thy servant, O Lord GOD!
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	7	21	Because of thy promise, and according to thy own heart, thou hast wrought all this greatness, to make thy servant know it.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	7	22	Therefore thou art great, O Lord God; for there is none like thee, and there is no God besides thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	7	23	What other nation on earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name, and doing for them great and terrible things, by driving out before his people a nation and its gods?
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	7	24	And thou didst establish for thyself thy people Israel to be thy people for ever; and thou, O Lord, didst become their God.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	7	25	And now, O Lord God, confirm for ever the word which thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house, and do as thou hast spoken;
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	7	26	and thy name will be magnified for ever, saying, ‘The Lord of hosts is God over Israel,’ and the house of thy servant David will be established before thee.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	7	27	For thou, O Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, hast made this revelation to thy servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house’; therefore thy servant has found courage to pray this prayer to thee.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	7	28	And now, O Lord GOD, thou art God, and thy words are true, and thou hast promised this good thing to thy servant;
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	7	29	now therefore may it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee; for thou, O Lord GOD, hast spoken, and with thy blessing shall the house of thy servant be blessed for ever.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	8	1	After this David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	8	2	And he defeated Moab, and measured them with a line, making them lie down on the ground; two lines he measured to be put to death, and one full line to be spared. And the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	8	3	David also defeated Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to restore his power at the river Euphrates.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	8	4	And David took from him a thousand and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand foot soldiers; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but left enough for a hundred chariots.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	8	5	And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew twenty-two thousand men of the Syrians.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	8	6	Then David put garrisons in Aram of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David and brought tribute. And the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	8	7	And David took the shields of gold which were carried by the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	8	8	And from Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, King David took very much bronze.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	8	9	When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had defeated the whole army of Hadadezer,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	8	10	Toi sent his son Joram to King David, to greet him, and to congratulate him because he had fought against Hadadezer and defeated him; for Hadadezer had often been at war with Toi. And Joram brought with him articles of silver, of gold, and of bronze;
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	8	11	these also King David dedicated to the Lord, together with the silver and gold which he dedicated from all the nations he subdued,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	8	12	from Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, Amalek, and from the spoil of Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	8	13	And David won a name for himself. When he returned, he slew eighteen thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	8	14	And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became David’s servants. And the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	8	15	So David reigned over all Israel; and David administered justice and equity to all his people.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	8	16	And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	8	17	and Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests; and Seraiah was secretary;
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	8	18	and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David’s sons were priests.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	9	1	And David said, “Is there still any one left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	9	2	Now there was a servant of the house of Saul whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David; and the king said to him, “Are you Ziba?” And he said, “Your servant is he.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	9	3	And the king said, “Is there not still some one of the house of Saul, that I may show the kindness of God to him?” Ziba said to the king, “There is still a son of Jonathan; he is crippled in his feet.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	9	4	The king said to him, “Where is he?” And Ziba said to the king, “He is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, at Lo-debar.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	9	5	Then King David sent and brought him from the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, at Lo-debar.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	9	6	And Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, son of Saul, came to David, and fell on his face and did obeisance. And David said, “Mephibosheth!” And he answered, “Behold, your servant.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	9	7	And David said to him, “Do not fear; for I will show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan, and I will restore to you all the land of Saul your father; and you shall eat at my table always.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	9	8	And he did obeisance, and said, “What is your servant, that you should look upon a dead dog such as I?”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	9	9	Then the king called Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said to him, “All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master’s son.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	9	10	And you and your sons and your servants shall till the land for him, and shall bring in the produce, that your master’s son may have bread to eat; but Mephibosheth your master’s son shall always eat at my table.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	9	11	Then Ziba said to the king, “According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so will your servant do.” So Mephibosheth ate at David’s table, like one of the king’s sons.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	9	12	And Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica. And all who dwelt in Ziba’s house became Mephibosheth’s servants.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	9	13	So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem; for he ate always at the king’s table. Now he was lame in both his feet.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	10	1	After this the king of the Ammonites died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	10	2	And David said, “I will deal loyally with Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father dealt loyally with me.” So David sent by his servants to console him concerning his father. And David’s servants came into the land of the Ammonites.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	10	3	But the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think, because David has sent comforters to you, that he is honoring your father? Has not David sent his servants to you to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	10	4	So Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved off half the beard of each, and cut off their garments in the middle, at their hips, and sent them away.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	10	5	When it was told David, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, “Remain at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	10	6	When the Ammonites saw that they had become odious to David, the Ammonites sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand foot soldiers, and the king of Maacah with a thousand men, and the men of Tob, twelve thousand men.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	10	7	And when David heard of it, he sent Joab and all the host of the mighty men.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	10	8	And the Ammonites came out and drew up in battle array at the entrance of the gate; and the Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob, and the men of Tob and Maacah, were by themselves in the open country.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	10	9	When Joab saw that the battle was set against him both in front and in the rear, he chose some of the picked men of Israel, and arrayed them against the Syrians;
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	10	10	the rest of his men he put in the charge of Abishai his brother, and he arrayed them against the Ammonites.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	10	11	And he said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come and help you.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	10	12	Be of good courage, and let us play the man for our people, and for the cities of our God; and may the Lord do what seems good to him.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	10	13	So Joab and the people who were with him drew near to battle against the Syrians; and they fled before him.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	10	14	And when the Ammonites saw that the Syrians fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, and entered the city. Then Joab returned from fighting against the Ammonites, and came to Jerusalem.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	10	15	But when the Syrians saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they gathered themselves together.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	10	16	And Hadadezer sent, and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the Euphrates; and they came to Helam, with Shobach the commander of the army of Hadadezer at their head.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	10	17	And when it was told David, he gathered all Israel together, and crossed the Jordan, and came to Helam. And the Syrians arrayed themselves against David, and fought with him.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	10	18	And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians the men of seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen, and wounded Shobach the commander of their army, so that he died there.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	10	19	And when all the kings who were servants of Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel, and became subject to them. So the Syrians feared to help the Ammonites any more.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	11	1	In the spring of the year, the time when kings go forth to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they ravaged the Ammonites, and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	11	2	It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking upon the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	11	3	And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, “Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	11	4	So David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	11	5	And the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, “I am with child.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	11	6	So David sent word to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” And Joab sent Uriah to David.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	11	7	When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab was doing, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	11	8	Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house, and wash your feet.” And Uriah went out of the king’s house, and there followed him a present from the king.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	11	9	But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	11	10	When they told David, “Uriah did not go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	11	11	Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah dwell in booths; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field; shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	11	12	Then David said to Uriah, “Remain here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day, and the next.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	11	13	And David invited him, and he ate in his presence and drank, so that he made him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	11	14	In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	11	15	In the letter he wrote, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, that he may be struck down, and die.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	11	16	And as Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew there were valiant men.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	11	17	And the men of the city came out and fought with Joab; and some of the servants of David among the people fell. Uriah the Hittite was slain also.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	11	18	Then Joab sent and told David all the news about the fighting;
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	11	19	and he instructed the messenger, “When you have finished telling all the news about the fighting to the king,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	11	20	then, if the king’s anger rises, and if he says to you, ‘Why did you go so near the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall?
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	11	21	Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman cast an upper millstone upon him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?’ then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.’”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	11	22	So the messenger went, and came and told David all that Joab had sent him to tell.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	11	23	The messenger said to David, “The men gained an advantage over us, and came out against us in the field; but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	11	24	Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall; some of the king’s servants are dead; and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	11	25	David said to the messenger, “Thus shall you say to Joab, ‘Do not let this matter trouble you, for the sword devours now one and now another; strengthen your attack upon the city, and overthrow it.’ And encourage him.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	11	26	When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she made lamentation for her husband.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	11	27	And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	12	1	And the Lord sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, “There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	12	2	The rich man had very many flocks and herds;
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	12	3	but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought. And he brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children; it used to eat of his morsel, and drink from his cup, and lie in his bosom, and it was like a daughter to him.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	12	4	Now there came a traveler to the rich man, and he was unwilling to take one of his own flock or herd to prepare for the wayfarer who had come to him, but he took the poor man’s lamb, and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	12	5	Then David’s anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, “As the Lord lives, the man who has done this deserves to die;
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	12	6	and he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	12	7	Nathan said to David, “You are the man. Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul;
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	12	8	and I gave you your master’s house, and your master’s wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if this were too little, I would add to you as much more.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	12	9	Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight? You have smitten Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	12	10	Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	12	11	Thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	12	12	For you did it secretly; but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.’”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	12	13	David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	12	14	Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the Lord, the child that is born to you shall die.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	12	15	Then Nathan went to his house. And the Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and it became sick.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	12	16	David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in and lay all night upon the ground.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	12	17	And the elders of his house stood beside him, to raise him from the ground; but he would not, nor did he eat food with them.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	12	18	On the seventh day the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead; for they said, “Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he did not listen to us; how then can we say to him the child is dead? He may do himself some harm.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	12	19	But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, “Is the child dead?” They said, “He is dead.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	12	20	Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothes; and he went into the house of the Lord, and worshiped; he then went to his own house; and when he asked, they set food before him, and he ate.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	12	21	Then his servants said to him, “What is this thing that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while it was alive; but when the child died, you arose and ate food.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	12	22	He said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows whether the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live?’
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	12	23	But now he is dead; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	12	24	Then David comforted his wife, Bathsheba, and went in to her, and lay with her; and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. And the Lord loved him,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	12	25	and sent a message by Nathan the prophet; so he called his name Jedidiah, because of the Lord.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	12	26	Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites, and took the royal city.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	12	27	And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, “I have fought against Rabbah; moreover, I have taken the city of waters.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	12	28	Now, then, gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it; lest I take the city, and it be called by my name.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	12	29	So David gathered all the people together and went to Rabbah, and fought against it and took it.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	12	30	And he took the crown of their king from his head; the weight of it was a talent of gold, and in it was a precious stone; and it was placed on David’s head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city, a very great amount.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	12	31	And he brought forth the people who were in it, and set them to labor with saws and iron picks and iron axes, and made them toil at the brickkilns; and thus he did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	1	Now Absalom, David’s son, had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and after a time Amnon, David’s son, loved her.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	2	And Amnon was so tormented that he made himself ill because of his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin, and it seemed impossible to Amnon to do anything to her.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	3	But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shime-ah, David’s brother; and Jonadab was a very crafty man.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	4	And he said to him, “O son of the king, why are you so haggard morning after morning? Will you not tell me?” Amnon said to him, “I love Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	5	Jonadab said to him, “Lie down on your bed, and pretend to be ill; and when your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and prepare the food in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it from her hand.’”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	6	So Amnon lay down, and pretended to be ill; and when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, “Pray let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	7	Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, “Go to your brother Amnon’s house, and prepare food for him.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	8	So Tamar went to her brother Amnon’s house, where he was lying down. And she took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and baked the cakes.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	9	And she took the pan and emptied it out before him, but he refused to eat. And Amnon said, “Send out every one from me.” So every one went out from him.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	10	Then Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food into the chamber, that I may eat from your hand.” And Tamar took the cakes she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	11	But when she brought them near him to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, “Come, lie with me, my sister.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	12	She answered him, “No, my brother, do not force me; for such a thing is not done in Israel; do not do this wanton folly.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	13	As for me, where could I carry my shame? And as for you, you would be as one of the wanton fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray you, speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	14	But he would not listen to her; and being stronger than she, he forced her, and lay with her.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	15	Then Amnon hated her with very great hatred; so that the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, “Arise, be gone.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	16	But she said to him, “No, my brother; for this wrong in sending me away is greater than the other which you did to me.” But he would not listen to her.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	17	He called the young man who served him and said, “Put this woman out of my presence, and bolt the door after her.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	18	Now she was wearing a long robe with sleeves; for thus were the virgin daughters of the king clad of old. So his servant put her out, and bolted the door after her.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	19	And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent the long robe which she wore; and she laid her hand on her head, and went away, crying aloud as she went.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	20	And her brother Absalom said to her, “Has Amnon your brother been with you? Now hold your peace, my sister; he is your brother; do not take this to heart.” So Tamar dwelt, a desolate woman, in her brother Absalom’s house.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	21	When King David heard of all these things, he was very angry.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	22	But Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	23	After two full years Absalom had sheepshearers at Baal-hazor, which is near Ephraim, and Absalom invited all the king’s sons.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	24	And Absalom came to the king, and said, “Behold, your servant has sheepshearers; pray let the king and his servants go with your servant.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	25	But the king said to Absalom, “No, my son, let us not all go, lest we be burdensome to you.” He pressed him, but he would not go but gave him his blessing.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	26	Then Absalom said, “If not, pray let my brother Amnon go with us.” And the king said to him, “Why should he go with you?”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	27	But Absalom pressed him until he let Amnon and all the king’s sons go with him.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	28	Then Absalom commanded his servants, “Mark when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Fear not; have I not commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	29	So the servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king’s sons arose, and each mounted his mule and fled.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	30	While they were on the way, tidings came to David, “Absalom has slain all the king’s sons, and not one of them is left.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	31	Then the king arose, and rent his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants who were standing by rent their garments.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	32	But Jonadab the son of Shime-ah, David’s brother, said, “Let not my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men the king’s sons, for Amnon alone is dead, for by the command of Absalom this has been determined from the day he forced his sister Tamar.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	33	Now therefore let not my lord the king so take it to heart as to suppose that all the king’s sons are dead; for Amnon alone is dead.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	34	But Absalom fled. And the young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, many people were coming from the Horonaim road by the side of the mountain.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	35	And Jonadab said to the king, “Behold, the king’s sons have come; as your servant said, so it has come about.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	36	And as soon as he had finished speaking, behold, the king’s sons came, and lifted up their voice and wept; and the king also and all his servants wept very bitterly.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	37	But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son day after day.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	38	So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	13	39	And the spirit of the king longed to go forth to Absalom; for he was comforted about Amnon, seeing he was dead.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	14	1	Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart went out to Absalom.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	14	2	And Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched from there a wise woman, and said to her, “Pretend to be a mourner, and put on mourning garments; do not anoint yourself with oil, but behave like a woman who has been mourning many days for the dead;
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	14	3	and go to the king, and speak thus to him.” So Joab put the words in her mouth.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	14	4	When the woman of Tekoa came to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, “Help, O king.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	14	5	And the king said to her, “What is your trouble?” She answered, “Alas, I am a widow; my husband is dead.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	14	6	And your handmaid had two sons, and they quarreled with one another in the field; there was no one to part them, and one struck the other and killed him.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	14	7	And now the whole family has risen against your handmaid, and they say, ‘Give up the man who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he slew’; and so they would destroy the heir also. Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant upon the face of the earth.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	14	8	Then the king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	14	9	And the woman of Tekoa said to the king, “On me be the guilt, my lord the king, and on my father’s house; let the king and his throne be guiltless.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	14	10	The king said, “If any one says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall never touch you again.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	14	11	Then she said, “Pray let the king invoke the Lord your God, that the avenger of blood slay no more, and my son be not destroyed.” He said, “As the Lord lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	14	12	Then the woman said, “Pray let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king.” He said, “Speak.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	14	13	And the woman said, “Why then have you planned such a thing against the people of God? For in giving this decision the king convicts himself, inasmuch as the king does not bring his banished one home again.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	14	14	We must all die, we are like water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; but God will not take away the life of him who devises means not to keep his banished one an outcast.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	14	15	Now I have come to say this to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid; and your handmaid thought, ‘I will speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	14	16	For the king will hear, and deliver his servant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together from the heritage of God.’
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	14	17	And your handmaid thought, ‘The word of my lord the king will set me at rest’; for my lord the king is like the angel of God to discern good and evil. The Lord your God be with you!”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	14	18	Then the king answered the woman, “Do not hide from me anything I ask you.” And the woman said, “Let my lord the king speak.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	14	19	The king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” The woman answered and said, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, one cannot turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has said. It was your servant Joab who bade me; it was he who put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	14	20	In order to change the course of affairs your servant Joab did this. But my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God to know all things that are on the earth.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	14	21	Then the king said to Joab, “Behold now, I grant this; go, bring back the young man Absalom.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	14	22	And Joab fell on his face to the ground, and did obeisance, and blessed the king; and Joab said, “Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord the king, in that the king has granted the request of his servant.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	14	23	So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	14	24	And the king said, “Let him dwell apart in his own house; he is not to come into my presence.” So Absalom dwelt apart in his own house, and did not come into the king’s presence.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	14	25	Now in all Israel there was no one so much to be praised for his beauty as Absalom; from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	14	26	And when he cut the hair of his head (for at the end of every year he used to cut it; when it was heavy on him, he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head, two hundred shekels by the king’s weight.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	14	27	There were born to Absalom three sons, and one daughter whose name was Tamar; she was a beautiful woman.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	14	28	So Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem, without coming into the king’s presence.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	14	29	Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king; but Joab would not come to him. And he sent a second time, but Joab would not come.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	14	30	Then he said to his servants, “See, Joab’s field is next to mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire.” So Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	14	31	Then Joab arose and went to Absalom at his house, and said to him, “Why have your servants set my field on fire?”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	14	32	Absalom answered Joab, “Behold, I sent word to you, ‘Come here, that I may send you to the king, to ask, “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still.” Now therefore let me go into the presence of the king; and if there is guilt in me, let him kill me.’”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	14	33	Then Joab went to the king, and told him; and he summoned Absalom. So he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king; and the king kissed Absalom.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	1	After this Absalom got himself a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	2	And Absalom used to rise early and stand beside the way of the gate; and when any man had a suit to come before the king for judgment, Absalom would call to him, and say, “From what city are you?” And when he said, “Your servant is of such and such a tribe in Israel,”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	3	Absalom would say to him, “See, your claims are good and right; but there is no man deputed by the king to hear you.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	4	Absalom said moreover, “Oh that I were judge in the land! Then every man with a suit or cause might come to me, and I would give him justice.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	5	And whenever a man came near to do obeisance to him, he would put out his hand, and take hold of him, and kiss him.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	6	Thus Absalom did to all of Israel who came to the king for judgment; so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	7	And at the end of four years Absalom said to the king, “Pray let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to the Lord, in Hebron.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	8	For your servant vowed a vow while I dwelt at Geshur in Aram, saying, ‘If the Lord will indeed bring me back to Jerusalem, then I will offer worship to the Lord.’”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	9	The king said to him, “Go in peace.” So he arose, and went to Hebron.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	10	But Absalom sent secret messengers throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then say, ‘Absalom is king at Hebron!’”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	11	With Absalom went two hundred men from Jerusalem who were invited guests, and they went in their simplicity, and knew nothing.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	12	And while Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city Giloh. And the conspiracy grew strong, and the people with Absalom kept increasing.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	13	And a messenger came to David, saying, “The hearts of the men of Israel have gone after Absalom.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	14	Then David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, “Arise, and let us flee; or else there will be no escape for us from Absalom; go in haste, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	15	And the king’s servants said to the king, “Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king decides.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	16	So the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten concubines to keep the house.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	17	And the king went forth, and all the people after him; and they halted at the last house.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	18	And all his servants passed by him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the six hundred Gittites who had followed him from Gath, passed on before the king.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	19	Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why do you also go with us? Go back, and stay with the king; for you are a foreigner, and also an exile from your home.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	20	You came only yesterday, and shall I today make you wander about with us, seeing I go I know not where? Go back, and take your brethren with you; and may the Lord show steadfast love and faithfulness to you.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	21	But Ittai answered the king, “As the Lord lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, there also will your servant be.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	22	And David said to Ittai, “Go then, pass on.” So Ittai the Gittite passed on, with all his men and all the little ones who were with him.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	23	And all the country wept aloud as all the people passed by, and the king crossed the brook Kidron, and all the people passed on toward the wilderness.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	24	And Abiathar came up, and lo, Zadok came also, with all the Levites, bearing the ark of the covenant of God; and they set down the ark of God, until the people had all passed out of the city.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	25	Then the king said to Zadok, “Carry the ark of God back into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the Lord, he will bring me back and let me see both it and his habitation;
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	26	but if he says, ‘I have no pleasure in you,’ behold, here I am, let him do to me what seems good to him.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	27	The king also said to Zadok the priest, “Look, go back to the city in peace, you and Abiathar, with your two sons, Ahima-az your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	28	See, I will wait at the fords of the wilderness, until word comes from you to inform me.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	29	So Zadok and Abiathar carried the ark of God back to Jerusalem; and they remained there.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	30	But David went up the ascent of the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went, barefoot and with his head covered; and all the people who were with him covered their heads, and they went up, weeping as they went.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	31	And it was told David, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” And David said, “O Lord, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	32	When David came to the summit, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent and earth upon his head.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	33	David said to him, “If you go on with me, you will be a burden to me.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	34	But if you return to the city, and say to Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father’s servant in time past, so now I will be your servant,’ then you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	35	Are not Zadok and Abiathar the priests with you there? So whatever you hear from the king’s house, tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	36	Behold, their two sons are with them there, Ahima-az, Zadok’s son, and Jonathan, Abiathar’s son; and by them you shall send to me everything you hear.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	15	37	So Hushai, David’s friend, came into the city, just as Absalom was entering Jerusalem.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	16	1	When David had passed a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, bearing two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred bunches of raisins, a hundred of summer fruits, and a skin of wine.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	16	2	And the king said to Ziba, “Why have you brought these?” Ziba answered, “The asses are for the king’s household to ride on, the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat, and the wine for those who faint in the wilderness to drink.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	16	3	And the king said, “And where is your master’s son?” Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he remains in Jerusalem; for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will give me back the kingdom of my father.’”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	16	4	Then the king said to Ziba, “Behold, all that belonged to Mephibosheth is now yours.” And Ziba said, “I do obeisance; let me ever find favor in your sight, my lord the king.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	16	5	When King David came to Bahurim, there came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shime-i, the son of Gera; and as he came he cursed continually.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	16	6	And he threw stones at David, and at all the servants of King David; and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	16	7	And Shime-i said as he cursed, “Begone, begone, you man of blood, you worthless fellow!
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	16	8	The Lord has avenged upon you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned; and the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, your ruin is on you; for you are a man of blood.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	16	9	Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and take off his head.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	16	10	But the king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? If he is cursing because the Lord has said to him, ‘Curse David,’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	16	11	And David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my own son seeks my life; how much more now may this Benjaminite! Let him alone, and let him curse; for the Lord has bidden him.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	16	12	It may be that the Lord will look upon my affliction, and that the Lord will repay me with good for this cursing of me today.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	16	13	So David and his men went on the road, while Shime-i went along on the hillside opposite him and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him and flung dust.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	16	14	And the king, and all the people who were with him, arrived weary at the Jordan; and there he refreshed himself.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	16	15	Now Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	16	16	And when Hushai the Archite, David’s friend, came to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, “Long live the king! Long live the king!”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	16	17	And Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your loyalty to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	16	18	And Hushai said to Absalom, “No; for whom the Lord and this people and all the men of Israel have chosen, his I will be, and with him I will remain.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	16	19	And again, whom should I serve? Should it not be his son? As I have served your father, so I will serve you.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	16	20	Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give your counsel; what shall we do?”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	16	21	Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to your father’s concubines, whom he has left to keep the house; and all Israel will hear that you have made yourself odious to your father, and the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	16	22	So they pitched a tent for Absalom upon the roof; and Absalom went in to his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	16	23	Now in those days the counsel which Ahithophel gave was as if one consulted the oracle of God; so was all the counsel of Ahithophel esteemed, both by David and by Absalom.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	17	1	Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will set out and pursue David tonight.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	17	2	I will come upon him while he is weary and discouraged, and throw him into a panic; and all the people who are with him will flee. I will strike down the king only,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	17	3	and I will bring all the people back to you as a bride comes home to her husband. You seek the life of only one man, and all the people will be at peace.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	17	4	And the advice pleased Absalom and all the elders of Israel.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	17	5	Then Absalom said, “Call Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear what he has to say.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	17	6	And when Hushai came to Absalom, Absalom said to him, “Thus has Ahithophel spoken; shall we do as he advises? If not, you speak.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	17	7	Then Hushai said to Absalom, “This time the counsel which Ahithophel has given is not good.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	17	8	Hushai said moreover, “You know that your father and his men are mighty men, and that they are enraged, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Besides, your father is expert in war; he will not spend the night with the people.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	17	9	Behold, even now he has hidden himself in one of the pits, or in some other place. And when some of the people fall at the first attack, whoever hears it will say, ‘There has been a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom.’
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	17	10	Then even the valiant man, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will utterly melt with fear; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and that those who are with him are valiant men.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	17	11	But my counsel is that all Israel be gathered to you, from Dan to Beer-sheba, as the sand by the sea for multitude, and that you go to battle in person.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	17	12	So we shall come upon him in some place where he is to be found, and we shall light upon him as the dew falls on the ground; and of him and all the men with him not one will be left.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	17	13	If he withdraws into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we shall drag it into the valley, until not even a pebble is to be found there.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	17	14	And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For the Lord had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the Lord might bring evil upon Absalom.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	17	15	Then Hushai said to Zadok and Abiathar the priests, “Thus and so did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and so have I counseled.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	17	16	Now therefore send quickly and tell David, ‘Do not lodge tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king and all the people who are with him be swallowed up.’”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	17	17	Now Jonathan and Ahima-az were waiting at En-rogel; a maidservant used to go and tell them, and they would go and tell King David; for they must not be seen entering the city.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	17	18	But a lad saw them, and told Absalom; so both of them went away quickly, and came to the house of a man at Bahurim, who had a well in his courtyard; and they went down into it.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	17	19	And the woman took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth, and scattered grain upon it; and nothing was known of it.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	17	20	When Absalom’s servants came to the woman at the house, they said, “Where are Ahima-az and Jonathan?” And the woman said to them, “They have gone over the brook of water.” And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	17	21	After they had gone, the men came up out of the well, and went and told King David. They said to David, “Arise, and go quickly over the water; for thus and so has Ahithophel counseled against you.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	17	22	Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they crossed the Jordan; by daybreak not one was left who had not crossed the Jordan.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	17	23	When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and went off home to his own city. And he set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	17	24	Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom crossed the Jordan with all the men of Israel.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	17	25	Now Absalom had set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra the Ishmaelite, who had married Abigal the daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	17	26	And Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	17	27	When David came to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, and Machir the son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	17	28	brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels, wheat, barley, meal, parched grain, beans and lentils,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	17	29	honey and curds and sheep and cheese from the herd, for David and the people with him to eat; for they said, “The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	18	1	Then David mustered the men who were with him, and set over them commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	18	2	And David sent forth the army, one third under the command of Joab, one third under the command of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, and one third under the command of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the men, “I myself will also go out with you.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	18	3	But the men said, “You shall not go out. For if we flee, they will not care about us. If half of us die, they will not care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us; therefore it is better that you send us help from the city.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	18	4	The king said to them, “Whatever seems best to you I will do.” So the king stood at the side of the gate, while all the army marched out by hundreds and by thousands.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	18	5	And the king ordered Joab and Abishai and Ittai, “Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom.” And all the people heard when the king gave orders to all the commanders about Absalom.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	18	6	So the army went out into the field against Israel; and the battle was fought in the forest of Ephraim.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	18	7	And the men of Israel were defeated there by the servants of David, and the slaughter there was great on that day, twenty thousand men.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	18	8	The battle spread over the face of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	18	9	And Absalom chanced to meet the servants of David. Absalom was riding upon his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak, and his head caught fast in the oak, and he was left hanging between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	18	10	And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	18	11	Joab said to the man who told him, “What, you saw him! Why then did you not strike him there to the ground? I would have been glad to give you ten pieces of silver and a girdle.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	18	12	But the man said to Joab, “Even if I felt in my hand the weight of a thousand pieces of silver, I would not put forth my hand against the king’s son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘For my sake protect the young man Absalom.’
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	18	13	On the other hand, if I had dealt treacherously against his life (and there is nothing hidden from the king), then you yourself would have stood aloof.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	18	14	Joab said, “I will not waste time like this with you.” And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them into the heart of Absalom, while he was still alive in the oak.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	18	15	And ten young men, Joab’s armor-bearers, surrounded Absalom and struck him, and killed him.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	18	16	Then Joab blew the trumpet, and the troops came back from pursuing Israel; for Joab restrained them.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	18	17	And they took Absalom, and threw him into a great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones; and all Israel fled every one to his own home.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	18	18	Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself the pillar which is in the King’s Valley, for he said, “I have no son to keep my name in remembrance”; he called the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absalom’s monument to this day.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	18	19	Then said Ahima-az the son of Zadok, “Let me run, and carry tidings to the king that the Lord has delivered him from the power of his enemies.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	18	20	And Joab said to him, “You are not to carry tidings today; you may carry tidings another day, but today you shall carry no tidings, because the king’s son is dead.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	18	21	Then Joab said to the Cushite, “Go, tell the king what you have seen.” The Cushite bowed before Joab, and ran.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	18	22	Then Ahima-az the son of Zadok said again to Joab, “Come what may, let me also run after the Cushite.” And Joab said, “Why will you run, my son, seeing that you will have no reward for the tidings?”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	18	23	“Come what may,” he said, “I will run.” So he said to him, “Run.” Then Ahima-az ran by the way of the plain, and outran the Cushite.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	18	24	Now David was sitting between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate by the wall, and when he lifted up his eyes and looked, he saw a man running alone.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	18	25	And the watchman called out and told the king. And the king said, “If he is alone, there are tidings in his mouth.” And he came apace, and drew near.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	18	26	And the watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called to the gate and said, “See, another man running alone!” The king said, “He also brings tidings.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	18	27	And the watchman said, “I think the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahima-az the son of Zadok.” And the king said, “He is a good man, and comes with good tidings.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	18	28	Then Ahima-az cried out to the king, “All is well.” And he bowed before the king with his face to the earth, and said, “Blessed be the Lord your God, who has delivered up the men who raised their hand against my lord the king.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	18	29	And the king said, “Is it well with the young man Absalom?” Ahima-az answered, “When Joab sent your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I do not know what it was.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	18	30	And the king said, “Turn aside, and stand here.” So he turned aside, and stood still.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	18	31	And behold, the Cushite came; and the Cushite said, “Good tidings for my lord the king! For the Lord has delivered you this day from the power of all who rose up against you.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	18	32	The king said to the Cushite, “Is it well with the young man Absalom?” And the Cushite answered, “May the enemies of my lord the king, and all who rise up against you for evil, be like that young man.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	18	33	And the king was deeply moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept; and as he went, he said, “O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	1	It was told Joab, “Behold, the king is weeping and mourning for Absalom.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	2	So the victory that day was turned into mourning for all the people; for the people heard that day, “The king is grieving for his son.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	3	And the people stole into the city that day as people steal in who are ashamed when they flee in battle.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	4	The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, “O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	5	Then Joab came into the house to the king, and said, “You have today covered with shame the faces of all your servants, who have this day saved your life, and the lives of your sons and your daughters, and the lives of your wives and your concubines,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	6	because you love those who hate you and hate those who love you. For you have made it clear today that commanders and servants are nothing to you; for today I perceive that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, then you would be pleased.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	7	Now therefore arise, go out and speak kindly to your servants; for I swear by the Lord, if you do not go, not a man will stay with you this night; and this will be worse for you than all the evil that has come upon you from your youth until now.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	8	Then the king arose, and took his seat in the gate. And the people were all told, “Behold, the king is sitting in the gate”; and all the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his own home.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	9	And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies, and saved us from the hand of the Philistines; and now he has fled out of the land from Absalom.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	10	But Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why do you say nothing about bringing the king back?”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	11	And King David sent this message to Zadok and Abiathar the priests, “Say to the elders of Judah, ‘Why should you be the last to bring the king back to his house, when the word of all Israel has come to the king?
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	12	You are my kinsmen, you are my bone and my flesh; why then should you be the last to bring back the king?’
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	13	And say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you are not commander of my army henceforth in place of Joab.’”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	14	And he swayed the heart of all the men of Judah as one man; so that they sent word to the king, “Return, both you and all your servants.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	15	So the king came back to the Jordan; and Judah came to Gilgal to meet the king and to bring the king over the Jordan.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	16	And Shime-i the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, from Bahurim, made haste to come down with the men of Judah to meet King David;
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	17	and with him were a thousand men from Benjamin. And Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, with his fifteen sons and his twenty servants, rushed down to the Jordan before the king,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	18	and they crossed the ford to bring over the king’s household, and to do his pleasure. And Shime-i the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he was about to cross the Jordan,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	19	and said to the king, “Let not my lord hold me guilty or remember how your servant did wrong on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem; let not the king bear it in mind.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	20	For your servant knows that I have sinned; therefore, behold, I have come this day, the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	21	Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, “Shall not Shime-i be put to death for this, because he cursed the Lord’s anointed?”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	22	But David said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be as an adversary to me? Shall any one be put to death in Israel this day? For do I not know that I am this day king over Israel?”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	23	And the king said to Shime-i, “You shall not die.” And the king gave him his oath.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	24	And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; he had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came back in safety.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	25	And when he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, “Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	26	He answered, “My lord, O king, my servant deceived me; for your servant said to him, ‘Saddle an ass for me, that I may ride upon it and go with the king.’ For your servant is lame.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	27	He has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is like the angel of God; do therefore what seems good to you.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	28	For all my father’s house were but men doomed to death before my lord the king; but you set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right have I, then, to cry to the king?”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	29	And the king said to him, “Why speak any more of your affairs? I have decided: you and Ziba shall divide the land.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	30	And Mephibosheth said to the king, “Oh, let him take it all, since my lord the king has come safely home.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	31	Now Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim; and he went on with the king to the Jordan, to escort him over the Jordan.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	32	Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old; and he had provided the king with food while he stayed at Mahanaim; for he was a very wealthy man.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	33	And the king said to Barzillai, “Come over with me, and I will provide for you with me in Jerusalem.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	34	But Barzillai said to the king, “How many years have I still to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	35	I am this day eighty years old; can I discern what is pleasant and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or what he drinks? Can I still listen to the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	36	Your servant will go a little way over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king recompense me with such a reward?
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	37	Pray let your servant return, that I may die in my own city, near the grave of my father and my mother. But here is your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do for him whatever seems good to you.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	38	And the king answered, “Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do for him whatever seems good to you; and all that you desire of me I will do for you.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	39	Then all the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over; and the king kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and he returned to his own home.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	40	The king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him; all the people of Judah, and also half the people of Israel, brought the king on his way.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	41	Then all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, “Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king and his household over the Jordan, and all David’s men with him?”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	42	All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, “Because the king is near of kin to us. Why then are you angry over this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king’s expense? Or has he given us any gift?”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	19	43	And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, “We have ten shares in the king, and in David also we have more than you. Why then did you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of bringing back our king?” But the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	20	1	Now there happened to be there a worthless fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite; and he blew the trumpet, and said, “We have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to his tents, O Israel!”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	20	2	So all the men of Israel withdrew from David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah followed their king steadfastly from the Jordan to Jerusalem.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	20	3	And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten concubines whom he had left to care for the house, and put them in a house under guard, and provided for them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as if in widowhood.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	20	4	Then the king said to Amasa, “Call the men of Judah together to me within three days, and be here yourself.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	20	5	So Amasa went to summon Judah; but he delayed beyond the set time which had been appointed him.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	20	6	And David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom; take your lord’s servants and pursue him, lest he get himself fortified cities, and cause us trouble.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	20	7	And there went out after Abishai, Joab and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men; they went out from Jerusalem to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	20	8	When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Now Joab was wearing a soldier’s garment, and over it was a girdle with a sword in its sheath fastened upon his loins, and as he went forward it fell out.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	20	9	And Joab said to Amasa, “Is it well with you, my brother?” And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	20	10	But Amasa did not observe the sword which was in Joab’s hand; so Joab struck him with it in the body, and shed his bowels to the ground, without striking a second blow; and he died. Then Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	20	11	And one of Joab’s men took his stand by Amasa, and said, “Whoever favors Joab, and whoever is for David, let him follow Joab.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	20	12	And Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the highway. And any one who came by, seeing him, stopped; and when the man saw that all the people stopped, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field, and threw a garment over him.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	20	13	When he was taken out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	20	14	And Sheba passed through all the tribes of Israel to Abel of Beth-maacah; and all the Bichrites assembled, and followed him in.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	20	15	And all the men who were with Joab came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maacah; they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and they were battering the wall, to throw it down.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	20	16	Then a wise woman called from the city, “Hear! Hear! Tell Joab, ‘Come here, that I may speak to you.’”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	20	17	And he came near her; and the woman said, “Are you Joab?” He answered, “I am.” Then she said to him, “Listen to the words of your maidservant.” And he answered, “I am listening.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	20	18	Then she said, “They were wont to say in old time, ‘Let them but ask counsel at Abel’; and so they settled a matter.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	20	19	I am one of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel; you seek to destroy a city which is a mother in Israel; why will you swallow up the heritage of the Lord?”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	20	20	Joab answered, “Far be it from me, far be it, that I should swallow up or destroy!
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	20	21	That is not true. But a man of the hill country of Ephraim, called Sheba the son of Bichri, has lifted up his hand against King David; give up him alone, and I will withdraw from the city.” And the woman said to Joab, “Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	20	22	Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. So he blew the trumpet, and they dispersed from the city, every man to his home. And Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	20	23	Now Joab was in command of all the army of Israel; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was in command of the Cherethites and the Pelethites;
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	20	24	and Adoram was in charge of the forced labor; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder;
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	20	25	and Sheva was secretary; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	20	26	and Ira the Jairite was also David’s priest.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	21	1	Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the Lord. And the Lord said, “There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	21	2	So the king called the Gibeonites. Now the Gibeonites were not of the people of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; although the people of Israel had sworn to spare them, Saul had sought to slay them in his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	21	3	And David said to the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? And how shall I make expiation, that you may bless the heritage of the Lord?”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	21	4	The Gibeonites said to him, “It is not a matter of silver or gold between us and Saul or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.” And he said, “What do you say that I shall do for you?”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	21	5	They said to the king, “The man who consumed us and planned to destroy us, so that we should have no place in all the territory of Israel,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	21	6	let seven of his sons be given to us, so that we may hang them up before the Lord at Gibeon on the mountain of the Lord.” And the king said, “I will give them.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	21	7	But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Saul’s son Jonathan, because of the oath of the Lord which was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	21	8	The king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Merab the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adri-el the son of Barzillai the Meholathite;
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	21	9	and he gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before the Lord, and the seven of them perished together. They were put to death in the first days of harvest, at the beginning of barley harvest.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	21	10	Then Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until rain fell upon them from the heavens; and she did not allow the birds of the air to come upon them by day, or the beasts of the field by night.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	21	11	When David was told what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	21	12	David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, on the day the Philistines killed Saul on Gilboa;
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	21	13	and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan; and they gathered the bones of those who were hanged.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	21	14	And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father; and they did all that the king commanded. And after that God heeded supplications for the land.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	21	15	The Philistines had war again with Israel, and David went down together with his servants, and they fought against the Philistines; and David grew weary.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	21	16	And Ishbi-benob, one of the descendants of the giants, whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of bronze, and who was girded with a new sword, thought to kill David.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	21	17	But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid, and attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then David’s men adjured him, “You shall no more go out with us to battle, lest you quench the lamp of Israel.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	21	18	After this there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; then Sibbecai the Hushathite slew Saph, who was one of the descendants of the giants.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	21	19	And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, the Bethlehemite, slew Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	21	20	And there was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on each hand, and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number; and he also was descended from the giants.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	21	21	And when he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shime-i, David’s brother, slew him.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	21	22	These four were descended from the giants in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	1	And David spoke to the Lord the words of this song on the day when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	2	He said, “The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	3	my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge, my savior; thou savest me from violence.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	4	I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	5	“For the waves of death encompassed me, the torrents of perdition assailed me;
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	6	the cords of Sheol entangled me, the snares of death confronted me.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	7	“In my distress I called upon the Lord; to my God I called. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry came to his ears.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	8	“Then the earth reeled and rocked; the foundations of the heavens trembled and quaked, because he was angry.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	9	Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth; glowing coals flamed forth from him.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	10	He bowed the heavens, and came down; thick darkness was under his feet.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	11	He rode on a cherub, and flew; he was seen upon the wings of the wind.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	12	He made darkness around him his canopy, thick clouds, a gathering of water.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	13	Out of the brightness before him coals of fire flamed forth.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	14	The Lord thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	15	And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and routed them.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	16	Then the channels of the sea were seen, the foundations of the world were laid bare, at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	17	“He reached from on high, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	18	He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	19	They came upon me in the day of my calamity; but the Lord was my stay.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	20	He brought me forth into a broad place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	21	“The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	22	For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	23	For all his ordinances were before me, and from his statutes I did not turn aside.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	24	I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from guilt.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	25	Therefore the Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in his sight.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	26	“With the loyal thou dost show thyself loyal; with the blameless man thou dost show thyself blameless;
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	27	with the pure thou dost show thyself pure, and with the crooked thou dost show thyself perverse.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	28	Thou dost deliver a humble people, but thy eyes are upon the haughty to bring them down.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	29	Yea, thou art my lamp, O Lord, and my God lightens my darkness.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	30	Yea, by thee I can crush a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	31	This God—his way is perfect; the promise of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	32	“For who is God, but the Lord? And who is a rock, except our God?
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	33	This God is my strong refuge, and has made my way safe.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	34	He made my feet like hinds’ feet, and set me secure on the heights.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	35	He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	36	Thou hast given me the shield of thy salvation, and thy help made me great.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	37	Thou didst give a wide place for my steps under me, and my feet did not slip;
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	38	I pursued my enemies and destroyed them, and did not turn back until they were consumed.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	39	I consumed them; I thrust them through, so that they did not rise; they fell under my feet.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	40	For thou didst gird me with strength for the battle; thou didst make my assailants sink under me.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	41	Thou didst make my enemies turn their backs to me, those who hated me, and I destroyed them.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	42	They looked, but there was none to save; they cried to the Lord, but he did not answer them.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	43	I beat them fine as the dust of the earth, I crushed them and stamped them down like the mire of the streets.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	44	“Thou didst deliver me from strife with the peoples; thou didst keep me as the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	45	Foreigners came cringing to me; as soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	46	Foreigners lost heart, and came trembling out of their fastnesses.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	47	“The Lord lives; and blessed be my rock, and exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	48	the God who gave me vengeance and brought down peoples under me,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	49	who brought me out from my enemies; thou didst exalt me above my adversaries, thou didst deliver me from men of violence.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	50	“For this I will extol thee, O Lord, among the nations, and sing praises to thy name.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	22	51	Great triumphs he gives to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David, and his descendants for ever.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	1	Now these are the last words of David: The oracle of David, the son of Jesse, the oracle of the man who was raised on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel:
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	2	“The Spirit of the Lord speaks by me, his word is upon my tongue.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	3	The God of Israel has spoken, the Rock of Israel has said to me: When one rules justly over men, ruling in the fear of God,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	4	he dawns on them like the morning light, like the sun shining forth upon a cloudless morning, like rain that makes grass to sprout from the earth.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	5	Yea, does not my house stand so with God? For he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure. For will he not cause to prosper all my help and my desire?
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	6	But godless men are all like thorns that are thrown away; for they cannot be taken with the hand;
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	7	but the man who touches them arms himself with iron and the shaft of a spear, and they are utterly consumed with fire.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	8	These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb-basshebeth a Tah-chemonite; he was chief of the three; he wielded his spear against eight hundred whom he slew at one time.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	9	And next to him among the three mighty men was Eleazar the son of Dodo, son of Ahohi. He was with David when they defied the Philistines who were gathered there for battle, and the men of Israel withdrew.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	10	He rose and struck down the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand cleaved to the sword; and the Lord wrought a great victory that day; and the men returned after him only to strip the slain.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	11	And next to him was Shammah, the son of Agee the Hararite. The Philistines gathered together at Lehi, where there was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the men fled from the Philistines.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	12	But he took his stand in the midst of the plot, and defended it, and slew the Philistines; and the Lord wrought a great victory.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	13	And three of the thirty chief men went down, and came about harvest time to David at the cave of Adullam, when a band of Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	14	David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then at Bethlehem.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	15	And David said longingly, “O that some one would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem which is by the gate!”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	16	Then the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem which was by the gate, and took and brought it to David. But he would not drink of it; he poured it out to the Lord,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	17	and said, “Far be it from me, O Lord, that I should do this. Shall I drink the blood of the men who went at the risk of their lives?” Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	18	Now Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the thirty. And he wielded his spear against three hundred men and slew them, and won a name beside the three.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	19	He was the most renowned of the thirty, and became their commander; but he did not attain to the three.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	20	And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was a valiant man of Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds; he smote two ariels of Moab. He also went down and slew a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	21	And he slew an Egyptian, a handsome man. The Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but Benaiah went down to him with a staff, and snatched the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and slew him with his own spear.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	22	These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and won a name beside the three mighty men.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	23	He was renowned among the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. And David set him over his bodyguard.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	24	Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	25	Shammah of Harod, Elika of Harod,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	26	Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh of Tekoa,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	27	Abi-ezer, of Anathoth, Mebunnai the Hushathite,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	28	Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai of Netophah,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	29	Heleb the son of Baanah of Netophah, Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibe-ah of the Benjaminites,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	30	Benaiah of Pirathon, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	31	Abi-albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth of Bahurim,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	32	Eliahba of Sha-albon, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	33	Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	34	Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai of Maacah, Eliam the son of Ahithophel of Gilo,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	35	Hezro of Carmel, Paarai the Arbite,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	36	Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	37	Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai of Be-eroth, the armor-bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	38	Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	23	39	Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in all.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	24	1	Again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, “Go, number Israel and Judah.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	24	2	So the king said to Joab and the commanders of the army, who were with him, “Go through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beer-sheba, and number the people, that I may know the number of the people.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	24	3	But Joab said to the king, “May the Lord your God add to the people a hundred times as many as they are, while the eyes of my lord the king still see it; but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	24	4	But the king’s word prevailed against Joab and the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders of the army went out from the presence of the king to number the people of Israel.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	24	5	They crossed the Jordan, and began from Aroer, and from the city that is in the middle of the valley, toward Gad and on to Jazer.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	24	6	Then they came to Gilead, and to Kadesh in the land of the Hittites; and they came to Dan, and from Dan they went around to Sidon,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	24	7	and came to the fortress of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites; and they went out to the Negeb of Judah at Beer-sheba.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	24	8	So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	24	9	And Joab gave the sum of the numbering of the people to the king: in Israel there were eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	24	10	But David’s heart smote him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the Lord, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O Lord, I pray thee, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	24	11	And when David arose in the morning, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	24	12	“Go and say to David, ‘Thus says the Lord, Three things I offer you; choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	24	13	So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, “Shall three years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now consider, and decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	24	14	Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress; let us fall into the hand of the Lord, for his mercy is great; but let me not fall into the hand of man.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	24	15	So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning until the appointed time; and there died of the people from Dan to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	24	16	And when the angel stretched forth his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented of the evil, and said to the angel who was working destruction among the people, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	24	17	Then David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel who was smiting the people, and said, “Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Let thy hand, I pray thee, be against me and against my father’s house.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	24	18	And Gad came that day to David, and said to him, “Go up, rear an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	24	19	So David went up at Gad’s word, as the Lord commanded.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	24	20	And when Araunah looked down, he saw the king and his servants coming on toward him; and Araunah went forth, and did obeisance to the king with his face to the ground.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	24	21	And Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David said, “To buy the threshing floor of you, in order to build an altar to the Lord, that the plague may be averted from the people.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	24	22	Then Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him; here are the oxen for the burnt offering, and the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	24	23	All this, O king, Araunah gives to the king.” And Araunah said to the king, “The Lord your God accept you.”
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	24	24	But the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will buy it of you for a price; I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God which cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
 2 Samuel	2Sam	10	24	25	And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the Lord heeded supplications for the land, and the plague was averted from Israel.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	1	Now King David was old and advanced in years; and although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	2	Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young maiden be sought for my lord the king, and let her wait upon the king, and be his nurse; let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may be warm.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	3	So they sought for a beautiful maiden throughout all the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	4	The maiden was very beautiful; and she became the king’s nurse and ministered to him; but the king knew her not.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	5	Now Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king“; and he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	6	His father had never at any time displeased him by asking, “Why have you done thus and so?” He was also a very handsome man; and he was born next after Absalom.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	7	He conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest; and they followed Adonijah and helped him.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	8	But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shime-i, and Rei, and David’s mighty men were not with Adonijah.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	9	Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fatlings by the Serpent’s Stone, which is beside En-rogel, and he invited all his brothers, the king’s sons, and all the royal officials of Judah,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	10	but he did not invite Nathan the prophet or Benaiah or the mighty men or Solomon his brother.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	11	Then Nathan said to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, “Have you not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith has become king and David our lord does not know it?
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	12	Now therefore come, let me give you counsel, that you may save your own life and the life of your son Solomon.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	13	Go in at once to King David, and say to him, ‘Did you not, my lord the king, swear to your maidservant, saying, “Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne”? Why then is Adonijah king?’
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	14	Then while you are still speaking with the king, I also will come in after you and confirm your words.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	15	So Bathsheba went to the king into his chamber (now the king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was ministering to the king).
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	16	Bathsheba bowed and did obeisance to the king, and the king said, “What do you desire?”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	17	She said to him, “My lord, you swore to your maidservant by the Lord your God, saying, ‘Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.’
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	18	And now, behold, Adonijah is king, although you, my lord the king, do not know it.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	19	He has sacrificed oxen, fatlings, and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the sons of the king, Abiathar the priest, and Joab the commander of the army; but Solomon your servant he has not invited.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	20	And now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are upon you, to tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	21	Otherwise it will come to pass, when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be counted offenders.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	22	While she was still speaking with the king, Nathan the prophet came in.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	23	And they told the king, “Here is Nathan the prophet.” And when he came in before the king, he bowed before the king, with his face to the ground.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	24	And Nathan said, “My lord the king, have you said, ‘Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne’?
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	25	For he has gone down this day, and has sacrificed oxen, fatlings, and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the king’s sons, Joab the commander of the army, and Abiathar the priest; and behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and saying, ‘Long live King Adonijah!’
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	26	But me, your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon, he has not invited.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	27	Has this thing been brought about by my lord the king and you have not told your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	28	Then King David answered, “Call Bathsheba to me.” So she came into the king’s presence, and stood before the king.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	29	And the king swore, saying, “As the Lord lives, who has redeemed my soul out of every adversity,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	30	as I swore to you by the Lord, the God of Israel, saying, ‘Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead’; even so will I do this day.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	31	Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the ground, and did obeisance to the king, and said, “May my lord King David live for ever!”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	32	King David said, “Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada.” So they came before the king.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	33	And the king said to them, “Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	34	and let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet there anoint him king over Israel; then blow the trumpet, and say, ‘Long live King Solomon!’
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	35	You shall then come up after him, and he shall come and sit upon my throne; for he shall be king in my stead; and I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	36	And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, “Amen! May the Lord, the God of my lord the king, say so.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	37	As the Lord has been with my lord the king, even so may he be with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord King David.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	38	So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, went down and caused Solomon to ride on King David’s mule, and brought him to Gihon.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	39	There Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tent, and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, “Long live King Solomon!”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	40	And all the people went up after him, playing on pipes, and rejoicing with great joy, so that the earth was split by their noise.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	41	Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they finished feasting. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, “What does this uproar in the city mean?”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	42	While he was still speaking, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came; and Adonijah said, “Come in, for you are a worthy man and bring good news.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	43	Jonathan answered Adonijah, “No, for our lord King David has made Solomon king;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	44	and the king has sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and they have caused him to ride on the king’s mule;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	45	and Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king at Gihon; and they have gone up from there rejoicing, so that the city is in an uproar. This is the noise that you have heard.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	46	Solomon sits upon the royal throne.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	47	Moreover the king’s servants came to congratulate our lord King David, saying, ‘Your God make the name of Solomon more famous than yours, and make his throne greater than your throne.’ And the king bowed himself upon the bed.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	48	And the king also said, ‘Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who has granted one of my offspring to sit on my throne this day, my own eyes seeing it.’”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	49	Then all the guests of Adonijah trembled, and rose, and each went his own way.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	50	And Adonijah feared Solomon; and he arose, and went, and caught hold of the horns of the altar.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	51	And it was told Solomon, “Behold, Adonijah fears King Solomon; for, lo, he has laid hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘Let King Solomon swear to me first that he will not slay his servant with the sword.’”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	52	And Solomon said, “If he prove to be a worthy man, not one of his hairs shall fall to the earth; but if wickedness is found in him, he shall die.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	1	53	So King Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and did obeisance to King Solomon; and Solomon said to him, “Go to your house.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	1	When David’s time to die drew near, he charged Solomon his son, saying,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	2	“I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, and show yourself a man,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	3	and keep the charge of the Lord your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	4	that the Lord may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your sons take heed to their way, to walk before me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel.’
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	5	“Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, how he dealt with the two commanders of the armies of Israel, Abner the son of Ner, and Amasa the son of Jether, whom he murdered, avenging in time of peace blood which had been shed in war, and putting innocent blood upon the girdle about my loins, and upon the sandals on my feet.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	6	Act therefore according to your wisdom, but do not let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	7	But deal loyally with the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table; for with such loyalty they met me when I fled from Absalom your brother.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	8	And there is also with you Shime-i the son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse on the day when I went to Mahanaim; but when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the Lord, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	9	Now therefore hold him not guiltless, for you are a wise man; you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down with blood to Sheol.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	10	Then David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	11	And the time that David reigned over Israel was forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	12	So Solomon sat upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was firmly established.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	13	Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. And she said, “Do you come peaceably?” He said, “Peaceably.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	14	Then he said, “I have something to say to you.” She said, “Say on.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	15	He said, “You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel fully expected me to reign; however the kingdom has turned about and become my brother’s, for it was his from the Lord.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	16	And now I have one request to make of you; do not refuse me.” She said to him, “Say on.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	17	And he said, “Pray ask King Solomon—he will not refuse you—to give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	18	Bathsheba said, “Very well; I will speak for you to the king.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	19	So Bathsheba went to King Solomon, to speak to him on behalf of Adonijah. And the king rose to meet her, and bowed down to her; then he sat on his throne, and had a seat brought for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	20	Then she said, “I have one small request to make of you; do not refuse me.” And the king said to her, “Make your request, my mother; for I will not refuse you.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	21	She said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as his wife.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	22	King Solomon answered his mother, “And why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also; for he is my elder brother, and on his side are Abiathar the priest and Joab the son of Zeruiah.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	23	Then King Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, “God do so to me and more also if this word does not cost Adonijah his life!
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	24	Now therefore as the Lord lives, who has established me, and placed me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	25	So King Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he struck him down, and he died.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	26	And to Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your estate; for you deserve death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because you shared in all the affliction of my father.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	27	So Solomon expelled Abiathar from being priest to the Lord, thus fulfilling the word of the Lord which he had spoken concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	28	When the news came to Joab—for Joab had supported Adonijah although he had not supported Absalom—Joab fled to the tent of the Lord and caught hold of the horns of the altar.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	29	And when it was told King Solomon, “Joab has fled to the tent of the Lord, and behold, he is beside the altar,” Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, strike him down.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	30	So Benaiah came to the tent of the Lord, and said to him, “The king commands, ‘Come forth.’” But he said, “No, I will die here.” Then Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, “Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	31	The king replied to him, “Do as he has said, strike him down and bury him; and thus take away from me and from my father’s house the guilt for the blood which Joab shed without cause.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	32	The Lord will bring back his bloody deeds upon his own head, because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and slew with the sword two men more righteous and better than himself, Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	33	So shall their blood come back upon the head of Joab and upon the head of his descendants for ever; but to David, and to his descendants, and to his house, and to his throne, there shall be peace from the Lord for evermore.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	34	Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and struck him down and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	35	The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada over the army in place of Joab, and the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	36	Then the king sent and summoned Shime-i, and said to him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and do not go forth from there to any place whatever.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	37	For on the day you go forth, and cross the brook Kidron, know for certain that you shall die; your blood shall be upon your own head.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	38	And Shime-i said to the king, “What you say is good; as my lord the king has said, so will your servant do.” So Shime-i dwelt in Jerusalem many days.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	39	But it happened at the end of three years that two of Shime-i’s slaves ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. And when it was told Shime-i, “Behold, your slaves are in Gath,”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	40	Shime-i arose and saddled an ass, and went to Gath to Achish, to seek his slaves; Shime-i went and brought his slaves from Gath.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	41	And when Solomon was told that Shime-i had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and returned,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	42	the king sent and summoned Shime-i, and said to him, “Did I not make you swear by the Lord, and solemnly admonish you, saying, ‘Know for certain that on the day you go forth and go to any place whatever, you shall die’? And you said to me, ‘What you say is good; I obey.’
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	43	Why then have you not kept your oath to the Lor and the commandment with which I charged you?”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	44	The king also said to Shime-i, “You know in your own heart all the evil that you did to David my father; so the Lord will bring back your evil upon your own head.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	45	But King Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the Lord for ever.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	2	46	Then the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out and struck him down, and he died. So the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	3	1	Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt; he took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had finished building his own house and the house of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	3	2	The people were sacrificing at the high places, however, because no house had yet been built for the name of the Lord.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	3	3	Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David his father; only, he sacrificed and burnt incense at the high places.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	3	4	And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place; Solomon used to offer a thousand burnt offerings upon that altar.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	3	5	At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask what I shall give you.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	3	6	And Solomon said, “Thou hast shown great and steadfast love to thy servant David my father, because he walked before thee in faithfulness, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart toward thee; and thou hast kept for him this great and steadfast love, and hast given him a son to sit on his throne this day.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	3	7	And now, O Lord my God, thou hast made thy servant king in place of David my father, although I am but a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	3	8	And thy servant is in the midst of thy people whom thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered or counted for multitude.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	3	9	Give thy servant therefore an understanding mind to govern thy people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to govern this thy great people?”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	3	10	It pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	3	11	And God said to him, “Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches or the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	3	12	behold, I now do according to your word. Behold, I give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	3	13	I give you also what you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that no other king shall compare with you, all your days.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	3	14	And if you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	3	15	And Solomon awoke, and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered up burnt offerings and peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	3	16	Then two harlots came to the king, and stood before him.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	3	17	The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, this woman and I dwell in the same house; and I gave birth to a child while she was in the house.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	3	18	Then on the third day after I was delivered, this woman also gave birth; and we were alone; there was no one else with us in the house, only we two were in the house.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	3	19	And this woman’s son died in the night, because she lay on it.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	3	20	And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your maidservant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead son in my bosom.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	3	21	When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, it was dead; but when I looked at it closely in the morning, behold, it was not the child that I had borne.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	3	22	But the other woman said, “No, the living child is mine, and the dead child is yours.” The first said, “No, the dead child is yours, and the living child is mine.” Thus they spoke before the king.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	3	23	Then the king said, “The one says, ‘This is my son that is alive, and your son is dead’; and the other says, ‘No; but your son is dead, and my son is the living one.’”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	3	24	And the king said, “Bring me a sword.” So a sword was brought before the king.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	3	25	And the king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	3	26	Then the woman whose son was alive said to the king, because her heart yearned for her son, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means slay it.” But the other said, “It shall be neither mine nor yours; divide it.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	3	27	Then the king answered and said, “Give the living child to the first woman, and by no means slay it; she is its mother.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	3	28	And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had rendered; and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that the wisdom of God was in him, to render justice.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	4	1	King Solomon was king over all Israel,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	4	2	and these were his high officials: Azariah the son of Zadok was the priest;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	4	3	Elihoreph and Ahijah the sons of Shisha were secretaries; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	4	4	Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was in command of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	4	5	Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; Zabud the son of Nathan was priest and king’s friend;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	4	6	Ahishar was in charge of the palace; and Adoniram the son of Abda was in charge of the forced labor.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	4	7	Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household; each man had to make provision for one month in the year.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	4	8	These were their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	4	9	Ben-deker, in Makaz, Sha-albim, Beth-shemesh, and Elonbeth-hanan;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	4	10	Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (to him belonged Socoh and all the land of Hepher);
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	4	11	Ben-abinadab, in all Naphath-dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as his wife);
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	4	12	Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach, Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, and from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as the other side of Jokmeam;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	4	13	Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (he had the villages of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, and he had the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	4	14	Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	4	15	Ahima-az, in Naphtali (he had taken Basemath the daughter of Solomon as his wife);
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	4	16	Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	4	17	Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	4	18	Shime-i the son of Ela, in Benjamin;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	4	19	Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan. And there was one officer in the land of Judah.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	4	20	Judah and Israel were as many as the sand by the sea; they ate and drank and were happy.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	4	21	Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt; they brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	4	22	Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour, and sixty cors of meal,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	4	23	ten fat oxen, and twenty pasture-fed cattle, a hundred sheep, besides harts, gazelles, roebucks, and fatted fowl.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	4	24	For he had dominion over all the region west of the Euphrates from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kings west of the Euphrates; and he had peace on all sides round about him.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	4	25	And Judah and Israel dwelt in safety, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, all the days of Solomon.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	4	26	Solomon also had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	4	27	And those officers supplied provisions for King Solomon, and for all who came to King Solomon’s table, each one in his month; they let nothing be lacking.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	4	28	Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds they brought to the place where it was required, each according to his charge.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	4	29	And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding beyond measure, and largeness of mind like the sand on the seashore,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	4	30	so that Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	4	31	For he was wiser than all other men, wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was in all the nations round about.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	4	32	He also uttered three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	4	33	He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of the wall; he spoke also of beasts, and of birds, and of reptiles, and of fish.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	4	34	And men came from all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and from all the kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	5	1	Now Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon, when he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father; for Hiram always loved David.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	5	2	And Solomon sent word to Hiram,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	5	3	“You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of the Lord his God because of the warfare with which his enemies surrounded him, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	5	4	But now the Lord my God has given me rest on every side; there is neither adversary nor misfortune.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	5	5	And so I purpose to build a house for the name of the Lord my God, as the Lor said to David my father, ‘Your son, whom I will set upon your throne in your place, shall build the house for my name.’
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	5	6	Now therefore command that cedars of Lebanon be cut for me; and my servants will join your servants, and I will pay you for your servants such wages as you set; for you know that there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	5	7	When Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly, and said, “Blessed be the Lord this day, who has given to David a wise son to be over this great people.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	5	8	And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, “I have heard the message which you have sent to me; I am ready to do all you desire in the matter of cedar and cypress timber.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	5	9	My servants shall bring it down to the sea from Lebanon; and I will make it into rafts to go by sea to the place you direct, and I will have them broken up there, and you shall receive it; and you shall meet my wishes by providing food for my household.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	5	10	So Hiram supplied Solomon with all the timber of cedar and cypress that he desired,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	5	11	while Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand cors of wheat as food for his household, and twenty thousand cors of beaten oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	5	12	And the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and the two of them made a treaty.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	5	13	King Solomon raised a levy of forced labor out of all Israel; and the levy numbered thirty thousand men.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	5	14	And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month in relays; they would be a month in Lebanon and two months at home; Adoniram was in charge of the levy.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	5	15	Solomon also had seventy thousand burden-bearers and eighty thousand hewers of stone in the hill country,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	5	16	besides Solomon’s three thousand three hundred chief officers who were over the work, who had charge of the people who carried on the work.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	5	17	At the king’s command, they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	5	18	So Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the men of Gebal did the hewing and prepared the timber and the stone to build the house.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	1	In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	2	The house which King Solomon built for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	3	The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house, and ten cubits deep in front of the house.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	4	And he made for the house windows with recessed frames.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	5	He also built a structure against the wall of the house, running round the walls of the house, both the nave and the inner sanctuary; and he made side chambers all around.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	6	The lowest story was five cubits broad, the middle one was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for around the outside of the house he made offsets on the wall in order that the supporting beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	7	When the house was built, it was with stone prepared at the quarry; so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the temple, while it was being built.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	8	The entrance for the lowest story was on the south side of the house; and one went up by stairs to the middle story, and from the middle story to the third.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	9	So he built the house, and finished it; and he made the ceiling of the house of beams and planks of cedar.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	10	He built the structure against the whole house, each story five cubits high, and it was joined to the house with timbers of cedar.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	11	Now the word of the Lord came to Solomon,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	12	“Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my ordinances and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	13	And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	14	So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	15	He lined the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house to the rafters of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of cypress.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	16	He built twenty cubits of the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the rafters, and he built this within as an inner sanctuary, as the most holy place.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	17	The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	18	The cedar within the house was carved in the form of gourds and open flowers; all was cedar, no stone was seen.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	19	The inner sanctuary he prepared in the innermost part of the house, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	20	The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high; and he overlaid it with pure gold. He also made an altar of cedar.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	21	And Solomon overlaid the inside of the house with pure gold, and he drew chains of gold across, in front of the inner sanctuary, and overlaid it with gold.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	22	And he overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. Also the whole altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary he overlaid with gold.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	23	In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olivewood, each ten cubits high.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	24	Five cubits was the length of one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the length of the other wing of the cherub; it was ten cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	25	The other cherub also measured ten cubits; both cherubim had the same measure and the same form.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	26	The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	27	He put the cherubim in the innermost part of the house; and the wings of the cherubim were spread out so that a wing of one touched the one wall, and a wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; their other wings touched each other in the middle of the house.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	28	And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	29	He carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, in the inner and outer rooms.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	30	The floor of the house he overlaid with gold in the inner and outer rooms.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	31	For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors of olivewood; the lintel and the doorposts formed a pentagon.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	32	He covered the two doors of olivewood with carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; he overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubim and upon the palm trees.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	33	So also he made for the entrance to the nave doorposts of olivewood, in the form of a square,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	34	and two doors of cypress wood; the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	35	On them he carved cherubim and palm trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold evenly applied upon the carved work.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	36	He built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone and one course of cedar beams.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	37	In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid, in the month of Ziv.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	6	38	And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its parts, and according to all its specifications. He was seven years in building it.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	1	Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished his entire house.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	2	He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon; its length was a hundred cubits, and its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, and it was built upon three rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	3	And it was covered with cedar above the chambers that were upon the forty-five pillars, fifteen in each row.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	4	There were window frames in three rows, and window opposite window in three tiers.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	5	All the doorways and windows had square frames, and window was opposite window in three tiers.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	6	And he made the Hall of Pillars; its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth thirty cubits; there was a porch in front with pillars, and a canopy before them.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	7	And he made the Hall of the Throne where he was to pronounce judgment, even the Hall of Judgment; it was finished with cedar from floor to rafters.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	8	His own house where he was to dwell, in the other court back of the hall, was of like workmanship. Solomon also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter whom he had taken in marriage.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	9	All these were made of costly stones, hewn according to measure, sawed with saws, back and front, even from the foundation to the coping, and from the court of the house of the Lord to the great court.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	10	The foundation was of costly stones, huge stones, stones of eight and ten cubits.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	11	And above were costly stones, hewn according to measurement, and cedar.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	12	The great court had three courses of hewn stone round about, and a course of cedar beams; so had the inner court of the house of the Lord, and the vestibule of the house.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	13	And King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	14	He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze; and he was full of wisdom, understanding, and skill, for making any work in bronze. He came to King Solomon, and did all his work.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	15	He cast two pillars of bronze. Eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured its circumference; it was hollow, and its thickness was four fingers; the second pillar was the same.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	16	He also made two capitals of molten bronze, to set upon the tops of the pillars; the height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	17	Then he made two nets of checker work with wreaths of chain work for the capitals upon the tops of the pillars; a net for the one capital, and a net for the other capital.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	18	Likewise he made pomegranates; in two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the capital that was upon the top of the pillar; and he did the same with the other capital.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	19	Now the capitals that were upon the tops of the pillars in the vestibule were of lily-work, four cubits.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	20	The capitals were upon the two pillars and also above the rounded projection which was beside the network; there were two hundred pomegranates, in two rows round about; and so with the other capital.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	21	He set up the pillars at the vestibule of the temple; he set up the pillar on the south and called its name Jachin; and he set up the pillar on the north and called its name Boaz.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	22	And upon the tops of the pillars was lily-work. Thus the work of the pillars was finished.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	23	Then he made the molten sea; it was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	24	Under its brim were gourds, for thirty cubits, compassing the sea round about; the gourds were in two rows, cast with it when it was cast.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	25	It stood upon twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; the sea was set upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	26	Its thickness was a handbreadth; and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily; it held two thousand baths.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	27	He also made the ten stands of bronze; each stand was four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	28	This was the construction of the stands: they had panels, and the panels were set in the frames
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	29	and on the panels that were set in the frames were lions, oxen, and cherubim. Upon the frames, both above and below the lions and oxen, there were wreaths of beveled work.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	30	Moreover each stand had four bronze wheels and axles of bronze; and at the four corners were supports for a laver. The supports were cast, with wreaths at the side of each.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	31	Its opening was within a crown which projected upward one cubit; its opening was round, as a pedestal is made, a cubit and a half deep. At its opening there were carvings; and its panels were square, not round.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	32	And the four wheels were underneath the panels; the axles of the wheels were of one piece with the stands; and the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	33	The wheels were made like a chariot wheel; their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs, were all cast.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	34	There were four supports at the four corners of each stand; the supports were of one piece with the stands.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	35	And on the top of the stand there was a round band half a cubit high; and on the top of the stand its stays and its panels were of one piece with it.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	36	And on the surfaces of its stays and on its panels, he carved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the space of each, with wreaths round about.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	37	After this manner he made the ten stands; all of them were cast alike, of the same measure and the same form.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	38	And he made ten lavers of bronze; each laver held forty baths, each laver measured four cubits, and there was a laver for each of the ten stands.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	39	And he set the stands, five on the south side of the house, and five on the north side of the house; and he set the sea on the southeast corner of the house.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	40	Hiram also made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished all the work that he did for King Solomon on the house of the Lord:
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	41	the two pillars, the two bowls of the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	42	and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were upon the pillars;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	43	the ten stands, and the ten lavers upon the stands;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	44	and the one sea, and the twelve oxen underneath the sea.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	45	Now the pots, the shovels, and the basins, all these vessels in the house of the Lord, which Hiram made for King Solomon, were of burnished bronze.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	46	In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	47	And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them; the weight of the bronze was not found out.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	48	So Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of the Lord: the golden altar, the golden table for the bread of the Presence,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	49	the lampstands of pure gold, five on the south side and five on the north, before the inner sanctuary; the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of gold;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	50	the cups, snuffers, basins, dishes for incense, and firepans, of pure gold; and the sockets of gold, for the doors of the innermost part of the house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the nave of the temple.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	7	51	Thus all the work that King Solomon did on the house of the Lord was finished. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, the silver, the gold, and the vessels, and stored them in the treasuries of the house of the Lord.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	1	Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers’ houses of the people of Israel, before King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	2	And all the men of Israel assembled to King Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	3	And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	4	And they brought up the ark of the Lord, the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent; the priests and the Levites brought them up.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	5	And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who had assembled before him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	6	Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, in the inner sanctuary of the house, in the most holy place, underneath the wings of the cherubim.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	7	For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim made a covering above the ark and its poles.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	8	And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the inner sanctuary; but they could not be seen from outside; and they are there to this day.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	9	There was nothing in the ark except the two tables of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the people of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	10	And when the priests came out of the holy place, a cloud filled the house of the Lord,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	11	so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	12	Then Solomon said, “The Lord has set the sun in the heavens, but has said that he would dwell in thick darkness.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	13	I have built thee an exalted house, a place for thee to dwell in for ever.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	14	Then the king faced about, and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel stood.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	15	And he said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who with his hand has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth to David my father, saying,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	16	‘Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city in all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.’
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	17	Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	18	But the Lord said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	19	nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.’
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	20	Now the Lord has fulfilled his promise which he made; for I have risen in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and I have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	21	And there I have provided a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	22	Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	23	and said, “O Lord, God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to thy servants who walk before thee with all their heart;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	24	who hast kept with thy servant David my father what thou didst declare to him; yea, thou didst speak with thy mouth, and with thy hand hast fulfilled it this day.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	25	Now therefore, O Lord, God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father what thou hast promised him, saying, ‘There shall never fail you a man before me to sit upon the throne of Israel, if only your sons take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.’
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	26	Now therefore, O God of Israel, let thy word be confirmed, which thou hast spoken to thy servant David my father.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	27	“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	28	Yet have regard to the prayer of thy servant and to his supplication, O Lord my God, hearkening to the cry and to the prayer which thy servant prays before thee this day;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	29	that thy eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which thou hast said, ‘My name shall be there,’ that thou mayest hearken to the prayer which thy servant offers toward this place.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	30	And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant and of thy people Israel, when they pray toward this place; yea, hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place; and when thou hearest, forgive.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	31	“If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath, and comes and swears his oath before thine altar in this house,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	32	then hear thou in heaven, and act, and judge thy servants, condemning the guilty by bringing his conduct upon his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	33	“When thy people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against thee, if they turn again to thee, and acknowledge thy name, and pray and make supplication to thee in this house;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	34	then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again to the land which thou gavest to their fathers.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	35	“When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against thee, if they pray toward this place, and acknowledge thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	36	then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, thy people Israel, when thou dost teach them the good way in which they should walk; and grant rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people as an inheritance.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	37	“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in any of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	38	whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by any man or by all thy people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart and stretching out his hands toward this house;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	39	then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and render to each whose heart thou knowest, according to all his ways (for thou, thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men);
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	40	that they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest to our fathers.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	41	“Likewise when a foreigner, who is not of thy people Israel, comes from a far country for thy name’s sake
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	42	(for they shall hear of thy great name, and thy mighty hand, and of thy outstretched arm), when he comes and prays toward this house,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	43	hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to thee; in order that all the peoples of the earth may know thy name and fear thee, as do thy people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	44	“If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way thou shalt send them, and they pray to the Lord toward the city which thou hast chosen and the house which I have built for thy name,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	45	then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	46	“If they sin against thee—for there is no man who does not sin—and thou art angry with them, and dost give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	47	yet if they lay it to heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent, and make supplication to thee in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned, and have acted perversely and wickedly’;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	48	if they repent with all their mind and with all their heart in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to thee toward their land, which thou gavest to their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	49	then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	50	and forgive thy people who have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions which they have committed against thee; and grant them compassion in the sight of those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	51	(for they are thy people, and thy heritage, which thou didst bring out of Egypt, from the midst of the iron furnace).
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	52	Let thy eyes be open to the supplication of thy servant, and to the supplication of thy people Israel, giving ear to them whenever they call to thee.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	53	For thou didst separate them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be thy heritage, as thou didst declare through Moses, thy servant, when thou didst bring our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	54	Now as Solomon finished offering all this prayer and supplication to the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, where he had knelt with hands outstretched toward heaven;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	55	and he stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	56	“Blessed be the Lord who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised; not one word has failed of all his good promise, which he uttered by Moses his servant.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	57	The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers; may he not leave us or forsake us;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	58	that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	59	Let these words of mine, wherewith I have made supplication before the Lord, be near to the Lord our God day and night, and may he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel, as each day requires;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	60	that all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord is God; there is no other.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	61	Let your heart therefore be wholly true to the Lord our God, walking in his statutes and keeping his commandments, as at this day.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	62	Then the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the Lord.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	63	Solomon offered as peace offerings to the Lord twenty-two thousand oxen and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people of Israel dedicated the house of the Lord.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	64	The same day the king consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord; for there he offered the burnt offering and the cereal offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before the Lord was too small to receive the burnt offering and the cereal offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	65	So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the Brook of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	8	66	On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to their homes joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the Lord had shown to David his servant and to Israel his people.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	9	1	When Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord and the king’s house and all that Solomon desired to build,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	9	2	the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	9	3	And the Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, which you have made before me; I have consecrated this house which you have built, and put my name there for ever; my eyes and my heart will be there for all time.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	9	4	And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my ordinances,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	9	5	then I will establish your royal throne over Israel for ever, as I promised David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man upon the throne of Israel.’
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	9	6	But if you turn aside from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	9	7	then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and the house which I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight; and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	9	8	And this house will become a heap of ruins; everyone passing by it will be astonished, and will hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	9	9	Then they will say, ‘Because they forsook the Lord their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore the Lord has brought all this evil upon them.’”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	9	10	At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king’s house,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	9	11	and Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold, as much as he desired, King Solomon gave to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	9	12	But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, they did not please him.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	9	13	Therefore he said, “What kind of cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” So they are called the land of Cabul to this day.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	9	14	Hiram had sent to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	9	15	And this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon levied to build the house of the Lord and his own house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	9	16	(Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burnt it with fire, and had slain the Canaanites who dwelt in the city, and had given it as dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	9	17	so Solomon rebuilt Gezer) and Lower Beth-horon
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	9	18	and Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	9	19	and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	9	20	All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the people of Israel—
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	9	21	their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel were unable to destroy utterly—these Solomon made a forced levy of slaves, and so they are to this day.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	9	22	But of the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves; they were the soldiers, they were his officials, his commanders, his captains, his chariot commanders and his horsemen.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	9	23	These were the chief officers who were over Solomon’s work: five hundred and fifty, who had charge of the people who carried on the work.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	9	24	But Pharaoh’s daughter went up from the city of David to her own house which Solomon had built for her; then he built the Millo.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	9	25	Three times a year Solomon used to offer up burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built to the Lor, burning incense before the Lord. So he finished the house.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	9	26	King Solomon built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	9	27	And Hiram sent with the fleet his servants, seamen who were familiar with the sea, together with the servants of Solomon;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	9	28	and they went to Ophir, and brought from there gold, to the amount of four hundred and twenty talents; and they brought it to King Solomon.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	10	1	Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to test him with hard questions.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	10	2	She came to Jerusalem with a very great retinue, with camels bearing spices, and very much gold, and precious stones; and when she came to Solomon, she told him all that was on her mind.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	10	3	And Solomon answered all her questions; there was nothing hidden from the king which he could not explain to her.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	10	4	And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	10	5	the food of his table, the seating of his officials, and the attendance of his servants, their clothing, his cupbearers, and his burnt offerings which he offered at the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	10	6	And she said to the king, “The report was true which I heard in my own land of your affairs and of your wisdom,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	10	7	but I did not believe the reports until I came and my own eyes had seen it; and, behold, the half was not told me; your wisdom and prosperity surpass the report which I heard.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	10	8	Happy are your wives! Happy are these your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	10	9	Blessed be the Lord your God, who has delighted in you and set you on the throne of Israel! Because the Lord loved Israel for ever, he has made you king, that you may execute justice and righteousness.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	10	10	Then she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices, and precious stones; never again came such an abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	10	11	Moreover the fleet of Hiram, which brought gold from Ophir, brought from Ophir a very great amount of almug wood and precious stones.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	10	12	And the king made of the almug wood supports for the house of the Lord, and for the king’s house, lyres also and harps for the singers; no such almug wood has come or been seen, to this day.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	10	13	And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all that she desired, whatever she asked besides what was given her by the bounty of King Solomon. So she turned and went back to her own land, with her servants.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	10	14	Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	10	15	besides that which came from the traders and from the traffic of the merchants, and from all the kings of Arabia and from the governors of the land.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	10	16	King Solomon made two hundred large shields of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	10	17	And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went into each shield; and the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	10	18	The king also made a great ivory throne, and overlaid it with the finest gold.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	10	19	The throne had six steps, and at the back of the throne was a calf’s head, and on each side of the seat were arm rests and two lions standing beside the arm rests,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	10	20	while twelve lions stood there, one on each end of a step on the six steps. The like of it was never made in any kingdom.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	10	21	All King Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver, it was not considered as anything in the days of Solomon.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	10	22	For the king had a fleet of ships of Tarshish at sea with the fleet of Hiram. Once every three years the fleet of ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	10	23	Thus King Solomon excelled all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	10	24	And the whole earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	10	25	Every one of them brought his present, articles of silver and gold, garments, myrrh, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	10	26	And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen; he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	10	27	And the king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephelah.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	10	28	And Solomon’s import of horses was from Egypt and Kue, and the king’s traders received them from Kue at a price.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	10	29	A chariot could be imported from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty; and so through the king’s traders they were exported to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Syria.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	1	Now King Solomon loved many foreign women: the daughter of Pharaoh, and Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	2	from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the people of Israel, “You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods”; Solomon clung to these in love.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	3	He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	4	For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	5	For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	6	So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and did not wholly follow the Lord, as David his father had done.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	7	Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	8	And so he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	9	And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	10	and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he did not keep what the Lord commanded.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	11	Therefore the Lord said to Solomon, “Since this has been your mind and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	12	Yet for the sake of David your father I will not do it in your days, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	13	However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	14	And the Lord raised up an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite; he was of the royal house in Edom.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	15	For when David was in Edom, and Joab the commander of the army went up to bury the slain, he slew every male in Edom
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	16	(for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom);
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	17	but Hadad fled to Egypt, together with certain Edomites of his father’s servants, Hadad being yet a little child.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	18	They set out from Midian and came to Paran, and took men with them from Paran and came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house, and assigned him an allowance of food, and gave him land.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	19	And Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him in marriage the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	20	And the sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh’s house among the sons of Pharaoh.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	21	But when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers and that Joab the commander of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Let me depart, that I may go to my own country.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	22	But Pharaoh said to him, “What have you lacked with me that you are now seeking to go to your own country?” And he said to him, “Only let me go.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	23	God also raised up as an adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master Hadadezer king of Zobah.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	24	And he gathered men about him and became leader of a marauding band, after the slaughter by David; and they went to Damascus, and dwelt there, and made him king in Damascus.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	25	He was an adversary of Israel all the days of Solomon, doing mischief as Hadad did; and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	26	Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow, also lifted up his hand against the king.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	27	And this was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king. Solomon built the Millo, and closed up the breach of the city of David his father.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	28	The man Jeroboam was very able, and when Solomon saw that the young man was industrious he gave him charge over all the forced labor of the house of Joseph.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	29	And at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the road. Now Ahijah had clad himself with a new garment; and the two of them were alone in the open country.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	30	Then Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore it into twelve pieces.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	31	And he said to Jeroboam, “Take for yourself ten pieces; for thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I am about to tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon, and will give you ten tribes
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	32	(but he shall have one tribe, for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel),
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	33	because he has forsaken me, and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and has not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my ordinances, as David his father did.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	34	Nevertheless I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will make him ruler all the days of his life, for the sake of David my servant whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	35	but I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand, and will give it to you, ten tribes.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	36	Yet to his son I will give one tribe, that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen to put my name.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	37	And I will take you, and you shall reign over all that your soul desires, and you shall be king over Israel.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	38	And if you will hearken to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do what is right in my eyes by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	39	And I will for this afflict the descendants of David, but not for ever.’”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	40	Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam; but Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	41	Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	42	And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	11	43	And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father; and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	12	1	Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	12	2	And when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was still in Egypt, whither he had fled from King Solomon), then Jeroboam returned from Egypt.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	12	3	And they sent and called him; and Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came and said to Rehoboam,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	12	4	“Your father made our yoke heavy. Now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke upon us, and we will serve you.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	12	5	He said to them, “Depart for three days, then come again to me.” So the people went away.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	12	6	Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	12	7	And they said to him, “If you will be a servant to this people today and serve them, and speak good words to them when you answer them, then they will be your servants for ever.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	12	8	But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	12	9	And he said to them, “What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke that your father put upon us’?”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	12	10	And the young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Thus shall you speak to this people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but do you lighten it for us’; thus shall you say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s loins.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	12	11	And now, whereas my father laid upon you a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	12	12	So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king said, “Come to me again the third day.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	12	13	And the king answered the people harshly, and forsaking the counsel which the old men had given him,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	12	14	he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	12	15	So the king did not hearken to the people; for it was a turn of affairs brought about by the Lord that he might fulfil his word, which the Lord spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	12	16	And when all Israel saw that the king did not hearken to them, the people answered the king, “What portion have we in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, David.” So Israel departed to their tents.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	12	17	But Rehoboam reigned over the people of Israel who dwelt in the cities of Judah.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	12	18	Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was taskmaster over the forced labor, and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. And King Rehoboam made haste to mount his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	12	19	So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	12	20	And when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. There was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	12	21	When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	12	22	But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God:
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	12	23	“Say to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	12	24	‘Thus says the Lord, You shall not go up or fight against your kinsmen the people of Israel. Return every man to his home, for this thing is from me.’” So they hearkened to the word of the Lord, and went home again, according to the word of the Lord.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	12	25	Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and dwelt there; and he went out from there and built Penuel.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	12	26	And Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will turn back to the house of David;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	12	27	if this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn again to their lord, to Rehoboam king of Judah, and they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	12	28	So the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold. And he said to the people, “You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. Behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	12	29	And he set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	12	30	And this thing became a sin, for the people went to the one at Bethel and to the other as far as Dan.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	12	31	He also made houses on high places, and appointed priests from among all the people, who were not of the Levites.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	12	32	And Jeroboam appointed a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices upon the altar; so he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made. And he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	12	33	He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and he ordained a feast for the people of Israel, and went up to the altar to burn incense.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	13	1	And behold, a man of God came out of Judah by the word of the Lord to Bethel. Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	13	2	And the man cried against the altar by the word of the Lord, and said, “O altar, altar, thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name; and he shall sacrifice upon you the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and men’s bones shall be burned upon you.’”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	13	3	And he gave a sign the same day, saying, “This is the sign that the Lord has spoken: ‘Behold, the altar shall be torn down, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.’”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	13	4	And when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar at Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, “Lay hold of him.” And his hand, which he stretched out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back to himself.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	13	5	The altar also was torn down, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	13	6	And the king said to the man of God, “Entreat now the favor of the Lord your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me.” And the man of God entreated the Lord; and the king’s hand was restored to him, and became as it was before.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	13	7	And the king said to the man of God, “Come home with me, and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	13	8	And the man of God said to the king, “If you give me half your house, I will not go in with you. And I will not eat bread or drink water in this place;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	13	9	for so was it commanded me by the word of the Lord, saying, ‘You shall neither eat bread, nor drink water, nor return by the way that you came.’”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	13	10	So he went another way, and did not return by the way that he came to Bethel.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	13	11	Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel. And his sons came and told him all that the man of God had done that day in Bethel; the words also which he had spoken to the king, they told to their father.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	13	12	And their father said to them, “Which way did he go?” And his sons showed him the way which the man of God who came from Judah had gone.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	13	13	And he said to his sons, “Saddle the ass for me.” So they saddled the ass for him and he mounted it.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	13	14	And he went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak; and he said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” And he said, “I am.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	13	15	Then he said to him, “Come home with me and eat bread.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	13	16	And he said, “I may not return with you, or go in with you; neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	13	17	for it was said to me by the word of the Lord, ‘You shall neither eat bread nor drink water there, nor return by the way that you came.’”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	13	18	And he said to him, “I also am a prophet as you are, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, saying, ‘Bring him back with you into your house that he may eat bread and drink water.’” But he lied to him.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	13	19	So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	13	20	And as they sat at the table, the word of the Lord came to the prophet who had brought him back;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	13	21	and he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Because you have disobeyed the word of the Lord, and have not kept the commandment which the Lord your God commanded you,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	13	22	but have come back, and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he said to you, “Eat no bread, and drink no water”; your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.’”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	13	23	And after he had eaten bread and drunk, he saddled the ass for the prophet whom he had brought back.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	13	24	And as he went away a lion met him on the road and killed him. And his body was thrown in the road, and the ass stood beside it; the lion also stood beside the body.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	13	25	And behold, men passed by, and saw the body thrown in the road, and the lion standing by the body. And they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	13	26	And when the prophet who had brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, “It is the man of God, who disobeyed the word of the Lord; therefore the Lord has given him to the lion, which has torn him and slain him, according to the word which the Lord spoke to him.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	13	27	And he said to his sons, “Saddle the ass for me.” And they saddled it.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	13	28	And he went and found his body thrown in the road, and the ass and the lion standing beside the body. The lion had not eaten the body or torn the ass.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	13	29	And the prophet took up the body of the man of God and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back to the city, to mourn and to bury him.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	13	30	And he laid the body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, “Alas, my brother!”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	13	31	And after he had buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the grave in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	13	32	For the saying which he cried by the word of the Lord against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	13	33	After this thing Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but made priests for the high places again from among all the people; any who would, he consecrated to be priests of the high places.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	13	34	And this thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, so as to cut it off and to destroy it from the face of the earth.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	14	1	At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	14	2	And Jeroboam said to his wife, “Arise, and disguise yourself, that it be not known that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh; behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who said of me that I should be king over this people.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	14	3	Take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him; he will tell you what shall happen to the child.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	14	4	Jeroboam’s wife did so; she arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	14	5	And the Lord said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to inquire of you concerning her son; for he is sick. Thus and thus shall you say to her.” When she came, she pretended to be another woman.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	14	6	But when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam; why do you pretend to be another? For I am charged with heavy tidings for you.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	14	7	Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: “Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you leader over my people Israel,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	14	8	and tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you; and yet you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments, and followed me with all his heart, doing only that which was right in my eyes,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	14	9	but you have done evil above all that were before you and have gone and made for yourself other gods, and molten images, provoking me to anger, and have cast me behind your back;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	14	10	therefore behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both bond and free in Israel, and will utterly consume the house of Jeroboam, as a man burns up dung until it is all gone.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	14	11	Any one belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city the dogs shall eat; and any one who dies in the open country the birds of the air shall eat; for the Lord has spoken it.”’
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	14	12	Arise therefore, go to your house. When your feet enter the city, the child shall die.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	14	13	And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found something pleasing to the Lord, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	14	14	Moreover the Lord will raise up for himself a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam today. And henceforth
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	14	15	the Lord will smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their Asherim, provoking the Lord to anger.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	14	16	And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he sinned and which he made Israel to sin.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	14	17	Then Jeroboam’s wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah. And as she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	14	18	And all Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	14	19	Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	14	20	And the time that Jeroboam reigned was twenty-two years; and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	14	21	Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	14	22	And Judah did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, more than all that their fathers had done.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	14	23	For they also built for themselves high places, and pillars, and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	14	24	and there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	14	25	In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	14	26	he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s house; he took away everything. He also took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	14	27	and King Rehoboam made in their stead shields of bronze, and committed them to the hands of the officers of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	14	28	And as often as the king went into the house of the Lord, the guard bore them and brought them back to the guardroom.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	14	29	Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	14	30	And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	14	31	And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	15	1	Now in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	15	2	He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	15	3	And he walked in all the sins which his father did before him; and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	15	4	Nevertheless for David’s sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, setting up his son after him, and establishing Jerusalem;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	15	5	because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	15	6	Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	15	7	The rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	15	8	And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David. And Asa his son reigned in his stead.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	15	9	In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel Asa began to reign over Judah,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	15	10	and he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	15	11	And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as David his father had done.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	15	12	He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	15	13	He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother because she had an abominable image made for Asherah; and Asa cut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	15	14	But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was wholly true to the Lord all his days.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	15	15	And he brought into the house of the Lord the votive gifts of his father and his own votive gifts, silver, and gold, and vessels.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	15	16	And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	15	17	Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might permit no one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	15	18	Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s house, and gave them into the hands of his servants; and King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezi-on, king of Syria, who dwelt in Damascus, saying,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	15	19	“Let there be a league between me and you, as between my father and your father: behold, I am sending to you a present of silver and gold; go, break your league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may withdraw from me.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	15	20	And Ben-hadad hearkened to King Asa, and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, and conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	15	21	And when Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and he dwelt in Tirzah.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	15	22	Then King Asa made a proclamation to all Judah, none was exempt, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber, with which Baasha had been building; and with them King Asa built Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	15	23	Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? But in his old age he was diseased in his feet.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	15	24	And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father; and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	15	25	Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah; and he reigned over Israel two years.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	15	26	He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin which he made Israel to sin.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	15	27	Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	15	28	So Baasha killed him in the third year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	15	29	And as soon as he was king, he killed all the house of Jeroboam; he left to the house of Jeroboam not one that breathed, until he had destroyed it, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	15	30	it was for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned and which he made Israel to sin, and because of the anger to which he provoked the Lord, the God of Israel.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	15	31	Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	15	32	And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	15	33	In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha the son of Ahijah began to reign over all Israel at Tirzah, and reigned twenty-four years.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	15	34	He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin which he made Israel to sin.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	16	1	And the word of the Lord came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	16	2	“Since I exalted you out of the dust and made you leader over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made my people Israel to sin, provoking me to anger with their sins,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	16	3	behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	16	4	Any one belonging to Baasha who dies in the city the dogs shall eat; and any one of his who dies in the field the birds of the air shall eat.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	16	5	Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	16	6	And Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried at Tirzah; and Elah his son reigned in his stead.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	16	7	Moreover the word of the Lord came by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha and his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and also because he destroyed it.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	16	8	In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha began to reign over Israel in Tirzah, and reigned two years.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	16	9	But his servant Zimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him. When he was at Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	16	10	Zimri came in and struck him down and killed him, in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	16	11	When he began to reign, as soon as he had seated himself on his throne, he killed all the house of Baasha; he did not leave him a single male of his kinsmen or his friends.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	16	12	Thus Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	16	13	for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son which they sinned, and which they made Israel to sin, provoking the Lord God of Israel to anger with their idols.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	16	14	Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	16	15	In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the troops were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	16	16	and the troops who were encamped heard it said, “Zimri has conspired, and he has killed the king”; therefore all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	16	17	So Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	16	18	And when Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the citadel of the king’s house, and burned the king’s house over him with fire, and died,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	16	19	because of his sins which he committed, doing evil in the sight of the Lord, walking in the way of Jeroboam, and for his sin which he committed, making Israel to sin.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	16	20	Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and the conspiracy which he made, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	16	21	Then the people of Israel were divided into two parts; half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king, and half followed Omri.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	16	22	But the people who followed Omri overcame the people who followed Tibni the son of Ginath; so Tibni died, and Omri became king.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	16	23	In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri began to reign over Israel, and reigned for twelve years; six years he reigned in Tirzah.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	16	24	He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver; and he fortified the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	16	25	Omri did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and did more evil than all who were before him.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	16	26	For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in the sins which he made Israel to sin, provoking the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger by their idols.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	16	27	Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and the might that he showed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	16	28	And Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria; and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	16	29	In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel, and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	16	30	And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord more than all that were before him.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	16	31	And as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took for wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	16	32	He erected an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he built in Samaria.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	16	33	And Ahab made an Asherah. Ahab did more to provoke the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	16	34	In his days Hiel of Bethel built Jericho; he laid its foundation at the cost of Abiram his first-born, and set up its gates at the cost of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	17	1	Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	17	2	And the word of the Lord came to him,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	17	3	“Depart from here and turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is east of the Jordan.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	17	4	You shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	17	5	So he went and did according to the word of the Lord; he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith that is east of the Jordan.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	17	6	And the ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	17	7	And after a while the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	17	8	Then the word of the Lord came to him,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	17	9	“Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to feed you.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	17	10	So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks; and he called to her and said, “Bring me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	17	11	And as she was going to bring it, he called to her and said, “Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	17	12	And she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a cruse; and now, I am gathering a couple of sticks, that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	17	13	And Elijah said to her, “Fear not; go and do as you have said; but first make me a little cake of it and bring it to me, and afterward make for yourself and your son.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	17	14	For thus says the Lord the God of Israel, ‘The jar of meal shall not be spent, and the cruse of oil shall not fail, until the day that the Lord sends rain upon the earth.’”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	17	15	And she went and did as Elijah said; and she, and he, and her household ate for many days.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	17	16	The jar of meal was not spent, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke by Elijah.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	17	17	After this the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became ill; and his illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	17	18	And she said to Elijah, “What have you against me, O man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to cause the death of my son!”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	17	19	And he said to her, “Give me your son.” And he took him from her bosom, and carried him up into the upper chamber, where he lodged, and laid him upon his own bed.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	17	20	And he cried to the Lord, “O Lord my God, hast thou brought calamity even upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	17	21	Then he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried to the Lord, “O Lord my God, let this child’s soul come into him again.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	17	22	And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	17	23	And Elijah took the child, and brought him down from the upper chamber into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, “See, your son lives.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	17	24	And the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in your mouth is truth.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	1	After many days the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	2	So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	3	And Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah revered the Lord greatly;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	4	and when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	5	And Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the valleys; perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, and not lose some of the animals.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	6	So they divided the land between them to pass through it; Ahab went in one direction by himself, and Obadiah went in another direction by himself.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	7	And as Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him; and Obadiah recognized him, and fell on his face, and said, “Is it you, my lord Elijah?”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	8	And he answered him, “It is I. Go, tell your lord, ‘Behold, Elijah is here.’”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	9	And he said, “Wherein have I sinned, that you would give your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	10	As the Lord your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom whither my lord has not sent to seek you; and when they would say, ‘He is not here,’ he would take an oath of the kingdom or nation, that they had not found you.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	11	And now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here.”’
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	12	And as soon as I have gone from you, the Spirit of the Lord will carry you whither I know not; and so, when I come and tell Ahab and he cannot find you, he will kill me, although I your servant have revered the Lord from my youth.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	13	Has it not been told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the Lord, how I hid a hundred men of the Lord’s prophets by fifties in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	14	And now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here”’; and he will kill me.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	15	And Elijah said, “As the Lord of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	16	So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	17	When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is it you, you troubler of Israel?”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	18	And he answered, “I have not troubled Israel; but you have, and your father’s house, because you have forsaken the commandments of the Lord and followed the Baals.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	19	Now therefore send and gather all Israel to me at Mount Carmel, and the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	20	So Ahab sent to all the people of Israel, and gathered the prophets together at Mount Carmel.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	21	And Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you go limping with two different opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” And the people did not answer him a word.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	22	Then Elijah said to the people, “I, even I only, am left a prophet of the Lord; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred and fifty men.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	23	Let two bulls be given to us; and let them choose one bull for themselves, and cut it in pieces and lay it on the wood, but put no fire to it; and I will prepare the other bull and lay it on the wood, and put no fire to it.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	24	And you call on the name of your god and I will call on the name of the Lord; and the God who answers by fire, he is God.” And all the people answered, “It is well spoken.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	25	Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose for yourselves one bull and prepare it first, for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire to it.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	26	And they took the bull which was given them, and they prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, “O Baal, answer us!” But there was no voice, and no one answered. And they limped about the altar which they had made.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	27	And at noon Elijah mocked them, saying, “Cry aloud, for he is a god; either he is musing, or he has gone aside, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	28	And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their custom with swords and lances, until the blood gushed out upon them.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	29	And as midday passed, they raved on until the time of the offering of the oblation, but there was no voice; no one answered, no one heeded.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	30	Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me”; and all the people came near to him. And he repaired the altar of the Lord that had been thrown down;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	31	Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord came, saying, “Israel shall be your name”;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	32	and with the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord. And he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	33	And he put the wood in order, and cut the bull in pieces and laid it on the wood. And he said, “Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering, and on the wood.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	34	And he said, “Do it a second time”; and they did it a second time. And he said, “Do it a third time”; and they did it a third time.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	35	And the water ran round about the altar, and filled the trench also with water.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	36	And at the time of the offering of the oblation, Elijah the prophet came near and said, “O Lord, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	37	Answer me, O Lord, answer me, that this people may know that thou, O Lord, art God, and that thou hast turned their hearts back.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	38	Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	39	And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, “The Lord, he is God; the Lord, he is God.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	40	And Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape.” And they seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	41	And Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of the rushing of rain.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	42	So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	43	And he said to his servant, “Go up now, look toward the sea.” And he went up and looked, and said, “There is nothing.” And he said, “Go again seven times.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	44	And at the seventh time he said, “Behold, a little cloud like a man’s hand is rising out of the sea.” And he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down, lest the rain stop you.’”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	45	And in a little while the heavens grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode and went to Jezreel.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	18	46	And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	19	1	Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	19	2	Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	19	3	Then he was afraid, and he arose and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	19	4	But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree; and he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am no better than my fathers.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	19	5	And he lay down and slept under a broom tree; and behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, “Arise and eat.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	19	6	And he looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on hot stones and a jar of water. And he ate and drank, and lay down again.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	19	7	And the angel of the Lord came again a second time, and touched him, and said, “Arise and eat, else the journey will be too great for you.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	19	8	And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	19	9	And there he came to a cave, and lodged there; and behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	19	10	He said, “I have been very jealous for the Lord, the God of hosts; for the people of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thy altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	19	11	And he said, “Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord.” And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	19	12	and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a still small voice.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	19	13	And when Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. And behold, there came a voice to him, and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	19	14	He said, “I have been very jealous for the Lord, the God of hosts; for the people of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thy altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	19	15	And the Lord said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus; and when you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael to be king over Syria;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	19	16	and Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint to be king over Israel; and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint to be prophet in your place.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	19	17	And him who escapes from the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay; and him who escapes from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	19	18	Yet I will leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	19	19	So he departed from there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing, with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he was with the twelfth. Elijah passed by him and cast his mantle upon him.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	19	20	And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, “Let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.” And he said to him, “Go back again; for what have I done to you?”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	19	21	And he returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the yokes of the oxen, and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he arose and went after Elijah, and ministered to him.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	1	Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his army together; thirty-two kings were with him, and horses and chariots; and he went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	2	And he sent messengers into the city to Ahab king of Israel, and said to him, “Thus says Ben-hadad:
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	3	‘Your silver and your gold are mine; your fairest wives and children also are mine.’”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	4	And the king of Israel answered, “As you say, my lord, O king, I am yours, and all that I have.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	5	The messengers came again, and said, “Thus says Ben-hadad: ‘I sent to you, saying, “Deliver to me your silver and your gold, your wives and your children”;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	6	nevertheless I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they shall search your house and the houses of your servants, and lay hands on whatever pleases them, and take it away.’”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	7	Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, “Mark, now, and see how this man is seeking trouble; for he sent to me for my wives and my children, and for my silver and my gold, and I did not refuse him.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	8	And all the elders and all the people said to him, “Do not heed or consent.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	9	So he said to the messengers of Ben-hadad, “Tell my lord the king, ‘All that you first demanded of your servant I will do; but this thing I cannot do.’” And the messengers departed and brought him word again.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	10	Ben-hadad sent to him and said, “The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people who follow me.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	11	And the king of Israel answered, “Tell him, ‘Let not him that girds on his armor boast himself as he that puts it off.’”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	12	When Ben-hadad heard this message as he was drinking with the kings in the booths, he said to his men, “Take your positions.” And they took their positions against the city.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	13	And behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel and said, “Thus says the Lord, Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will give it into your hand this day; and you shall know that I am the Lord.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	14	And Ahab said, “By whom?” He said, “Thus says the Lord, By the servants of the governors of the districts.” Then he said, “Who shall begin the battle?” He answered, “You.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	15	Then he mustered the servants of the governors of the districts, and they were two hundred and thirty-two; and after them he mustered all the people of Israel, seven thousand.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	16	And they went out at noon, while Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the booths, he and the thirty-two kings who helped him.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	17	The servants of the governors of the districts went out first. And Ben-hadad sent out scouts, and they reported to him, “Men are coming out from Samaria.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	18	He said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	19	So these went out of the city, the servants of the governors of the districts, and the army which followed them.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	20	And each killed his man; the Syrians fled and Israel pursued them, but Ben-hadad king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	21	And the king of Israel went out, and captured the horses and chariots, and killed the Syrians with a great slaughter.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	22	Then the prophet came near to the king of Israel, and said to him, “Come, strengthen yourself, and consider well what you have to do; for in the spring the king of Syria will come up against you.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	23	And the servants of the king of Syria said to him, “Their gods are gods of the hills, and so they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	24	And do this: remove the kings, each from his post, and put commanders in their places;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	25	and muster an army like the army that you have lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot; then we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.” And he hearkened to their voice, and did so.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	26	In the spring Ben-hadad mustered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	27	And the people of Israel were mustered, and were provisioned, and went against them; the people of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of goats, but the Syrians filled the country.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	28	And a man of God came near and said to the king of Israel, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Because the Syrians have said, “The Lord is a god of the hills but he is not a god of the valleys,” therefore I will give all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord.’”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	29	And they encamped opposite one another seven days. Then on the seventh day the battle was joined; and the people of Israel smote of the Syrians a hundred thousand foot soldiers in one day.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	30	And the rest fled into the city of Aphek; and the wall fell upon twenty-seven thousand men that were left. Ben-hadad also fled, and entered an inner chamber in the city.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	31	And his servants said to him, “Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings; let us put sackcloth on our loins and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel; perhaps he will spare your life.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	32	So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and went to the king of Israel and said, “Your servant Ben-hadad says, ‘Pray, let me live.’” And he said, “Does he still live? He is my brother.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	33	Now the men were watching for an omen, and they quickly took it up from him and said, “Yes, your brother Ben-hadad.” Then he said, “Go and bring him.” Then Ben-hadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	34	And Ben-hadad said to him, “The cities which my father took from your father I will restore; and you may establish bazaars for yourself in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” And Ahab said, “I will let you go on these terms.” So he made a covenant with him and let him go.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	35	And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow at the command of the Lord, “Strike me, I pray.” But the man refused to strike him.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	36	Then he said to him, “Because you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord, behold, as soon as you have gone from me, a lion shall kill you.” And as soon as he had departed from him, a lion met him and killed him.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	37	Then he found another man, and said, “Strike me, I pray.” And the man struck him, smiting and wounding him.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	38	So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, disguising himself with a bandage over his eyes.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	39	And as the king passed, he cried to the king and said, “Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and behold, a soldier turned and brought a man to me, and said, ‘Keep this man; if by any means he be missing, your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.’
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	40	And as your servant was busy here and there, he was gone.” The king of Israel said to him, “So shall your judgment be; you yourself have decided it.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	41	Then he made haste to take the bandage away from his eyes; and the king of Israel recognized him as one of the prophets.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	42	And he said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people.’”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	20	43	And the king of Israel went to his house resentful and sullen, and came to Samaria.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	21	1	Now Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard in Jezreel, beside the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	21	2	And after this Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a vegetable garden, because it is near my house; and I will give you a better vineyard for it; or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its value in money.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	21	3	But Naboth said to Ahab, “The Lord forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my fathers.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	21	4	And Ahab went into his house vexed and sullen because of what Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him; for he had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” And he lay down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no food.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	21	5	But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, “Why is your spirit so vexed that you eat no food?”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	21	6	And he said to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it please you, I will give you another vineyard for it’; and he answered, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	21	7	And Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now govern Israel? Arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be cheerful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	21	8	So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal, and she sent the letters to the elders and the nobles who dwelt with Naboth in his city.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	21	9	And she wrote in the letters, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	21	10	and set two base fellows opposite him, and let them bring a charge against him, saying, ‘You have cursed God and the king.’ Then take him out, and stone him to death.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	21	11	And the men of his city, the elders and the nobles who dwelt in his city, did as Jezebel had sent word to them. As it was written in the letters which she had sent to them,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	21	12	they proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	21	13	And the two base fellows came in and sat opposite him; and the base fellows brought a charge against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they took him outside the city, and stoned him to death with stones.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	21	14	Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned; he is dead.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	21	15	As soon as Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, “Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	21	16	And as soon as Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab arose to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	21	17	Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	21	18	“Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Samaria; behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone to take possession.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	21	19	And you shall say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Have you killed, and also taken possession?”’ And you shall say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord: “In the place where dogs licked up the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your own blood.”’”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	21	20	Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, O my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the Lord.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	21	21	Behold, I will bring evil upon you; I will utterly sweep you away, and will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	21	22	and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the anger to which you have provoked me, and because you have made Israel to sin.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	21	23	And of Jezebel the Lord also said, ‘The dogs shall eat Jezebel within the bounds of Jezreel.’
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	21	24	Any one belonging to Ahab who dies in the city the dogs shall eat; and any one of his who dies in the open country the birds of the air shall eat.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	21	25	(There was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	21	26	He did very abominably in going after idols, as the Amorites had done, whom the Lord cast out before the people of Israel.)
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	21	27	And when Ahab heard those words, he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted and lay in sackcloth, and went about dejectedly.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	21	28	And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	21	29	“Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but in his son’s days I will bring the evil upon his house.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	1	For three years Syria and Israel continued without war.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	2	But in the third year Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	3	And the king of Israel said to his servants, “Do you know that Ramoth-gilead belongs to us, and we keep quiet and do not take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	4	And he said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to battle at Ramoth-gilead?” And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	5	And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Inquire first for the word of the Lord.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	6	Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall I go to battle against Ramoth-gilead, or shall I forbear?” And they said, “Go up; for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	7	But Jehoshaphat said, “Is there not here another prophet of the Lord of whom we may inquire?”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	8	And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the Lord, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but evil.” And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	9	Then the king of Israel summoned an officer and said, “Bring quickly Micaiah the son of Imlah.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	10	Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting on their thrones, arrayed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	11	And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made for himself horns of iron, and said, “Thus says the Lord, ‘With these you shall push the Syrians until they are destroyed.’”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	12	And all the prophets prophesied so, and said, “Go up to Ramoth-gilead and triumph; the Lord will give it into the hand of the king.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	13	And the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “Behold, the words of the prophets with one accord are favorable to the king; let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak favorably.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	14	But Micaiah said, “As the Lord lives, what the Lord says to me, that I will speak.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	15	And when he had come to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we forbear?” And he answered him, “Go up and triumph; the Lord will give it into the hand of the king.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	16	But the king said to him, “How many times shall I adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of the Lord?”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	17	And he said, “I saw all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd; and the Lord said, ‘These have no master; let each return to his home in peace.’”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	18	And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	19	And Micaiah said, “Therefore hear the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing beside him on his right hand and on his left;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	20	and the Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said one thing, and another said another.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	21	Then a spirit came forward and stood before the Lord, saying, ‘I will entice him.’
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	22	And the Lord said to him, ‘By what means?’ And he said, ‘I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And he said, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go forth and do so.’
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	23	Now therefore behold, the Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; the Lord has spoken evil concerning you.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	24	Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “How did the Spirit of the Lord go from me to speak to you?”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	25	And Micaiah said, “Behold, you shall see on that day when you go into an inner chamber to hide yourself.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	26	And the king of Israel said, “Seize Micaiah, and take him back to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king’s son;
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	27	and say, ‘Thus says the king, “Put this fellow in prison, and feed him with scant fare of bread and water, until I come in peace.”’”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	28	And Micaiah said, “If you return in peace, the Lord has not spoken by me.” And he said, “Hear, all you peoples!”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	29	So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	30	And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and go into battle, but you wear your robes.” And the king of Israel disguised himself and went into battle.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	31	Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, “Fight with neither small nor great, but only with the king of Israel.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	32	And when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “It is surely the king of Israel.” So they turned to fight against him; and Jehoshaphat cried out.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	33	And when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	34	But a certain man drew his bow at a venture, and struck the king of Israel between the scale armor and the breastplate; therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn about, and carry me out of the battle, for I am wounded.”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	35	And the battle grew hot that day, and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians, until at evening he died; and the blood of the wound flowed into the bottom of the chariot.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	36	And about sunset a cry went through the army, “Every man to his city, and every man to his country!”
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	37	So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	38	And they washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and the dogs licked up his blood, and the harlots washed themselves in it, according to the word of the Lord which he had spoken.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	39	Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	40	So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	41	Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	42	Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	43	He walked in all the way of Asa his father; he did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the Lord; yet the high places were not taken away, and the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	44	Jehoshaphat also made peace with the king of Israel.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	45	Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he warred, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	46	And the remnant of the male cult prostitutes who remained in the days of his father Asa, he exterminated from the land.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	47	There was no king in Edom; a deputy was king.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	48	Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold; but they did not go, for the ships were wrecked at Ezion-geber.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	49	Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants go with your servants in the ships,” but Jehoshaphat was not willing.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	50	And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father; and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	51	Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	52	He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
 1 Kings	1Kings	11	22	53	He served Baal and worshiped him, and provoked the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger in every way that his father had done.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	1	1	After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	1	2	Now Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria, and lay sick; so he sent messengers, telling them, “Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this sickness.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	1	3	But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?’
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	1	4	Now therefore thus says the Lord, ‘You shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone, but you shall surely die.’” So Elijah went.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	1	5	The messengers returned to the king, and he said to them, “Why have you returned?”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	1	6	And they said to him, “There came a man to meet us, and said to us, ‘Go back to the king who sent you, and say to him, Thus says the Lord, Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone, but shall surely die.’”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	1	7	He said to them, “What kind of man was he who came to meet you and told you these things?”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	1	8	They answered him, “He wore a garment of haircloth, with a girdle of leather about his loins.” And he said, “It is Elijah the Tishbite.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	1	9	Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty men with his fifty. He went up to Elijah, who was sitting on the top of a hill, and said to him, “O man of God, the king says, ‘Come down.’”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	1	10	But Elijah answered the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.” Then fire came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	1	11	Again the king sent to him another captain of fifty men with his fifty. And he went up and said to him, “O man of God, this is the king’s order, ‘Come down quickly!’”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	1	12	But Elijah answered them, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.” Then the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	1	13	Again the king sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and entreated him, “O man of God, I pray you, let my life, and the life of these fifty servants of yours, be precious in your sight.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	1	14	Lo, fire came down from heaven, and consumed the two former captains of fifty men with their fifties; but now let my life be precious in your sight.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	1	15	Then the angel of the Lord said to Elijah, “Go down with him; do not be afraid of him.” So he arose and went down with him to the king,
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	1	16	and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron,—is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word?—therefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone, but you shall surely die.’”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	1	17	So he died according to the word of the Lord which Elijah had spoken. Jehoram, his brother, became king in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, because Ahaziah had no son.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	1	18	Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	2	1	Now when the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven by a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	2	2	And Elijah said to Elisha, “Tarry here, I pray you; for the Lord has sent me as far as Bethel.” But Elisha said, “As the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	2	3	And the sons of the prophets who were in Bethel came out to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that today the Lord will take away your master from over you?” And he said, “Yes, I know it; hold your peace.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	2	4	Elijah said to him, “Elisha, tarry here, I pray you; for the Lord has sent me to Jericho.” But he said, “As the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they came to Jericho.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	2	5	The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho drew near to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that today the Lord will take away your master from over you?” And he answered, “Yes, I know it; hold your peace.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	2	6	Then Elijah said to him, “Tarry here, I pray you; for the Lord has sent me to the Jordan.” But he said, “As the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So the two of them went on.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	2	7	Fifty men of the sons of the prophets also went, and stood at some distance from them, as they both were standing by the Jordan.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	2	8	Then Elijah took his mantle, and rolled it up, and struck the water, and the water was parted to the one side and to the other, till the two of them could go over on dry ground.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	2	9	When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you.” And Elisha said, “I pray you, let me inherit a double share of your spirit.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	2	10	And he said, “You have asked a hard thing; yet, if you see me as I am being taken from you, it shall be so for you; but if you do not see me, it shall not be so.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	2	11	And as they still went on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	2	12	And Elisha saw it and he cried, “My father, my father! the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” And he saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes and rent them in two pieces.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	2	13	And he took up the mantle of Elijah that had fallen from him, and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	2	14	Then he took the mantle of Elijah that had fallen from him, and struck the water, saying, “Where is the Lord, the God of Elijah?” And when he had struck the water, the water was parted to the one side and to the other; and Elisha went over.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	2	15	Now when the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho saw him over against them, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” And they came to meet him, and bowed to the ground before him.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	2	16	And they said to him, “Behold now, there are with your servants fifty strong men; pray, let them go, and seek your master; it may be that the Spirit of the Lord has caught him up and cast him upon some mountain or into some valley.” And he said, “You shall not send.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	2	17	But when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, “Send.” They sent therefore fifty men; and for three days they sought him but did not find him.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	2	18	And they came back to him, while he tarried at Jericho, and he said to them, “Did I not say to you, Do not go?”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	2	19	Now the men of the city said to Elisha, “Behold, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the land is unfruitful.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	2	20	He said, “Bring me a new bowl, and put salt in it.” So they brought it to him.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	2	21	Then he went to the spring of water and threw salt in it, and said, “Thus says the Lord, I have made this water wholesome; henceforth neither death nor miscarriage shall come from it.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	2	22	So the water has been wholesome to this day, according to the word which Elisha spoke.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	2	23	He went up from there to Bethel; and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	2	24	And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	2	25	From there he went on to Mount Carmel, and thence he returned to Samaria.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	3	1	In the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned twelve years.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	3	2	He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, though not like his father and mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal which his father had made.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	3	3	Nevertheless he clung to the sin of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin; he did not depart from it.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	3	4	Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he had to deliver annually to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs, and the wool of a hundred thousand rams.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	3	5	But when Ahab died, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	3	6	So King Jehoram marched out of Samaria at that time and mustered all Israel.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	3	7	And he went and sent word to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, “The king of Moab has rebelled against me; will you go with me to battle against Moab?” And he said, “I will go; I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	3	8	Then he said, “By which way shall we march?” Jehoram answered, “By the way of the wilderness of Edom.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	3	9	So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom. And when they had made a circuitous march of seven days, there was no water for the army or for the beasts which followed them.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	3	10	Then the king of Israel said, “Alas! The Lord has called these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	3	11	And Jehoshaphat said, “Is there no prophet of the Lord here, through whom we may inquire of the Lord?” Then one of the king of Israel’s servants answered, “Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of Elijah.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	3	12	And Jehoshaphat said, “The word of the Lord is with him.” So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	3	13	And Elisha said to the king of Israel, “What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father and the prophets of your mother.” But the king of Israel said to him, “No; it is the Lord who has called these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	3	14	And Elisha said, “As the Lord of hosts lives, whom I serve, were it not that I have regard for Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would neither look at you, nor see you.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	3	15	But now bring me a minstrel.” And when the minstrel played, the power of the Lord came upon him.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	3	16	And he said, “Thus says the Lord, ‘I will make this dry stream-bed full of pools.’
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	3	17	For thus says the Lord, ‘You shall not see wind or rain, but that stream-bed shall be filled with water, so that you shall drink, you, your cattle, and your beasts.’
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	3	18	This is a light thing in the sight of the Lord; he will also give the Moabites into your hand,
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	3	19	and you shall conquer every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop up all springs of water, and ruin every good piece of land with stones.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	3	20	The next morning, about the time of offering the sacrifice, behold, water came from the direction of Edom, till the country was filled with water.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	3	21	When all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, all who were able to put on armor, from the youngest to the oldest, were called out, and were drawn up at the frontier.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	3	22	And when they rose early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, the Moabites saw the water opposite them as red as blood.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	3	23	And they said, “This is blood; the kings have surely fought together, and slain one another. Now then, Moab, to the spoil!”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	3	24	But when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose and attacked the Moabites, till they fled before them; and they went forward, slaughtering the Moabites as they went.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	3	25	And they overthrew the cities, and on every good piece of land every man threw a stone, until it was covered; they stopped every spring of water, and felled all the good trees; till only its stones were left in Kir-hareseth, and the slingers surrounded and conquered it.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	3	26	When the king of Moab saw that the battle was going against him, he took with him seven hundred swordsmen to break through, opposite the king of Edom; but they could not.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	3	27	Then he took his eldest son who was to reign in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there came great wrath upon Israel; and they withdrew from him and returned to their own land.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	1	Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant feared the Lord, but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	2	And Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me; what have you in the house?” And she said, “Your maidservant has nothing in the house, except a jar of oil.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	3	Then he said, “Go outside, borrow vessels of all your neighbors, empty vessels and not too few.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	4	Then go in, and shut the door upon yourself and your sons, and pour into all these vessels; and when one is full, set it aside.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	5	So she went from him and shut the door upon herself and her sons; and as she poured they brought the vessels to her.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	6	When the vessels were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another vessel.” And he said to her, “There is not another.” Then the oil stopped flowing.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	7	She came and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debts, and you and your sons can live on the rest.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	8	One day Elisha went on to Shunem, where a wealthy woman lived, who urged him to eat some food. So whenever he passed that way, he would turn in there to eat food.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	9	And she said to her husband, “Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, who is continually passing our way.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	10	Let us make a small roof chamber with walls, and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp, so that whenever he comes to us, he can go in there.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	11	One day he came there, and he turned into the chamber and rested there.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	12	And he said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” When he had called her, she stood before him.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	13	And he said to him, “Say now to her, See, you have taken all this trouble for us; what is to be done for you? Would you have a word spoken on your behalf to the king or to the commander of the army?” She answered, “I dwell among my own people.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	14	And he said, “What then is to be done for her?” Gehazi answered, “Well, she has no son, and her husband is old.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	15	He said, “Call her.” And when he had called her, she stood in the doorway.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	16	And he said, “At this season, when the time comes round, you shall embrace a son.” And she said, “No, my lord, O man of God; do not lie to your maidservant.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	17	But the woman conceived, and she bore a son about that time the following spring, as Elisha had said to her.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	18	When the child had grown, he went out one day to his father among the reapers.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	19	And he said to his father, “Oh, my head, my head!” The father said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	20	And when he had lifted him, and brought him to his mother, the child sat on her lap till noon, and then he died.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	21	And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	22	Then she called to her husband, and said, “Send me one of the servants and one of the asses, that I may quickly go to the man of God, and come back again.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	23	And he said, “Why will you go to him today? It is neither new moon nor sabbath.” She said, “It will be well.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	24	Then she saddled the ass, and she said to her servant, “Urge the beast on; do not slacken the pace for me unless I tell you.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	25	So she set out, and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her coming, he said to Gehazi his servant, “Look, yonder is the Shunammite;
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	26	run at once to meet her, and say to her, Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the child?” And she answered, “It is well.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	27	And when she came to the mountain to the man of God, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came to thrust her away. But the man of God said, “Let her alone, for she is in bitter distress; and the Lord has hidden it from me, and has not told me.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	28	Then she said, “Did I ask my lord for a son? Did I not say, Do not deceive me?”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	29	He said to Gehazi, “Gird up your loins, and take my staff in your hand, and go. If you meet any one, do not salute him; and if any one salutes you, do not reply; and lay my staff upon the face of the child.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	30	Then the mother of the child said, “As the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So he arose and followed her.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	31	Gehazi went on ahead and laid the staff upon the face of the child, but there was no sound or sign of life. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, “The child has not awaked.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	32	When Elisha came into the house, he saw the child lying dead on his bed.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	33	So he went in and shut the door upon the two of them, and prayed to the Lord.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	34	Then he went up and lay upon the child, putting his mouth upon his mouth, his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands; and as he stretched himself upon him, the flesh of the child became warm.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	35	Then he got up again, and walked once to and fro in the house, and went up, and stretched himself upon him; the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	36	Then he summoned Gehazi and said, “Call this Shunammite.” So he called her. And when she came to him, he said, “Take up your son.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	37	She came and fell at his feet, bowing to the ground; then she took up her son and went out.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	38	And Elisha came again to Gilgal when there was a famine in the land. And as the sons of the prophets were sitting before him, he said to his servant, “Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	39	One of them went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine and gathered from it his lap full of wild gourds, and came and cut them up into the pot of pottage, not knowing what they were.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	40	And they poured out for the men to eat. But while they were eating of the pottage, they cried out, “O man of God, there is death in the pot!” And they could not eat it.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	41	He said, “Then bring meal.” And he threw it into the pot, and said, “Pour out for the men, that they may eat.” And there was no harm in the pot.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	42	A man came from Baal-shalishah, bringing the man of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And Elisha said, “Give to the men, that they may eat.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	43	But his servant said, “How am I to set this before a hundred men?” So he repeated, “Give them to the men, that they may eat, for thus says the Lord, ‘They shall eat and have some left.’”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	4	44	So he set it before them. And they ate, and had some left, according to the word of the Lord.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	5	1	Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master and in high favor, because by him the Lord had given victory to Syria. He was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	5	2	Now the Syrians on one of their raids had carried off a little maid from the land of Israel, and she waited on Naaman’s wife.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	5	3	She said to her mistress, “Would that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	5	4	So Naaman went in and told his lord, “Thus and so spoke the maiden from the land of Israel.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	5	5	And the king of Syria said, “Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So he went, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten festal garments.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	5	6	And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, which read, “When this letter reaches you, know that I have sent to you Naaman my servant, that you may cure him of his leprosy.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	5	7	And when the king of Israel read the letter, he rent his clothes and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Only consider, and see how he is seeking a quarrel with me.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	5	8	But when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, he sent to the king, saying, “Why have you rent your clothes? Let him come now to me, that he may know that there is a prophet in Israel.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	5	9	So Naaman came with his horses and chariots, and halted at the door of Elisha’s house.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	5	10	And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored, and you shall be clean.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	5	11	But Naaman was angry, and went away, saying, “Behold, I thought that he would surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place, and cure the leper.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	5	12	Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them, and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	5	13	But his servants came near and said to him, “My father, if the prophet had commanded you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much rather, then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	5	14	So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	5	15	Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and he came and stood before him; and he said, “Behold, I know that there is no God in all the earth but in Israel; so accept now a present from your servant.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	5	16	But he said, “As the Lord lives, whom I serve, I will receive none.” And he urged him to take it, but he refused.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	5	17	Then Naaman said, “If not, I pray you, let there be given to your servant two mules’ burden of earth; for henceforth your servant will not offer burnt offering or sacrifice to any god but the Lord.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	5	18	In this matter may the Lord pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, leaning on my arm, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, when I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, the Lord pardon your servant in this matter.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	5	19	He said to him, “Go in peace.” But when Naaman had gone from him a short distance,
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	5	20	Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “See, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not accepting from his hand what he brought. As the Lord lives, I will run after him, and get something from him.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	5	21	So Gehazi followed Naaman. And when Naaman saw some one running after him, he alighted from the chariot to meet him, and said, “Is all well?”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	5	22	And he said, “All is well. My master has sent me to say, ‘There have just now come to me from the hill country of Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets; pray, give them a talent of silver and two festal garments.’”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	5	23	And Naaman said, “Be pleased to accept two talents.” And he urged him, and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, with two festal garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they carried them before Gehazi.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	5	24	And when he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and put them in the house; and he sent the men away, and they departed.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	5	25	He went in, and stood before his master, and Elisha said to him, “Where have you been, Gehazi?” And he said, “Your servant went nowhere.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	5	26	But he said to him, “Did I not go with you in spirit when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Was it a time to accept money and garments, olive orchards and vineyards, sheep and oxen, menservants and maidservants?
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	5	27	Therefore the leprosy of Naaman shall cleave to you, and to your descendants for ever.” So he went out from his presence a leper, as white as snow.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	6	1	Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “See, the place where we dwell under your charge is too small for us.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	6	2	Let us go to the Jordan and each of us get there a log, and let us make a place for us to dwell there.” And he answered, “Go.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	6	3	Then one of them said, “Be pleased to go with your servants.” And he answered, “I will go.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	6	4	So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	6	5	But as one was felling a log, his axe head fell into the water; and he cried out, “Alas, my master! It was borrowed.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	6	6	Then the man of God said, “Where did it fall?” When he showed him the place, he cut off a stick, and threw it in there, and made the iron float.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	6	7	And he said, “Take it up.” So he reached out his hand and took it.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	6	8	Once when the king of Syria was warring against Israel, he took counsel with his servants, saying, “At such and such a place shall be my camp.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	6	9	But the man of God sent word to the king of Israel, “Beware that you do not pass this place, for the Syrians are going down there.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	6	10	And the king of Israel sent to the place of which the man of God told him. Thus he used to warn him, so that he saved himself there more than once or twice.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	6	11	And the mind of the king of Syria was greatly troubled because of this thing; and he called his servants and said to them, “Will you not show me who of us is for the king of Israel?”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	6	12	And one of his servants said, “None, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedchamber.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	6	13	And he said, “Go and see where he is, that I may send and seize him.” It was told him, “Behold, he is in Dothan.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	6	14	So he sent there horses and chariots and a great army; and they came by night, and surrounded the city.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	6	15	When the servant of the man of God rose early in the morning and went out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was round about the city. And the servant said, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	6	16	He said, “Fear not, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	6	17	Then Elisha prayed, and said, “O Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes that he may see.” So the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw; and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	6	18	And when the Syrians came down against him, Elisha prayed to the Lord, and said, “Strike this people, I pray thee, with blindness.” So he struck them with blindness in accordance with the prayer of Elisha.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	6	19	And Elisha said to them, “This is not the way, and this is not the city; follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek.” And he led them to Samaria.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	6	20	As soon as they entered Samaria, Elisha said, “O Lord, open the eyes of these men, that they may see.” So the Lord opened their eyes, and they saw; and lo, they were in the midst of Samaria.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	6	21	When the king of Israel saw them he said to Elisha, “My father, shall I slay them? Shall I slay them?”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	6	22	He answered, “You shall not slay them. Would you slay those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink and go to their master.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	6	23	So he prepared for them a great feast; and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the Syrians came no more on raids into the land of Israel.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	6	24	Afterward Ben-hadad king of Syria mustered his entire army, and went up, and besieged Samaria.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	6	25	And there was a great famine in Samaria, as they besieged it, until an ass’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	6	26	Now as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	6	27	And he said, “If the Lord will not help you, whence shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	6	28	And the king asked her, “What is your trouble?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	6	29	So we boiled my son, and ate him. And on the next day I said to her, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him’; but she has hidden her son.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	6	30	When the king heard the words of the woman he rent his clothes—now he was passing by upon the wall—and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth beneath upon his body—
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	6	31	and he said, “May God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	6	32	Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Now the king had dispatched a man from his presence; but before the messenger arrived Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this murderer has sent to take off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door fast against him. Is not the sound of his master’s feet behind him?”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	6	33	And while he was still speaking with them, the king came down to him and said, “This trouble is from the Lord! Why should I wait for the Lord any longer?”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	7	1	But Elisha said, “Hear the word of the Lord: thus says the Lord, Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine meal shall be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Samaria.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	7	2	Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned said to the man of God, “If the Lord himself should make windows in heaven, could this thing be?” But he said, “You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	7	3	Now there were four men who were lepers at the entrance to the gate; and they said to one another, “Why do we sit here till we die?
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	7	4	If we say, ‘Let us enter the city,’ the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we sit here, we die also. So now come, let us go over to the camp of the Syrians; if they spare our lives we shall live, and if they kill us we shall but die.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	7	5	So they arose at twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians; but when they came to the edge of the camp of the Syrians, behold, there was no one there.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	7	6	For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians hear the sound of chariots, and of horses, the sound of a great army, so that they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to come upon us.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	7	7	So they fled away in the twilight and forsook their tents, their horses, and their asses, leaving the camp as it was, and fled for their lives.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	7	8	And when these lepers came to the edge of the camp, they went into a tent, and ate and drank, and they carried off silver and gold and clothing, and went and hid them; then they came back, and entered another tent, and carried off things from it, and went and hid them.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	7	9	Then they said to one another, “We are not doing right. This day is a day of good news; if we are silent and wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us; now therefore come, let us go and tell the king’s household.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	7	10	So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city, and told them, “We came to the camp of the Syrians, and behold, there was no one to be seen or heard there, nothing but the horses tied, and the asses tied, and the tents as they were.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	7	11	Then the gatekeepers called out, and it was told within the king’s household.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	7	12	And the king rose in the night, and said to his servants, “I will tell you what the Syrians have prepared against us. They know that we are hungry; therefore they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the open country, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive and get into the city.’”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	7	13	And one of his servants said, “Let some men take five of the remaining horses, seeing that those who are left here will fare like the whole multitude of Israel that have already perished; let us send and see.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	7	14	So they took two mounted men, and the king sent them after the army of the Syrians, saying, “Go and see.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	7	15	So they went after them as far as the Jordan; and, lo, all the way was littered with garments and equipment which the Syrians had thrown away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	7	16	Then the people went out, and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So a measure of fine meal was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the Lord.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	7	17	Now the king had appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to have charge of the gate; and the people trod upon him in the gate, so that he died, as the man of God had said when the king came down to him.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	7	18	For when the man of God had said to the king, “Two measures of barley shall be sold for a shekel, and a measure of fine meal for a shekel, about this time tomorrow in the gate of Samaria,”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	7	19	the captain had answered the man of God, “If the Lord himself should make windows in heaven, could such a thing be?” And he had said, “You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	7	20	And so it happened to him, for the people trod upon him in the gate and he died.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	8	1	Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, and depart with your household, and sojourn wherever you can; for the Lord has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for seven years.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	8	2	So the woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God; she went with her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	8	3	And at the end of the seven years, when the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she went forth to appeal to the king for her house and her land.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	8	4	Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, “Tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	8	5	And while he was telling the king how Elisha had restored the dead to life, behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life appealed to the king for her house and her land. And Gehazi said, “My lord, O king, here is the woman, and here is her son whom Elisha restored to life.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	8	6	And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed an official for her, saying, “Restore all that was hers, together with all the produce of the fields from the day that she left the land until now.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	8	7	Now Elisha came to Damascus. Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick; and when it was told him, “The man of God has come here,”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	8	8	the king said to Hazael, “Take a present with you and go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the Lord through him, saying, ‘Shall I recover from this sickness?’”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	8	9	So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, all kinds of goods of Damascus, forty camel loads. When he came and stood before him, he said, “Your son Ben-hadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, ‘Shall I recover from this sickness?’”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	8	10	And Elisha said to him, “Go, say to him, ‘You shall certainly recover’; but the Lord has shown me that he shall certainly die.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	8	11	And he fixed his gaze and stared at him, until he was ashamed. And the man of God wept.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	8	12	And Hazael said, “Why does my lord weep?” He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the people of Israel; you will set on fire their fortresses, and you will slay their young men with the sword, and dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their women with child.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	8	13	And Hazael said, “What is your servant, who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing?” Elisha answered, “The Lord has shown me that you are to be king over Syria.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	8	14	Then he departed from Elisha, and came to his master, who said to him, “What did Elisha say to you?” And he answered, “He told me that you would certainly recover.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	8	15	But on the morrow he took the coverlet and dipped it in water and spread it over his face, till he died. And Hazael became king in his stead.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	8	16	In the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, began to reign.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	8	17	He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	8	18	And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife. And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	8	19	Yet the Lord would not destroy Judah, for the sake of David his servant, since he promised to give a lamp to him and to his sons for ever.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	8	20	In his days Edom revolted from the rule of Judah, and set up a king of their own.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	8	21	Then Joram passed over to Zair with all his chariots, and rose by night, and he and his chariot commanders smote the Edomites who had surrounded him; but his army fled home.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	8	22	So Edom revolted from the rule of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	8	23	Now the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	8	24	So Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	8	25	In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, began to reign.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	8	26	Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah; she was a granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	8	27	He also walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, as the house of Ahab had done, for he was son-in-law to the house of Ahab.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	8	28	He went with Joram the son of Ahab to make war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead, where the Syrians wounded Joram.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	8	29	And King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	1	Then Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, “Gird up your loins, and take this flask of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	2	And when you arrive, look there for Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat, son of Nimshi; and go in and bid him rise from among his fellows, and lead him to an inner chamber.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	3	Then take the flask of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord, I anoint you king over Israel.’ Then open the door and flee; do not tarry.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	4	So the young man, the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	5	And when he came, behold, the commanders of the army were in council; and he said, “I have an errand to you, O commander.” And Jehu said, “To which of us all?” And he said, “To you, O commander.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	6	So he arose, and went into the house; and the young man poured the oil on his head, saying to him, “Thus says the Lord the God of Israel, I anoint you king over the people of the Lord, over Israel.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	7	And you shall strike down the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge on Jezebel the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the Lord.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	8	For the whole house of Ahab shall perish; and I will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	9	And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	10	And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the territory of Jezreel, and none shall bury her.” Then he opened the door, and fled.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	11	When Jehu came out to the servants of his master, they said to him, “Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?” And he said to them, “You know the fellow and his talk.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	12	And they said, “That is not true; tell us now.” And he said, “Thus and so he spoke to me, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord, I anoint you king over Israel.’”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	13	Then in haste every man of them took his garment, and put it under him on the bare steps, and they blew the trumpet, and proclaimed, “Jehu is king.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	14	Thus Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram with all Israel had been on guard at Ramoth-gilead against Hazael king of Syria;
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	15	but King Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) So Jehu said, “If this is your mind, then let no one slip out of the city to go and tell the news in Jezreel.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	16	Then Jehu mounted his chariot, and went to Jezreel, for Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to visit Joram.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	17	Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, “I see a company.” And Joram said, “Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	18	So a man on horseback went to meet him, and said, “Thus says the king, ‘Is it peace?’” And Jehu said, “What have you to do with peace? Turn round and ride behind me.” And the watchman reported, saying, “The messenger reached them, but he is not coming back.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	19	Then he sent out a second horseman, who came to them, and said, “Thus the king has said, ‘Is it peace?’” And Jehu answered, “What have you to do with peace? Turn round and ride behind me.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	20	Again the watchman reported, “He reached them, but he is not coming back. And the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he drives furiously.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	21	Joram said, “Make ready.” And they made ready his chariot. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah set out, each in his chariot, and went to meet Jehu, and met him at the property of Naboth the Jezreelite.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	22	And when Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace can there be, so long as the harlotries and the sorceries of your mother Jezebel are so many?”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	23	Then Joram reined about and fled, saying to Ahaziah, “Treachery, O Ahaziah!”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	24	And Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and shot Joram between the shoulders, so that the arrow pierced his heart, and he sank in his chariot.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	25	Jehu said to Bidkar his aide, “Take him up, and cast him on the plot of ground belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember, when you and I rode side by side behind Ahab his father, how the Lord uttered this oracle against him:
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	26	‘As surely as I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons—says the Lord—I will requite you on this plot of ground.’ Now therefore take him up and cast him on the plot of ground, in accordance with the word of the Lord.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	27	When Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled in the direction of Beth-haggan. And Jehu pursued him, and said, “Shoot him also”; and they shot him in the chariot at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and died there.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	28	His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in the city of David.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	29	In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah began to reign over Judah.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	30	When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and adorned her head, and looked out of the window.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	31	And as Jehu entered the gate, she said, “Is it peace, you Zimri, murderer of your master?”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	32	And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked out at him.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	33	He said, “Throw her down.” So they threw her down; and some of her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses, and they trampled on her.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	34	Then he went in and ate and drank; and he said, “See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king’s daughter.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	35	But when they went to bury her, they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	36	When they came back and told him, he said, “This is the word of the Lord, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, ‘In the territory of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel;
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	9	37	and the corpse of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the territory of Jezreel, so that no one can say, This is Jezebel.’”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	1	Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters, and sent them to Samaria, to the rulers of the city, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying,
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	2	“Now then, as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master’s sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, fortified cities also, and weapons,
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	3	select the best and fittest of your master’s sons and set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	4	But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, “Behold, the two kings could not stand before him; how then can we stand?”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	5	So he who was over the palace, and he who was over the city, together with the elders and the guardians, sent to Jehu, saying, “We are your servants, and we will do all that you bid us. We will not make any one king; do whatever is good in your eyes.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	6	Then he wrote to them a second letter, saying, “If you are on my side, and if you are ready to obey me, take the heads of your master’s sons, and come to me at Jezreel tomorrow at this time.” Now the king’s sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who were bringing them up.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	7	And when the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons, and slew them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him at Jezreel.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	8	When the messenger came and told him, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons,” he said, “Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	9	Then in the morning, when he went out, he stood, and said to all the people, “You are innocent. It was I who conspired against my master, and slew him; but who struck down all these?
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	10	Know then that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of the Lord, which the Lord spoke concerning the house of Ahab; for the Lord has done what he said by his servant Elijah.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	11	So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, all his great men, and his familiar friends, and his priests, until he left him none remaining.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	12	Then he set out and went to Samaria. On the way, when he was at Beth-eked of the Shepherds,
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	13	Jehu met the kinsmen of Ahaziah king of Judah, and he said, “Who are you?” And they answered, “We are the kinsmen of Ahaziah, and we came down to visit the royal princes and the sons of the queen mother.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	14	He said, “Take them alive.” And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of Beth-eked, forty-two persons, and he spared none of them.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	15	And when he departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him; and he greeted him, and said to him, “Is your heart true to my heart as mine is to yours?” And Jehonadab answered, “It is.” Jehu said, “If it is, give me your hand.” So he gave him his hand. And Jehu took him up with him into the chariot.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	16	And he said, “Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord.” So he had him ride in his chariot.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	17	And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained to Ahab in Samaria, till he had wiped them out, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke to Elijah.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	18	Then Jehu assembled all the people, and said to them, “Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu will serve him much.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	19	Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all his worshipers and all his priests; let none be missing, for I have a great sacrifice to offer to Baal; whoever is missing shall not live.” But Jehu did it with cunning in order to destroy the worshipers of Baal.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	20	And Jehu ordered, “Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal.” So they proclaimed it.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	21	And Jehu sent throughout all Israel; and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left who did not come. And they entered the house of Baal, and the house of Baal was filled from one end to the other.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	22	He said to him who was in charge of the wardrobe, “Bring out the vestments for all the worshipers of Baal.” So he brought out the vestments for them.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	23	Then Jehu went into the house of Baal with Jehonadab the son of Rechab; and he said to the worshipers of Baal, “Search, and see that there is no servant of the Lord here among you, but only the worshipers of Baal.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	24	Then he went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside, and said, “The man who allows any of those whom I give into your hands to escape shall forfeit his life.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	25	So as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the officers, “Go in and slay them; let not a man escape.” So when they put them to the sword, the guard and the officers cast them out and went into the inner room of the house of Baal
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	26	and they brought out the pillar that was in the house of Baal, and burned it.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	27	And they demolished the pillar of Baal, and demolished the house of Baal, and made it a latrine to this day.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	28	Thus Jehu wiped out Baal from Israel.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	29	But Jehu did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin, the golden calves that were in Bethel, and in Dan.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	30	And the Lord said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in carrying out what is right in my eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	31	But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the Lord the God of Israel with all his heart; he did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam, which he made Israel to sin.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	32	In those days the Lord began to cut off parts of Israel. Hazael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel:
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	33	from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, that is, Gilead and Bashan.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	34	Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	35	So Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	10	36	The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	11	1	Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal family.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	11	2	But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were about to be slain, and she put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. Thus she hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain;
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	11	3	and he remained with her six years, hid in the house of the Lord, while Athaliah reigned over the land.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	11	4	But in the seventh year Jehoiada sent and brought the captains of the Carites and of the guards, and had them come to him in the house of the Lord; and he made a covenant with them and put them under oath in the house of the Lord, and he showed them the king’s son.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	11	5	And he commanded them, “This is the thing that you shall do: one third of you, those who come off duty on the sabbath and guard the king’s house
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	11	6	(another third being at the gate Sur and a third at the gate behind the guards), shall guard the palace;
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	11	7	and the two divisions of you, which come on duty in force on the sabbath and guard the house of the Lord,
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	11	8	shall surround the king, each with his weapons in his hand; and whoever approaches the ranks is to be slain. Be with the king when he goes out and when he comes in.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	11	9	The captains did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded, and each brought his men who were to go off duty on the sabbath, with those who were to come on duty on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	11	10	And the priest delivered to the captains the spears and shields that had been King David’s, which were in the house of the Lord;
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	11	11	and the guards stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the south side of the house to the north side of the house, around the altar and the house.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	11	12	Then he brought out the king’s son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they proclaimed him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, “Long live the king!”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	11	13	When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she went into the house of the Lord to the people;
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	11	14	and when she looked, there was the king standing by the pillar, according to the custom, and the captains and the trumpeters beside the king, and all the people of the land rejoicing and blowing trumpets. And Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, “Treason! Treason!”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	11	15	Then Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains who were set over the army, “Bring her out between the ranks; and slay with the sword any one who follows her.” For the priest said, “Let her not be slain in the house of the Lord.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	11	16	So they laid hands on her; and she went through the horses’ entrance to the king’s house, and there she was slain.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	11	17	And Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord and the king and people, that they should be the Lord’s people; and also between the king and the people.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	11	18	Then all the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and tore it down; his altars and his images they broke in pieces, and they slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest posted watchmen over the house of the Lord.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	11	19	And he took the captains, the Carites, the guards, and all the people of the land; and they brought the king down from the house of the Lord, marching through the gate of the guards to the king’s house. And he took his seat on the throne of the kings.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	11	20	So all the people of the land rejoiced; and the city was quiet after Athaliah had been slain with the sword at the king’s house.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	11	21	Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	12	1	In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	12	2	And Jehoash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord all his days, because Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	12	3	Nevertheless the high places were not taken away; the people continued to sacrifice and burn incense on the high places.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	12	4	Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things which is brought into the house of the Lord, the money for which each man is assessed—the money from the assessment of persons—and the money which a man’s heart prompts him to bring into the house of the Lord,
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	12	5	let the priests take, each from his acquaintance; and let them repair the house wherever any need of repairs is discovered.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	12	6	But by the twenty-third year of King Jehoash the priests had made no repairs on the house.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	12	7	Therefore King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and said to them, “Why are you not repairing the house? Now therefore take no more money from your acquaintances, but hand it over for the repair of the house.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	12	8	So the priests agreed that they should take no more money from the people, and that they should not repair the house.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	12	9	Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one entered the house of the Lord; and the priests who guarded the threshold put in it all the money that was brought into the house of the Lord.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	12	10	And whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king’s secretary and the high priest came up and they counted and tied up in bags the money that was found in the house of the Lord.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	12	11	Then they would give the money that was weighed out into the hands of the workmen who had the oversight of the house of the Lord; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked upon the house of the Lord,
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	12	12	and to the masons and the stonecutters, as well as to buy timber and quarried stone for making repairs on the house of the Lord, and for any outlay upon the repairs of the house.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	12	13	But there were not made for the house of the Lord basins of silver, snuffers, bowls, trumpets, or any vessels of gold, or of silver, from the money that was brought into the house of the Lord,
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	12	14	for that was given to the workmen who were repairing the house of the Lord with it.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	12	15	And they did not ask an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to pay out to the workmen, for they dealt honestly.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	12	16	The money from the guilt offerings and the money from the sin offerings was not brought into the house of the Lord; it belonged to the priests.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	12	17	At that time Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath, and took it. But when Hazael set his face to go up against Jerusalem,
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	12	18	Jehoash king of Judah took all the votive gifts that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, the kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own votive gifts, and all the gold that was found in the treasuries of the house of the Lord and of the king’s house, and sent these to Hazael king of Syria. Then Hazael went away from Jerusalem.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	12	19	Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	12	20	His servants arose and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	12	21	It was Jozacar the son of Shime-ath and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, who struck him down, so that he died. And they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	13	1	In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned seventeen years.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	13	2	He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin; he did not depart from them.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	13	3	And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them continually into the hand of Hazael king of Syria and into the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	13	4	Then Jehoahaz besought the Lord, and the Lord hearkened to him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria oppressed them.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	13	5	(Therefore the Lord gave Israel a savior, so that they escaped from the hand of the Syrians; and the people of Israel dwelt in their homes as formerly.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	13	6	Nevertheless they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, which he made Israel to sin, but walked in them; and the Asherah also remained in Samaria.)
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	13	7	For there was not left to Jehoahaz an army of more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	13	8	Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz and all that he did, and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	13	9	So Jehoahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria; and Joash his son reigned in his stead.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	13	10	In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned sixteen years.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	13	11	He also did what was evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin, but he walked in them.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	13	12	Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and the might with which he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	13	13	So Joash slept with his fathers, and Jeroboam sat upon his throne; and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	13	14	Now when Elisha had fallen sick with the illness of which he was to die, Joash king of Israel went down to him, and wept before him, crying, “My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	13	15	And Elisha said to him, “Take a bow and arrows”; so he took a bow and arrows.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	13	16	Then he said to the king of Israel, “Draw the bow”; and he drew it. And Elisha laid his hands upon the king’s hands.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	13	17	And he said, “Open the window eastward”; and he opened it. Then Elisha said, “Shoot”; and he shot. And he said, “The Lord’s arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Syria! For you shall fight the Syrians in Aphek until you have made an end of them.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	13	18	And he said, “Take the arrows”; and he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, “Strike the ground with them”; and he struck three times, and stopped.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	13	19	Then the man of God was angry with him, and said, “You should have struck five or six times; then you would have struck down Syria until you had made an end of it, but now you will strike down Syria only three times.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	13	20	So Elisha died, and they buried him. Now bands of Moabites used to invade the land in the spring of the year.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	13	21	And as a man was being buried, lo, a marauding band was seen and the man was cast into the grave of Elisha; and as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood on his feet.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	13	22	Now Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	13	23	But the Lord was gracious to them and had compassion on them, and he turned toward them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them; nor has he cast them from his presence until now.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	13	24	When Hazael king of Syria died, Ben-hadad his son became king in his stead.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	13	25	Then Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again from Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities which he had taken from Jehoahaz his father in war. Three times Joash defeated him and recovered the cities of Israel.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	14	1	In the second year of Joash the son of Joahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, began to reign.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	14	2	He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jeho-addin of Jerusalem.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	14	3	And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, yet not like David his father; he did in all things as Joash his father had done.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	14	4	But the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	14	5	And as soon as the royal power was firmly in his hand he killed his servants who had slain the king his father.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	14	6	But he did not put to death the children of the murderers; according to what is written in the book of the law of Moses, where the Lord commanded, “The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, or the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	14	7	He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt and took Sela by storm, and called it Jokthe-el, which is its name to this day.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	14	8	Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us look one another in the face.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	14	9	And Jehoash king of Israel sent word to Amaziah king of Judah, “A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife’; and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	14	10	You have indeed smitten Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Be content with your glory, and stay at home; for why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	14	11	But Amaziah would not listen. So Jehoash king of Israel went up, and he and Amaziah king of Judah faced one another in battle at Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	14	12	And Judah was defeated by Israel, and every man fled to his home.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	14	13	And Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem for four hundred cubits, from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	14	14	And he seized all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the Lord and in the treasuries of the king’s house, also hostages, and he returned to Samaria.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	14	15	Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	14	16	And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	14	17	Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	14	18	Now the rest of the deeds of Amaziah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	14	19	And they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	14	20	And they brought him upon horses; and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	14	21	And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	14	22	He built Elath and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	14	23	In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, began to reign in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	14	24	And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	14	25	He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath-hepher.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	14	26	For the Lord saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter, for there was none left, bond or free, and there was none to help Israel.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	14	27	But the Lord had not said that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, so he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	14	28	Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he fought, and how he recovered for Israel Damascus and Hamath, which had belonged to Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	14	29	And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, the kings of Israel, and Zechariah his son reigned in his stead.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	1	In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel Azariah the son of Amaziah, king of Judah, began to reign.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	2	He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	3	And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	4	Nevertheless the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	5	And the Lord smote the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and he dwelt in a separate house. And Jotham the king’s son was over the household, governing the people of the land.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	6	Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	7	And Azariah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	8	In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reigned over Israel in Samaria six months.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	9	And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, as his fathers had done. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	10	Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and struck him down at Ibleam, and killed him, and reigned in his stead.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	11	Now the rest of the deeds of Zechariah, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	12	(This was the promise of the Lord which he gave to Jehu, “Your sons shall sit upon the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.” And so it came to pass.)
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	13	Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned one month in Samaria.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	14	Then Menahem the son of Gadi came up from Tirzah and came to Samaria, and he struck down Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	15	Now the rest of the deeds of Shallum, and the conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	16	At that time Menahem sacked Tappuah and all who were in it and its territory from Tirzah on; because they did not open it to him, therefore he sacked it, and he ripped up all the women in it who were with child.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	17	In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah Menahem the son of Gadi began to reign over Israel, and he reigned ten years in Samaria.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	18	And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not depart all his days from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	19	Pul the king of Assyria came against the land; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that he might help him to confirm his hold of the royal power.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	20	Menahem exacted the money from Israel, that is, from all the wealthy men, fifty shekels of silver from every man, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and did not stay there in the land.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	21	Now the rest of the deeds of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	22	And Menahem slept with his fathers, and Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	23	In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned two years.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	24	And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	25	And Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him with fifty men of the Gileadites, and slew him in Samaria, in the citadel of the king’s house; he slew him, and reigned in his stead.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	26	Now the rest of the deeds of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	27	In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	28	And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	29	In the days of Pekah king of Israel Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Jan-oah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried the people captive to Assyria.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	30	Then Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and struck him down, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	31	Now the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	32	In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, began to reign.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	33	He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	34	And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that his father Uzziah had done.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	35	Nevertheless the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of the Lord.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	36	Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	37	In those days the Lord began to send Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	15	38	Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father; and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	16	1	In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham, king of Judah, began to reign.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	16	2	Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his God, as his father David had done,
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	16	3	but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even burned his son as an offering, according to the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	16	4	And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	16	5	Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to wage war on Jerusalem, and they besieged Ahaz but could not conquer him.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	16	6	At that time the king of Edom recovered Elath for Edom, and drove the men of Judah from Elath; and the Edomites came to Elath, where they dwell to this day.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	16	7	So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up, and rescue me from the hand of the king of Syria and from the hand of the king of Israel, who are attacking me.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	16	8	Ahaz also took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the Lord and in the treasures of the king’s house, and sent a present to the king of Assyria.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	16	9	And the king of Assyria hearkened to him; the king of Assyria marched up against Damascus, and took it, carrying its people captive to Kir, and he killed Rezin.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	16	10	When King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, he saw the altar that was at Damascus. And King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a model of the altar, and its pattern, exact in all its details.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	16	11	And Uriah the priest built the altar; in accordance with all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so Uriah the priest made it, before King Ahaz arrived from Damascus.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	16	12	And when the king came from Damascus, the king viewed the altar. Then the king drew near to the altar, and went up on it,
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	16	13	and burned his burnt offering and his cereal offering, and poured his drink offering, and threw the blood of his peace offerings upon the altar.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	16	14	And the bronze altar which was before the Lord he removed from the front of the house, from the place between his altar and the house of the Lord, and put it on the north side of his altar.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	16	15	And King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, saying, “Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening cereal offering, and the king’s burnt offering, and his cereal offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their cereal offering, and their drink offering; and throw upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice; but the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	16	16	Uriah the priest did all this, as King Ahaz commanded.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	16	17	And King Ahaz cut off the frames of the stands, and removed the laver from them, and he took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pediment of stone.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	16	18	And the covered way for the sabbath which had been built inside the palace, and the outer entrance for the king he removed from the house of the Lord, because of the king of Assyria.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	16	19	Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	16	20	And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	1	In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign in Samaria over Israel, and he reigned nine years.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	2	And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, yet not as the kings of Israel who were before him.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	3	Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his vassal, and paid him tribute.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	4	But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	5	Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Samaria, and for three years he besieged it.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	6	In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	7	And this was so, because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	8	and walked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel, and in the customs which the kings of Israel had introduced.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	9	And the people of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things that were not right. They built for themselves high places at all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city;
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	10	they set up for themselves pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree;
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	11	and there they burned incense on all the high places, as the nations did whom the Lord carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the Lord to anger,
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	12	and they served idols, of which the Lord had said to them, “You shall not do this.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	13	Yet the Lord warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	14	But they would not listen, but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	15	They despised his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and the warnings which he gave them. They went after false idols, and became false, and they followed the nations that were round about them, concerning whom the Lord had commanded them that they should not do like them.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	16	And they forsook all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves molten images of two calves; and they made an Asherah, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	17	And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings, and used divination and sorcery, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	18	Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight; none was left but the tribe of Judah only.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	19	Judah also did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the customs which Israel had introduced.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	20	And the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel, and afflicted them, and gave them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	21	When he had torn Israel from the house of David they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. And Jeroboam drove Israel from following the Lord and made them commit great sin.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	22	The people of Israel walked in all the sins which Jeroboam did; they did not depart from them,
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	23	until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, as he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	24	And the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sephar-vaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the people of Israel; and they took possession of Samaria, and dwelt in its cities.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	25	And at the beginning of their dwelling there, they did not fear the Lord; therefore the Lord sent lions among them, which killed some of them.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	26	So the king of Assyria was told, “The nations which you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the law of the god of the land; therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they are killing them, because they do not know the law of the god of the land.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	27	Then the king of Assyria commanded, “Send there one of the priests whom you carried away thence; and let him go and dwell there, and teach them the law of the god of the land.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	28	So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the Lord.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	29	But every nation still made gods of its own, and put them in the shrines of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in the cities in which they dwelt;
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	30	the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima,
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	31	and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sephar-vaim.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	32	They also feared the Lord, and appointed from among themselves all sorts of people as priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	33	So they feared the Lord but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	34	To this day they do according to the former manner. They do not fear the Lord, and they do not follow the statutes or the ordinances or the law or the commandment which the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	35	The Lord made a covenant with them, and commanded them, “You shall not fear other gods or bow yourselves to them or serve them or sacrifice to them;
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	36	but you shall fear the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm; you shall bow yourselves to him, and to him you shall sacrifice.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	37	And the statutes and the ordinances and the law and the commandment which he wrote for you, you shall always be careful to do. You shall not fear other gods,
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	38	and you shall not forget the covenant that I have made with you. You shall not fear other gods,
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	39	but you shall fear the Lord your God, and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	40	However they would not listen, but they did according to their former manner.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	17	41	So these nations feared the Lord, and also served their graven images; their children likewise, and their children’s children—as their fathers did, so they do to this day.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	1	In the third year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to reign.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	2	He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	3	And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	4	He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had burned incense to it; it was called Nehushtan.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	5	He trusted in the Lord the God of Israel; so that there was none like him among all the kings of Judah after him, nor among those who were before him.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	6	For he held fast to the Lord; he did not depart from following him, but kept the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	7	And the Lord was with him; wherever he went forth, he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria, and would not serve him.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	8	He smote the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory, from watchtower to fortified city.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	9	In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	10	and at the end of three years he took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	11	The king of Assyria carried the Israelites away to Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	12	because they did not obey the voice of the Lord their God but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded; they neither listened nor obeyed.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	13	In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	14	And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; withdraw from me; whatever you impose on me I will bear.” And the king of Assyria required of Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	15	And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasuries of the king’s house.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	16	At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord, and from the doorposts which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	17	And the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh with a great army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they arrived, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway to the Fuller’s Field.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	18	And when they called for the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	19	And the Rabshakeh said to them, “Say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this confidence of yours?
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	20	Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? On whom do you now rely, that you have rebelled against me?
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	21	Behold, you are relying now on Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	22	But if you say to me, “We rely on the Lord our God,” is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, “You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem”?
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	23	Come now, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders upon them.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	24	How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master’s servants, when you rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	25	Moreover, is it without the Lord that I have come up against this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.’”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	26	Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Pray, speak to your servants in the Aramaic language, for we understand it; do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	27	But the Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and to drink their own urine?”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	28	Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out in a loud voice in the language of Judah: “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	29	Thus says the king: ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you out of my hand.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	30	Do not let Hezekiah make you to rely on the Lord by saying, The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	31	Do not listen to Hezekiah; for thus says the king of Assyria: ‘Make your peace with me and come out to me; then every one of you will eat of his own vine, and every one of his own fig tree, and every one of you will drink the water of his own cistern;
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	32	until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey, that you may live, and not die. And do not listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you by saying, The Lord will deliver us.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	33	Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	34	Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	35	Who among all the gods of the countries have delivered their countries out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	36	But the people were silent and answered him not a word, for the king’s command was, “Do not answer him.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	18	37	Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of the Rabshakeh.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	1	When King Hezekiah heard it, he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	2	And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	3	They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	4	It may be that the Lord your God heard all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words which the Lord your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	5	When the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah,
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	6	Isaiah said to them, “Say to your master, ‘Thus says the Lord: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have reviled me.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	7	Behold, I will put a spirit in him, so that he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.’”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	8	The Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah; for he heard that the king had left Lachish.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	9	And when the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, “Behold, he has set out to fight against you,” he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying,
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	10	“Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God on whom you rely deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	11	Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, destroying them utterly. And shall you be delivered?
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	12	Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations which my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Tel-assar?
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	13	Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, the king of Hena, or the king of Ivvah?’”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	14	Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	15	And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord, and said: “O Lord the God of Israel, who art enthroned above the cherubim, thou art the God, thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	16	Incline thy ear, O Lord, and hear; open thy eyes, O Lord, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	17	Of a truth, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	18	and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone; therefore they were destroyed.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	19	So now, O Lord our God, save us, I beseech thee, from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou, O Lord, art God alone.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	20	Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Your prayer to me about Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	21	This is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him: “She despises you, she scorns you— the virgin daughter of Zion; she wags her head behind you— the daughter of Jerusalem.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	22	“Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and haughtily lifted your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	23	By your messengers you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, ‘With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon; I felled its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses; I entered its farthest retreat, its densest forest.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	24	I dug wells and drank foreign waters, and I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.’
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	25	“Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should turn fortified cities into heaps of ruins,
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	26	while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field, and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops; blighted before it is grown?
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	27	“But I know your sitting down and your going out and coming in, and your raging against me.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	28	Because you have raged against me and your arrogance has come into my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	29	“And this shall be the sign for you: this year you shall eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs of the same; then in the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	30	And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward;
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	31	for out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the Lord will do this.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	32	“Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there, or come before it with a shield or cast up a siege mound against it.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	33	By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, says the Lord.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	34	For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	35	And that night the angel of the Lord went forth, and slew a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	36	Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went home, and dwelt at Nineveh.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	19	37	And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, slew him with the sword, and escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	20	1	In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Set your house in order; for you shall die, you shall not recover.’”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	20	2	Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the Lord, saying,
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	20	3	“Remember now, O Lord, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in thy sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	20	4	And before Isaiah had gone out of the middle court, the word of the Lord came to him:
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	20	5	“Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the prince of my people, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will heal you; on the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	20	6	And I will add fifteen years to your life. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city for my own sake and for my servant David’s sake.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	20	7	And Isaiah said, “Bring a cake of figs. And let them take and lay it on the boil, that he may recover.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	20	8	And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of the Lord on the third day?”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	20	9	And Isaiah said, “This is the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that he has promised: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	20	10	And Hezekiah answered, “It is an easy thing for the shadow to lengthen ten steps; rather let the shadow go back ten steps.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	20	11	And Isaiah the prophet cried to the Lord; and he brought the shadow back ten steps, by which the sun had declined on the dial of Ahaz.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	20	12	At that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent envoys with letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	20	13	And Hezekiah welcomed them, and he showed them all his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his armory, all that was found in his storehouses; there was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	20	14	Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men say? And whence did they come to you?” And Hezekiah said, “They have come from a far country, from Babylon.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	20	15	He said, “What have they seen in your house?” And Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing in my storehouses that I did not show them.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	20	16	Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord:
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	20	17	Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left, says the Lord.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	20	18	And some of your own sons, who are born to you, shall be taken away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	20	19	Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, “The word of the Lord which you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “Why not, if there will be peace and security in my days?”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	20	20	The rest of the deeds of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool and the conduit and brought water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	20	21	And Hezekiah slept with his fathers; and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	21	1	Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	21	2	And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	21	3	For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he erected altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	21	4	And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem will I put my name.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	21	5	And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	21	6	And he burned his son as an offering, and practiced soothsaying and augury, and dealt with mediums and with wizards. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	21	7	And the graven image of Asherah that he had made he set in the house of which the Lord said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever;
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	21	8	and I will not cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land which I gave to their fathers, if only they will be careful to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	21	9	But they did not listen, and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than the nations had done whom the Lord destroyed before the people of Israel.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	21	10	And the Lord said by his servants the prophets,
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	21	11	“Because Manasseh king of Judah has committed these abominations, and has done things more wicked than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols;
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	21	12	therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing upon Jerusalem and Judah such evil that the ears of every one who hears of it will tingle.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	21	13	And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab; and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	21	14	And I will cast off the remnant of my heritage, and give them into the hand of their enemies, and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies,
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	21	15	because they have done what is evil in my sight and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	21	16	Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides the sin which he made Judah to sin so that they did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	21	17	Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and the sin that he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	21	18	And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzza; and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	21	19	Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	21	20	And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	21	21	He walked in all the way in which his father walked, and served the idols that his father served, and worshiped them;
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	21	22	he forsook the Lord, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the Lord.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	21	23	And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and killed the king in his house.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	21	24	But the people of the land slew all those who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	21	25	Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	21	26	And he was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza; and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	22	1	Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	22	2	And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and walked in all the way of David his father, and he did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	22	3	In the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, the secretary, to the house of the Lord, saying,
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	22	4	“Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may reckon the amount of the money which has been brought into the house of the Lord, which the keepers of the threshold have collected from the people;
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	22	5	and let it be given into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the Lord; and let them give it to the workmen who are at the house of the Lord, repairing the house,
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	22	6	that is, to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, as well as for buying timber and quarried stone to repair the house.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	22	7	But no accounting shall be asked from them for the money which is delivered into their hand, for they deal honestly.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	22	8	And Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, “I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord.” And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	22	9	And Shaphan the secretary came to the king, and reported to the king, “Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the Lord.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	22	10	Then Shaphan the secretary told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read it before the king.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	22	11	And when the king heard the words of the book of the law, he rent his clothes.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	22	12	And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Micaiah, and Shaphan the secretary, and Asaiah the king’s servant, saying,
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	22	13	“Go, inquire of the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that has been found; for great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	22	14	So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter); and they talked with her.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	22	15	And she said to them, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: ‘Tell the man who sent you to me,
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	22	16	Thus says the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place and upon its inhabitants, all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	22	17	Because they have forsaken me and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath will be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	22	18	But as to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the Lord, thus shall you say to him, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Regarding the words which you have heard,
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	22	19	because your heart was penitent, and you humbled yourself before the Lord, when you heard how I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and you have rent your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, says the Lord.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	22	20	Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place.’” And they brought back word to the king.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	1	Then the king sent, and all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem were gathered to him.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	2	And the king went up to the house of the Lord, and with him all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests and the prophets, all the people, both small and great; and he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant which had been found in the house of the Lord.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	3	And the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book; and all the people joined in the covenant.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	4	And the king commanded Hilkiah, the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven; he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	5	And he deposed the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places at the cities of Judah and round about Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and the moon, and the constellations, and all the host of the heavens.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	6	And he brought out the Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust and cast the dust of it upon the graves of the common people.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	7	And he broke down the houses of the male cult prostitutes which were in the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	8	And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on one’s left at the gate of the city.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	9	However, the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brethren.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	10	And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, that no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to Molech.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	11	And he removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance to the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the precincts; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	12	And the altars on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, he pulled down and broke in pieces, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	13	And the king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, to the south of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	14	And he broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	15	Moreover the altar at Bethel, the high place erected by Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, that altar with the high place he pulled down and he broke in pieces its stones, crushing them to dust; also he burned the Asherah.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	16	And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mount; and he sent and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them upon the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who had predicted these things.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	17	Then he said, “What is yonder monument that I see?” And the men of the city told him, “It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and predicted these things which you have done against the altar at Bethel.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	18	And he said, “Let him be; let no man move his bones.” So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	19	And all the shrines also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which kings of Israel had made, provoking the Lord to anger, Josiah removed; he did to them according to all that he had done at Bethel.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	20	And he slew all the priests of the high places who were there, upon the altars, and burned the bones of men upon them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	21	And the king commanded all the people, “Keep the passover to the Lord your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	22	For no such passover had been kept since the days of the judges who judged Israel, or during all the days of the kings of Israel or of the kings of Judah;
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	23	but in the eighteenth year of King Josiah this passover was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	24	Moreover Josiah put away the mediums and the wizards and the teraphim and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might establish the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	25	Before him there was no king like him, who turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; nor did any like him arise after him.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	26	Still the Lord did not turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, by which his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked him.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	27	And the Lord said, “I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city which I have chosen, Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	28	Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	29	In his days Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates. King Josiah went to meet him; and Pharaoh Neco slew him at Megiddo, when he saw him.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	30	And his servants carried him dead in a chariot from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s stead.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	31	Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	32	And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	33	And Pharaoh Neco put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem, and laid upon the land a tribute of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	34	And Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the place of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz away; and he came to Egypt, and died there.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	35	And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land to give the money according to the command of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, from every one according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Neco.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	36	Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	23	37	And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	24	1	In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years; then he turned and rebelled against him.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	24	2	And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke by his servants the prophets.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	24	3	Surely this came upon Judah at the command of the Lord, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done,
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	24	4	and also for the innocent blood that he had shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not pardon.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	24	5	Now the rest of the deeds of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	24	6	So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	24	7	And the king of Egypt did not come again out of his land, for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt from the Brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	24	8	Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	24	9	And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father had done.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	24	10	At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	24	11	And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it;
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	24	12	and Jehoiachin the king of Judah gave himself up to the king of Babylon, himself, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his palace officials. The king of Babylon took him prisoner in the eighth year of his reign,
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	24	13	and carried off all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold in the temple of the Lord, which Solomon king of Israel had made, as the Lord had foretold.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	24	14	He carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths; none remained, except the poorest people of the land.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	24	15	And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon; the king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officials, and the chief men of the land, he took into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	24	16	And the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon all the men of valor, seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths, one thousand, all of them strong and fit for war.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	24	17	And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	24	18	Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	24	19	And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	24	20	For because of the anger of the Lord it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	25	1	And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem, and laid siege to it; and they built siegeworks against it round about.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	25	2	So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	25	3	On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	25	4	Then a breach was made in the city; the king with all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	25	5	But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	25	6	Then they captured the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, who passed sentence upon him.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	25	7	They slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and took him to Babylon.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	25	8	In the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month—which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon—Nebuzaradan, the captain of the bodyguard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	25	9	And he burned the house of the Lord, and the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	25	10	And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	25	11	And the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	25	12	But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	25	13	And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the Lord, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried the bronze to Babylon.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	25	14	And they took away the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the dishes for incense and all the vessels of bronze used in the temple service,
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	25	15	the firepans also, and the bowls. What was of gold the captain of the guard took away as gold, and what was of silver, as silver.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	25	16	As for the two pillars, the one sea, and the stands, which Solomon had made for the house of the Lord, the bronze of all these vessels was beyond weight.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	25	17	The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and upon it was a capital of bronze; the height of the capital was three cubits; a network and pomegranates, all of bronze, were upon the capital round about. And the second pillar had the like, with the network.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	25	18	And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold;
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	25	19	and from the city he took an officer who had been in command of the men of war, and five men of the king’s council who were found in the city; and the secretary of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the city.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	25	20	And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	25	21	And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken into exile out of its land.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	25	22	And over the people who remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, he appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, governor.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	25	23	Now when all the captains of the forces in the open country and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah governor, they came with their men to Gedaliah at Mizpah, namely, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Ja-azaniah the son of the Ma-acathite.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	25	24	And Gedaliah swore to them and their men, saying, “Do not be afraid because of the Chaldean officials; dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.”
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	25	25	But in the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, of the royal family, came with ten men, and attacked and killed Gedaliah and the Jews and the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	25	26	Then all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the forces arose, and went to Egypt; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	25	27	And in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, graciously freed Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison;
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	25	28	and he spoke kindly to him, and gave him a seat above the seats of the kings who were with him in Babylon.
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	25	29	So Jehoiachin put off his prison garments. And every day of his life he dined regularly at the king’s table;
 2 Kings	2Kings	12	25	30	and for his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king, every day a portion, as long as he lived.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	1	Adam, Seth, Enosh;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	2	Kenan, Ma-halalel, Jared;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	3	Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	4	Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	5	The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	6	The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Diphath, and Togarmah.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	7	The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	8	The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	9	The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	10	Cush was the father of Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	11	Egypt was the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naph-tuhim,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	12	Pathrusim, Casluhim (whence came the Philistines), and Caphtorim.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	13	Canaan was the father of Sidon his first-born, and Heth,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	14	and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	15	the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	16	the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	17	The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	18	Arpachshad was the father of Shelah; and Shelah was the father of Eber.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	19	To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg (for in his days the earth was divided), and the name of his brother Joktan.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	20	Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	21	Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	22	Ebal, Abima-el, Sheba,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	23	Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	24	Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	25	Eber, Peleg, Reu;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	26	Serug, Nahor, Terah;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	27	Abram, that is, Abraham.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	28	The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	29	These are their genealogies: the first-born of Ishmael, Nebaioth; and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	30	Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	31	Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	32	The sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bore Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	33	The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the descendants of Keturah.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	34	Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	35	The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	36	The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, Omar, Zephi, Gatam, Kenaz, Timna, and Amalek.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	37	The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	38	The sons of Seir: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	39	The sons of Lotan: Hori and Homam; and Lotan’s sister was Timna.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	40	The sons of Shobal: Alian, Manahath, Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. The sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	41	The sons of Anah: Dishon. The sons of Dishon: Hamran, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	42	The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Jaakan. The sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	43	These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites: Bela the son of Beor, the name of whose city was Dinhabah.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	44	When Bela died, Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	45	When Jobab died, Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his stead.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	46	When Husham died, Hadad the son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, reigned in his stead; and the name of his city was Avith.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	47	When Hadad died, Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	48	When Samlah died, Shaul of Rehoboth on the Euphrates reigned in his stead.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	49	When Shaul died, Baal-hanan, the son of Achbor, reigned in his stead.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	50	When Baal-hanan died, Hadad reigned in his stead; and the name of his city was Pai, and his wife’s name Mehetabel the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	51	And Hadad died. The chiefs of Edom were: chiefs Timna, Aliah, Jetheth,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	52	Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	53	Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	1	54	Magdi-el, and Iram; these are the chiefs of Edom.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	1	These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	2	Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	3	The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah; these three Bath-shua the Canaanitess bore to him. Now Er, Judah’s first-born, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and he slew him.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	4	His daughter-in-law Tamar also bore him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	5	The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	6	The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara, five in all.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	7	The sons of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the matter of the devoted thing;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	8	and Ethan’s son was Azariah.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	9	The sons of Hezron, that were born to him: Jerahmeel, Ram, and Chelubai.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	10	Ram was the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab was the father of Nahshon, prince of the sons of Judah.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	11	Nahshon was the father of Salma, Salma of Boaz,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	12	Boaz of Obed, Obed of Jesse.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	13	Jesse was the father of Eliab his first-born, Abinadab the second, Shimea the third,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	14	Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	15	Ozem the sixth, David the seventh;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	16	and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	17	Abigail bore Amasa, and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	18	Caleb the son of Hezron had children by his wife Azubah, and by Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	19	When Azubah died, Caleb married Ephrath, who bore him Hur.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	20	Hur was the father of Uri, and Uri was the father of Bezalel.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	21	Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	22	and Segub was the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	23	But Geshur and Aram took from them Havvoth-jair, Kenath and its villages, sixty towns. All these were descendants of Machir, the father of Gilead.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	24	After the death of Hezron, Caleb went in to Ephrathah, the wife of Hezron his father, and she bore him Ashhur, the father of Tekoa.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	25	The sons of Jerahmeel, the first-born of Hezron: Ram, his first-born, Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	26	Jerahmeel also had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	27	The sons of Ram, the first-born of Jerahmeel: Maaz, Jamin, and Eker.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	28	The sons of Onam: Shammai and Jada. The sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	29	The name of Abishur’s wife was Abihail, and she bore him Ahban and Molid.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	30	The sons of Nadab: Seled and Appa-im; and Seled died childless.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	31	The sons of Appa-im: Ishi. The sons of Ishi: Sheshan. The sons of Sheshan: Ahlai.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	32	The sons of Jada, Shammai’s brother: Jether and Jonathan; and Jether died childless.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	33	The sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the descendants of Jerahmeel.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	34	Now Sheshan had no sons, only daughters; but Sheshan had an Egyptian slave, whose name was Jarha.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	35	So Sheshan gave his daughter in marriage to Jarha his slave; and she bore him Attai.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	36	Attai was the father of Nathan and Nathan of Zabad.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	37	Zabad was the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal of Obed.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	38	Obed was the father of Jehu, and Jehu of Azariah.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	39	Azariah was the father of Helez, and Helez of Ele-asah.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	40	Ele-asah was the father of Sismai, and Sismai of Shallum.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	41	Shallum was the father of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah of Elishama.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	42	The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel: Mareshah his first-born, who was the father of Ziph. The sons of Mareshah: Hebron.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	43	The sons of Hebron: Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	44	Shema was the father of Raham, the father of Jorke-am; and Rekem was the father of Shammai.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	45	The son of Shammai: Maon; and Maon was the father of Bethzur.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	46	Ephah also, Caleb’s concubine, bore Haran, Moza, and Gazez; and Haran was the father of Gazez.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	47	The sons of Jahdai: Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	48	Maacah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	49	She also bore Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah and the father of Gibe-a; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	50	These were the descendants of Caleb. The sons of Hur the first-born of Ephrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	51	Salma, the father of Bethelem, and Hareph the father of Beth-gader.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	52	Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim had other sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	53	And the families of Kiriath-jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishra-ites; from these came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	54	The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	2	55	The families also of the scribes that dwelt at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shime-athites, and the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	3	1	These are the sons of David that were born to him in Hebron: the first-born Amnon, by Ahino-am the Jezreelitess; the second Daniel, by Abigail the Carmelitess,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	3	2	the third Absalom, whose mother was Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	3	3	the fifth Shephatiah, by Abital; the sixth Ithream, by his wife Eglah;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	3	4	six were born to him in Hebron, where he reigned for seven years and six months. And he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	3	5	These were born to him in Jerusalem: Shime-a, Shobab, Nathan and Solomon, four by Bath-shua, the daughter of Ammi-el;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	3	6	then Ibhar, Elishama, Eliphelet,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	3	7	Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	3	8	Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	3	9	All these were David’s sons, besides the sons of the concubines; and Tamar was their sister.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	3	10	The descendants of Solomon: Rehoboam, Abijah his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	3	11	Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	3	12	Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	3	13	Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	3	14	Amon his son, Josiah his son.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	3	15	The sons of Josiah: Johanan the first-born, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	3	16	The descendants of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	3	17	and the sons of Jeconiah, the captive: Shealtiel his son,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	3	18	Malchiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	3	19	and the sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shime-i; and the sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam and Hananiah, and Shelomith was their sister;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	3	20	and Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah, and Jushab-hesed, five.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	3	21	The sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah and Jeshaiah, his son Rephaiah, his son Arnan, his son Obadiah, his son Shecaniah.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	3	22	The sons of Shecaniah: Shemaiah. And the sons of Shemaiah: Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah, and Shaphat, six.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	3	23	The sons of Neariah: Eli-o-enai, Hizkiah, and Azrikam, three.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	3	24	The sons of Eli-o-enai: Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah, and Anani, seven.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	1	The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	2	Re-aiah the son of Shobal was the father of Jahath, and Jahath was the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These were the families of the Zorathites.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	3	These were the sons of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	4	and Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These were the sons of Hur, the first-born of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	5	Ashhur, the father of Tekoa, had two wives, Helah and Naarah;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	6	Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Ha-ahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	7	The sons of Helah: Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	8	Koz was the father of Anub, Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	9	Jabez was more honorable than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	10	Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that thou wouldst bless me and enlarge my border, and that thy hand might be with me, and that thou wouldst keep me from harm so that it might not hurt me!” And God granted what he asked.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	11	Chelub, the brother of Shuhah, was the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	12	Eshton was the father of Bethrapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Irnahash. These are the men of Recah.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	13	The sons of Kenaz: Othni-el and Seraiah; and the sons of Othni-el: Hathath and Meonothai.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	14	Meonothai was the father of Ophrah; and Seraiah was the father of Joab the father of Ge-harashim, so-called because they were craftsmen.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	15	The sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and the sons of Elah: Kenaz.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	16	The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, Ziphah, Tiri-a, and Asarel.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	17	The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. These are the sons of Bithi-ah, the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered married; and she conceived and bore Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	18	And his Jewish wife bore Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	19	The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the fathers of Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Ma-acathite.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	20	The sons of Shimon: Amnon, Rinnah, Ben-hanan, and Tilon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth and Ben-zoheth.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	21	The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of linen workers at Beth-ashbea;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	22	and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who ruled in Moab and returned to Lehem (now the records are ancient).
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	23	These were the potters and inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah; they dwelt there with the king for his work.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	24	The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	25	Shallum was his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	26	The sons of Mishma: Hammu-el his son, Zaccur his son, Shime-i his son.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	27	Shime-i had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers had not many children, nor did all their family multiply like the men of Judah.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	28	They dwelt in Beer-sheba, Moladah, Hazar-shual,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	29	Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	30	Bethuel, Hormah, Ziklag,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	31	Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susim, Beth-biri, and Sha-araim. These were their cities until David reigned.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	32	And their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, five cities,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	33	along with all their villages which were round about these cities as far as Baal. These were their settlements, and they kept a genealogical record.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	34	Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah the son of Amaziah,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	35	Joel, Jehu the son of Joshibiah, son of Seraiah, son of Asi-el,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	36	Eli-o-enai, Ja-akobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adi-el, Jesimiel, Benaiah,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	37	Ziza the son of Shiphi, son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah—
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	38	these mentioned by name were princes in their families, and their fathers’ houses increased greatly.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	39	They journeyed to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	40	where they found rich, good pasture, and the land was very broad, quiet, and peaceful; for the former inhabitants there belonged to Ham.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	41	These, registered by name, came in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and destroyed their tents and the Me-unim who were found there, and exterminated them to this day, and settled in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	42	And some of them, five hundred men of the Simeonites, went to Mount Seir, having as their leaders Pelatiah, Ne-ariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	4	43	and they destroyed the remnant of the Amalekites that had escaped, and they have dwelt there to this day.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	5	1	The sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel (for he was the first-born; but because he polluted his father’s couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, so that he is not enrolled in the genealogy according to the birthright;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	5	2	though Judah became strong among his brothers and a prince was from him, yet the birthright belonged to Joseph),
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	5	3	the sons of Reuben, the first-born of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	5	4	The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shime-i his son,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	5	5	Micah his son, Re-aiah his son, Baal his son,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	5	6	Be-erah his son, whom Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria carried away into exile; he was a chieftain of the Reubenites.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	5	7	And his kinsmen by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned: the chief, Je-iel, and Zechariah,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	5	8	and Bela the son of Azaz, son of Shema, son of Joel, who dwelt in Aroer, as far as Nebo and Baal-meon.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	5	9	He also dwelt to the east as far as the entrance of the desert this side of the Euphrates, because their cattle had multiplied in the land of Gilead.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	5	10	And in the days of Saul they made war on the Hagrites, who fell by their hand; and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the region east of Gilead.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	5	11	The sons of Gad dwelt over against them in the land of Bashan as far as Salecah:
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	5	12	Joel the chief, Shapham the second, Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	5	13	And their kinsmen according to their fathers’ houses: Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia, and Eber, seven.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	5	14	These were the sons of Abihail the son of Huri, son of Jaroah, son of Gilead, son of Michael, son of Jeshishai, son of Jahdo, son of Buz;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	5	15	Ahi the son of Abdi-el, son of Guni, was chief in their fathers’ houses;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	5	16	and they dwelt in Gilead, in Bashan and in its towns, and in all the pasture lands of Sharon to their limits.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	5	17	All of these were enrolled by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	5	18	The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had valiant men, who carried shield and sword, and drew the bow, expert in war, forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty, ready for service.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	5	19	They made war upon the Hagrites, Jetur, Naphish, and Nodab;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	5	20	and when they received help against them, the Hagrites and all who were with them were given into their hands, for they cried to God in the battle, and he granted their entreaty because they trusted in him.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	5	21	They carried off their livestock: fifty thousand of their camels, two hundred and fifty thousand sheep, two thousand asses, and a hundred thousand men alive.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	5	22	For many fell slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their place until the exile.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	5	23	The members of the half-tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land; they were very numerous from Bashan to Baal-hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	5	24	These were the heads of their fathers’ houses: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azri-el, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdi-el, mighty warriors, famous men, heads of their fathers’ houses.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	5	25	But they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and played the harlot after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	5	26	So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, namely, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river Gozan, to this day.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	1	The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	2	The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	3	The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	4	Eleazar was the father of Phinehas, Phinehas of Abishua,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	5	Abishua of Bukki, Bukki of Uzzi,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	6	Uzzi of Zerahiah, Zerahiah of Meraioth,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	7	Meraioth of Amariah, Amariah of Ahitub,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	8	Ahitub of Zadok, Zadok of Ahima-az,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	9	Ahima-az of Azariah, Azariah of Johanan,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	10	and Johanan of Azariah (it was he who served as priest in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem).
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	11	Azariah was the father of Amariah, Amariah of Ahitub,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	12	Ahitub of Zadok, Zadok of Shallum,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	13	Shallum of Hilkiah, Hilkiah of Azariah,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	14	Azariah of Seraiah, Seraiah of Jehozadak;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	15	and Jehozadak went into exile when the Lord sent Judah and Jerusalem into exile by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	16	The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	17	And these are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shime-i.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	18	The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	19	The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	20	Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	21	Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Je-atherai his son.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	22	The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	23	Elkanah his son, Ebiasaph his son, Assir his son,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	24	Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	25	The sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	26	Elkanah his son, Zophai his son, Nahath his son,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	27	Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	28	The sons of Samuel: Joel his first-born, the second Abijah.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	29	The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shime-i his son, Uzzah his son,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	30	Shime-a his son, Haggiah his son, and Asaiah his son.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	31	These are the men whom David put in charge of the service of song in the house of the Lord, after the ark rested there.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	32	They ministered with song before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, until Solomon had built the house of the Lord in Jerusalem; and they performed their service in due order.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	33	These are the men who served and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer the son of Joel, son of Samuel,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	34	son of Elkanah, son of Jeroham, son of Eliel, son of Toah,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	35	son of Zuph, son of Elkanah, son of Mahath, son of Amasai,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	36	son of Elkanah, son of Joel, son of Azariah, son of Zephaniah,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	37	son of Tahath, son of Assir, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	38	son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, son of Israel;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	39	and his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, namely, Asaph the son of Berechiah, son of Shime-a,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	40	son of Michael, son of Ba-aseiah, son of Malchijah,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	41	son of Ethni, son of Zerah, son of Adaiah,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	42	son of Ethan, son of Zimmah, son of Shime-i,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	43	son of Jahath, son of Gershom, son of Levi.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	44	On the left hand were their brethren the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, son of Abdi, son of Malluch,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	45	son of Hashabiah, son of Amaziah, son of Hilkiah,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	46	son of Amzi, son of Bani, son of Shemer,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	47	son of Mahli, son of Mushi, son of Merari, son of Levi;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	48	and their brethren the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	49	But Aaron and his sons made offerings upon the altar of burnt offering and upon the altar of incense for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	50	These are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	51	Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	52	Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	53	Zadok his son, Ahima-az his son.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	54	These are their dwelling places according to their settlements within their borders: to the sons of Aaron of the families of Kohathites, for theirs was the lot,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	55	to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah and its surrounding pasture lands,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	56	but the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	57	To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge: Hebron, Libnah with its pasture lands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasture lands,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	58	Hilen with its pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	59	Ashan with its pasture lands, and Beth-shemesh with its pasture lands;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	60	and from the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its pasture lands, Alemeth with its pasture lands, and Anathoth with its pasture lands. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	61	To the rest of the Kohathites were given by lot out of the family of the tribe, out of the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	62	To the Gershomites according to their families were allotted thirteen cities out of the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and Manasseh in Bashan.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	63	To the Merarites according to their families were allotted twelve cities out of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	64	So the people of Israel gave the Levites the cities with their pasture lands.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	65	They also gave them by lot out of the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin these cities which are mentioned by name.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	66	And some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their territory out of the tribe of Ephraim.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	67	They were given the cities of refuge: Shechem with its pasture lands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasture lands,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	68	Jokme-am with its pasture lands, Beth-horon with its pasture lands,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	69	Aijalon with its pasture lands, Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	70	and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its pasture lands, and Bile-am with its pasture lands, for the rest of the families of the Kohathites.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	71	To the Gershomites were given out of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan with its pasture lands and Ashtaroth with its pasture lands;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	72	and out of the tribe of Issachar: Kedesh with its pasture lands, Daberath with its pasture lands,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	73	Ramoth with its pasture lands, and Anem with its pasture lands;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	74	out of the tribe of Asher: Mashal with its pasture lands, Abdon with its pasture lands,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	75	Hukok with its pasture lands, and Rehob with its pasture lands;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	76	and out of the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee with its pasture lands, Hammon with its pasture lands, and Kiriathaim with its pasture lands.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	77	To the rest of the Merarites were allotted out of the tribe of Zebulun: Rimmono with its pasture lands, Tabor with its pasture lands,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	78	and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, out of the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the steppe with its pasture lands, Jahzah with its pasture lands,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	79	Kedemoth with its pasture lands, and Mepha-ath with its pasture lands;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	80	and out of the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead with its pasture lands, Mahanaim with its pasture lands,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	6	81	Heshbon with its pasture lands, and Jazer with its pasture lands.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	1	The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	2	The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeri-el, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers’ houses, namely of Tola, mighty warriors of their generations, their number in the days of David being twenty-two thousand six hundred.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	3	The sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah, five, all of them chief men;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	4	and along with them, by their generations, according to their fathers’ houses, were units of the army for war, thirty-six thousand, for they had many wives and sons.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	5	Their kinsmen belonging to all the families of Issachar were in all eighty-seven thousand mighty warriors, enrolled by genealogy.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	6	The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jedia-el, three.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	7	The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five, heads of fathers’ houses, mighty warriors; and their enrollment by genealogies was twenty-two thousand and thirty-four.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	8	The sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Eli-o-enai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	9	and their enrollment by genealogies, according to their generations, as heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty warriors, was twenty thousand two hundred.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	10	The sons of Jedia-el: Bilhan. And the sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	11	All these were the sons of Jedia-el according to the heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty warriors, seventeen thousand and two hundred, ready for service in war.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	12	And Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir, Hushim the sons of Aher.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	13	The sons of Naphtali: Jahzi-el, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum, the offspring of Bilhah.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	14	The sons of Manasseh: Asri-el, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she bore Machir the father of Gilead.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	15	And Machir took a wife for Huppim and for Shuppim. The name of his sister was Maacah. And the name of the second was Zelophehad; and Zelophehad had daughters.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	16	And Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	17	The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, son of Manasseh.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	18	And his sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, Abi-ezer, and Mahlah.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	19	The sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	20	The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, and Bered his son, Tahath his son, Ele-adah his son, Tahath his son,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	21	Zabad his son, Shuthelah his son, and Ezer and Ele-ad, whom the men of Gath who were born in the land slew, because they came down to raid their cattle.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	22	And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	23	And Ephraim went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son; and he called his name Beriah, because evil had befallen his house.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	24	His daughter was Sheerah, who built both Lower and Upper Beth-horon, and Uzzen-sheerah.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	25	Rephah was his son, Resheph his son, Telah his son, Tahan his son,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	26	Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	27	Nun his son, Joshua his son.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	28	Their possessions and settlements were Bethel and its towns, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer and its towns, Shechem and its towns, and Ayyah and its towns;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	29	also along the borders of the Manassites, Beth-shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these dwelt the sons of Joseph the son of Israel.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	30	The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	31	The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchi-el, who was the father of Birzaith.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	32	Heber was the father of Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and their sister Shua.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	33	The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the sons of Japhlet.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	34	The sons of Shemer his brother: Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	35	The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	36	The sons of Zophah: Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	37	Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Be-era.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	38	The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, Pispa, and Ara.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	39	The sons of Ulla: Arah, Hanniel, and Rizia.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	7	40	All of these were men of Asher, heads of fathers’ houses, approved, mighty warriors, chief of the princes. Their number enrolled by genealogies, for service in war, was twenty-six thousand men.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	1	Benjamin was the father of Bela his first-born, Ashbel the second, Aharah the third,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	2	Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	3	And Bela had sons: Addar, Gera, Abihud,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	4	Abishua, Naaman, Ahoah,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	5	Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	6	These are the sons of Ehud (they were heads of fathers’ houses of the inhabitants of Geba, and they were carried into exile to Manahath):
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	7	Naaman, Ahijah, and Gera, that is, Heglam, who was the father of Uzza and Ahihud.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	8	And Shaharaim had sons in the country of Moab after he had sent away Hushim and Baara his wives.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	9	He had sons by Hodesh his wife: Jobab, Zibi-a, Mesha, Malcam,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	10	Jeuz, Sachia, and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of fathers’ houses.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	11	He also had sons by Hushim: Abitub and Elpaal.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	12	The sons of Elpaal: Eber, Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod with its towns,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	13	and Beriah and Shema (they were heads of fathers’ houses of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who put to flight the inhabitants of Gath);
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	14	and Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	15	Zebadiah, Arad, Eder,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	16	Michael, Ishpah, and Joha were sons of Beriah.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	17	Zebadiah, Meshullam, Hizki, Heber,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	18	Ishmerai, Izliah, and Jobab were the sons of Elpaal.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	19	Jakim, Zichri, Zabdi,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	20	Eli-enai, Zillethai, Eliel,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	21	Adaiah, Beraiah, and Shimrath were the sons of Shime-i.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	22	Ishpan, Eber, Eliel,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	23	Abdon, Zichri, Hanan,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	24	Hananiah, Elam, Anthothijah,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	25	Iphdeiah, and Penuel were the sons of Shashak.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	26	Shamsherai, Shehariah, Athaliah,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	27	Ja-areshiah, Elijah, and Zichri were the sons of Jeroham.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	28	These were the heads of fathers’ houses, according to their generations, chief men. These dwelt in Jerusalem.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	29	Je-iel the father of Gibeon dwelt in Gibeon, and the name of his wife was Maacah.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	30	His first-born son: Abdon, then Zur, Kish, Baal, Nadab,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	31	Gedor, Ahio, Zecher,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	32	and Mikloth (he was the father of Shime-ah). Now these also dwelt opposite their kinsmen in Jerusalem, with their kinsmen.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	33	Ner was the father of Kish, Kish of Saul, Saul of Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Esh-baal;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	34	and the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal; and Merib-baal was the father of Micah.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	35	The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tarea, and Ahaz.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	36	Ahaz was the father of Jehoaddah; and Jehoaddah was the father of Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri; Zimri was the father of Moza.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	37	Moza was the father of Bine-a; Raphah was his son, Ele-asah his son, Azel his son.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	38	Azel had six sons, and these are their names: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, She-ariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	39	The sons of Eshek his brother: Ulam his first-born, Jeush the second, and Eliphelet the third.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	8	40	The sons of Ulam were men who were mighty warriors, bowmen, having many sons and grandsons, one hundred and fifty. All these were Benjaminites.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	1	So all Israel was enrolled by genealogies; and these are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. And Judah was taken into exile in Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	2	Now the first to dwell again in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	3	And some of the people of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh dwelt in Jerusalem:
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	4	Uthai the son of Ammihud, son of Omri, son of Imri, son of Bani, from the sons of Perez the son of Judah.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	5	And of the Shilonites: Asaiah the first-born, and his sons.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	6	Of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel and their kinsmen, six hundred and ninety.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	7	Of the Benjaminites: Sallu the son of Meshullam, son of Hodaviah, son of Hassenuah,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	8	Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, Elah the son of Uzzi, son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, son of Reuel, son of Ibnijah;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	9	and their kinsmen according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty-six. All these were heads of fathers’ houses according to their fathers’ houses.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	10	Of the priests: Jedaiah, Jehoiarib, Jachin,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	11	and Azariah the son of Hilkiah, son of Meshullam, son of Zadok, son of Meraioth, son of Ahitub, the chief officer of the house of God;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	12	and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, son of Pashhur, son of Malchijah, and Maasai the son of Adi-el, son of Jahzerah, son of Meshullam, son of Meshillemith, son of Immer;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	13	besides their kinsmen, heads of their fathers’ houses, one thousand seven hundred and sixty, very able men for the work of the service of the house of God.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	14	Of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, son of Azrikam, son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	15	and Bakbakkar, Heresh, Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Mica, son of Zichri, son of Asaph;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	16	and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, son of Elkanah, who dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	17	The gatekeepers were: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their kinsmen (Shallum being the chief),
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	18	stationed hitherto in the king’s gate on the east side. These were the gatekeepers of the camp of the Levites.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	19	Shallum the son of Kore, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah, and his kinsmen of his fathers’ house, the Korahites, were in charge of the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent, as their fathers had been in charge of the camp of the Lord, keepers of the entrance.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	20	And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the ruler over them in time past; the Lord was with him.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	21	Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was gatekeeper at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	22	All these, who were chosen as gatekeepers at the thresholds, were two hundred and twelve. They were enrolled by genealogies in their villages. David and Samuel the seer established them in their office of trust.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	23	So they and their sons were in charge of the gates of the house of the Lord, that is, the house of the tent, as guards.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	24	The gatekeepers were on the four sides, east, west, north, and south;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	25	and their kinsmen who were in their villages were obliged to come in every seven days, from time to time, to be with these;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	26	for the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were in charge of the chambers and the treasures of the house of God.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	27	And they lodged round about the house of God; for upon them lay the duty of watching, and they had charge of opening it every morning.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	28	Some of them had charge of the utensils of service, for they were required to count them when they were brought in and taken out.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	29	Others of them were appointed over the furniture, and over all the holy utensils, also over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the incense, and the spices.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	30	Others, of the sons of the priests, prepared the mixing of the spices,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	31	and Mattithiah, one of the Levites, the first-born of Shallum the Korahite, was in charge of making the flat cakes.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	32	Also some of their kinsmen of the Kohathites had charge of the showbread, to prepare it every sabbath.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	33	Now these are the singers, the heads of fathers’ houses of the Levites, dwelling in the chambers of the temple free from other service, for they were on duty day and night.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	34	These were heads of fathers’ houses of the Levites, according to their generations, leaders, who lived in Jerusalem.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	35	In Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Je-iel, and the name of his wife was Maacah,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	36	and his first-born son Abdon, then Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	37	Gedor, Ahio, Zech-ariah and Mikloth;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	38	and Mikloth was the father of Shime-am; and these also dwelt opposite their kinsmen in Jerusalem, with their kinsmen.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	39	Ner was the father of Kish, Kish of Saul, Saul of Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	40	and the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal; and Merib-baal was the father of Micah.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	41	The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tahre-a, and Ahaz;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	42	and Ahaz was the father of Jarah, and Jarah of Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri was the father of Moza.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	43	Moza was the father of Bine-a; and Rephaiah was his son, Ele-asah his son, Azel his son.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	9	44	Azel had six sons and these are their names: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, She-ariah, Obadiah, and Hanan; these were the sons of Azel.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	10	1	Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines, and fell slain on Mount Gilboa.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	10	2	And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	10	3	The battle pressed hard upon Saul, and the archers found him; and he was wounded by the archers.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	10	4	Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and make sport of me.” But his armor-bearer would not; for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword, and fell upon it.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	10	5	And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell upon his sword, and died.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	10	6	Thus Saul died; he and his three sons and all his house died together.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	10	7	And when all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that the army had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook their cities and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	10	8	On the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	10	9	And they stripped him and took his head and his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines, to carry the good news to their idols and to the people.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	10	10	And they put his armor in the temple of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	10	11	But when all Jabesh-gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	10	12	all the valiant men arose, and took away the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh. And they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	10	13	So Saul died for his unfaithfulness; he was unfaithful to the Lord in that he did not keep the command of the Lord, and also consulted a medium, seeking guidance,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	10	14	and did not seek guidance from the Lord. Therefore the Lord slew him, and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	1	Then all Israel gathered together to David at Hebron, and said, “Behold, we are your bone and flesh.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	2	In times past, even when Saul was king, it was you that led out and brought in Israel; and the Lord your God said to you, ‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over my people Israel.’”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	3	So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the Lord, and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the Lord by Samuel.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	4	And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, that is Jebus, where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	5	The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, “You will not come in here.” Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	6	David said, “Whoever shall smite the Jebusites first shall be chief and commander.” And Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, so he became chief.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	7	And David dwelt in the stronghold; therefore it was called the city of David.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	8	And he built the city round about from the Millo in complete circuit; and Joab repaired the rest of the city.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	9	And David became greater and greater, for the Lord of hosts was with him.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	10	Now these are the chiefs of David’s mighty men, who gave him strong support in his kingdom, together with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the Lord concerning Israel.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	11	This is an account of David’s mighty men: Jashobe-am, a Hachmonite, was chief of the three; he wielded his spear against three hundred whom he slew at one time.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	12	And next to him among the three mighty men was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	13	He was with David at Pas-dammim when the Philistines were gathered there for battle. There was a plot of ground full of barley, and the men fled from the Philistines.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	14	But he took his stand in the midst of the plot, and defended it, and slew the Philistines; and the Lord saved them by a great victory.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	15	Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David at the cave of Adullam, when the army of Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	16	David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then at Bethlehem.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	17	And David said longingly, “O that some one would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem which is by the gate!”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	18	Then the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem which was by the gate, and took and brought it to David. But David would not drink of it; he poured it out to the Lord,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	19	and said, “Far be it from me before my God that I should do this. Shall I drink the lifeblood of these men? For at the risk of their lives they brought it.” Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	20	Now Abishai, the brother of Joab, was chief of the thirty. And he wielded his spear against three hundred men and slew them, and won a name beside the three.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	21	He was the most renowned of the thirty, and became their commander; but he did not attain to the three.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	22	And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was a valiant man of Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds; he smote two ariels of Moab. He also went down and slew a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	23	And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits tall. The Egyptian had in his hand a spear like a weaver’s beam; but Benaiah went down to him with a staff, and snatched the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and slew him with his own spear.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	24	These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and won a name beside the three mighty men.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	25	He was renowned among the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. And David set him over his bodyguard.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	26	The mighty men of the armies were Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	27	Shammoth of Harod, Helez the Pelonite,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	28	Ira the son of Ikkesh of Tekoa, Abi-ezer of Anathoth,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	29	Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	30	Maharai of Netophah, Heled the son of Baanah of Netophah,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	31	Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibe-ah of the Benjaminites, Benaiah of Pirathon,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	32	Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	33	Azmaveth of Baharum, Eliahba of Sha-albon,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	34	Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shagee the Hararite,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	35	Ahiam the son of Sachar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	36	Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	37	Hezro of Carmel, Naarai the son of Ezbai,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	38	Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	39	Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai of Be-eroth, the armor-bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	40	Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	41	Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	42	Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a leader of the Reubenites, and thirty with him,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	43	Hanan the son of Maacah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	44	Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Je-iel the sons of Hotham the Aroerite,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	45	Jedia-el the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	46	Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elna-am, and Ithmah the Moabite,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	11	47	Eliel, and Obed, and Ja-asiel the Mezoba-ite.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	1	Now these are the men who came to David at Ziklag, while he could not move about freely because of Saul the son of Kish; and they were among the mighty men who helped him in war.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	2	They were bowmen, and could shoot arrows and sling stones with either the right or the left hand; they were Benjaminites, Saul’s kinsmen.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	3	The chief was Ahi-ezer, then Joash, both sons of Shemaah of Gibe-ah; also Jezi-el and Pelet the sons of Azmaveth; Beracah, Jehu of Anathoth,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	4	Ishmaiah of Gibeon, a mighty man among the thirty and a leader over the thirty; Jeremiah, Jahaziel, Johanan, Jozabad of Gederah,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	5	Eluzai, Jerimoth, Bealiah, Shemariah, Shephatiah the Haruphite;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	6	Elkanah, Isshiah, Azarel, Jo-ezer, and Jashobe-am, the Korahites;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	7	and Joelah and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	8	From the Gadites there went over to David at the stronghold in the wilderness mighty and experienced warriors, expert with shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and who were swift as gazelles upon the mountains:
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	9	Ezer the chief, Obadiah second, Eliab third,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	10	Mishmannah fourth, Jeremiah fifth,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	11	Attai sixth, Eliel seventh,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	12	Johanan eighth, Elzabad ninth,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	13	Jeremiah tenth, Machbannai eleventh.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	14	These Gadites were officers of the army, the lesser over a hundred and the greater over a thousand.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	15	These are the men who crossed the Jordan in the first month, when it was overflowing all its banks, and put to flight all those in the valleys, to the east and to the west.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	16	And some of the men of Benjamin and Judah came to the stronghold to David.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	17	David went out to meet them and said to them, “If you have come to me in friendship to help me, my heart will be knit to you; but if to betray me to my adversaries, although there is no wrong in my hands, then may the God of our fathers see and rebuke you.”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	18	Then the Spirit came upon Amasai, chief of the thirty, and he said, “We are yours, O David; and with you, O son of Jesse! Peace, peace to you, and peace to your helpers! For your God helps you.” Then David received them, and made them officers of his troops.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	19	Some of the men of Manasseh deserted to David when he came with the Philistines for the battle against Saul. (Yet he did not help them, for the rulers of the Philistines took counsel and sent him away, saying, “At peril to our heads he will desert to his master Saul.”)
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	20	As he went to Ziklag these men of Manasseh deserted to him: Adnah, Jozabad, Jedia-el, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, chiefs of thousands in Manasseh.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	21	They helped David against the band of raiders; for they were all mighty men of valor, and were commanders in the army.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	22	For from day to day men kept coming to David to help him, until there was a great army, like an army of God.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	23	These are the numbers of the divisions of the armed troops, who came to David in Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul over to him, according to the word of the Lord.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	24	The men of Judah bearing shield and spear were six thousand eight hundred armed troops.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	25	Of the Simeonites, mighty men of valor for war, seven thousand one hundred.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	26	Of the Levites four thousand six hundred.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	27	The prince Jehoiada, of the house of Aaron, and with him three thousand seven hundred.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	28	Zadok, a young man mighty in valor, and twenty-two commanders from his own father’s house.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	29	Of the Benjaminites, the kinsmen of Saul, three thousand, of whom the majority had hitherto kept their allegiance to the house of Saul.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	30	Of the Ephraimites twenty thousand eight hundred, mighty men of valor, famous men in their fathers’ houses.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	31	Of the half-tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, who were expressly named to come and make David king.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	32	Of Issachar men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, two hundred chiefs, and all their kinsmen under their command.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	33	Of Zebulun fifty thousand seasoned troops, equipped for battle with all the weapons of war, to help David with singleness of purpose.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	34	Of Naphtali a thousand commanders with whom were thirty-seven thousand men armed with shield and spear.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	35	Of the Danites twenty-eight thousand six hundred men equipped for battle.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	36	Of Asher forty thousand seasoned troops ready for battle.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	37	Of the Reubenites and Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh from beyond the Jordan, one hundred and twenty thousand men armed with all the weapons of war.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	38	All these, men of war, arrayed in battle order, came to Hebron with full intent to make David king over all Israel; likewise all the rest of Israel were of a single mind to make David king.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	39	And they were there with David for three days, eating and drinking, for their brethren had made preparation for them.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	12	40	And also their neighbors, from as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, came bringing food on asses and on camels and on mules and on oxen, abundant provisions of meal, cakes of figs, clusters of raisins, and wine and oil, oxen and sheep, for there was joy in Israel.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	13	1	David consulted with the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, with every leader.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	13	2	And David said to all the assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if it is the will of the Lord our God, let us send abroad to our brethren who remain in all the land of Israel, and with them to the priests and Levites in the cities that have pasture lands, that they may come together to us.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	13	3	Then let us bring again the ark of our God to us; for we neglected it in the days of Saul.”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	13	4	All the assembly agreed to do so, for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	13	5	So David assembled all Israel from the Shihor of Egypt to the entrance of Hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	13	6	And David and all Israel went up to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath-jearim which belongs to Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name of the Lord who sits enthroned above the cherubim.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	13	7	And they carried the ark of God upon a new cart, from the house of Abinadab, and Uzzah and Ahio were driving the cart.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	13	8	And David and all Israel were making merry before God with all their might, with song and lyres and harps and tambourines and cymbals and trumpets.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	13	9	And when they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzzah put out his hand to hold the ark, for the oxen stumbled.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	13	10	And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah; and he smote him because he put forth his hand to the ark; and he died there before God.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	13	11	And David was angry because the Lord had broken forth upon Uzzah; and that place is called Perez-uzza to this day.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	13	12	And David was afraid of God that day; and he said, “How can I bring the ark of God home to me?”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	13	13	So David did not take the ark home into the city of David, but took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	13	14	And the ark of God remained with the household of Obed-edom in his house three months; and the Lord blessed the household of Obed-edom and all that he had.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	14	1	And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also masons and carpenters to build a house for him.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	14	2	And David perceived that the Lord had established him king over Israel, and that his kingdom was highly exalted for the sake of his people Israel.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	14	3	And David took more wives in Jerusalem, and David begot more sons and daughters.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	14	4	These are the names of the children whom he had in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	14	5	Ibhar, Elishu-a, Elpelet,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	14	6	Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	14	7	Elishama, Beeliada, and Eliphelet.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	14	8	When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up in search of David; and David heard of it and went out against them.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	14	9	Now the Philistines had come and made a raid in the valley of Rephaim.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	14	10	And David inquired of God, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Wilt thou give them into my hand?” And the Lord said to him, “Go up, and I will give them into your hand.”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	14	11	And he went up to Baal-perazim, and David defeated them there; and David said, “God has broken through my enemies by my hand, like a bursting flood.” Therefore the name of that place is called Baal-perazim.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	14	12	And they left their gods there, and David gave command, and they were burned.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	14	13	And the Philistines yet again made a raid in the valley.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	14	14	And when David again inquired of God, God said to him, “You shall not go up after them; go around and come upon them opposite the balsam trees.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	14	15	And when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then go out to battle; for God has gone out before you to smite the army of the Philistines.”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	14	16	And David did as God commanded him, and they smote the Philistine army from Gibeon to Gezer.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	14	17	And the fame of David went out into all lands, and the Lord brought the fear of him upon all nations.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	15	1	David built houses for himself in the city of David; and he prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched a tent for it.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	15	2	Then David said, “No one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, for the Lord chose them to carry the ark of the Lord and to minister to him for ever.”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	15	3	And David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the Lord to its place, which he had prepared for it.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	15	4	And David gathered together the sons of Aaron and the Levites:
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	15	5	of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, with a hundred and twenty of his brethren;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	15	6	of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, with two hundred and twenty of his brethren;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	15	7	of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, with a hundred and thirty of his brethren;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	15	8	of the sons of Eli-zaphan, Shemaiah the chief, with two hundred of his brethren;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	15	9	of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, with eighty of his brethren;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	15	10	of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, with a hundred and twelve of his brethren.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	15	11	Then David summoned the priests Zadok and Abiathar, and the Levites Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	15	12	and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites; sanctify yourselves, you and your brethren, so that you may bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	15	13	Because you did not carry it the first time, the Lord our God broke forth upon us, because we did not care for it in the way that is ordained.”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	15	14	So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	15	15	And the Levites carried the ark of God upon their shoulders with the poles, as Moses had commanded according to the word of the Lord.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	15	16	David also commanded the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brethren as the singers who should play loudly on musical instruments, on harps and lyres and cymbals, to raise sounds of joy.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	15	17	So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brethren Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari, their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	15	18	and with them their brethren of the second order, Zechariah, Ja-aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Ma-aseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and the gatekeepers Obed-edom and Je-iel.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	15	19	The singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were to sound bronze cymbals;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	15	20	Zechariah, Azi-el, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Ma-aseiah, and Benaiah were to play harps according to Alamoth;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	15	21	but Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-edom, Je-iel, and Azaziah were to lead with lyres according to the Sheminith.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	15	22	Chenaniah, leader of the Levites in music, should direct the music, for he understood it.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	15	23	Berechiah and Elkanah were to be gatekeepers for the ark.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	15	24	Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, should blow the trumpets before the ark of God. Obed-edom and Jehiah also were to be gatekeepers for the ark.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	15	25	So David and the elders of Israel, and the commanders of thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the house of Obed-edom with rejoicing.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	15	26	And because God helped the Levites who were carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	15	27	David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, as also were all the Levites who were carrying the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the leader of the music of the singers; and David wore a linen ephod.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	15	28	So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouting, to the sound of the horn, trumpets, and cymbals, and made loud music on harps and lyres.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	15	29	And as the ark of the covenant of the Lord came to the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window, and saw King David dancing and making merry; and she despised him in her heart.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	1	And they brought the ark of God, and set it inside the tent which David had pitched for it; and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	2	And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	3	and distributed to all Israel, both men and women, to each a loaf of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	4	Moreover he appointed certain of the Levites as ministers before the ark of the Lord, to invoke, to thank, and to praise the Lord, the God of Israel.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	5	Asaph was the chief, and second to him were Zechariah, Je-iel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-edom, and Je-iel, who were to play harps and lyres; Asaph was to sound the cymbals,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	6	and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests were to blow trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	7	Then on that day David first appointed that thanksgiving be sung to the Lord by Asaph and his brethren.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	8	O give thanks to the Lord, call on his name, make known his deeds among the peoples!
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	9	Sing to him, sing praises to him, tell of all his wonderful works!
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	10	Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice!
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	11	Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his presence continually!
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	12	Remember the wonderful works that he has done, the wonders he wrought, the judgments he uttered,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	13	O offspring of Abraham his servant, sons of Jacob, his chosen ones!
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	14	He is the Lord our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	15	He is mindful of his covenant for ever, of the word that he commanded, for a thousand generations,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	16	the covenant which he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	17	which he confirmed as a statute to Jacob, as an everlasting covenant to Israel,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	18	saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan, as your portion for an inheritance.”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	19	When they were few in number, and of little account, and sojourners in it,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	20	wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	21	he allowed no one to oppress them; he rebuked kings on their account,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	22	saying, “Touch not my anointed ones, do my prophets no harm!”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	23	Sing to the Lord, all the earth! Tell of his salvation from day to day.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	24	Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	25	For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and he is to be held in awe above all gods.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	26	For all the gods of the peoples are idols; but the Lord made the heavens.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	27	Honor and majesty are before him; strength and joy are in his place.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	28	Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength!
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	29	Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; bring an offering, and come before him! Worship the Lord in holy array;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	30	tremble before him, all the earth; yea, the world stands firm, never to be moved.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	31	Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice, and let them say among the nations, “The Lord reigns!”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	32	Let the sea roar, and all that fills it, let the field exult, and everything in it!
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	33	Then shall the trees of the wood sing for joy before the Lord, for he comes to judge the earth.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	34	O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures for ever!
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	35	Say also: “Deliver us, O God of our salvation, and gather and save us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to thy holy name, and glory in thy praise.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	36	Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting!” Then all the people said “Amen!” and praised the Lord.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	37	So David left Asaph and his brethren there before the ark of the covenant of the Lord to minister continually before the ark as each day required,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	38	and also Obed-edom and his sixty-eight brethren; while Obed-edom, the son of Jeduthun, and Hosah were to be gatekeepers.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	39	And he left Zadok the priest and his brethren the priests before the tabernacle of the Lord in the high place that was at Gibeon,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	40	to offer burnt offerings to the Lord upon the altar of burnt offering continually morning and evening, according to all that is written in the law of the Lord which he commanded Israel.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	41	With them were Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest of those chosen and expressly named to give thanks to the Lord, for his steadfast love endures for ever.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	42	Heman and Jeduthun had trumpets and cymbals for the music and instruments for sacred song. The sons of Jeduthun were appointed to the gate.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	16	43	Then all the people departed each to his house, and David went home to bless his household.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	17	1	Now when David dwelt in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the Lord is under a tent.”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	17	2	And Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you.”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	17	3	But that same night the word of the Lord came to Nathan,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	17	4	“Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord: You shall not build me a house to dwell in.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	17	5	For I have not dwelt in a house since the day I led up Israel to this day, but I have gone from tent to tent and from dwelling to dwelling.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	17	6	In all places where I have moved with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people, saying, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?”’
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	17	7	Now therefore thus shall you say to my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	17	8	and I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make for you a name, like the name of the great ones of the earth.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	17	9	And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be disturbed no more; and violent men shall waste them no more, as formerly,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	17	10	from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel; and I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I declare to you that the Lord will build you a house.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	17	11	When your days are fulfilled to go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	17	12	He shall build a house for me, and I will establish his throne for ever.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	17	13	I will be his father, and he shall be my son; I will not take my steadfast love from him, as I took it from him who was before you,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	17	14	but I will confirm him in my house and in my kingdom for ever and his throne shall be established for ever.’”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	17	15	In accordance with all these words, and in accordance with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	17	16	Then King David went in and sat before the Lord, and said, “Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that thou hast brought me thus far?
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	17	17	And this was a small thing in thy eyes, O God; thou hast also spoken of thy servant’s house for a great while to come, and hast shown me future generations, O Lord God!
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	17	18	And what more can David say to thee for honoring thy servant? For thou knowest thy servant.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	17	19	For thy servant’s sake, O Lord, and according to thy own heart, thou hast wrought all this greatness, in making known all these great things.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	17	20	There is none like thee, O Lord, and there is no God besides thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	17	21	What other nation on earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his people, making for thyself a name for great and terrible things, in driving out nations before thy people whom thou didst redeem from Egypt?
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	17	22	And thou didst make thy people Israel to be thy people for ever; and thou, O Lord, didst become their God.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	17	23	And now, O Lord, let the word which thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever, and do as thou hast spoken;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	17	24	and thy name will be established and magnified for ever, saying, ‘The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, is Israel’s God,’ and the house of thy servant David will be established before thee.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	17	25	For thou, my God, hast revealed to thy servant that thou wilt build a house for him; therefore thy servant has found courage to pray before thee.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	17	26	And now, O Lord, thou art God, and thou hast promised this good thing to thy servant;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	17	27	now therefore may it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee; for what thou, O Lord, hast blessed is blessed for ever.”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	18	1	After this David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and he took Gath and its villages out of the hand of the Philistines.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	18	2	And he defeated Moab, and the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	18	3	David also defeated Hadadezer king of Zobah, toward Hamath, as he went to set up his monument at the river Euphrates.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	18	4	And David took from him a thousand chariots, seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand foot soldiers; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but left enough for a hundred chariots.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	18	5	And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew twenty-two thousand men of the Syrians.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	18	6	Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. And the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	18	7	And David took the shields of gold which were carried by the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	18	8	And from Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David took very much bronze; with it Solomon made the bronze sea and the pillars and the vessels of bronze.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	18	9	When Tou king of Hamath heard that David had defeated the whole army of Hadadezer, king of Zobah,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	18	10	he sent his son Hadoram to King David, to greet him, and to congratulate him because he had fought against Hadadezer and defeated him; for Hadadezer had often been at war with Tou. And he sent all sorts of articles of gold, of silver, and of bronze;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	18	11	these also King David dedicated to the Lord, together with the silver and gold which he had carried off from all the nations, from Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, and Amalek.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	18	12	And Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, slew eighteen thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	18	13	And he put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became David’s servants. And the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	18	14	So David reigned over all Israel; and he administered justice and equity to all his people.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	18	15	And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	18	16	and Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests; and Shavsha was secretary;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	18	17	and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David’s sons were the chief officials in the service of the king.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	19	1	Now after this Nahash the king of the Ammonites died, and his son reigned in his stead.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	19	2	And David said, “I will deal loyally with Hanun the son of Nahash, for his father dealt loyally with me.” So David sent messengers to console him concerning his father. And David’s servants came to Hanun in the land of the Ammonites, to console him.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	19	3	But the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun, “Do you think, because David has sent comforters to you, that he is honoring your father? Have not his servants come to you to search and to overthrow and to spy out the land?”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	19	4	So Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, at their hips, and sent them away;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	19	5	and they departed. When David was told concerning the men, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, “Remain at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return.”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	19	6	When the Ammonites saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent a thousand talents of silver to hire chariots and horsemen from Mesopotamia, from Aram-maacah, and from Zobah.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	19	7	They hired thirty-two thousand chariots and the king of Maacah with his army, who came and encamped before Medeba. And the Ammonites were mustered from their cities and came to battle.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	19	8	When David heard of it, he sent Joab and all the army of the mighty men.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	19	9	And the Ammonites came out and drew up in battle array at the entrance of the city, and the kings who had come were by themselves in the open country.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	19	10	When Joab saw that the battle was set against him both in front and in the rear, he chose some of the picked men of Israel, and arrayed them against the Syrians;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	19	11	the rest of his men he put in the charge of Abishai his brother, and they were arrayed against the Ammonites.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	19	12	And he said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will help you.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	19	13	Be of good courage, and let us play the man for our people, and for the cities of our God; and may the Lord do what seems good to him.”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	19	14	So Joab and the people who were with him drew near before the Syrians for battle; and they fled before him.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	19	15	And when the Ammonites saw that the Syrians fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, Joab’s brother, and entered the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	19	16	But when the Syrians saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they sent messengers and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the Euphrates, with Shophach the commander of the army of Hadadezer at their head.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	19	17	And when it was told David, he gathered all Israel together, and crossed the Jordan, and came to them, and drew up his forces against them. And when David set the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	19	18	And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians the men of seven thousand chariots, and forty thousand foot soldiers, and killed also Shophach the commander of their army.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	19	19	And when the servants of Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with David, and became subject to him. So the Syrians were not willing to help the Ammonites any more.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	20	1	In the spring of the year, the time when kings go forth to battle, Joab led out the army, and ravaged the country of the Ammonites, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and overthrew it.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	20	2	And David took the crown of their king from his head; he found that it weighed a talent of gold, and in it was a precious stone; and it was placed on David’s head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city, a very great amount.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	20	3	And he brought forth the people who were in it, and set them to labor with saws and iron picks and axes; and thus David did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	20	4	And after this there arose war with the Philistines at Gezer; then Sibbecai the Hushathite slew Sippai, who was one of the descendants of the giants; and the Philistines were subdued.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	20	5	And there was again war with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	20	6	And there was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on each hand, and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number; and he also was descended from the giants.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	20	7	And when he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shime-a, David’s brother, slew him.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	20	8	These were descended from the giants in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	21	1	Satan stood up against Israel, and incited David to number Israel.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	21	2	So David said to Joab and the commanders of the army, “Go, number Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, and bring me a report, that I may know their number.”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	21	3	But Joab said, “May the Lord add to his people a hundred times as many as they are! Are they not, my lord the king, all of them my lord’s servants? Why then should my lord require this? Why should he bring guilt upon Israel?”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	21	4	But the king’s word prevailed against Joab. So Joab departed and went throughout all Israel, and came back to Jerusalem.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	21	5	And Joab gave the sum of the numbering of the people to David. In all Israel there were one million one hundred thousand men who drew the sword, and in Judah four hundred and seventy thousand who drew the sword.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	21	6	But he did not include Levi and Benjamin in the numbering, for the king’s command was abhorrent to Joab.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	21	7	But God was displeased with this thing, and he smote Israel.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	21	8	And David said to God, “I have sinned greatly in that I have done this thing. But now, I pray thee, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	21	9	And the Lord spoke to Gad, David’s seer, saying,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	21	10	“Go and say to David, ‘Thus says the Lord, Three things I offer you; choose one of them, that I may do it to you.’”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	21	11	So Gad came to David and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Take which you will:
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	21	12	either three years of famine; or three months of devastation by your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days of the sword of the Lord, pestilence upon the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.’ Now decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	21	13	Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress; let me fall into the hand of the Lord, for his mercy is very great; but let me not fall into the hand of man.”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	21	14	So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel; and there fell seventy thousand men of Israel.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	21	15	And God sent the angel to Jerusalem to destroy it; but when he was about to destroy it, the Lord saw, and he repented of the evil; and he said to the destroying angel, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” And the angel of the Lord was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	21	16	And David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of the Lord standing between earth and heaven, and in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	21	17	And David said to God, “Was it not I who gave command to number the people? It is I who have sinned and done very wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Let thy hand, I pray thee, O Lord my God, be against me and against my father’s house; but let not the plague be upon thy people.”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	21	18	Then the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to say to David that David should go up and rear an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	21	19	So David went up at Gad’s word, which he had spoken in the name of the Lord.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	21	20	Now Ornan was threshing wheat; he turned and saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him hid themselves.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	21	21	As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David and went forth from the threshing floor, and did obeisance to David with his face to the ground.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	21	22	And David said to Ornan, “Give me the site of the threshing floor that I may build on it an altar to the Lord—give it to me at its full price—that the plague may be averted from the people.”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	21	23	Then Ornan said to David, “Take it; and let my lord the king do what seems good to him; see, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing sledges for the wood, and the wheat for a cereal offering. I give it all.”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	21	24	But King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will buy it for the full price; I will not take for the Lord what is yours, nor offer burnt offerings which cost me nothing.”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	21	25	So David paid Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the site.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	21	26	And David built there an altar to the Lord and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the Lord, and he answered him with fire from heaven upon the altar of burnt offering.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	21	27	Then the Lord commanded the angel; and he put his sword back into its sheath.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	21	28	At that time, when David saw that the Lord had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he made his sacrifices there.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	21	29	For the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering were at that time in the high place at Gibeon;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	21	30	but David could not go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the Lord.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	22	1	Then David said, “Here shall be the house of the Lord God and here the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	22	2	David commanded to gather together the aliens who were in the land of Israel, and he set stonecutters to prepare dressed stones for building the house of God.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	22	3	David also provided great stores of iron for nails for the doors of the gates and for clamps, as well as bronze in quantities beyond weighing,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	22	4	and cedar timbers without number; for the Sidonians and Tyrians brought great quantities of cedar to David.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	22	5	For David said, “Solomon my son is young and inexperienced, and the house that is to be built for the Lord must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and glory throughout all lands; I will therefore make preparation for it.” So David provided materials in great quantity before his death.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	22	6	Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build a house for the Lord, the God of Israel.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	22	7	David said to Solomon, “My son, I had it in my heart to build a house to the name of the Lord my God.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	22	8	But the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ‘You have shed much blood and have waged great wars; you shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed so much blood before me upon the earth.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	22	9	Behold, a son shall be born to you; he shall be a man of peace. I will give him peace from all his enemies round about; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quiet to Israel in his days.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	22	10	He shall build a house for my name. He shall be my son, and I will be his father, and I will establish his royal throne in Israel for ever.’
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	22	11	Now, my son, the Lord be with you, so that you may succeed in building the house of the Lord your God, as he has spoken concerning you.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	22	12	Only, may the Lord grant you discretion and understanding, that when he gives you charge over Israel you may keep the law of the Lord your God.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	22	13	Then you will prosper if you are careful to observe the statutes and the ordinances which the Lord commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong, and of good courage. Fear not; be not dismayed.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	22	14	With great pains I have provided for the house of the Lord a hundred thousand talents of gold, a million talents of silver, and bronze and iron beyond weighing, for there is so much of it; timber and stone too I have provided. To these you must add.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	22	15	You have an abundance of workmen: stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and all kinds of craftsmen without number, skilled in working
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	22	16	gold, silver, bronze, and iron. Arise and be doing! The Lord be with you!”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	22	17	David also commanded all the leaders of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	22	18	“Is not the Lord your God with you? And has he not given you peace on every side? For he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand; and the land is subdued before the Lord and his people.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	22	19	Now set your mind and heart to seek the Lord your God. Arise and build the sanctuary of the Lord God, so that the ark of the covenant of the Lord and the holy vessels of God may be brought into a house built for the name of the Lord.”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	23	1	When David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	23	2	David assembled all the leaders of Israel and the priests and the Levites.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	23	3	The Levites, thirty years old and upward, were numbered, and the total was thirty-eight thousand men.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	23	4	“Twenty-four thousand of these,” David said, “shall have charge of the work in the house of the Lord, six thousand shall be officers and judges,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	23	5	four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand shall offer praises to the Lord with the instruments which I have made for praise.”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	23	6	And David organized them in divisions corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	23	7	The sons of Gersham were Ladan and Shime-i.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	23	8	The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	23	9	The sons of Shime-i: Shelomoth, Hazi-el, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers’ houses of Ladan.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	23	10	And the sons of Shime-i: Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shime-i.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	23	11	Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second; but Jeush and Beriah had not many sons, therefore they became a father’s house in one reckoning.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	23	12	The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	23	13	The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. Aaron was set apart to consecrate the most holy things, that he and his sons for ever should burn incense before the Lord, and minister to him and pronounce blessings in his name for ever.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	23	14	But the sons of Moses the man of God were named among the tribe of Levi.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	23	15	The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	23	16	The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	23	17	The sons of Eliezer: Rehabiah the chief; Eliezer had no other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	23	18	The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	23	19	The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	23	20	The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief and Isshiah the second.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	23	21	The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	23	22	Eleazar died having no sons, but only daughters; their kinsmen, the sons of Kish, married them.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	23	23	The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jeremoth, three.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	23	24	These were the sons of Levi by their fathers’ houses, the heads of fathers’ houses as they were registered according to the number of the names of the individuals from twenty years old and upward who were to do the work for the service of the house of the Lord.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	23	25	For David said, “The Lord, the God of Israel, has given peace to his people; and he dwells in Jerusalem for ever.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	23	26	And so the Levites no longer need to carry the tabernacle or any of the things for its service”—
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	23	27	for by the last words of David these were the number of the Levites from twenty years old and upward—
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	23	28	“but their duty shall be to assist the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the Lord, having the care of the courts and the chambers, the cleansing of all that is holy, and any work for the service of the house of God;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	23	29	to assist also with the showbread, the flour for the cereal offering, the wafers of unleavened bread, the baked offering, the offering mixed with oil, and all measures of quantity or size.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	23	30	And they shall stand every morning, thanking and praising the Lord, and likewise at evening,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	23	31	and whenever burnt offerings are offered to the Lord on sabbaths, new moons, and feast days, according to the number required of them, continually before the Lord.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	23	32	Thus they shall keep charge of the tent of meeting and the sanctuary, and shall attend the sons of Aaron, their brethren, for the service of the house of the Lord.”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	24	1	The divisions of the sons of Aaron were these. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	24	2	But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children, so Eleazar and Ithamar became the priests.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	24	3	With the help of Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, David organized them according to the appointed duties in their service.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	24	4	Since more chief men were found among the sons of Eleazar than among the sons of Ithamar, they organized them under sixteen heads of fathers’ houses of the sons of Eleazar, and eight of the sons of Ithamar.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	24	5	They organized them by lot, all alike, for there were officers of the sanctuary and officers of God among both the sons of Eleazar and the sons of Ithamar.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	24	6	And the scribe Shemaiah the son of Nethanel, a Levite, recorded them in the presence of the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the priests and of the Levites; one father’s house being chosen for Eleazar and one chosen for Ithamar.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	24	7	The first lot fell to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	24	8	the third to Harim, the fourth to Se-orim,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	24	9	the fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	24	10	the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	24	11	the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	24	12	the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	24	13	the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebe-ab,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	24	14	the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	24	15	the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	24	16	the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezkel,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	24	17	the twenty-first to Jachin, the twenty-second to Gamul,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	24	18	the twenty-third to Delaiah, the twenty-fourth to Ma-aziah.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	24	19	These had as their appointed duty in their service to come into the house of the Lord according to the procedure established for them by Aaron their father, as the Lord God of Israel had commanded him.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	24	20	And of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shuba-el; of the sons of Shuba-el, Jehdeiah.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	24	21	Of Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, Isshiah the chief.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	24	22	Of the Izharites, Shelomoth; of the sons of Shelomoth, Jahath.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	24	23	The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	24	24	The sons of Uzziel, Micah; of the sons of Micah, Shamir.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	24	25	The brother of Micah, Isshiah; of the sons of Isshiah, Zechariah.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	24	26	The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Ja-aziah: Beno.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	24	27	The sons of Merari: of Ja-aziah, Beno, Shoham, Zaccur, and Ibri.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	24	28	Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	24	29	Of Kish, the sons of Kish: Jerahmeel.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	24	30	The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites according to their fathers’ houses.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	24	31	These also, the head of each father’s house and his younger brother alike, cast lots, just as their brethren the sons of Aaron, in the presence of King David, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of fathers’ houses of the priests and of the Levites.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	25	1	David and the chiefs of the service also set apart for the service certain of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with lyres, with harps, and with cymbals. The list of those who did the work and of their duties was:
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	25	2	Of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asharelah, sons of Asaph, under the direction of Asaph, who prophesied under the direction of the king.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	25	3	Of Jeduthun, the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Shime-i, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the direction of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with the lyre in thanksgiving and praise to the Lord.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	25	4	Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazi-oth.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	25	5	All these were the sons of Heman the king’s seer, according to the promise of God to exalt him; for God had given Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	25	6	They were all under the direction of their father in the music in the house of the Lord with cymbals, harps, and lyres for the service of the house of God. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the order of the king.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	25	7	The number of them along with their brethren, who were trained in singing to the Lord, all who were skilful, was two hundred and eighty-eight.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	25	8	And they cast lots for their duties, small and great, teacher and pupil alike.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	25	9	The first lot fell for Asaph to Joseph; the second to Gedaliah, to him and his brethren and his sons, twelve;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	25	10	the third to Zaccur, his sons and his brethren, twelve;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	25	11	the fourth to Izri, his sons and his brethren, twelve;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	25	12	the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	25	13	the sixth to Bukkiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	25	14	the seventh to Jesharelah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	25	15	the eighth to Jeshaiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	25	16	the ninth to Mattaniah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	25	17	the tenth to Shime-i, his sons and his brethren, twelve;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	25	18	the eleventh to Azarel, his sons and his brethren, twelve;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	25	19	the twelfth to Hashabiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	25	20	to the thirteenth, Shuba-el, his sons and his brethren, twelve;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	25	21	to the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	25	22	to the fifteenth, to Jeremoth, his sons and his brethren, twelve;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	25	23	to the sixteenth, to Hananiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	25	24	to the seventeenth, to Joshbekashah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	25	25	to the eighteenth, to Hanani, his sons and his brethren, twelve;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	25	26	to the nineteenth, to Mallothi, his sons and his brethren, twelve;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	25	27	to the twentieth, to Eliathah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	25	28	to the twenty-first, to Hothir, his sons and his brethren, twelve;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	25	29	to the twenty-second, to Giddalti, his sons and his brethren, twelve;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	25	30	to the twenty-third, to Mahazi-oth, his sons and his brethren, twelve;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	25	31	to the twenty-fourth, to Romamti-ezer, his sons and his brethren, twelve.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	26	1	As for the divisions of the gatekeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	26	2	And Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the first-born, Jedia-el the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathni-el the fourth,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	26	3	Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Eli-e-ho-enai the seventh.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	26	4	And Obed-edom had sons: Shemaiah the first-born, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sachar the fourth, Nethanel the fifth,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	26	5	Ammi-el the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Pe-ullethai the eighth; for God blessed him.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	26	6	Also to his son Shemaiah were sons born who were rulers in their fathers’ houses, for they were men of great ability.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	26	7	The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, Repha-el, Obed, and Elzabad, whose brethren were able men, Elihu and Semachiah.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	26	8	All these were of the sons of Obed-edom with their sons and brethren, able men qualified for the service; sixty-two of Obed-edom.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	26	9	And Meshelemiah had sons and brethren, able men, eighteen.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	26	10	And Hosah, of the sons of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief (for though he was not the first-born, his father made him chief),
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	26	11	Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brethren of Hosah were thirteen.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	26	12	These divisions of the gatekeepers, corresponding to their chief men, had duties, just as their brethren did, ministering in the house of the Lord;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	26	13	and they cast lots by fathers’ houses, small and great alike, for their gates.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	26	14	The lot for the east fell to Shelemiah. They cast lots also for his son Zechariah, a shrewd counselor, and his lot came out for the north.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	26	15	Obed-edom’s came out for the south, and to his sons was allotted the storehouse.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	26	16	For Shuppim and Hosah it came out for the west, at the gate of Shallecheth on the road that goes up. Watch corresponded to watch.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	26	17	On the east there were six each day, on the north four each day, on the south four each day, as well as two and two at the storehouse;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	26	18	and for the parbar on the west there were four at the road and two at the parbar.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	26	19	These were the divisions of the gatekeepers among the Korahites and the sons of Merari.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	26	20	And of the Levites, Ahijah had charge of the treasuries of the house of God and the treasuries of the dedicated gifts.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	26	21	The sons of Ladan, the sons of the Gershonites belonging to Ladan, the heads of the fathers’ houses belonging to Ladan the Gershonite: Jehieli.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	26	22	The sons of Jehieli, Zetham and Joel his brother, were in charge of the treasuries of the house of the Lord.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	26	23	Of the Amramites, the Izharites, the Hebronites, and the Uzzielites—
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	26	24	and Shebuel the son of Gershom, son of Moses, was chief officer in charge of the treasuries.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	26	25	His brethren: from Eliezer were his son Rehabiah, and his son Jeshaiah, and his son Joram, and his son Zichri, and his son Shelomoth.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	26	26	This Shelomoth and his brethren were in charge of all the treasuries of the dedicated gifts which David the king, and the heads of the fathers’ houses, and the officers of the thousands and the hundreds, and the commanders of the army, had dedicated.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	26	27	From spoil won in battles they dedicated gifts for the maintenance of the house of the Lord.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	26	28	Also all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah had dedicated—all dedicated gifts were in the care of Shelomoth and his brethren.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	26	29	Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were appointed to outside duties for Israel, as officers and judges.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	26	30	Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren, one thousand seven hundred men of ability, had the oversight of Israel westward of the Jordan for all the work of the Lord and for the service of the king.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	26	31	Of the Hebronites, Jerijah was chief of the Hebronites of whatever genealogy or fathers’ houses. (In the fortieth year of David’s reign search was made and men of great ability among them were found at Jazer in Gilead.)
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	26	32	King David appointed him and his brethren, two thousand seven hundred men of ability, heads of fathers’ houses, to have the oversight of the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites for everything pertaining to God and for the affairs of the king.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	27	1	This is the list of the people of Israel, the heads of fathers’ houses, the commanders of thousands and hundreds, and their officers who served the king in all matters concerning the divisions that came and went, month after month throughout the year, each division numbering twenty-four thousand:
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	27	2	Jashobeam the son of Zabdi-el was in charge of the first division in the first month; in his division were twenty-four thousand.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	27	3	He was a descendant of Perez, and was chief of all the commanders of the army for the first month.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	27	4	Dodai the Ahohite was in charge of the division of the second month; in his division were twenty-four thousand.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	27	5	The third commander, for the third month, was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the priest, as chief; in his division were twenty-four thousand.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	27	6	This is the Benaiah who was a mighty man of the thirty and in command of the thirty; Ammizabad his son was in charge of his division.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	27	7	Asahel the brother of Joab was fourth, for the fourth month, and his son Zebadiah after him; in his division were twenty-four thousand.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	27	8	The fifth commander, for the fifth month, was Shamhuth, the Izrahite; in his division were twenty-four thousand.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	27	9	Sixth, for the sixth month, was Ira, the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite; in his division were twenty-four thousand.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	27	10	Seventh, for the seventh month, was Helez the Pelonite, of the sons of Ephraim; in his division were twenty-four thousand.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	27	11	Eighth, for the eighth month, was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zerahites; in his division were twenty-four thousand.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	27	12	Ninth, for the ninth month, was Abi-ezer of Anathoth, a Benjaminite; in his division were twenty-four thousand.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	27	13	Tenth, for the tenth month, was Maharai of Netophah, of the Zerahites; in his division were twenty-four thousand.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	27	14	Eleventh, for the eleventh month, was Benaiah of Pirathon, of the sons of Ephraim; in his division were twenty-four thousand.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	27	15	Twelfth, for the twelfth month, was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othni-el; in his division were twenty-four thousand.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	27	16	Over the tribes of Israel, for the Reubenites Eliezer the son of Zichri was chief officer; for the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maacah;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	27	17	for Levi, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel; for Aaron, Zadok;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	27	18	for Judah, Elihu, one of David’s brothers; for Issachar, Omri the son of Michael;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	27	19	for Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah; for Naphtali, Jeremoth the son of Azriel;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	27	20	for the Ephraimites, Hoshea the son of Azaziah; for the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	27	21	for the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah; for Benjamin, Ja-asi-el the son of Abner;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	27	22	for Dan, Azarel the son of Jeroham. These were the leaders of the tribes of Israel.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	27	23	David did not number those below twenty years of age, for the Lord had promised to make Israel as many as the stars of heaven.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	27	24	Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but did not finish; yet wrath came upon Israel for this, and the number was not entered in the chronicles of King David.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	27	25	Over the king’s treasuries was Azmaveth the son of Adi-el; and over the treasuries in the country, in the cities, in the villages and in the towers, was Jonathan the son of Uzziah;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	27	26	and over those who did the work of the field for tilling the soil was Ezri the son of Chelub;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	27	27	and over the vineyards was Shime-i the Ramathite; and over the produce of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	27	28	Over the olive and sycamore trees in the Shephelah was Baal-hanan the Gederite; and over the stores of oil was Joash.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	27	29	Over the herds that pastured in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite; over the herds in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	27	30	Over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite; and over the she-asses was Jehdeiah the Meronothite. Over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagrite.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	27	31	All these were stewards of King David’s property.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	27	32	Jonathan, David’s uncle, was a counselor, being a man of understanding and a scribe; he and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni attended the king’s sons.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	27	33	Ahithophel was the king’s counselor, and Hushai the Archite was the king’s friend.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	27	34	Ahithophel was succeeded by Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar. Joab was commander of the king’s army.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	28	1	David assembled at Jerusalem all the officials of Israel, the officials of the tribes, the officers of the divisions that served the king, the commanders of thousands, the commanders of hundreds, the stewards of all the property and cattle of the king and his sons, together with the palace officials, the mighty men, and all the seasoned warriors.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	28	2	Then King David rose to his feet and said: “Hear me, my brethren and my people. I had it in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and for the footstool of our God; and I made preparations for building.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	28	3	But God said to me, ‘You may not build a house for my name, for you are a warrior and have shed blood.’
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	28	4	Yet the Lord God of Israel chose me from all my father’s house to be king over Israel for ever; for he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah my father’s house, and among my father’s sons he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	28	5	And of all my sons (for the Lord has given me many sons) he has chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	28	6	He said to me, ‘It is Solomon your son who shall build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	28	7	I will establish his kingdom for ever if he continues resolute in keeping my commandments and my ordinances, as he is today.’
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	28	8	Now therefore in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the Lord, and in the hearing of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of the Lord your God; that you may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children after you for ever.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	28	9	“And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind; for the Lord searches all hearts, and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off for ever.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	28	10	Take heed now, for the Lord has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary; be strong, and do it.”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	28	11	Then David gave Solomon his son the plan of the vestibule of the temple, and of its houses, its treasuries, its upper rooms, and its inner chambers, and of the room for the mercy seat;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	28	12	and the plan of all that he had in mind for the courts of the house of the Lord, all the surrounding chambers, the treasuries of the house of God, and the treasuries for dedicated gifts;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	28	13	for the divisions of the priests and of the Levites, and all the work of the service in the house of the Lord; for all the vessels for the service in the house of the Lord,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	28	14	the weight of gold for all golden vessels for each service, the weight of silver vessels for each service,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	28	15	the weight of the golden lampstands and their lamps, the weight of gold for each lampstand and its lamps, the weight of silver for a lampstand and its lamps, according to the use of each lampstand in the service,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	28	16	the weight of gold for each table for the showbread, the silver for the silver tables,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	28	17	and pure gold for the forks, the basins, and the cups; for the golden bowls and the weight of each; for the silver bowls and the weight of each;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	28	18	for the altar of incense made of refined gold, and its weight; also his plan for the golden chariot of the cherubim that spread their wings and covered the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	28	19	All this he made clear by the writing from the hand of the Lord concerning it, all the work to be done according to the plan.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	28	20	Then David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and of good courage, and do it. Fear not, be not dismayed; for the Lord God, even my God, is with you. He will not fail you or forsake you, until all the work for the service of the house of the Lord is finished.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	28	21	And behold the divisions of the priests and the Levites for all the service of the house of God; and with you in all the work will be every willing man who has skill for any kind of service; also the officers and all the people will be wholly at your command.”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	29	1	And David the king said to all the assembly, “Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is young and inexperienced, and the work is great; for the palace will not be for man but for the Lord God.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	29	2	So I have provided for the house of my God, so far as I was able, the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, and the bronze for the things of bronze, the iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood, besides great quantities of onyx and stones for setting, antimony, colored stones, all sorts of precious stones, and marble.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	29	3	Moreover, in addition to all that I have provided for the holy house, I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, and because of my devotion to the house of my God I give it to the house of my God:
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	29	4	three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, for overlaying the walls of the house,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	29	5	and for all the work to be done by craftsmen, gold for the things of gold and silver for the things of silver. Who then will offer willingly, consecrating himself today to the Lord?”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	29	6	Then the heads of fathers’ houses made their freewill offerings, as did also the leaders of the tribes, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and the officers over the king’s work.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	29	7	They gave for the service of the house of God five thousand talents and ten thousand darics of gold, ten thousand talents of silver, eighteen thousand talents of bronze, and a hundred thousand talents of iron.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	29	8	And whoever had precious stones gave them to the treasury of the house of the Lord, in the care of Jehiel the Gershonite.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	29	9	Then the people rejoiced because these had given willingly, for with a whole heart they had offered freely to the Lord; David the king also rejoiced greatly.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	29	10	Therefore David blessed the Lord in the presence of all the assembly; and David said: “Blessed art thou, O Lord, the God of Israel our father, for ever and ever.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	29	11	Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty; for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	29	12	Both riches and honor come from thee, and thou rulest over all. In thy hand are power and might; and in thy hand it is to make great and to give strength to all.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	29	13	And now we thank thee, our God, and praise thy glorious name.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	29	14	“But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able thus to offer willingly? For all things come from thee, and of thy own have we given thee.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	29	15	For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	29	16	O Lord our God, all this abundance that we have provided for building thee a house for thy holy name comes from thy hand and is all thy own.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	29	17	I know, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness; in the uprightness of my heart I have freely offered all these things, and now I have seen thy people, who are present here, offering freely and joyously to thee.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	29	18	O Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep for ever such purposes and thoughts in the hearts of thy people, and direct their hearts toward thee.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	29	19	Grant to Solomon my son that with a whole heart he may keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, performing all, and that he may build the palace for which I have made provision.”
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	29	20	Then David said to all the assembly, “Bless the Lord your God.” And all the assembly blessed the Lord, the God of their fathers, and bowed their heads, and worshiped the Lord, and did obeisance to the king.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	29	21	And they performed sacrifices to the Lord, and on the next day offered burnt offerings to the Lord, a thousand bulls, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel;
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	29	22	and they ate and drank before the Lord on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and they anointed him as prince for the Lord, and Zadok as priest.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	29	23	Then Solomon sat on the throne of the Lord as king instead of David his father; and he prospered, and all Israel obeyed him.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	29	24	All the leaders and the mighty men, and also all the sons of King David, pledged their allegiance to King Solomon.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	29	25	And the Lord gave Solomon great repute in the sight of all Israel, and bestowed upon him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	29	26	Thus David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	29	27	The time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	29	28	Then he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor; and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	29	29	Now the acts of King David, from first to last, are written in the Chronicles of Samuel the seer, and in the Chronicles of Nathan the prophet, and in the Chronicles of Gad the seer,
 1 Chronicles	1Chron	13	29	30	with accounts of all his rule and his might and of the circumstances that came upon him and upon Israel, and upon all the kingdoms of the countries.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	1	1	Solomon the son of David established himself in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him and made him exceedingly great.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	1	2	Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to all the leaders in all Israel, the heads of fathers’ houses.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	1	3	And Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of the Lord had made in the wilderness, was there.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	1	4	(But David had brought up the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim to the place that David had prepared for it, for he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.)
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	1	5	Moreover the bronze altar that Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, had made, was there before the tabernacle of the Lord. And Solomon and the assembly sought the Lord.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	1	6	And Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before the Lord, which was at the tent of meeting, and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	1	7	In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, “Ask what I shall give you.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	1	8	And Solomon said to God, “Thou hast shown great and steadfast love to David my father, and hast made me king in his stead.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	1	9	O Lord God, let thy promise to David my father be now fulfilled, for thou hast made me king over a people as many as the dust of the earth.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	1	10	Give me now wisdom and knowledge to go out and come in before this people, for who can rule this thy people, that is so great?”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	1	11	God answered Solomon, “Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked possessions, wealth, honor, or the life of those who hate you, and have not even asked long life, but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself that you may rule my people over whom I have made you king,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	1	12	wisdom and knowledge are granted to you. I will also give you riches, possessions, and honor, such as none of the kings had who were before you, and none after you shall have the like.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	1	13	So Solomon came from the high place at Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting, to Jerusalem. And he reigned over Israel.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	1	14	Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen; he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	1	15	And the king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephelah.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	1	16	And Solomon’s import of horses was from Egypt and Kue, and the king’s traders received them from Kue for a price.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	1	17	They imported a chariot from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty; likewise through them these were exported to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Syria.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	2	1	Now Solomon purposed to build a temple for the name of the Lord, and a royal palace for himself.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	2	2	And Solomon assigned seventy thousand men to bear burdens and eighty thousand to quarry in the hill country, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	2	3	And Solomon sent word to Huram the king of Tyre: “As you dealt with David my father and sent him cedar to build himself a house to dwell in, so deal with me.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	2	4	Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of the Lord my God and dedicate it to him for the burning of incense of sweet spices before him, and for the continual offering of the showbread, and for burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths and the new moons and the appointed feasts of the Lord our God, as ordained for ever for Israel.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	2	5	The house which I am to build will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	2	6	But who is able to build him a house, since heaven, even highest heaven, cannot contain him? Who am I to build a house for him, except as a place to burn incense before him?
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	2	7	So now send me a man skilled to work in gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue fabrics, trained also in engraving, to be with the skilled workers who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	2	8	Send me also cedar, cypress, and algum timber from Lebanon, for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. And my servants will be with your servants,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	2	9	to prepare timber for me in abundance, for the house I am to build will be great and wonderful.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	2	10	I will give for your servants, the hewers who cut timber, twenty thousand cors of crushed wheat, twenty thousand cors of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	2	11	Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in a letter which he sent to Solomon, “Because the Lord loves his people he has made you king over them.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	2	12	Huram also said, “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given King David a wise son, endued with discretion and understanding, who will build a temple for the Lord, and a royal palace for himself.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	2	13	“Now I have sent a skilled man, endued with understanding, Huram-abi,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	2	14	the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre. He is trained to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and in purple, blue, and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and to do all sorts of engraving and execute any design that may be assigned him, with your craftsmen, the craftsmen of my lord, David your father.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	2	15	Now therefore the wheat and barley, oil and wine, of which my lord has spoken, let him send to his servants;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	2	16	and we will cut whatever timber you need from Lebanon, and bring it to you in rafts by sea to Joppa, so that you may take it up to Jerusalem.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	2	17	Then Solomon took a census of all the aliens who were in the land of Israel, after the census of them which David his father had taken; and there were found a hundred and fifty-three thousand six hundred.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	2	18	Seventy thousand of them he assigned to bear burdens, eighty thousand to quarry in the hill country, and three thousand six hundred as overseers to make the people work.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	3	1	Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	3	2	He began to build in the second month of the fourth year of his reign.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	3	3	These are Solomon’s measurements for building the house of God: the length, in cubits of the old standard, was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	3	4	The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house; and its height was a hundred and twenty cubits. He overlaid it on the inside with pure gold.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	3	5	The nave he lined with cypress, and covered it with fine gold, and made palms and chains on it.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	3	6	He adorned the house with settings of precious stones. The gold was gold of Parvaim.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	3	7	So he lined the house with gold—its beams, its thresholds, its walls, and its doors; and he carved cherubim on the walls.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	3	8	And he made the most holy place; its length, corresponding to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and its breadth was twenty cubits; he overlaid it with six hundred talents of fine gold.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	3	9	The weight of the nails was one shekel to fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	3	10	In the most holy place he made two cherubim of wood and overlaid them with gold.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	3	11	The wings of the cherubim together extended twenty cubits: one wing of the one, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and its other wing, of five cubits, touched the wing of the other cherub;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	3	12	and of this cherub, one wing, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and the other wing, also of five cubits, was joined to the wing of the first cherub.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	3	13	The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits; the cherubim stood on their feet, facing the nave.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	3	14	And he made the veil of blue and purple and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and worked cherubim on it.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	3	15	In front of the house he made two pillars thirty-five cubits high, with a capital of five cubits on the top of each.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	3	16	He made chains like a necklace and put them on the tops of the pillars; and he made a hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	3	17	He set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the south, the other on the north; that on the south he called Jachin, and that on the north Boaz.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	4	1	He made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	4	2	Then he made the molten sea; it was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	4	3	Under it were figures of gourds, for thirty cubits, compassing the sea round about; the gourds were in two rows, cast with it when it was cast.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	4	4	It stood upon twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; the sea was set upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	4	5	Its thickness was a handbreadth; and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily; it held over three thousand baths.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	4	6	He also made ten lavers in which to wash, and set five on the south side, and five on the north side. In these they were to rinse off what was used for the burnt offering, and the sea was for the priests to wash in.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	4	7	And he made ten golden lampstands as prescribed, and set them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	4	8	He also made ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. And he made a hundred basins of gold.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	4	9	He made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid their doors with bronze;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	4	10	and he set the sea at the southeast corner of the house.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	4	11	Huram also made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Huram finished the work that he did for King Solomon on the house of God:
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	4	12	the two pillars, the bowls, and the two capitals on the top of the pillars; and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	4	13	and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were upon the pillars.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	4	14	He made the stands also, and the lavers upon the stands,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	4	15	and the one sea, and the twelve oxen underneath it.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	4	16	The pots, the shovels, the forks, and all the equipment for these Huram-abi made of burnished bronze for King Solomon for the house of the Lord.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	4	17	In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	4	18	Solomon made all these things in great quantities, so that the weight of the bronze was not ascertained.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	4	19	So Solomon made all the things that were in the house of God: the golden altar, the tables for the bread of the Presence,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	4	20	the lampstands and their lamps of pure gold to burn before the inner sanctuary, as prescribed;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	4	21	the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of purest gold;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	4	22	the snuffers, basins, dishes for incense, and firepans, of pure gold; and the sockets of the temple, for the inner doors to the most holy place and for the doors of the nave of the temple were of gold.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	5	1	Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of the Lord was finished. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, and stored the silver, the gold, and all the vessels in the treasuries of the house of God.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	5	2	Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers’ houses of the people of Israel, in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	5	3	And all the men of Israel assembled before the king at the feast which is in the seventh month.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	5	4	And all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	5	5	And they brought up the ark, the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent; the priests and the Levites brought them up.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	5	6	And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who had assembled before him, were before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	5	7	So the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, in the inner sanctuary of the house, in the most holy place, underneath the wings of the cherubim.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	5	8	For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim made a covering above the ark and its poles.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	5	9	And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the inner sanctuary; but they could not be seen from outside; and they are there to this day.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	5	10	There was nothing in the ark except the two tables which Moses put there at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the people of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	5	11	Now when the priests came out of the holy place (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, without regard to their divisions;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	5	12	and all the Levitical singers, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, their sons and kinsmen, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals, harps, and lyres, stood east of the altar with a hundred and twenty priests who were trumpeters;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	5	13	and it was the duty of the trumpeters and singers to make themselves heard in unison in praise and thanksgiving to the Lord), and when the song was raised, with trumpets and cymbals and other musical instruments, in praise to the Lord, “For he is good, for his steadfast love endures for ever,” the house, the house of the Lord, was filled with a cloud,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	5	14	so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the Lord filled the house of God.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	1	Then Solomon said, “The Lord has said that he would dwell in thick darkness.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	2	I have built thee an exalted house, a place for thee to dwell in for ever.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	3	Then the king faced about, and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel stood.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	4	And he said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who with his hand has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth to David my father, saying,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	5	‘Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city in all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there, and I chose no man as prince over my people Israel;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	6	but I have chosen Jerusalem that my name may be there and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	7	Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	8	But the Lord said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	9	nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.’
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	10	Now the Lord has fulfilled his promise which he made; for I have risen in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and I have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	11	And there I have set the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord which he made with the people of Israel.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	12	Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	13	Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the court; and he stood upon it. Then he knelt upon his knees in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	14	and said, “O Lord, God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven or on earth, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to thy servants who walk before thee with all their heart;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	15	who hast kept with thy servant David my father what thou didst declare to him; yea, thou didst speak with thy mouth, and with thy hand hast fulfilled it this day.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	16	Now therefore, O Lord, God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father what thou hast promised him, saying, ‘There shall never fail you a man before me to sit upon the throne of Israel, if only your sons take heed to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.’
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	17	Now therefore, O Lord, God of Israel, let thy word be confirmed, which thou hast spoken to thy servant David.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	18	“But will God dwell indeed with man on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	19	Yet have regard to the prayer of thy servant and to his supplication, O Lord my God, hearkening to the cry and to the prayer which thy servant prays before thee;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	20	that thy eyes may be open day and night toward this house, the place where thou hast promised to set thy name, that thou mayest hearken to the prayer which thy servant offers toward this place.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	21	And hearken thou to the supplications of thy servant and of thy people Israel, when they pray toward this place; yea, hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place; and when thou hearest, forgive.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	22	If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath, and comes and swears his oath before thy altar in this house,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	23	then hear thou from heaven, and act, and judge thy servants, requiting the guilty by bringing his conduct upon his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	24	“If thy people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against thee, when they turn again and acknowledge thy name, and pray and make supplication to thee in this house,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	25	then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again to the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	26	“When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against thee, if they pray toward this place, and acknowledge thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	27	then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, thy people Israel, when thou dost teach them the good way in which they should walk; and grant rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people as an inheritance.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	28	“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in any of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	29	whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by any man or by all thy people Israel, each knowing his own affliction, and his own sorrow and stretching out his hands toward this house;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	30	then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render to each whose heart thou knowest, according to all his ways (for thou, thou only, knowest the hearts of the children of men);
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	31	that they may fear thee and walk in thy ways all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest to our fathers.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	32	“Likewise when a foreigner, who is not of thy people Israel, comes from a far country for the sake of thy great name, and thy mighty hand, and thy outstretched arm, when he comes and prays toward this house,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	33	hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to thee; in order that all the peoples of the earth may know thy name and fear thee, as do thy people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	34	“If thy people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way thou shalt send them, and they pray to thee toward this city which thou hast chosen and the house which I have built for thy name,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	35	then hear thou from heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	36	“If they sin against thee—for there is no man who does not sin—and thou art angry with them, and dost give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to a land far or near;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	37	yet if they lay it to heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent, and make supplication to thee in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned, and have acted perversely and wickedly’;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	38	if they repent with all their mind and with all their heart in the land of their captivity, to which they were carried captive, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest to their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	39	then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause and forgive thy people who have sinned against thee.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	40	Now, O my God, let thy eyes be open and thy ears attentive to a prayer of this place.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	41	“And now arise, O Lord God, and go to thy resting place, thou and the ark of thy might. Let thy priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in thy goodness.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	6	42	O Lord God, do not turn away the face of thy anointed one! Remember thy steadfast love for David thy servant.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	7	1	When Solomon had ended his prayer, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the temple.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	7	2	And the priests could not enter the house of the Lord, because the glory of the Lord filled the Lord’s house.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	7	3	When all the children of Israel saw the fire come down and the glory of the Lord upon the temple, they bowed down with their faces to the earth on the pavement, and worshiped and gave thanks to the Lord, saying, “For he is good, for his steadfast love endures for ever.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	7	4	Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the Lord.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	7	5	King Solomon offered as a sacrifice twenty-two thousand oxen and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	7	6	The priests stood at their posts; the Levites also, with the instruments for music to the Lord which King David had made for giving thanks to the Lord—for his steadfast love endures for ever—whenever David offered praises by their ministry; opposite them the priests sounded trumpets; and all Israel stood.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	7	7	And Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord; for there he offered the burnt offering and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar Solomon had made could not hold the burnt offering and the cereal offering and the fat.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	7	8	At that time Solomon held the feast for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entrance of Hamath to the Brook of Egypt.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	7	9	And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly; for they had kept the dedication of the altar seven days and the feast seven days.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	7	10	On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their homes, joyful and glad of heart for the goodness that the Lord had shown to David and to Solomon and to Israel his people.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	7	11	Thus Solomon finished the house of the Lord and the king’s house; all that Solomon had planned to do in the house of the Lord and in his own house he successfully accomplished.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	7	12	Then the Lord appeared to Solomon in the night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	7	13	When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	7	14	if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	7	15	Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	7	16	For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that my name may be there for ever; my eyes and my heart will be there for all time.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	7	17	And as for you, if you walk before me, as David your father walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my ordinances,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	7	18	then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man to rule Israel.’
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	7	19	“But if you turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	7	20	then I will pluck you up from the land which I have given you; and this house, which I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	7	21	And at this house, which is exalted, every one passing by will be astonished, and say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	7	22	Then they will say, ‘Because they forsook the Lord the God of their fathers who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore he has brought all this evil upon them’”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	8	1	At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of the Lord and his own house,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	8	2	Solomon rebuilt the cities which Huram had given to him, and settled the people of Israel in them.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	8	3	And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and took it.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	8	4	He built Tadmor in the wilderness and all the store-cities which he built in Hamath.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	8	5	He also built Upper Beth-horon and Lower Beth-horon, fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	8	6	and Baalath, and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	8	7	All the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	8	8	from their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel had not destroyed—these Solomon made a forced levy and so they are to this day.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	8	9	But of the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves for his work; they were soldiers, and his officers, the commanders of his chariots, and his horsemen.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	8	10	And these were the chief officers of King Solomon, two hundred and fifty, who exercised authority over the people.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	8	11	Solomon brought Pharaoh’s daughter up from the city of David to the house which he had built for her, for he said, “My wife shall not live in the house of David king of Israel, for the places to which the ark of the Lord has come are holy.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	8	12	Then Solomon offered up burnt offerings to the Lord upon the altar of the Lord which he had built before the vestibule,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	8	13	as the duty of each day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses for the sabbaths, the new moons, and the three annual feasts—the feast of unleavened bread, the feast of weeks, and the feast of tabernacles.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	8	14	According to the ordinance of David his father, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, and the Levites for their offices of praise and ministry before the priests as the duty of each day required, and the gatekeepers in their divisions for the several gates; for so David the man of God had commanded.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	8	15	And they did not turn aside from what the king had commanded the priests and Levites concerning any matter and concerning the treasuries.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	8	16	Thus was accomplished all the work of Solomon from the day the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid until it was finished. So the house of the Lord was completed.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	8	17	Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber and Eloth on the shore of the sea, in the land of Edom.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	8	18	And Huram sent him by his servants ships and servants familiar with the sea, and they went to Ophir together with the servants of Solomon, and fetched from there four hundred and fifty talents of gold and brought it to King Solomon.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	9	1	Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon she came to Jerusalem to test him with hard questions, having a very great retinue and camels bearing spices and very much gold and precious stones. When she came to Solomon, she told him all that was on her mind.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	9	2	And Solomon answered all her questions; there was nothing hidden from Solomon which he could not explain to her.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	9	3	And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	9	4	the food of his table, the seating of his officials, and the attendance of his servants, and their clothing, his cupbearers, and their clothing, and his burnt offerings which he offered at the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	9	5	And she said to the king, “The report was true which I heard in my own land of your affairs and of your wisdom,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	9	6	but I did not believe the reports until I came and my own eyes had seen it; and behold, half the greatness of your wisdom was not told me; you surpass the report which I heard.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	9	7	Happy are your wives! Happy are these your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	9	8	Blessed be the Lord your God, who has delighted in you and set you on his throne as king for the Lord your God! Because your God loved Israel and would establish them for ever, he has made you king over them, that you may execute justice and righteousness.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	9	9	Then she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices, and precious stones: there were no spices such as those which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	9	10	Moreover the servants of Huram and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, brought algum wood and precious stones.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	9	11	And the king made of the algum wood steps for the house of the Lord and for the king’s house, lyres also and harps for the singers; there never was seen the like of them before in the land of Judah.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	9	12	And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all that she desired, whatever she asked besides what she had brought to the king. So she turned and went back to her own land, with her servants.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	9	13	Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	9	14	besides that which the traders and merchants brought; and all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the land brought gold and silver to Solomon.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	9	15	King Solomon made two hundred large shields of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of beaten gold went into each shield.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	9	16	And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three hundred shekels of gold went into each shield; and the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	9	17	The king also made a great ivory throne, and overlaid it with pure gold.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	9	18	The throne had six steps and a footstool of gold, which were attached to the throne, and on each side of the seat were arm rests and two lions standing beside the arm rests,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	9	19	while twelve lions stood there, one on each end of a step on the six steps. The like of it was never made in any kingdom.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	9	20	All King Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; silver was not considered as anything in the days of Solomon.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	9	21	For the king’s ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram; once every three years the ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	9	22	Thus King Solomon excelled all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	9	23	And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	9	24	Every one of them brought his present, articles of silver and of gold, garments, myrrh, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	9	25	And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	9	26	And he ruled over all the kings from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	9	27	And the king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stone, and cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephelah.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	9	28	And horses were imported for Solomon from Egypt and from all lands.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	9	29	Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, from first to last, are they not written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	9	30	Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	9	31	And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father; and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	10	1	Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	10	2	And when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was in Egypt, whither he had fled from King Solomon), then Jeroboam returned from Egypt.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	10	3	And they sent and called him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came and said to Rehoboam,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	10	4	“Your father made our yoke heavy. Now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke upon us, and we will serve you.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	10	5	He said to them, “Come to me again in three days.” So the people went away.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	10	6	Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	10	7	And they said to him, “If you will be kind to this people and please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants for ever.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	10	8	But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	10	9	And he said to them, “What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke that your father put upon us’?”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	10	10	And the young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Thus shall you speak to the people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but do you lighten it for us’; thus shall you say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s loins.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	10	11	And now, whereas my father laid upon you a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	10	12	So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king said, “Come to me again the third day.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	10	13	And the king answered them harshly, and forsaking the counsel of the old men,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	10	14	King Rehoboam spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	10	15	So the king did not hearken to the people; for it was a turn of affairs brought about by God that the Lord might fulfil his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	10	16	And when all Israel saw that the king did not hearken to them, the people answered the king, “What portion have we in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. Each of you to your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, David.” So all Israel departed to their tents.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	10	17	But Rehoboam reigned over the people of Israel who dwelt in the cities of Judah.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	10	18	Then King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was taskmaster over the forced labor, and the people of Israel stoned him to death with stones. And King Rehoboam made haste to mount his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	10	19	So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	11	1	When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah, and Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen warriors, to fight against Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	11	2	But the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah the man of God:
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	11	3	“Say to Rehoboam the son of Solomon king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	11	4	‘Thus says the Lord, You shall not go up or fight against your brethren. Return every man to his home, for this thing is from me.’” So they hearkened to the word of the Lord, and returned and did not go against Jeroboam.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	11	5	Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and he built cities for defense in Judah.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	11	6	He built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	11	7	Beth-zur, Soco, Adullam,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	11	8	Gath, Mareshah, Ziph,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	11	9	Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	11	10	Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, fortified cities which are in Judah and in Benjamin.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	11	11	He made the fortresses strong, and put commanders in them, and stores of food, oil, and wine.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	11	12	And he put shields and spears in all the cities, and made them very strong. So he held Judah and Benjamin.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	11	13	And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him from all places where they lived.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	11	14	For the Levites left their common lands and their holdings and came to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons cast them out from serving as priests of the Lord,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	11	15	and he appointed his own priests for the high places, and for the satyrs, and for the calves which he had made.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	11	16	And those who had set their hearts to seek the Lord God of Israel came after them from all the tribes of Israel to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the Lord, the God of their fathers.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	11	17	They strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and for three years they made Rehoboam the son of Solomon secure, for they walked for three years in the way of David and Solomon.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	11	18	Rehoboam took as wife Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David, and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	11	19	and she bore him sons, Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	11	20	After her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom, who bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	11	21	Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and concubines (he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and had twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters);
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	11	22	and Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah as chief prince among his brothers, for he intended to make him king.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	11	23	And he dealt wisely, and distributed some of his sons through all the districts of Judah and Benjamin, in all the fortified cities; and he gave them abundant provisions, and procured wives for them.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	12	1	When the rule of Rehoboam was established and was strong, he forsook the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	12	2	In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, because they had been unfaithful to the Lord, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	12	3	with twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen. And the people were without number who came with him from Egypt—Libyans, Sukki-im, and Ethiopians.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	12	4	And he took the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	12	5	Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and to the princes of Judah, who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, “Thus says the Lord, ‘You abandoned me, so I have abandoned you to the hand of Shishak.’”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	12	6	Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The Lord is righteous.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	12	7	When the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah: “They have humbled themselves; I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	12	8	Nevertheless they shall be servants to him, that they may know my service and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	12	9	So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem; he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s house; he took away everything. He also took away the shields of gold which Solomon had made;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	12	10	and King Rehoboam made in their stead shields of bronze, and committed them to the hands of the officers of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	12	11	And as often as the king went into the house of the Lord, the guard came and bore them, and brought them back to the guardroom.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	12	12	And when he humbled himself the wrath of the Lord turned from him, so as not to make a complete destruction; moreover, conditions were good in Judah.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	12	13	So King Rehoboam established himself in Jerusalem and reigned. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	12	14	And he did evil, for he did not set his heart to seek the Lord.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	12	15	Now the acts of Rehoboam, from first to last, are they not written in the chronicles of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer? There were continual wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	12	16	And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David; and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	13	1	In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam Abijah began to reign over Judah.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	13	2	He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibe-ah. Now there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	13	3	Abijah went out to battle having an army of valiant men of war, four hundred thousand picked men; and Jeroboam drew up his line of battle against him with eight hundred thousand picked mighty warriors.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	13	4	Then Abijah stood up on Mount Zemaraim which is in the hill country of Ephraim, and said, “Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel!
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	13	5	Ought you not to know that the Lord God of Israel gave the kingship over Israel for ever to David and his sons by a covenant of salt?
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	13	6	Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, a servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up and rebelled against his lord;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	13	7	and certain worthless scoundrels gathered about him and defied Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and irresolute and could not withstand them.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	13	8	“And now you think to withstand the kingdom of the Lord in the hand of the sons of David, because you are a great multitude and have with you the golden calves which Jeroboam made you for gods.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	13	9	Have you not driven out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves like the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of what are no gods.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	13	10	But as for us, the Lord is our God, and we have not forsaken him. We have priests ministering to the Lord who are sons of Aaron, and Levites for their service.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	13	11	They offer to the Lord every morning and every evening burnt offerings and incense of sweet spices, set out the showbread on the table of pure gold, and care for the golden lampstand that its lamps may burn every evening; for we keep the charge of the Lord our God, but you have forsaken him.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	13	12	Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with their battle trumpets to sound the call to battle against you. O sons of Israel, do not fight against the Lord, the God of your fathers; for you cannot succeed.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	13	13	Jeroboam had sent an ambush around to come on them from behind; thus his troops were in front of Judah, and the ambush was behind them.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	13	14	And when Judah looked, behold, the battle was before and behind them; and they cried to the Lord, and the priests blew the trumpets.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	13	15	Then the men of Judah raised the battle shout. And when the men of Judah shouted, God defeated Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	13	16	The men of Israel fled before Judah, and God gave them into their hand.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	13	17	Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter; so there fell slain of Israel five hundred thousand picked men.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	13	18	Thus the men of Israel were subdued at that time, and the men of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the Lord, the God of their fathers.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	13	19	And Abijah pursued Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with its villages and Jeshanah with its villages and Ephron with its villages.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	13	20	Jeroboam did not recover his power in the days of Abijah; and the Lord smote him, and he died.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	13	21	But Abijah grew mighty. And he took fourteen wives, and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	13	22	The rest of the acts of Abijah, his ways and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	14	1	So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land had rest for ten years.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	14	2	And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	14	3	He took away the foreign altars and the high places, and broke down the pillars and hewed down the Asherim,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	14	4	and commanded Judah to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, and to keep the law and the commandment.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	14	5	He also took out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the incense altars. And the kingdom had rest under him.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	14	6	He built fortified cities in Judah, for the land had rest. He had no war in those years, for the Lord gave him peace.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	14	7	And he said to Judah, “Let us build these cities, and surround them with walls and towers, gates and bars; the land is still ours, because we have sought the Lord our God; we have sought him, and he has given us peace on every side.” So they built and prospered.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	14	8	And Asa had an army of three hundred thousand from Judah, armed with bucklers and spears, and two hundred and eighty thousand men from Benjamin, that carried shields and drew bows; all these were mighty men of valor.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	14	9	Zerah the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million men and three hundred chariots, and came as far as Mareshah.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	14	10	And Asa went out to meet him, and they drew up their lines of battle in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	14	11	And Asa cried to the Lord his God, “O Lord, there is none like thee to help, between the mighty and the weak. Help us, O Lord our God, for we rely on thee, and in thy name we have come against this multitude. O Lord, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	14	12	So the Lord defeated the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah, and the Ethiopians fled.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	14	13	Asa and the people that were with him pursued them as far as Gerar, and the Ethiopians fell until none remained alive; for they were broken before the Lord and his army. The men of Judah carried away very much booty.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	14	14	And they smote all the cities round about Gerar, for the fear of the Lord was upon them. They plundered all the cities, for there was much plunder in them.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	14	15	And they smote the tents of those who had cattle, and carried away sheep in abundance and camels. Then they returned to Jerusalem.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	15	1	The Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	15	2	and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The Lord is with you, while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	15	3	For a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	15	4	but when in their distress they turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	15	5	In those times there was no peace to him who went out or to him who came in, for great disturbances afflicted all the inhabitants of the lands.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	15	6	They were broken in pieces, nation against nation and city against city, for God troubled them with every sort of distress.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	15	7	But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	15	8	When Asa heard these words, the prophecy of Azariah the son of Oded, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities which he had taken in the hill country of Ephraim, and he repaired the altar of the Lord that was in front of the vestibule of the house of the Lord.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	15	9	And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who were sojourning with them, for great numbers had deserted to him from Israel when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	15	10	They were gathered at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	15	11	They sacrificed to the Lord on that day, from the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	15	12	And they entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	15	13	and that whoever would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether young or old, man or woman.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	15	14	They took oath to the Lord with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with horns.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	15	15	And all Judah rejoiced over the oath; for they had sworn with all their heart, and had sought him with their whole desire, and he was found by them, and the Lord gave them rest round about.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	15	16	Even Maacah, his mother, King Asa removed from being queen mother because she had made an abominable image for Asherah. Asa cut down her image, crushed it, and burned it at the brook Kidron.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	15	17	But the high places were not taken out of Israel. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was blameless all his days.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	15	18	And he brought into the house of God the votive gifts of his father and his own votive gifts, silver, and gold, and vessels.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	15	19	And there was no more war until the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	16	1	In the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might permit no one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	16	2	Then Asa took silver and gold from the treasures of the house of the Lord and the king’s house, and sent them to Ben-hadad king of Syria, who dwelt in Damascus, saying,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	16	3	“Let there be a league between me and you, as between my father and your father; behold, I am sending to you silver and gold; go, break your league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may withdraw from me.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	16	4	And Ben-hadad hearkened to King Asa, and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, and they conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim, and all the store-cities of Naphtali.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	16	5	And when Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and let his work cease.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	16	6	Then King Asa took all Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber, with which Baasha had been building, and with them he built Geba and Mizpah.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	16	7	At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him, “Because you relied on the king of Syria, and did not rely on the Lord your God, the army of the king of Syria has escaped you.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	16	8	Were not the Ethiopians and the Libyans a huge army with exceedingly many chariots and horsemen? Yet because you relied on the Lord, he gave them into your hand.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	16	9	For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show his might in behalf of those whose heart is blameless toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	16	10	Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the stocks, in prison, for he was in a rage with him because of this. And Asa inflicted cruelties upon some of the people at the same time.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	16	11	The acts of Asa, from first to last, are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	16	12	In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet, and his disease became severe; yet even in his disease he did not seek the Lord, but sought help from physicians.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	16	13	And Asa slept with his fathers, dying in the forty-first year of his reign.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	16	14	They buried him in the tomb which he had hewn out for himself in the city of David. They laid him on a bier which had been filled with various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumer’s art; and they made a very great fire in his honor.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	17	1	Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against Israel.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	17	2	He placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim which Asa his father had taken.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	17	3	The Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the earlier ways of his father; he did not seek the Baals,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	17	4	but sought the God of his father and walked in his commandments, and not according to the ways of Israel.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	17	5	Therefore the Lord established the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat; and he had great riches and honor.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	17	6	His heart was courageous in the ways of the Lord; and furthermore he took the high places and the Asherim out of Judah.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	17	7	In the third year of his reign he sent his princes, Ben-hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	17	8	and with them the Levites, Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tobadonijah; and with these Levites, the priests Elishama and Jehoram.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	17	9	And they taught in Judah, having the book of the law of the Lord with them; they went about through all the cities of Judah and taught among the people.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	17	10	And the fear of the Lord fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about Judah, and they made no war against Jehoshaphat.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	17	11	Some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and silver for tribute; and the Arabs also brought him seven thousand seven hundred rams and seven thousand seven hundred he-goats.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	17	12	And Jehoshaphat grew steadily greater. He built in Judah fortresses and store-cities,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	17	13	and he had great stores in the cities of Judah. He had soldiers, mighty men of valor, in Jerusalem.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	17	14	This was the muster of them by fathers’ houses: Of Judah, the commanders of thousands: Adnah the commander, with three hundred thousand mighty men of valor,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	17	15	and next to him Jehohanan the commander, with two hundred and eighty thousand,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	17	16	and next to him Amasiah the son of Zichri, a volunteer for the service of the Lord, with two hundred thousand mighty men of valor.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	17	17	Of Benjamin: Eliada, a mighty man of valor, with two hundred thousand men armed with bow and shield,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	17	18	and next to him Jehozabad with a hundred and eighty thousand armed for war.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	17	19	These were in the service of the king, besides those whom the king had placed in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	18	1	Now Jehoshaphat had great riches and honor; and he made a marriage alliance with Ahab.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	18	2	After some years he went down to Ahab in Samaria. And Ahab killed an abundance of sheep and oxen for him and for the people who were with him, and induced him to go up against Ramoth-gilead.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	18	3	Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, “Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead?” He answered him, “I am as you are, my people as your people. We will be with you in the war.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	18	4	And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Inquire first for the word of the Lord.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	18	5	Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall we go to battle against Ramoth-gilead, or shall I forbear?” And they said, “Go up; for God will give it into the hand of the king.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	18	6	But Jehoshaphat said, “Is there not here another prophet of the Lord of whom we may inquire?”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	18	7	And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the Lord, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil.” And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	18	8	Then the king of Israel summoned an officer and said, “Bring quickly Micaiah the son of Imlah.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	18	9	Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting on their thrones, arrayed in their robes; and they were sitting at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	18	10	And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made for himself horns of iron, and said, “Thus says the Lord, ‘With these you shall push the Syrians until they are destroyed.’”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	18	11	And all the prophets prophesied so, and said, “Go up to Ramoth-gilead and triumph; the Lord will give it into the hand of the king.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	18	12	And the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “Behold, the words of the prophets with one accord are favorable to the king; let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak favorably.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	18	13	But Micaiah said, “As the Lord lives, what my God says, that I will speak.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	18	14	And when he had come to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?” And he answered, “Go up and triumph; they will be given into your hand.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	18	15	But the king said to him, “How many times shall I adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of the Lord?”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	18	16	And he said, “I saw all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd; and the Lord said, ‘These have no master; let each return to his home in peace.’”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	18	17	And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	18	18	And Micaiah said, “Therefore hear the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	18	19	and the Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab the king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said one thing, and another said another.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	18	20	Then a spirit came forward and stood before the Lord, saying, ‘I will entice him.’ And the Lord said to him, ‘By what means?’
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	18	21	And he said, ‘I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And he said, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go forth and do so.’
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	18	22	Now therefore behold, the Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these your prophets; the Lord has spoken evil concerning you.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	18	23	Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did the Spirit of the Lord go from me to speak to you?”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	18	24	And Micaiah said, “Behold, you shall see on that day when you go into an inner chamber to hide yourself.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	18	25	And the king of Israel said, “Seize Micaiah, and take him back to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king’s son;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	18	26	and say, ‘Thus says the king, Put this fellow in prison, and feed him with scant fare of bread and water, until I return in peace.’”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	18	27	And Micaiah said, “If you return in peace, the Lord has not spoken by me.” And he said, “Hear, all you peoples!”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	18	28	So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	18	29	And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and go into battle, but you wear your robes.” And the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went into battle.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	18	30	Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of his chariots, “Fight with neither small nor great, but only with the king of Israel.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	18	31	And when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “It is the king of Israel.” So they turned to fight against him; and Jehoshaphat cried out, and the Lord helped him. God drew them away from him,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	18	32	for when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	18	33	But a certain man drew his bow at a venture, and struck the king of Israel between the scale armor and the breastplate; therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn about, and carry me out of the battle, for I am wounded.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	18	34	And the battle grew hot that day, and the king of Israel propped himself up in his chariot facing the Syrians until evening; then at sunset he died.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	19	1	Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned in safety to his house in Jerusalem.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	19	2	But Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Because of this, wrath has gone out against you from the Lord.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	19	3	Nevertheless some good is found in you, for you destroyed the Asherahs out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	19	4	Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem; and he went out again among the people, from Beer-sheba to the hill country of Ephraim, and brought them back to the Lor, the God of their fathers.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	19	5	He appointed judges in the land in all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	19	6	and said to the judges, “Consider what you do, for you judge not for man but for the Lord; he is with you in giving judgment.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	19	7	Now then, let the fear of the Lord be upon you; take heed what you do, for there is no perversion of justice with the Lord our God, or partiality, or taking bribes.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	19	8	Moreover in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed certain Levites and priests and heads of families of Israel, to give judgment for the Lord and to decide disputed cases. They had their seat at Jerusalem.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	19	9	And he charged them: “Thus you shall do in the fear of the Lord, in faithfulness, and with your whole heart:
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	19	10	whenever a case comes to you from your brethren who live in their cities, concerning bloodshed, law or commandment, statutes or ordinances, then you shall instruct them, that they may not incur guilt before the Lord and wrath may not come upon you and your brethren. Thus you shall do, and you will not incur guilt.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	19	11	And behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of the Lord; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the governor of the house of Judah, in all the king’s matters; and the Levites will serve you as officers. Deal courageously, and may the Lord be with the upright!”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	1	After this the Moabites and Ammonites, and with them some of the Me-unites, came against Jehoshaphat for battle.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	2	Some men came and told Jehoshaphat, “A great multitude is coming against you from Edom, from beyond the sea; and, behold, they are in Hazazon-tamar” (that is, En-gedi).
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	3	Then Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	4	And Judah assembled to seek help from the Lord; from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	5	And Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord, before the new court,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	6	and said, “O Lord, God of our fathers, art thou not God in heaven? Dost thou not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations? In thy hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	7	Didst thou not, O our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and give it for ever to the descendants of Abraham thy friend?
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	8	And they have dwelt in it, and have built thee in it a sanctuary for thy name, saying,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	9	‘If evil comes upon us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house, and before thee, for thy name is in this house, and cry to thee in our affliction, and thou wilt hear and save.’
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	10	And now behold, the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade when they came from the land of Egypt, and whom they avoided and did not destroy—
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	11	behold, they reward us by coming to drive us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	12	O our God, wilt thou not execute judgment upon them? For we are powerless against this great multitude that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon thee.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	13	Meanwhile all the men of Judah stood before the Lord, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	14	And the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, son of Benaiah, son of Je-iel, son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, in the midst of the assembly.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	15	And he said, “Hearken, all Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, and King Jehoshaphat: Thus says the Lord to you, ‘Fear not, and be not dismayed at this great multitude; for the battle is not yours but God’s.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	16	Tomorrow go down against them; behold, they will come up by the ascent of Ziz; you will find them at the end of the valley, east of the wilderness of Jeruel.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	17	You will not need to fight in this battle; take your position, stand still, and see the victory of the Lord on your behalf, O Judah and Jerusalem.’ Fear not, and be not dismayed; tomorrow go out against them, and the Lord will be with you.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	18	Then Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before the Lord, worshiping the Lord.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	19	And the Levites, of the Kohathites and the Korahites, stood up to praise the Lord, the God of Israel, with a very loud voice.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	20	And they rose early in the morning and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa; and as they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in the Lord your God, and you will be established; believe his prophets, and you will succeed.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	21	And when he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who were to sing to the Lord and praise him in holy array, as they went before the army, and say, “Give thanks to the Lord, for his steadfast love endures for ever.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	22	And when they began to sing and praise, the Lord set an ambush against the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah, so that they were routed.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	23	For the men of Ammon and Moab rose against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, destroying them utterly, and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they all helped to destroy one another.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	24	When Judah came to the watchtower of the wilderness, they looked toward the multitude; and behold, they were dead bodies lying on the ground; none had escaped.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	25	When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take the spoil from them, they found cattle in great numbers, goods, clothing, and precious things, which they took for themselves until they could carry no more. They were three days in taking the spoil, it was so much.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	26	On the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of Beracah, for there they blessed the Lord; therefore the name of that place has been called the Valley of Beracah to this day.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	27	Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat at their head, returning to Jerusalem with joy, for the Lord had made them rejoice over their enemies.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	28	They came to Jerusalem, with harps and lyres and trumpets, to the house of the Lord.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	29	And the fear of God came on all the kingdoms of the countries when they heard that the Lord had fought against the enemies of Israel.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	30	So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet, for his God gave him rest round about.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	31	Thus Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	32	He walked in the way of Asa his father and did not turn aside from it; he did what was right in the sight of the Lord.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	33	The high places, however, were not taken away; the people had not yet set their hearts upon the God of their fathers.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	34	Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, from first to last, are written in the chronicles of Jehu the son of Hanani, which are recorded in the Book of the Kings of Israel.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	35	After this Jehoshaphat king of Judah joined with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did wickedly.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	36	He joined him in building ships to go to Tarshish, and they built the ships in Ezion-geber.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	20	37	Then Eliezer the son of Do-davahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, “Because you have joined with Ahaziah, the Lord will destroy what you have made.” And the ships were wrecked and were not able to go to Tarshish.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	21	1	Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	21	2	He had brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah; all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Judah.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	21	3	Their father gave them great gifts, of silver, gold, and valuable possessions, together with fortified cities in Judah; but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram, because he was the first-born.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	21	4	When Jehoram had ascended the throne of his father and was established, he slew all his brothers with the sword, and also some of the princes of Israel.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	21	5	Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	21	6	And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done; for the daughter of Ahab was his wife. And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	21	7	Yet the Lord would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant which he had made with David, and since he had promised to give a lamp to him and to his sons for ever.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	21	8	In his days Edom revolted from the rule of Judah, and set up a king of their own.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	21	9	Then Jehoram passed over with his commanders and all his chariots, and he rose by night and smote the Edomites who had surrounded him and his chariot commanders.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	21	10	So Edom revolted from the rule of Judah to this day. At that time Libnah also revolted from his rule, because he had forsaken the Lord, the God of his fathers.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	21	11	Moreover he made high places in the hill country of Judah, and led the inhabitants of Jerusalem into unfaithfulness, and made Judah go astray.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	21	12	And a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, “Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father, ‘Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, or in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	21	13	but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem into unfaithfulness, as the house of Ahab led Israel into unfaithfulness, and also you have killed your brothers, of your father’s house, who were better than yourself;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	21	14	behold, the Lord will bring a great plague on your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	21	15	and you yourself will have a severe sickness with a disease of your bowels, until your bowels come out because of the disease, day by day.’”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	21	16	And the Lord stirred up against Jehoram the anger of the Philistines and of the Arabs who are near the Ethiopians;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	21	17	and they came up against Judah, and invaded it, and carried away all the possessions they found that belonged to the king’s house, and also his sons and his wives, so that no son was left to him except Jehoahaz, his youngest son.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	21	18	And after all this the Lord smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	21	19	In course of time, at the end of two years, his bowels came out because of the disease, and he died in great agony. His people made no fire in his honor, like the fires made for his fathers.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	21	20	He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem; and he departed with no one’s regret. They buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	22	1	And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead; for the band of men that came with the Arabs to the camp had slain all the older sons. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	22	2	Ahaziah was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	22	3	He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in doing wickedly.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	22	4	He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, as the house of Ahab had done; for after the death of his father they were his counselors, to his undoing.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	22	5	He even followed their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to make war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead. And the Syrians wounded Joram,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	22	6	and he returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which he had received at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	22	7	But it was ordained by God that the downfall of Ahaziah should come about through his going to visit Joram. For when he came there he went out with Jehoram to meet Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the Lord had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	22	8	And when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, he met the princes of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah’s brothers, who attended Ahaziah, and he killed them.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	22	9	He searched for Ahaziah, and he was captured while hiding in Samaria, and he was brought to Jehu and put to death. They buried him, for they said, “He is the grandson of Jehoshaphat, who sought the Lord with all his heart.” And the house of Ahaziah had no one able to rule the kingdom.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	22	10	Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal family of the house of Judah.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	22	11	But Jeho-shabe-ath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were about to be slain, and she put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. Thus Jeho-shabe-ath, the daughter of King Jehoram and wife of Jehoiada the priest, because she was a sister of Ahaziah, hid him from Athaliah, so that she did not slay him;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	22	12	and he remained with them six years, hid in the house of God, while Athaliah reigned over the land.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	23	1	But in the seventh year Jehoiada took courage, and entered into a compact with the commanders of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, Azariah the son of Obed, Ma-aseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	23	2	And they went about through Judah and gathered the Levites from all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers’ houses of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	23	3	And all the assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And Jehoiada said to them, “Behold, the king’s son! Let him reign, as the Lor spoke concerning the sons of David.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	23	4	This is the thing that you shall do: of you priests and Levites who come off duty on the sabbath, one third shall be gatekeepers,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	23	5	and one third shall be at the king’s house and one third at the Gate of the Foundation; and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the Lord.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	23	6	Let no one enter the house of the Lord except the priests and ministering Levites; they may enter, for they are holy, but all the people shall keep the charge of the Lord.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	23	7	The Levites shall surround the king, each with his weapons in his hand; and whoever enters the house shall be slain. Be with the king when he comes in, and when he goes out.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	23	8	The Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded. They each brought his men, who were to go off duty on the sabbath, with those who were to come on duty on the sabbath; for Jehoiada the priest did not dismiss the divisions.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	23	9	And Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains the spears and the large and small shields that had been King David’s, which were in the house of God;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	23	10	and he set all the people as a guard for the king, every man with his weapon in his hand, from the south side of the house to the north side of the house, around the altar and the house.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	23	11	Then he brought out the king’s son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they proclaimed him king, and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and they said, “Long live the king.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	23	12	When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she went into the house of the Lord to the people;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	23	13	and when she looked, there was the king standing by his pillar at the entrance, and the captains and the trumpeters beside the king, and all the people of the land rejoicing and blowing trumpets, and the singers with their musical instruments leading in the celebration. And Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, “Treason! Treason!”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	23	14	Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains who were set over the army, saying to them, “Bring her out between the ranks; any one who follows her is to be slain with the sword.” For the priest said, “Do not slay her in the house of the Lord.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	23	15	So they laid hands on her; and she went into the entrance of the horse gate of the king’s house, and they slew her there.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	23	16	And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and all the people and the king that they should be the Lord’s people.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	23	17	Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and tore it down; his altars and his images they broke in pieces, and they slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	23	18	And Jehoiada posted watchmen for the house of the Lord under the direction of the Levitical priests and the Levites whom David had organized to be in charge of the house of the Lord, to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, according to the order of David.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	23	19	He stationed the gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the Lord so that no one should enter who was in any way unclean.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	23	20	And he took the captains, the nobles, the governors of the people, and all the people of the land; and they brought the king down from the house of the Lord, marching through the upper gate to the king’s house. And they set the king upon the royal throne.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	23	21	So all the people of the land rejoiced; and the city was quiet, after Athaliah had been slain with the sword.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	24	1	Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem; his mother’s name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	24	2	And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	24	3	Jehoiada got for him two wives, and he had sons and daughters.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	24	4	After this Joash decided to restore the house of the Lord.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	24	5	And he gathered the priests and the Levites, and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather from all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year; and see that you hasten the matter.” But the Levites did not hasten it.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	24	6	So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and Jerusalem the tax levied by Moses, the servant of the Lord, on the congregation of Israel for the tent of testimony?”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	24	7	For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken into the house of God; and had also used all the dedicated things of the house of the Lord for the Baals.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	24	8	So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside the gate of the house of the Lord.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	24	9	And proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in for the Lord the tax that Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	24	10	And all the princes and all the people rejoiced and brought their tax and dropped it into the chest until they had finished.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	24	11	And whenever the chest was brought to the king’s officers by the Levites, when they saw that there was much money in it, the king’s secretary and the officer of the chief priest would come and empty the chest and take it and return it to its place. Thus they did day after day, and collected money in abundance.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	24	12	And the king and Jehoiada gave it to those who had charge of the work of the house of the Lord, and they hired masons and carpenters to restore the house of the Lord, and also workers in iron and bronze to repair the house of the Lord.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	24	13	So those who were engaged in the work labored, and the repairing went forward in their hands, and they restored the house of God to its proper condition and strengthened it.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	24	14	And when they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, and with it were made utensils for the house of the Lord, both for the service and for the burnt offerings, and dishes for incense, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the Lord continually all the days of Jehoiada.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	24	15	But Jehoiada grew old and full of days, and died; he was a hundred and thirty years old at his death.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	24	16	And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	24	17	Now after the death of Jehoiada the princes of Judah came and did obeisance to the king; then the king hearkened to them.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	24	18	And they forsook the house of the Lord, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols. And wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their guilt.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	24	19	Yet he sent prophets among them to bring them back to the Lord; these testified against them, but they would not give heed.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	24	20	Then the Spirit of God took possession of Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, “Thus says God, ‘Why do you transgress the commandments of the Lord, so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the Lord, he has forsaken you.’”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	24	21	But they conspired against him, and by command of the king they stoned him with stones in the court of the house of the Lord.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	24	22	Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness which Jehoiada, Zechariah’s father, had shown him, but killed his son. And when he was dying, he said, “May the Lord see and avenge!”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	24	23	At the end of the year the army of the Syrians came up against Joash. They came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all their spoil to the king of Damascus.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	24	24	Though the army of the Syrians had come with few men, the Lord delivered into their hand a very great army, because they had forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers. Thus they executed judgment on Joash.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	24	25	When they had departed from him, leaving him severely wounded, his servants conspired against him because of the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed. So he died; and they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	24	26	Those who conspired against him were Zabad the son of Shime-ath the Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	24	27	Accounts of his sons, and of the many oracles against him, and of the rebuilding of the house of God are written in the Commentary on the Book of the Kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	25	1	Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jeho-addan of Jerusalem.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	25	2	And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, yet not with a blameless heart.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	25	3	And as soon as the royal power was firmly in his hand he killed his servants who had slain the king his father.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	25	4	But he did not put their children to death, according to what is written in the law, in the book of Moses, where the Lord commanded, “The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, or the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	25	5	Then Amaziah assembled the men of Judah, and set them by fathers’ houses under commanders of thousands and of hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. He mustered those twenty years old and upward, and found that they were three hundred thousand picked men, fit for war, able to handle spear and shield.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	25	6	He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valor from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	25	7	But a man of God came to him and said, “O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the Lord is not with Israel, with all these Ephraimites.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	25	8	But if you suppose that in this way you will be strong for war, God will cast you down before the enemy; for God has power to help or to cast down.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	25	9	And Amaziah said to the man of God, “But what shall we do about the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel?” The man of God answered, “The Lord is able to give you much more than this.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	25	10	Then Amaziah discharged the army that had come to him from Ephraim, to go home again. And they became very angry with Judah, and returned home in fierce anger.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	25	11	But Amaziah took courage, and led out his people, and went to the Valley of Salt and smote ten thousand men of Seir.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	25	12	The men of Judah captured another ten thousand alive, and took them to the top of a rock and threw them down from the top of the rock; and they were all dashed to pieces.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	25	13	But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, not letting them go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria to Beth-horon, and killed three thousand people in them, and took much spoil.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	25	14	After Amaziah came from the slaughter of the Edomites, he brought the gods of the men of Seir, and set them up as his gods, and worshiped them, making offerings to them.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	25	15	Therefore the Lord was angry with Amaziah and sent to him a prophet, who said to him, “Why have you resorted to the gods of a people, which did not deliver their own people from your hand?”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	25	16	But as he was speaking the king said to him, “Have we made you a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be put to death?” So the prophet stopped, but said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	25	17	Then Amaziah king of Judah took counsel and sent to Joash the son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us look one another in the face.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	25	18	And Joash the king of Israel sent word to Amaziah king of Judah, “A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife’; and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	25	19	You say, ‘See, I have smitten Edom,’ and your heart has lifted you up in boastfulness. But now stay at home; why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	25	20	But Amaziah would not listen; for it was of God, in order that he might give them into the hand of their enemies, because they had sought the gods of Edom.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	25	21	So Joash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah faced one another in battle at Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	25	22	And Judah was defeated by Israel, and every man fled to his home.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	25	23	And Joash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem for four hundred cubits, from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	25	24	And he seized all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God, and Obed-edom with them; he seized also the treasuries of the king’s house, and hostages, and he returned to Samaria.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	25	25	Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived fifteen years after the death of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	25	26	Now the rest of the deeds of Amaziah, from first to last, are they not written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel?
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	25	27	From the time when he turned away from the Lord they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	25	28	And they brought him upon horses; and he was buried with his fathers in the city of David.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	26	1	And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	26	2	He built Eloth and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	26	3	Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	26	4	And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	26	5	He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God; and as long as he sought the Lord, God made him prosper.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	26	6	He went out and made war against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath and the wall of Jabneh and the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in the territory of Ashdod and elsewhere among the Philistines.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	26	7	God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabs that dwelt in Gurbaal, and against the Me-unites.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	26	8	The Ammonites paid tribute to Uzziah, and his fame spread even to the border of Egypt, for he became very strong.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	26	9	Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate and at the Valley Gate and at the Angle, and fortified them.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	26	10	And he built towers in the wilderness, and hewed out many cisterns, for he had large herds, both in the Shephelah and in the plain, and he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	26	11	Moreover Uzziah had an army of soldiers, fit for war, in divisions according to the numbers in the muster made by Je-iel the secretary and Ma-aseiah the officer, under the direction of Hananiah, one of the king’s commanders.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	26	12	The whole number of the heads of fathers’ houses of mighty men of valor was two thousand six hundred.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	26	13	Under their command was an army of three hundred and seven thousand five hundred, who could make war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	26	14	And Uzziah prepared for all the army shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slinging.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	26	15	In Jerusalem he made engines, invented by skilful men, to be on the towers and the corners, to shoot arrows and great stones. And his fame spread far, for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	26	16	But when he was strong he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was false to the Lord his God, and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	26	17	But Azariah the priest went in after him, with eighty priests of the Lord who were men of valor;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	26	18	and they withstood King Uzziah, and said to him, “It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord, but for the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary; for you have done wrong, and it will bring you no honor from the Lord God.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	26	19	Then Uzziah was angry. Now he had a censer in his hand to burn incense, and when he became angry with the priests leprosy broke out on his forehead, in the presence of the priests in the house of the Lord, by the altar of incense.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	26	20	And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked at him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead! And they thrust him out quickly, and he himself hastened to go out, because the Lord had smitten him.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	26	21	And King Uzziah was a leper to the day of his death, and being a leper dwelt in a separate house, for he was excluded from the house of the Lord. And Jotham his son was over the king’s household, governing the people of the land.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	26	22	Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, from first to last, Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz wrote.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	26	23	And Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the burial field which belonged to the kings, for they said, “He is a leper.” And Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	27	1	Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	27	2	And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord according to all that his father Uzziah had done—only he did not invade the temple of the Lord. But the people still followed corrupt practices.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	27	3	He built the upper gate of the house of the Lord, and did much building on the wall of Ophel.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	27	4	Moreover he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and forts and towers on the wooded hills.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	27	5	He fought with the king of the Ammonites and prevailed against them. And the Ammonites gave him that year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand cors of wheat and ten thousand of barley. The Ammonites paid him the same amount in the second and the third years.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	27	6	So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before the Lord his God.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	27	7	Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	27	8	He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	27	9	And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	28	1	Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord, like his father David,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	28	2	but walked in the ways of the kings of Israel. He even made molten images for the Baals;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	28	3	and he burned incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burned his sons as an offering, according to the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	28	4	And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	28	5	Therefore the Lord his God gave him into the hand of the king of Syria, who defeated him and took captive a great number of his people and brought them to Damascus. He was also given into the hand of the king of Israel, who defeated him with great slaughter.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	28	6	For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew a hundred and twenty thousand in Judah in one day, all of them men of valor, because they had forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	28	7	And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Ma-aseiah the king’s son and Azrikam the commander of the palace and Elkanah the next in authority to the king.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	28	8	The men of Israel took captive two hundred thousand of their kinsfolk, women, sons, and daughters; they also took much spoil from them and brought the spoil to Samaria.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	28	9	But a prophet of the Lord was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them, “Behold, because the Lord, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he gave them into your hand, but you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	28	10	And now you intend to subjugate the people of Judah and Jerusalem, male and female, as your slaves. Have you not sins of your own against the Lord your God?
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	28	11	Now hear me, and send back the captives from your kinsfolk whom you have taken, for the fierce wrath of the Lord is upon you.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	28	12	Certain chiefs also of the men of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against those who were coming from the war,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	28	13	and said to them, “You shall not bring the captives in here, for you propose to bring upon us guilt against the Lord in addition to our present sins and guilt. For our guilt is already great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	28	14	So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the assembly.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	28	15	And the men who have been mentioned by name rose and took the captives, and with the spoil they clothed all that were naked among them; they clothed them, gave them sandals, provided them with food and drink, and anointed them; and carrying all the feeble among them on asses, they brought them to their kinsfolk at Jericho, the city of palm trees. Then they returned to Samaria.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	28	16	At that time King Ahaz sent to the king of Assyria for help.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	28	17	For the Edomites had again invaded and defeated Judah, and carried away captives.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	28	18	And the Philistines had made raids on the cities in the Shephelah and the Negeb of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages; and they settled there.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	28	19	For the Lord brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had dealt wantonly in Judah and had been faithless to the Lord.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	28	20	So Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came against him, and afflicted him instead of strengthening him.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	28	21	For Ahaz took from the house of the Lord and the house of the king and of the princes, and gave tribute to the king of Assyria; but it did not help him.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	28	22	In the time of his distress he became yet more faithless to the Lord—this same King Ahaz.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	28	23	For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus which had defeated him, and said, “Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.” But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	28	24	And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and he shut up the doors of the house of the Lord; and he made himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	28	25	In every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, provoking to anger the Lord, the God of his fathers.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	28	26	Now the rest of his acts and all his ways, from first to last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	28	27	And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, in Jerusalem, for they did not bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel. And Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	1	Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abijah the daughter of Zechariah.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	2	And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	3	In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	4	He brought in the priests and the Levites, and assembled them in the square on the east,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	5	and said to them, “Hear me, Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filth from the holy place.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	6	For our fathers have been unfaithful and have done what was evil in the sight of the Lord our God; they have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the Lord, and turned their backs.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	7	They also shut the doors of the vestibule and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense or offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	8	Therefore the wrath of the Lord came on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has made them an object of horror, of astonishment, and of hissing, as you see with your own eyes.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	9	For lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	10	Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the Lord, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	11	My sons, do not now be negligent, for the Lord has chosen you to stand in his presence, to minister to him, and to be his ministers and burn incense to him.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	12	Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites; and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	13	and of the sons of Eli-zaphan, Shimri and Jeuel; and of the sons of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	14	and of the sons of Heman, Jehuel and Shime-i; and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	15	They gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and went in as the king had commanded, by the words of the Lord, to cleanse the house of the Lord.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	16	The priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord to cleanse it, and they brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the Lord into the court of the house of the Lord; and the Levites took it and carried it out to the brook Kidron.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	17	They began to sanctify on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the vestibule of the Lord; then for eight days they sanctified the house of the Lord, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	18	Then they went in to Hezekiah the king and said, “We have cleansed all the house of the Lord, the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the table for the showbread and all its utensils.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	19	All the utensils which King Ahaz discarded in his reign when he was faithless, we have made ready and sanctified; and behold, they are before the altar of the Lord.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	20	Then Hezekiah the king rose early and gathered the officials of the city, and went up to the house of the Lord.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	21	And they brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven he-goats for a sin offering for the kingdom and for the sanctuary and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the Lord.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	22	So they killed the bulls, and the priests received the blood and threw it against the altar; and they killed the rams and their blood was thrown against the altar; and they killed the lambs and their blood was thrown against the altar.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	23	Then the he-goats for the sin offering were brought to the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands upon them,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	24	and the priests killed them and made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel. For the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	25	And he stationed the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, harps, and lyres, according to the commandment of David and of Gad the king’s seer and of Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was from the Lord through his prophets.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	26	The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	27	Then Hezekiah commanded that the burnt offering be offered on the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song to the Lord began also, and the trumpets, accompanied by the instruments of David king of Israel.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	28	The whole assembly worshiped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded; all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	29	When the offering was finished, the king and all who were present with him bowed themselves and worshiped.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	30	And Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praises to the Lord with the words of David and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed down and worshiped.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	31	Then Hezekiah said, “You have now consecrated yourselves to the Lord; come near, bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of the Lord.” And the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings; and all who were of a willing heart brought burnt offerings.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	32	The number of the burnt offerings which the assembly brought was seventy bulls, a hundred rams, and two hundred lambs; all these were for a burnt offering to the Lord.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	33	And the consecrated offerings were six hundred bulls and three thousand sheep.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	34	But the priests were too few and could not flay all the burnt offerings, so until other priests had sanctified themselves their brethren the Levites helped them, until the work was finished—for the Levites were more upright in heart than the priests in sanctifying themselves.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	35	Besides the great number of burnt offerings there was the fat of the peace offerings, and there were the libations for the burnt offerings. Thus the service of the house of the Lord was restored.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	29	36	And Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced because of what God had done for the people; for the thing came about suddenly.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	30	1	Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, to keep the passover to the Lord the God of Israel.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	30	2	For the king and his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem had taken counsel to keep the passover in the second month—
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	30	3	for they could not keep it in its time because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, nor had the people assembled in Jerusalem—
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	30	4	and the plan seemed right to the king and all the assembly.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	30	5	So they decreed to make a proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, that the people should come and keep the passover to the Lord the God of Israel, at Jerusalem; for they had not kept it in great numbers as prescribed.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	30	6	So couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his princes, as the king had commanded, saying, “O people of Israel, return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may turn again to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	30	7	Do not be like your fathers and your brethren, who were faithless to the Lord God of their fathers, so that he made them a desolation, as you see.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	30	8	Do not now be stiff-necked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the Lord, and come to his sanctuary, which he has sanctified for ever, and serve the Lord your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	30	9	For if you return to the Lord, your brethren and your children will find compassion with their captors, and return to this land. For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	30	10	So the couriers went from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, and as far as Zebulun; but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	30	11	Only a few men of Asher, of Manasseh, and of Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	30	12	The hand of God was also upon Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the princes commanded by the word of the Lord.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	30	13	And many people came together in Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great assembly.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	30	14	They set to work and removed the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for burning incense they took away and threw into the Kidron valley.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	30	15	And they killed the passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and the Levites were put to shame, so that they sanctified themselves, and brought burnt offerings into the house of the Lord.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	30	16	They took their accustomed posts according to the law of Moses the man of God; the priests sprinkled the blood which they received from the hand of the Levites.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	30	17	For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves; therefore the Levites had to kill the passover lamb for every one who was not clean, to make it holy to the Lord.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	30	18	For a multitude of the people, many of them from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the passover otherwise than as prescribed. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “The good Lord pardon every one
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	30	19	who sets his heart to seek God, the Lord the God of his fathers, even though not according to the sanctuary’s rules of cleanness.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	30	20	And the Lord heard Hezekiah, and healed the people.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	30	21	And the people of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness; and the Levites and the priests praised the Lord day by day, singing with all their might to the Lord.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	30	22	And Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who showed good skill in the service of the Lord. So the people ate the food of the festival for seven days, sacrificing peace offerings and giving thanks to the Lord the God of their fathers.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	30	23	Then the whole assembly agreed together to keep the feast for another seven days; so they kept it for another seven days with gladness.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	30	24	For Hezekiah king of Judah gave the assembly a thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep for offerings, and the princes gave the assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep. And the priests sanctified themselves in great numbers.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	30	25	The whole assembly of Judah, and the priests and the Levites, and the whole assembly that came out of Israel, and the sojourners who came out of the land of Israel, and the sojourners who dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	30	26	So there was great joy in Jerusalem, for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there had been nothing like this in Jerusalem.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	30	27	Then the priests and the Levites arose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer came to his holy habitation in heaven.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	31	1	Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and broke in pieces the pillars and hewed down the Asherim and broke down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the people of Israel returned to their cities, every man to his possession.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	31	2	And Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and of the Levites, division by division, each according to his service, the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and peace offerings, to minister in the gates of the camp of the Lord and to give thanks and praise.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	31	3	The contribution of the king from his own possessions was for the burnt offerings: the burnt offerings of morning and evening, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, the new moons, and the appointed feasts, as it is written in the law of the Lord.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	31	4	And he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion due to the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to the law of the Lord.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	31	5	As soon as the command was spread abroad, the people of Israel gave in abundance the first fruits of grain, wine, oil, honey, and of all the produce of the field; and they brought in abundantly the tithe of everything.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	31	6	And the people of Israel and Judah who lived in the cities of Judah also brought in the tithe of cattle and sheep, and the dedicated things which had been consecrated to the Lord their God, and laid them in heaps.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	31	7	In the third month they began to pile up the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	31	8	When Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the Lord and his people Israel.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	31	9	And Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites about the heaps.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	31	10	Azariah the chief priest, who was of the house of Zadok, answered him, “Since they began to bring the contributions into the house of the Lord we have eaten and had enough and have plenty left; for the Lord has blessed his people, so that we have this great store left.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	31	11	Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare chambers in the house of the Lord; and they prepared them.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	31	12	And they faithfully brought in the contributions, the tithes and the dedicated things. The chief officer in charge of them was Conaniah the Levite, with Shime-i his brother as second;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	31	13	while Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah were overseers assisting Conaniah and Shime-i his brother, by the appointment of Hezekiah the king and Azariah the chief officer of the house of God.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	31	14	And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, keeper of the east gate, was over the freewill offerings to God, to apportion the contribution reserved for the Lord and the most holy offerings.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	31	15	Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah were faithfully assisting him in the cities of the priests, to distribute the portions to their brethren, old and young alike, by divisions,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	31	16	except those enrolled by genealogy, males from three years old and upwards, all who entered the house of the Lord as the duty of each day required, for their service according to their offices, by their divisions.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	31	17	The enrollment of the priests was according to their fathers’ houses; that of the Levites from twenty years old and upwards was according to their offices, by their divisions.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	31	18	The priests were enrolled with all their little children, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, the whole multitude; for they were faithful in keeping themselves holy.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	31	19	And for the sons of Aaron, the priests, who were in the fields of common land belonging to their cities, there were men in the several cities who were designated by name to distribute portions to every male among the priests and to every one among the Levites who was enrolled.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	31	20	Thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah; and he did what was good and right and faithful before the Lord his God.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	31	21	And every work that he undertook in the service of the house of God and in accordance with the law and the commandments, seeking his God, he did with all his heart, and prospered.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	32	1	After these things and these acts of faithfulness Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah and encamped against the fortified cities, thinking to win them for himself.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	32	2	And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come and intended to fight against Jerusalem,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	32	3	he planned with his officers and his mighty men to stop the water of the springs that were outside the city; and they helped him.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	32	4	A great many people were gathered, and they stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the land, saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water?”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	32	5	He set to work resolutely and built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised towers upon it, and outside it he built another wall; and he strengthened the Millo in the city of David. He also made weapons and shields in abundance.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	32	6	And he set combat commanders over the people, and gathered them together to him in the square at the gate of the city and spoke encouragingly to them, saying,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	32	7	“Be strong and of good courage. Do not be afraid or dismayed before the king of Assyria and all the horde that is with him; for there is one greater with us than with him.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	32	8	With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the Lord our God, to help us and to fight our battles.” And the people took confidence from the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	32	9	After this Sennacherib king of Assyria, who was besieging Lachish with all his forces, sent his servants to Jerusalem to Hezekiah king of Judah and to all the people of Judah that were in Jerusalem, saying,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	32	10	“Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria, ‘On what are you relying, that you stand siege in Jerusalem?
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	32	11	Is not Hezekiah misleading you, that he may give you over to die by famine and by thirst, when he tells you, “The Lord our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria”?
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	32	12	Has not this same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, “Before one altar you shall worship, and upon it you shall burn your sacrifices”?
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	32	13	Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of other lands? Were the gods of the nations of those lands at all able to deliver their lands out of my hand?
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	32	14	Who among all the gods of those nations which my fathers utterly destroyed was able to deliver his people from my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you from my hand?
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	32	15	Now therefore do not let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you in this fashion, and do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand!’”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	32	16	And his servants said still more against the Lord GOD and against his servant Hezekiah.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	32	17	And he wrote letters to cast contempt on the Lord the God of Israel and to speak against him, saying, “Like the gods of the nations of the lands who have not delivered their people from my hands, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver his people from my hand.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	32	18	And they shouted it with a loud voice in the language of Judah to the people of Jerusalem who were upon the wall, to frighten and terrify them, in order that they might take the city.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	32	19	And they spoke of the God of Jerusalem as they spoke of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men’s hands.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	32	20	Then Hezekiah the king and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, prayed because of this and cried to heaven.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	32	21	And the Lord sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty warriors and commanders and officers in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he came into the house of his god, some of his own sons struck him down there with the sword.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	32	22	So the Lord saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib king of Assyria and from the hand of all his enemies; and he gave them rest on every side.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	32	23	And many brought gifts to the Lord to Jerusalem and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah, so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from that time onward.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	32	24	In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death, and he prayed to the Lord; and he answered him and gave him a sign.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	32	25	But Hezekiah did not make return according to the benefit done to him, for his heart was proud. Therefore wrath came upon him and Judah and Jerusalem.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	32	26	But Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	32	27	And Hezekiah had very great riches and honor; and he made for himself treasuries for silver, for gold, for precious stones, for spices, for shields, and for all kinds of costly vessels;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	32	28	storehouses also for the yield of grain, wine, and oil; and stalls for all kinds of cattle, and sheepfolds.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	32	29	He likewise provided cities for himself, and flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him very great possessions.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	32	30	This same Hezekiah closed the upper outlet of the waters of Gihon and directed them down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	32	31	And so in the matter of the envoys of the princes of Babylon, who had been sent to him to inquire about the sign that had been done in the land, God left him to himself, in order to try him and to know all that was in his heart.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	32	32	Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his good deeds, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	32	33	And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent of the tombs of the sons of David; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	33	1	Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	33	2	He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	33	3	For he rebuilt the high places which his father Hezekiah had broken down, and erected altars to the Baals, and made Asherahs, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	33	4	And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	33	5	And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	33	6	And he burned his sons as an offering in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and practiced soothsaying and augury and sorcery, and dealt with mediums and with wizards. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	33	7	And the image of the idol which he had made he set in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	33	8	and I will no more remove the foot of Israel from the land which I appointed for your fathers, if only they will be careful to do all that I have commanded them, all the law, the statutes, and the ordinances given through Moses.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	33	9	Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did more evil than the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the people of Israel.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	33	10	The Lord spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they gave no heed.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	33	11	Therefore the Lord brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with hooks and bound him with fetters of bronze and brought him to Babylon.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	33	12	And when he was in distress he entreated the favor of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	33	13	He prayed to him, and God received his entreaty and heard his supplication and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	33	14	Afterwards he built an outer wall for the city of David west of Gihon, in the valley, and for the entrance into the Fish Gate, and carried it round Ophel, and raised it to a very great height; he also put commanders of the army in all the fortified cities in Judah.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	33	15	And he took away the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the Lord, and all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of the Lord and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside of the city.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	33	16	He also restored the altar of the Lord and offered upon it sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving; and he commanded Judah to serve the Lord the God of Israel.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	33	17	Nevertheless the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the Lord their God.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	33	18	Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the Lord the God of Israel, behold, they are in the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	33	19	And his prayer, and how God received his entreaty, and all his sin and his faithlessness, and the sites on which he built high places and set up the Asherim and the images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	33	20	So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his house; and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	33	21	Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	33	22	He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done. Amon sacrificed to all the images that Manasseh his father had made, and served them.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	33	23	And he did not humble himself before the Lord, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself, but this Amon incurred guilt more and more.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	33	24	And his servants conspired against him and killed him in his house.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	33	25	But the people of the land slew all those who had conspired against King Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	34	1	Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	34	2	He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and walked in the ways of David his father; and he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	34	3	For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, and the graven and the molten images.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	34	4	And they broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and he hewed down the incense altars which stood above them; and he broke in pieces the Asherim and the graven and the molten images, and he made dust of them and strewed it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	34	5	He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	34	6	And in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, and as far as Naphtali, in their ruins round about,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	34	7	he broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the images into powder, and hewed down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	34	8	Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Ma-aseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz, the recorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	34	9	They came to Hilkiah the high priest and delivered the money that had been brought into the house of God, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had collected from Manasseh and Ephraim and from all the remnant of Israel and from all Judah and Benjamin and from the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	34	10	They delivered it to the workmen who had the oversight of the house of the Lord; and the workmen who were working in the house of the Lord gave it for repairing and restoring the house.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	34	11	They gave it to the carpenters and the builders to buy quarried stone, and timber for binders and beams for the buildings which the kings of Judah had let go to ruin.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	34	12	And the men did the work faithfully. Over them were set Jahath and Obadiah the Levites, of the sons of Merari, and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to have oversight. The Levites, all who were skilful with instruments of music,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	34	13	were over the burden bearers and directed all who did work in every kind of service; and some of the Levites were scribes, and officials, and gatekeepers.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	34	14	While they were bringing out the money that had been brought into the house of the Lord, Hilkiah the priest found the book of the law of the Lord given through Moses.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	34	15	Then Hilkiah said to Shaphan the secretary, “I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord”; and Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	34	16	Shaphan brought the book to the king, and further reported to the king, “All that was committed to your servants they are doing.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	34	17	They have emptied out the money that was found in the house of the Lord and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers and the workmen.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	34	18	Then Shaphan the secretary told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read it before the king.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	34	19	When the king heard the words of the law he rent his clothes.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	34	20	And the king commanded Hilkiah, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Abdon the son of Micah, Shaphan the secretary, and Asaiah the king’s servant, saying,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	34	21	“Go, inquire of the Lord for me and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that has been found; for great is the wrath of the Lord that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord, to do according to all that is written in this book.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	34	22	So Hilkiah and those whom the king had sent went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter) and spoke to her to that effect.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	34	23	And she said to them, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: ‘Tell the man who sent you to me,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	34	24	Thus says the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place and upon its inhabitants, all the curses that are written in the book which was read before the king of Judah.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	34	25	Because they have forsaken me and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands, therefore my wrath will be poured out upon this place and will not be quenched.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	34	26	But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the Lord, thus shall you say to him, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Regarding the words which you have heard,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	34	27	because your heart was penitent and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and its inhabitants, and you have humbled yourself before me, and have rent your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, says the Lord.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	34	28	Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place and its inhabitants.’” And they brought back word to the king.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	34	29	Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	34	30	And the king went up to the house of the Lord, with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the priests and the Levites, all the people both great and small; and he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant which had been found in the house of the Lord.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	34	31	And the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	34	32	Then he made all who were present in Jerusalem and in Benjamin stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	34	33	And Josiah took away all the abominations from all the territory that belonged to the people of Israel, and made all who were in Israel serve the Lord their God. All his days they did not turn away from following the Lord the God of their fathers.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	35	1	Josiah kept a passover to the Lord in Jerusalem; and they killed the passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the first month.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	35	2	He appointed the priests to their offices and encouraged them in the service of the house of the Lord.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	35	3	And he said to the Levites who taught all Israel and who were holy to the Lord, “Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, built; you need no longer carry it upon your shoulders. Now serve the Lord your God and his people Israel.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	35	4	Prepare yourselves according to your fathers’ houses by your divisions, following the directions of David king of Israel and the directions of Solomon his son.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	35	5	And stand in the holy place according to the groupings of the fathers’ houses of your brethren the lay people, and let there be for each a part of a father’s house of the Levites.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	35	6	And kill the passover lamb, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brethren, to do according to the word of the Lord by Moses.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	35	7	Then Josiah contributed to the lay people, as passover offerings for all that were present, lambs and kids from the flock to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bulls; these were from the king’s possessions.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	35	8	And his princes contributed willingly to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the chief officers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the passover offerings two thousand six hundred lambs and kids and three hundred bulls.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	35	9	Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel his brothers, and Hashabiah and Je-iel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the passover offerings five thousand lambs and kids and five hundred bulls.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	35	10	When the service had been prepared for, the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their divisions according to the king’s command.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	35	11	And they killed the passover lamb, and the priests sprinkled the blood which they received from them while the Levites flayed the victims.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	35	12	And they set aside the burnt offerings that they might distribute them according to the groupings of the fathers’ houses of the lay people, to offer to the Lord, as it is written in the book of Moses. And so they did with the bulls.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	35	13	And they roasted the passover lamb with fire according to the ordinance; and they boiled the holy offerings in pots, in caldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the lay people.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	35	14	And afterward they prepared for themselves and for the priests, because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering the burnt offerings and the fat parts until night; so the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests the sons of Aaron.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	35	15	The singers, the sons of Asaph, were in their place according to the command of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the gatekeepers were at each gate; they did not need to depart from their service, for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	35	16	So all the service of the Lord was prepared that day, to keep the passover and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of the Lord, according to the command of King Josiah.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	35	17	And the people of Israel who were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	35	18	No passover like it had been kept in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet; none of the kings of Israel had kept such a passover as was kept by Josiah, and the priests and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	35	19	In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah this passover was kept.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	35	20	After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight at Carchemish on the Euphrates and Josiah went out against him.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	35	21	But he sent envoys to him, saying, “What have we to do with each other, king of Judah? I am not coming against you this day, but against the house with which I am at war; and God has commanded me to make haste. Cease opposing God, who is with me, lest he destroy you.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	35	22	Nevertheless Josiah would not turn away from him, but disguised himself in order to fight with him. He did not listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, but joined battle in the plain of Megiddo.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	35	23	And the archers shot King Josiah; and the king said to his servants, “Take me away, for I am badly wounded.”
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	35	24	So his servants took him out of the chariot and carried him in his second chariot and brought him to Jerusalem. And he died, and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	35	25	Jeremiah also uttered a lament for Josiah; and all the singing men and singing women have spoken of Josiah in their laments to this day. They made these an ordinance in Israel; behold, they are written in the Laments.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	35	26	Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his good deeds according to what is written in the law of the Lord,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	35	27	and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	36	1	The people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and made him king in his father’s stead in Jerusalem.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	36	2	Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	36	3	Then the king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem and laid upon the land a tribute of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	36	4	And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim; but Neco took Jehoahaz his brother and carried him to Egypt.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	36	5	Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord his God.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	36	6	Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters to take him to Babylon.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	36	7	Nebuchadnezzar also carried part of the vessels of the house of the Lord to Babylon and put them in his palace in Babylon.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	36	8	Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and the abominations which he did, and what was found against him, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	36	9	Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	36	10	In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the precious vessels of the house of the Lord, and made his brother Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	36	11	Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	36	12	He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord his God. He did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke from the mouth of the Lord.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	36	13	He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the Lord, the God of Israel.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	36	14	All the leading priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of the Lord which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	36	15	The Lord, the God of their fathers, sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place;
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	36	16	but they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets, till the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, till there was no remedy.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	36	17	Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or aged; he gave them all into his hand.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	36	18	And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	36	19	And they burned the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its precious vessels.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	36	20	He took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia,
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	36	21	to fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept sabbath, to fulfil seventy years.
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	36	22	Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:
 2 Chronicles	2Chron	14	36	23	“Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you of all his people, may the Lord his God be with him. Let him go up.’”
 Ezra	Ezra	15	1	1	In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:
 Ezra	Ezra	15	1	2	“Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	1	3	Whoever is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and rebuild the house of the Lord, the God of Israel—he is the God who is in Jerusalem;
 Ezra	Ezra	15	1	4	and let each survivor, in whatever place he sojourns, be assisted by the men of his place with silver and gold, with goods and with beasts, besides freewill offerings for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.”
 Ezra	Ezra	15	1	5	Then rose up the heads of the fathers’ houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, every one whose spirit God had stirred to go up to rebuild the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem;
 Ezra	Ezra	15	1	6	and all who were about them aided them with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, with beasts, and with costly wares, besides all that was freely offered.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	1	7	Cyrus the king also brought out the vessels of the house of the Lord which Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the house of his gods.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	1	8	Cyrus king of Persia brought these out in charge of Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to Shesh-bazzar the prince of Judah.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	1	9	And this was the number of them: a thousand basins of gold, a thousand basins of silver, twenty-nine censers,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	1	10	thirty bowls of gold, two thousand four hundred and ten bowls of silver, and a thousand other vessels;
 Ezra	Ezra	15	1	11	all the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand four hundred and sixty-nine. All these did Shesh-bazzar bring up, when the exiles were brought up from Babylonia to Jerusalem.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	1	Now these were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried captive to Babylonia; they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	2	They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Re-el-aiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	3	the sons of Parosh, two thousand one hundred and seventy-two.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	4	The sons of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy-two.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	5	The sons of Arah, seven hundred and seventy-five.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	6	The sons of Pahath-moab, namely the sons of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	7	The sons of Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	8	The sons of Zattu, nine hundred and forty-five.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	9	The sons of Zaccai, seven hundred and sixty.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	10	The sons of Bani, six hundred and forty-two.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	11	The sons of Bebai, six hundred and twenty-three.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	12	The sons of Azgad, one thousand two hundred and twenty-two.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	13	The sons of Adonikam, six hundred and sixty-six.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	14	The sons of Bigvai, two thousand and fifty-six.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	15	The sons of Adin, four hundred and fifty-four.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	16	The sons of Ater, namely of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	17	The sons of Bezai, three hundred and twenty-three.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	18	The sons of Jorah, one hundred and twelve.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	19	The sons of Hashum, two hundred and twenty-three.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	20	The sons of Gibbar, ninety-five.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	21	The sons of Bethlehem, one hundred and twenty-three.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	22	The men of Netophah, fifty-six.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	23	The men of Anathoth, one hundred and twenty-eight.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	24	The sons of Azmaveth, forty-two.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	25	The sons of Kiriatharim, Chephirah, and Be-eroth, seven hundred and forty-three.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	26	The sons of Ramah and Geba, six hundred and twenty-one.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	27	The men of Michmas, one hundred and twenty-two.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	28	The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred and twenty-three.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	29	The sons of Nebo, fifty-two.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	30	The sons of Magbish, one hundred and fifty-six.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	31	The sons of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	32	The sons of Harim, three hundred and twenty.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	33	The sons of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-five.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	34	The sons of Jericho, three hundred and forty-five.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	35	The sons of Senaah, three thousand six hundred and thirty.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	36	The priests: the sons of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	37	The sons of Immer, one thousand and fifty-two.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	38	The sons of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred and forty-seven.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	39	The sons of Harim, one thousand and seventeen.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	40	The Levites: the sons of Jeshua and Kadmi-el, of the sons of Hodaviah, seventy-four.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	41	The singers: the sons of Asaph, one hundred and twenty-eight.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	42	The sons of the gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, and the sons of Shobai, in all one hundred and thirty-nine.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	43	The temple servants: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	44	the sons of Keros, the sons of Siaha, the sons of Padon,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	45	the sons of Lebanah, the sons of Hagabah, the sons of Akkub,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	46	the sons of Hagab, the sons of Shamlai, the sons of Hanan,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	47	the sons of Giddel, the sons of Gahar, the sons of Re-aiah,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	48	the sons of Rezin, the sons of Nekoda, the sons of Gazzam,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	49	the sons of Uzza, the sons of Paseah, the sons of Besai,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	50	the sons of Asnah, the sons of Me-unim, the sons of Nephisim,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	51	the sons of Bakbuk, the sons of Hakupha, the sons of Harhur,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	52	the sons of Bazluth, the sons of Mehida, the sons of Harsha,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	53	the sons of Barkos, the sons of Sisera, the sons of Temah,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	54	the sons of Neziah, and the sons of Hatipha.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	55	The sons of Solomon’s servants: the sons of Sotai, the sons of Hassophereth, the sons of Peruda,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	56	the sons of Jaalah, the sons of Darkon, the sons of Giddel,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	57	the sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Pochereth-hazzebaim, and the sons of Ami.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	58	All the temple servants and the sons of Solomon’s servants were three hundred and ninety-two.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	59	The following were those who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, though they could not prove their fathers’ houses or their descent, whether they belonged to Israel:
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	60	the sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, and the sons of Nekoda, six hundred and fifty-two.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	61	Also, of the sons of the priests: the sons of Habaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, and the sons of Barzillai (who had taken a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called by their name).
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	62	These sought their registration among those enrolled in the genealogies, but they were not found there, and so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean;
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	63	the governor told them that they were not to partake of the most holy food, until there should be a priest to consult Urim and Thummim.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	64	The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	65	besides their menservants and maidservants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred male and female singers.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	66	Their horses were seven hundred and thirty-six, their mules were two hundred and forty-five,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	67	their camels were four hundred and thirty-five, and their asses were six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	68	Some of the heads of families, when they came to the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem, made freewill offerings for the house of God, to erect it on its site;
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	69	according to their ability they gave to the treasury of the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold, five thousand minas of silver, and one hundred priests’ garments.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	2	70	The priests, the Levites, and some of the people lived in Jerusalem and its vicinity; and the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants lived in their towns, and all Israel in their towns.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	3	1	When the seventh month came, and the sons of Israel were in the towns, the people gathered as one man to Jerusalem.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	3	2	Then arose Jeshua the son of Jozadak, with his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel the son of She-alti-el with his kinsmen, and they built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings upon it, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	3	3	They set the altar in its place, for fear was upon them because of the peoples of the lands, and they offered burnt offerings upon it to the Lord, burnt offerings morning and evening.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	3	4	And they kept the feast of booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number according to the ordinance, as each day required,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	3	5	and after that the continual burnt offerings, the offerings at the new moon and at all the appointed feasts of the Lord, and the offerings of every one who made a freewill offering to the Lord.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	3	6	From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord. But the foundation of the temple of the Lord was not yet laid.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	3	7	So they gave money to the masons and the carpenters, and food, drink, and oil to the Sidonians and the Tyrians to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant which they had from Cyrus king of Persia.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	3	8	Now in the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of She-alti-el and Jeshua the son of Jozadak made a beginning, together with the rest of their brethren, the priests and the Levites and all who had come to Jerusalem from the captivity. They appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of the house of the Lord.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	3	9	And Jeshua with his sons and his kinsmen, and Kadmi-el and his sons, the sons of Judah, together took the oversight of the workmen in the house of God, along with the sons of Henadad and the Levites, their sons and kinsmen.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	3	10	And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, the priests in their vestments came forward with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the Lord, according to the directions of David king of Israel;
 Ezra	Ezra	15	3	11	and they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the Lord, “For he is good, for his steadfast love endures for ever toward Israel.” And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	3	12	But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ houses, old men who had seen the first house, wept with a loud voice when they saw the foundation of this house being laid, though many shouted aloud for joy;
 Ezra	Ezra	15	3	13	so that the people could not distinguish the sound of the joyful shout from the sound of the people’s weeping, for the people shouted with a great shout, and the sound was heard afar.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	4	1	Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple to the Lord, the God of Israel,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	4	2	they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers’ houses and said to them, “Let us build with you; for we worship your God as you do, and we have been sacrificing to him ever since the days of Esar-haddon king of Assyria who brought us here.”
 Ezra	Ezra	15	4	3	But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers’ houses in Israel said to them, “You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God; but we alone will build to the Lord, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.”
 Ezra	Ezra	15	4	4	Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah, and made them afraid to build,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	4	5	and hired counselors against them to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	4	6	And in the reign of Ahasu-erus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	4	7	And in the days of Ar-ta-xerxes, Bishlam and Mithredath and Tabeel and the rest of their associates wrote to Ar-ta-xerxes king of Persia; the letter was written in Aramaic and translated.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	4	8	Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Ar-ta-xerxes the king as follows—
 Ezra	Ezra	15	4	9	then wrote Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates, the judges, the governors, the officials, the Persians, the men of Erech, the Babylonians, the men of Susa, that is, the Elamites,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	4	10	and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnappar deported and settled in the cities of Samaria and in the rest of the province Beyond the River, and now
 Ezra	Ezra	15	4	11	this is a copy of the letter that they sent—“To Ar-ta-xerxes the king: Your servants, the men of the province Beyond the River, send greeting. And now
 Ezra	Ezra	15	4	12	be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you to us have gone to Jerusalem. They are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city; they are finishing the walls and repairing the foundations.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	4	13	Now be it known to the king that, if this city is rebuilt and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and the royal revenue will be impaired.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	4	14	Now because we eat the salt of the palace and it is not fitting for us to witness the king’s dishonor, therefore we send and inform the king,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	4	15	in order that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers. You will find in the book of the records and learn that this city is a rebellious city, hurtful to kings and provinces, and that sedition was stirred up in it from of old. That was why this city was laid waste.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	4	16	We make known to the king that, if this city is rebuilt and its walls finished, you will then have no possession in the province Beyond the River.”
 Ezra	Ezra	15	4	17	The king sent an answer: “To Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe and the rest of their associates who live in Samaria and in the rest of the province Beyond the River, greeting. And now
 Ezra	Ezra	15	4	18	the letter which you sent to us has been plainly read before me.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	4	19	And I made a decree, and search has been made, and it has been found that this city from of old has risen against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made in it.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	4	20	And mighty kings have been over Jerusalem, who ruled over the whole province Beyond the River, to whom tribute, custom, and toll were paid.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	4	21	Therefore make a decree that these men be made to cease, and that this city be not rebuilt, until a decree is made by me.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	4	22	And take care not to be slack in this matter; why should damage grow to the hurt of the king?”
 Ezra	Ezra	15	4	23	Then, when the copy of King Ar-ta-xerxes’ letter was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their associates, they went in haste to the Jews at Jerusalem and by force and power made them cease.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	4	24	Then the work on the house of God which is in Jerusalem stopped; and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	5	1	Now the prophets, Haggai and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel who was over them.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	5	2	Then Zerubbabel the son of She-alti-el and Jeshua the son of Jozadak arose and began to rebuild the house of God which is in Jerusalem; and with them were the prophets of God, helping them.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	5	3	At the same time Tattenai the governor of the province Beyond the River and Shethar-bozenai and their associates came to them and spoke to them thus, “Who gave you a decree to build this house and to finish this structure?”
 Ezra	Ezra	15	5	4	They also asked them this, “What are the names of the men who are building this building?”
 Ezra	Ezra	15	5	5	But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them till a report should reach Darius and then answer be returned by letter concerning it.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	5	6	The copy of the letter which Tattenai the governor of the province Beyond the River and Shethar-bozenai and his associates the governors who were in the province Beyond the River sent to Darius the king;
 Ezra	Ezra	15	5	7	they sent him a report, in which was written as follows: “To Darius the king, all peace.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	5	8	Be it known to the king that we went to the province of Judah, to the house of the great God. It is being built with huge stones, and timber is laid in the walls; this work goes on diligently and prospers in their hands.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	5	9	Then we asked those elders and spoke to them thus, ‘Who gave you a decree to build this house and to finish this structure?’
 Ezra	Ezra	15	5	10	We also asked them their names, for your information, that we might write down the names of the men at their head.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	5	11	And this was their reply to us: ‘We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the house that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	5	12	But because our fathers had angered the God of heaven, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house and carried away the people to Babylonia.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	5	13	However in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree that this house of God should be rebuilt.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	5	14	And the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple that was in Jerusalem and brought into the temple of Babylon, these Cyrus the king took out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one whose name was Shesh-bazzar, whom he had made governor;
 Ezra	Ezra	15	5	15	and he said to him, “Take these vessels, go and put them in the temple which is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be rebuilt on its site.”
 Ezra	Ezra	15	5	16	Then this Shesh-bazzar came and laid the foundations of the house of God which is in Jerusalem; and from that time until now it has been in building, and it is not yet finished.’
 Ezra	Ezra	15	5	17	Therefore, if it seem good to the king, let search be made in the royal archives there in Babylon, to see whether a decree was issued by Cyrus the king for the rebuilding of this house of God in Jerusalem. And let the king send us his pleasure in this matter.”
 Ezra	Ezra	15	6	1	Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in Babylonia, in the house of the archives where the documents were stored.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	6	2	And in Ecbatana, the capital which is in the province of Media, a scroll was found on which this was written: “A record.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	6	3	In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king issued a decree: Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be rebuilt, the place where sacrifices are offered and burnt offerings are brought; its height shall be sixty cubits and its breadth sixty cubits,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	6	4	with three courses of great stones and one course of timber; let the cost be paid from the royal treasury.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	6	5	And also let the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that is in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, be restored and brought back to the temple which is in Jerusalem, each to its place; you shall put them in the house of God.”
 Ezra	Ezra	15	6	6	“Now therefore, Tattenai, governor of the province Beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and your associates the governors who are in the province Beyond the River, keep away;
 Ezra	Ezra	15	6	7	let the work on this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild this house of God on its site.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	6	8	Moreover I make a decree regarding what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the rebuilding of this house of God; the cost is to be paid to these men in full and without delay from the royal revenue, the tribute of the province from Beyond the River.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	6	9	And whatever is needed—young bulls, rams, or sheep for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, or oil, as the priests at Jerusalem require—let that be given to them day by day without fail,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	6	10	that they may offer pleasing sacrifices to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king and his sons.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	6	11	Also I make a decree that if any one alters this edict, a beam shall be pulled out of his house, and he shall be impaled upon it, and his house shall be made a dunghill.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	6	12	May the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow any king or people that shall put forth a hand to alter this, or to destroy this house of God which is in Jerusalem. I Darius make a decree; let it be done with all diligence.”
 Ezra	Ezra	15	6	13	Then, according to the word sent by Darius the king, Tattenai, the governor of the province Beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates did with all diligence what Darius the king had ordered.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	6	14	And the elders of the Jews built and prospered, through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. They finished their building by command of the God of Israel and by decree of Cyrus and Darius and Ar-ta-xerxes king of Persia;
 Ezra	Ezra	15	6	15	and this house was finished on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	6	16	And the people of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the returned exiles, celebrated the dedication of this house of God with joy.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	6	17	They offered at the dedication of this house of God one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and as a sin offering for all Israel twelve he-goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	6	18	And they set the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God at Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	6	19	On the fourteenth day of the first month the returned exiles kept the passover.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	6	20	For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; all of them were clean. So they killed the passover lamb for all the returned exiles, for their fellow priests, and for themselves;
 Ezra	Ezra	15	6	21	it was eaten by the people of Israel who had returned from exile, and also by every one who had joined them and separated himself from the pollutions of the peoples of the land to worship the Lord, the God of Israel.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	6	22	And they kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; for the Lord had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, so that he aided them in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	7	1	Now after this, in the reign of Ar-ta-xerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, son of Azariah, son of Hilkiah,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	7	2	son of Shallum, son of Zadok, son of Ahitub,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	7	3	son of Amariah, son of Azariah, son of Meraioth,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	7	4	son of Zerahiah, son of Uzzi, son of Bukki,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	7	5	son of Abishu-a, son of Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the chief priest—
 Ezra	Ezra	15	7	6	this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the law of Moses which the Lord the God of Israel had given; and the king granted him all that he asked, for the hand of the Lord his God was upon him.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	7	7	And there went up also to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Ar-ta-xerxes the king, some of the people of Israel, and some of the priests and Levites, the singers and gatekeepers, and the temple servants.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	7	8	And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king;
 Ezra	Ezra	15	7	9	for on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylonia, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, for the good hand of his God was upon him.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	7	10	For Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach his statutes and ordinances in Israel.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	7	11	This is a copy of the letter which King Ar-ta-xerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, learned in matters of the commandments of the Lord and his statutes for Israel:
 Ezra	Ezra	15	7	12	“Ar-ta-xerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven. And now
 Ezra	Ezra	15	7	13	I make a decree that any one of the people of Israel or their priests or Levites in my kingdom, who freely offers to go to Jerusalem, may go with you.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	7	14	For you are sent by the king and his seven counselors to make inquiries about Judah and Jerusalem according to the law of your God, which is in your hand,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	7	15	and also to convey the silver and gold which the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose dwelling is in Jerusalem,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	7	16	with all the silver and gold which you shall find in the whole province of Babylonia, and with the freewill offerings of the people and the priests, vowed willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	7	17	With this money, then, you shall with all diligence buy bulls, rams, and lambs, with their cereal offerings and their drink offerings, and you shall offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	7	18	Whatever seems good to you and your brethren to do with the rest of the silver and gold, you may do, according to the will of your God.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	7	19	The vessels that have been given you for the service of the house of your God, you shall deliver before the God of Jerusalem.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	7	20	And whatever else is required for the house of your God, which you have occasion to provide, you may provide it out of the king’s treasury.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	7	21	“And I, Ar-ta-xerxes the king, make a decree to all the treasurers in the province Beyond the River: Whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, requires of you, be it done with all diligence,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	7	22	up to a hundred talents of silver, a hundred cors of wheat, a hundred baths of wine, a hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	7	23	Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done in full for the house of the God of heaven, lest his wrath be against the realm of the king and his sons.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	7	24	We also notify you that it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll upon any one of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the doorkeepers, the temple servants, or other servants of this house of God.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	7	25	“And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God which is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people in the province Beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God; and those who do not know them, you shall teach.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	7	26	Whoever will not obey the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be strictly executed upon him, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of his goods or for imprisonment.”
 Ezra	Ezra	15	7	27	Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, who put such a thing as this into the heart of the king, to beautify the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	7	28	and who extended to me his steadfast love before the king and his counselors, and before all the king’s mighty officers. I took courage, for the hand of the Lord my God was upon me, and I gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	1	These are the heads of their fathers’ houses, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylonia, in the reign of Ar-ta-xerxes the king:
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	2	Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom. Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel. Of the sons of David, Hattush,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	3	of the sons of Shecaniah. Of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah, with whom were registered one hundred and fifty men.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	4	Of the sons of Pahath-moab, Eli-e-ho-enai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred men.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	5	Of the sons of Zattu, Shecaniah the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred men.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	6	Of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty men.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	7	Of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy men.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	8	Of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him eighty men.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	9	Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen men.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	10	Of the sons of Bani, Shelomith the son of Josiphiah, and with him a hundred and sixty men.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	11	Of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah, the son of Bebai, and with him twenty-eight men.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	12	Of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and with him a hundred and ten men.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	13	Of the sons of Adonikam, those who came later, their names being Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah, and with them sixty men.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	14	Of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zaccur, and with them seventy men.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	15	I gathered them to the river that runs to Ahava, and there we encamped three days. As I reviewed the people and the priests, I found there none of the sons of Levi.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	16	Then I sent for Eliezer, Ari-el, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, leading men, and for Joiarib and Elnathan, who were men of insight,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	17	and sent them to Iddo, the leading man at the place Casiphia, telling them what to say to Iddo and his brethren the temple servants at the place Casiphia, namely, to send us ministers for the house of our God.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	18	And by the good hand of our God upon us, they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli the son of Levi, son of Israel, namely Sherebiah with his sons and kinsmen, eighteen;
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	19	also Hashabiah and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, with his kinsmen and their sons, twenty;
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	20	besides two hundred and twenty of the temple servants, whom David and his officials had set apart to attend the Levites. These were all mentioned by name.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	21	Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for ourselves, our children, and all our goods.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	22	For I was ashamed to ask the king for a band of soldiers and horsemen to protect us against the enemy on our way; since we had told the king, “The hand of our God is for good upon all that seek him, and the power of his wrath is against all that forsake him.”
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	23	So we fasted and besought our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	24	Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests: Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their kinsmen with them.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	25	And I weighed out to them the silver and the gold and the vessels, the offering for the house of our God which the king and his counselors and his lords and all Israel there present had offered;
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	26	I weighed out into their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels worth a hundred talents, and a hundred talents of gold,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	27	twenty bowls of gold worth a thousand darics, and two vessels of fine bright bronze as precious as gold.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	28	And I said to them, “You are holy to the Lord, and the vessels are holy; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the Lord, the God of your fathers.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	29	Guard them and keep them until you weigh them before the chief priests and the Levites and the heads of fathers’ houses in Israel at Jerusalem, within the chambers of the house of the Lord.”
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	30	So the priests and the Levites took over the weight of the silver and the gold and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem, to the house of our God.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	31	Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem; the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushes by the way.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	32	We came to Jerusalem, and there we remained three days.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	33	On the fourth day, within the house of our God, the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed into the hands of Meremoth the priest, son of Uriah, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas, and with them were the Levites, Jozabad the son of Jeshua and No-adiah the son of Binnui.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	34	The whole was counted and weighed, and the weight of everything was recorded.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	35	At that time those who had come from captivity, the returned exiles, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and as a sin offering twelve he-goats; all this was a burnt offering to the Lord.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	8	36	They also delivered the king’s commissions to the king’s satraps and to the governors of the province Beyond the River; and they aided the people and the house of God.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	9	1	After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	9	2	For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons; so that the holy race has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost.”
 Ezra	Ezra	15	9	3	When I heard this, I rent my garments and my mantle, and pulled hair from my head and beard, and sat appalled.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	9	4	Then all who trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the faithlessness of the returned exiles, gathered round me while I sat appalled until the evening sacrifice.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	9	5	And at the evening sacrifice I rose from my fasting, with my garments and my mantle rent, and fell upon my knees and spread out my hands to the Lord my God,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	9	6	saying: “O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to thee, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	9	7	From the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great guilt; and for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering, and to utter shame, as at this day.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	9	8	But now for a brief moment favor has been shown by the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant, and to give us a secure hold within his holy place, that our God may brighten our eyes and grant us a little reviving in our bondage.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	9	9	For we are bondmen; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended to us his steadfast love before the kings of Persia, to grant us some reviving to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us protection in Judea and Jerusalem.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	9	10	“And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken thy commandments,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	9	11	which thou didst command by thy servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land which you are entering, to take possession of it, is a land unclean with the pollutions of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations which have filled it from end to end with their uncleanness.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	9	12	Therefore give not your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.’
 Ezra	Ezra	15	9	13	And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, seeing that thou, our God, hast punished us less than our iniquities deserved and hast given us such a remnant as this,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	9	14	shall we break thy commandments again and intermarry with the peoples who practice these abominations? Wouldst thou not be angry with us till thou wouldst consume us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?
 Ezra	Ezra	15	9	15	O Lord the God of Israel, thou art just, for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as at this day. Behold, we are before thee in our guilt, for none can stand before thee because of this.”
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	1	While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel; for the people wept bitterly.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	2	And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, addressed Ezra: “We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	3	Therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	4	Arise, for it is your task, and we are with you; be strong and do it.”
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	5	Then Ezra arose and made the leading priests and Levites and all Israel take oath that they would do as had been said. So they took the oath.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	6	Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God, and went to the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib, where he spent the night, neither eating bread nor drinking water; for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	7	And a proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the returned exiles that they should assemble at Jerusalem,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	8	and that if any one did not come within three days, by order of the officials and the elders all his property should be forfeited, and he himself banned from the congregation of the exiles.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	9	Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within the three days; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month. And all the people sat in the open square before the house of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the heavy rain.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	10	And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have trespassed and married foreign women, and so increased the guilt of Israel.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	11	Now then make confession to the Lord the God of your fathers, and do his will; separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives.”
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	12	Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, “It is so; we must do as you have said.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	13	But the people are many, and it is a time of heavy rain; we cannot stand in the open. Nor is this a work for one day or for two; for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	14	Let our officials stand for the whole assembly; let all in our cities who have taken foreign wives come at appointed times, and with them the elders and judges of every city, till the fierce wrath of our God over this matter be averted from us.”
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	15	Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah opposed this, and Meshullum and Shabbethai the Levite supported them.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	16	Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest selected men, heads of fathers’ houses, according to their fathers’ houses, each of them designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to examine the matter;
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	17	and by the first day of the first month they had come to the end of all the men who had married foreign women.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	18	Of the sons of the priests who had married foreign women were found Ma-aseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak and his brethren.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	19	They pledged themselves to put away their wives, and their guilt offering was a ram of the flock for their guilt.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	20	Of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	21	Of the sons of Harim: Ma-aseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel, and Uzziah.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	22	Of the sons of Pashhur: Eli-o-enai, Ma-aseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	23	Of the Levites: Jozabad, Shime-i, Kelaiah (that is, Kelita), Petha-hiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	24	Of the singers: Eliashib. Of the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	25	And of Israel: of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, Izziah, Malchijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Hashabiah, and Benaiah.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	26	Of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	27	Of the sons of Zattu: Eli-o-enai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	28	Of the sons of Bebai were Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	29	Of the sons of Bani were Meshullum, Malluch, Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal, and Jeremoth.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	30	Of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Ma-aseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	31	Of the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shime-on,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	32	Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	33	Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shime-i.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	34	Of the sons of Bani: Ma-adai, Amram, Uel,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	35	Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	36	Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	37	Mattaniah, Mattenai, Jaasu.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	38	Of the sons of Binnui: Shime-i,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	39	Shelemiah, Nathan, Adaiah,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	40	Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	41	Azarel, Shelemiah, Shemariah,
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	42	Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	43	Of the sons of Nebo: Je-iel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jaddai, Joel, and Benaiah.
 Ezra	Ezra	15	10	44	All these had married foreign women, and they put them away with their children.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	1	1	The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now it happened in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Susa the capital,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	1	2	that Hanani, one of my brethren, came with certain men out of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that survived, who had escaped exile, and concerning Jerusalem.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	1	3	And they said to me, “The survivors there in the province who escaped exile are in great trouble and shame; the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are destroyed by fire.”
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	1	4	When I heard these words I sat down and wept, and mourned for days; and I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	1	5	And I said, “O Lord God of heaven, the great and terrible God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments;
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	1	6	let thy ear be attentive, and thy eyes open, to hear the prayer of thy servant which I now pray before thee day and night for the people of Israel thy servants, confessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against thee. Yea, I and my father’s house have sinned.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	1	7	We have acted very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances which thou didst command thy servant Moses.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	1	8	Remember the word which thou didst command thy servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples;
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	1	9	but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your dispersed be under the farthest skies, I will gather them thence and bring them to the place which I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.’
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	1	10	They are thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power and by thy strong hand.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	1	11	O Lord, let thy ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants who delight to fear thy name; and give success to thy servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” Now I was cupbearer to the king.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	2	1	In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Ar-ta-xerxes, when wine was before him, I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	2	2	And the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, seeing you are not sick? This is nothing else but sadness of the heart.” Then I was very much afraid.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	2	3	I said to the king, “Let the king live for ever! Why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ sepulchres, lies waste, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	2	4	Then the king said to me, “For what do you make request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	2	5	And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ sepulchres, that I may rebuild it.”
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	2	6	And the king said to me (the queen sitting beside him), “How long will you be gone, and when will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	2	7	And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, let letters be given me to the governors of the province Beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah;
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	2	8	and a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the fortress of the temple, and for the wall of the city, and for the house which I shall occupy.” And the king granted me what I asked, for the good hand of my God was upon me.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	2	9	Then I came to the governors of the province Beyond the River, and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent with me officers of the army and horsemen.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	2	10	But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard this, it displeased them greatly that some one had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	2	11	So I came to Jerusalem and was there three days.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	2	12	Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me; and I told no one what my God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There was no beast with me but the beast on which I rode.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	2	13	I went out by night by the Valley Gate to the Jackal’s Well and to the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down and its gates which had been destroyed by fire.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	2	14	Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and to the King’s Pool; but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	2	15	Then I went up in the night by the valley and inspected the wall; and I turned back and entered by the Valley Gate, and so returned.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	2	16	And the officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing; and I had not yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the officials, and the rest that were to do the work.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	2	17	Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer suffer disgrace.”
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	2	18	And I told them of the hand of my God which had been upon me for good, and also of the words which the king had spoken to me. And they said, “Let us rise up and build.” So they strengthened their hands for the good work.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	2	19	But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they derided us and despised us and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	2	20	Then I replied to them, “The God of heaven will make us prosper, and we his servants will arise and build; but you have no portion or right or memorial in Jerusalem.”
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	3	1	Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests and they built the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and set its doors; they consecrated it as far as the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Tower of Hananel.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	3	2	And next to him the men of Jericho built. And next to them Zaccur the son of Imri built.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	3	3	And the sons of Hassenaah built the Fish Gate; they laid its beams and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	3	4	And next to them Meremoth the son of Uriah, son of Hakkoz repaired. And next to them Meshullam the son of Berechiah, son of Meshezabel repaired. And next to them Zadok the son of Baana repaired.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	3	5	And next to them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles did not put their necks to the work of their Lord.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	3	6	And Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah repaired the Old Gate; they laid its beams and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	3	7	And next to them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon and of Mizpah, who were under the jurisdiction of the governor of the province Beyond the River.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	3	8	Next to them Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths, repaired. Next to him Hananiah, one of the perfumers, repaired; and they restored Jerusalem as far as the Broad Wall.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	3	9	Next to them Rephaiah the son of Hur, ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, repaired.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	3	10	Next to them Jedaiah the son of Harumaph repaired opposite his house; and next to him Hattush the son of Hashabneiah repaired.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	3	11	Malchijah the son of Harim and Hasshub the son of Pahath-moab repaired another section and the Tower of the Ovens.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	3	12	Next to him Shallum the son of Hallohesh, ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, repaired, he and his daughters.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	3	13	Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the Valley Gate; they rebuilt it and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and repaired a thousand cubits of the wall, as far as the Dung Gate.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	3	14	Malchijah the son of Rechab, ruler of the district of Beth-haccherem, repaired the Dung Gate; he rebuilt it and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	3	15	And Shallum the son of Colhozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate; he rebuilt it and covered it and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars; and he built the wall of the Pool of Shelah of the king’s garden, as far as the stairs that go down from the City of David.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	3	16	After him Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, ruler of half the district of Beth-zur, repaired to a point opposite the sepulchres of David, to the artificial pool, and to the house of the mighty men.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	3	17	After him the Levites repaired: Rehum the son of Bani; next to him Hashabiah, ruler of half the district of Keilah, repaired for his district.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	3	18	After him their brethren repaired: Bavvai the son of Henadad, ruler of half the district of Keilah;
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	3	19	next to him Ezer the son of Jeshua, ruler of Mizpah, repaired another section opposite the ascent to the armory at the Angle.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	3	20	After him Baruch the son of Zabbai repaired another section from the Angle to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	3	21	After him Meremoth the son of Uriah, son of Hakkoz repaired another section from the door of the house of Eliashib to the end of the house of Eliashib.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	3	22	After him the priests, the men of the Plain, repaired.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	3	23	After them Benjamin and Hasshub repaired opposite their house. After them Azariah the son of Ma-aseiah, son of Ananiah repaired beside his own house.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	3	24	After him Binnui the son of Henadad repaired another section, from the house of Azariah to the Angle
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	3	25	and to the corner. Palal the son of Uzai repaired opposite the Angle and the tower projecting from the upper house of the king at the court of the guard. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	3	26	and the temple servants living on Ophel repaired to a point opposite the Water Gate on the east and the projecting tower.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	3	27	After him the Tekoites repaired another section opposite the great projecting tower as far as the wall of Ophel.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	3	28	Above the Horse Gate the priests repaired, each one opposite his own house.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	3	29	After them Zadok the son of Immer repaired opposite his own house. After him Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the East Gate, repaired.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	3	30	After him Hananiah the son of Shelemiah and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph repaired another section. After him Meshullam the son of Berechiah repaired opposite his chamber.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	3	31	After him Malchijah, one of the goldsmiths, repaired as far as the house of the temple servants and of the merchants, opposite the Muster Gate, and to the upper chamber of the corner.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	3	32	And between the upper chamber of the corner and the Sheep Gate the goldsmiths and the merchants repaired.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	4	1	Now when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged, and he ridiculed the Jews.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	4	2	And he said in the presence of his brethren and of the army of Samaria, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore things? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?”
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	4	3	Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, “Yes, what they are building—if a fox goes up on it he will break down their stone wall!
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	4	4	Hear, O our God, for we are despised; turn back their taunt upon their own heads, and give them up to be plundered in a land where they are captives.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	4	5	Do not cover their guilt, and let not their sin be blotted out from thy sight; for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	4	6	So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height. For the people had a mind to work.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	4	7	But when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and that the breaches were beginning to be closed, they were very angry;
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	4	8	and they all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	4	9	And we prayed to our God, and set a guard as a protection against them day and night.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	4	10	But Judah said, “The strength of the burden-bearers is failing, and there is much rubbish; we are not able to work on the wall.”
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	4	11	And our enemies said, “They will not know or see till we come into the midst of them and kill them and stop the work.”
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	4	12	When the Jews who lived by them came they said to us ten times, “From all the places where they live they will come up against us.”
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	4	13	So in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in open places, I stationed the people according to their families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	4	14	And I looked, and arose, and said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, “Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes.”
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	4	15	When our enemies heard that it was known to us and that God had frustrated their plan, we all returned to the wall, each to his work.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	4	16	From that day on, half of my servants worked on construction, and half held the spears, shields, bows, and coats of mail; and the leaders stood behind all the house of Judah,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	4	17	who were building on the wall. Those who carried burdens were laden in such a way that each with one hand labored on the work and with the other held his weapon.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	4	18	And each of the builders had his sword girded at his side while he built. The man who sounded the trumpet was beside me.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	4	19	And I said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, “The work is great and widely spread, and we are separated on the wall, far from one another.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	4	20	In the place where you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us.”
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	4	21	So we labored at the work, and half of them held the spears from the break of dawn till the stars came out.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	4	22	I also said to the people at that time, “Let every man and his servant pass the night within Jerusalem, that they may be a guard for us by night and may labor by day.”
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	4	23	So neither I nor my brethren nor my servants nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us took off our clothes; each kept his weapon in his hand.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	5	1	Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brethren.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	5	2	For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many; let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.”
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	5	3	There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.”
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	5	4	And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tax upon our fields and our vineyards.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	5	5	Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children are as their children; yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved; but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	5	6	I was very angry when I heard their outcry and these words.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	5	7	I took counsel with myself, and I brought charges against the nobles and the officials. I said to them, “You are exacting interest, each from his brother.” And I held a great assembly against them,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	5	8	and said to them, “We, as far as we are able, have bought back our Jewish brethren who have been sold to the nations; but you even sell your brethren that they may be sold to us!” They were silent, and could not find a word to say.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	5	9	So I said, “The thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies?
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	5	10	Moreover I and my brethren and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us leave off this interest.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	5	11	Return to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive orchards, and their houses, and the hundredth of money, grain, wine, and oil which you have been exacting of them.”
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	5	12	Then they said, “We will restore these and require nothing from them. We will do as you say.” And I called the priests, and took an oath of them to do as they had promised.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	5	13	I also shook out my lap and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house and from his labor who does not perform this promise. So may he be shaken out and emptied.” And all the assembly said “Amen” and praised the Lord. And the people did as they had promised.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	5	14	Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year to the thirty-second year of Ar-ta-xerxes the king, twelve years, neither I nor my brethren ate the food allowance of the governor.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	5	15	The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens upon the people, and took from them food and wine, besides forty shekels of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so, because of the fear of God.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	5	16	I also held to the work on this wall, and acquired no land; and all my servants were gathered there for the work.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	5	17	Moreover there were at my table a hundred and fifty men, Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations which were about us.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	5	18	Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep; fowls likewise were prepared for me, and every ten days skins of wine in abundance; yet with all this I did not demand the food allowance of the governor, because the servitude was heavy upon this people.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	5	19	Remember for my good, O my God, all that I have done for this people.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	6	1	Now when it was reported to Sanballat and Tobiah and to Geshem the Arab and to the rest of our enemies that I had built the wall and that there was no breach left in it (although up to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates),
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	6	2	Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come and let us meet together in one of the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they intended to do me harm.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	6	3	And I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?”
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	6	4	And they sent to me four times in this way and I answered them in the same manner.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	6	5	In the same way Sanballat for the fifth time sent his servant to me with an open letter in his hand.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	6	6	In it was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Geshem also says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel; that is why you are building the wall; and you wish to become their king, according to this report.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	6	7	And you have also set up prophets to proclaim concerning you in Jerusalem, ‘There is a king in Judah.’ And now it will be reported to the king according to these words. So now come, and let us take counsel together.”
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	6	8	Then I sent to him, saying, “No such things as you say have been done, for you are inventing them out of your own mind.”
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	6	9	For they all wanted to frighten us, thinking, “Their hands will drop from the work, and it will not be done.” But now, O God, strengthen thou my hands.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	6	10	Now when I went into the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, who was shut up, he said, “Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us close the doors of the temple; for they are coming to kill you, at night they are coming to kill you.”
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	6	11	But I said, “Should such a man as I flee? And what man such as I could go into the temple and live? I will not go in.”
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	6	12	And I understood, and saw that God had not sent him, but he had pronounced the prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	6	13	For this purpose he was hired, that I should be afraid and act in this way and sin, and so they could give me an evil name, in order to taunt me.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	6	14	Remember Tobiah and Sanballat, O my God, according to these things that they did, and also the prophetess No-adiah and the rest of the prophets who wanted to make me afraid.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	6	15	So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	6	16	And when all our enemies heard of it, all the nations round about us were afraid and fell greatly in their own esteem; for they perceived that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	6	17	Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters came to them.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	6	18	For many in Judah were bound by oath to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah: and his son Jehohanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah as his wife.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	6	19	Also they spoke of his good deeds in my presence, and reported my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to make me afraid.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	1	Now when the wall had been built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	2	I gave my brother Hanani and Hananiah the governor of the castle charge over Jerusalem, for he was a more faithful and God-fearing man than many.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	3	And I said to them, “Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they are still standing guard let them shut and bar the doors. Appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, each to his station and each opposite his own house.”
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	4	The city was wide and large, but the people within it were few and no houses had been built.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	5	Then God put it into my mind to assemble the nobles and the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written in it:
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	6	These were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried into exile; they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his town.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	7	They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	8	the sons of Parosh, two thousand a hundred and seventy-two.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	9	The sons of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy-two.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	10	The sons of Arah, six hundred and fifty-two.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	11	The sons of Pahath-moab, namely the sons of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	12	The sons of Elam, a thousand two hundred and fifty-four.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	13	The sons of Zattu, eight hundred and forty-five.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	14	The sons of Zaccai, seven hundred and sixty.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	15	The sons of Binnui, six hundred and forty-eight.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	16	The sons of Bebai, six hundred and twenty-eight.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	17	The sons of Azgad, two thousand three hundred and twenty-two.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	18	The sons of Adonikam, six hundred and sixty-seven.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	19	The sons of Bigvai, two thousand and sixty-seven.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	20	The sons of Adin, six hundred and fifty-five.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	21	The sons of Ater, namely of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	22	The sons of Hashum, three hundred and twenty-eight.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	23	The sons of Bezai, three hundred and twenty-four.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	24	The sons of Hariph, a hundred and twelve.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	25	The sons of Gibeon, ninety-five.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	26	The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, a hundred and eighty-eight.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	27	The men of Anathoth, a hundred and twenty-eight.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	28	The men of Beth-azmaveth, forty-two.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	29	The men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Be-eroth, seven hundred and forty-three.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	30	The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred and twenty-one.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	31	The men of Michmas, a hundred and twenty-two.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	32	The men of Bethel and Ai, a hundred and twenty-three.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	33	The men of the other Nebo, fifty-two.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	34	The sons of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred and fifty-four.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	35	The sons of Harim, three hundred and twenty.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	36	The sons of Jericho, three hundred and forty-five.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	37	The sons of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-one.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	38	The sons of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	39	The priests: the sons of Jedaiah, namely the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	40	The sons of Immer, a thousand and fifty-two.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	41	The sons of Pashhur, a thousand two hundred and forty-seven.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	42	The sons of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	43	The Levites: the sons of Jeshua, namely of Kadmi-el of the sons of Hodevah, seventy-four.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	44	The singers: the sons of Asaph, a hundred and forty-eight.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	45	The gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, the sons of Shobai, a hundred and thirty-eight.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	46	The temple servants: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	47	the sons of Keros, the sons of Sia, the sons of Padon,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	48	the sons of Lebana, the sons of Hagaba, the sons of Shalmai,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	49	the sons of Hanan, the sons of Giddel, the sons of Gahar,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	50	the sons of Re-aiah, the sons of Rezin, the sons of Nekoda,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	51	the sons of Gazzam, the sons of Uzza, the sons of Paseah,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	52	the sons of Besai, the sons of Me-unim, the sons of Nephushesim,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	53	the sons of Bakbuk, the sons of Hakupha, the sons of Harhur,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	54	the sons of Bazlith, the sons of Mehida, the sons of Harsha,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	55	the sons of Barkos, the sons of Sisera, the sons of Temah,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	56	the sons of Neziah, the sons of Hatipha.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	57	The sons of Solomon’s servants: the sons of Sotai, the sons of Sophereth, the sons of Perida,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	58	the sons of Jaala, the sons of Darkon, the sons of Giddel,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	59	the sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the sons of Amon.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	60	All the temple servants and the sons of Solomon’s servants were three hundred and ninety-two.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	61	The following were those who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but they could not prove their fathers’ houses nor their descent, whether they belonged to Israel:
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	62	the sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, the sons of Nekoda, six hundred and forty-two.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	63	Also, of the priests: the sons of Hobaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, the sons of Barzillai (who had taken a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by their name).
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	64	These sought their registration among those enrolled in the genealogies, but it was not found there, so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean;
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	65	the governor told them that they were not to partake of the most holy food, until a priest with Urim and Thummim should arise.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	66	The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	67	besides their menservants and maidservants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred and forty-five singers, male and female.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	68	Their horses were seven hundred and thirty-six, their mules two hundred and forty-five,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	69	their camels four hundred and thirty-five, and their asses six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	70	Now some of the heads of fathers’ houses gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury a thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, five hundred and thirty priests’ garments.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	71	And some of the heads of fathers’ houses gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold and two thousand two hundred minas of silver.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	72	And what the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven priests’ garments.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	7	73	So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel, lived in their towns. And when the seventh month had come, the children of Israel were in their towns.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	8	1	And all the people gathered as one man into the square before the Water Gate; and they told Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses which the Lord had given to Israel.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	8	2	And Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, both men and women and all who could hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	8	3	And he read from it facing the square before the Water Gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women and those who could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	8	4	And Ezra the scribe stood on a wooden pulpit which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Ma-aseiah on his right hand; and Pedaiah, Misha-el, Malchijah, Hashum, Hash-baddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam on his left hand.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	8	5	And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, for he was above all the people; and when he opened it all the people stood.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	8	6	And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God; and all the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” lifting up their hands; and they bowed their heads and worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	8	7	Also Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Ma-aseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, the Levites, helped the people to understand the law, while the people remained in their places.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	8	8	And they read from the book, from the law of God, clearly; and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	8	9	And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, “This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn or weep.” For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	8	10	Then he said to them, “Go your way, eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord; and do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	8	11	So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, “Be quiet, for this day is holy; do not be grieved.”
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	8	12	And all the people went their way to eat and drink and to send portions and to make great rejoicing, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	8	13	On the second day the heads of fathers’ houses of all the people, with the priests and the Levites, came together to Ezra the scribe in order to study the words of the law.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	8	14	And they found it written in the law that the Lord had commanded by Moses that the people of Israel should dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	8	15	and that they should publish and proclaim in all their towns and in Jerusalem, “Go out to the hills and bring branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees to make booths, as it is written.”
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	8	16	So the people went out and brought them and made booths for themselves, each on his roof, and in their courts and in the courts of the house of God, and in the square at the Water Gate and in the square at the Gate of Ephraim.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	8	17	And all the assembly of those who had returned from the captivity made booths and dwelt in the booths; for from the days of Jeshua the son of Nun to that day the people of Israel had not done so. And there was very great rejoicing.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	8	18	And day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read from the book of the law of God. They kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day there was a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	1	Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the people of Israel were assembled with fasting and in sackcloth, and with earth upon their heads.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	2	And the Israelites separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	3	And they stood up in their place and read from the book of the law of the Lord their God for a fourth of the day; for another fourth of it they made confession and worshiped the Lord their God.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	4	Upon the stairs of the Levites stood Jeshua, Bani, Kadmi-el, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani; and they cried with a loud voice to the Lord their God.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	5	Then the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmi-el, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, “Stand up and bless the Lord your God from everlasting to everlasting. Blessed be thy glorious name which is exalted above all blessing and praise.”
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	6	And Ezra said: “Thou art the Lord, thou alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and thou preservest all of them; and the host of heaven worships thee.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	7	Thou art the Lord, the God who didst choose Abram and bring him forth out of Ur of the Chaldeans and give him the name Abraham;
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	8	and thou didst find his heart faithful before thee, and didst make with him the covenant to give to his descendants the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite; and thou hast fulfilled thy promise, for thou art righteous.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	9	“And thou didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt and hear their cry at the Red Sea,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	10	and didst perform signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land, for thou knewest that they acted insolently against our fathers; and thou didst get thee a name, as it is to this day.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	11	And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on dry land; and thou didst cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into mighty waters.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	12	By a pillar of cloud thou didst lead them in the day, and by a pillar of fire in the night to light for them the way in which they should go.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	13	Thou didst come down upon Mount Sinai, and speak with them from heaven and give them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	14	and thou didst make known to them thy holy sabbath and command them commandments and statutes and a law by Moses thy servant.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	15	Thou didst give them bread from heaven for their hunger and bring forth water for them from the rock for their thirst, and thou didst tell them to go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	16	“But they and our fathers acted presumptuously and stiffened their neck and did not obey thy commandments;
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	17	they refused to obey, and were not mindful of the wonders which thou didst perform among them; but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their bondage in Egypt. But thou art a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and didst not forsake them.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	18	Even when they had made for themselves a molten calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and had committed great blasphemies,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	19	thou in thy great mercies didst not forsake them in the wilderness; the pillar of cloud which led them in the way did not depart from them by day, nor the pillar of fire by night which lighted for them the way by which they should go.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	20	Thou gavest thy good Spirit to instruct them, and didst not withhold thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	21	Forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing; their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	22	And thou didst give them kingdoms and peoples, and didst allot to them every corner; so they took possession of the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and the land of Og king of Bashan.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	23	Thou didst multiply their descendants as the stars of heaven, and thou didst bring them into the land which thou hadst told their fathers to enter and possess.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	24	So the descendants went in and possessed the land, and thou didst subdue before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and didst give them into their hands, with their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	25	And they captured fortified cities and a rich land, and took possession of houses full of all good things, cisterns hewn out, vineyards, olive orchards and fruit trees in abundance; so they ate, and were filled and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	26	“Nevertheless they were disobedient and rebelled against thee and cast thy law behind their back and killed thy prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to thee, and they committed great blasphemies.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	27	Therefore thou didst give them into the hand of their enemies, who made them suffer; and in the time of their suffering they cried to thee and thou didst hear them from heaven; and according to thy great mercies thou didst give them saviors who saved them from the hand of their enemies.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	28	But after they had rest they did evil again before thee, and thou didst abandon them to the hand of their enemies, so that they had dominion over them; yet when they turned and cried to thee thou didst hear from heaven, and many times thou didst deliver them according to thy mercies.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	29	And thou didst warn them in order to turn them back to thy law. Yet they acted presumptuously and did not obey thy commandments, but sinned against thy ordinances, by the observance of which a man shall live, and turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not obey.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	30	Many years thou didst bear with them, and didst warn them by thy Spirit through thy prophets; yet they would not give ear. Therefore thou didst give them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	31	Nevertheless in thy great mercies thou didst not make an end of them or forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	32	“Now therefore, our God, the great and mighty and terrible God, who keepest covenant and steadfast love, let not all the hardship seem little to thee that has come upon us, upon our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers, and all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria until this day.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	33	Yet thou hast been just in all that has come upon us, for thou hast dealt faithfully and we have acted wickedly;
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	34	our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept thy law or heeded thy commandments and thy warnings which thou didst give them.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	35	They did not serve thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness which thou gavest them, and in the large and rich land which thou didst set before them; and they did not turn from their wicked works.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	36	Behold, we are slaves this day; in the land that thou gavest to our fathers to enjoy its fruit and its good gifts, behold, we are slaves.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	37	And its rich yield goes to the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins; they have power also over our bodies and over our cattle at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.”
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	9	38	Because of all this we make a firm covenant and write it, and our princes, our Levites, and our priests set their seal to it.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	1	Those who set their seal are Nehemiah the governor, the son of Hacaliah, Zedekiah,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	2	Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	3	Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	4	Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	5	Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	6	Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	7	Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	8	Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah; these are the priests.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	9	And the Levites: Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmi-el;
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	10	and their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	11	Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	12	Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	13	Hodiah, Bani, Beninu.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	14	The chiefs of the people: Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	15	Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	16	Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	17	Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	18	Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	19	Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	20	Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	21	Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddu-a,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	22	Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	23	Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	24	Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	25	Rehum, Hashabnah, Ma-aseiah,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	26	Ahiah, Hanan, Anan,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	27	Malluch, Harim, Baanah.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	28	The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all who have separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, all who have knowledge and understanding,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	29	join with their brethren, their nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to walk in God’s law which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord our Lord and his ordinances and his statutes.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	30	We will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons;
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	31	and if the peoples of the land bring in wares or any grain on the sabbath day to sell, we will not buy from them on the sabbath or on a holy day; and we will forego the crops of the seventh year and the exaction of every debt.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	32	We also lay upon ourselves the obligation to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	33	for the showbread, the continual cereal offering, the continual burnt offering, the sabbaths, the new moons, the appointed feasts, the holy things, and the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	34	We have likewise cast lots, the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn upon the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the law.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	35	We obligate ourselves to bring the first fruits of our ground and the first fruits of all fruit of every tree, year by year, to the house of the Lord;
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	36	also to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God, the first-born of our sons and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks;
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	37	and to bring the first of our coarse meal, and our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and to bring to the Levites the tithes from our ground, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all our rural towns.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	38	And the priest, the son of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites receive the tithes; and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers, to the storehouse.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	10	39	For the people of Israel and the sons of Levi shall bring the contribution of grain, wine, and oil to the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not neglect the house of our God.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	1	Now the leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem; and the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in Jerusalem the holy city, while nine tenths remained in the other towns.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	2	And the people blessed all the men who willingly offered to live in Jerusalem.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	3	These are the chiefs of the province who lived in Jerusalem; but in the towns of Judah every one lived on his property in their towns: Israel, the priests, the Levites, the temple servants, and the descendants of Solomon’s servants.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	4	And in Jerusalem lived certain of the sons of Judah and of the sons of Benjamin. Of the sons of Judah: Athaiah the son of Uzziah, son of Zechariah, son of Amariah, son of Shephatiah, son of Mahalalel, of the sons of Perez;
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	5	and Ma-aseiah the son of Baruch, son of Col-hozeh, son of Hazaiah, son of Adaiah, son of Joiarib, son of Zechariah, son of the Shilonite.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	6	All the sons of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were four hundred and sixty-eight valiant men.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	7	And these are the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, son of Joed, son of Pedaiah, son of Kolaiah, son of Ma-aseiah, son of Ithi-el, son of Jeshaiah.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	8	And after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred and twenty-eight.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	9	Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer; and Judah the son of Hassenu-ah was second over the city.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	10	Of the priests: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	11	Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, son of Meshullam, son of Zadok, son of Meraioth, son of Ahitub, ruler of the house of God,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	12	and their brethren who did the work of the house, eight hundred and twenty-two; and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, son of Pelaliah, son of Amzi, son of Zechariah, son of Pashhur, son of Malchijah,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	13	and his brethren, heads of fathers’ houses, two hundred and forty-two; and Amashsai, the son of Azarel, son of Ahzai, son of Meshillemoth, son of Immer,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	14	and their brethren, mighty men of valor, a hundred and twenty-eight; their overseer was Zabdiel the son of Haggedolim.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	15	And of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, son of Azrikam, son of Hashabiah, son of Bunni;
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	16	and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who were over the outside work of the house of God;
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	17	and Mattaniah the son of Mica, son of Zabdi, son of Asaph, who was the leader to begin the thanksgiving in prayer, and Bakbukiah, the second among his brethren; and Abda the son of Shammua, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	18	All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred and eighty-four.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	19	The gatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon and their brethren, who kept watch at the gates, were a hundred and seventy-two.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	20	And the rest of Israel, and of the priests and the Levites, were in all the towns of Judah, every one in his inheritance.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	21	But the temple servants lived on Ophel; and Ziha and Gishpa were over the temple servants.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	22	The overseer of the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, son of Hashabiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the singers, over the work of the house of God.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	23	For there was a command from the king concerning them, and a settled provision for the singers, as every day required.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	24	And Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the sons of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king’s hand in all matters concerning the people.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	25	And as for the villages, with their fields, some of the people of Judah lived in Kiriath-arba and its villages, and in Dibon and its villages, and in Jekabzeel and its villages,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	26	and in Jeshua and in Moladah and Beth-pelet,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	27	in Hazar-shual, in Beer-sheba and its villages,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	28	in Ziklag, in Meconah and its villages,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	29	in En-rimmon, in Zorah, in Jarmuth,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	30	Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and its fields, and Azekah and its villages. So they encamped from Beer-sheba to the valley of Hinnom.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	31	The people of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash, Aija, Bethel and its villages,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	32	Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	33	Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	34	Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	35	Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	11	36	And certain divisions of the Levites in Judah were joined to Benjamin.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	1	These are the priests and the Levites who came up with Zerubbabel the son of She-alti-el, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	2	Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	3	Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	4	Iddo, Ginnethoi, Abijah,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	5	Mijamin, Ma-adiah, Bilgah,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	6	Shemaiah, Joiarib, Jedaiah,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	7	Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	8	And the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmi-el, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who with his brethren was in charge of the songs of thanksgiving.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	9	And Bakbukiah and Unno their brethren stood opposite them in the service.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	10	And Jeshua was the father of Joiakim, Joiakim the father of Eliashib, Eliashib the father of Joiada,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	11	Joiada the father of Jonathan, and Jonathan the father of Jaddu-a.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	12	And in the days of Joiakim were priests, heads of fathers’ houses: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	13	of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	14	of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	15	of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	16	of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	17	of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai;
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	18	of Bilgah, Shammu-a; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	19	of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	20	of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	21	of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethanel.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	22	As for the Levites, in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan, and Jaddu-a, there were recorded the heads of fathers’ houses; also the priests until the reign of Darius the Persian.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	23	The sons of Levi, heads of fathers’ houses, were written in the Book of the Chronicles until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	24	And the chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmi-el, with their brethren over against them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watch corresponding to watch.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	25	Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub were gatekeepers standing guard at the storehouses of the gates.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	26	These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor and of Ezra the priest the scribe.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	27	And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites in all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication with gladness, with thanksgivings and with singing, with cymbals, harps, and lyres.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	28	And the sons of the singers gathered together from the circuit round Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netophathites;
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	29	also from Beth-gilgal and from the region of Geba and Azmaveth; for the singers had built for themselves villages around Jerusalem.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	30	And the priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people and the gates and the wall.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	31	Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great companies which gave thanks and went in procession. One went to the right upon the wall to the Dung Gate;
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	32	and after them went Hoshaiah and half of the princes of Judah,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	33	and Azariah, Ezra, Meshullam,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	34	Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah, and Jeremiah,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	35	and certain of the priests’ sons with trumpets: Zechariah the son of Jonathan, son of Shemaiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Micaiah, son of Zaccur, son of Asaph;
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	36	and his kinsmen, Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God; and Ezra the scribe went before them.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	37	At the Fountain Gate they went up straight before them by the stairs of the city of David, at the ascent of the wall, above the house of David, to the Water Gate on the east.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	38	The other company of those who gave thanks went to the left, and I followed them with half of the people, upon the wall, above the Tower of the Ovens, to the Broad Wall,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	39	and above the Gate of Ephraim, and by the Old Gate, and by the Fish Gate and the Tower of Hananel and the Tower of the Hundred, to the Sheep Gate; and they came to a halt at the Gate of the Guard.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	40	So both companies of those who gave thanks stood in the house of God, and I and half of the officials with me;
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	41	and the priests Eliakim, Ma-aseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Eli-o-enai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	42	and Ma-aseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang with Jezrahiah as their leader.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	43	And they offered great sacrifices that day and rejoiced, for God had made them rejoice with great joy; the women and children also rejoiced. And the joy of Jerusalem was heard afar off.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	44	On that day men were appointed over the chambers for the stores, the contributions, the first fruits, and the tithes, to gather into them the portions required by the law for the priests and for the Levites according to the fields of the towns; for Judah rejoiced over the priests and the Levites who ministered.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	45	And they performed the service of their God and the service of purification, as did the singers and the gatekeepers, according to the command of David and his son Solomon.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	46	For in the days of David and Asaph of old there was a chief of the singers, and there were songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	12	47	And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave the daily portions for the singers and the gatekeepers; and they set apart that which was for the Levites; and the Levites set apart that which was for the sons of Aaron.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	13	1	On that day they read from the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and in it was found written that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God;
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	13	2	for they did not meet the children of Israel with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them—yet our God turned the curse into a blessing.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	13	3	When the people heard the law, they separated from Israel all those of foreign descent.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	13	4	Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the chambers of the house of our God, and who was connected with Tobiah,
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	13	5	prepared for Tobiah a large chamber where they had previously put the cereal offering, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of grain, wine, and oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, and the contributions for the priests.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	13	6	While this was taking place I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Ar-ta-xerxes king of Babylon I went to the king. And after some time I asked leave of the king
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	13	7	and came to Jerusalem, and I then discovered the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, preparing for him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	13	8	And I was very angry, and I threw all the household furniture of Tobiah out of the chamber.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	13	9	Then I gave orders and they cleansed the chambers; and I brought back thither the vessels of the house of God, with the cereal offering and the frankincense.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	13	10	I also found out that the portions of the Levites had not been given to them; so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had fled each to his field.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	13	11	So I remonstrated with the officials and said, “Why is the house of God forsaken?” And I gathered them together and set them in their stations.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	13	12	Then all Judah brought the tithe of the grain, wine, and oil into the storehouses.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	13	13	And I appointed as treasurers over the storehouses Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah of the Levites, and as their assistant Hanan the son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah, for they were counted faithful; and their duty was to distribute to their brethren.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	13	14	Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God and for his service.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	13	15	In those days I saw in Judah men treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on asses; and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day; and I warned them on the day when they sold food.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	13	16	Men of Tyre also, who lived in the city, brought in fish and all kinds of wares and sold them on the sabbath to the people of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	13	17	Then I remonstrated with the nobles of Judah and said to them, “What is this evil thing which you are doing, profaning the sabbath day?
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	13	18	Did not your fathers act in this way, and did not our God bring all this evil on us and on this city? Yet you bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.”
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	13	19	When it began to be dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut and gave orders that they should not be opened until after the sabbath. And I set some of my servants over the gates, that no burden might be brought in on the sabbath day.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	13	20	Then the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares lodged outside Jerusalem once or twice.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	13	21	But I warned them and said to them, “Why do you lodge before the wall? If you do so again I will lay hands on you.” From that time on they did not come on the sabbath.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	13	22	And I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves and come and guard the gates, to keep the sabbath day holy. Remember this also in my favor, O my God, and spare me according to the greatness of thy steadfast love.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	13	23	In those days also I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab;
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	13	24	and half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and they could not speak the language of Judah, but the language of each people.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	13	25	And I contended with them and cursed them and beat some of them and pulled out their hair; and I made them take oath in the name of God, saying, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	13	26	Did not Solomon king of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless foreign women made even him to sin.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	13	27	Shall we then listen to you and do all this great evil and act treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women?”
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	13	28	And one of the sons of Jehoiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was the son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite; therefore I chased him from me.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	13	29	Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	13	30	Thus I cleansed them from everything foreign, and I established the duties of the priests and Levites, each in his work;
 Nehemiah	Neh	16	13	31	and I provided for the wood offering, at appointed times, and for the first fruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.
 Tobit	Tob	17	1	1	The book of the acts of Tobit the son of Tobiel, son of Ananiel, son of Aduel, son of Gabael, of the descendants of Asiel and the tribe of Naphtali,
 Tobit	Tob	17	1	2	who in the days of Shalmaneser, king of the Assyrians, was taken into captivity from Thisbe, which is to the south of Kedesh Naphtali in Galilee above Asher.
 Tobit	Tob	17	1	3	I, Tobit, walked in the ways of truth and righteousness all the days of my life, and I performed many acts of charity to my brethren and countrymen who went with me into the land of the Assyrians, to Nineveh.
 Tobit	Tob	17	1	4	Now when I was in my own country, in the land of Israel, while I was still a young man, the whole tribe of Naphtali my forefather deserted the house of Jerusalem. This was the place which had been chosen from among all the tribes of Israel, where all the tribes should sacrifice and where the temple of the dwelling of the Most High was consecrated and established for all generations for ever.
 Tobit	Tob	17	1	5	All the tribes that joined in apostasy used to sacrifice to the calf Baal, and so did the house of Naphtali my forefather.
 Tobit	Tob	17	1	6	But I alone went often to Jerusalem for the feasts, as it is ordained for all Israel by an everlasting decree. Taking the first fruits and the tithes of my produce and the first shearings, I would give these to the priests, the sons of Aaron, at the altar.
 Tobit	Tob	17	1	7	Of all my produce I would give a tenth to the sons of Levi who ministered at Jerusalem; a second tenth I would sell, and I would go and spend the proceeds each year at Jerusalem;
 Tobit	Tob	17	1	8	the third tenth I would give to those to whom it was my duty, as Deborah my father’s mother had commanded me, for I was left an orphan by my father.
 Tobit	Tob	17	1	9	When I became a man I married Anna, a member of our family, and by her I became the father of Tobias.
 Tobit	Tob	17	1	10	Now when I was carried away captive to Nineveh, all my brethren and my relatives ate the food of the Gentiles;
 Tobit	Tob	17	1	11	but I kept myself from eating it,
 Tobit	Tob	17	1	12	because I remembered God with all my heart.
 Tobit	Tob	17	1	13	Then the Most High gave me favor and good appearance in the sight of Shalmaneser, and I was his buyer of provisions.
 Tobit	Tob	17	1	14	So I used to go into Media, and once at Rages in Media I left ten talents of silver in trust with Gabael, the brother of Gabrias.
 Tobit	Tob	17	1	15	But when Shalmaneser died, Sennacherib his son reigned in his place; and under him the highways were unsafe, so that I could no longer go into Media.
 Tobit	Tob	17	1	16	In the days of Shalmaneser I performed many acts of charity to my brethren.
 Tobit	Tob	17	1	17	I would give my bread to the hungry and my clothing to the naked; and if I saw any one of my people dead and thrown out behind the wall of Nineveh, I would bury him.
 Tobit	Tob	17	1	18	And if Sennacherib the king put to death any who came fleeing from Judea, I buried them secretly. For in his anger he put many to death. When the bodies were sought by the king, they were not found.
 Tobit	Tob	17	1	19	Then one of the men of Nineveh went and informed the king about me, that I was burying them; so I hid myself. When I learned that I was being searched for, to be put to death, I left home in fear.
 Tobit	Tob	17	1	20	Then all my property was confiscated and nothing was left to me except my wife Anna and my son Tobias.
 Tobit	Tob	17	1	21	But not fifty days passed before two of Sennacherib’s sons killed him, and they fled to the mountains of Ararat. Then Esarhaddon, his son, reigned in his place; and he appointed Ahikar, the son of my brother Anael, over all the accounts of his kingdom and over the entire administration.
 Tobit	Tob	17	1	22	Ahikar interceded for me, and I returned to Nineveh. Now Ahikar was cupbearer, keeper of the signet, and in charge of administration of the accounts, for Esarhaddon had appointed him second to himself. He was my nephew.
 Tobit	Tob	17	2	1	When I arrived home and my wife Anna and my son Tobias were restored to me, at the feast of Pentecost, which is the sacred festival of the seven weeks, a good dinner was prepared for me and I sat down to eat.
 Tobit	Tob	17	2	2	Upon seeing the abundance of food I said to my son, “Go and bring whatever poor man of our brethren you may find who is mindful of the Lord, and I will wait for you.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	2	3	But he came back and said, “Father, one of our people has been strangled and thrown into the market place.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	2	4	So before I tasted anything I sprang up and removed the body to a place of shelter until sunset.
 Tobit	Tob	17	2	5	And when I returned I washed myself and ate my food in sorrow.
 Tobit	Tob	17	2	6	Then I remembered the prophecy of Amos, how he said, “Your feasts shall be turned into mourning, and all your festivities into lamentation.” And I wept.
 Tobit	Tob	17	2	7	When the sun had set I went and dug a grave and buried the body.
 Tobit	Tob	17	2	8	And my neighbors laughed at me and said, “He is no longer afraid that he will be put to death for doing this; he once ran away, and here he is burying the dead again!”
 Tobit	Tob	17	2	9	On the same night I returned from burying him, and because I was defiled I slept by the wall of the courtyard, and my face was uncovered.
 Tobit	Tob	17	2	10	I did not know that there were sparrows on the wall and their fresh droppings fell into my open eyes and white films formed on my eyes. I went to physicians, but they did not help me. Ahikar, however, took care of me until he went to Elymais.
 Tobit	Tob	17	2	11	Then my wife Anna earned money at women’s work.
 Tobit	Tob	17	2	12	She used to send the product to the owners. Once when they paid her wages, they also gave her a kid;
 Tobit	Tob	17	2	13	and when she returned to me it began to bleat. So I said to her, “Where did you get the kid? It is not stolen, is it? Return it to the owners; for it is not right to eat what is stolen.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	2	14	And she said, “It was given to me as a gift in addition to my wages.” But I did not believe her, and told her to return it to the owners; and I blushed for her. Then she replied to me, “Where are your charities and your righteous deeds? You seem to know everything!”
 Tobit	Tob	17	3	1	Then in my grief I wept, and I prayed in anguish, saying,
 Tobit	Tob	17	3	2	“Righteous art thou, O Lord; all thy deeds and all thy ways are mercy and truth, and thou dost render true and righteous judgment for ever.
 Tobit	Tob	17	3	3	Remember me and look favorably upon me; do not punish me for my sins and for my unwitting offences and those which my fathers committed before thee.
 Tobit	Tob	17	3	4	For they disobeyed thy commandments, and thou gavest us over to plunder, captivity, and death; thou madest us a byword of reproach in all the nations among which we have been dispersed.
 Tobit	Tob	17	3	5	And now thy many judgments are true in exacting penalty from me for my sins and those of my fathers, because we did not keep thy commandments. For we did not walk in truth before thee.
 Tobit	Tob	17	3	6	And now deal with me according to thy pleasure; command my spirit to be taken up, that I may depart and become dust. For it is better for me to die than to live, because I have heard false reproaches, and great is the sorrow within me. Command that I now be released from my distress to go to the eternal abode; do not turn thy face away from me.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	3	7	On the same day, at Ecbatana in Media, it also happened that Sarah, the daughter of Raguel, was reproached by her father’s maids,
 Tobit	Tob	17	3	8	because she had been given to seven husbands, and the evil demon Asmodeus had slain each of them before he had been with her as his wife. So the maids said to her, “Do you not know that you strangle your husbands? You already have had seven and have had no benefit from any of them.
 Tobit	Tob	17	3	9	Why do you beat us? If they are dead, go with them! May we never see a son or daughter of yours!”
 Tobit	Tob	17	3	10	When she heard these things she was deeply grieved, even to the thought of hanging herself. But she said, “I am the only child of my father; if I do this, it will be a disgrace to him, and I shall bring his old age down in sorrow to the grave.
 Tobit	Tob	17	3	11	So she prayed by her window and said, “Blessed art thou, O Lord my God, and blessed is thy holy and honored name for ever. May all thy works praise thee for ever.
 Tobit	Tob	17	3	12	And now, O Lord, I have turned my eyes and my face toward thee.
 Tobit	Tob	17	3	13	Command that I be released from the earth and that I hear reproach no more.
 Tobit	Tob	17	3	14	Thou knowest, O Lord, that I am innocent of any sin with man,
 Tobit	Tob	17	3	15	and that I did not stain my name or the name of my father in the land of my captivity. I am my father’s only child, and he has no child to be his heir, no near kinsman or kinsman’s son for whom I should keep myself as wife. Already seven husbands of mine are dead. Why should I live? But if it be not pleasing to thee to take my life, command that respect be shown to me and pity be taken upon me, and that I hear reproach no more.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	3	16	The prayer of both was heard in the presence of the glory of the great God.
 Tobit	Tob	17	3	17	And Raphael was sent to heal the two of them: to scale away the white films of Tobit’s eyes; to give Sarah the daughter of Raguel in marriage to Tobias the son of Tobit, and to bind Asmodeus the evil demon, because Tobias was entitled to possess her. At that very moment Tobit returned and entered his house and Sarah the daughter of Raguel came down from her upper room.
 Tobit	Tob	17	4	1	On that day Tobit remembered the money which he had left in trust with Gabael at Rages in Media, and he said to himself;
 Tobit	Tob	17	4	2	“I have asked for death. Why do I not call my son Tobias so that I may explain to him about the money before I die?”
 Tobit	Tob	17	4	3	So he called him and said, “My son, when I die, bury me, and do not neglect your mother. Honor her all the days of your life; do what is pleasing to her, and do not grieve her.
 Tobit	Tob	17	4	4	Remember, my son, that she faced many dangers for you while you were yet unborn. When she dies bury her beside me in the same grave.
 Tobit	Tob	17	4	5	“Remember the Lord our God all your days, my son, and refuse to sin or to transgress his commandments. Live uprightly all the days of your life, and do not walk in the ways of wrongdoing.
 Tobit	Tob	17	4	6	For if you do what is true, your ways will prosper through your deeds.
 Tobit	Tob	17	4	7	Give alms from your possessions to all who live uprightly, and do not let your eye begrudge the gift when you make it. Do not turn your face away from any poor man, and the face of God will not be turned away from you.
 Tobit	Tob	17	4	8	If you have many possessions, make your gift from them in proportion; if few, do not be afraid to give according to the little you have.
 Tobit	Tob	17	4	9	So you will be laying up a good treasure for yourself against the day of necessity.
 Tobit	Tob	17	4	10	For charity delivers from death and keeps you from entering the darkness;
 Tobit	Tob	17	4	11	and for all who practice it charity is an excellent offering in the presence of the Most High.
 Tobit	Tob	17	4	12	“Beware, my son, of all immorality. First of all take a wife from among the descendants of your fathers and do not marry a foreign woman, who is not of your father’s tribe; for we are the sons of the prophets. Remember, my son, that Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, our fathers of old, all took wives from among their brethren. They were blessed in their children, and their posterity will inherit the land.
 Tobit	Tob	17	4	13	So now, my son, love your brethren, and in your heart do not disdain your brethren and the sons and daughters of your people by refusing to take a wife for yourself from among them. For in pride there is ruin and great confusion; and in shiftlessness there is loss and great want, because shiftlessness is the mother of famine.
 Tobit	Tob	17	4	14	Do not hold over till the next day the wages of any man who works for you, but pay him at once; and if you serve God you will receive payment. “Watch yourself, my son, in everything you do, and be disciplined in all your conduct.
 Tobit	Tob	17	4	15	And what you hate, do not do to any one. Do not drink wine to excess or let drunkenness go with you on your way.
 Tobit	Tob	17	4	16	Give of your bread to the hungry, and of your clothing to the naked. Give all your surplus to charity, and do not let your eye begrudge the gift when you made it.
 Tobit	Tob	17	4	17	Place your bread on the grave of the righteous, but give none to sinners.
 Tobit	Tob	17	4	18	Seek advice from every wise man, and do not despise any useful counsel.
 Tobit	Tob	17	4	19	Bless the Lord God on every occasion; ask him that your ways may be made straight and that all your paths and plans may prosper. For none of the nations has understanding; but the Lord himself gives all good things, and according to his will he humbles whomever he wishes. “So, my son, remember my commands, and do not let them be blotted out of your mind.
 Tobit	Tob	17	4	20	And now let me explain to you about the ten talents of silver which I left in trust with Gabael the son of Gabrias at Rages in Media.
 Tobit	Tob	17	4	21	Do not be afraid, my son, because we have become poor. You have great wealth if you fear God and refrain from every sin and do what is pleasing in his sight.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	5	1	Then Tobias answered him, “Father, I will do everything that you have commanded me;
 Tobit	Tob	17	5	2	but how can I obtain the money when I do not know the man?”
 Tobit	Tob	17	5	3	Then Tobit gave him the receipt, and said to him, “Find a man to go with you and I will pay him wages as long as I live; and go and get the money.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	5	4	So he went to look for a man; and he found Raphael, who was an angel,
 Tobit	Tob	17	5	5	but Tobias did not know it. Tobias said to him, “Can you go with me to Rages in Media? Are you acquainted with that region?”
 Tobit	Tob	17	5	6	The angel replied, “I will go with you; I am familiar with the way, and I have stayed with our brother Gabael.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	5	7	Then Tobias said to him, “Wait for me, and I shall tell my father.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	5	8	And he said to him, “Go, and do not delay.” So he went in and said to his father, “I have found some one to go with me.” He said, “Call him to me, so that I may learn to what tribe he belongs, and whether he is a reliable man to go with you.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	5	9	So Tobias invited him in; he entered and they greeted each other.
 Tobit	Tob	17	5	10	Then Tobit said to him, “My brother, to what tribe and family do you belong? Tell me.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	5	11	But he answered, “Are you looking for a tribe and a family or for a man whom you will pay to go with your son?” And Tobit said to him, “I should like to know, my brother, your people and your name.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	5	12	He replied, “I am Azarias the son of the great Ananias, one of your relatives.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	5	13	Then Tobit said to him, “You are welcome, my brother. Do not be angry with me because I tried to learn your tribe and family. You are a relative of mine, of a good and noble lineage. For I used to know Ananias and Jathan, the sons of the great Shemaiah, when we went together to Jerusalem to worship and offered the first-born of our flocks and the tithes of our produce. They did not go astray in the error of our brethren. My brother, you come of good stock.
 Tobit	Tob	17	5	14	But tell me, what wages am I to pay you—a drachma a day, and expenses for yourself as for my son?
 Tobit	Tob	17	5	15	And besides, I will add to your wages if you both return safe and sound.” So they agreed to these terms.
 Tobit	Tob	17	5	16	Then he said to Tobias, “Get ready for the journey, and good success to you both.” So his son made the preparations for the journey. And his father said to him, “Go with this man; God who dwells in heaven will prosper your way, and may his angel attend you.” So they both went out and departed, and the young man’s dog was with them.
 Tobit	Tob	17	5	17	But Anna, his mother, began to weep, and said to Tobit, “Why have you sent our child away? Is he not the staff of our hands as he goes in and out before us?
 Tobit	Tob	17	5	18	Do not add money to money, but consider it as rubbish as compared to our child.
 Tobit	Tob	17	5	19	For the life that is given to us by the Lord is enough for us.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	5	20	And Tobit said to her, “Do not worry, my sister; he will return safe and sound, and your eyes will see him.
 Tobit	Tob	17	5	21	For a good angel will go with him; his journey will be successful, and he will come back safe and sound.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	5	22	So she stopped weeping.
 Tobit	Tob	17	6	1	Now as they proceeded on their way they came at evening to the Tigris river and camped there.
 Tobit	Tob	17	6	2	Then the young man went down to wash himself. A fish leaped up from the river and would have swallowed the young man;
 Tobit	Tob	17	6	3	and the angel said to him, “Catch the fish.” So the young man seized the fish and threw it up on the land.
 Tobit	Tob	17	6	4	Then the angel said to him, “Cut open the fish and take the heart and liver and gall and put them away safely.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	6	5	So the young man did as the angel told him; and they roasted and ate the fish. And they both continued on their way until they came near to Ecbatana.
 Tobit	Tob	17	6	6	Then the young man said to the angel, “Brother Azarias, of what use is the liver and heart and gall of the fish?”
 Tobit	Tob	17	6	7	He replied, “As for the heart and liver, if a demon or evil spirit gives trouble to any one, you make a smoke from these before the man or woman, and that person will never be troubled again.
 Tobit	Tob	17	6	8	And as for the gall, anoint with it a man who has white films in his eyes, and he will be cured.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	6	9	When they approached Ecbatana,
 Tobit	Tob	17	6	10	the angel said to the young man, “Brother, today we shall stay with Raguel. He is your relative, and he has an only daughter named Sarah. I will suggest that she be given to you in marriage,
 Tobit	Tob	17	6	11	because you are entitled to her and to her inheritance, for you are her only eligible kinsman.
 Tobit	Tob	17	6	12	The girl is also beautiful and sensible. Now listen to my plan. I will speak to her father, and as soon as we return from Rages we will celebrate the marriage. For I know that Raguel, according to the law of Moses, cannot give her to another man without incurring the penalty of death, because you rather than any other man are entitled to the inheritance.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	6	13	Then the young man said to the angel, “Brother Azarias, I have heard that the girl has been given to seven husbands and that each died in the bridal chamber.
 Tobit	Tob	17	6	14	Now I am the only son my father has, and I am afraid that if I go in I will die as those before me did, for a demon is in love with her, and he harms no one except those who approach her. So now I fear that I may die and bring the lives of my father and mother to the grave in sorrow on my account. And they have no other son to bury them.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	6	15	But the angel said to him, “Do you not remember the words with which your father commanded you to take a wife from among your own people? Now listen to me, brother, for she will become your wife; and do not worry about the demon, for this very night she will be given to you in marriage.
 Tobit	Tob	17	6	16	When you enter the bridal chamber, you shall take live ashes of incense and lay upon them some of the heart and liver of the fish so as to make a smoke.
 Tobit	Tob	17	6	17	Then the demon will smell it and flee away, and will never again return. And when you approach her, rise up, both of you, and cry out to the merciful God, and he will save you and have mercy on you. Do not be afraid, for she was destined for you from eternity. You will save her, and she will go with you, and I suppose that you will have children by her.” When Tobias heard these things, he fell in love with her and yearned deeply for her.
 Tobit	Tob	17	7	1	When they reached Ecbatana and arrived at the house of Raguel, Sarah met them and greeted them. They returned her greeting, and she brought them into the house.
 Tobit	Tob	17	7	2	Then Raguel said to his wife Edna, “How much the young man resembles my cousin Tobit!”
 Tobit	Tob	17	7	3	And Raguel asked them, “Where are you from, brethren?” They answered him, “We belong to the sons of Naphtali, who are captives in Nineveh.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	7	4	So he said to them, “Do you know our brother Tobit?” And they said, “Yes, we do.” And he asked them, “Is he in good health?”
 Tobit	Tob	17	7	5	They replied, “He is alive and in good health.” And Tobias said, “He is my father.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	7	6	Then Raguel sprang up and kissed him and wept.
 Tobit	Tob	17	7	7	And he blessed him and exclaimed, “Son of that good and noble man!” When he heard that Tobit had lost his sight, he was stricken with grief and wept.
 Tobit	Tob	17	7	8	And his wife Edna and his daughter Sarah wept. They received them very warmly; and they killed a ram from the flock and set large servings of food before them. Then Tobias said to Raphael, “Brother Azarias, speak of those things which you talked about on the journey, and let the matter be settled.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	7	9	So he communicated the proposal to Raguel. And Raguel said to Tobias, “Eat, drink, and be merry;
 Tobit	Tob	17	7	10	for it is your right to take my child. But let me explain the true situation to you.
 Tobit	Tob	17	7	11	I have given my daughter to seven husbands, and when each came to her he died in the night. But for the present be merry.” And Tobias said, “I will eat nothing here until you make a binding agreement with me.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	7	12	So Raguel said, “Take her right now, in accordance with the law. You are her relative, and she is yours. The merciful God will guide you both for the best.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	7	13	Then he called his daughter Sarah, and taking her by the hand he gave her to Tobias to be his wife, saying, “Here she is; take her according to the law of Moses, and take her with you to your father.” And he blessed them.
 Tobit	Tob	17	7	14	Next he called his wife Edna, and took a scroll and wrote out the contract; and they set their seals to it.
 Tobit	Tob	17	7	15	Then they began to eat.
 Tobit	Tob	17	7	16	And Raguel called his wife Edna and said to her, “Sister, make up the other room, and take her into it.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	7	17	so she did as he said, and took her there; and the girl began to weep. But the mother comforted her daughter in her tears, and said to her,
 Tobit	Tob	17	7	18	“Be brave, my child; the Lord of heaven and earth grant you joy in place of this sorrow of yours. Be brave, my daughter.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	8	1	When they had finished eating, they escorted Tobias in to her.
 Tobit	Tob	17	8	2	As he went he remembered the words of Raphael, and he took the live ashes of incense and put the heart and liver of the fish upon them and made a smoke.
 Tobit	Tob	17	8	3	And when the demon smelled the odor he fled to the remotest parts of Egypt, and the angel bound him.
 Tobit	Tob	17	8	4	When the door was shut and the two were alone, Tobias got up from the bed and said, “Sister, get up, and let us pray that the Lord may have mercy upon us.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	8	5	And Tobias began to pray, “Blessed art thou, O God of our fathers, and blessed be thy holy and glorious name for ever. Let the heavens and all thy creatures bless thee.
 Tobit	Tob	17	8	6	Thou madest Adam and gavest him Eve his wife as a helper and support. From them the race of mankind has sprung. Thou didst say, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone; let us make a helper for him like himself.’
 Tobit	Tob	17	8	7	And now, O Lord, I am not taking this sister of mine because of lust, but with sincerity. Grant that I may find mercy and may grow old together with her.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	8	8	And she said with him, “Amen.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	8	9	Then they both went to sleep for the night. But Raguel arose and went and dug a grave,
 Tobit	Tob	17	8	10	with the thought, “Perhaps he too will die.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	8	11	Then Raguel went into his house
 Tobit	Tob	17	8	12	and said to his wife Edna, “Send one of the maids to see whether he is alive; and if he is not, let us bury him without any one knowing about it.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	8	13	So the maid opened the door and went in, and found them both asleep.
 Tobit	Tob	17	8	14	And she came out and told them that he was alive.
 Tobit	Tob	17	8	15	Then Raguel blessed God and said, “Blessed art thou, O God, with every pure and holy blessing. Let thy saints and all thy creatures bless thee; let all thy angels and thy chosen people bless thee for ever.
 Tobit	Tob	17	8	16	Blessed art thou, because thou hast made me glad. It has not happened to me as I expected; but thou hast treated us according to thy great mercy.
 Tobit	Tob	17	8	17	Blessed art thou, because thou hast had compassion on two only children. Show them mercy, O Lord; and bring their lives to fulfilment in health and happiness and mercy.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	8	18	Then he ordered his servants to fill in the grave.
 Tobit	Tob	17	8	19	After this he gave a wedding feast for them which lasted fourteen days.
 Tobit	Tob	17	8	20	And before the days of the feast were over, Raguel declared by oath to Tobias that he should not leave until the fourteen days of the wedding feast were ended,
 Tobit	Tob	17	8	21	that then he should take half of Raguel’s property and return in safety to his father, and that the rest would be his “when my wife and I die.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	9	1	Then Tobias called Raphael and said to him,
 Tobit	Tob	17	9	2	“Brother Azarias, take a servant and two camels with you and go to Gabael at Rages in Media and get the money for me; and bring him to the wedding feast.
 Tobit	Tob	17	9	3	For Raguel has sworn that I should not leave;
 Tobit	Tob	17	9	4	but my father is counting the days, and if I delay long he will be greatly distressed.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	9	5	So Raphael made the journey and stayed over night with Gabael. He gave him the receipt, and Gabael brought out the money bags with their seals intact and gave them to him.
 Tobit	Tob	17	9	6	In the morning they both got up early and came to the wedding feast. And Gabael blessed Tobias and his wife.
 Tobit	Tob	17	10	1	Now his father Tobit was counting each day, and when the days for the journey had expired and they did not arrive,
 Tobit	Tob	17	10	2	he said, “Is it possible that he has been detained? Or is it possible that Gabael has died and there is no one to give him the money?”
 Tobit	Tob	17	10	3	And he was greatly distressed.
 Tobit	Tob	17	10	4	And his wife said to him, “The lad has perished; his long delay proves it.” Then she began to mourn for him, and said,
 Tobit	Tob	17	10	5	“Am I not distressed, my child, that I let you go, you who are the light of my eyes?”
 Tobit	Tob	17	10	6	But Tobit said to her, “Be still and stop worrying; he is well.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	10	7	And she answered him, “Be still and stop deceiving me; my child has perished.” And she went out every day to the road by which they had left; she ate nothing in the daytime, and throughout the nights she never stopped mourning for her son Tobias, until the fourteen days of the wedding feast had expired which Raguel had sworn that he should spend there. At that time Tobias said to Raguel, “Send me back, for my father and mother have given up hope of ever seeing me again.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	10	8	But his father-in-law said to him, “Stay with me, and I will send messengers to your father, and they will inform him how things are with you.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	10	9	Tobias replied, “No, send me back to my father.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	10	10	So Raguel arose and gave him his wife Sarah and half of his property in slaves, cattle, and money.
 Tobit	Tob	17	10	11	And when he had blessed them he sent them away, saying, “The God of heaven will prosper you, my children, before I die.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	10	12	He said also to his daughter, “Honor your father-in-law and your mother-in-law; they are now your parents. Let me hear a good report of you.” And he kissed her. And Edna said to Tobias, “The Lord of heaven bring you back safely, dear brother, and grant me to see your children by my daughter Sarah, that I may rejoice before the Lord. See, I am entrusting my daughter to you; do nothing to grieve her.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	11	1	After this Tobias went on his way, praising God because he had made his journey a success. And he blessed Raguel and his wife Edna. So he continued on his way until they came near to Nineveh.
 Tobit	Tob	17	11	2	Then Raphael said to Tobias, “Are you not aware, brother, of how you left your father?
 Tobit	Tob	17	11	3	Let us run ahead of your wife and prepare the house.
 Tobit	Tob	17	11	4	And take the gall of the fish with you.” So they went their way, and the dog went along behind them.
 Tobit	Tob	17	11	5	Now Anna sat looking intently down the road for her son.
 Tobit	Tob	17	11	6	And she caught sight of him coming, and said to his father, “Behold, your son is coming, and so is the man who went with him!”
 Tobit	Tob	17	11	7	Raphael said, “I know, Tobias, that your father will open his eyes.
 Tobit	Tob	17	11	8	You therefore must anoint his eyes with the gall; and when they smart he will rub them, and will cause the white films to fall away, and he will see you.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	11	9	Then Anna ran to meet them, and embraced her son, and said to him, “I have seen you, my child; now I am ready to die.” And they both wept.
 Tobit	Tob	17	11	10	Tobit started toward the door, and stumbled. But his son ran to him
 Tobit	Tob	17	11	11	and took hold of his father, and he sprinkled the gall upon his father’s eyes, saying, “Be of good cheer, father.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	11	12	And when his eyes began to smart he rubbed them,
 Tobit	Tob	17	11	13	and the white films scaled off from the corners of his eyes.
 Tobit	Tob	17	11	14	Then he saw his son and embraced him, and he wept and said, “Blessed art thou, O God, and blessed is thy name for ever, and blessed are all thy holy angels.
 Tobit	Tob	17	11	15	For thou hast afflicted me, but thou hast had mercy upon me; here I see my son Tobias!” And his son went in rejoicing, and he reported to his father the great things that had happened to him in Media.
 Tobit	Tob	17	11	16	Then Tobit went out to meet his daughter-in-law at the gate of Nineveh, rejoicing and praising God. Those who saw him as he went were amazed because he could see.
 Tobit	Tob	17	11	17	And Tobit gave thanks before them that God had been merciful to him. When Tobit came near to Sarah his daughter-in-law, he blessed her, saying, “Welcome, daughter! Blessed is God who has brought you to us, and blessed are your father and your mother.” So there was rejoicing among all his brethren in Nineveh.
 Tobit	Tob	17	11	18	Ahikar and his nephew Nadab came,
 Tobit	Tob	17	11	19	and Tobias’ marriage was celebrated for seven days with great festivity.
 Tobit	Tob	17	12	1	Tobit then called his son Tobias and said to him, “My son, see to the wages of the man who went with you; and he must also be given more.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	12	2	He replied, “Father, it would do me no harm to give him half of what I have brought back.
 Tobit	Tob	17	12	3	For he has led me back to you safely, he cured my wife, he obtained the money for me, and he also healed you.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	12	4	The old man said, “He deserves it.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	12	5	So he called the angel and said to him, “Take half of all that you two have brought back.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	12	6	Then the angel called the two of them privately and said to them: “Praise God and give thanks to him; exalt him and give thanks to him in the presence of all the living for what he has done for you. It is good to praise God and to exalt his name, worthily declaring the works of God. Do not be slow to give him thanks.
 Tobit	Tob	17	12	7	It is good to guard the secret of a king, but gloriously to reveal the works of God. Do good, and evil will not overtake you.
 Tobit	Tob	17	12	8	Prayer is good when accompanied by fasting, almsgiving, and righteousness. A little with righteousness is better than much with wrongdoing. It is better to give alms than to treasure up gold.
 Tobit	Tob	17	12	9	For almsgiving delivers from death, and it will purge away every sin. Those who perform deeds of charity and of righteousness will have fulness of life;
 Tobit	Tob	17	12	10	but those who commit sin are the enemies of their own lives.
 Tobit	Tob	17	12	11	“I will not conceal anything from you. I have said, ‘It is good to guard the secret of a king, but gloriously to reveal the works of God.’
 Tobit	Tob	17	12	12	And so, when you and your daughter-in-law Sarah prayed, I brought a reminder of your prayer before the Holy One; and when you buried the dead, I was likewise present with you.
 Tobit	Tob	17	12	13	When you did not hesitate to rise and leave your dinner in order to go and lay out the dead, your good deed was not hidden from me, but I was with you.
 Tobit	Tob	17	12	14	So now God sent me to heal you and your daughter-in-law Sarah.
 Tobit	Tob	17	12	15	I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels who present the prayers of the saints and enter into the presence of the glory of the Holy One.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	12	16	They were both alarmed; and they fell upon their faces, for they were afraid.
 Tobit	Tob	17	12	17	But he said to them, “Do not be afraid; you will be safe. But praise God for ever.
 Tobit	Tob	17	12	18	For I did not come as a favor on my part, but by the will of our God. Therefore praise him for ever.
 Tobit	Tob	17	12	19	All these days I merely appeared to you and did not eat or drink, but you were seeing a vision.
 Tobit	Tob	17	12	20	And now give thanks to God, for I am ascending to him who sent me. Write in a book everything that has happened.”
 Tobit	Tob	17	12	21	Then they stood up; but they saw him no more.
 Tobit	Tob	17	12	22	So they confessed the great and wonderful works of God, and acknowledged that the angel of the Lord had appeared to them.
 Tobit	Tob	17	13	1	Then Tobit wrote a prayer of rejoicing, and said: “Blessed is God who lives for ever, and blessed is his kingdom.
 Tobit	Tob	17	13	2	For he afflicts, and he shows mercy; he leads down to Hades, and brings up again, and there is no one who can escape his hand.
 Tobit	Tob	17	13	3	Acknowledge him before the nations, O sons of Israel; for he has scattered us among them.
 Tobit	Tob	17	13	4	Make his greatness known there, and exalt him in the presence of all the living; because he is our Lord and God, he is our Father for ever.
 Tobit	Tob	17	13	5	He will afflict us for our iniquities; and again he will show mercy, and will gather us from all the nations among whom you have been scattered.
 Tobit	Tob	17	13	6	If you turn to him with all your heart and with all your soul, to do what is true before him, then he will turn to you and will not hide his face from you. But see what he will do with you; give thanks to him with your full voice. Praise the Lord of righteousness, and exalt the King of the ages. I give him thanks in the land of my captivity, and I show his power and majesty to a nation of sinners. Turn back, you sinners, and do right before him; who knows if he will accept you and have mercy on you?
 Tobit	Tob	17	13	7	I exalt my God; my soul exalts the King of heaven, and will rejoice in his majesty.
 Tobit	Tob	17	13	8	Let all men speak, and give him thanks in Jerusalem.
 Tobit	Tob	17	13	9	O Jerusalem, the holy city, he will afflict you for the deeds of your sons, but again he will show mercy to the sons of the righteous.
 Tobit	Tob	17	13	10	Give thanks worthily to the Lord, and praise the King of the ages, that his tent may be raised for you again with joy. May he cheer those within you who are captives, and love those within you who are distressed, to all generations for ever.
 Tobit	Tob	17	13	11	Many nations will come from afar to the name of the Lord God, bearing gifts in their hands, gifts for the King of heaven. Generations of generations will give you joyful praise.
 Tobit	Tob	17	13	12	Cursed are all who hate you; blessed for ever will be all who love you.
 Tobit	Tob	17	13	13	Rejoice and be glad for the sons of the righteous; for they will be gathered together, and will praise the Lord of the righteous.
 Tobit	Tob	17	13	14	How blessed are those who love you! They will rejoice in your peace. Blessed are those who grieved over all your afflictions; for they will rejoice for you upon seeing all your glory, and they will be made glad for ever.
 Tobit	Tob	17	13	15	Let my soul praise God the great King.
 Tobit	Tob	17	13	16	For Jerusalem will be built with sapphires and emeralds, her walls with precious stones, and her towers and battlements with pure gold.
 Tobit	Tob	17	13	17	The streets of Jerusalem will be paved with beryl and ruby and stones of Ophir;
 Tobit	Tob	17	13	18	all her lanes will cry ‘Hallelujah!’ and will give praise, saying, ‘Blessed is God, who has exalted you for ever.’”
 Tobit	Tob	17	14	1	Here Tobit ended his words of praise.
 Tobit	Tob	17	14	2	He was fifty-eight years old when he lost his sight, and after eight years he regained it. He gave alms, and he continued to fear the Lord God and to praise him.
 Tobit	Tob	17	14	3	When he had grown very old he called his son and grandsons, and said to him, “My son, take your sons; behold, I have grown old and am about to depart this life.
 Tobit	Tob	17	14	4	Go to Media, my son, for I fully believe what Jonah the prophet said about Nineveh, that it will be overthrown. But in Media there will be peace for a time. Our brethren will be scattered over the earth from the good land, and Jerusalem will be desolate. The house of God in it will be burned down and will be in ruins for a time.
 Tobit	Tob	17	14	5	But God will again have mercy on them, and bring them back into their land; and they will rebuild the house of God, though it will not be like the former one until the times of the age are completed. After this they will return from the places of their captivity, and will rebuild Jerusalem in splendor. And the house of God will be rebuilt there with a glorious building for all generations for ever, just as the prophets said of it.
 Tobit	Tob	17	14	6	Then all the Gentiles will turn to fear the Lord God in truth, and will bury their idols.
 Tobit	Tob	17	14	7	All the Gentiles will praise the Lord, and his people will give thanks to God, and the Lord will exalt his people. And all who love the Lord God in truth and righteousness will rejoice, showing mercy to our brethren.
 Tobit	Tob	17	14	8	“So now, my son, leave Nineveh, because what the prophet Jonah said will surely happen.
 Tobit	Tob	17	14	9	But keep the law and the commandments, and be merciful and just, so that it may be well with you.
 Tobit	Tob	17	14	10	Bury me properly, and your mother with me. And do not live in Nineveh any longer. See, my son, what Nadab did to Ahikar who had reared him, how he brought him from light into darkness, and with what he repaid him. But Ahikar was saved, and the other received repayment as he himself went down into the darkness. Ahikar gave alms and escaped the deathtrap which Nadab had set for him; but Nadab fell into the trap and perished.
 Tobit	Tob	17	14	11	So now, my children, consider what almsgiving accomplishes and how righteousness delivers.” As he said this he died in his bed. He was a hundred and fifty-eight years old; and Tobias gave him a magnificent funeral.
 Tobit	Tob	17	14	12	And when Anna died he buried her with his father. Then Tobias returned with his wife and his sons to Ecbatana, to Raguel his father-in-law.
 Tobit	Tob	17	14	13	He grew old with honor, and he gave his father-in-law and mother-in-law magnificent funerals. He inherited their property and that of his father Tobit.
 Tobit	Tob	17	14	14	He died in Ecbatana of Media at the age of a hundred and twenty-seven years.
 Tobit	Tob	17	14	15	But before he died he heard of the destruction of Nineveh, which Nebuchadnezzar and Ahasuerus had captured. Before his death he rejoiced over Nineveh.
 
 Judith	Jdt	18	1	1	In the twelfth year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, who ruled over the Assyrians in the great city of Nineveh, in the days of Arphaxad, who ruled over the Medes in Ecbatana—
 Judith	Jdt	18	1	2	he is the king who built walls about Ecbatana with hewn stones three cubits thick and six cubits long; he made the walls seventy cubits high and fifty cubits wide;
 Judith	Jdt	18	1	3	at the gates he built towers a hundred cubits high and sixty cubits wide at the foundations;
 Judith	Jdt	18	1	4	and he made its gates, which were seventy cubits high and forty cubits wide, so that his armies could march out in force and his infantry form their ranks—
 Judith	Jdt	18	1	5	it was in those days that King Nebuchadnezzar made war against King Arphaxad in the great plain which is on the borders of Ragae.
 Judith	Jdt	18	1	6	He was joined by all the people of the hill country and all those who lived along the Euphrates and the Tigris and the Hydaspes and in the plain where Arioch ruled the Elymaeans. Many nations joined the forces of the Chaldeans.
 Judith	Jdt	18	1	7	Then Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians sent to all who lived in Persia and to all who lived in the west, those who lived in Cilicia and Damascus and Lebanon and Antilebanon and all who lived along the seacoast,
 Judith	Jdt	18	1	8	and those among the nations of Carmel and Gilead, and Upper Galilee and the great Plain of Esdraelon,
 Judith	Jdt	18	1	9	and all who were in Samaria and its surrounding towns, and beyond the Jordan as far as Jerusalem and Bethany and Chelous and Kadesh and the river of Egypt, and Tahpanhes and Raamses and the whole land of Goshen,
 Judith	Jdt	18	1	10	even beyond Tanis and Memphis, and all who lived in Egypt as far as the borders of Ethiopia.
 Judith	Jdt	18	1	11	But all who lived in the whole region disregarded the orders of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians, and refused to join him in the war; for they were not afraid of him, but looked upon him as only one man, and they sent back his messengers empty-handed and shamefaced.
 Judith	Jdt	18	1	12	Then Nebuchadnezzar was very angry with this whole region, and swore by his throne and kingdom that he would surely take revenge on the whole territory of Cilicia and Damascus and Syria, that he would kill them by the sword, and also all the inhabitants of the land of Moab, and the people of Ammon, and all Judea, and every one in Egypt, as far as the coasts of the two seas.
 Judith	Jdt	18	1	13	In the seventeenth year he led his forces against King Arphaxad, and defeated him in battle, and overthrew the whole army of Arphaxad, and all his cavalry and all his chariots.
 Judith	Jdt	18	1	14	Thus he took possession of his cities, and came to Ecbatana, captured its towers, plundered its markets, and turned its beauty into shame.
 Judith	Jdt	18	1	15	He captured Arphaxad in the mountains of Ragae and struck him down with hunting spears; and he utterly destroyed him, to this day.
 Judith	Jdt	18	1	16	Then he returned with them to Nineveh, he and all his combined forces, a vast body of troops; and there he and his forces rested and feasted for one hundred and twenty days.
 Judith	Jdt	18	2	1	In the eighteenth year, on the twenty-second day of the first month, there was talk in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians about carrying out his revenge on the whole region, just as he said.
 Judith	Jdt	18	2	2	He called together all his officers and all his nobles and set forth to them his secret plan and recounted fully, with his own lips, all the wickedness of the region;
 Judith	Jdt	18	2	3	and it was decided that every one who had not obeyed his command should be destroyed.
 Judith	Jdt	18	2	4	When he had finished setting forth his plan, Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians called Holofernes, the chief general of his army, second only to himself, and said to him,
 Judith	Jdt	18	2	5	“Thus says the Great King, the lord of the whole earth: When you leave my presence, take with you men confident in their strength, to the number of one hundred and twenty thousand foot soldiers and twelve thousand cavalry.
 Judith	Jdt	18	2	6	Go and attack the whole west country, because they disobeyed my orders.
 Judith	Jdt	18	2	7	Tell them to prepare earth and water, for I am coming against them in my anger, and will cover the whole face of the earth with the feet of my armies, and will hand them over to be plundered by my troops,
 Judith	Jdt	18	2	8	till their wounded shall fill their valleys, and every brook and river shall be filled with their dead, and overflow;
 Judith	Jdt	18	2	9	and I will lead them away captive to the ends of the whole earth.
 Judith	Jdt	18	2	10	You shall go and seize all their territory for me in advance. They will yield themselves to you, and you shall hold them for me till the day of their punishment.
 Judith	Jdt	18	2	11	But if they refuse, your eye shall not spare and you shall hand them over to slaughter and plunder throughout your whole region.
 Judith	Jdt	18	2	12	For as I live, and by the power of my kingdom, what I have spoken my hand will execute.
 Judith	Jdt	18	2	13	And you—take care not to transgress any of your sovereign’s commands, but be sure to carry them out just as I have ordered you; and do not delay about it.”
 Judith	Jdt	18	2	14	So Holofernes left the presence of his master, and called together all the commanders, generals, and officers of the Assyrian army,
 Judith	Jdt	18	2	15	and mustered the picked troops by divisions as his lord had ordered him to do, one hundred and twenty thousand of them, together with twelve thousand archers on horseback,
 Judith	Jdt	18	2	16	and he organized them as a great army is marshaled for a campaign.
 Judith	Jdt	18	2	17	He collected a vast number of camels and asses and mules for transport, and innumerable sheep and oxen and goats for provision;
 Judith	Jdt	18	2	18	also plenty of food for every man, and a huge amount of gold and silver from the royal palace.
 Judith	Jdt	18	2	19	So he set out with his whole army, to go ahead of King Nebuchadnezzar and to cover the whole face of the earth to the west with their chariots and horsemen and picked troops of infantry.
 Judith	Jdt	18	2	20	Along with them went a mixed crowd like a swarm of locusts, like the dust of the earth—a multitude that could not be counted.
 Judith	Jdt	18	2	21	They marched for three days from Nineveh to the plain of Bectileth, and camped opposite Bectileth near the mountain which is to the north of Upper Cilicia.
 Judith	Jdt	18	2	22	From there Holofernes took his whole army, his infantry, cavalry, and chariots, and went up into the hill country
 Judith	Jdt	18	2	23	and ravaged Put and Lud, and plundered all the people of Rassis and the Ishmaelites who lived along the desert, south of the country of the Chelleans.
 Judith	Jdt	18	2	24	Then he followed the Euphrates and passed through Mesopotamia and destroyed all the hilltop cities along the brook Abron, as far as the sea.
 Judith	Jdt	18	2	25	He also seized the territory of Cilicia, and killed every one who resisted him, and came to the southern borders of Japheth, fronting toward Arabia.
 Judith	Jdt	18	2	26	He surrounded all the Midianites, and burned their tents and plundered their sheepfolds.
 Judith	Jdt	18	2	27	Then he went down into the plain of Damascus during the wheat harvest, and burned all their fields and destroyed their flocks and herds and sacked their cities and ravaged their lands and put to death all their young men with the edge of the sword.
 Judith	Jdt	18	2	28	So fear and terror of him fell upon all the people who lived along the seacoast, at Sidon and Tyre, and those who lived in Sur and Ocina and all who lived in Jamnia. Those who lived in Azotus and Ascalon feared him exceedingly.
 Judith	Jdt	18	3	1	So they sent messengers to sue for peace, and said,
 Judith	Jdt	18	3	2	“Behold, we the servants of Nebuchadnezzar, the Great King, lie prostrate before you. Do with us whatever you will.
 Judith	Jdt	18	3	3	Behold, our buildings, and all our land, and all our wheat fields, and our flocks and herds, and all our sheepfolds with their tents, lie before you; do with them whatever you please.
 Judith	Jdt	18	3	4	Our cities also and their inhabitants are your slaves; come and deal with them in any way that seems good to you.”
 Judith	Jdt	18	3	5	The men came to Holofernes and told him all this.
 Judith	Jdt	18	3	6	Then he went down to the seacoast with his army and stationed garrisons in the hilltop cities and took picked men from them as his allies.
 Judith	Jdt	18	3	7	And these people and all in the country round about welcomed him with garlands and dances and tambourines.
 Judith	Jdt	18	3	8	And he demolished all their shrines and cut down their sacred groves; for it had been given to him to destroy all the gods of the land, so that all nations should worship Nebuchadnezzar only, and all their tongues and tribes should call upon him as god.
 Judith	Jdt	18	3	9	Then he came to the edge of Esdraelon, near Dothan, fronting the great ridge of Judea;
 Judith	Jdt	18	3	10	here he camped between Geba and Scythopolis, and remained for a whole month in order to assemble all the supplies for his army.
 Judith	Jdt	18	4	1	By this time the people of Israel living in Judea heard of everything that Holofernes, the general of Nebuchadnezzar the king of the Assyrians, had done to the nations, and how he had plundered and destroyed all their temples;
 Judith	Jdt	18	4	2	they were therefore very greatly terrified at his approach, and were alarmed both for Jerusalem and for the temple of the Lord their God.
 Judith	Jdt	18	4	3	For they had only recently returned from the captivity, and all the people of Judea were newly gathered together, and the sacred vessels and the altar and the temple had been consecrated after their profanation.
 Judith	Jdt	18	4	4	So they sent to every district of Samaria, and to Kona and Beth-horon and Belmain and Jericho and to Choba and Aesora and the valley of Salem,
 Judith	Jdt	18	4	5	and immediately seized all the high hilltops and fortified the villages on them and stored up food in preparation for war—since their fields had recently been harvested.
 Judith	Jdt	18	4	6	And Joakim, the high priest, who was in Jerusalem at the time, wrote to the people of Bethulia and Betomesthaim, which faces Esdraelon opposite the plain near Dothan,
 Judith	Jdt	18	4	7	ordering them to seize the passes up into the hills, since by them Judea could be invaded, and it was easy to stop any who tried to enter, for the approach was narrow, only wide enough for two men at the most.
 Judith	Jdt	18	4	8	So the Israelites did as Joakim the high priest and the senate of the whole people of Israel, in session at Jerusalem, had given order.
 Judith	Jdt	18	4	9	And every man of Israel cried out to God with great fervor, and they humbled themselves with much fasting.
 Judith	Jdt	18	4	10	They and their wives and their children and their cattle and every resident alien and hired laborer and purchased slave—they all girded themselves with sackcloth.
 Judith	Jdt	18	4	11	And all the men and women of Israel, and their children, living at Jerusalem, prostrated themselves before the temple and put ashes on their heads and spread out their sackcloth before the Lord.
 Judith	Jdt	18	4	12	They even surrounded the altar with sackcloth and cried out in unison, praying earnestly to the God of Israel not to give up their infants as prey and their wives as booty, and the cities they had inherited to be destroyed, and the sanctuary to be profaned and desecrated to the malicious joy of the Gentiles.
 Judith	Jdt	18	4	13	So the Lord heard their prayers and looked upon their affliction; for the people fasted many days throughout Judea and in Jerusalem before the sanctuary of the Lord Almighty.
 Judith	Jdt	18	4	14	And Joakim the high priest and all the priests who stood before the Lord and ministered to the Lord, with their loins girded with sackcloth, offered the continual burnt offerings and the vows and freewill offerings of the people.
 Judith	Jdt	18	4	15	With ashes upon their turbans, they cried out to the Lord with all their might to look with favor upon the whole house of Israel.
 Judith	Jdt	18	5	1	When Holofernes, the general of the Assyrian army, heard that the people of Israel had prepared for war and had closed the passes in the hills and fortified all the high hilltops and set up barricades in the plains,
 Judith	Jdt	18	5	2	he was very angry. So he called together all the princes of Moab and the commanders of Ammon and all the governors of the coastland,
 Judith	Jdt	18	5	3	and said to them, “Tell me, you Canaanites, what people is this that lives in the hill country? What cities do they inhabit? How large is their army, and in what does their power or strength consist? Who rules over them as king, leading their army?
 Judith	Jdt	18	5	4	And why have they alone, of all who live in the west, refused to come out and meet me?”
 Judith	Jdt	18	5	5	Then Achior, the leader of all the Ammonites, said to him, “Let my lord now hear a word from the mouth of your servant, and I will tell you the truth about this people that dwells in the nearby mountain district. No falsehood shall come from your servant’s mouth.
 Judith	Jdt	18	5	6	This people is descended from the Chaldeans.
 Judith	Jdt	18	5	7	At one time they lived in Mesopotamia, because they would not follow the gods of their fathers who were in Chaldea.
 Judith	Jdt	18	5	8	For they had left the ways of their ancestors, and they worshiped the God of heaven, the God they had come to know; hence they drove them out from the presence of their gods; and they fled to Mesopotamia, and lived there for a long time.
 Judith	Jdt	18	5	9	Then their God commanded them to leave the place where they were living and go to the land of Canaan. There they settled, and prospered, with much gold and silver and very many cattle.
 Judith	Jdt	18	5	10	When a famine spread over Canaan they went down to Egypt and lived there as long as they had food; and there they became a great multitude—so great that they could not be counted.
 Judith	Jdt	18	5	11	So the king of Egypt became hostile to them; he took advantage of them and set them to making bricks, and humbled them and made slaves of them.
 Judith	Jdt	18	5	12	Then they cried out to their God, and he afflicted the whole land of Egypt with incurable plagues; and so the Egyptians drove them out of their sight.
 Judith	Jdt	18	5	13	Then God dried up the Red Sea before them,
 Judith	Jdt	18	5	14	and he led them by the way of Sinai and Kadesh-barnea, and drove out all the people of the wilderness.
 Judith	Jdt	18	5	15	So they lived in the land of the Amorites, and by their might destroyed all the inhabitants of Heshbon; and crossing over the Jordan they took possession of all the hill country.
 Judith	Jdt	18	5	16	And they drove out before them the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Jebusites and the Shechemites and all the Gergesites, and lived there a long time.
 Judith	Jdt	18	5	17	As long as they did not sin against their God they prospered, for the God who hates iniquity is with them.
 Judith	Jdt	18	5	18	But when they departed from the way which he had appointed for them, they were utterly defeated in many battles and were led away captive to a foreign country; the temple of their God was razed to the ground, and their cities were captured by their enemies.
 Judith	Jdt	18	5	19	But now they have returned to their God, and have come back from the places to which they were scattered, and have occupied Jerusalem, where their sanctuary is, and have settled in the hill country, because it was uninhabited.
 Judith	Jdt	18	5	20	Now therefore, my master and lord, if there is any unwitting error in this people and they sin against their God and we find out their offense, then we will go up and defeat them.
 Judith	Jdt	18	5	21	But if there is no transgression in their nation, then let my lord pass them by; for their Lord will defend them, and their God will protect them, and we shall be put to shame before the whole world.”
 Judith	Jdt	18	5	22	When Achior had finished saying this, all the men standing around the tent began to complain; Holofernes’ officers and all the men from the seacoast and from Moab insisted that he must be put to death.
 Judith	Jdt	18	5	23	“For,” they said, “we will not be afraid of the Israelites; they are a people with no strength or power for making war.
 Judith	Jdt	18	5	24	Therefore let us go up, Lord Holofernes, and they will be devoured by your vast army.”
 Judith	Jdt	18	6	1	When the disturbance made by the men outside the council died down, Holofernes, the commander of the Assyrian army, said to Achior and all the Moabites in the presence of all the foreign contingents:
 Judith	Jdt	18	6	2	“And who are you, Achior, and you hirelings of Ephraim, to prophesy among us as you have done today and tell us not to make war against the people of Israel because their God will defend them? Who is God except Nebuchadnezzar?
 Judith	Jdt	18	6	3	He will send his forces and will destroy them from the face of the earth, and their God will not deliver them—we the king’s servants will destroy them as one man. They cannot resist the might of our cavalry.
 Judith	Jdt	18	6	4	We will burn them up, and their mountains will be drunk with their blood, and their fields will be full of their dead. They cannot withstand us, but will utterly perish. So says King Nebuchadnezzar, the lord of the whole earth. For he has spoken; none of his words shall be in vain.
 Judith	Jdt	18	6	5	“But you, Achior, you Ammonite hireling, who have said these words on the day of your iniquity, you shall not see my face again from this day until I take revenge on this race that came out of Egypt.
 Judith	Jdt	18	6	6	Then the sword of my army and the spear of my servants shall pierce your sides, and you shall fall among their wounded, when I return.
 Judith	Jdt	18	6	7	Now my slaves are going to take you back into the hill country and put you in one of the cities beside the passes,
 Judith	Jdt	18	6	8	and you will not die until you perish along with them.
 Judith	Jdt	18	6	9	If you really hope in your heart that they will not be taken, do not look downcast! I have spoken and none of my words shall fail.”
 Judith	Jdt	18	6	10	Then Holofernes ordered his slaves, who waited on him in his tent, to seize Achior and take him to Bethulia and hand him over to the men of Israel.
 Judith	Jdt	18	6	11	So the slaves took him and led him out of the camp into the plain, and from the plain they went up into the hill country and came to the springs below Bethulia.
 Judith	Jdt	18	6	12	When the men of the city saw them, they caught up their weapons and ran out of the city to the top of the hill, and all the slingers kept them from coming up by casting stones at them.
 Judith	Jdt	18	6	13	However, they got under the shelter of the hill and they bound Achior and left him lying at the foot of the hill, and returned to their master.
 Judith	Jdt	18	6	14	Then the men of Israel came down from their city and found him; and they untied him and brought him into Bethulia and placed him before the magistrates of their city,
 Judith	Jdt	18	6	15	who in those days were Uzziah the son of Micah, of the tribe of Simeon, and Chabris the son of Gothoniel, and Charmis the son of Melchiel.
 Judith	Jdt	18	6	16	They called together all the elders of the city, and all their young men and their women ran to the assembly; and they set Achior in the midst of all their people, and Uzziah asked him what had happened.
 Judith	Jdt	18	6	17	He answered and told them what had taken place at the council of Holofernes, and all that he had said in the presence of the Assyrian leaders, and all that Holofernes had said so boastfully against the house of Israel.
 Judith	Jdt	18	6	18	Then the people fell down and worshiped God, and cried out to him, and said,
 Judith	Jdt	18	6	19	“O Lord God of heaven, behold their arrogance, and have pity on the humiliation of our people, and look this day upon the faces of those who are consecrated to thee.”
 Judith	Jdt	18	6	20	Then they consoled Achior, and praised him greatly.
 Judith	Jdt	18	6	21	And Uzziah took him from the assembly to his own house and gave a banquet for the elders; and all that night they called on the God of Israel for help.
 Judith	Jdt	18	7	1	The next day Holofernes ordered his whole army, and all the allies who had joined him, to break camp and move against Bethulia, and to seize the passes up into the hill country and make war on the Israelites.
 Judith	Jdt	18	7	2	So all their warriors moved their camp that day; their force of men of war was one hundred and seventy thousand infantry and twelve thousand cavalry, together with the baggage and the foot soldiers handling it, a very great multitude.
 Judith	Jdt	18	7	3	They encamped in the valley near Bethulia, beside the spring, and they spread out in breadth over Dothan as far as Balbaim and in length from Bethulia to Cyamon, which faces Esdraelon.
 Judith	Jdt	18	7	4	When the Israelites saw their vast numbers they were greatly terrified, and every one said to his neighbor, “These men will now lick up the face of the whole land; neither the high mountains nor the valleys nor the hills will bear their weight.”
 Judith	Jdt	18	7	5	Then each man took up his weapons, and when they had kindled fires on their towers they remained on guard all that night.
 Judith	Jdt	18	7	6	On the second day Holofernes led out all his cavalry in full view of the Israelites in Bethulia,
 Judith	Jdt	18	7	7	and examined the approaches to the city, and visited the springs that supplied their water, and seized them and set guards of soldiers over them, and then returned to his army.
 Judith	Jdt	18	7	8	Then all the chieftains of the people of Esau and all the leaders of the Moabites and the commanders of the coastland came to him and said,
 Judith	Jdt	18	7	9	“Let our lord hear a word, lest his army be defeated.
 Judith	Jdt	18	7	10	For these people, the Israelites, do not rely on their spears but on the height of the mountains where they live, for it is not easy to reach the tops of their mountains.
 Judith	Jdt	18	7	11	Therefore, my lord, do not fight against them in battle array, and not a man of your army will fall.
 Judith	Jdt	18	7	12	Remain in your camp, and keep all the men in your forces with you; only let your servants take possession of the spring of water that flows from the foot of the mountain—
 Judith	Jdt	18	7	13	for this is where all the people of Bethulia get their water. So thirst will destroy them, and they will give up their city. We and our people will go up to the tops of the nearby mountains and camp there to keep watch that not a man gets out of the city.
 Judith	Jdt	18	7	14	They and their wives and children will waste away with famine, and before the sword reaches them they will be strewn about in the streets where they live.
 Judith	Jdt	18	7	15	So you will pay them back with evil, because they rebelled and did not receive you peaceably.”
 Judith	Jdt	18	7	16	These words pleased Holofernes and all his servants, and he gave orders to do as they had said.
 Judith	Jdt	18	7	17	So the army of the Ammonites moved forward, together with five thousand Assyrians, and they encamped in the valley and seized the water supply and the springs of the Israelites.
 Judith	Jdt	18	7	18	And the sons of Esau and the sons of Ammon went up and encamped in the hill country opposite Dothan; and they sent some of their men toward the south and the east, toward Acraba, which is near Chusi beside the brook Mochmur. The rest of the Assyrian army encamped in the plain, and covered the whole face of the land, and their tents and supply trains spread out in great number, and they formed a vast multitude.
 Judith	Jdt	18	7	19	The people of Israel cried out to the Lord their God, for their courage failed, because all their enemies had surrounded them and there was no way of escape from them.
 Judith	Jdt	18	7	20	The whole Assyrian army, their infantry, chariots, and cavalry, surrounded them for thirty-four days, until all the vessels of water belonging to every inhabitant of Bethulia were empty;
 Judith	Jdt	18	7	21	their cisterns were going dry, and they did not have enough water to drink their fill for a single day, because it was measured out to them to drink.
 Judith	Jdt	18	7	22	Their children lost heart, and the women and young men fainted from thirst and fell down in the streets of the city and in the passages through the gates; there was no strength left in them any longer.
 Judith	Jdt	18	7	23	Then all the people, the young men, the women, and the children, gathered about Uzziah and the rulers of the city and cried out with a loud voice, and said before all the elders,
 Judith	Jdt	18	7	24	“God be judge between you and us! For you have done us a great injury in not making peace with the Assyrians.
 Judith	Jdt	18	7	25	For now we have no one to help us; God has sold us into their hands, to strew us on the ground before them with thirst and utter destruction.
 Judith	Jdt	18	7	26	Now call them in and surrender the whole city to the army of Holofernes and to all his forces, to be plundered.
 Judith	Jdt	18	7	27	For it would be better for us to be captured by them; for we will be slaves, but our lives will be spared, and we shall not witness the death of our babes before our eyes, or see our wives and children draw their last breath.
 Judith	Jdt	18	7	28	We call to witness against you heaven and earth and our God, the Lord of our fathers, who punishes us according to our sins and the sins of our fathers. Let him not do this day the things which we have described!”
 Judith	Jdt	18	7	29	Then great and general lamentation arose throughout the assembly, and they cried out to the Lord God with a loud voice.
 Judith	Jdt	18	7	30	And Uzziah said to them, “Have courage, my brothers! Let us hold out for five more days; by that time the Lord our God will restore to us his mercy, for he will not forsake us utterly.
 Judith	Jdt	18	7	31	But if these days pass by, and no help comes for us, I will do what you say.”
 Judith	Jdt	18	7	32	Then he dismissed the people to their various posts, and they went up on the walls and towers of their city. The women and children he sent home. And they were greatly depressed in the city.
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	1	At that time Judith heard about these things: she was the daughter of Merari the son of Ox, son of Joseph, son of Oziel, son of Elkiah, son of Ananias, son of Gideon, son of Raphaim, son of Ahitub, son of Elijah, son of Hilkiah, son of Eliab, son of Nathanael, son of Salamiel, son of Sarasadai, son of Israel.
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	2	Her husband Manasseh, who belonged to her tribe and family, had died during the barley harvest.
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	3	For as he stood overseeing the men who were binding sheaves in the field, he was overcome by the burning heat, and took to his bed and died in Bethulia his city. So they buried him with his fathers in the field between Dothan and Balamon.
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	4	Judith had lived at home as a widow for three years and four months.
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	5	She set up a tent for herself on the roof of her house, and girded sackcloth about her loins and wore the garments of her widowhood.
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	6	She fasted all the days of her widowhood, except the day before the sabbath and the sabbath itself, the day before the new moon and the day of the new moon, and the feasts and days of rejoicing of the house of Israel.
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	7	She was beautiful in appearance, and had a very lovely face; and her husband Manasseh had left her gold and silver, and men and women slaves, and cattle, and fields; and she maintained this estate.
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	8	No one spoke ill of her, for she feared God with great devotion.
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	9	When Judith heard the wicked words spoken by the people against the ruler, because they were faint for lack of water, and when she heard all that Uzziah said to them, and how he promised them under oath to surrender the city to the Assyrians after five days,
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	10	she sent her maid, who was in charge of all she possessed, to summon Chabris and Charmis, the elders of her city.
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	11	They came to her, and she said to them, “Listen to me, rulers of the people of Bethulia! What you have said to the people today is not right; you have even sworn and pronounced this oath between God and you, promising to surrender the city to our enemies unless the Lord turns and helps us within so many days.
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	12	Who are you, that have put God to the test this day, and are setting yourselves up in the place of God among the sons of men?
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	13	You are putting the Lord Almighty to the test—but you will never know anything!
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	14	You cannot plumb the depths of the human heart, nor find out what a man is thinking; how do you expect to search out God, who made all these things, and find out his mind or comprehend his thought? No, my brethren, do not provoke the Lord our God to anger.
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	15	For if he does not choose to help us within these five days, he has power to protect us within any time he pleases, or even to destroy us in the presence of our enemies.
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	16	Do not try to bind the purposes of the Lord our God; for God is not like man, to be threatened, nor like a human being, to be won over by pleading.
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	17	Therefore, while we wait for his deliverance, let us call upon him to help us, and he will hear our voice, if it pleases him.
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	18	“For never in our generation, nor in these present days, has there been any tribe or family or people or city of ours which worshiped gods made with hands, as was done in days gone by—
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	19	and that was why our fathers were handed over to the sword, and to be plundered, and so they suffered a great catastrophe before our enemies.
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	20	But we know no other god but him, and therefore we hope that he will not disdain us or any of our nation.
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	21	For if we are captured all Judea will be captured and our sanctuary will be plundered; and he will exact of us the penalty for its desecration.
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	22	And the slaughter of our brethren and the captivity of the land and the desolation of our inheritance—all this he will bring upon our heads among the Gentiles, wherever we serve as slaves; and we shall be an offense and a reproach in the eyes of those who acquire us.
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	23	For our slavery will not bring us into favor, but the Lord our God will turn it to dishonor.
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	24	“Now therefore, brethren, let us set an example to our brethren, for their lives depend upon us, and the sanctuary and the temple and the altar rest upon us.
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	25	In spite of everything let us give thanks to the Lord our God, who is putting us to the test as he did our forefathers.
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	26	Remember what he did with Abraham, and how he tested Isaac, and what happened to Jacob in Mesopotamia in Syria, while he was keeping the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother.
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	27	For he has not tried us with fire, as he did them, to search their hearts, nor has he taken revenge upon us; but the Lord scourges those who draw near to him, in order to admonish them.”
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	28	Then Uzziah said to her, “All that you have said has been spoken out of a true heart, and there is no one who can deny your words.
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	29	Today is not the first time your wisdom has been shown, but from the beginning of your life all the people have recognized your understanding, for your heart’s disposition is right.
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	30	But the people were very thirsty, and they compelled us to do for them what we have promised, and made us take an oath which we cannot break.
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	31	So pray for us, since you are a devout woman, and the Lord will send us rain to fill our cisterns and we will no longer be faint.”
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	32	Judith said to them, “Listen to me. I am about to do a thing which will go down through all generations of our descendants.
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	33	Stand at the city gate tonight, and I will go out with my maid; and within the days after which you have promised to surrender the city to our enemies, the Lord will deliver Israel by my hand.
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	34	Only, do not try to find out what I plan; for I will not tell you until I have finished what I am about to do.”
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	35	Uzziah and the rulers said to her, “Go in peace, and may the Lord God go before you, to take revenge upon our enemies.”
 Judith	Jdt	18	8	36	So they returned from the tent and went to their posts.
 Judith	Jdt	18	9	1	Then Judith fell upon her face, and put ashes on her head, and uncovered the sackcloth she was wearing; and at the very time when that evening’s incense was being offered in the house of God in Jerusalem, Judith cried out to the Lord with a loud voice, and said,
 Judith	Jdt	18	9	2	“O Lord God of my father Simeon, to whom thou gavest a sword to take revenge on the strangers who had loosed the girdle of a virgin to defile her, and uncovered her thigh to put her to shame, and polluted her womb to disgrace her; for thou hast said, ‘It shall not be done’—yet they did it.
 Judith	Jdt	18	9	3	So thou gavest up their rulers to be slain, and their bed, which was ashamed of the deceit they had practiced, to be stained with blood, and thou didst strike down slaves along with princes, and princes on their thrones;
 Judith	Jdt	18	9	4	and thou gavest their wives for a prey and their daughters to captivity, and all their booty to be divided among thy beloved sons, who were zealous for thee, and abhorred the pollution of their blood, and called on thee for help—O God, my God, hear me also, a widow.
 Judith	Jdt	18	9	5	“For thou hast done these things and those that went before and those that followed; thou hast designed the things that are now, and those that are to come. Yea, the things thou didst intend came to pass,
 Judith	Jdt	18	9	6	and the things thou didst will presented themselves and said, ‘Lo, we are here’; for all thy ways are prepared in advance, and thy judgment is with foreknowledge.
 Judith	Jdt	18	9	7	“Behold now, the Assyrians are increased in their might; they are exalted, with their horses and riders; they glory in the strength of their foot soldiers; they trust in shield and spear, in bow and sling, and know not that thou art the Lord who crushest wars; the Lord is thy name.
 Judith	Jdt	18	9	8	Break their strength by thy might, and bring down their power in thy anger; for they intend to defile thy sanctuary, and to pollute the tabernacle where thy glorious name rests, and to cast down the horn of thy altar with the sword.
 Judith	Jdt	18	9	9	Behold their pride, and send thy wrath upon their heads; give to me, a widow, the strength to do what I plan.
 Judith	Jdt	18	9	10	By the deceit of my lips strike down the slave with the prince and the prince with his servant; crush their arrogance by the hand of a woman.
 Judith	Jdt	18	9	11	“For thy power depends not upon numbers, nor thy might upon men of strength; for thou art God of the lowly, helper of the oppressed, upholder of the weak, protector of the forlorn, savior of those without hope.
 Judith	Jdt	18	9	12	Hear, O hear me, God of my father, God of the inheritance of Israel, Lord of heaven and earth, Creator of the waters, King of all thy creation, hear my prayer!
 Judith	Jdt	18	9	13	Make my deceitful words to be their wound and stripe, for they have planned cruel things against thy covenant, and against thy consecrated house, and against the top of Zion, and against the house possessed by thy children.
 Judith	Jdt	18	9	14	And cause thy whole nation and every tribe to know and understand that thou art God, the God of all power and might, and that there is no other who protects the people of Israel but thou alone!”
 Judith	Jdt	18	10	1	When Judith had ceased crying out to the God of Israel, and had ended all these words,
 Judith	Jdt	18	10	2	she rose from where she lay prostrate and called her maid and went down into the house where she lived on sabbaths and on her feast days;
 Judith	Jdt	18	10	3	and she removed the sackcloth which she had been wearing, and took off her widow’s garments, and bathed her body with water, and anointed herself with precious ointment, and combed her hair and put on a tiara, and arrayed herself in her gayest apparel, which she used to wear while her husband Manasseh was living.
 Judith	Jdt	18	10	4	And she put sandals on her feet, and put on her anklets and bracelets and rings, and her earrings and all her ornaments, and made herself very beautiful, to entice the eyes of all men who might see her.
 Judith	Jdt	18	10	5	And she gave her maid a bottle of wine and a flask of oil, and filled a bag with parched grain and a cake of dried fruit and fine bread; and she wrapped up all her vessels and gave them to her to carry.
 Judith	Jdt	18	10	6	Then they went out to the city gate of Bethulia, and found Uzziah standing there with the elders of the city, Chabris and Charmis.
 Judith	Jdt	18	10	7	When they saw her, and noted how her face was altered and her clothing changed, they greatly admired her beauty, and said to her,
 Judith	Jdt	18	10	8	“May the God of our fathers grant you favor and fulfil your plans, that the people of Israel may glory and Jerusalem may be exalted.” And she worshiped God.
 Judith	Jdt	18	10	9	Then she said to them, “Order the gate of the city to be opened for me, and I will go out and accomplish the things about which you spoke with me.” So they ordered the young men to open the gate for her, as she had said.
 Judith	Jdt	18	10	10	When they had done this, Judith went out, she and her maid with her; and the men of the city watched her until she had gone down the mountain and passed through the valley and they could no longer see her.
 Judith	Jdt	18	10	11	The women went straight on through the valley; and an Assyrian patrol met her
 Judith	Jdt	18	10	12	and took her into custody, and asked her, “To what people do you belong, and where are you coming from, and where are you going?” She replied, “I am a daughter of the Hebrews, but I am fleeing from them, for they are about to be handed over to you to be devoured.
 Judith	Jdt	18	10	13	I am on my way to the presence of Holofernes the commander of your army, to give him a true report; and I will show him a way by which he can go and capture all the hill country without losing one of his men, captured or slain.”
 Judith	Jdt	18	10	14	When the men heard her words, and observed her face—she was in their eyes marvelously beautiful—they said to her,
 Judith	Jdt	18	10	15	“You have saved your life by hurrying down to the presence of our lord. Go at once to his tent; some of us will escort you and hand you over to him.
 Judith	Jdt	18	10	16	And when you stand before him, do not be afraid in your heart, but tell him just what you have said, and he will treat you well.”
 Judith	Jdt	18	10	17	They chose from their number a hundred men to accompany her and her maid, and they brought them to the tent of Holofernes.
 Judith	Jdt	18	10	18	There was great excitement in the whole camp, for her arrival was reported from tent to tent, and they came and stood around her as she waited outside the tent of Holofernes while they told him about her.
 Judith	Jdt	18	10	19	And they marveled at her beauty, and admired the Israelites, judging them by her, and every one said to his neighbor, “Who can despise these people, who have women like this among them? Surely not a man of them had better be left alive, for if we let them go they will be able to ensnare the whole world!”
 Judith	Jdt	18	10	20	Then Holofernes’ companions and all his servants came out and led her into the tent.
 Judith	Jdt	18	10	21	Holofernes was resting on his bed, under a canopy which was woven with purple and gold and emeralds and precious stones.
 Judith	Jdt	18	10	22	When they told him of her he came forward to the front of the tent, with silver lamps carried before him.
 Judith	Jdt	18	10	23	And when Judith came into the presence of Holofernes and his servants, they all marveled at the beauty of her face; and she prostrated herself and made obeisance to him, and his slaves raised her up.
 Judith	Jdt	18	11	1	Then Holofernes said to her, “Take courage, woman, and do not be afraid in your heart, for I have never hurt any one who chose to serve Nebuchadnezzar, the king of all the earth.
 Judith	Jdt	18	11	2	And even now, if your people who live in the hill country had not slighted me, I would never have lifted my spear against them; but they have brought all this on themselves.
 Judith	Jdt	18	11	3	And now tell me why you have fled from them and have come over to us—since you have come to safety.
 Judith	Jdt	18	11	4	Have courage; you will live, tonight and from now on. No one will hurt you, but all will treat you well, as they do the servants of my lord King Nebuchadnezzar.”
 Judith	Jdt	18	11	5	Judith replied to him, “Accept the words of your servant, and let your maidservant speak in your presence, and I will tell nothing false to my lord this night.
 Judith	Jdt	18	11	6	And if you follow out the words of your maidservant, God will accomplish something through you, and my lord will not fail to achieve his purposes.
 Judith	Jdt	18	11	7	Nebuchadnezzar the king of the whole earth lives, and as his power endures, who had sent you to direct every living soul, not only do men serve him because of you, but also the beasts of the field and the cattle and the birds of the air will live by your power under Nebuchadnezzar and all his house.
 Judith	Jdt	18	11	8	For we have heard of your wisdom and skill, and it is reported throughout the whole world that you are the one good man in the whole kingdom, thoroughly informed and marvelous in military strategy.
 Judith	Jdt	18	11	9	“Now as for the things Achior said in your council, we have heard his words, for the men of Bethulia spared him and he told them all he had said to you.
 Judith	Jdt	18	11	10	Therefore, my lord and master, do not disregard what he said, but keep it in your mind, for it is true: our nation cannot be punished, nor can the sword prevail against them, unless they sin against their God.
 Judith	Jdt	18	11	11	“And now, in order that my lord may not be defeated and his purpose frustrated, death will fall upon them, for a sin has overtaken them by which they are about to provoke their God to anger when they do what is wrong.
 Judith	Jdt	18	11	12	Since their food supply is exhausted and their water has almost given out, they have planned to kill their cattle and have determined to use all that God by his laws has forbidden them to eat.
 Judith	Jdt	18	11	13	They have decided to consume the first fruits of the grain and the tithes of the wine and oil, which they had consecrated and set aside for the priests who minister in the presence of our God at Jerusalem—although it is not lawful for any of the people so much as to touch these things with their hands.
 Judith	Jdt	18	11	14	They have sent men to Jerusalem, because even the people living there have been doing this, to bring back to them permission from the senate.
 Judith	Jdt	18	11	15	When the word reaches them and they proceed to do this, on that very day they will be handed over to you to be destroyed.
 Judith	Jdt	18	11	16	“Therefore, when I, your servant, learned all this, I fled from them; and God has sent me to accomplish with you things that will astonish the whole world, as many as shall hear about them.
 Judith	Jdt	18	11	17	For your servant is religious, and serves the God of heaven day and night; therefore, my lord, I will remain with you, and every night your servant will go out into the valley, and I will pray to God and he will tell me when they have committed their sins.
 Judith	Jdt	18	11	18	And I will come and tell you, and then you shall go out with your whole army, and not one of them will withstand you.
 Judith	Jdt	18	11	19	Then I will lead you through the middle of Judea, till you come to Jerusalem; and I will set your throne in the midst of it; and you will lead them like sheep that have no shepherd, and not a dog will so much as open its mouth to growl at you. For this has been told me, by my foreknowledge; it was announced to me, and I was sent to tell you.”
 Judith	Jdt	18	11	20	Her words pleased Holofernes and all his servants, and they marveled at her wisdom and said,
 Judith	Jdt	18	11	21	“There is not such a woman from one end of the earth to the other, either for beauty of face or wisdom of speech!”
 Judith	Jdt	18	11	22	And Holofernes said to her, “God has done well to send you before the people, to lend strength to our hands and to bring destruction upon those who have slighted my lord.
 Judith	Jdt	18	11	23	You are not only beautiful in appearance, but wise in speech; and if you do as you have said, your God shall be my God, and you shall live in the house of King Nebuchadnezzar and be renowned throughout the whole world.”
 Judith	Jdt	18	12	1	Then he commanded them to bring her in where his silver dishes were kept, and ordered them to set a table for her with some of his own food and to serve her with his own wine.
 Judith	Jdt	18	12	2	But Judith said, “I cannot eat it, lest it be an offense; but I will be provided from the things I have brought with me.”
 Judith	Jdt	18	12	3	Holofernes said to her, “If your supply runs out, where can we get more like it for you? For none of your people is here with us.”
 Judith	Jdt	18	12	4	Judith replied, “As your soul lives, my lord, your servant will not use up the things I have with me before the Lord carries out by my hand what he has determined to do.”
 Judith	Jdt	18	12	5	Then the servants of Holofernes brought her into the tent, and she slept until midnight. Along toward the morning watch she arose
 Judith	Jdt	18	12	6	and sent to Holofernes and said, “Let my lord now command that your servant be permitted to go out and pray.”
 Judith	Jdt	18	12	7	So Holofernes commanded his guards not to hinder her. And she remained in the camp for three days, and went out each night to the valley of Bethulia, and bathed at the spring in the camp.
 Judith	Jdt	18	12	8	When she came up from the spring she prayed the Lord God of Israel to direct her way for the raising up of her people.
 Judith	Jdt	18	12	9	So she returned clean and stayed in the tent until she ate her food toward evening.
 Judith	Jdt	18	12	10	On the fourth day Holofernes held a banquet for his slave only, and did not invite any of his officers.
 Judith	Jdt	18	12	11	And he said to Bagoas, the eunuch who had charge of his personal affairs, “Go now and persuade the Hebrew woman who is in your care to join us and eat and drink with us.
 Judith	Jdt	18	12	12	For it will be a disgrace if we let such a woman go without enjoying her company, for if we do not embrace her she will laugh at us.”
 Judith	Jdt	18	12	13	So Bagoas went out from the presence of Holofernes, and approached her and said, “This beautiful maidservant will please come to my lord and be honored in his presence, and drink wine and be merry with us, and become today like one of the daughters of the Assyrians who serve in the house of Nebuchadnezzar.”
 Judith	Jdt	18	12	14	And Judith said, “Who am I, to refuse my lord? Surely whatever pleases him I will do at once, and it will be a joy to me until the day of my death!”
 Judith	Jdt	18	12	15	So she got up and arrayed herself in all her woman’s finery, and her maid went and spread on the ground for her before Holofernes the soft fleeces which she had received from Bagoas for her daily use, so that she might recline on them when she ate.
 Judith	Jdt	18	12	16	Then Judith came in and lay down, and Holofernes’ heart was ravished with her and he was moved with great desire to possess her; for he had been waiting for an opportunity to deceive her, ever since the day he first saw her.
 Judith	Jdt	18	12	17	So Holofernes said to her. “Drink now, and be merry with us!”
 Judith	Jdt	18	12	18	Judith said, “I will drink now, my lord, because my life means more to me today than in all the days since I was born.”
 Judith	Jdt	18	12	19	Then she took and ate and drank before him what her maid had prepared.
 Judith	Jdt	18	12	20	And Holofernes was greatly pleased with her, and drank a great quantity of wine, much more than he had ever drunk in any one day since he was born.
 Judith	Jdt	18	13	1	When evening came, his slaves quickly withdrew, and Bagoas closed the tent from outside and shut out the attendants from his master’s presence; and they went to bed, for they all were weary because the banquet had lasted long.
 Judith	Jdt	18	13	2	So Judith was left alone in the tent, with Holofernes stretched out on his bed, for he was overcome with wine.
 Judith	Jdt	18	13	3	Now Judith had told her maid to stand outside the bedchamber and to wait for her to come out, as she did every day; for she said she would be going out for her prayers. And she had said the same thing to Bagoas.
 Judith	Jdt	18	13	4	So every one went out, and no one, either small or great, was left in the bedchamber. Then Judith, standing beside his bed, said in her heart, “O Lord God of all might, look in this hour upon the work of my hands for the exaltation of Jerusalem.
 Judith	Jdt	18	13	5	For now is the time to help thy inheritance, and to carry out my undertaking for the destruction of the enemies who have risen up against us.”
 Judith	Jdt	18	13	6	She went up to the post at the end of the bed, above Holofernes’ head, and took down his sword that hung there.
 Judith	Jdt	18	13	7	She came close to his bed and took hold of the hair of his head, and said, “Give me strength this day, O Lord God of Israel!”
 Judith	Jdt	18	13	8	And she struck his neck twice with all her might, and severed it from his body.
 Judith	Jdt	18	13	9	Then she tumbled his body off the bed and pulled down the canopy from the posts; after a moment she went out, and gave Holofernes’ head to her maid,
 Judith	Jdt	18	13	10	who placed it in her food bag. Then the two of them went out together, as they were accustomed to go for prayer; and they passed through the camp and circled around the valley and went up the mountain to Bethulia and came to its gates.
 Judith	Jdt	18	13	11	Judith called out from afar to the watchmen at the gates, “Open, open the gate! God, our God, is still with us, to show his power in Israel, and his strength against our enemies, even as he has done this day!”
 Judith	Jdt	18	13	12	When the men of her city heard her voice, they hurried down to the city gate and called together the elders of the city.
 Judith	Jdt	18	13	13	They all ran together, both small and great, for it was unbelievable that she had returned; they opened the gate and admitted them, and they kindled a fire for light, and gathered around them.
 Judith	Jdt	18	13	14	Then she said to them with a loud voice, “Praise God, O praise him! Praise God, who has not withdrawn his mercy from the house of Israel, but has destroyed our enemies by my hand this very night!”
 Judith	Jdt	18	13	15	Then she took the head out of the bag and showed it to them, and said, “See, here is the head of Holofernes, the commander of the Assyrian army, and here is the canopy beneath which he lay in his drunken stupor. The Lord has struck him down by the hand of a woman.
 Judith	Jdt	18	13	16	As the Lord lives, who has protected me in the way I went, it was my face that tricked him to his destruction, and yet he committed no act of sin with me, to defile and shame me.”
 Judith	Jdt	18	13	17	All the people were greatly astonished, and bowed down and worshiped God, and said with one accord, “Blessed art thou, our God, who hast brought into contempt this day the enemies of thy people.”
 Judith	Jdt	18	13	18	And Uzziah said to her, “O daughter, you are blessed by the Most High God above all women on earth; and blessed be the Lord God, who created the heavens and the earth, who has guided you to strike the head of the leader of our enemies.
 Judith	Jdt	18	13	19	Your hope will never depart from the hearts of men, as they remember the power of God.
 Judith	Jdt	18	13	20	May God grant this to be a perpetual honor to you, and may he visit you with blessings, because you did not spare your own life when our nation was brought low, but have avenged our ruin, walking in the straight path before our God.” And all the people said, “So be it, so be it!”
 Judith	Jdt	18	14	1	Then Judith said to them, “Listen to me, my brethren, and take this head and hang it upon the parapet of your wall.
 Judith	Jdt	18	14	2	And as soon as morning comes and the sun rises, let every valiant man take his weapons and go out of the city, and set a captain over them, as if you were going down to the plain against the Assyrian outpost; only do not go down.
 Judith	Jdt	18	14	3	Then they will seize their arms and go into the camp and rouse the officers of the Assyrian army; and they will rush into the tent of Holofernes, and will not find him. Then fear will come over them, and they will flee before you,
 Judith	Jdt	18	14	4	and you and all who live within the borders of Israel shall pursue them and cut them down as they flee.
 Judith	Jdt	18	14	5	But before you do all this, bring Achior the Ammonite to me, and let him see and recognize the man who despised the house of Israel and sent him to us as if to his death.”
 Judith	Jdt	18	14	6	So they summoned Achior from the house of Uzziah. And when he came and saw the head of Holofernes in the hand of one of the men at the gathering of the people, he fell down on his face and his spirit failed him.
 Judith	Jdt	18	14	7	And when they raised him up he fell at Judith’s feet, and knelt before her, and said, “Blessed are you in every tent of Judah! In every nation those who hear your name will be alarmed.
 Judith	Jdt	18	14	8	Now tell me what you have done during these days.” Then Judith described to him in the presence of the people all that she had done, from the day she left until the moment of her speaking to them.
 Judith	Jdt	18	14	9	And when she had finished, the people raised a great shout and made a joyful noise in their city.
 Judith	Jdt	18	14	10	And when Achior saw all that the God of Israel had done, he believed firmly in God, and was circumcised, and joined the house of Israel, remaining so to this day.
 Judith	Jdt	18	14	11	As soon as it was dawn they hung the head of Holofernes on the wall, and every man took his weapons, and they went out in companies to the passes in the mountains.
 Judith	Jdt	18	14	12	And when the Assyrians saw them they sent word to their commanders, and they went to the generals and the captains and to all their officers.
 Judith	Jdt	18	14	13	So they came to Holofernes’ tent and said to the steward in charge of all his personal affairs, “Wake up our lord, for the slaves have been so bold as to come down against us to give battle, in order to be destroyed completely.”
 Judith	Jdt	18	14	14	So Bagoas went in and knocked at the door of the tent, for he supposed that he was sleeping with Judith.
 Judith	Jdt	18	14	15	But when no one answered, he opened it and went into the bedchamber and found him thrown down on the platform dead, with his head cut off and missing.
 Judith	Jdt	18	14	16	And he cried out with a loud voice and wept and groaned and shouted, and rent his garments.
 Judith	Jdt	18	14	17	Then he went to the tent where Judith had stayed, and when he did not find her he rushed out to the people and shouted,
 Judith	Jdt	18	14	18	“The slaves have tricked us! One Hebrew woman has brought disgrace upon the house of King Nebuchadnezzar! For look, here is Holofernes lying on the ground, and his head is not on him!”
 Judith	Jdt	18	14	19	When the leaders of the Assyrian army heard this, they rent their tunics and were greatly dismayed, and their loud cries and shouts arose in the midst of the camp.
 Judith	Jdt	18	15	1	When the men in the tents heard it, they were amazed at what had happened.
 Judith	Jdt	18	15	2	Fear and trembling came over them, so that they did not wait for one another, but with one impulse all rushed out and fled by every path across the plain and through the hill country.
 Judith	Jdt	18	15	3	Those who had camped in the hills around Bethulia also took to flight. Then the men of Israel, every one that was a soldier, rushed out upon them.
 Judith	Jdt	18	15	4	And Uzziah sent men to Betomasthaim and Bebai and Choba and Kola, and to all the frontiers of Israel, to tell what had taken place and to urge all to rush out upon their enemies to destroy them.
 Judith	Jdt	18	15	5	And when the Israelites heard it, with one accord they fell upon the enemy, and cut them down as far as Choba. Those in Jerusalem and all the hill country also came, for they were told what had happened in the camp of the enemy; and those in Gilead and in Galilee outflanked them with great slaughter, even beyond Damascus and its borders.
 Judith	Jdt	18	15	6	The rest of the people of Bethulia fell upon the Assyrian camp and plundered it, and were greatly enriched.
 Judith	Jdt	18	15	7	And the Israelites, when they returned from the slaughter, took possession of what remained, and the villages and towns in the hill country and in the plain got a great amount of booty, for there was a vast quantity of it.
 Judith	Jdt	18	15	8	Then Joakim the high priest, and the senate of the people of Israel who lived at Jerusalem, came to witness the good things which the Lord had done for Israel, and to see Judith and to greet her.
 Judith	Jdt	18	15	9	And when they met her they all blessed her with one accord and said to her, “You are the exaltation of Jerusalem, you are the great glory of Israel, you are the great pride of our nation!
 Judith	Jdt	18	15	10	You have done all this singlehanded; you have done great good to Israel, and God is well pleased with it. May the Almighty Lord bless you for ever!” And all the people said, “So be it!”
 Judith	Jdt	18	15	11	So all the people plundered the camp for thirty days. They gave Judith the tent of Holofernes and all his silver dishes and his beds and his bowls and all his furniture; and she took them and loaded her mule and hitched up her carts and piled the things on them.
 Judith	Jdt	18	15	12	Then all the women of Israel gathered to see her, and blessed her, and some of them performed a dance for her; and she took branches in her hands and gave them to the women who were with her;
 Judith	Jdt	18	15	13	and they crowned themselves with olive wreaths, she and those who were with her; and she went before all the people in the dance, leading all the women, while all the men of Israel followed, bearing their arms and wearing garlands and with songs on their lips.
 Judith	Jdt	18	16	1	Then Judith began this thanksgiving before all Israel, and all the people loudly sang this song of praise.
 Judith	Jdt	18	16	2	And Judith said, Begin a song to my God with tambourines, sing to my Lord with cymbals. Raise to him a new psalm; exalt him, and call upon his name.
 Judith	Jdt	18	16	3	For God is the Lord who crushes wars; for he has delivered me out of the hands of my pursuers, and brought me to his camp, in the midst of the people.
 Judith	Jdt	18	16	4	The Assyrian came down from the mountains of the north; he came with myriads of his warriors; their multitude blocked up the valleys, their cavalry covered the hills.
 Judith	Jdt	18	16	5	He boasted that he would burn up my territory, and kill my young men with the sword, and dash my infants to the ground and seize my children as prey, and take my virgins as booty.
 Judith	Jdt	18	16	6	But the Lord Almighty has foiled them by the hand of a woman.
 Judith	Jdt	18	16	7	For their mighty one did not fall by the hands of the young men, nor did the sons of the Titans smite him, nor did tall giants set upon him; but Judith the daughter of Merari undid him with the beauty of her countenance.
 Judith	Jdt	18	16	8	For she took off her widow’s mourning to exalt the oppressed in Israel. She anointed her face with ointment and fastened her hair with a tiara and put on a linen gown to deceive him.
 Judith	Jdt	18	16	9	Her sandal ravished his eyes, her beauty captivated his mind, and the sword severed his neck.
 Judith	Jdt	18	16	10	The Persians trembled at her boldness, the Medes were daunted at her daring.
 Judith	Jdt	18	16	11	Then my oppressed people shouted for joy; my weak people shouted and the enemy trembled; they lifted up their voices, and the enemy were turned back.
 Judith	Jdt	18	16	12	The sons of maidservants have pierced them through; they were wounded like the children of fugitives, they perished before the army of my Lord.
 Judith	Jdt	18	16	13	I will sing to my God a new song: O Lord, thou are great and glorious, wonderful in strength, invincible.
 Judith	Jdt	18	16	14	Let all thy creatures serve thee, for thou didst speak, and they were made. Thou didst send forth thy Spirit, and it formed them; there is none that can resist thy voice.
 Judith	Jdt	18	16	15	For the mountains shall be shaken to their foundations with the waters; at thy presence the rocks shall melt like wax, but to those who fear thee thou wilt continue to show mercy.
 Judith	Jdt	18	16	16	For every sacrifice as a fragrant offering is a small thing, and all fat for burnt offerings to thee is a very little thing, but he who fears the Lord shall be great for ever.
 Judith	Jdt	18	16	17	Woe to the nations that rise up against my people! The Lord Almighty will take vengeance on them in the day of judgment; fire and worms he will give to their flesh; they shall weep in pain for ever.
 Judith	Jdt	18	16	18	When they arrived at Jerusalem they worshiped God. As soon as the people were purified, they offered their burnt offerings, their freewill offerings, and their gifts.
 Judith	Jdt	18	16	19	Judith also dedicated to God all the vessels of Holofernes, which the people had given her; and the canopy which she took for herself from his bedchamber she gave as a votive offering to the Lord.
 Judith	Jdt	18	16	20	So the people continued feasting in Jerusalem before the sanctuary for three months, and Judith remained with them.
 Judith	Jdt	18	16	21	After this every one returned home to his own inheritance, and Judith went to Bethulia, and remained on her estate, and was honored in her time throughout the whole country.
 Judith	Jdt	18	16	22	Many desired to marry her, but she remained a widow all the days of her life after Manasseh her husband died and was gathered to his people.
 Judith	Jdt	18	16	23	She became more and more famous, and grew old in her husband’s house, until she was one hundred and five years old. She set her maid free. She died in Bethulia, and they buried her in the cave of her husband Manasseh,
 Judith	Jdt	18	16	24	and the house of Israel mourned for her seven days. Before she died she distributed her property to all those who were next of kin to her husband Manasseh, and to her own nearest kindred.
 Judith	Jdt	18	16	25	And no one ever again spread terror among the people of Israel in the days of Judith, or for a long time after her death.
 Esther	Esther	19	1	1	In the days of Ahasu-erus, the Ahasu-erus who reigned from India to Ethiopia over one hundred and twenty-seven provinces,
 Esther	Esther	19	1	2	in those days when King Ahasu-erus sat on his royal throne in Susa the capital,
 Esther	Esther	19	1	3	in the third year of his reign he gave a banquet for all his princes and servants, the army chiefs of Persia and Media and the nobles and governors of the provinces being before him,
 Esther	Esther	19	1	4	while he showed the riches of his royal glory and the splendor and pomp of his majesty for many days, a hundred and eighty days.
 Esther	Esther	19	1	5	And when these days were completed, the king gave for all the people present in Susa the capital, both great and small, a banquet lasting for seven days, in the court of the garden of the king’s palace.
 Esther	Esther	19	1	6	There were white cotton curtains and blue hangings caught up with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and marble pillars, and also couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl and precious stones.
 Esther	Esther	19	1	7	Drinks were served in golden goblets, goblets of different kinds, and the royal wine was lavished according to the bounty of the king.
 Esther	Esther	19	1	8	And drinking was according to the law, no one was compelled; for the king had given orders to all the officials of his palace to do as every man desired.
 Esther	Esther	19	1	9	Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the palace which belonged to King Ahasu-erus.
 Esther	Esther	19	1	10	On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha and Abagtha, Zethar and Carkas, the seven eunuchs who served King Ahasu-erus as chamberlains,
 Esther	Esther	19	1	11	to bring Queen Vashti before the king with her royal crown, in order to show the peoples and the princes her beauty; for she was fair to behold.
 Esther	Esther	19	1	12	But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s command conveyed by the eunuchs. At this the king was enraged, and his anger burned within him.
 Esther	Esther	19	1	13	Then the king said to the wise men who knew the times—for this was the king’s procedure toward all who were versed in law and judgment,
 Esther	Esther	19	1	14	the men next to him being Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king’s face, and sat first in the kingdom—:
 Esther	Esther	19	1	15	“According to the law, what is to be done to Queen Vashti, because she has not performed the command of King Ahasu-erus conveyed by the eunuchs?”
 Esther	Esther	19	1	16	Then Memucan said in presence of the king and the princes, “Not only to the king has Queen Vashti done wrong, but also to all the princes and all the peoples who are in all the provinces of King Ahasu-erus.
 Esther	Esther	19	1	17	For this deed of the queen will be made known to all women, causing them to look with contempt upon their husbands, since they will say, ‘King Ahasu-erus commanded Queen Vashti to be brought before him, and she did not come.’
 Esther	Esther	19	1	18	This very day the ladies of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen’s behavior will be telling it to all the king’s princes, and there will be contempt and wrath in plenty.
 Esther	Esther	19	1	19	If it please the king, let a royal order go forth from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes so that it may not be altered, that Vashti is to come no more before King Ahasu-erus; and let the king give her royal position to another who is better than she.
 Esther	Esther	19	1	20	So when the decree made by the king is proclaimed throughout all his kingdom, vast as it is, all women will give honor to their husbands, high and low.”
 Esther	Esther	19	1	21	This advice pleased the king and the princes, and the king did as Memucan proposed;
 Esther	Esther	19	1	22	he sent letters to all the royal provinces, to every province in its own script and to every people in its own language, that every man be lord in his own house and speak according to the language of his people.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	1	After these things, when the anger of King Ahasu-erus had abated, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what had been decreed against her.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	2	Then the king’s servants who attended him said, “Let beautiful young virgins be sought out for the king.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	3	And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom to gather all the beautiful young virgins to the harem in Susa the capital, under custody of Hegai the king’s eunuch who is in charge of the women; let their ointments be given them.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	4	And let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” This pleased the king, and he did so.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	5	Now there was a Jew in Susa the capital whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, son of Shime-i, son of Kish, a Benjaminite,
 Esther	Esther	19	2	6	who had been carried away from Jerusalem among the captives carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	7	He had brought up Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his uncle, for she had neither father nor mother; the maiden was beautiful and lovely, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai adopted her as his own daughter.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	8	So when the king’s order and his edict were proclaimed, and when many maidens were gathered in Susa the capital in custody of Hegai, Esther also was taken into the king’s palace and put in custody of Hegai who had charge of the women.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	9	And the maiden pleased him and won his favor; and he quickly provided her with her ointments and her portion of food, and with seven chosen maids from the king’s palace, and advanced her and her maids to the best place in the harem.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	10	Esther had not made known her people or kindred, for Mordecai had charged her not to make it known.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	11	And every day Mordecai walked in front of the court of the harem, to learn how Esther was and how she fared.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	12	Now when the turn came for each maiden to go in to King Ahasu-erus, after being twelve months under the regulations for the women, since this was the regular period of their beautifying, six months with oil of myrrh and six months with spices and ointments for women—
 Esther	Esther	19	2	13	when the maiden went in to the king in this way she was given whatever she desired to take with her from the harem to the king’s palace.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	14	In the evening she went, and in the morning she came back to the second harem in custody of Sha-ashgaz the king’s eunuch who was in charge of the concubines; she did not go in to the king again, unless the king delighted in her and she was summoned by name.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	15	When the turn came for Esther the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had adopted her as his own daughter, to go in to the king, she asked for nothing except what Hegai the king’s eunuch, who had charge of the women, advised. Now Esther found favor in the eyes of all who saw her.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	16	And when Esther was taken to King Ahasu-erus into his royal palace in the tenth month, which is the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign,
 Esther	Esther	19	2	17	the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she found grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	18	Then the king gave a great banquet to all his princes and servants; it was Esther’s banquet. He also granted a remission of taxes to the provinces, and gave gifts with royal liberality.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	19	When the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	20	Now Esther had not made known her kindred or her people, as Mordecai had charged her; for Esther obeyed Mordecai just as when she was brought up by him.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	21	And in those days, as Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, became angry and sought to lay hands on King Ahasu-erus.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	22	And this came to the knowledge of Mordecai, and he told it to Queen Esther, and Esther told the king in the name of Mordecai.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	23	When the affair was investigated and found to be so, the men were both hanged on the gallows. And it was recorded in the Book of the Chronicles in the presence of the king.
 Esther	Esther	19	3	1	After these things King Ahasu-erus promoted Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, and advanced him and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.
 Esther	Esther	19	3	2	And all the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate bowed down and did obeisance to Haman; for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai did not bow down or do obeisance.
 Esther	Esther	19	3	3	Then the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate said to Mordecai, “Why do you transgress the king’s command?”
 Esther	Esther	19	3	4	And when they spoke to him day after day and he would not listen to them, they told Haman, in order to see whether Mordecai’s words would avail; for he had told them that he was a Jew.
 Esther	Esther	19	3	5	And when Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow down or do obeisance to him, Haman was filled with fury.
 Esther	Esther	19	3	6	But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone. So, as they had made known to him the people of Mordecai, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasu-erus.
 Esther	Esther	19	3	7	In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasu-erus, they cast Pur, that is the lot, before Haman day after day; and they cast it month after month till the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.
 Esther	Esther	19	3	8	Then Haman said to King Ahasu-erus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king’s laws, so that it is not for the king’s profit to tolerate them.
 Esther	Esther	19	3	9	If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king’s business, that they may put it into the king’s treasuries.”
 Esther	Esther	19	3	10	So the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews.
 Esther	Esther	19	3	11	And the king said to Haman, “The money is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.”
 Esther	Esther	19	3	12	Then the king’s secretaries were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and an edict, according to all that Haman commanded, was written to the king’s satraps and to the governors over all the provinces and to the princes of all the peoples, to every province in its own script and every people in its own language; it was written in the name of King Ahasu-erus and sealed with the king’s ring.
 Esther	Esther	19	3	13	Letters were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to slay, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.
 Esther	Esther	19	4	1	When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai rent his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, wailing with a loud and bitter cry;
 Esther	Esther	19	4	2	he went up to the entrance of the king’s gate, for no one might enter the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
 Esther	Esther	19	4	3	And in every province, wherever the king’s command and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and most of them lay in sackcloth and ashes.
 Esther	Esther	19	4	4	When Esther’s maids and her eunuchs came and told her, the queen was deeply distressed; she sent garments to clothe Mordecai, so that he might take off his sackcloth, but he would not accept them.
 Esther	Esther	19	4	5	Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs, who had been appointed to attend her, and ordered him to go to Mordecai to learn what this was and why it was.
 Esther	Esther	19	4	6	Hathach went out to Mordecai in the open square of the city in front of the king’s gate,
 Esther	Esther	19	4	7	and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of money that Haman had promised to pay into the king’s treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.
 Esther	Esther	19	4	8	Mordecai also gave him a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for their destruction, that he might show it to Esther and explain it to her and charge her to go to the king to make supplication to him and entreat him for her people.
 Esther	Esther	19	4	9	And Hathach went and told Esther what Mordecai had said.
 Esther	Esther	19	4	10	Then Esther spoke to Hathach and gave him a message for Mordecai, saying,
 Esther	Esther	19	4	11	“All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that if any man or woman goes to the king inside the inner court without being called, there is but one law; all alike are to be put to death, except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter that he may live. And I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.”
 Esther	Esther	19	4	12	And they told Mordecai what Esther had said.
 Esther	Esther	19	4	13	Then Mordecai told them to return answer to Esther, “Think not that in the king’s palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews.
 Esther	Esther	19	4	14	For if you keep silence at such a time as this, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another quarter, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
 Esther	Esther	19	4	15	Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai,
 Esther	Esther	19	4	16	“Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”
 Esther	Esther	19	4	17	Mordecai then went away and did everything as Esther had ordered him.
 Esther	Esther	19	5	3	And the king said to her, “What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you, even to the half of my kingdom.”
 Esther	Esther	19	5	4	And Esther said, “If it please the king, let the king and Haman come this day to a dinner that I have prepared for the king.”
 Esther	Esther	19	5	5	Then said the king, “Bring Haman quickly, that we may do as Esther desires.” So the king and Haman came to the dinner that Esther had prepared.
 Esther	Esther	19	5	6	And as they were drinking wine, the king said to Esther, “What is your petition? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled.”
 Esther	Esther	19	5	7	But Esther said, “My petition and my request is:
 Esther	Esther	19	5	8	If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition and fulfil my request, let the king and Haman come tomorrow to the dinner which I will prepare for them, and tomorrow I will do as the king has said.”
 Esther	Esther	19	5	9	And Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart. But when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that he neither rose nor trembled before him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.
 Esther	Esther	19	5	10	Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home; and he sent and fetched his friends and his wife Zeresh.
 Esther	Esther	19	5	11	And Haman recounted to them the splendor of his riches, the number of his sons, all the promotions with which the king had honored him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and the servants of the king.
 Esther	Esther	19	5	12	And Haman added, “Even Queen Esther let no one come with the king to the banquet she prepared but myself. And tomorrow also I am invited by her together with the king.
 Esther	Esther	19	5	13	Yet all this does me no good, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”
 Esther	Esther	19	5	14	Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows fifty cubits high be made, and in the morning tell the king to have Mordecai hanged upon it; then go merrily with the king to the dinner.” This counsel pleased Haman, and he had the gallows made.
 Esther	Esther	19	6	1	On that night the king could not sleep; and he gave orders to bring the book of memorable deeds, the chronicles, and they were read before the king.
 Esther	Esther	19	6	2	And it was found written how Mordecai had told about Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, and who had sought to lay hands upon King Ahasu-erus.
 Esther	Esther	19	6	3	And the king said, “What honor or dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?” The king’s servants who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him.”
 Esther	Esther	19	6	4	And the king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the king’s palace to speak to the king about having Mordecai hanged on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
 Esther	Esther	19	6	5	So the king’s servants told him, “Haman is there, standing in the court.” And the king said, “Let him come in.”
 Esther	Esther	19	6	6	So Haman came in, and the king said to him, “What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?” And Haman said to himself, “Whom would the king delight to honor more than me?”
 Esther	Esther	19	6	7	and Haman said to the king, “For the man whom the king delights to honor,
 Esther	Esther	19	6	8	let royal robes be brought, which the king has worn, and the horse which the king has ridden, and on whose head a royal crown is set;
 Esther	Esther	19	6	9	and let the robes and the horse be handed over to one of the king’s most noble princes; let him array the man whom the king delights to honor, and let him conduct the man on horseback through the open square of the city, proclaiming before him: ‘Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.’”
 Esther	Esther	19	6	10	Then the king said to Haman, “Make haste, take the robes and the horse, as you have said, and do so to Mordecai the Jew who sits at the king’s gate. Leave out nothing that you have mentioned.”
 Esther	Esther	19	6	11	So Haman took the robes and the horse, and he arrayed Mordecai and made him ride through the open square of the city, proclaiming, “Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.”
 Esther	Esther	19	6	12	Then Mordecai returned to the king’s gate. But Haman hurried to his house, mourning and with his head covered.
 Esther	Esther	19	6	13	And Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had befallen him. Then his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of the Jewish people, you will not prevail against him but will surely fall before him.”
 Esther	Esther	19	6	14	While they were yet talking with him, the king’s eunuchs arrived and brought Haman in haste to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
 Esther	Esther	19	7	1	So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther.
 Esther	Esther	19	7	2	And on the second day, as they were drinking wine, the king again said to Esther, “What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled.”
 Esther	Esther	19	7	3	Then Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request.
 Esther	Esther	19	7	4	For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have held my peace; for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king.”
 Esther	Esther	19	7	5	Then King Ahasu-erus said to Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, that would presume to do this?”
 Esther	Esther	19	7	6	And Esther said, “A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!” Then Haman was in terror before the king and the queen.
 Esther	Esther	19	7	7	And the king rose from the feast in wrath and went into the palace garden; but Haman stayed to beg his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that evil was determined against him by the king.
 Esther	Esther	19	7	8	And the king returned from the palace garden to the place where they were drinking wine, as Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was; and the king said, “Will he even assault the queen in my presence, in my own house?” As the words left the mouth of the king, they covered Haman’s face.
 Esther	Esther	19	7	9	Then said Harbona, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, “Moreover, the gallows which Haman has prepared for Mordecai, whose word saved the king, is standing in Haman’s house, fifty cubits high.”
 Esther	Esther	19	7	10	And the king said, “Hang him on that.” So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the anger of the king abated.
 Esther	Esther	19	1	1	In the days of Ahasu-erus, the Ahasu-erus who reigned from India to Ethiopia over one hundred and twenty-seven provinces,
 Esther	Esther	19	1	2	in those days when King Ahasu-erus sat on his royal throne in Susa the capital,
 Esther	Esther	19	1	3	in the third year of his reign he gave a banquet for all his princes and servants, the army chiefs of Persia and Media and the nobles and governors of the provinces being before him,
 Esther	Esther	19	1	4	while he showed the riches of his royal glory and the splendor and pomp of his majesty for many days, a hundred and eighty days.
 Esther	Esther	19	1	5	And when these days were completed, the king gave for all the people present in Susa the capital, both great and small, a banquet lasting for seven days, in the court of the garden of the king’s palace.
 Esther	Esther	19	1	6	There were white cotton curtains and blue hangings caught up with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and marble pillars, and also couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl and precious stones.
 Esther	Esther	19	1	7	Drinks were served in golden goblets, goblets of different kinds, and the royal wine was lavished according to the bounty of the king.
 Esther	Esther	19	1	8	And drinking was according to the law, no one was compelled; for the king had given orders to all the officials of his palace to do as every man desired.
 Esther	Esther	19	1	9	Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the palace which belonged to King Ahasu-erus.
 Esther	Esther	19	1	10	On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha and Abagtha, Zethar and Carkas, the seven eunuchs who served King Ahasu-erus as chamberlains,
 Esther	Esther	19	1	11	to bring Queen Vashti before the king with her royal crown, in order to show the peoples and the princes her beauty; for she was fair to behold.
 Esther	Esther	19	1	12	But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s command conveyed by the eunuchs. At this the king was enraged, and his anger burned within him.
 Esther	Esther	19	1	13	Then the king said to the wise men who knew the times—for this was the king’s procedure toward all who were versed in law and judgment,
 Esther	Esther	19	1	14	the men next to him being Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king’s face, and sat first in the kingdom—:
 Esther	Esther	19	1	15	“According to the law, what is to be done to Queen Vashti, because she has not performed the command of King Ahasu-erus conveyed by the eunuchs?”
 Esther	Esther	19	1	16	Then Memucan said in presence of the king and the princes, “Not only to the king has Queen Vashti done wrong, but also to all the princes and all the peoples who are in all the provinces of King Ahasu-erus.
 Esther	Esther	19	1	17	For this deed of the queen will be made known to all women, causing them to look with contempt upon their husbands, since they will say, ‘King Ahasu-erus commanded Queen Vashti to be brought before him, and she did not come.’
 Esther	Esther	19	1	18	This very day the ladies of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen’s behavior will be telling it to all the king’s princes, and there will be contempt and wrath in plenty.
 Esther	Esther	19	1	19	If it please the king, let a royal order go forth from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes so that it may not be altered, that Vashti is to come no more before King Ahasu-erus; and let the king give her royal position to another who is better than she.
 Esther	Esther	19	1	20	So when the decree made by the king is proclaimed throughout all his kingdom, vast as it is, all women will give honor to their husbands, high and low.”
 Esther	Esther	19	1	21	This advice pleased the king and the princes, and the king did as Memucan proposed;
 Esther	Esther	19	1	22	he sent letters to all the royal provinces, to every province in its own script and to every people in its own language, that every man be lord in his own house and speak according to the language of his people.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	1	After these things, when the anger of King Ahasu-erus had abated, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what had been decreed against her.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	2	Then the king’s servants who attended him said, “Let beautiful young virgins be sought out for the king.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	3	And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom to gather all the beautiful young virgins to the harem in Susa the capital, under custody of Hegai the king’s eunuch who is in charge of the women; let their ointments be given them.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	4	And let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” This pleased the king, and he did so.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	5	Now there was a Jew in Susa the capital whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, son of Shime-i, son of Kish, a Benjaminite,
 Esther	Esther	19	2	6	who had been carried away from Jerusalem among the captives carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	7	He had brought up Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his uncle, for she had neither father nor mother; the maiden was beautiful and lovely, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai adopted her as his own daughter.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	8	So when the king’s order and his edict were proclaimed, and when many maidens were gathered in Susa the capital in custody of Hegai, Esther also was taken into the king’s palace and put in custody of Hegai who had charge of the women.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	9	And the maiden pleased him and won his favor; and he quickly provided her with her ointments and her portion of food, and with seven chosen maids from the king’s palace, and advanced her and her maids to the best place in the harem.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	10	Esther had not made known her people or kindred, for Mordecai had charged her not to make it known.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	11	And every day Mordecai walked in front of the court of the harem, to learn how Esther was and how she fared.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	12	Now when the turn came for each maiden to go in to King Ahasu-erus, after being twelve months under the regulations for the women, since this was the regular period of their beautifying, six months with oil of myrrh and six months with spices and ointments for women—
 Esther	Esther	19	2	13	when the maiden went in to the king in this way she was given whatever she desired to take with her from the harem to the king’s palace.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	14	In the evening she went, and in the morning she came back to the second harem in custody of Sha-ashgaz the king’s eunuch who was in charge of the concubines; she did not go in to the king again, unless the king delighted in her and she was summoned by name.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	15	When the turn came for Esther the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had adopted her as his own daughter, to go in to the king, she asked for nothing except what Hegai the king’s eunuch, who had charge of the women, advised. Now Esther found favor in the eyes of all who saw her.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	16	And when Esther was taken to King Ahasu-erus into his royal palace in the tenth month, which is the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign,
 Esther	Esther	19	2	17	the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she found grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	18	Then the king gave a great banquet to all his princes and servants; it was Esther’s banquet. He also granted a remission of taxes to the provinces, and gave gifts with royal liberality.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	19	When the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	20	Now Esther had not made known her kindred or her people, as Mordecai had charged her; for Esther obeyed Mordecai just as when she was brought up by him.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	21	And in those days, as Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, became angry and sought to lay hands on King Ahasu-erus.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	22	And this came to the knowledge of Mordecai, and he told it to Queen Esther, and Esther told the king in the name of Mordecai.
 Esther	Esther	19	2	23	When the affair was investigated and found to be so, the men were both hanged on the gallows. And it was recorded in the Book of the Chronicles in the presence of the king.
 Esther	Esther	19	3	1	After these things King Ahasu-erus promoted Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, and advanced him and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.
 Esther	Esther	19	3	2	And all the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate bowed down and did obeisance to Haman; for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai did not bow down or do obeisance.
 Esther	Esther	19	3	3	Then the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate said to Mordecai, “Why do you transgress the king’s command?”
 Esther	Esther	19	3	4	And when they spoke to him day after day and he would not listen to them, they told Haman, in order to see whether Mordecai’s words would avail; for he had told them that he was a Jew.
 Esther	Esther	19	3	5	And when Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow down or do obeisance to him, Haman was filled with fury.
 Esther	Esther	19	3	6	But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone. So, as they had made known to him the people of Mordecai, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasu-erus.
 Esther	Esther	19	3	7	In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasu-erus, they cast Pur, that is the lot, before Haman day after day; and they cast it month after month till the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.
 Esther	Esther	19	3	8	Then Haman said to King Ahasu-erus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king’s laws, so that it is not for the king’s profit to tolerate them.
 Esther	Esther	19	3	9	If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king’s business, that they may put it into the king’s treasuries.”
 Esther	Esther	19	3	10	So the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews.
 Esther	Esther	19	3	11	And the king said to Haman, “The money is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.”
 Esther	Esther	19	3	12	Then the king’s secretaries were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and an edict, according to all that Haman commanded, was written to the king’s satraps and to the governors over all the provinces and to the princes of all the peoples, to every province in its own script and every people in its own language; it was written in the name of King Ahasu-erus and sealed with the king’s ring.
 Esther	Esther	19	3	13	Letters were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to slay, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.
 Esther	Esther	19	4	1	When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai rent his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, wailing with a loud and bitter cry;
 Esther	Esther	19	4	2	he went up to the entrance of the king’s gate, for no one might enter the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
 Esther	Esther	19	4	3	And in every province, wherever the king’s command and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and most of them lay in sackcloth and ashes.
 Esther	Esther	19	4	4	When Esther’s maids and her eunuchs came and told her, the queen was deeply distressed; she sent garments to clothe Mordecai, so that he might take off his sackcloth, but he would not accept them.
 Esther	Esther	19	4	5	Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs, who had been appointed to attend her, and ordered him to go to Mordecai to learn what this was and why it was.
 Esther	Esther	19	4	6	Hathach went out to Mordecai in the open square of the city in front of the king’s gate,
 Esther	Esther	19	4	7	and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of money that Haman had promised to pay into the king’s treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.
 Esther	Esther	19	4	8	Mordecai also gave him a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for their destruction, that he might show it to Esther and explain it to her and charge her to go to the king to make supplication to him and entreat him for her people.
 Esther	Esther	19	4	9	And Hathach went and told Esther what Mordecai had said.
 Esther	Esther	19	4	10	Then Esther spoke to Hathach and gave him a message for Mordecai, saying,
 Esther	Esther	19	4	11	“All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that if any man or woman goes to the king inside the inner court without being called, there is but one law; all alike are to be put to death, except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter that he may live. And I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.”
 Esther	Esther	19	4	12	And they told Mordecai what Esther had said.
 Esther	Esther	19	4	13	Then Mordecai told them to return answer to Esther, “Think not that in the king’s palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews.
 Esther	Esther	19	4	14	For if you keep silence at such a time as this, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another quarter, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
 Esther	Esther	19	4	15	Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai,
 Esther	Esther	19	4	16	“Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”
 Esther	Esther	19	4	17	Mordecai then went away and did everything as Esther had ordered him.
 Esther	Esther	19	5	3	And the king said to her, “What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you, even to the half of my kingdom.”
 Esther	Esther	19	5	4	And Esther said, “If it please the king, let the king and Haman come this day to a dinner that I have prepared for the king.”
 Esther	Esther	19	5	5	Then said the king, “Bring Haman quickly, that we may do as Esther desires.” So the king and Haman came to the dinner that Esther had prepared.
 Esther	Esther	19	5	6	And as they were drinking wine, the king said to Esther, “What is your petition? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled.”
 Esther	Esther	19	5	7	But Esther said, “My petition and my request is:
 Esther	Esther	19	5	8	If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition and fulfil my request, let the king and Haman come tomorrow to the dinner which I will prepare for them, and tomorrow I will do as the king has said.”
 Esther	Esther	19	5	9	And Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart. But when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that he neither rose nor trembled before him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.
 Esther	Esther	19	5	10	Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home; and he sent and fetched his friends and his wife Zeresh.
 Esther	Esther	19	5	11	And Haman recounted to them the splendor of his riches, the number of his sons, all the promotions with which the king had honored him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and the servants of the king.
 Esther	Esther	19	5	12	And Haman added, “Even Queen Esther let no one come with the king to the banquet she prepared but myself. And tomorrow also I am invited by her together with the king.
 Esther	Esther	19	5	13	Yet all this does me no good, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”
 Esther	Esther	19	5	14	Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows fifty cubits high be made, and in the morning tell the king to have Mordecai hanged upon it; then go merrily with the king to the dinner.” This counsel pleased Haman, and he had the gallows made.
 Esther	Esther	19	6	1	On that night the king could not sleep; and he gave orders to bring the book of memorable deeds, the chronicles, and they were read before the king.
 Esther	Esther	19	6	2	And it was found written how Mordecai had told about Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, and who had sought to lay hands upon King Ahasu-erus.
 Esther	Esther	19	6	3	And the king said, “What honor or dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?” The king’s servants who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him.”
 Esther	Esther	19	6	4	And the king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the king’s palace to speak to the king about having Mordecai hanged on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
 Esther	Esther	19	6	5	So the king’s servants told him, “Haman is there, standing in the court.” And the king said, “Let him come in.”
 Esther	Esther	19	6	6	So Haman came in, and the king said to him, “What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?” And Haman said to himself, “Whom would the king delight to honor more than me?”
 Esther	Esther	19	6	7	and Haman said to the king, “For the man whom the king delights to honor,
 Esther	Esther	19	6	8	let royal robes be brought, which the king has worn, and the horse which the king has ridden, and on whose head a royal crown is set;
 Esther	Esther	19	6	9	and let the robes and the horse be handed over to one of the king’s most noble princes; let him array the man whom the king delights to honor, and let him conduct the man on horseback through the open square of the city, proclaiming before him: ‘Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.’”
 Esther	Esther	19	6	10	Then the king said to Haman, “Make haste, take the robes and the horse, as you have said, and do so to Mordecai the Jew who sits at the king’s gate. Leave out nothing that you have mentioned.”
 Esther	Esther	19	6	11	So Haman took the robes and the horse, and he arrayed Mordecai and made him ride through the open square of the city, proclaiming, “Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.”
 Esther	Esther	19	6	12	Then Mordecai returned to the king’s gate. But Haman hurried to his house, mourning and with his head covered.
 Esther	Esther	19	6	13	And Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had befallen him. Then his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of the Jewish people, you will not prevail against him but will surely fall before him.”
 Esther	Esther	19	6	14	While they were yet talking with him, the king’s eunuchs arrived and brought Haman in haste to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
 Esther	Esther	19	7	1	So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther.
 Esther	Esther	19	7	2	And on the second day, as they were drinking wine, the king again said to Esther, “What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled.”
 Esther	Esther	19	7	3	Then Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request.
 Esther	Esther	19	7	4	For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have held my peace; for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king.”
 Esther	Esther	19	7	5	Then King Ahasu-erus said to Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, that would presume to do this?”
 Esther	Esther	19	7	6	And Esther said, “A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!” Then Haman was in terror before the king and the queen.
 Esther	Esther	19	7	7	And the king rose from the feast in wrath and went into the palace garden; but Haman stayed to beg his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that evil was determined against him by the king.
 Esther	Esther	19	7	8	And the king returned from the palace garden to the place where they were drinking wine, as Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was; and the king said, “Will he even assault the queen in my presence, in my own house?” As the words left the mouth of the king, they covered Haman’s face.
 Esther	Esther	19	7	9	Then said Harbona, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, “Moreover, the gallows which Haman has prepared for Mordecai, whose word saved the king, is standing in Haman’s house, fifty cubits high.”
 Esther	Esther	19	7	10	And the king said, “Hang him on that.” So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the anger of the king abated.
 Esther	Esther	19	8	1	On that day King Ahasu-erus gave to Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told what he was to her;
 Esther	Esther	19	8	2	and the king took off his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.
 Esther	Esther	19	8	3	Then Esther spoke again to the king; she fell at his feet and besought him with tears to avert the evil design of Haman the Agagite and the plot which he had devised against the Jews.
 Esther	Esther	19	8	4	And the king held out the golden scepter to Esther,
 Esther	Esther	19	8	5	and Esther rose and stood before the king. And she said, “If it please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and if the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let an order be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the provinces of the king.
 Esther	Esther	19	8	6	For how can I endure to see the calamity that is coming to my people? Or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?”
 Esther	Esther	19	8	7	Then King Ahasu-erus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows, because he would lay hands on the Jews.
 Esther	Esther	19	8	8	And you may write as you please with regard to the Jews, in the name of the king, and seal it with the king’s ring; for an edict written in the name of the king and sealed with the king’s ring cannot be revoked.”
 Esther	Esther	19	8	9	The king’s secretaries were summoned at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the twenty-third day; and an edict was written according to all that Mordecai commanded concerning the Jews to the satraps and the governors and the princes of the provinces from India to Ethiopia, a hundred and twenty-seven provinces, to every province in its own script and to every people in its own language, and also to the Jews in their script and their language.
 Esther	Esther	19	8	10	The writing was in the name of King Ahasu-erus and sealed with the king’s ring, and letters were sent by mounted couriers riding on swift horses that were used in the king’s service, bred from the royal stud.
 Esther	Esther	19	8	11	By these the king allowed the Jews who were in every city to gather and defend their lives, to destroy, to slay, and to annihilate any armed force of any people or province that might attack them, with their children and women, and to plunder their goods,
 Esther	Esther	19	8	12	upon one day throughout all the provinces of King Ahasu-erus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.
 Esther	Esther	19	9	1	Now in the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king’s command and edict were about to be executed, on the very day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to get the mastery over them, but which had been changed to a day when the Jews should get the mastery over their foes,
 Esther	Esther	19	9	2	the Jews gathered in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasu-erus to lay hands on such as sought their hurt. And no one could make a stand against them, for the fear of them had fallen upon all peoples.
 Esther	Esther	19	9	3	All the princes of the provinces and the satraps and the governors and the royal officials also helped the Jews, for the fear of Mordecai had fallen upon them.
 Esther	Esther	19	9	4	For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame spread throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai grew more and more powerful.
 Esther	Esther	19	9	5	So the Jews smote all their enemies with the sword, slaughtering, and destroying them, and did as they pleased to those who hated them.
 Esther	Esther	19	9	6	In Susa the capital itself the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men,
 Esther	Esther	19	9	7	and also slew Par-shan-datha and Dalphon and Aspatha
 Esther	Esther	19	9	8	and Poratha and Adalia and Aridatha
 Esther	Esther	19	9	9	and Parmashta and Arisai and Aridai and Vaizatha,
 Esther	Esther	19	9	10	the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews; but they laid no hand on the plunder.
 Esther	Esther	19	9	11	That very day the number of those slain in Susa the capital was reported to the king.
 Esther	Esther	19	9	12	And the king said to Queen Esther, “In Susa the capital the Jews have slain five hundred men and also the ten sons of Haman. What then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is your petition? It shall be granted you. And what further is your request? It shall be fulfilled.”
 Esther	Esther	19	9	13	And Esther said, “If it please the king, let the Jews who are in Susa be allowed tomorrow also to do according to this day’s edict. And let the ten sons of Haman be hanged on the gallows.”
 Esther	Esther	19	9	14	So the king commanded this to be done; a decree was issued in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman were hanged.
 Esther	Esther	19	9	15	The Jews who were in Susa gathered also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and they slew three hundred men in Susa; but they laid no hands on the plunder.
 Esther	Esther	19	9	16	Now the other Jews who were in the king’s provinces also gathered to defend their lives, and got relief from their enemies, and slew seventy-five thousand of those who hated them; but they laid no hands on the plunder.
 Esther	Esther	19	9	17	This was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested and made that a day of feasting and gladness.
 Esther	Esther	19	9	18	But the Jews who were in Susa gathered on the thirteenth day and on the fourteenth, and rested on the fifteenth day, making that a day of feasting and gladness.
 Esther	Esther	19	9	19	Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the open towns, hold the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day for gladness and feasting and holiday-making, and a day on which they send choice portions to one another.
 Esther	Esther	19	9	20	And Mordecai recorded these things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasu-erus, both near and far,
 Esther	Esther	19	9	21	enjoining them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and also the fifteenth day of the same, year by year,
 Esther	Esther	19	9	22	as the days on which the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending choice portions to one another and gifts to the poor.
 Esther	Esther	19	9	23	So the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written to them.
 Esther	Esther	19	9	24	For Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is the lot, to crush and destroy them;
 Esther	Esther	19	9	25	but when Esther came before the king, he gave orders in writing that his wicked plot which he had devised against the Jews should come upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
 Esther	Esther	19	9	26	Therefore they called these days Purim, after the term Pur. And therefore, because of all that was written in this letter, and of what they had faced in this matter, and of what had befallen them,
 Esther	Esther	19	9	27	the Jews ordained and took it upon themselves and their descendants and all who joined them, that without fail they would keep these two days according to what was written and at the time appointed every year,
 Esther	Esther	19	9	28	that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, in every family, province, and city, and that these days of Purim should never fall into disuse among the Jews, nor should the commemoration of these days cease among their descendants.
 Esther	Esther	19	9	29	Then Queen Esther, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew gave full written authority, confirming this second letter about Purim.
 Esther	Esther	19	9	30	Letters were sent to all the Jews, to the hundred and twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasu-erus, in words of peace and truth,
 Esther	Esther	19	9	31	that these days of Purim should be observed at their appointed seasons, as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther enjoined upon the Jews, and as they had laid down for themselves and for their descendants, with regard to their fasts and their lamenting.
 Esther	Esther	19	9	32	The command of Queen Esther fixed these practices of Purim, and it was recorded in writing.
 Esther	Esther	19	10	1	King Ahasu-erus laid tribute on the land and on the coastlands of the sea.
 Esther	Esther	19	10	2	And all the acts of his power and might, and the full account of the high honor of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
 Esther	Esther	19	10	3	For Mordecai the Jew was next in rank to King Ahasu-erus, and he was great among the Jews and popular with the multitude of his brethren, for he sought the welfare of his people and spoke peace to all his people.
 Esther	Esther	19	11	2	In the second year of the reign of Artaxerxes the Great, on the first day of Nisan, Mordecai the son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin, had a dream.
 Esther	Esther	19	11	3	He was a Jew, dwelling in the city of Susa, a great man, serving in the court of the king.
 Esther	Esther	19	11	4	He was one of the captives whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had brought from Jerusalem with Jeconiah king of Judea. And this was his dream:
 Esther	Esther	19	11	5	Behold, noise and confusion, thunders and earthquake, tumult upon the earth!
 Esther	Esther	19	11	6	And behold, two great dragons came forward, both ready to fight, and they roared terribly.
 Esther	Esther	19	11	7	And at their roaring every nation prepared for war, to fight against the nation of the righteous.
 Esther	Esther	19	11	8	And behold, a day of darkness and gloom, tribulation and distress, affliction and great tumult upon the earth!
 Esther	Esther	19	11	9	And the whole righteous nation was troubled; they feared the evils that threatened them, and were ready to perish.
 Esther	Esther	19	11	10	Then they cried to God; and from their cry, as though from a tiny spring, there came a great river, with abundant water;
 Esther	Esther	19	11	11	light came, and the sun rose, and the lowly were exalted and consumed those held in honor.
 Esther	Esther	19	11	12	Mordecai saw in this dream what God had determined to do, and after he awoke he had it on his mind and sought all day to understand it in every detail.
 Esther	Esther	19	12	1	Now Mordecai took his rest in the courtyard with Gabatha and Tharra, the two eunuchs of the king who kept watch in the courtyard.
 Esther	Esther	19	12	2	He overheard their conversation and inquired into their purposes, and learned that they were preparing to lay hands upon Artaxerxes the king; and he informed the king concerning them.
 Esther	Esther	19	12	3	Then the king examined the two eunuchs, and when they confessed they were led to execution.
 Esther	Esther	19	12	4	The king made a permanent record of these things, and Mordecai wrote an account of them.
 Esther	Esther	19	12	5	And the king ordered Mordecai to serve in the court and rewarded him for these things.
 Esther	Esther	19	12	6	But Haman, the son of Hammedatha, a Bougaean, was in great honor with the king, and he sought to injure Mordecai and his people because of the two eunuchs of the king.
 Esther	Esther	19	13	1	This is a copy of the letter: “The Great King, Artaxerxes, to the rulers of the hundred and twenty-seven provinces from India to Ethiopia and to the governors under them, writes thus:
 Esther	Esther	19	13	2	“Having become ruler of many nations and master of the whole world, not elated with presumption of authority but always acting reasonably and with kindness, I have determined to settle the lives of my subjects in lasting tranquillity and, in order to make my kingdom peaceable and open to travel throughout all its extent, to re-establish the peace which all men desire.
 Esther	Esther	19	13	3	“When I asked my counselors how this might be accomplished, Haman, who excels among us in sound judgment, and is distinguished for his unchanging good will and steadfast fidelity, and has attained the second place in the kingdom,
 Esther	Esther	19	13	4	pointed out to us that among all the nations in the world there is scattered a certain hostile people, who have laws contrary to those of every nation and continually disregard the ordinances of the kings, so that the unifying of the kingdom which we honorably intend cannot be brought about.
 Esther	Esther	19	13	5	We understand that this people, and it alone, stands constantly in opposition to all men, perversely following a strange manner of life and laws, and is ill-disposed to our government, doing all the harm they can so that our kingdom may not attain stability.
 Esther	Esther	19	13	6	“Therefore we have decreed that those indicated to you in the letters of Haman, who is in charge of affairs and is our second father, shall all, with their wives and children, be utterly destroyed by the sword of their enemies, without pity or mercy, on the fourteenth day of the twelfth month, Adar, of this present year,
 Esther	Esther	19	13	7	so that those who have long been and are now hostile may in one day go down in violence to Hades, and leave our government completely secure and untroubled hereafter.”
 Esther	Esther	19	14	1	And Esther the queen, seized with deathly anxiety, fled to the Lord;
 Esther	Esther	19	14	2	she took off her splendid apparel and put on the garments of distress and mourning, and instead of costly perfumes she covered her head with ashes and dung, and she utterly humbled her body, and every part that she loved to adorn she covered with her tangled hair.
 Esther	Esther	19	14	3	And she prayed to the Lord God of Israel, and said: Lord, thou only art our King; help me, who am alone and have no helper but thee,
 Esther	Esther	19	14	4	for my danger is in my hand.
 Esther	Esther	19	14	5	Ever since I was born I have heard in the tribe of my family that thou, O Lord, didst take Israel out of all the nations, and our fathers from among all their ancestors, for an everlasting inheritance, and that thou didst do for them all that thou didst promise.
 Esther	Esther	19	14	6	And now we have sinned before thee, and thou hast given us into the hands of our enemies,
 Esther	Esther	19	14	7	because we glorified their gods. Thou art righteous, O Lord!
 Esther	Esther	19	14	8	And now they are not satisfied that we are in bitter slavery, but they have covenanted with their idols
 Esther	Esther	19	14	9	to abolish what thy mouth has ordained and to destroy thy inheritance, to stop the mouths of those who praise thee and to quench thy altar and the glory of thy house,
 Esther	Esther	19	14	10	to open the mouths of the nations for the praise of vain idols, and to magnify for ever a mortal king.
 Esther	Esther	19	14	11	O Lord, do not surrender thy scepter to what has no being; and do not let them mock at our downfall; but turn their plan against themselves, and make an example of the man who began this against us.
 Esther	Esther	19	14	12	Remember, O Lord; make thyself known in this time of our affliction, and give me courage, O King of the gods and Master of all dominion!
 Esther	Esther	19	14	13	Put eloquent speech in my mouth before the lion, and turn his heart to hate the man who is fighting against us, so that there may be an end of him and those who agree with him.
 Esther	Esther	19	14	14	But save us by thy hand, and help me, who am alone and have no helper but thee, O Lord.
 Esther	Esther	19	14	15	Thou hast knowledge of all things; and thou knowest that I hate the splendor of the wicked and abhor the bed of the uncircumcised and of any alien.
 Esther	Esther	19	14	16	Thou knowest my necessity—that I abhor the sign of my proud position, which is upon my head on the days when I appear in public. I abhor it like a menstruous rag, and I do not wear it on the days when I am at leisure.
 Esther	Esther	19	14	17	And thy servant has not eaten at Haman’s table, and I have not honored the king’s feast or drunk the wine of the libations.
 Esther	Esther	19	14	18	Thy servant has had no joy since the day that I was brought here until now, except in thee, O Lord God of Abraham.
 Esther	Esther	19	14	19	O God, whose might is over all, hear the voice of the despairing, and save us from the hands of evildoers. And save me from my fear!”
 Esther	Esther	19	15	1	On the third day, when she ended her prayer, she took off the garments in which she had worshiped, and arrayed herself in splendid attire.
 Esther	Esther	19	15	2	Then, majestically adorned, after invoking the aid of the all-seeing God and Savior, she took her two maids with her,
 Esther	Esther	19	15	3	leaning daintily on one,
 Esther	Esther	19	15	4	while the other followed carrying her train.
 Esther	Esther	19	15	5	She was radiant with perfect beauty, and she looked happy, as if beloved, but her heart was frozen with fear.
 Esther	Esther	19	15	6	When she had gone through all the doors, she stood before the king. He was seated on his royal throne, clothed in the full array of his majesty, all covered with gold and precious stones. And he was most terrifying.
 Esther	Esther	19	15	7	Lifting his face, flushed with splendor, he looked at her in fierce anger. And the queen faltered, and turned pale and faint, and collapsed upon the head of the maid who went before her.
 Esther	Esther	19	15	8	Then God changed the spirit of the king to gentleness, and in alarm he sprang from his throne and took her in his arms until she came to herself. And he comforted her with soothing words, and said to her,
 Esther	Esther	19	15	9	“What is it, Esther? I am your brother. Take courage;
 Esther	Esther	19	15	10	you shall not die, for our law applies only to the people. Come near.”
 Esther	Esther	19	15	11	Then he raised the golden scepter and touched it to her neck;
 Esther	Esther	19	15	12	and he embraced her, and said, “Speak to me.”
 Esther	Esther	19	15	13	And she said to him, “I saw you, my lord, like an angel of God and my heart was shaken with fear at your glory.
 Esther	Esther	19	15	14	For you are wonderful, my lord, and your countenance is full of grace.”
 Esther	Esther	19	15	15	But as she was speaking, she fell fainting.
 Esther	Esther	19	15	16	And the king was agitated, and all his servants sought to comfort her.
 Esther	Esther	19	16	1	The following is a copy of this letter: “The Great King, Artaxerxes, to the rulers of the provinces from India to Ethiopia, one hundred and twenty-seven satrapies, and to those who are loyal to our government, greeting.
 Esther	Esther	19	16	2	“The more often they are honored by the too great kindness of their benefactors, the more proud do many men become.
 Esther	Esther	19	16	3	They not only seek to injure our subjects, but in their inability to stand prosperity they even undertake to scheme against their own benefactors.
 Esther	Esther	19	16	4	They not only take away thankfulness from among men, but, carried away by the boasts of those who know nothing of goodness, they suppose that they will escape the evil-hating justice of God, who always sees everything.
 Esther	Esther	19	16	5	And often many of those who are set in places of authority have been made in part responsible for the shedding of innocent blood, and have been involved in irremediable calamities, by the persuasion of friends who have been entrusted with the administration of public affairs,
 Esther	Esther	19	16	6	when these men by the false trickery of their evil natures beguile the sincere good will of their sovereigns.
 Esther	Esther	19	16	7	“What has been wickedly accomplished through the pestilent behavior of those who exercise authority unworthily, can be seen not so much from the more ancient records which we hand on as from investigation of matters close at hand.
 Esther	Esther	19	16	8	For the future we will take care to render our kingdom quiet and peaceable for all men,
 Esther	Esther	19	16	9	by changing our methods and always judging what comes before our eyes with more equitable consideration.
 Esther	Esther	19	16	10	For Haman, the son of Hammedatha, a Macedonian (really an alien to the Persian blood, and quite devoid of our kindliness), having become our guest,
 Esther	Esther	19	16	11	so far enjoyed the good will that we have for every nation that he was called our father and was continually bowed down to by all as the person second to the royal throne.
 Esther	Esther	19	16	12	But, unable to restrain his arrogance, he undertook to deprive us of our kingdom and our life,
 Esther	Esther	19	16	13	and with intricate craft and deceit asked for the destruction of Mordecai, our savior and perpetual benefactor, and of Esther, the blameless partner of our kingdom, together with their whole nation.
 Esther	Esther	19	16	14	He thought that in this way he would find us undefended and would transfer the kingdom of the Persians to the Macedonians.
 Esther	Esther	19	16	15	“But we find that the Jews, who were consigned to annihilation by this thrice accursed man, are not evildoers but are governed by most righteous laws
 Esther	Esther	19	16	16	and are sons of the Most High, the most mighty living God, who has directed the kingdom both for us and for our fathers in the most excellent order.
 Esther	Esther	19	16	17	“You will therefore do well not to put in execution the letters sent by Haman the son of Hammedatha,
 Esther	Esther	19	16	18	because the man himself who did these things has been hanged at the gate of Susa, with all his household. For God, who rules over all things, has speedily inflicted on him the punishment he deserved.
 Esther	Esther	19	16	19	“Therefore post a copy of this letter publicly in every place, and permit the Jews to live under their own laws.
 Esther	Esther	19	16	20	And give them reinforcements, so that on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, Adar, on that very day they may defend themselves against those who attack them at the time of their affliction.
 Esther	Esther	19	16	21	For God, who rules over all things, has made this day to be a joy to his chosen people instead of a day of destruction for them.
 Esther	Esther	19	16	22	“Therefore you shall observe this with all good cheer as a notable day among your commemorative festivals,
 Esther	Esther	19	16	23	so that both now and hereafter it may mean salvation for us and the loyal Persians, but that for those who plot against us it may be a reminder of destruction.
 Esther	Esther	19	16	24	“Every city and country, without exception, which does not act accordingly, shall be destroyed in wrath with spear and fire. It shall be made not only impassable for men, but also most hateful for all time to beasts and birds.”
 Job	Job	20	1	1	There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
 Job	Job	20	1	2	There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
 Job	Job	20	1	3	He had seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and very many servants; so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east.
 Job	Job	20	1	4	His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each on his day; and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
 Job	Job	20	1	5	And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.
 Job	Job	20	1	6	Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them.
 Job	Job	20	1	7	The Lord said to Satan, “Whence have you come?” Satan answered the Lord, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.”
 Job	Job	20	1	8	And the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?”
 Job	Job	20	1	9	Then Satan answered the Lord, “Does Job fear God for nought?
 Job	Job	20	1	10	Hast thou not put a hedge about him and his house and all that he has, on every side? Thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
 Job	Job	20	1	11	But put forth thy hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will curse thee to thy face.”
 Job	Job	20	1	12	And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power; only upon himself do not put forth your hand.” So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord.
 Job	Job	20	1	13	Now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house;
 Job	Job	20	1	14	and there came a messenger to Job, and said, “The oxen were plowing and the asses feeding beside them;
 Job	Job	20	1	15	and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them, and slew the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
 Job	Job	20	1	16	While he was yet speaking, there came another, and said, “The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them; and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
 Job	Job	20	1	17	While he was yet speaking, there came another, and said, “The Chaldeans formed three companies, and made a raid upon the camels and took them, and slew the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
 Job	Job	20	1	18	While he was yet speaking, there came another, and said, “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house;
 Job	Job	20	1	19	and behold, a great wind came across the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead; and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
 Job	Job	20	1	20	Then Job arose, and rent his robe, and shaved his head, and fell upon the ground, and worshiped.
 Job	Job	20	1	21	And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return; the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”
 Job	Job	20	1	22	In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.
 Job	Job	20	2	1	Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the Lord.
 Job	Job	20	2	2	And the Lord said to Satan, “Whence have you come?” Satan answered the Lord, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.”
 Job	Job	20	2	3	And the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you moved me against him, to destroy him without cause.”
 Job	Job	20	2	4	Then Satan answered the Lord, “Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life.
 Job	Job	20	2	5	But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.”
 Job	Job	20	2	6	And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your power; only spare his life.”
 Job	Job	20	2	7	So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord, and afflicted Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.
 Job	Job	20	2	8	And he took a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and sat among the ashes.
 Job	Job	20	2	9	Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God, and die.”
 Job	Job	20	2	10	But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
 Job	Job	20	2	11	Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to condole with him and comfort him.
 Job	Job	20	2	12	And when they saw him from afar, they did not recognize him; and they raised their voices and wept; and they rent their robes and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
 Job	Job	20	2	13	And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.
 Job	Job	20	3	1	After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
 Job	Job	20	3	2	And Job said:
 Job	Job	20	3	3	“Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night which said, ‘A man-child is conceived.’
 Job	Job	20	3	4	Let that day be darkness! May God above not seek it, nor light shine upon it.
 Job	Job	20	3	5	Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
 Job	Job	20	3	6	That night—let thick darkness seize it! let it not rejoice among the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
 Job	Job	20	3	7	Yea, let that night be barren; let no joyful cry be heard in it.
 Job	Job	20	3	8	Let those curse it who curse the day, who are skilled to rouse up Leviathan.
 Job	Job	20	3	9	Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light, but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning;
 Job	Job	20	3	10	because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.
 Job	Job	20	3	11	“Why did I not die at birth, come forth from the womb and expire?
 Job	Job	20	3	12	Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?
 Job	Job	20	3	13	For then I should have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then I should have been at rest,
 Job	Job	20	3	14	with kings and counselors of the earth who rebuilt ruins for themselves,
 Job	Job	20	3	15	or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
 Job	Job	20	3	16	Or why was I not as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never see the light?
 Job	Job	20	3	17	There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.
 Job	Job	20	3	18	There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
 Job	Job	20	3	19	The small and the great are there, and the slave is free from his master.
 Job	Job	20	3	20	“Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
 Job	Job	20	3	21	who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
 Job	Job	20	3	22	who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they find the grave?
 Job	Job	20	3	23	Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, whom God has hedged in?
 Job	Job	20	3	24	For my sighing comes as my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.
 Job	Job	20	3	25	For the thing that I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me.
 Job	Job	20	3	26	I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest; but trouble comes.”
 Job	Job	20	4	1	Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:
 Job	Job	20	4	2	“If one ventures a word with you, will you be offended? Yet who can keep from speaking?
 Job	Job	20	4	3	Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.
 Job	Job	20	4	4	Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees.
 Job	Job	20	4	5	But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.
 Job	Job	20	4	6	Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?
 Job	Job	20	4	7	“Think now, who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off?
 Job	Job	20	4	8	As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.
 Job	Job	20	4	9	By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
 Job	Job	20	4	10	The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
 Job	Job	20	4	11	The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.
 Job	Job	20	4	12	“Now a word was brought to me stealthily, my ear received the whisper of it.
 Job	Job	20	4	13	Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
 Job	Job	20	4	14	dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.
 Job	Job	20	4	15	A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.
 Job	Job	20	4	16	It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, then I heard a voice:
 Job	Job	20	4	17	‘Can mortal man be righteous before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?
 Job	Job	20	4	18	Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error;
 Job	Job	20	4	19	how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth.
 Job	Job	20	4	20	Between morning and evening they are destroyed; they perish for ever without any regarding it.
 Job	Job	20	4	21	If their tent-cord is plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?’
 Job	Job	20	5	1	“Call now; is there any one who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
 Job	Job	20	5	2	Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.
 Job	Job	20	5	3	I have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.
 Job	Job	20	5	4	His sons are far from safety, they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.
 Job	Job	20	5	5	His harvest the hungry eat, and he takes it even out of thorns; and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
 Job	Job	20	5	6	For affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble sprout from the ground;
 Job	Job	20	5	7	but man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.
 Job	Job	20	5	8	“As for me, I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause;
 Job	Job	20	5	9	who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number:
 Job	Job	20	5	10	he gives rain upon the earth and sends waters upon the fields;
 Job	Job	20	5	11	he sets on high those who are lowly, and those who mourn are lifted to safety.
 Job	Job	20	5	12	He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.
 Job	Job	20	5	13	He takes the wise in their own craftiness; and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.
 Job	Job	20	5	14	They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night.
 Job	Job	20	5	15	But he saves the fatherless from their mouth, the needy from the hand of the mighty.
 Job	Job	20	5	16	So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.
 Job	Job	20	5	17	“Behold, happy is the man whom God reproves; therefore despise not the chastening of the Almighty.
 Job	Job	20	5	18	For he wounds, but he binds up; he smites, but his hands heal.
 Job	Job	20	5	19	He will deliver you from six troubles; in seven there shall no evil touch you.
 Job	Job	20	5	20	In famine he will redeem you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.
 Job	Job	20	5	21	You shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue, and shall not fear destruction when it comes.
 Job	Job	20	5	22	At destruction and famine you shall laugh, and shall not fear the beasts of the earth.
 Job	Job	20	5	23	For you shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.
 Job	Job	20	5	24	You shall know that your tent is safe, and you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing.
 Job	Job	20	5	25	You shall know also that your descendants shall be many, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.
 Job	Job	20	5	26	You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, as a shock of grain comes up to the threshing floor in its season.
 Job	Job	20	5	27	Lo, this we have searched out; it is true. Hear, and know it for your good.”
 Job	Job	20	6	1	Then Job answered:
 Job	Job	20	6	2	“O that my vexation were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
 Job	Job	20	6	3	For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words have been rash.
 Job	Job	20	6	4	For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
 Job	Job	20	6	5	Does the wild ass bray when he has grass, or the ox low over his fodder?
 Job	Job	20	6	6	Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the slime of the purslane?
 Job	Job	20	6	7	My appetite refuses to touch them; they are as food that is loathsome to me.
 Job	Job	20	6	8	“O that I might have my request, and that God would grant my desire;
 Job	Job	20	6	9	that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
 Job	Job	20	6	10	This would be my consolation; I would even exult in pain unsparing; for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
 Job	Job	20	6	11	What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that I should be patient?
 Job	Job	20	6	12	Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh bronze?
 Job	Job	20	6	13	In truth I have no help in me, and any resource is driven from me.
 Job	Job	20	6	14	“He who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
 Job	Job	20	6	15	My brethren are treacherous as a torrent-bed, as freshets that pass away,
 Job	Job	20	6	16	which are dark with ice, and where the snow hides itself.
 Job	Job	20	6	17	In time of heat they disappear; when it is hot, they vanish from their place.
 Job	Job	20	6	18	The caravans turn aside from their course; they go up into the waste, and perish.
 Job	Job	20	6	19	The caravans of Tema look, the travelers of Sheba hope.
 Job	Job	20	6	20	They are disappointed because they were confident; they come thither and are confounded.
 Job	Job	20	6	21	Such you have now become to me; you see my calamity, and are afraid.
 Job	Job	20	6	22	Have I said, ‘Make me a gift’? Or, ‘From your wealth offer a bribe for me’?
 Job	Job	20	6	23	Or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary’s hand’? Or, ‘Ransom me from the hand of oppressors’?
 Job	Job	20	6	24	“Teach me, and I will be silent; make me understand how I have erred.
 Job	Job	20	6	25	How forceful are honest words! But what does reproof from you reprove?
 Job	Job	20	6	26	Do you think that you can reprove words, when the speech of a despairing man is wind?
 Job	Job	20	6	27	You would even cast lots over the fatherless, and bargain over your friend.
 Job	Job	20	6	28	“But now, be pleased to look at me; for I will not lie to your face.
 Job	Job	20	6	29	Turn, I pray, let no wrong be done. Turn now, my vindication is at stake.
 Job	Job	20	6	30	Is there any wrong on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern calamity?
 Job	Job	20	7	1	“Has not man a hard service upon earth, and are not his days like the days of a hireling?
 Job	Job	20	7	2	Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hireling who looks for his wages,
 Job	Job	20	7	3	so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
 Job	Job	20	7	4	When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I arise?’ But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn.
 Job	Job	20	7	5	My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh.
 Job	Job	20	7	6	My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and come to their end without hope.
 Job	Job	20	7	7	“Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.
 Job	Job	20	7	8	The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while thy eyes are upon me, I shall be gone.
 Job	Job	20	7	9	As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up;
 Job	Job	20	7	10	he returns no more to his house, nor does his place know him any more.
 Job	Job	20	7	11	“Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
 Job	Job	20	7	12	Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that thou settest a guard over me?
 Job	Job	20	7	13	When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,’
 Job	Job	20	7	14	then thou dost scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
 Job	Job	20	7	15	so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones.
 Job	Job	20	7	16	I loathe my life; I would not live for ever. Let me alone, for my days are a breath.
 Job	Job	20	7	17	What is man, that thou dost make so much of him, and that thou dost set thy mind upon him,
 Job	Job	20	7	18	dost visit him every morning, and test him every moment?
 Job	Job	20	7	19	How long wilt thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow my spittle?
 Job	Job	20	7	20	If I sin, what do I do to thee, thou watcher of men? Why hast thou made me thy mark? Why have I become a burden to thee?
 Job	Job	20	7	21	Why dost thou not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; thou wilt seek me, but I shall not be.”
 Job	Job	20	8	1	Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
 Job	Job	20	8	2	“How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind?
 Job	Job	20	8	3	Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?
 Job	Job	20	8	4	If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the power of their transgression.
 Job	Job	20	8	5	If you will seek God and make supplication to the Almighty,
 Job	Job	20	8	6	if you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and reward you with a rightful habitation.
 Job	Job	20	8	7	And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great.
 Job	Job	20	8	8	“For inquire, I pray you, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have found;
 Job	Job	20	8	9	for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.
 Job	Job	20	8	10	Will they not teach you, and tell you, and utter words out of their understanding?
 Job	Job	20	8	11	“Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water?
 Job	Job	20	8	12	While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant.
 Job	Job	20	8	13	Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless man shall perish.
 Job	Job	20	8	14	His confidence breaks in sunder, and his trust is a spider’s web.
 Job	Job	20	8	15	He leans against his house, but it does not stand; he lays hold of it, but it does not endure.
 Job	Job	20	8	16	He thrives before the sun, and his shoots spread over his garden.
 Job	Job	20	8	17	His roots twine about the stoneheap; he lives among the rocks.
 Job	Job	20	8	18	If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’
 Job	Job	20	8	19	Behold, this is the joy of his way; and out of the earth others will spring.
 Job	Job	20	8	20	“Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers.
 Job	Job	20	8	21	He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouting.
 Job	Job	20	8	22	Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”
 Job	Job	20	9	1	Then Job answered:
 Job	Job	20	9	2	“Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be just before God?
 Job	Job	20	9	3	If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.
 Job	Job	20	9	4	He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength —who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded?—
 Job	Job	20	9	5	he who removes mountains, and they know it not, when he overturns them in his anger;
 Job	Job	20	9	6	who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble;
 Job	Job	20	9	7	who commands the sun, and it does not rise; who seals up the stars;
 Job	Job	20	9	8	who alone stretched out the heavens, and trampled the waves of the sea;
 Job	Job	20	9	9	who made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the chambers of the south;
 Job	Job	20	9	10	who does great things beyond understanding, and marvelous things without number.
 Job	Job	20	9	11	Lo, he passes by me, and I see him not; he moves on, but I do not perceive him.
 Job	Job	20	9	12	Behold, he snatches away; who can hinder him? Who will say to him, ‘What doest thou’?
 Job	Job	20	9	13	“God will not turn back his anger; beneath him bowed the helpers of Rahab.
 Job	Job	20	9	14	How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him?
 Job	Job	20	9	15	Though I am innocent, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.
 Job	Job	20	9	16	If I summoned him and he answered me, I would not believe that he was listening to my voice.
 Job	Job	20	9	17	For he crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause;
 Job	Job	20	9	18	he will not let me get my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
 Job	Job	20	9	19	If it is a contest of strength, behold him! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?
 Job	Job	20	9	20	Though I am innocent, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
 Job	Job	20	9	21	I am blameless; I regard not myself; I loathe my life.
 Job	Job	20	9	22	It is all one; therefore I say, he destroys both the blameless and the wicked.
 Job	Job	20	9	23	When disaster brings sudden death, he mocks at the calamity of the innocent.
 Job	Job	20	9	24	The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges— if it is not he, who then is it?
 Job	Job	20	9	25	“My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good.
 Job	Job	20	9	26	They go by like skiffs of reed, like an eagle swooping on the prey.
 Job	Job	20	9	27	If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer,’
 Job	Job	20	9	28	I become afraid of all my suffering, for I know thou wilt not hold me innocent.
 Job	Job	20	9	29	I shall be condemned; why then do I labor in vain?
 Job	Job	20	9	30	If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
 Job	Job	20	9	31	yet thou wilt plunge me into a pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.
 Job	Job	20	9	32	For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.
 Job	Job	20	9	33	There is no umpire between us, who might lay his hand upon us both.
 Job	Job	20	9	34	Let him take his rod away from me, and let not dread of him terrify me.
 Job	Job	20	9	35	Then I would speak without fear of him, for I am not so in myself.
 Job	Job	20	10	1	“I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
 Job	Job	20	10	2	I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why thou dost contend against me.
 Job	Job	20	10	3	Does it seem good to thee to oppress, to despise the work of thy hands and favor the designs of the wicked?
 Job	Job	20	10	4	Hast thou eyes of flesh? Dost thou see as man sees?
 Job	Job	20	10	5	Are thy days as the days of man, or thy years as man’s years,
 Job	Job	20	10	6	that thou dost seek out my iniquity and search for my sin,
 Job	Job	20	10	7	although thou knowest that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of thy hand?
 Job	Job	20	10	8	Thy hands fashioned and made me; and now thou dost turn about and destroy me.
 Job	Job	20	10	9	Remember that thou hast made me of clay; and wilt thou turn me to dust again?
 Job	Job	20	10	10	Didst thou not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?
 Job	Job	20	10	11	Thou didst clothe me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
 Job	Job	20	10	12	Thou hast granted me life and steadfast love; and thy care has preserved my spirit.
 Job	Job	20	10	13	Yet these things thou didst hide in thy heart; I know that this was thy purpose.
 Job	Job	20	10	14	If I sin, thou dost mark me, and dost not acquit me of my iniquity.
 Job	Job	20	10	15	If I am wicked, woe to me! If I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look upon my affliction.
 Job	Job	20	10	16	And if I lift myself up, thou dost hunt me like a lion, and again work wonders against me;
 Job	Job	20	10	17	thou dost renew thy witnesses against me, and increase thy vexation toward me; thou dost bring fresh hosts against me.
 Job	Job	20	10	18	“Why didst thou bring me forth from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me,
 Job	Job	20	10	19	and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.
 Job	Job	20	10	20	Are not the days of my life few? Let me alone, that I may find a little comfort
 Job	Job	20	10	21	before I go whence I shall not return, to the land of gloom and deep darkness,
 Job	Job	20	10	22	the land of gloom and chaos, where light is as darkness.”
 Job	Job	20	11	1	Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:
 Job	Job	20	11	2	“Should a multitude of words go unanswered, and a man full of talk be vindicated?
 Job	Job	20	11	3	Should your babble silence men, and when you mock, shall no one shame you?
 Job	Job	20	11	4	For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in God’s eyes.’
 Job	Job	20	11	5	But oh, that God would speak, and open his lips to you,
 Job	Job	20	11	6	and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.
 Job	Job	20	11	7	“Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?
 Job	Job	20	11	8	It is higher than heaven—what can you do? Deeper than Sheol—what can you know?
 Job	Job	20	11	9	Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
 Job	Job	20	11	10	If he passes through, and imprisons, and calls to judgment, who can hinder him?
 Job	Job	20	11	11	For he knows worthless men; when he sees iniquity, will he not consider it?
 Job	Job	20	11	12	But a stupid man will get understanding, when a wild ass’s colt is born a man.
 Job	Job	20	11	13	“If you set your heart aright, you will stretch out your hands toward him.
 Job	Job	20	11	14	If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in your tents.
 Job	Job	20	11	15	Surely then you will lift up your face without blemish; you will be secure, and will not fear.
 Job	Job	20	11	16	You will forget your misery; you will remember it as waters that have passed away.
 Job	Job	20	11	17	And your life will be brighter than the noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.
 Job	Job	20	11	18	And you will have confidence, because there is hope; you will be protected and take your rest in safety.
 Job	Job	20	11	19	You will lie down, and none will make you afraid; many will entreat your favor.
 Job	Job	20	11	20	But the eyes of the wicked will fail; all way of escape will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last.”
 Job	Job	20	12	1	Then Job answered:
 Job	Job	20	12	2	“No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
 Job	Job	20	12	3	But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
 Job	Job	20	12	4	I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called upon God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.
 Job	Job	20	12	5	In the thought of one who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; it is ready for those whose feet slip.
 Job	Job	20	12	6	The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand.
 Job	Job	20	12	7	“But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the air, and they will tell you;
 Job	Job	20	12	8	or the plants of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you.
 Job	Job	20	12	9	Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this?
 Job	Job	20	12	10	In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.
 Job	Job	20	12	11	Does not the ear try words as the palate tastes food?
 Job	Job	20	12	12	Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.
 Job	Job	20	12	13	“With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.
 Job	Job	20	12	14	If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open.
 Job	Job	20	12	15	If he withholds the waters, they dry up; if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.
 Job	Job	20	12	16	With him are strength and wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are his.
 Job	Job	20	12	17	He leads counselors away stripped, and judges he makes fools.
 Job	Job	20	12	18	He looses the bonds of kings, and binds a waistcloth on their loins.
 Job	Job	20	12	19	He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
 Job	Job	20	12	20	He deprives of speech those who are trusted, and takes away the discernment of the elders.
 Job	Job	20	12	21	He pours contempt on princes, and looses the belt of the strong.
 Job	Job	20	12	22	He uncovers the deeps out of darkness, and brings deep darkness to light.
 Job	Job	20	12	23	He makes nations great, and he destroys them: he enlarges nations, and leads them away.
 Job	Job	20	12	24	He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and makes them wander in a pathless waste.
 Job	Job	20	12	25	They grope in the dark without light; and he makes them stagger like a drunken man.
 Job	Job	20	13	1	“Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
 Job	Job	20	13	2	What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
 Job	Job	20	13	3	But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.
 Job	Job	20	13	4	As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all.
 Job	Job	20	13	5	Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom!
 Job	Job	20	13	6	Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
 Job	Job	20	13	7	Will you speak falsely for God, and speak deceitfully for him?
 Job	Job	20	13	8	Will you show partiality toward him, will you plead the case for God?
 Job	Job	20	13	9	Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?
 Job	Job	20	13	10	He will surely rebuke you if in secret you show partiality.
 Job	Job	20	13	11	Will not his majesty terrify you, and the dread of him fall upon you?
 Job	Job	20	13	12	Your maxims are proverbs of ashes, your defenses are defenses of clay.
 Job	Job	20	13	13	“Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.
 Job	Job	20	13	14	I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.
 Job	Job	20	13	15	Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope; yet I will defend my ways to his face.
 Job	Job	20	13	16	This will be my salvation, that a godless man shall not come before him.
 Job	Job	20	13	17	Listen carefully to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears.
 Job	Job	20	13	18	Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be vindicated.
 Job	Job	20	13	19	Who is there that will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.
 Job	Job	20	13	20	Only grant two things to me, then I will not hide myself from thy face:
 Job	Job	20	13	21	withdraw thy hand far from me, and let not dread of thee terrify me.
 Job	Job	20	13	22	Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and do thou reply to me.
 Job	Job	20	13	23	How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.
 Job	Job	20	13	24	Why dost thou hide thy face, and count me as thy enemy?
 Job	Job	20	13	25	Wilt thou frighten a driven leaf and pursue dry chaff?
 Job	Job	20	13	26	For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
 Job	Job	20	13	27	Thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and watchest all my paths; thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet.
 Job	Job	20	13	28	Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
 Job	Job	20	14	1	“Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
 Job	Job	20	14	2	He comes forth like a flower, and withers; he flees like a shadow, and continues not.
 Job	Job	20	14	3	And dost thou open thy eyes upon such a one and bring him into judgment with thee?
 Job	Job	20	14	4	Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
 Job	Job	20	14	5	Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with thee, and thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass,
 Job	Job	20	14	6	look away from him, and desist, that he may enjoy, like a hireling, his day.
 Job	Job	20	14	7	“For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease.
 Job	Job	20	14	8	Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the ground,
 Job	Job	20	14	9	yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth branches like a young plant.
 Job	Job	20	14	10	But man dies, and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?
 Job	Job	20	14	11	As waters fail from a lake, and a river wastes away and dries up,
 Job	Job	20	14	12	so man lies down and rises not again; till the heavens are no more he will not awake, or be roused out of his sleep.
 Job	Job	20	14	13	Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest conceal me until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
 Job	Job	20	14	14	If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my release should come.
 Job	Job	20	14	15	Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee; thou wouldest long for the work of thy hands.
 Job	Job	20	14	16	For then thou wouldest number my steps, thou wouldest not keep watch over my sin;
 Job	Job	20	14	17	my transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and thou wouldest cover over my iniquity.
 Job	Job	20	14	18	“But the mountain falls and crumbles away, and the rock is removed from its place;
 Job	Job	20	14	19	the waters wear away the stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so thou destroyest the hope of man.
 Job	Job	20	14	20	Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passes; thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
 Job	Job	20	14	21	His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; they are brought low, and he perceives it not.
 Job	Job	20	14	22	He feels only the pain of his own body, and he mourns only for himself.”
 Job	Job	20	15	1	Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:
 Job	Job	20	15	2	“Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
 Job	Job	20	15	3	Should he argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which he can do no good?
 Job	Job	20	15	4	But you are doing away with the fear of God, and hindering meditation before God.
 Job	Job	20	15	5	For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
 Job	Job	20	15	6	Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you.
 Job	Job	20	15	7	“Are you the first man that was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?
 Job	Job	20	15	8	Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
 Job	Job	20	15	9	What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
 Job	Job	20	15	10	Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father.
 Job	Job	20	15	11	Are the consolations of God too small for you, or the word that deals gently with you?
 Job	Job	20	15	12	Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash,
 Job	Job	20	15	13	that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
 Job	Job	20	15	14	What is man, that he can be clean? Or he that is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
 Job	Job	20	15	15	Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his sight;
 Job	Job	20	15	16	how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
 Job	Job	20	15	17	“I will show you, hear me; and what I have seen I will declare
 Job	Job	20	15	18	(what wise men have told, and their fathers have not hidden,
 Job	Job	20	15	19	to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them).
 Job	Job	20	15	20	The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.
 Job	Job	20	15	21	Terrifying sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
 Job	Job	20	15	22	He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is destined for the sword.
 Job	Job	20	15	23	He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;
 Job	Job	20	15	24	distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him, like a king prepared for battle.
 Job	Job	20	15	25	Because he has stretched forth his hand against God, and bids defiance to the Almighty,
 Job	Job	20	15	26	running stubbornly against him with a thick-bossed shield;
 Job	Job	20	15	27	because he has covered his face with his fat, and gathered fat upon his loins,
 Job	Job	20	15	28	and has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no man should inhabit, which were destined to become heaps of ruins;
 Job	Job	20	15	29	he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will he strike root in the earth;
 Job	Job	20	15	30	he will not escape from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and his blossom will be swept away by the wind.
 Job	Job	20	15	31	Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness will be his recompense.
 Job	Job	20	15	32	It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not be green.
 Job	Job	20	15	33	He will shake off his unripe grape, like the vine, and cast off his blossom, like the olive tree.
 Job	Job	20	15	34	For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.
 Job	Job	20	15	35	They conceive mischief and bring forth evil and their heart prepares deceit.”
 Job	Job	20	16	1	Then Job answered:
 Job	Job	20	16	2	“I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.
 Job	Job	20	16	3	Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
 Job	Job	20	16	4	I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.
 Job	Job	20	16	5	I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.
 Job	Job	20	16	6	“If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?
 Job	Job	20	16	7	Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.
 Job	Job	20	16	8	And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me; and my leanness has risen up against me, it testifies to my face.
 Job	Job	20	16	9	He has torn me in his wrath, and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
 Job	Job	20	16	10	Men have gaped at me with their mouth, they have struck me insolently upon the cheek, they mass themselves together against me.
 Job	Job	20	16	11	God gives me up to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
 Job	Job	20	16	12	I was at ease, and he broke me asunder; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target,
 Job	Job	20	16	13	his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys, and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground.
 Job	Job	20	16	14	He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a warrior.
 Job	Job	20	16	15	I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my strength in the dust.
 Job	Job	20	16	16	My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness;
 Job	Job	20	16	17	although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
 Job	Job	20	16	18	“O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place.
 Job	Job	20	16	19	Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he that vouches for me is on high.
 Job	Job	20	16	20	My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,
 Job	Job	20	16	21	that he would maintain the right of a man with God, like that of a man with his neighbor.
 Job	Job	20	16	22	For when a few years have come I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
 Job	Job	20	17	1	My spirit is broken, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
 Job	Job	20	17	2	Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.
 Job	Job	20	17	3	“Lay down a pledge for me with thyself; who is there that will give surety for me?
 Job	Job	20	17	4	Since thou hast closed their minds to understanding, therefore thou wilt not let them triumph.
 Job	Job	20	17	5	He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property, the eyes of his children will fail.
 Job	Job	20	17	6	“He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.
 Job	Job	20	17	7	My eye has grown dim from grief, and all my members are like a shadow.
 Job	Job	20	17	8	Upright men are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.
 Job	Job	20	17	9	Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he that has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.
 Job	Job	20	17	10	But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you.
 Job	Job	20	17	11	My days are past, my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart.
 Job	Job	20	17	12	They make night into day; ‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’
 Job	Job	20	17	13	If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness,
 Job	Job	20	17	14	if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
 Job	Job	20	17	15	where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?
 Job	Job	20	17	16	Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?”
 Job	Job	20	18	1	Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
 Job	Job	20	18	2	“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we will speak.
 Job	Job	20	18	3	Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight?
 Job	Job	20	18	4	You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place?
 Job	Job	20	18	5	“Yea, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine.
 Job	Job	20	18	6	The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.
 Job	Job	20	18	7	His strong steps are shortened and his own schemes throw him down.
 Job	Job	20	18	8	For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on a pitfall.
 Job	Job	20	18	9	A trap seizes him by the heel, a snare lays hold of him.
 Job	Job	20	18	10	A rope is hid for him in the ground, a trap for him in the path.
 Job	Job	20	18	11	Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.
 Job	Job	20	18	12	His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready for his stumbling.
 Job	Job	20	18	13	By disease his skin is consumed, the first-born of death consumes his limbs.
 Job	Job	20	18	14	He is torn from the tent in which he trusted, and is brought to the king of terrors.
 Job	Job	20	18	15	In his tent dwells that which is none of his; brimstone is scattered upon his habitation.
 Job	Job	20	18	16	His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above.
 Job	Job	20	18	17	His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.
 Job	Job	20	18	18	He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.
 Job	Job	20	18	19	He has no offspring or descendant among his people, and no survivor where he used to live.
 Job	Job	20	18	20	They of the west are appalled at his day, and horror seizes them of the east.
 Job	Job	20	18	21	Surely such are the dwellings of the ungodly, such is the place of him who knows not God.”
 Job	Job	20	19	1	Then Job answered:
 Job	Job	20	19	2	“How long will you torment me, and break me in pieces with words?
 Job	Job	20	19	3	These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me?
 Job	Job	20	19	4	And even if it be true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
 Job	Job	20	19	5	If indeed you magnify yourselves against me, and make my humiliation an argument against me,
 Job	Job	20	19	6	know then that God has put me in the wrong, and closed his net about me.
 Job	Job	20	19	7	Behold, I cry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not answered; I call aloud, but there is no justice.
 Job	Job	20	19	8	He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
 Job	Job	20	19	9	He has stripped from me my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
 Job	Job	20	19	10	He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, and my hope has he pulled up like a tree.
 Job	Job	20	19	11	He has kindled his wrath against me, and counts me as his adversary.
 Job	Job	20	19	12	His troops come on together; they have cast up siegeworks against me, and encamp round about my tent.
 Job	Job	20	19	13	“He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
 Job	Job	20	19	14	My kinsfolk and my close friends have failed me;
 Job	Job	20	19	15	the guests in my house have forgotten me; my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become an alien in their eyes.
 Job	Job	20	19	16	I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must beseech him with my mouth.
 Job	Job	20	19	17	I am repulsive to my wife, loathsome to the sons of my own mother.
 Job	Job	20	19	18	Even young children despise me; when I rise they talk against me.
 Job	Job	20	19	19	All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me.
 Job	Job	20	19	20	My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
 Job	Job	20	19	21	Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!
 Job	Job	20	19	22	Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?
 Job	Job	20	19	23	“Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
 Job	Job	20	19	24	Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!
 Job	Job	20	19	25	For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand upon the earth;
 Job	Job	20	19	26	and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then from my flesh I shall see God,
 Job	Job	20	19	27	whom I shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!
 Job	Job	20	19	28	If you say, ‘How we will pursue him!’ and, ‘The root of the matter is found in him’;
 Job	Job	20	19	29	be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.”
 Job	Job	20	20	1	Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:
 Job	Job	20	20	2	“Therefore my thoughts answer me, because of my haste within me.
 Job	Job	20	20	3	I hear censure which insults me, and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.
 Job	Job	20	20	4	Do you not know this from of old, since man was placed upon earth,
 Job	Job	20	20	5	that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?
 Job	Job	20	20	6	Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,
 Job	Job	20	20	7	he will perish for ever like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’
 Job	Job	20	20	8	He will fly away like a dream, and not be found; he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
 Job	Job	20	20	9	The eye which saw him will see him no more, nor will his place any more behold him.
 Job	Job	20	20	10	His children will seek the favor of the poor, and his hands will give back his wealth.
 Job	Job	20	20	11	His bones are full of youthful vigor, but it will lie down with him in the dust.
 Job	Job	20	20	12	“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue,
 Job	Job	20	20	13	though he is loath to let it go, and holds it in his mouth,
 Job	Job	20	20	14	yet his food is turned in his stomach; it is the gall of asps within him.
 Job	Job	20	20	15	He swallows down riches and vomits them up again; God casts them out of his belly.
 Job	Job	20	20	16	He will suck the poison of asps; the tongue of a viper will kill him.
 Job	Job	20	20	17	He will not look upon the rivers, the streams flowing with honey and curds.
 Job	Job	20	20	18	He will give back the fruit of his toil, and will not swallow it down; from the profit of his trading he will get no enjoyment.
 Job	Job	20	20	19	For he has crushed and abandoned the poor, he has seized a house which he did not build.
 Job	Job	20	20	20	“Because his greed knew no rest, he will not save anything in which he delights.
 Job	Job	20	20	21	There was nothing left after he had eaten; therefore his prosperity will not endure.
 Job	Job	20	20	22	In the fulness of his sufficiency he will be in straits; all the force of misery will come upon him.
 Job	Job	20	20	23	To fill his belly to the full God will send his fierce anger into him, and rain it upon him as his food.
 Job	Job	20	20	24	He will flee from an iron weapon; a bronze arrow will strike him through.
 Job	Job	20	20	25	It is drawn forth and comes out of his body, the glittering point comes out of his gall; terrors come upon him.
 Job	Job	20	20	26	Utter darkness is laid up for his treasures; a fire not blown upon will devour him; what is left in his tent will be consumed.
 Job	Job	20	20	27	The heavens will reveal his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.
 Job	Job	20	20	28	The possessions of his house will be carried away, dragged off in the day of God’s wrath.
 Job	Job	20	20	29	This is the wicked man’s portion from God, the heritage decreed for him by God.”
 Job	Job	20	21	1	Then Job answered:
 Job	Job	20	21	2	“Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation.
 Job	Job	20	21	3	Bear with me, and I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.
 Job	Job	20	21	4	As for me, is my complaint against man? Why should I not be impatient?
 Job	Job	20	21	5	Look at me, and be appalled, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
 Job	Job	20	21	6	When I think of it I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.
 Job	Job	20	21	7	Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?
 Job	Job	20	21	8	Their children are established in their presence, and their offspring before their eyes.
 Job	Job	20	21	9	Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them.
 Job	Job	20	21	10	Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves, and does not cast her calf.
 Job	Job	20	21	11	They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
 Job	Job	20	21	12	They sing to the tambourine and the lyre, and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.
 Job	Job	20	21	13	They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.
 Job	Job	20	21	14	They say to God, ‘Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of thy ways.
 Job	Job	20	21	15	What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’
 Job	Job	20	21	16	Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand? The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
 Job	Job	20	21	17	“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes upon them? That God distributes pains in his anger?
 Job	Job	20	21	18	That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?
 Job	Job	20	21	19	You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their sons.’ Let him recompense it to themselves, that they may know it.
 Job	Job	20	21	20	Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
 Job	Job	20	21	21	For what do they care for their houses after them, when the number of their months is cut off?
 Job	Job	20	21	22	Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those that are on high?
 Job	Job	20	21	23	One dies in full prosperity, being wholly at ease and secure,
 Job	Job	20	21	24	his body full of fat and the marrow of his bones moist.
 Job	Job	20	21	25	Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of good.
 Job	Job	20	21	26	They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.
 Job	Job	20	21	27	“Behold, I know your thoughts, and your schemes to wrong me.
 Job	Job	20	21	28	For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked dwelt?’
 Job	Job	20	21	29	Have you not asked those who travel the roads, and do you not accept their testimony
 Job	Job	20	21	30	that the wicked man is spared in the day of calamity, that he is rescued in the day of wrath?
 Job	Job	20	21	31	Who declares his way to his face, and who requites him for what he has done?
 Job	Job	20	21	32	When he is borne to the grave, watch is kept over his tomb.
 Job	Job	20	21	33	The clods of the valley are sweet to him; all men follow after him, and those who go before him are innumerable.
 Job	Job	20	21	34	How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.”
 Job	Job	20	22	1	Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:
 Job	Job	20	22	2	“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
 Job	Job	20	22	3	Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are righteous, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?
 Job	Job	20	22	4	Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you, and enters into judgment with you?
 Job	Job	20	22	5	Is not your wickedness great? There is no end to your iniquities.
 Job	Job	20	22	6	For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
 Job	Job	20	22	7	You have given no water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
 Job	Job	20	22	8	The man with power possessed the land, and the favored man dwelt in it.
 Job	Job	20	22	9	You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.
 Job	Job	20	22	10	Therefore snares are round about you, and sudden terror overwhelms you;
 Job	Job	20	22	11	your light is darkened, so that you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.
 Job	Job	20	22	12	“Is not God high in the heavens? See the highest stars, how lofty they are!
 Job	Job	20	22	13	Therefore you say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness?
 Job	Job	20	22	14	Thick clouds enwrap him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.’
 Job	Job	20	22	15	Will you keep to the old way which wicked men have trod?
 Job	Job	20	22	16	They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away.
 Job	Job	20	22	17	They said to God, ‘Depart from us,’ and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’
 Job	Job	20	22	18	Yet he filled their houses with good things— but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
 Job	Job	20	22	19	The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent laugh them to scorn,
 Job	Job	20	22	20	saying, ‘Surely our adversaries are cut off, and what they left the fire has consumed.’
 Job	Job	20	22	21	“Agree with God, and be at peace; thereby good will come to you.
 Job	Job	20	22	22	Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
 Job	Job	20	22	23	If you return to the Almighty and humble yourself, if you remove unrighteousness far from your tents,
 Job	Job	20	22	24	if you lay gold in the dust, and gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrent bed,
 Job	Job	20	22	25	and if the Almighty is your gold, and your precious silver;
 Job	Job	20	22	26	then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and lift up your face to God.
 Job	Job	20	22	27	You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you; and you will pay your vows.
 Job	Job	20	22	28	You will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.
 Job	Job	20	22	29	For God abases the proud, but he saves the lowly.
 Job	Job	20	22	30	He delivers the innocent man; you will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”
 Job	Job	20	23	1	Then Job answered:
 Job	Job	20	23	2	“Today also my complaint is bitter, his hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.
 Job	Job	20	23	3	Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!
 Job	Job	20	23	4	I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.
 Job	Job	20	23	5	I would learn what he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.
 Job	Job	20	23	6	Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No; he would give heed to me.
 Job	Job	20	23	7	There an upright man could reason with him, and I should be acquitted for ever by my judge.
 Job	Job	20	23	8	“Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him;
 Job	Job	20	23	9	on the left hand I seek him, but I cannot behold him; I turn to the right hand, but I cannot see him.
 Job	Job	20	23	10	But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
 Job	Job	20	23	11	My foot has held fast to his steps; I have kept his way and have not turned aside.
 Job	Job	20	23	12	I have not departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured in my bosom the words of his mouth.
 Job	Job	20	23	13	But he is unchangeable and who can turn him? What he desires, that he does.
 Job	Job	20	23	14	For he will complete what he appoints for me; and many such things are in his mind.
 Job	Job	20	23	15	Therefore I am terrified at his presence; when I consider, I am in dread of him.
 Job	Job	20	23	16	God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me;
 Job	Job	20	23	17	for I am hemmed in by darkness, and thick darkness covers my face.
 Job	Job	20	24	1	“Why are not times of judgment kept by the Almighty, and why do those who know him never see his days?
 Job	Job	20	24	2	Men remove landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them.
 Job	Job	20	24	3	They drive away the ass of the fatherless; they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
 Job	Job	20	24	4	They thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.
 Job	Job	20	24	5	Behold, like wild asses in the desert they go forth to their toil, seeking prey in the wilderness as food for their children.
 Job	Job	20	24	6	They gather their fodder in the field and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.
 Job	Job	20	24	7	They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
 Job	Job	20	24	8	They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and cling to the rock for want of shelter.
 Job	Job	20	24	9	(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and take in pledge the infant of the poor.)
 Job	Job	20	24	10	They go about naked, without clothing; hungry, they carry the sheaves;
 Job	Job	20	24	11	among the olive rows of the wicked they make oil; they tread the wine presses, but suffer thirst.
 Job	Job	20	24	12	From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God pays no attention to their prayer.
 Job	Job	20	24	13	“There are those who rebel against the light, who are not acquainted with its ways, and do not stay in its paths.
 Job	Job	20	24	14	The murderer rises in the dark, that he may kill the poor and needy; and in the night he is as a thief.
 Job	Job	20	24	15	The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me’; and he disguises his face.
 Job	Job	20	24	16	In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves up; they do not know the light.
 Job	Job	20	24	17	For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.
 Job	Job	20	24	18	“You say, ‘They are swiftly carried away upon the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the land; no treader turns toward their vineyards.
 Job	Job	20	24	19	Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters; so does Sheol those who have sinned.
 Job	Job	20	24	20	The squares of the town forget them; their name is no longer remembered; so wickedness is broken like a tree.’
 Job	Job	20	24	21	“They feed on the barren childless woman, and do no good to the widow.
 Job	Job	20	24	22	Yet God prolongs the life of the mighty by his power; they rise up when they despair of life.
 Job	Job	20	24	23	He gives them security, and they are supported; and his eyes are upon their ways.
 Job	Job	20	24	24	They are exalted a little while, and then are gone; they wither and fade like the mallow; they are cut off like the heads of grain.
 Job	Job	20	24	25	If it is not so, who will prove me a liar, and show that there is nothing in what I say?”
 Job	Job	20	25	1	Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
 Job	Job	20	25	2	“Dominion and fear are with God; he makes peace in his high heaven.
 Job	Job	20	25	3	Is there any number to his armies? Upon whom does his light not arise?
 Job	Job	20	25	4	How then can man be righteous before God? How can he who is born of woman be clean?
 Job	Job	20	25	5	Behold, even the moon is not bright and the stars are not clean in his sight;
 Job	Job	20	25	6	how much less man, who is a maggot, and the son of man, who is a worm!”
 Job	Job	20	26	1	Then Job answered:
 Job	Job	20	26	2	“How you have helped him who has no power! How you have saved the arm that has no strength!
 Job	Job	20	26	3	How you have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
 Job	Job	20	26	4	With whose help have you uttered words, and whose spirit has come forth from you?
 Job	Job	20	26	5	The shades below tremble, the waters and their inhabitants.
 Job	Job	20	26	6	Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
 Job	Job	20	26	7	He stretches out the north over the void, and hangs the earth upon nothing.
 Job	Job	20	26	8	He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them.
 Job	Job	20	26	9	He covers the face of the moon, and spreads over it his cloud.
 Job	Job	20	26	10	He has described a circle upon the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
 Job	Job	20	26	11	The pillars of heaven tremble, and are astounded at his rebuke.
 Job	Job	20	26	12	By his power he stilled the sea; by his understanding he smote Rahab.
 Job	Job	20	26	13	By his wind the heavens were made fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
 Job	Job	20	26	14	Lo, these are but the outskirts of his ways; and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”
 Job	Job	20	27	1	And Job again took up his discourse, and said:
 Job	Job	20	27	2	“As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter;
 Job	Job	20	27	3	as long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
 Job	Job	20	27	4	my lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit.
 Job	Job	20	27	5	Far be it from me to say that you are right; till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
 Job	Job	20	27	6	I hold fast my righteousness, and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.
 Job	Job	20	27	7	“Let my enemy be as the wicked, and let him that rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
 Job	Job	20	27	8	For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts him off, when God takes away his life?
 Job	Job	20	27	9	Will God hear his cry, when trouble comes upon him?
 Job	Job	20	27	10	Will he take delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?
 Job	Job	20	27	11	I will teach you concerning the hand of God; what is with the Almighty I will not conceal.
 Job	Job	20	27	12	Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?
 Job	Job	20	27	13	“This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage which oppressors receive from the Almighty:
 Job	Job	20	27	14	If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough to eat.
 Job	Job	20	27	15	Those who survive him the pestilence buries, and their widows make no lamentation.
 Job	Job	20	27	16	Though he heap up silver like dust, and pile up clothing like clay;
 Job	Job	20	27	17	he may pile it up, but the just will wear it, and the innocent will divide the silver.
 Job	Job	20	27	18	The house which he builds is like a spider’s web, like a booth which a watchman makes.
 Job	Job	20	27	19	He goes to bed rich, but will do so no more; he opens his eyes, and his wealth is gone.
 Job	Job	20	27	20	Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a whirlwind carries him off.
 Job	Job	20	27	21	The east wind lifts him up and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
 Job	Job	20	27	22	It hurls at him without pity; he flees from its power in headlong flight.
 Job	Job	20	27	23	It claps its hands at him, and hisses at him from its place.
 Job	Job	20	28	1	“Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.
 Job	Job	20	28	2	Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted from the ore.
 Job	Job	20	28	3	Men put an end to darkness, and search out to the farthest bound the ore in gloom and deep darkness.
 Job	Job	20	28	4	They open shafts in a valley away from where men live; they are forgotten by travelers, they hang afar from men, they swing to and fro.
 Job	Job	20	28	5	As for the earth, out of it comes bread; but underneath it is turned up as by fire.
 Job	Job	20	28	6	Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.
 Job	Job	20	28	7	“That path no bird of prey knows, and the falcon’s eye has not seen it.
 Job	Job	20	28	8	The proud beasts have not trodden it; the lion has not passed over it.
 Job	Job	20	28	9	“Man puts his hand to the flinty rock, and overturns mountains by the roots.
 Job	Job	20	28	10	He cuts out channels in the rocks, and his eye sees every precious thing.
 Job	Job	20	28	11	He binds up the streams so that they do not trickle, and the thing that is hid he brings forth to light.
 Job	Job	20	28	12	“But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?
 Job	Job	20	28	13	Man does not know the way to it, and it is not found in the land of the living.
 Job	Job	20	28	14	The deep says, ‘It is not in me,’ and the sea says, ‘It is not with me.’
 Job	Job	20	28	15	It cannot be gotten for gold, and silver cannot be weighed as its price.
 Job	Job	20	28	16	It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.
 Job	Job	20	28	17	Gold and glass cannot equal it, nor can it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.
 Job	Job	20	28	18	No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal; the price of wisdom is above pearls.
 Job	Job	20	28	19	The topaz of Ethiopia cannot compare with it, nor can it be valued in pure gold.
 Job	Job	20	28	20	“Whence then comes wisdom? And where is the place of understanding?
 Job	Job	20	28	21	It is hid from the eyes of all living, and concealed from the birds of the air.
 Job	Job	20	28	22	Abaddon and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’
 Job	Job	20	28	23	“God understands the way to it, and he knows its place.
 Job	Job	20	28	24	For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees everything under the heavens.
 Job	Job	20	28	25	When he gave to the wind its weight, and meted out the waters by measure;
 Job	Job	20	28	26	when he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder;
 Job	Job	20	28	27	then he saw it and declared it; he established it, and searched it out.
 Job	Job	20	28	28	And he said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.’”
 Job	Job	20	29	1	And Job again took up his discourse, and said:
 Job	Job	20	29	2	“Oh, that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;
 Job	Job	20	29	3	when his lamp shone upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;
 Job	Job	20	29	4	as I was in my autumn days, when the friendship of God was upon my tent;
 Job	Job	20	29	5	when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
 Job	Job	20	29	6	when my steps were washed with milk, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!
 Job	Job	20	29	7	When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the square,
 Job	Job	20	29	8	the young men saw me and withdrew, and the aged rose and stood;
 Job	Job	20	29	9	the princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth;
 Job	Job	20	29	10	the voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
 Job	Job	20	29	11	When the ear heard, it called me blessed, and when the eye saw, it approved;
 Job	Job	20	29	12	because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless who had none to help him.
 Job	Job	20	29	13	The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
 Job	Job	20	29	14	I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban.
 Job	Job	20	29	15	I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.
 Job	Job	20	29	16	I was a father to the poor, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.
 Job	Job	20	29	17	I broke the fangs of the unrighteous, and made him drop his prey from his teeth.
 Job	Job	20	29	18	Then I thought, ‘I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand,
 Job	Job	20	29	19	my roots spread out to the waters, with the dew all night on my branches,
 Job	Job	20	29	20	my glory fresh with me, and my bow ever new in my hand.’
 Job	Job	20	29	21	“Men listened to me, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel.
 Job	Job	20	29	22	After I spoke they did not speak again, and my word dropped upon them.
 Job	Job	20	29	23	They waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.
 Job	Job	20	29	24	I smiled on them when they had no confidence; and the light of my countenance they did not cast down.
 Job	Job	20	29	25	I chose their way, and sat as chief, and I dwelt like a king among his troops, like one who comforts mourners.
 Job	Job	20	30	1	“But now they make sport of me, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
 Job	Job	20	30	2	What could I gain from the strength of their hands, men whose vigor is gone?
 Job	Job	20	30	3	Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry and desolate ground;
 Job	Job	20	30	4	they pick mallow and the leaves of bushes, and to warm themselves the roots of the broom.
 Job	Job	20	30	5	They are driven out from among men; they shout after them as after a thief.
 Job	Job	20	30	6	In the gullies of the torrents they must dwell, in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
 Job	Job	20	30	7	Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they huddle together.
 Job	Job	20	30	8	A senseless, a disreputable brood, they have been whipped out of the land.
 Job	Job	20	30	9	“And now I have become their song, I am a byword to them.
 Job	Job	20	30	10	They abhor me, they keep aloof from me; they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me.
 Job	Job	20	30	11	Because God has loosed my cord and humbled me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.
 Job	Job	20	30	12	On my right hand the rabble rise, they drive me forth, they cast up against me their ways of destruction.
 Job	Job	20	30	13	They break up my path, they promote my calamity; no one restrains them.
 Job	Job	20	30	14	As through a wide breach they come; amid the crash they roll on.
 Job	Job	20	30	15	Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.
 Job	Job	20	30	16	“And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold of me.
 Job	Job	20	30	17	The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.
 Job	Job	20	30	18	With violence it seizes my garment; it binds me about like the collar of my tunic.
 Job	Job	20	30	19	God has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
 Job	Job	20	30	20	I cry to thee and thou dost not answer me; I stand, and thou dost not heed me.
 Job	Job	20	30	21	Thou hast turned cruel to me; with the might of thy hand thou dost persecute me.
 Job	Job	20	30	22	Thou liftest me up on the wind, thou makest me ride on it, and thou tossest me about in the roar of the storm.
 Job	Job	20	30	23	Yea, I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
 Job	Job	20	30	24	“Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand, and in his disaster cry for help?
 Job	Job	20	30	25	Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?
 Job	Job	20	30	26	But when I looked for good, evil came; and when I waited for light, darkness came.
 Job	Job	20	30	27	My heart is in turmoil, and is never still; days of affliction come to meet me.
 Job	Job	20	30	28	I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
 Job	Job	20	30	29	I am a brother of jackals, and a companion of ostriches.
 Job	Job	20	30	30	My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat.
 Job	Job	20	30	31	My lyre is turned to mourning, and my pipe to the voice of those who weep.
 Job	Job	20	31	1	“I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I look upon a virgin?
 Job	Job	20	31	2	What would be my portion from God above, and my heritage from the Almighty on high?
 Job	Job	20	31	3	Does not calamity befall the unrighteous, and disaster the workers of iniquity?
 Job	Job	20	31	4	Does not he see my ways, and number all my steps?
 Job	Job	20	31	5	“If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hastened to deceit;
 Job	Job	20	31	6	(Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!)
 Job	Job	20	31	7	if my step has turned aside from the way, and my heart has gone after my eyes, and if any spot has cleaved to my hands;
 Job	Job	20	31	8	then let me sow, and another eat; and let what grows for me be rooted out.
 Job	Job	20	31	9	“If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor’s door;
 Job	Job	20	31	10	then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.
 Job	Job	20	31	11	For that would be a heinous crime; that would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges;
 Job	Job	20	31	12	for that would be a fire which consumes unto Abaddon, and it would burn to the root all my increase.
 Job	Job	20	31	13	“If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me;
 Job	Job	20	31	14	what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him?
 Job	Job	20	31	15	Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?
 Job	Job	20	31	16	“If I have withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
 Job	Job	20	31	17	or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it
 Job	Job	20	31	18	(for from his youth I reared him as a father, and from his mother’s womb I guided him);
 Job	Job	20	31	19	if I have seen any one perish for lack of clothing, or a poor man without covering;
 Job	Job	20	31	20	if his loins have not blessed me, and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
 Job	Job	20	31	21	if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw help in the gate;
 Job	Job	20	31	22	then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder, and let my arm be broken from its socket.
 Job	Job	20	31	23	For I was in terror of calamity from God, and I could not have faced his majesty.
 Job	Job	20	31	24	“If I have made gold my trust, or called fine gold my confidence;
 Job	Job	20	31	25	if I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, or because my hand had gotten much;
 Job	Job	20	31	26	if I have looked at the sun when it shone, or the moon moving in splendor,
 Job	Job	20	31	27	and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand;
 Job	Job	20	31	28	this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I should have been false to God above.
 Job	Job	20	31	29	“If I have rejoiced at the ruin of him that hated me, or exulted when evil overtook him
 Job	Job	20	31	30	(I have not let my mouth sin by asking for his life with a curse);
 Job	Job	20	31	31	if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who is there that has not been filled with his meat?’
 Job	Job	20	31	32	(the sojourner has not lodged in the street; I have opened my doors to the wayfarer);
 Job	Job	20	31	33	if I have concealed my transgressions from men, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom,
 Job	Job	20	31	34	because I stood in great fear of the multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and did not go out of doors—
 Job	Job	20	31	35	Oh, that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! let the Almighty answer me!) Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary!
 Job	Job	20	31	36	Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; I would bind it on me as a crown;
 Job	Job	20	31	37	I would give him an account of all my steps; like a prince I would approach him.
 Job	Job	20	31	38	“If my land has cried out against me, and its furrows have wept together;
 Job	Job	20	31	39	if I have eaten its yield without payment, and caused the death of its owners;
 Job	Job	20	31	40	let thorns grow instead of wheat, and foul weeds instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.
 Job	Job	20	32	1	So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
 Job	Job	20	32	2	Then Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became angry. He was angry at Job because he justified himself rather than God;
 Job	Job	20	32	3	he was angry also at Job’s three friends because they had found no answer, although they had declared Job to be in the wrong.
 Job	Job	20	32	4	Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were older than he.
 Job	Job	20	32	5	And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, he became angry.
 Job	Job	20	32	6	And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered: “I am young in years, and you are aged; therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion to you.
 Job	Job	20	32	7	I said, ‘Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.’
 Job	Job	20	32	8	But it is the spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand.
 Job	Job	20	32	9	It is not the old that are wise, nor the aged that understand what is right.
 Job	Job	20	32	10	Therefore I say, ‘Listen to me; let me also declare my opinion.’
 Job	Job	20	32	11	“Behold, I waited for your words, I listened for your wise sayings, while you searched out what to say.
 Job	Job	20	32	12	I gave you my attention, and, behold, there was none that confuted Job, or that answered his words, among you.
 Job	Job	20	32	13	Beware lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not man.’
 Job	Job	20	32	14	He has not directed his words against me, and I will not answer him with your speeches.
 Job	Job	20	32	15	“They are discomfited, they answer no more; they have not a word to say.
 Job	Job	20	32	16	And shall I wait, because they do not speak, because they stand there, and answer no more?
 Job	Job	20	32	17	I also will give my answer; I also will declare my opinion.
 Job	Job	20	32	18	For I am full of words, the spirit within me constrains me.
 Job	Job	20	32	19	Behold, my heart is like wine that has no vent; like new wineskins, it is ready to burst.
 Job	Job	20	32	20	I must speak, that I may find relief; I must open my lips and answer.
 Job	Job	20	32	21	I will not show partiality to any person or use flattery toward any man.
 Job	Job	20	32	22	For I do not know how to flatter, else would my Maker soon put an end to me.
 Job	Job	20	33	1	“But now, hear my speech, O Job, and listen to all my words.
 Job	Job	20	33	2	Behold, I open my mouth; the tongue in my mouth speaks.
 Job	Job	20	33	3	My words declare the uprightness of my heart, and what my lips know they speak sincerely.
 Job	Job	20	33	4	The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
 Job	Job	20	33	5	Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand.
 Job	Job	20	33	6	Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was formed from a piece of clay.
 Job	Job	20	33	7	Behold, no fear of me need terrify you; my pressure will not be heavy upon you.
 Job	Job	20	33	8	“Surely, you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the sound of your words.
 Job	Job	20	33	9	You say, ‘I am clean, without transgression; I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me.
 Job	Job	20	33	10	Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me as his enemy;
 Job	Job	20	33	11	he puts my feet in the stocks, and watches all my paths.’
 Job	Job	20	33	12	“Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you. God is greater than man.
 Job	Job	20	33	13	Why do you contend against him, saying, ‘He will answer none of my words’?
 Job	Job	20	33	14	For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it.
 Job	Job	20	33	15	In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, while they slumber on their beds,
 Job	Job	20	33	16	then he opens the ears of men, and terrifies them with warnings,
 Job	Job	20	33	17	that he may turn man aside from his deed, and cut off pride from man;
 Job	Job	20	33	18	he keeps back his soul from the Pit, his life from perishing by the sword.
 Job	Job	20	33	19	“Man is also chastened with pain upon his bed, and with continual strife in his bones;
 Job	Job	20	33	20	so that his life loathes bread, and his appetite dainty food.
 Job	Job	20	33	21	His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen; and his bones which were not seen stick out.
 Job	Job	20	33	22	His soul draws near the Pit, and his life to those who bring death.
 Job	Job	20	33	23	If there be for him an angel, a mediator, one of the thousand, to declare to man what is right for him;
 Job	Job	20	33	24	and he is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down into the Pit, I have found a ransom;
 Job	Job	20	33	25	let his flesh become fresh with youth; let him return to the days of his youthful vigor’;
 Job	Job	20	33	26	then man prays to God, and he accepts him, he comes into his presence with joy. He recounts to men his salvation,
 Job	Job	20	33	27	and he sings before men, and says: ‘I sinned and perverted what was right, and it was not requited to me.
 Job	Job	20	33	28	He has redeemed my soul from going down into the Pit, and my life shall see the light.’
 Job	Job	20	33	29	“Behold, God does all these things, twice, three times, with a man,
 Job	Job	20	33	30	to bring back his soul from the Pit, that he may see the light of life.
 Job	Job	20	33	31	Give heed, O Job, listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.
 Job	Job	20	33	32	If you have anything to say, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you.
 Job	Job	20	33	33	If not, listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”
 Job	Job	20	34	1	Then Elihu said:
 Job	Job	20	34	2	“Hear my words, you wise men, and give ear to me, you who know;
 Job	Job	20	34	3	for the ear tests words as the palate tastes food.
 Job	Job	20	34	4	Let us choose what is right; let us determine among ourselves what is good.
 Job	Job	20	34	5	For Job has said, ‘I am innocent, and God has taken away my right;
 Job	Job	20	34	6	in spite of my right I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’
 Job	Job	20	34	7	What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,
 Job	Job	20	34	8	who goes in company with evildoers and walks with wicked men?
 Job	Job	20	34	9	For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.’
 Job	Job	20	34	10	“Therefore, hear me, you men of understanding, far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.
 Job	Job	20	34	11	For according to the work of a man he will requite him, and according to his ways he will make it befall him.
 Job	Job	20	34	12	Of a truth, God will not do wickedly, and the Almighty will not pervert justice.
 Job	Job	20	34	13	Who gave him charge over the earth and who laid on him the whole world?
 Job	Job	20	34	14	If he should take back his spirit to himself, and gather to himself his breath,
 Job	Job	20	34	15	all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.
 Job	Job	20	34	16	“If you have understanding, hear this; listen to what I say.
 Job	Job	20	34	17	Shall one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty,
 Job	Job	20	34	18	who says to a king, ‘Worthless one,’ and to nobles, ‘Wicked man’;
 Job	Job	20	34	19	who shows no partiality to princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of his hands?
 Job	Job	20	34	20	In a moment they die; at midnight the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away by no human hand.
 Job	Job	20	34	21	“For his eyes are upon the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.
 Job	Job	20	34	22	There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves.
 Job	Job	20	34	23	For he has not appointed a time for any man to go before God in judgment.
 Job	Job	20	34	24	He shatters the mighty without investigation, and sets others in their place.
 Job	Job	20	34	25	Thus, knowing their works, he overturns them in the night, and they are crushed.
 Job	Job	20	34	26	He strikes them for their wickedness in the sight of men,
 Job	Job	20	34	27	because they turned aside from following him, and had no regard for any of his ways,
 Job	Job	20	34	28	so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted—
 Job	Job	20	34	29	When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or a man?—
 Job	Job	20	34	30	that a godless man should not reign, that he should not ensnare the people.
 Job	Job	20	34	31	“For has any one said to God, ‘I have borne chastisement; I will not offend any more;
 Job	Job	20	34	32	teach me what I do not see; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?
 Job	Job	20	34	33	Will he then make requital to suit you, because you reject it? For you must choose, and not I; therefore declare what you know.
 Job	Job	20	34	34	Men of understanding will say to me, and the wise man who hears me will say:
 Job	Job	20	34	35	‘Job speaks without knowledge, his words are without insight.’
 Job	Job	20	34	36	Would that Job were tried to the end, because he answers like wicked men.
 Job	Job	20	34	37	For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God.”
 Job	Job	20	35	1	And Elihu said:
 Job	Job	20	35	2	“Do you think this to be just? Do you say, ‘It is my right before God,’
 Job	Job	20	35	3	that you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’
 Job	Job	20	35	4	I will answer you and your friends with you.
 Job	Job	20	35	5	Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.
 Job	Job	20	35	6	If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
 Job	Job	20	35	7	If you are righteous, what do you give to him; or what does he receive from your hand?
 Job	Job	20	35	8	Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man.
 Job	Job	20	35	9	“Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.
 Job	Job	20	35	10	But none says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
 Job	Job	20	35	11	who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
 Job	Job	20	35	12	There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.
 Job	Job	20	35	13	Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.
 Job	Job	20	35	14	How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him!
 Job	Job	20	35	15	And now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not greatly heed transgression,
 Job	Job	20	35	16	Job opens his mouth in empty talk, he multiplies words without knowledge.”
 Job	Job	20	36	1	And Elihu continued, and said:
 Job	Job	20	36	2	“Bear with me a little, and I will show you, for I have yet something to say on God’s behalf.
 Job	Job	20	36	3	I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
 Job	Job	20	36	4	For truly my words are not false; one who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
 Job	Job	20	36	5	“Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise any; he is mighty in strength of understanding.
 Job	Job	20	36	6	He does not keep the wicked alive, but gives the afflicted their right.
 Job	Job	20	36	7	He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings upon the throne he sets them for ever, and they are exalted.
 Job	Job	20	36	8	And if they are bound in fetters and caught in the cords of affliction,
 Job	Job	20	36	9	then he declares to them their work and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly.
 Job	Job	20	36	10	He opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.
 Job	Job	20	36	11	If they hearken and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasantness.
 Job	Job	20	36	12	But if they do not hearken, they perish by the sword, and die without knowledge.
 Job	Job	20	36	13	“The godless in heart cherish anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them.
 Job	Job	20	36	14	They die in youth, and their life ends in shame.
 Job	Job	20	36	15	He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear by adversity.
 Job	Job	20	36	16	He also allured you out of distress into a broad place where there was no cramping, and what was set on your table was full of fatness.
 Job	Job	20	36	17	“But you are full of the judgment on the wicked; judgment and justice seize you.
 Job	Job	20	36	18	Beware lest wrath entice you into scoffing; and let not the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.
 Job	Job	20	36	19	Will your cry avail to keep you from distress, or all the force of your strength?
 Job	Job	20	36	20	Do not long for the night, when peoples are cut off in their place.
 Job	Job	20	36	21	Take heed, do not turn to iniquity, for this you have chosen rather than affliction.
 Job	Job	20	36	22	Behold, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?
 Job	Job	20	36	23	Who has prescribed for him his way, or who can say, ‘Thou hast done wrong’?
 Job	Job	20	36	24	“Remember to extol his work, of which men have sung.
 Job	Job	20	36	25	All men have looked on it; man beholds it from afar.
 Job	Job	20	36	26	Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.
 Job	Job	20	36	27	For he draws up the drops of water, he distils his mist in rain
 Job	Job	20	36	28	which the skies pour down, and drop upon man abundantly.
 Job	Job	20	36	29	Can any one understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?
 Job	Job	20	36	30	Behold, he scatters his lightning about him, and covers the roots of the sea.
 Job	Job	20	36	31	For by these he judges peoples; he gives food in abundance.
 Job	Job	20	36	32	He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.
 Job	Job	20	36	33	Its crashing declares concerning him, who is jealous with anger against iniquity.
 Job	Job	20	37	1	“At this also my heart trembles, and leaps out of its place.
 Job	Job	20	37	2	Hearken to the thunder of his voice and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.
 Job	Job	20	37	3	Under the whole heaven he lets it go, and his lightning to the corners of the earth.
 Job	Job	20	37	4	After it his voice roars; he thunders with his majestic voice and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard.
 Job	Job	20	37	5	God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things which we cannot comprehend.
 Job	Job	20	37	6	For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth’; and to the shower and the rain, ‘Be strong.’
 Job	Job	20	37	7	He seals up the hand of every man, that all men may know his work.
 Job	Job	20	37	8	Then the beasts go into their lairs, and remain in their dens.
 Job	Job	20	37	9	From its chamber comes the whirlwind, and cold from the scattering winds.
 Job	Job	20	37	10	By the breath of God ice is given, and the broad waters are frozen fast.
 Job	Job	20	37	11	He loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his lightning.
 Job	Job	20	37	12	They turn round and round by his guidance, to accomplish all that he commands them on the face of the habitable world.
 Job	Job	20	37	13	Whether for correction, or for his land, or for love, he causes it to happen.
 Job	Job	20	37	14	“Hear this, O Job; stop and consider the wondrous works of God.
 Job	Job	20	37	15	Do you know how God lays his command upon them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?
 Job	Job	20	37	16	Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge,
 Job	Job	20	37	17	you whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind?
 Job	Job	20	37	18	Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a molten mirror?
 Job	Job	20	37	19	Teach us what we shall say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of darkness.
 Job	Job	20	37	20	Shall it be told him that I would speak? Did a man ever wish that he would be swallowed up?
 Job	Job	20	37	21	“And now men cannot look on the light when it is bright in the skies, when the wind has passed and cleared them.
 Job	Job	20	37	22	Out of the north comes golden splendor; God is clothed with terrible majesty.
 Job	Job	20	37	23	The Almighty—we cannot find him; he is great in power and justice, and abundant righteousness he will not violate.
 Job	Job	20	37	24	Therefore men fear him; he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit.”
 Job	Job	20	38	1	Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind:
 Job	Job	20	38	2	“Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
 Job	Job	20	38	3	Gird up your loins like a man, I will question you, and you shall declare to me.
 Job	Job	20	38	4	“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.
 Job	Job	20	38	5	Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it?
 Job	Job	20	38	6	On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone,
 Job	Job	20	38	7	when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
 Job	Job	20	38	8	“Or who shut in the sea with doors, when it burst forth from the womb;
 Job	Job	20	38	9	when I made clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,
 Job	Job	20	38	10	and prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors,
 Job	Job	20	38	11	and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stayed’?
 Job	Job	20	38	12	“Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place,
 Job	Job	20	38	13	that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?
 Job	Job	20	38	14	It is changed like clay under the seal, and it is dyed like a garment.
 Job	Job	20	38	15	From the wicked their light is withheld, and their uplifted arm is broken.
 Job	Job	20	38	16	“Have you entered into the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep?
 Job	Job	20	38	17	Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
 Job	Job	20	38	18	Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth? Declare, if you know all this.
 Job	Job	20	38	19	“Where is the way to the dwelling of light, and where is the place of darkness,
 Job	Job	20	38	20	that you may take it to its territory and that you may discern the paths to its home?
 Job	Job	20	38	21	You know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!
 Job	Job	20	38	22	“Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
 Job	Job	20	38	23	which I have reserved for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war?
 Job	Job	20	38	24	What is the way to the place where the light is distributed, or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?
 Job	Job	20	38	25	“Who has cleft a channel for the torrents of rain, and a way for the thunderbolt,
 Job	Job	20	38	26	to bring rain on a land where no man is, on the desert in which there is no man;
 Job	Job	20	38	27	to satisfy the waste and desolate land, and to make the ground put forth grass?
 Job	Job	20	38	28	“Has the rain a father, or who has begotten the drops of dew?
 Job	Job	20	38	29	From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who has given birth to the hoarfrost of heaven?
 Job	Job	20	38	30	The waters become hard like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
 Job	Job	20	38	31	“Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, or loose the cords of Orion?
 Job	Job	20	38	32	Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season, or can you guide the Bear with its children?
 Job	Job	20	38	33	Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish their rule on the earth?
 Job	Job	20	38	34	“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that a flood of waters may cover you?
 Job	Job	20	38	35	Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go and say to you, ‘Here we are’?
 Job	Job	20	38	36	Who has put wisdom in the clouds, or given understanding to the mists?
 Job	Job	20	38	37	Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can tilt the waterskins of the heavens,
 Job	Job	20	38	38	when the dust runs into a mass and the clods cleave fast together?
 Job	Job	20	38	39	“Can you hunt the prey for the lion, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
 Job	Job	20	38	40	when they crouch in their dens, or lie in wait in their covert?
 Job	Job	20	38	41	Who provides for the raven its prey, when its young ones cry to God, and wander about for lack of food?
 Job	Job	20	39	1	“Do you know when the mountain goats bring forth? Do you observe the calving of the hinds?
 Job	Job	20	39	2	Can you number the months that they fulfil, and do you know the time when they bring forth,
 Job	Job	20	39	3	when they crouch, bring forth their offspring, and are delivered of their young?
 Job	Job	20	39	4	Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open; they go forth, and do not return to them.
 Job	Job	20	39	5	“Who has let the wild ass go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift ass,
 Job	Job	20	39	6	to whom I have given the steppe for his home, and the salt land for his dwelling place?
 Job	Job	20	39	7	He scorns the tumult of the city; he hears not the shouts of the driver.
 Job	Job	20	39	8	He ranges the mountains as his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
 Job	Job	20	39	9	“Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he spend the night at your crib?
 Job	Job	20	39	10	Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes, or will he harrow the valleys after you?
 Job	Job	20	39	11	Will you depend on him because his strength is great, and will you leave to him your labor?
 Job	Job	20	39	12	Do you have faith in him that he will return, and bring your grain to your threshing floor?
 Job	Job	20	39	13	“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; but are they the pinions and plumage of love?
 Job	Job	20	39	14	For she leaves her eggs to the earth, and lets them be warmed on the ground,
 Job	Job	20	39	15	forgetting that a foot may crush them, and that the wild beast may trample them.
 Job	Job	20	39	16	She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers; though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear;
 Job	Job	20	39	17	because God has made her forget wisdom, and given her no share in understanding.
 Job	Job	20	39	18	When she rouses herself to flee, she laughs at the horse and his rider.
 Job	Job	20	39	19	“Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with strength?
 Job	Job	20	39	20	Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is terrible.
 Job	Job	20	39	21	He paws in the valley, and exults in his strength; he goes out to meet the weapons.
 Job	Job	20	39	22	He laughs at fear, and is not dismayed; he does not turn back from the sword.
 Job	Job	20	39	23	Upon him rattle the quiver, the flashing spear and the javelin.
 Job	Job	20	39	24	With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground; he cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
 Job	Job	20	39	25	When the trumpet sounds, he says ‘Aha!’ He smells the battle from afar, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
 Job	Job	20	39	26	“Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and spreads his wings toward the south?
 Job	Job	20	39	27	Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes his nest on high?
 Job	Job	20	39	28	On the rock he dwells and makes his home in the fastness of the rocky crag.
 Job	Job	20	39	29	Thence he spies out the prey; his eyes behold it afar off.
 Job	Job	20	39	30	His young ones suck up blood; and where the slain are, there is he.”
 Job	Job	20	40	1	And the Lord said to Job:
 Job	Job	20	40	2	“Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”
 Job	Job	20	40	3	Then Job answered the Lord:
 Job	Job	20	40	4	“Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer thee? I lay my hand on my mouth.
 Job	Job	20	40	5	I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but I will proceed no further.”
 Job	Job	20	40	6	Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind:
 Job	Job	20	40	7	“Gird up your loins like a man; I will question you, and you declare to me.
 Job	Job	20	40	8	Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be justified?
 Job	Job	20	40	9	Have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?
 Job	Job	20	40	10	“Deck yourself with majesty and dignity; clothe yourself with glory and splendor.
 Job	Job	20	40	11	Pour forth the overflowings of your anger, and look on every one that is proud, and abase him.
 Job	Job	20	40	12	Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked where they stand.
 Job	Job	20	40	13	Hide them all in the dust together; bind their faces in the world below.
 Job	Job	20	40	14	Then will I also acknowledge to you, that your own right hand can give you victory.
 Job	Job	20	40	15	“Behold, Behemoth, which I made as I made you; he eats grass like an ox.
 Job	Job	20	40	16	Behold, his strength in his loins, and his power in the muscles of his belly.
 Job	Job	20	40	17	He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together.
 Job	Job	20	40	18	His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron.
 Job	Job	20	40	19	“He is the first of the works of God; let him who made him bring near his sword!
 Job	Job	20	40	20	For the mountains yield food for him where all the wild beasts play.
 Job	Job	20	40	21	Under the lotus plants he lies, in the covert of the reeds and in the marsh.
 Job	Job	20	40	22	For his shade the lotus trees cover him; the willows of the brook surround him.
 Job	Job	20	40	23	Behold, if the river is turbulent he is not frightened; he is confident though Jordan rushes against his mouth.
 Job	Job	20	40	24	Can one take him with hooks, or pierce his nose with a snare?
 Job	Job	20	41	1	“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook, or press down his tongue with a cord?
 Job	Job	20	41	2	Can you put a rope in his nose, or pierce his jaw with a hook?
 Job	Job	20	41	3	Will he make many supplications to you? Will he speak to you soft words?
 Job	Job	20	41	4	Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant for ever?
 Job	Job	20	41	5	Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on leash for your maidens?
 Job	Job	20	41	6	Will traders bargain over him? Will they divide him up among the merchants?
 Job	Job	20	41	7	Can you fill his skin with harpoons, or his head with fishing spears?
 Job	Job	20	41	8	Lay hands on him; think of the battle; you will not do it again!
 Job	Job	20	41	9	Behold, the hope of a man is disappointed; he is laid low even at the sight of him.
 Job	Job	20	41	10	No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up. Who then is he that can stand before me?
 Job	Job	20	41	11	Who has given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.
 Job	Job	20	41	12	“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, or his mighty strength, or his goodly frame.
 Job	Job	20	41	13	Who can strip off his outer garment? Who can penetrate his double coat of mail?
 Job	Job	20	41	14	Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.
 Job	Job	20	41	15	His back is made of rows of shields, shut up closely as with a seal.
 Job	Job	20	41	16	One is so near to another that no air can come between them.
 Job	Job	20	41	17	They are joined one to another; they clasp each other and cannot be separated.
 Job	Job	20	41	18	His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.
 Job	Job	20	41	19	Out of his mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap forth.
 Job	Job	20	41	20	Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.
 Job	Job	20	41	21	His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.
 Job	Job	20	41	22	In his neck abides strength, and terror dances before him.
 Job	Job	20	41	23	The folds of his flesh cleave together, firmly cast upon him and immovable.
 Job	Job	20	41	24	His heart is hard as a stone, hard as the nether millstone.
 Job	Job	20	41	25	When he raises himself up the mighty are afraid; at the crashing they are beside themselves.
 Job	Job	20	41	26	Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail; nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.
 Job	Job	20	41	27	He counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.
 Job	Job	20	41	28	The arrow cannot make him flee; for him slingstones are turned to stubble.
 Job	Job	20	41	29	Clubs are counted as stubble; he laughs at the rattle of javelins.
 Job	Job	20	41	30	His underparts are like sharp potsherds; he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire.
 Job	Job	20	41	31	He makes the deep boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
 Job	Job	20	41	32	Behind him he leaves a shining wake; one would think the deep to be hoary.
 Job	Job	20	41	33	Upon earth there is not his like, a creature without fear.
 Job	Job	20	41	34	He beholds everything that is high; he is king over all the sons of pride.”
 Job	Job	20	42	1	Then Job answered the Lord:
 Job	Job	20	42	2	“I know that thou canst do all things, and that no purpose of thine can be thwarted.
 Job	Job	20	42	3	‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
 Job	Job	20	42	4	‘Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you declare to me.’
 Job	Job	20	42	5	I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees thee;
 Job	Job	20	42	6	therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”
 Job	Job	20	42	7	After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.
 Job	Job	20	42	8	Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly; for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.”
 Job	Job	20	42	9	So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the Lord had told them; and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.
 Job	Job	20	42	10	And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends; and the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
 Job	Job	20	42	11	Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house; and they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him; and each of them gave him a piece of money and a ring of gold.
 Job	Job	20	42	12	And the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.
 Job	Job	20	42	13	He had also seven sons and three daughters.
 Job	Job	20	42	14	And he called the name of the first Jemimah; and the name of the second Keziah; and the name of the third Keren-happuch.
 Job	Job	20	42	15	And in all the land there were no women so fair as Job’s daughters; and their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.
 Job	Job	20	42	16	And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, four generations.
 Job	Job	20	42	17	And Job died, an old man, and full of days.
 Psalms	Ps	21	1	1	Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
 Psalms	Ps	21	1	2	but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.
 Psalms	Ps	21	1	3	He is like a tree planted by streams of water, that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
 Psalms	Ps	21	1	4	The wicked are not so, but are like chaff which the wind drives away.
 Psalms	Ps	21	1	5	Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
 Psalms	Ps	21	1	6	for the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
 Psalms	Ps	21	2	1	Why do the nations conspire, and the peoples plot in vain?
 Psalms	Ps	21	2	2	The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and his anointed, saying,
 Psalms	Ps	21	2	3	“Let us burst their bonds asunder, and cast their cords from us.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	2	4	He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord has them in derision.
 Psalms	Ps	21	2	5	Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying,
 Psalms	Ps	21	2	6	“I have set my king on Zion, my holy hill.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	2	7	I will tell of the decree of the Lord: He said to me, “You are my son, today I have begotten you.
 Psalms	Ps	21	2	8	Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession.
 Psalms	Ps	21	2	9	You shall break them with a rod of iron, and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	2	10	Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	2	11	Serve the Lord with fear, with trembling
 Psalms	Ps	21	2	12	kiss his feet, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way; for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.
 Psalms	Ps	21	3	1	(A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.) O Lord, how many are my foes! Many are rising against me;
 Psalms	Ps	21	3	2	many are saying of me, there is no help for him in God. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	3	3	But thou, O Lord, art a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.
 Psalms	Ps	21	3	4	I cry aloud to the Lord, and he answers me from his holy hill. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	3	5	I lie down and sleep; I wake again, for the Lord sustains me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	3	6	I am not afraid of ten thousands of people who have set themselves against me round about.
 Psalms	Ps	21	3	7	Arise, O Lord! Deliver me, O my God! For thou dost smite all my enemies on the cheek, thou dost break the teeth of the wicked.
 Psalms	Ps	21	3	8	Deliverance belongs to the Lord; thy blessing be upon thy people! [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	4	1	(To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.) Answer me when I call, O God of my right! Thou hast given me room when I was in distress. Be gracious to me, and hear my prayer.
 Psalms	Ps	21	4	2	O men, how long shall my honor suffer shame? How long will you love vain words, and seek after lies? [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	4	3	But know that the Lord has set apart the godly for himself; the Lord hears when I call to him.
 Psalms	Ps	21	4	4	Be angry, but sin not; commune with your own hearts on your beds, and be silent. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	4	5	Offer right sacrifices, and put your trust in the Lord.
 Psalms	Ps	21	4	6	There are many who say, “O that we might see some good! Lift up the light of thy countenance upon us, O Lord!”
 Psalms	Ps	21	4	7	Thou hast put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound.
 Psalms	Ps	21	4	8	In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for thou alone, O Lord, makest me dwell in safety.
 Psalms	Ps	21	5	1	(To the choirmaster: for the flutes. A Psalm of David.) Give ear to my words, O Lord; give heed to my groaning.
 Psalms	Ps	21	5	2	Hearken to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to thee do I pray.
 Psalms	Ps	21	5	3	O Lord, in the morning thou dost hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for thee, and watch.
 Psalms	Ps	21	5	4	For thou art not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not sojourn with thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	5	5	The boastful may not stand before thy eyes; thou hatest all evildoers.
 Psalms	Ps	21	5	6	Thou destroyest those who speak lies; the Lord abhors bloodthirsty and deceitful men.
 Psalms	Ps	21	5	7	But I through the abundance of thy steadfast love will enter thy house, I will worship toward thy holy temple in the fear of thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	5	8	Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness because of my enemies; make thy way straight before me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	5	9	For there is no truth in their mouth; their heart is destruction, their throat is an open sepulchre, they flatter with their tongue.
 Psalms	Ps	21	5	10	Make them bear their guilt, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; because of their many transgressions cast them out, for they have rebelled against thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	5	11	But let all who take refuge in thee rejoice, let them ever sing for joy; and do thou defend them, that those who love thy name may exult in thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	5	12	For thou dost bless the righteous, O Lord; thou dost cover him with favor as with a shield.
 Psalms	Ps	21	6	1	(To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments; according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David.) O Lord, rebuke me not in thy anger, nor chasten me in thy wrath.
 Psalms	Ps	21	6	2	Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing; O Lord, heal me, for my bones are troubled.
 Psalms	Ps	21	6	3	My soul also is sorely troubled. But thou, O Lord—how long?
 Psalms	Ps	21	6	4	Turn, O Lord, save my life; deliver me for the sake of thy steadfast love.
 Psalms	Ps	21	6	5	For in death there is no remembrance of thee; in Sheol who can give thee praise?
 Psalms	Ps	21	6	6	I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.
 Psalms	Ps	21	6	7	My eye wastes away because of grief, it grows weak because of all my foes.
 Psalms	Ps	21	6	8	Depart from me, all you workers of evil; for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping.
 Psalms	Ps	21	6	9	The Lord has heard my supplication; the Lord accepts my prayer.
 Psalms	Ps	21	6	10	All my enemies shall be ashamed and sorely troubled; they shall turn back, and be put to shame in a moment.
 Psalms	Ps	21	7	1	(A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning Cush a Benjaminite.) O Lord my God, in thee do I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me,
 Psalms	Ps	21	7	2	lest like a lion they rend me, dragging me away, with none to rescue.
 Psalms	Ps	21	7	3	O Lord my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,
 Psalms	Ps	21	7	4	if I have requited my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause,
 Psalms	Ps	21	7	5	let the enemy pursue me and overtake me, and let him trample my life to the ground, and lay my soul in the dust. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	7	6	Arise, O Lord, in thy anger, lift thyself up against the fury of my enemies; awake, O my God; thou hast appointed a judgment.
 Psalms	Ps	21	7	7	Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about thee; and over it take thy seat on high.
 Psalms	Ps	21	7	8	The Lord judges the peoples; judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	7	9	O let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish thou the righteous, thou who triest the minds and hearts, thou righteous God.
 Psalms	Ps	21	7	10	My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.
 Psalms	Ps	21	7	11	God is a righteous judge, and a God who has indignation every day.
 Psalms	Ps	21	7	12	If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and strung his bow;
 Psalms	Ps	21	7	13	he has prepared his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts.
 Psalms	Ps	21	7	14	Behold, the wicked man conceives evil, and is pregnant with mischief, and brings forth lies.
 Psalms	Ps	21	7	15	He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole which he has made.
 Psalms	Ps	21	7	16	His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own pate his violence descends.
 Psalms	Ps	21	7	17	I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.
 Psalms	Ps	21	8	1	(To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of David.) O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is thy name in all the earth! Thou whose glory above the heavens is chanted
 Psalms	Ps	21	8	2	by the mouth of babes and infants, thou hast founded a bulwark because of thy foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.
 Psalms	Ps	21	8	3	When I look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast established;
 Psalms	Ps	21	8	4	what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him?
 Psalms	Ps	21	8	5	Yet thou hast made him little less than God, and dost crown him with glory and honor.
 Psalms	Ps	21	8	6	Thou hast given him dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet,
 Psalms	Ps	21	8	7	all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field,
 Psalms	Ps	21	8	8	the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the sea.
 Psalms	Ps	21	8	9	O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is thy name in all the earth!
 Psalms	Ps	21	9	1	(To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben. A Psalm of David.) I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will tell of all thy wonderful deeds.
 Psalms	Ps	21	9	2	I will be glad and exult in thee, I will sing praise to thy name, O Most High.
 Psalms	Ps	21	9	3	When my enemies turned back, they stumbled and perished before thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	9	4	For thou hast maintained my just cause; thou hast sat on the throne giving righteous judgment.
 Psalms	Ps	21	9	5	Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the wicked; thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	9	6	The enemy have vanished in everlasting ruins; their cities thou hast rooted out; the very memory of them has perished.
 Psalms	Ps	21	9	7	But the Lord sits enthroned for ever, he has established his throne for judgment;
 Psalms	Ps	21	9	8	and he judges the world with righteousness, he judges the peoples with equity.
 Psalms	Ps	21	9	9	The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
 Psalms	Ps	21	9	10	And those who know thy name put their trust in thee, for thou, O Lord, hast not forsaken those who seek thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	9	11	Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion! Tell among the peoples his deeds!
 Psalms	Ps	21	9	12	For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.
 Psalms	Ps	21	9	13	Be gracious to me, O Lord! Behold what I suffer from those who hate me, O thou who liftest me up from the gates of death,
 Psalms	Ps	21	9	14	that I may recount all thy praises, that in the gates of the daughter of Zion I may rejoice in thy deliverance.
 Psalms	Ps	21	9	15	The nations have sunk in the pit which they made; in the net which they hid has their own foot been caught.
 Psalms	Ps	21	9	16	The Lord has made himself known, he has executed judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. [Higgaion. Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	9	17	The wicked shall depart to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.
 Psalms	Ps	21	9	18	For the needy shall not always be forgotten, and the hope of the poor shall not perish for ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	9	19	Arise, O Lord! Let not man prevail; let the nations be judged before thee!
 Psalms	Ps	21	9	20	Put them in fear, O Lord! Let the nations know that they are but men! [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	10	1	Why dost thou stand afar off, O Lord? Why dost thou hide thyself in times of trouble?
 Psalms	Ps	21	10	2	In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes which they have devised.
 Psalms	Ps	21	10	3	For the wicked boasts of the desires of his heart, and the man greedy for gain curses and renounces the Lord.
 Psalms	Ps	21	10	4	In the pride of his countenance the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, “There is no God.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	10	5	His ways prosper at all times; thy judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	10	6	He thinks in his heart, “I shall not be moved; throughout all generations I shall not meet adversity.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	10	7	His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.
 Psalms	Ps	21	10	8	He sits in ambush in the villages; in hiding places he murders the innocent. His eyes stealthily watch for the hapless,
 Psalms	Ps	21	10	9	he lurks in secret like a lion in his covert; he lurks that he may seize the poor, he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net.
 Psalms	Ps	21	10	10	The hapless is crushed, sinks down, and falls by his might.
 Psalms	Ps	21	10	11	He thinks in his heart, “God has forgotten, he has hidden his face, he will never see it.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	10	12	Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up thy hand; forget not the afflicted.
 Psalms	Ps	21	10	13	Why does the wicked renounce God, and say in his heart, “Thou wilt not call to account”?
 Psalms	Ps	21	10	14	Thou dost see; yea, thou dost note trouble and vexation, that thou mayest take it into thy hands; the hapless commits himself to thee; thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.
 Psalms	Ps	21	10	15	Break thou the arm of the wicked and evildoer; seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
 Psalms	Ps	21	10	16	The Lord is king for ever and ever; the nations shall perish from his land.
 Psalms	Ps	21	10	17	O Lord, thou wilt hear the desire of the meek; thou wilt strengthen their heart, thou wilt incline thy ear
 Psalms	Ps	21	10	18	to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.
 Psalms	Ps	21	11	1	(To the choirmaster. Of David.) In the Lord I take refuge; how can you say to me, “Flee like a bird to the mountains;
 Psalms	Ps	21	11	2	for lo, the wicked bend the bow, they have fitted their arrow to the string, to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart;
 Psalms	Ps	21	11	3	if the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do”?
 Psalms	Ps	21	11	4	The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord’s throne is in heaven; his eyes behold, his eyelids test, the children of men.
 Psalms	Ps	21	11	5	The Lord tests the righteous and the wicked, and his soul hates him that loves violence.
 Psalms	Ps	21	11	6	On the wicked he will rain coals of fire and brimstone; a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
 Psalms	Ps	21	11	7	For the Lord is righteous, he loves righteous deeds; the upright shall behold his face.
 Psalms	Ps	21	12	1	(To the choirmaster: according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David.) Help, Lord; for there is no longer any that is godly; for the faithful have vanished from among the sons of men.
 Psalms	Ps	21	12	2	Every one utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
 Psalms	Ps	21	12	3	May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that makes great boasts,
 Psalms	Ps	21	12	4	those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail, our lips are with us; who is our master?”
 Psalms	Ps	21	12	5	“Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord; “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	12	6	The promises of the Lord are promises that are pure, silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.
 Psalms	Ps	21	12	7	Do thou, O Lord, protect us, guard us ever from this generation.
 Psalms	Ps	21	12	8	On every side the wicked prowl, as vileness is exalted among the sons of men.
 Psalms	Ps	21	13	1	(To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.) How long, O Lord? Wilt thou forget me for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
 Psalms	Ps	21	13	2	How long must I bear pain in my soul, and have sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
 Psalms	Ps	21	13	3	Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
 Psalms	Ps	21	13	4	lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed over him”; lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken.
 Psalms	Ps	21	13	5	But I have trusted in thy steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
 Psalms	Ps	21	13	6	I will sing to the Lord, because he has dealt bountifully with me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	14	1	(To the choirmaster. Of David.) The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none that does good.
 Psalms	Ps	21	14	2	The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any that act wisely, that seek after God.
 Psalms	Ps	21	14	3	They have all gone astray, they are all alike corrupt; there is none that does good, no, not one.
 Psalms	Ps	21	14	4	Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the Lord?
 Psalms	Ps	21	14	5	There they shall be in great terror, for God is with the generation of the righteous.
 Psalms	Ps	21	14	6	You would confound the plans of the poor, but the Lord is his refuge.
 Psalms	Ps	21	14	7	O that deliverance for Israel would come out of Zion! When the Lord restores the fortunes of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, Israel shall be glad.
 Psalms	Ps	21	15	1	(A Psalm of David.) O Lord, who shall sojourn in thy tent? Who shall dwell on thy holy hill?
 Psalms	Ps	21	15	2	He who walks blamelessly, and does what is right, and speaks truth from his heart;
 Psalms	Ps	21	15	3	who does not slander with his tongue, and does no evil to his friend, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor;
 Psalms	Ps	21	15	4	in whose eyes a reprobate is despised, but who honors those who fear the Lord; who swears to his own hurt and does not change;
 Psalms	Ps	21	15	5	who does not put out his money at interest, and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.
 Psalms	Ps	21	16	1	(A Miktam of David.) Preserve me, O God, for in thee I take refuge.
 Psalms	Ps	21	16	2	I say to the Lord, “Thou art my Lord; I have no good apart from thee.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	16	3	As for the saints in the land, they are the noble, in whom is all my delight.
 Psalms	Ps	21	16	4	Those who choose another god multiply their sorrows ; their libations of blood I will not pour out or take their names upon my lips.
 Psalms	Ps	21	16	5	The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup; thou holdest my lot.
 Psalms	Ps	21	16	6	The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
 Psalms	Ps	21	16	7	I bless the Lord who gives me counsel; in the night also my heart instructs me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	16	8	I keep the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
 Psalms	Ps	21	16	9	Therefore my heart is glad, and my soul rejoices; my body also dwells secure.
 Psalms	Ps	21	16	10	For thou dost not give me up to Sheol, or let thy godly one see the Pit.
 Psalms	Ps	21	16	11	Thou dost show me the path of life; in thy presence there is fulness of joy, in thy right hand are pleasures for evermore.
 Psalms	Ps	21	17	1	(A Prayer of David.) Hear a just cause, O Lord; attend to my cry! Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit!
 Psalms	Ps	21	17	2	From thee let my vindication come! Let thy eyes see the right!
 Psalms	Ps	21	17	3	If thou triest my heart, if thou visitest me by night, if thou testest me, thou wilt find no wickedness in me; my mouth does not transgress.
 Psalms	Ps	21	17	4	With regard to the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have avoided the ways of the violent.
 Psalms	Ps	21	17	5	My steps have held fast to thy paths, my feet have not slipped.
 Psalms	Ps	21	17	6	I call upon thee, for thou wilt answer me, O God; incline thy ear to me, hear my words.
 Psalms	Ps	21	17	7	Wondrously show thy steadfast love, O savior of those who seek refuge from their adversaries at thy right hand.
 Psalms	Ps	21	17	8	Keep me as the apple of the eye; hide me in the shadow of thy wings,
 Psalms	Ps	21	17	9	from the wicked who despoil me, my deadly enemies who surround me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	17	10	They close their hearts to pity; with their mouths they speak arrogantly.
 Psalms	Ps	21	17	11	They track me down; now they surround me; they set their eyes to cast me to the ground.
 Psalms	Ps	21	17	12	They are like a lion eager to tear, as a young lion lurking in ambush.
 Psalms	Ps	21	17	13	Arise, O Lord! confront them, overthrow them! Deliver my life from the wicked by thy sword,
 Psalms	Ps	21	17	14	from men by thy hand, O Lord, from men whose portion in life is of the world. May their belly be filled with what thou hast stored up for them; may their children have more than enough; may they leave something over to their babes.
 Psalms	Ps	21	17	15	As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with beholding thy form.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	1	(To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David the servant of the Lord, who addressed the words of this song to the Lord on the day when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said:) I love thee, O Lord, my strength.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	2	The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	3	I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	4	The cords of death encompassed me, the torrents of perdition assailed me;
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	5	the cords of Sheol entangled me, the snares of death confronted me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	6	In my distress I called upon the Lord; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	7	Then the earth reeled and rocked; the foundations also of the mountains trembled and quaked, because he was angry.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	8	Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth; glowing coals flamed forth from him.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	9	He bowed the heavens, and came down; thick darkness was under his feet.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	10	He rode on a cherub, and flew; he came swiftly upon the wings of the wind.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	11	He made darkness his covering around him, his canopy thick clouds dark with water.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	12	Out of the brightness before him there broke through his clouds hailstones and coals of fire.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	13	The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice, hailstones and coals of fire.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	14	And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; he flashed forth lightnings, and routed them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	15	Then the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were laid bare, at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	16	He reached from on high, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	17	He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	18	They came upon me in the day of my calamity; but the Lord was my stay.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	19	He brought me forth into a broad place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	20	The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	21	For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	22	For all his ordinances were before me, and his statutes I did not put away from me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	23	I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from guilt.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	24	Therefore the Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	25	With the loyal thou dost show thyself loyal; with the blameless man thou dost show thyself blameless;
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	26	with the pure thou dost show thyself pure; and with the crooked thou dost show thyself perverse.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	27	For thou dost deliver a humble people; but the haughty eyes thou dost bring down.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	28	Yea, thou dost light my lamp; the Lord my God lightens my darkness.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	29	Yea, by thee I can crush a troop; and by my God I can leap over a wall.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	30	This God—his way is perfect; the promise of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	31	For who is God, but the Lord? And who is a rock, except our God?—
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	32	the God who girded me with strength, and made my way safe.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	33	He made my feet like hinds’ feet, and set me secure on the heights.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	34	He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	35	Thou hast given me the shield of thy salvation, and thy right hand supported me, and thy help made me great.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	36	Thou didst give a wide place for my steps under me, and my feet did not slip.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	37	I pursued my enemies and overtook them; and did not turn back till they were consumed.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	38	I thrust them through, so that they were not able to rise; they fell under my feet.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	39	For thou didst gird me with strength for the battle; thou didst make my assailants sink under me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	40	Thou didst make my enemies turn their backs to me, and those who hated me I destroyed.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	41	They cried for help, but there was none to save, they cried to the Lord, but he did not answer them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	42	I beat them fine as dust before the wind; I cast them out like the mire of the streets.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	43	Thou didst deliver me from strife with the peoples; thou didst make me the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	44	As soon as they heard of me they obeyed me; foreigners came cringing to me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	45	Foreigners lost heart, and came trembling out of their fastnesses.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	46	The Lord lives; and blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of my salvation,
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	47	the God who gave me vengeance and subdued peoples under me;
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	48	who delivered me from my enemies; yea, thou didst exalt me above my adversaries; thou didst deliver me from men of violence.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	49	For this I will extol thee, O Lord, among the nations, and sing praises to thy name.
 Psalms	Ps	21	18	50	Great triumphs he gives to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his descendants for ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	19	1	(To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.) The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims his handiwork.
 Psalms	Ps	21	19	2	Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night declares knowledge.
 Psalms	Ps	21	19	3	There is no speech, nor are there words; their voice is not heard;
 Psalms	Ps	21	19	4	yet their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,
 Psalms	Ps	21	19	5	which comes forth like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and like a strong man runs its course with joy.
 Psalms	Ps	21	19	6	Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them; and there is nothing hid from its heat.
 Psalms	Ps	21	19	7	The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple;
 Psalms	Ps	21	19	8	the precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes;
 Psalms	Ps	21	19	9	the fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever; the ordinances of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether.
 Psalms	Ps	21	19	10	More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.
 Psalms	Ps	21	19	11	Moreover by them is thy servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward.
 Psalms	Ps	21	19	12	But who can discern his errors? Clear thou me from hidden faults.
 Psalms	Ps	21	19	13	Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me! Then I shall be blameless, and innocent of great transgression.
 Psalms	Ps	21	19	14	Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.
 Psalms	Ps	21	20	1	(To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.) The Lord answer you in the day of trouble! The name of the God of Jacob protect you!
 Psalms	Ps	21	20	2	May he send you help from the sanctuary, and give you support from Zion!
 Psalms	Ps	21	20	3	May he remember all your offerings, and regard with favor your burnt sacrifices! [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	20	4	May he grant you your heart’s desire, and fulfil all your plans!
 Psalms	Ps	21	20	5	May we shout for joy over your victory, and in the name of our God set up our banners! May the Lord fulfil all your petitions!
 Psalms	Ps	21	20	6	Now I know that the Lord will help his anointed; he will answer him from his holy heaven with mighty victories by his right hand.
 Psalms	Ps	21	20	7	Some boast of chariots, and some of horses; but we boast of the name of the Lord our God.
 Psalms	Ps	21	20	8	They will collapse and fall; but we shall rise and stand upright.
 Psalms	Ps	21	20	9	Give victory to the king, O Lord; answer us when we call.
 Psalms	Ps	21	21	1	(To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.) In thy strength the king rejoices, O Lord; and in thy help how greatly he exults!
 Psalms	Ps	21	21	2	Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not withheld the request of his lips. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	21	3	For thou dost meet him with goodly blessings; thou dost set a crown of fine gold upon his head.
 Psalms	Ps	21	21	4	He asked life of thee; thou gavest it to him, length of days for ever and ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	21	5	His glory is great through thy help; splendor and majesty thou dost bestow upon him.
 Psalms	Ps	21	21	6	Yea, thou dost make him most blessed for ever; thou dost make him glad with the joy of thy presence.
 Psalms	Ps	21	21	7	For the king trusts in the Lord; and through the steadfast love of the Most High he shall not be moved.
 Psalms	Ps	21	21	8	Your hand will find out all your enemies; your right hand will find out those who hate you.
 Psalms	Ps	21	21	9	You will make them as a blazing oven when you appear. The Lord will swallow them up in his wrath; and fire will consume them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	21	10	You will destroy their offspring from the earth, and their children from among the sons of men.
 Psalms	Ps	21	21	11	If they plan evil against you, if they devise mischief, they will not succeed.
 Psalms	Ps	21	21	12	For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows.
 Psalms	Ps	21	21	13	Be exalted, O Lord, in thy strength! We will sing and praise thy power.
 Psalms	Ps	21	22	1	(To the choirmaster: according to The Hind of the Dawn. A Psalm of David.) My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning?
 Psalms	Ps	21	22	2	O my God, I cry by day, but thou dost not answer; and by night, but find no rest.
 Psalms	Ps	21	22	3	Yet thou art holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.
 Psalms	Ps	21	22	4	In thee our fathers trusted; they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	22	5	To thee they cried, and were saved; in thee they trusted, and were not disappointed.
 Psalms	Ps	21	22	6	But I am a worm, and no man; scorned by men, and despised by the people.
 Psalms	Ps	21	22	7	All who see me mock at me, they make mouths at me, they wag their heads;
 Psalms	Ps	21	22	8	“He committed his cause to the Lord; let him deliver him, let him rescue him, for he delights in him!”
 Psalms	Ps	21	22	9	Yet thou art he who took me from the womb; thou didst keep me safe upon my mother’s breasts.
 Psalms	Ps	21	22	10	Upon thee was I cast from my birth, and since my mother bore me thou hast been my God.
 Psalms	Ps	21	22	11	Be not far from me, for trouble is near and there is none to help.
 Psalms	Ps	21	22	12	Many bulls encompass me, strong bulls of Bashan surround me;
 Psalms	Ps	21	22	13	they open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and roaring lion.
 Psalms	Ps	21	22	14	I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax, it is melted within my breast;
 Psalms	Ps	21	22	15	my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaves to my jaws; thou dost lay me in the dust of death.
 Psalms	Ps	21	22	16	Yea, dogs are round about me; a company of evildoers encircle me; they have pierced my hands and feet—
 Psalms	Ps	21	22	17	I can count all my bones— they stare and gloat over me;
 Psalms	Ps	21	22	18	they divide my garments among them, and for my raiment they cast lots.
 Psalms	Ps	21	22	19	But thou, O Lord, be not far off! O thou my help, hasten to my aid!
 Psalms	Ps	21	22	20	Deliver my soul from the sword, my life from the power of the dog!
 Psalms	Ps	21	22	21	Save me from the mouth of the lion, my afflicted soul from the horns of the wild oxen!
 Psalms	Ps	21	22	22	I will tell of thy name to my brethren; in the midst of the congregation I will praise thee:
 Psalms	Ps	21	22	23	You who fear the Lord, praise him! all you sons of Jacob, glorify him, and stand in awe of him, all you sons of Israel!
 Psalms	Ps	21	22	24	For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; and he has not hid his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him.
 Psalms	Ps	21	22	25	From thee comes my praise in the great congregation; my vows I will pay before those who fear him.
 Psalms	Ps	21	22	26	The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek him shall praise the Lord! May your hearts live for ever!
 Psalms	Ps	21	22	27	All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord; and all the families of the nations shall worship before him.
 Psalms	Ps	21	22	28	For dominion belongs to the Lord, and he rules over the nations.
 Psalms	Ps	21	22	29	Yea, to him shall all the proud of the earth bow down; before him shall bow all who go down to the dust, and he who cannot keep himself alive.
 Psalms	Ps	21	22	30	Posterity shall serve him; men shall tell of the Lord to the coming generation,
 Psalms	Ps	21	22	31	and proclaim his deliverance to a people yet unborn, that he has wrought it.
 Psalms	Ps	21	23	1	(A Psalm of David.) The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want;
 Psalms	Ps	21	23	2	he makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters;
 Psalms	Ps	21	23	3	he restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
 Psalms	Ps	21	23	4	Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	23	5	Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of my enemies; thou anointest my head with oil, my cup overflows.
 Psalms	Ps	21	23	6	Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	24	1	(A Psalm of David.) The earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein;
 Psalms	Ps	21	24	2	for he has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the rivers.
 Psalms	Ps	21	24	3	Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place?
 Psalms	Ps	21	24	4	He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false, and does not swear deceitfully.
 Psalms	Ps	21	24	5	He will receive blessing from the Lord, and vindication from the God of his salvation.
 Psalms	Ps	21	24	6	Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	24	7	Lift up your heads, O gates! and be lifted up, O ancient doors! that the King of glory may come in.
 Psalms	Ps	21	24	8	Who is the King of glory? The Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord, mighty in battle!
 Psalms	Ps	21	24	9	Lift up your heads, O gates! and be lifted up, O ancient doors! that the King of glory may come in.
 Psalms	Ps	21	24	10	Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory! [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	25	1	(A Psalm of David.) To thee, O Lord, I lift up my soul.
 Psalms	Ps	21	25	2	O my God, in thee I trust, let me not be put to shame; let not my enemies exult over me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	25	3	Yea, let none that wait for thee be put to shame; let them be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.
 Psalms	Ps	21	25	4	Make me to know thy ways, O Lord; teach me thy paths.
 Psalms	Ps	21	25	5	Lead me in thy truth, and teach me, for thou art the God of my salvation; for thee I wait all the day long.
 Psalms	Ps	21	25	6	Be mindful of thy mercy, O Lord, and of thy steadfast love, for they have been from of old.
 Psalms	Ps	21	25	7	Remember not the sins of my youth, or my transgressions; according to thy steadfast love remember me, for thy goodness’ sake, O Lord!
 Psalms	Ps	21	25	8	Good and upright is the Lord; therefore he instructs sinners in the way.
 Psalms	Ps	21	25	9	He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way.
 Psalms	Ps	21	25	10	All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.
 Psalms	Ps	21	25	11	For thy name’s sake, O Lord, pardon my guilt, for it is great.
 Psalms	Ps	21	25	12	Who is the man that fears the Lord? Him will he instruct in the way that he should choose.
 Psalms	Ps	21	25	13	He himself shall abide in prosperity, and his children shall possess the land.
 Psalms	Ps	21	25	14	The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.
 Psalms	Ps	21	25	15	My eyes are ever toward the Lord, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.
 Psalms	Ps	21	25	16	Turn thou to me, and be gracious to me; for I am lonely and afflicted.
 Psalms	Ps	21	25	17	Relieve the troubles of my heart, and bring me out of my distresses.
 Psalms	Ps	21	25	18	Consider my affliction and my trouble, and forgive all my sins.
 Psalms	Ps	21	25	19	Consider how many are my foes, and with what violent hatred they hate me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	25	20	Oh guard my life, and deliver me; let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	25	21	May integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	25	22	Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.
 Psalms	Ps	21	26	1	(A Psalm of David.) Vindicate me, O Lord, for I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted in the Lord without wavering.
 Psalms	Ps	21	26	2	Prove me, O Lord, and try me; test my heart and my mind.
 Psalms	Ps	21	26	3	For thy steadfast love is before my eyes, and I walk in faithfulness to thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	26	4	I do not sit with false men, nor do I consort with dissemblers;
 Psalms	Ps	21	26	5	I hate the company of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked.
 Psalms	Ps	21	26	6	I wash my hands in innocence, and go about thy altar, O Lord,
 Psalms	Ps	21	26	7	singing aloud a song of thanksgiving, and telling all thy wondrous deeds.
 Psalms	Ps	21	26	8	O Lord, I love the habitation of thy house, and the place where thy glory dwells.
 Psalms	Ps	21	26	9	Sweep me not away with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men,
 Psalms	Ps	21	26	10	men in whose hands are evil devices, and whose right hands are full of bribes.
 Psalms	Ps	21	26	11	But as for me, I walk in my integrity; redeem me, and be gracious to me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	26	12	My foot stands on level ground; in the great congregation I will bless the Lord.
 Psalms	Ps	21	27	1	(A Psalm of David.) The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
 Psalms	Ps	21	27	2	When evildoers assail me, uttering slanders against me, my adversaries and foes, they shall stumble and fall.
 Psalms	Ps	21	27	3	Though a host encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war arise against me, yet I will be confident.
 Psalms	Ps	21	27	4	One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple.
 Psalms	Ps	21	27	5	For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent, he will set me high upon a rock.
 Psalms	Ps	21	27	6	And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies round about me; and I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing and make melody to the Lord.
 Psalms	Ps	21	27	7	Hear, O Lord, when I cry aloud, be gracious to me and answer me!
 Psalms	Ps	21	27	8	Thou hast said, “Seek ye my face.” My heart says to thee, “Thy face, Lord, do I seek.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	27	9	Hide not thy face from me. Turn not thy servant away in anger, thou who hast been my help. Cast me not off, forsake me not, O God of my salvation!
 Psalms	Ps	21	27	10	For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the Lord will take me up.
 Psalms	Ps	21	27	11	Teach me thy way, O Lord; and lead me on a level path because of my enemies.
 Psalms	Ps	21	27	12	Give me not up to the will of my adversaries; for false witnesses have risen against me, and they breathe out violence.
 Psalms	Ps	21	27	13	I believe that I shall see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living!
 Psalms	Ps	21	27	14	Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; yea, wait for the Lord!
 Psalms	Ps	21	28	1	(A Psalm of David.) To thee, O Lord, I call; my rock, be not deaf to me, lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like those who go down to the Pit.
 Psalms	Ps	21	28	2	Hear the voice of my supplication, as I cry to thee for help, as I lift up my hands toward thy most holy sanctuary.
 Psalms	Ps	21	28	3	Take me not off with the wicked, with those who are workers of evil, who speak peace with their neighbors, while mischief is in their hearts.
 Psalms	Ps	21	28	4	Requite them according to their work, and according to the evil of their deeds; requite them according to the work of their hands; render them their due reward.
 Psalms	Ps	21	28	5	Because they do not regard the works of the Lord, or the work of his hands, he will break them down and build them up no more.
 Psalms	Ps	21	28	6	Blessed be the Lord! for he has heard the voice of my supplications.
 Psalms	Ps	21	28	7	The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts; so I am helped, and my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.
 Psalms	Ps	21	28	8	The Lord is the strength of his people, he is the saving refuge of his anointed.
 Psalms	Ps	21	28	9	O save thy people, and bless thy heritage; be thou their shepherd, and carry them for ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	29	1	(A Psalm of David.) Ascribe to the Lord, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.
 Psalms	Ps	21	29	2	Ascribe to the Lord the glory of his name; worship the Lord in holy array.
 Psalms	Ps	21	29	3	The voice of the Lord is upon the waters; the God of glory thunders, the Lord, upon many waters.
 Psalms	Ps	21	29	4	The voice of the Lord is powerful, the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.
 Psalms	Ps	21	29	5	The voice of the Lor breaks the cedars, the Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon.
 Psalms	Ps	21	29	6	He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild ox.
 Psalms	Ps	21	29	7	The voice of the Lord flashes forth flames of fire.
 Psalms	Ps	21	29	8	The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness, the Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
 Psalms	Ps	21	29	9	The voice of the Lord makes the oaks to whirl, and strips the forests bare; and in his temple all cry, “Glory!”
 Psalms	Ps	21	29	10	The Lord sits enthroned over the flood; the Lord sits enthroned as king for ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	29	11	May the Lord give strength to his people! May the Lord bless his people with peace!
 Psalms	Ps	21	30	1	(A Psalm of David. A Song at the dedication of the Temple.) I will extol thee, O Lord, for thou hast drawn me up, and hast not let my foes rejoice over me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	30	2	O Lord my God, I cried to thee for help, and thou hast healed me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	30	3	O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol, restored me to life from among those gone down to the Pit.
 Psalms	Ps	21	30	4	Sing praises to the Lord, O you his saints, and give thanks to his holy name.
 Psalms	Ps	21	30	5	For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.
 Psalms	Ps	21	30	6	As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	30	7	By thy favor, O Lord, thou hadst established me as a strong mountain; thou didst hide thy face, I was dismayed.
 Psalms	Ps	21	30	8	To thee, O Lord, I cried; and to the Lord I made supplication:
 Psalms	Ps	21	30	9	“What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the Pit? Will the dust praise thee? Will it tell of thy faithfulness?
 Psalms	Ps	21	30	10	Hear, O Lord, and be gracious to me! O Lord, be thou my helper!”
 Psalms	Ps	21	30	11	Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing; thou hast loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness,
 Psalms	Ps	21	30	12	that my soul may praise thee and not be silent. O Lor my God, I will give thanks to thee for ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	31	1	(To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.) In thee, O Lord, do I seek refuge; let me never be put to shame; in thy righteousness deliver me!
 Psalms	Ps	21	31	2	Incline thy ear to me, rescue me speedily! Be thou a rock of refuge for me, a strong fortress to save me!
 Psalms	Ps	21	31	3	Yea, thou art my rock and my fortress; for thy name’s sake lead me and guide me,
 Psalms	Ps	21	31	4	take me out of the net which is hidden for me, for thou art my refuge.
 Psalms	Ps	21	31	5	Into thy hand I commit my spirit; thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God.
 Psalms	Ps	21	31	6	Thou hatest those who pay regard to vain idols; but I trust in the Lord.
 Psalms	Ps	21	31	7	I will rejoice and be glad for thy steadfast love, because thou hast seen my affliction, thou hast taken heed of my adversities,
 Psalms	Ps	21	31	8	and hast not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; thou hast set my feet in a broad place.
 Psalms	Ps	21	31	9	Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief, my soul and my body also.
 Psalms	Ps	21	31	10	For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my misery, and my bones waste away.
 Psalms	Ps	21	31	11	I am the scorn of all my adversaries, a horror to my neighbors, an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	31	12	I have passed out of mind like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel.
 Psalms	Ps	21	31	13	Yea, I hear the whispering of many— terror on every side!— as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.
 Psalms	Ps	21	31	14	But I trust in thee, O Lord, I say, “Thou art my God.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	31	15	My times are in thy hand; deliver me from the hand of my enemies and persecutors!
 Psalms	Ps	21	31	16	Let thy face shine on thy servant; save me in thy steadfast love!
 Psalms	Ps	21	31	17	Let me not be put to shame, O Lord, for I call on thee; let the wicked be put to shame, let them go dumbfounded to Sheol.
 Psalms	Ps	21	31	18	Let the lying lips be dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.
 Psalms	Ps	21	31	19	O how abundant is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for those who fear thee, and wrought for those who take refuge in thee, in the sight of the sons of men!
 Psalms	Ps	21	31	20	In the covert of thy presence thou hidest them from the plots of men; thou holdest them safe under thy shelter from the strife of tongues.
 Psalms	Ps	21	31	21	Blessed be the Lord, for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me when I was beset as in a besieged city.
 Psalms	Ps	21	31	22	I had said in my alarm, “I am driven far from thy sight.” But thou didst hear my supplications, when I cried to thee for help.
 Psalms	Ps	21	31	23	Love the Lord, all you his saints! The Lord preserves the faithful, but abundantly requites him who acts haughtily.
 Psalms	Ps	21	31	24	Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord!
 Psalms	Ps	21	32	1	(A Psalm of David. A Maskil.) Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
 Psalms	Ps	21	32	2	Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputes no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
 Psalms	Ps	21	32	3	When I declared not my sin, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long.
 Psalms	Ps	21	32	4	For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	32	5	I acknowledged my sin to thee, and I did not hide my iniquity; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord”; then thou didst forgive the guilt of my sin. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	32	6	Therefore let every one who is godly offer prayer to thee; at a time of distress, in the rush of great waters, they shall not reach him.
 Psalms	Ps	21	32	7	Thou art a hiding place for me, thou preservest me from trouble; thou dost encompass me with deliverance. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	32	8	I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
 Psalms	Ps	21	32	9	Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, else it will not keep with you.
 Psalms	Ps	21	32	10	Many are the pangs of the wicked; but steadfast love surrounds him who trusts in the Lord.
 Psalms	Ps	21	32	11	Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!
 Psalms	Ps	21	33	1	Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous! Praise befits the upright.
 Psalms	Ps	21	33	2	Praise the Lord with the lyre, make melody to him with the harp of ten strings!
 Psalms	Ps	21	33	3	Sing to him a new song, play skilfully on the strings, with loud shouts.
 Psalms	Ps	21	33	4	For the word of the Lord is upright; and all his work is done in faithfulness.
 Psalms	Ps	21	33	5	He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord.
 Psalms	Ps	21	33	6	By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and all their host by the breath of his mouth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	33	7	He gathered the waters of the sea as in a bottle; he put the deeps in storehouses.
 Psalms	Ps	21	33	8	Let all the earth fear the Lord, let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him!
 Psalms	Ps	21	33	9	For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood forth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	33	10	The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nought; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.
 Psalms	Ps	21	33	11	The counsel of the Lord stands for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
 Psalms	Ps	21	33	12	Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!
 Psalms	Ps	21	33	13	The Lord looks down from heaven, he sees all the sons of men;
 Psalms	Ps	21	33	14	from where he sits enthroned he looks forth on all the inhabitants of the earth,
 Psalms	Ps	21	33	15	he who fashions the hearts of them all, and observes all their deeds.
 Psalms	Ps	21	33	16	A king is not saved by his great army; a warrior is not delivered by his great strength.
 Psalms	Ps	21	33	17	The war horse is a vain hope for victory, and by its great might it cannot save.
 Psalms	Ps	21	33	18	Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love,
 Psalms	Ps	21	33	19	that he may deliver their soul from death, and keep them alive in famine.
 Psalms	Ps	21	33	20	Our soul waits for the Lord; he is our help and shield.
 Psalms	Ps	21	33	21	Yea, our heart is glad in him, because we trust in his holy name.
 Psalms	Ps	21	33	22	Let thy steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us, even as we hope in thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	34	1	(A Psalm of David, when he feigned madness before Abimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away.) I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	34	2	My soul makes its boast in the Lord; let the afflicted hear and be glad.
 Psalms	Ps	21	34	3	O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together!
 Psalms	Ps	21	34	4	I sought the Lord, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.
 Psalms	Ps	21	34	5	Look to him, and be radiant; so your faces shall never be ashamed.
 Psalms	Ps	21	34	6	This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
 Psalms	Ps	21	34	7	The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	34	8	O taste and see that the Lord is good! Happy is the man who takes refuge in him!
 Psalms	Ps	21	34	9	O fear the Lord, you his saints, for those who fear him have no want!
 Psalms	Ps	21	34	10	The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.
 Psalms	Ps	21	34	11	Come, O sons, listen to me, I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
 Psalms	Ps	21	34	12	What man is there who desires life, and covets many days, that he may enjoy good?
 Psalms	Ps	21	34	13	Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.
 Psalms	Ps	21	34	14	Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
 Psalms	Ps	21	34	15	The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous, and his ears toward their cry.
 Psalms	Ps	21	34	16	The face of the Lord is against evildoers, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	34	17	When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.
 Psalms	Ps	21	34	18	The Lord is near to the brokenhearted, and saves the crushed in spirit.
 Psalms	Ps	21	34	19	Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but the Lord delivers him out of them all.
 Psalms	Ps	21	34	20	He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.
 Psalms	Ps	21	34	21	Evil shall slay the wicked; and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.
 Psalms	Ps	21	34	22	The Lord redeems the life of his servants; none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.
 Psalms	Ps	21	35	1	(A Psalm of David.) Contend, O Lord, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me!
 Psalms	Ps	21	35	2	Take hold of shield and buckler, and rise for my help!
 Psalms	Ps	21	35	3	Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers! Say to my soul, “I am your deliverance!”
 Psalms	Ps	21	35	4	Let them be put to shame and dishonor who seek after my life! Let them be turned back and confounded who devise evil against me!
 Psalms	Ps	21	35	5	Let them be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of the Lord driving them on!
 Psalms	Ps	21	35	6	Let their way be dark and slippery, with the angel of the Lord pursuing them!
 Psalms	Ps	21	35	7	For without cause they hid their net for me; without cause they dug a pit for my life.
 Psalms	Ps	21	35	8	Let ruin come upon them unawares! And let the net which they hid ensnare them; let them fall therein to ruin!
 Psalms	Ps	21	35	9	Then my soul shall rejoice in the Lord, exulting in his deliverance.
 Psalms	Ps	21	35	10	All my bones shall say, “O Lord, who is like thee, thou who deliverest the weak from him who is too strong for him, the weak and needy from him who despoils him?”
 Psalms	Ps	21	35	11	Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I know not.
 Psalms	Ps	21	35	12	They requite me evil for good; my soul is forlorn.
 Psalms	Ps	21	35	13	But I, when they were sick— I wore sackcloth, I afflicted myself with fasting. I prayed with head bowed on my bosom,
 Psalms	Ps	21	35	14	as though I grieved for my friend or my brother; I went about as one who laments his mother, bowed down and in mourning.
 Psalms	Ps	21	35	15	But at my stumbling they gathered in glee, they gathered together against me; cripples whom I knew not slandered me without ceasing;
 Psalms	Ps	21	35	16	they impiously mocked more and more, gnashing at me with their teeth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	35	17	How long, O Lord, wilt thou look on? Rescue me from their ravages, my life from the lions!
 Psalms	Ps	21	35	18	Then I will thank thee in the great congregation; in the mighty throng I will praise thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	35	19	Let not those rejoice over me who are wrongfully my foes, and let not those wink the eye who hate me without cause.
 Psalms	Ps	21	35	20	For they do not speak peace, but against those who are quiet in the land they conceive words of deceit.
 Psalms	Ps	21	35	21	They open wide their mouths against me; they say, “Aha, Aha! our eyes have seen it!”
 Psalms	Ps	21	35	22	Thou hast seen, O Lord; be not silent! O Lord, be not far from me!
 Psalms	Ps	21	35	23	Bestir thyself, and awake for my right, for my cause, my God and my Lord!
 Psalms	Ps	21	35	24	Vindicate me, O Lord, my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me!
 Psalms	Ps	21	35	25	Let them not say to themselves, “Aha, we have our heart’s desire!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	35	26	Let them be put to shame and confusion altogether who rejoice at my calamity! Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me!
 Psalms	Ps	21	35	27	Let those who desire my vindication shout for joy and be glad, and say evermore, “Great is the Lord, who delights in the welfare of his servant!”
 Psalms	Ps	21	35	28	Then my tongue shall tell of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.
 Psalms	Ps	21	36	1	(To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord.) Transgression speaks to the wicked deep in his heart; there is no fear of God before his eyes.
 Psalms	Ps	21	36	2	For he flatters himself in his own eyes that his iniquity cannot be found out and hated.
 Psalms	Ps	21	36	3	The words of his mouth are mischief and deceit; he has ceased to act wisely and do good.
 Psalms	Ps	21	36	4	He plots mischief while on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he spurns not evil.
 Psalms	Ps	21	36	5	Thy steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens, thy faithfulness to the clouds.
 Psalms	Ps	21	36	6	Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God, thy judgments are like the great deep; man and beast thou savest, O Lord.
 Psalms	Ps	21	36	7	How precious is thy steadfast love, O God! The children of men take refuge in the shadow of thy wings.
 Psalms	Ps	21	36	8	They feast on the abundance of thy house, and thou givest them drink from the river of thy delights.
 Psalms	Ps	21	36	9	For with thee is the fountain of life; in thy light do we see light.
 Psalms	Ps	21	36	10	O continue thy steadfast love to those who know thee, and thy salvation to the upright of heart!
 Psalms	Ps	21	36	11	Let not the foot of arrogance come upon me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.
 Psalms	Ps	21	36	12	There the evildoers lie prostrate, they are thrust down, unable to rise.
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	1	(A Psalm of David.) Fret not yourself because of the wicked, be not envious of wrongdoers!
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	2	For they will soon fade like the grass, and wither like the green herb.
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	3	Trust in the Lord, and do good; so you will dwell in the land, and enjoy security.
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	4	Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	5	Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act.
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	6	He will bring forth your vindication as the light, and your right as the noonday.
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	7	Be still before the Lord, and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over him who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	8	Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	9	For the wicked shall be cut off; but those who wait for the Lord shall possess the land.
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	10	Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look well at his place, he will not be there.
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	11	But the meek shall possess the land, and delight themselves in abundant prosperity.
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	12	The wicked plots against the righteous, and gnashes his teeth at him;
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	13	but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he sees that his day is coming.
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	14	The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows, to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those who walk uprightly;
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	15	their sword shall enter their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	16	Better is a little that the righteous has than the abundance of many wicked.
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	17	For the arms of the wicked shall be broken; but the Lord upholds the righteous.
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	18	The Lord knows the days of the blameless, and their heritage will abide for ever;
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	19	they are not put to shame in evil times, in the days of famine they have abundance.
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	20	But the wicked perish; the enemies of the Lord are like the glory of the pastures, they vanish—like smoke they vanish away.
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	21	The wicked borrows, and cannot pay back, but the righteous is generous and gives;
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	22	for those blessed by the Lord shall possess the land, but those cursed by him shall be cut off.
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	23	The steps of a man are from the Lord, and he establishes him in whose way he delights;
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	24	though he fall, he shall not be cast headlong, for the Lord is the stay of his hand.
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	25	I have been young, and now am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging bread.
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	26	He is ever giving liberally and lending, and his children become a blessing.
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	27	Depart from evil, and do good; so shall you abide for ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	28	For the Lord loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. The righteous shall be preserved for ever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	29	The righteous shall possess the land, and dwell upon it for ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	30	The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	31	The law of his God is in his heart; his steps do not slip.
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	32	The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to slay him.
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	33	The Lord will not abandon him to his power, or let him be condemned when he is brought to trial.
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	34	Wait for the Lord, and keep to his way, and he will exalt you to possess the land; you will look on the destruction of the wicked.
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	35	I have seen a wicked man overbearing, and towering like a cedar of Lebanon.
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	36	Again I passed by, and, lo, he was no more; though I sought him, he could not be found.
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	37	Mark the blameless man, and behold the upright, for there is posterity for the man of peace.
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	38	But transgressors shall be altogether destroyed; the posterity of the wicked shall be cut off.
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	39	The salvation of the righteous is from the Lord; he is their refuge in the time of trouble.
 Psalms	Ps	21	37	40	The Lord helps them and delivers them; he delivers them from the wicked, and saves them, because they take refuge in him.
 Psalms	Ps	21	38	1	(A Psalm of David, for the memorial offering.) O Lord, rebuke me not in thy anger, nor chasten me in thy wrath!
 Psalms	Ps	21	38	2	For thy arrows have sunk into me, and thy hand has come down on me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	38	3	There is no soundness in my flesh because of thy indignation; there is no health in my bones because of my sin.
 Psalms	Ps	21	38	4	For my iniquities have gone over my head; they weigh like a burden too heavy for me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	38	5	My wounds grow foul and fester because of my foolishness,
 Psalms	Ps	21	38	6	I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; all the day I go about mourning.
 Psalms	Ps	21	38	7	For my loins are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.
 Psalms	Ps	21	38	8	I am utterly spent and crushed; I groan because of the tumult of my heart.
 Psalms	Ps	21	38	9	Lord, all my longing is known to thee, my sighing is not hidden from thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	38	10	My heart throbs, my strength fails me; and the light of my eyes—it also has gone from me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	38	11	My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague, and my kinsmen stand afar off.
 Psalms	Ps	21	38	12	Those who seek my life lay their snares, those who seek my hurt speak of ruin, and meditate treachery all the day long.
 Psalms	Ps	21	38	13	But I am like a deaf man, I do not hear, like a dumb man who does not open his mouth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	38	14	Yea, I am like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no rebukes.
 Psalms	Ps	21	38	15	But for thee, O Lord, do I wait; it is thou, O Lord my God, who wilt answer.
 Psalms	Ps	21	38	16	For I pray, “Only let them not rejoice over me, who boast against me when my foot slips!”
 Psalms	Ps	21	38	17	For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	38	18	I confess my iniquity, I am sorry for my sin.
 Psalms	Ps	21	38	19	Those who are my foes without cause are mighty, and many are those who hate me wrongfully.
 Psalms	Ps	21	38	20	Those who render me evil for good are my adversaries because I follow after good.
 Psalms	Ps	21	38	21	Do not forsake me, O Lord! O my God, be not far from me!
 Psalms	Ps	21	38	22	Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation!
 Psalms	Ps	21	39	1	(To the choirmaster: to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.) I said, “I will guard my ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; I will bridle my mouth, so long as the wicked are in my presence.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	39	2	I was dumb and silent, I held my peace to no avail; my distress grew worse,
 Psalms	Ps	21	39	3	my heart became hot within me. As I mused, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue:
 Psalms	Ps	21	39	4	“Lord, let me know my end, and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting my life is!
 Psalms	Ps	21	39	5	Behold, thou hast made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in thy sight. Surely every man stands as a mere breath! [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	39	6	Surely man goes about as a shadow! Surely for nought are they in turmoil; man heaps up, and knows not who will gather!
 Psalms	Ps	21	39	7	“And now, Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	39	8	Deliver me from all my transgressions. Make me not the scorn of the fool!
 Psalms	Ps	21	39	9	I am dumb, I do not open my mouth; for it is thou who hast done it.
 Psalms	Ps	21	39	10	Remove thy stroke from me; I am spent by the blows of thy hand.
 Psalms	Ps	21	39	11	When thou dost chasten man with rebukes for sin, thou dost consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely every man is a mere breath! [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	39	12	“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears! For I am thy passing guest, a sojourner, like all my fathers.
 Psalms	Ps	21	39	13	Look away from me, that I may know gladness, before I depart and be no more!”
 Psalms	Ps	21	40	1	(To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.) I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry.
 Psalms	Ps	21	40	2	He drew me up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.
 Psalms	Ps	21	40	3	He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the Lord.
 Psalms	Ps	21	40	4	Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after false gods!
 Psalms	Ps	21	40	5	Thou hast multiplied, O Lord my God, thy wondrous deeds and thy thoughts toward us; none can compare with thee! Were I to proclaim and tell of them, they would be more than can be numbered.
 Psalms	Ps	21	40	6	Sacrifice and offering thou dost not desire; but thou hast given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering thou hast not required.
 Psalms	Ps	21	40	7	Then I said, “Lo, I come; in the roll of the book it is written of me;
 Psalms	Ps	21	40	8	I delight to do thy will, O my God; thy law is within my heart.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	40	9	I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation; lo, I have not restrained my lips, as thou knowest, O Lord.
 Psalms	Ps	21	40	10	I have not hid thy saving help within my heart, I have spoken of thy faithfulness and thy salvation; I have not concealed thy steadfast love and thy faithfulness from the great congregation.
 Psalms	Ps	21	40	11	Do not thou, O Lord, withhold thy mercy from me, let thy steadfast love and thy faithfulness ever preserve me!
 Psalms	Ps	21	40	12	For evils have encompassed me without number; my iniquities have overtaken me, till I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head; my heart fails me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	40	13	Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me! O Lord, make haste to help me!
 Psalms	Ps	21	40	14	Let them be put to shame and confusion altogether who seek to snatch away my life; let them be turned back and brought to dishonor who desire my hurt!
 Psalms	Ps	21	40	15	Let them be appalled because of their shame who say to me, “Aha, Aha!”
 Psalms	Ps	21	40	16	But may all who seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee; may those who love thy salvation say continually, “Great is the Lord!”
 Psalms	Ps	21	40	17	As for me, I am poor and needy; but the Lord takes thought for me. Thou art my help and my deliverer; do not tarry, O my God!
 Psalms	Ps	21	41	1	(To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.) Blessed is he who considers the poor! The Lord delivers him in the day of trouble;
 Psalms	Ps	21	41	2	the Lord protects him and keeps him alive; he is called blessed in the land; thou dost not give him up to the will of his enemies.
 Psalms	Ps	21	41	3	The Lord sustains him on his sickbed; in his illness thou healest all his infirmities.
 Psalms	Ps	21	41	4	As for me, I said, “O Lord, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against thee!”
 Psalms	Ps	21	41	5	My enemies say of me in malice: “When will he die, and his name perish?”
 Psalms	Ps	21	41	6	And when one comes to see me, he utters empty words, while his heart gathers mischief; when he goes out, he tells it abroad.
 Psalms	Ps	21	41	7	All who hate me whisper together about me; they imagine the worst for me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	41	8	They say, “A deadly thing has fastened upon him; he will not rise again from where he lies.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	41	9	Even my bosom friend in whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, has lifted his heel against me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	41	10	But do thou, O Lord, be gracious to me, and raise me up, that I may requite them!
 Psalms	Ps	21	41	11	By this I know that thou art pleased with me, in that my enemy has not triumphed over me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	41	12	But thou hast upheld me because of my integrity, and set me in thy presence for ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	41	13	Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! Amen and Amen.
 Psalms	Ps	21	42	1	(To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah.) As a hart longs for flowing streams, so longs my soul for thee, O God.
 Psalms	Ps	21	42	2	My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and behold the face of God?
 Psalms	Ps	21	42	3	My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me continually, “Where is your God?”
 Psalms	Ps	21	42	4	These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I went with the throng, and led them in procession to the house of God, with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.
 Psalms	Ps	21	42	5	Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help
 Psalms	Ps	21	42	6	and my God. My soul is cast down within me, therefore I remember thee from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
 Psalms	Ps	21	42	7	Deep calls to deep at the thunder of thy cataracts; all thy waves and thy billows have gone over me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	42	8	By day the Lord commands his steadfast love; and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.
 Psalms	Ps	21	42	9	I say to God, my rock: “Why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
 Psalms	Ps	21	42	10	As with a deadly wound in my body, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me continually, “Where is your God?”
 Psalms	Ps	21	42	11	Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help and my God.
 Psalms	Ps	21	43	1	Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people; from deceitful and unjust men deliver me!
 Psalms	Ps	21	43	2	For thou art the God in whom I take refuge; why hast thou cast me off? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
 Psalms	Ps	21	43	3	Oh send out thy light and thy truth; let them lead me, let them bring me to thy holy hill and to thy dwelling!
 Psalms	Ps	21	43	4	Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy; and I will praise thee with the lyre, O God, my God.
 Psalms	Ps	21	43	5	Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help and my God.
 Psalms	Ps	21	44	1	(To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah.) We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what deeds thou didst perform in their days, in the days of old:
 Psalms	Ps	21	44	2	thou with thy own hand didst drive out the nations, but them thou didst plant; thou didst afflict the peoples, but them thou didst set free;
 Psalms	Ps	21	44	3	for not by their own sword did they win the land, nor did their own arm give them victory; but thy right hand, and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance; for thou didst delight in them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	44	4	Thou art my King and my God, who ordainest victories for Jacob.
 Psalms	Ps	21	44	5	Through thee we push down our foes; through thy name we tread down our assailants.
 Psalms	Ps	21	44	6	For not in my bow do I trust, nor can my sword save me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	44	7	But thou hast saved us from our foes, and hast put to confusion those who hate us.
 Psalms	Ps	21	44	8	In God we have boasted continually, and we will give thanks to thy name for ever. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	44	9	Yet thou hast cast us off and abased us, and hast not gone out with our armies.
 Psalms	Ps	21	44	10	Thou hast made us turn back from the foe; and our enemies have gotten spoil.
 Psalms	Ps	21	44	11	Thou hast made us like sheep for slaughter, and hast scattered us among the nations.
 Psalms	Ps	21	44	12	Thou hast sold thy people for a trifle, demanding no high price for them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	44	13	Thou hast made us the taunt of our neighbors, the derision and scorn of those about us.
 Psalms	Ps	21	44	14	Thou hast made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
 Psalms	Ps	21	44	15	All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,
 Psalms	Ps	21	44	16	at the words of the taunters and revilers, at the sight of the enemy and the avenger.
 Psalms	Ps	21	44	17	All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten thee, or been false to thy covenant.
 Psalms	Ps	21	44	18	Our heart has not turned back, nor have our steps departed from thy way,
 Psalms	Ps	21	44	19	that thou shouldst have broken us in the place of jackals, and covered us with deep darkness.
 Psalms	Ps	21	44	20	If we had forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god,
 Psalms	Ps	21	44	21	would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
 Psalms	Ps	21	44	22	Nay, for thy sake we are slain all the day long, and accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
 Psalms	Ps	21	44	23	Rouse thyself! Why sleepest thou, O Lord? Awake! Do not cast us off for ever!
 Psalms	Ps	21	44	24	Why dost thou hide thy face? Why dost thou forget our affliction and oppression?
 Psalms	Ps	21	44	25	For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our body cleaves to the ground.
 Psalms	Ps	21	44	26	Rise up, come to our help! Deliver us for the sake of thy steadfast love!
 Psalms	Ps	21	45	1	(To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah a love song.) My heart overflows with a goodly theme; I address my verses to the king; my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe.
 Psalms	Ps	21	45	2	You are the fairest of the sons of men; grace is poured upon your lips; therefore God has blessed you for ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	45	3	Gird your sword upon your thigh, O mighty one, in your glory and majesty!
 Psalms	Ps	21	45	4	In your majesty ride forth victoriously for the cause of truth and to defend the right; let your right hand teach you dread deeds!
 Psalms	Ps	21	45	5	Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; the peoples fall under you.
 Psalms	Ps	21	45	6	Your divine throne endures for ever and ever. Your royal scepter is a scepter of equity;
 Psalms	Ps	21	45	7	you love righteousness and hate wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows;
 Psalms	Ps	21	45	8	your robes are all fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia. From ivory palaces stringed instruments make you glad;
 Psalms	Ps	21	45	9	daughters of kings are among your ladies of honor; at your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir.
 Psalms	Ps	21	45	10	Hear, O daughter, consider, and incline your ear; forget your people and your father’s house;
 Psalms	Ps	21	45	11	and the king will desire your beauty. Since he is your lord, bow to him;
 Psalms	Ps	21	45	12	the people of Tyre will sue your favor with gifts, the richest of the people
 Psalms	Ps	21	45	13	with all kinds of wealth. The princess is decked in her chamber with gold-woven robes;
 Psalms	Ps	21	45	14	in many-colored robes she is led to the king, with her virgin companions, her escort, in her train.
 Psalms	Ps	21	45	15	With joy and gladness they are led along as they enter the palace of the king.
 Psalms	Ps	21	45	16	Instead of your fathers shall be your sons; you will make them princes in all the earth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	45	17	I will cause your name to be celebrated in all generations; therefore the peoples will praise you for ever and ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	46	1	(To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song.) God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
 Psalms	Ps	21	46	2	Therefore we will not fear though the earth should change, though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea;
 Psalms	Ps	21	46	3	though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble with its tumult. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	46	4	There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High.
 Psalms	Ps	21	46	5	God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved; God will help her right early.
 Psalms	Ps	21	46	6	The nations rage, the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice, the earth melts.
 Psalms	Ps	21	46	7	The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	46	8	Come, behold the works of the Lord, how he has wrought desolations in the earth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	46	9	He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow, and shatters the spear, he burns the chariots with fire!
 Psalms	Ps	21	46	10	“Be still, and know that I am God. I am exalted among the nations, I am exalted in the earth!”
 Psalms	Ps	21	46	11	The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	47	1	(To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.) Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy!
 Psalms	Ps	21	47	2	For the Lord, the Most High, is terrible, a great king over all the earth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	47	3	He subdued peoples under us, and nations under our feet.
 Psalms	Ps	21	47	4	He chose our heritage for us, the pride of Jacob whom he loves. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	47	5	God has gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.
 Psalms	Ps	21	47	6	Sing praises to God, sing praises! Sing praises to our King, sing praises!
 Psalms	Ps	21	47	7	For God is the king of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm!
 Psalms	Ps	21	47	8	God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne.
 Psalms	Ps	21	47	9	The princes of the peoples gather as the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God; he is highly exalted!
 Psalms	Ps	21	48	1	(A Song. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.) Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised in the city of our God! His holy mountain,
 Psalms	Ps	21	48	2	beautiful in elevation, is the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion, in the far north, the city of the great King.
 Psalms	Ps	21	48	3	Within her citadels God has shown himself a sure defense.
 Psalms	Ps	21	48	4	For lo, the kings assembled, they came on together.
 Psalms	Ps	21	48	5	As soon as they saw it, they were astounded, they were in panic, they took to flight;
 Psalms	Ps	21	48	6	trembling took hold of them there, anguish as of a woman in travail.
 Psalms	Ps	21	48	7	By the east wind thou didst shatter the ships of Tarshish.
 Psalms	Ps	21	48	8	As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God, which God establishes for ever. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	48	9	We have thought on thy steadfast love, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
 Psalms	Ps	21	48	10	As thy name, O God, so thy praise reaches to the ends of the earth. Thy right hand is filled with victory;
 Psalms	Ps	21	48	11	let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of thy judgments!
 Psalms	Ps	21	48	12	Walk about Zion, go round about her, number her towers,
 Psalms	Ps	21	48	13	consider well her ramparts, go through her citadels; that you may tell the next generation
 Psalms	Ps	21	48	14	that this is God, our God for ever and ever. He will be our guide for ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	49	1	(To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.) Hear this, all peoples! Give ear, all inhabitants of the world,
 Psalms	Ps	21	49	2	both low and high, rich and poor together!
 Psalms	Ps	21	49	3	My mouth shall speak wisdom; the meditation of my heart shall be understanding.
 Psalms	Ps	21	49	4	I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will solve my riddle to the music of the lyre.
 Psalms	Ps	21	49	5	Why should I fear in times of trouble, when the iniquity of my persecutors surrounds me,
 Psalms	Ps	21	49	6	men who trust in their wealth and boast of the abundance of their riches?
 Psalms	Ps	21	49	7	Truly no man can ransom himself, or give to God the price of his life,
 Psalms	Ps	21	49	8	for the ransom of his life is costly, and can never suffice,
 Psalms	Ps	21	49	9	that he should continue to live on for ever, and never see the Pit.
 Psalms	Ps	21	49	10	Yea, he shall see that even the wise die, the fool and the stupid alike must perish and leave their wealth to others.
 Psalms	Ps	21	49	11	Their graves are their homes for ever, their dwelling places to all generations, though they named lands their own.
 Psalms	Ps	21	49	12	Man cannot abide in his pomp, he is like the beasts that perish.
 Psalms	Ps	21	49	13	This is the fate of those who have foolish confidence, the end of those who are pleased with their portion. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	49	14	Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; straight to the grave they descend, and their form shall waste away; Sheol shall be their home.
 Psalms	Ps	21	49	15	But God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	49	16	Be not afraid when one becomes rich, when the glory of his house increases.
 Psalms	Ps	21	49	17	For when he dies he will carry nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.
 Psalms	Ps	21	49	18	Though, while he lives, he counts himself happy, and though a man gets praise when he does well for himself,
 Psalms	Ps	21	49	19	he will go to the generation of his fathers, who will never more see the light.
 Psalms	Ps	21	49	20	Man cannot abide in his pomp, he is like the beasts that perish.
 Psalms	Ps	21	50	1	(A Psalm of Asaph.) The Mighty One, God the Lord, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.
 Psalms	Ps	21	50	2	Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	50	3	Our God comes, he does not keep silence, before him is a devouring fire, round about him a mighty tempest.
 Psalms	Ps	21	50	4	He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people:
 Psalms	Ps	21	50	5	“Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!”
 Psalms	Ps	21	50	6	The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge! [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	50	7	“Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
 Psalms	Ps	21	50	8	I do not reprove you for your sacrifices; your burnt offerings are continually before me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	50	9	I will accept no bull from your house, nor he-goat from your folds.
 Psalms	Ps	21	50	10	For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
 Psalms	Ps	21	50	11	I know all the birds of the air, and all that moves in the field is mine.
 Psalms	Ps	21	50	12	“If I were hungry, I would not tell you; for the world and all that is in it is mine.
 Psalms	Ps	21	50	13	Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
 Psalms	Ps	21	50	14	Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High;
 Psalms	Ps	21	50	15	and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	50	16	But to the wicked God says: “What right have you to recite my statutes, or take my covenant on your lips?
 Psalms	Ps	21	50	17	For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.
 Psalms	Ps	21	50	18	If you see a thief, you are a friend of his; and you keep company with adulterers.
 Psalms	Ps	21	50	19	“You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit.
 Psalms	Ps	21	50	20	You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.
 Psalms	Ps	21	50	21	These things you have done and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you, and lay the charge before you.
 Psalms	Ps	21	50	22	“Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I rend, and there be none to deliver!
 Psalms	Ps	21	50	23	He who brings thanksgiving as his sacrifice honors me; to him who orders his way aright I will show the salvation of God!”
 Psalms	Ps	21	51	1	(To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.) Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy steadfast love; according to thy abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.
 Psalms	Ps	21	51	2	Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!
 Psalms	Ps	21	51	3	For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	51	4	Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in thy sight, so that thou art justified in thy sentence and blameless in thy judgment.
 Psalms	Ps	21	51	5	Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	51	6	Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.
 Psalms	Ps	21	51	7	Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
 Psalms	Ps	21	51	8	Fill me with joy and gladness; let the bones which thou hast broken rejoice.
 Psalms	Ps	21	51	9	Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
 Psalms	Ps	21	51	10	Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	51	11	Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not thy holy Spirit from me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	51	12	Restore to me the joy of thy salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.
 Psalms	Ps	21	51	13	Then I will teach transgressors thy ways, and sinners will return to thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	51	14	Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of thy deliverance.
 Psalms	Ps	21	51	15	O Lord, open thou my lips, and my mouth shall show forth thy praise.
 Psalms	Ps	21	51	16	For thou hast no delight in sacrifice; were I to give a burnt offering, thou wouldst not be pleased.
 Psalms	Ps	21	51	17	The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
 Psalms	Ps	21	51	18	Do good to Zion in thy good pleasure; rebuild the walls of Jerusalem,
 Psalms	Ps	21	51	19	then wilt thou delight in right sacrifices, in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on thy altar.
 Psalms	Ps	21	52	1	(To the choirmaster. A Maskil of David, when Doeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”) Why do you boast, O mighty man, of mischief done against the godly? All the day
 Psalms	Ps	21	52	2	you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.
 Psalms	Ps	21	52	3	You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking the truth. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	52	4	You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.
 Psalms	Ps	21	52	5	But God will break you down for ever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	52	6	The righteous shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him, saying,
 Psalms	Ps	21	52	7	“See the man who would not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and sought refuge in his wealth!”
 Psalms	Ps	21	52	8	But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God for ever and ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	52	9	I will thank thee for ever, because thou hast done it. I will proclaim thy name, for it is good, in the presence of the godly.
 Psalms	Ps	21	53	1	(To the choirmaster: according to Mahalath. A Maskil of David.) The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity; there is none that does good.
 Psalms	Ps	21	53	2	God looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if there are any that are wise, that seek after God.
 Psalms	Ps	21	53	3	They have all fallen away; they are all alike depraved; there is none that does good, no, not one.
 Psalms	Ps	21	53	4	Have those who work evil no understanding, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon God?
 Psalms	Ps	21	53	5	There they are, in great terror, in terror such as has not been! For God will scatter the bones of the ungodly; they will be put to shame, for God has rejected them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	53	6	O that deliverance for Israel would come from Zion! When God restores the fortunes of his people, Jacob will rejoice and Israel be glad.
 Psalms	Ps	21	54	1	(To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Maskil of David, when the Ziphites went and told Saul, “David is in hiding among us.”) Save me, O God, by thy name, and vindicate me by thy might.
 Psalms	Ps	21	54	2	Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	54	3	For insolent men have risen against me, ruthless men seek my life; they do not set God before them. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	54	4	Behold, God is my helper; the Lord is the upholder of my life.
 Psalms	Ps	21	54	5	He will requite my enemies with evil; in thy faithfulness put an end to them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	54	6	With a freewill offering I will sacrifice to thee; I will give thanks to thy name, O Lord, for it is good.
 Psalms	Ps	21	54	7	For thou hast delivered me from every trouble, and my eye has looked in triumph on my enemies.
 Psalms	Ps	21	55	1	(To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Maskil of David.) Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication!
 Psalms	Ps	21	55	2	Attend to me, and answer me; I am overcome by my trouble. I am distraught
 Psalms	Ps	21	55	3	by the noise of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring trouble upon me, and in anger they cherish enmity against me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	55	4	My heart is in anguish within me, the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	55	5	Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	55	6	And I say, “O that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest;
 Psalms	Ps	21	55	7	yea, I would wander afar, I would lodge in the wilderness, [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	55	8	I would haste to find me a shelter from the raging wind and tempest.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	55	9	Destroy their plans, O Lord, confuse their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city.
 Psalms	Ps	21	55	10	Day and night they go around it on its walls; and mischief and trouble are within it,
 Psalms	Ps	21	55	11	ruin is in its midst; oppression and fraud do not depart from its market place.
 Psalms	Ps	21	55	12	It is not an enemy who taunts me— then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me— then I could hide from him.
 Psalms	Ps	21	55	13	But it is you, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend.
 Psalms	Ps	21	55	14	We used to hold sweet converse together; within God’s house we walked in fellowship.
 Psalms	Ps	21	55	15	Let death come upon them; let them go down to Sheol alive; let them go away in terror into their graves.
 Psalms	Ps	21	55	16	But I call upon God; and the Lord will save me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	55	17	Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he will hear my voice.
 Psalms	Ps	21	55	18	He will deliver my soul in safety from the battle that I wage, for many are arrayed against me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	55	19	God will give ear, and humble them, he who is enthroned from of old; because they keep no law, and do not fear God. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	55	20	My companion stretched out his hand against his friends, he violated his covenant.
 Psalms	Ps	21	55	21	His speech was smoother than butter, yet war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
 Psalms	Ps	21	55	22	Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
 Psalms	Ps	21	55	23	But thou, O God, wilt cast them down into the lowest pit; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	56	1	(To the choirmaster: according to The Dove on Far-off Terebinths. A Miktam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.) Be gracious to me, O God, for men trample upon me; all day long foemen oppress me;
 Psalms	Ps	21	56	2	my enemies trample upon me all day long, for many fight against me proudly.
 Psalms	Ps	21	56	3	When I am afraid, I put my trust in thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	56	4	In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust without a fear. What can flesh do to me?
 Psalms	Ps	21	56	5	All day long they seek to injure my cause; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
 Psalms	Ps	21	56	6	They band themselves together, they lurk, they watch my steps. As they have waited for my life,
 Psalms	Ps	21	56	7	so recompense them for their crime; in wrath cast down the peoples, O God!
 Psalms	Ps	21	56	8	Thou hast kept count of my tossings; put thou my tears in thy bottle! Are they not in thy book?
 Psalms	Ps	21	56	9	Then my enemies will be turned back in the day when I call. This I know, that God is for me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	56	10	In God, whose word I praise, in the Lord, whose word I praise,
 Psalms	Ps	21	56	11	in God I trust without a fear. What can man do to me?
 Psalms	Ps	21	56	12	My vows to thee I must perform, O God; I will render thank offerings to thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	56	13	For thou hast delivered my soul from death, yea, my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.
 Psalms	Ps	21	57	1	(To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave.) Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in thee my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of thy wings I will take refuge, till the storms of destruction pass by.
 Psalms	Ps	21	57	2	I cry to God Most High, to God who fulfils his purpose for me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	57	3	He will send from heaven and save me, he will put to shame those who trample upon me. [Selah] God will send forth his steadfast love and his faithfulness!
 Psalms	Ps	21	57	4	I lie in the midst of lions that greedily devour the sons of men; their teeth are spears and arrows, their tongues sharp swords.
 Psalms	Ps	21	57	5	Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let thy glory be over all the earth!
 Psalms	Ps	21	57	6	They set a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down. They dug a pit in my way, but they have fallen into it themselves. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	57	7	My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast! I will sing and make melody!
 Psalms	Ps	21	57	8	Awake, my soul! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn!
 Psalms	Ps	21	57	9	I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, among the peoples; I will sing praises to thee among the nations.
 Psalms	Ps	21	57	10	For thy steadfast love is great to the heavens, thy faithfulness to the clouds.
 Psalms	Ps	21	57	11	Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let thy glory be over all the earth!
 Psalms	Ps	21	58	1	(To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David.) Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the sons of men uprightly?
 Psalms	Ps	21	58	2	Nay, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	58	3	The wicked go astray from the womb, they err from their birth, speaking lies.
 Psalms	Ps	21	58	4	They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,
 Psalms	Ps	21	58	5	so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or of the cunning enchanter.
 Psalms	Ps	21	58	6	O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
 Psalms	Ps	21	58	7	Let them vanish like water that runs away; like grass let them be trodden down and wither.
 Psalms	Ps	21	58	8	Let them be like the snail which dissolves into slime, like the untimely birth that never sees the sun.
 Psalms	Ps	21	58	9	Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!
 Psalms	Ps	21	58	10	The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.
 Psalms	Ps	21	58	11	Men will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	59	1	(To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David, when Saul sent men to watch his house in order to kill him.) Deliver me from my enemies, O my God, protect me from those who rise up against me,
 Psalms	Ps	21	59	2	deliver me from those who work evil, and save me from bloodthirsty men.
 Psalms	Ps	21	59	3	For, lo, they lie in wait for my life; fierce men band themselves against me. For no transgression or sin of mine, O Lord,
 Psalms	Ps	21	59	4	for no fault of mine, they run and make ready. Rouse thyself, come to my help, and see!
 Psalms	Ps	21	59	5	Thou, Lord God of hosts, art God of Israel. Awake to punish all the nations; spare none of those who treacherously plot evil. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	59	6	Each evening they come back, howling like dogs and prowling about the city.
 Psalms	Ps	21	59	7	There they are, bellowing with their mouths, and snarling with their lips— for “Who,” they think, “will hear us?”
 Psalms	Ps	21	59	8	But thou, O Lord, dost laugh at them; thou dost hold all the nations in derision.
 Psalms	Ps	21	59	9	O my Strength, I will sing praises to thee; for thou, O God, art my fortress.
 Psalms	Ps	21	59	10	My God in his steadfast love will meet me; my God will let me look in triumph on my enemies.
 Psalms	Ps	21	59	11	Slay them not, lest my people forget; make them totter by thy power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield!
 Psalms	Ps	21	59	12	For the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride. For the cursing and lies which they utter,
 Psalms	Ps	21	59	13	consume them in wrath, consume them till they are no more, that men may know that God rules over Jacob to the ends of the earth. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	59	14	Each evening they come back, howling like dogs and prowling about the city.
 Psalms	Ps	21	59	15	They roam about for food, and growl if they do not get their fill.
 Psalms	Ps	21	59	16	But I will sing of thy might; I will sing aloud of thy steadfast love in the morning. For thou hast been to me a fortress and a refuge in the day of my distress.
 Psalms	Ps	21	59	17	O my Strength, I will sing praises to thee, for thou, O God, art my fortress, the God who shows me steadfast love.
 Psalms	Ps	21	60	1	(To the choirmaster: according to Shushan Eduth. A Miktam of David; for instruction; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and when Joab on his return killed twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.) O God, thou hast rejected us, broken our defenses; thou hast been angry; oh, restore us.
 Psalms	Ps	21	60	2	Thou hast made the land to quake, thou hast rent it open; repair its breaches, for it totters.
 Psalms	Ps	21	60	3	Thou hast made thy people suffer hard things; thou hast given us wine to drink that made us reel.
 Psalms	Ps	21	60	4	Thou hast set up a banner for those who fear thee, to rally to it from the bow. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	60	5	That thy beloved may be delivered, give victory by thy right hand and answer us!
 Psalms	Ps	21	60	6	God has spoken in his sanctuary: “With exultation I will divide up Shechem and portion out the Vale of Succoth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	60	7	Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is my helmet; Judah is my scepter.
 Psalms	Ps	21	60	8	Moab is my washbasin; upon Edom I cast my shoe; over Philistia I shout in triumph.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	60	9	Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?
 Psalms	Ps	21	60	10	Hast thou not rejected us, O God? Thou dost not go forth, O God, with our armies.
 Psalms	Ps	21	60	11	O grant us help against the foe, for vain is the help of man!
 Psalms	Ps	21	60	12	With God we shall do valiantly; it is he who will tread down our foes.
 Psalms	Ps	21	61	1	(To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.) Hear my cry, O God, listen to my prayer;
 Psalms	Ps	21	61	2	from the end of the earth I call to thee, when my heart is faint. Lead thou me to the rock that is higher than I;
 Psalms	Ps	21	61	3	for thou art my refuge, a strong tower against the enemy.
 Psalms	Ps	21	61	4	Let me dwell in thy tent for ever! Oh to be safe under the shelter of thy wings! [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	61	5	For thou, O God, hast heard my vows, thou hast given me the heritage of those who fear thy name.
 Psalms	Ps	21	61	6	Prolong the life of the king; may his years endure to all generations!
 Psalms	Ps	21	61	7	May he be enthroned for ever before God; bid steadfast love and faithfulness watch over him!
 Psalms	Ps	21	61	8	So will I ever sing praises to thy name, as I pay my vows day after day.
 Psalms	Ps	21	62	1	(To the choirmaster: according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.) For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation.
 Psalms	Ps	21	62	2	He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly moved.
 Psalms	Ps	21	62	3	How long will you set upon a man to shatter him, all of you, like a leaning wall, a tottering fence?
 Psalms	Ps	21	62	4	They only plan to thrust him down from his eminence. They take pleasure in falsehood. They bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	62	5	For God alone my soul waits in silence, for my hope is from him.
 Psalms	Ps	21	62	6	He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken.
 Psalms	Ps	21	62	7	On God rests my deliverance and my honor; my mighty rock, my refuge is God.
 Psalms	Ps	21	62	8	Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	62	9	Men of low estate are but a breath, men of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.
 Psalms	Ps	21	62	10	Put no confidence in extortion, set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart on them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	62	11	Once God has spoken; twice have I heard this: that power belongs to God;
 Psalms	Ps	21	62	12	and that to thee, O Lord, belongs steadfast love. For thou dost requite a man according to his work.
 Psalms	Ps	21	63	1	(A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah.) O God, thou art my God, I seek thee, my soul thirsts for thee; my flesh faints for thee, as in a dry and weary land where no water is.
 Psalms	Ps	21	63	2	So I have looked upon thee in the sanctuary, beholding thy power and glory.
 Psalms	Ps	21	63	3	Because thy steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	63	4	So I will bless thee as long as I live; I will lift up my hands and call on thy name.
 Psalms	Ps	21	63	5	My soul is feasted as with marrow and fat, and my mouth praises thee with joyful lips,
 Psalms	Ps	21	63	6	when I think of thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the watches of the night;
 Psalms	Ps	21	63	7	for thou hast been my help, and in the shadow of thy wings I sing for joy.
 Psalms	Ps	21	63	8	My soul clings to thee; thy right hand upholds me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	63	9	But those who seek to destroy my life shall go down into the depths of the earth;
 Psalms	Ps	21	63	10	they shall be given over to the power of the sword, they shall be prey for jackals.
 Psalms	Ps	21	63	11	But the king shall rejoice in God; all who swear by him shall glory; for the mouths of liars will be stopped.
 Psalms	Ps	21	64	1	(To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.) Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy,
 Psalms	Ps	21	64	2	hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the scheming of evildoers,
 Psalms	Ps	21	64	3	who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,
 Psalms	Ps	21	64	4	shooting from ambush at the blameless, shooting at him suddenly and without fear.
 Psalms	Ps	21	64	5	They hold fast to their evil purpose; they talk of laying snares secretly, thinking, “Who can see us?
 Psalms	Ps	21	64	6	Who can search out our crimes? We have thought out a cunningly conceived plot.” For the inward mind and heart of a man are deep!
 Psalms	Ps	21	64	7	But God will shoot his arrow at them; they will be wounded suddenly.
 Psalms	Ps	21	64	8	Because of their tongue he will bring them to ruin; all who see them will wag their heads.
 Psalms	Ps	21	64	9	Then all men will fear; they will tell what God has wrought, and ponder what he has done.
 Psalms	Ps	21	64	10	Let the righteous rejoice in the Lord, and take refuge in him! Let all the upright in heart glory!
 Psalms	Ps	21	65	1	(To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A Song.) Praise is due to thee, O God, in Zion; and to thee shall vows be performed,
 Psalms	Ps	21	65	2	O thou who hearest prayer! To thee shall all flesh come
 Psalms	Ps	21	65	3	on account of sins. When our transgressions prevail over us, thou dost forgive them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	65	4	Blessed is he whom thou dost choose and bring near, to dwell in thy courts! We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, thy holy temple!
 Psalms	Ps	21	65	5	By dread deeds thou dost answer us with deliverance, O God of our salvation, who art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of the farthest seas;
 Psalms	Ps	21	65	6	who by thy strength hast established the mountains, being girded with might;
 Psalms	Ps	21	65	7	who dost still the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, the tumult of the peoples;
 Psalms	Ps	21	65	8	so that those who dwell at earth’s farthest bounds are afraid at thy signs; thou makest the outgoings of the morning and the evening to shout for joy.
 Psalms	Ps	21	65	9	Thou visitest the earth and waterest it, thou greatly enrichest it; the river of God is full of water; thou providest their grain, for so thou hast prepared it.
 Psalms	Ps	21	65	10	Thou waterest its furrows abundantly, settling its ridges, softening it with showers, and blessing its growth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	65	11	Thou crownest the year with thy bounty; the tracks of thy chariot drip with fatness.
 Psalms	Ps	21	65	12	The pastures of the wilderness drip, the hills gird themselves with joy,
 Psalms	Ps	21	65	13	the meadows clothe themselves with flocks, the valleys deck themselves with grain, they shout and sing together for joy.
 Psalms	Ps	21	66	1	(To the choirmaster. A Song. A Psalm.) Make a joyful noise to God, all the earth;
 Psalms	Ps	21	66	2	sing the glory of his name; give to him glorious praise!
 Psalms	Ps	21	66	3	Say to God, “How terrible are thy deeds! So great is thy power that thy enemies cringe before thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	66	4	All the earth worships thee; they sing praises to thee, sing praises to thy name.” [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	66	5	Come and see what God has done: he is terrible in his deeds among men.
 Psalms	Ps	21	66	6	He turned the sea into dry land; men passed through the river on foot. There did we rejoice in him,
 Psalms	Ps	21	66	7	who rules by his might for ever, whose eyes keep watch on the nations— let not the rebellious exalt themselves. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	66	8	Bless our God, O peoples, let the sound of his praise be heard,
 Psalms	Ps	21	66	9	who has kept us among the living, and has not let our feet slip.
 Psalms	Ps	21	66	10	For thou, O God, hast tested us; thou hast tried us as silver is tried.
 Psalms	Ps	21	66	11	Thou didst bring us into the net; thou didst lay affliction on our loins;
 Psalms	Ps	21	66	12	thou didst let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water; yet thou hast brought us forth to a spacious place.
 Psalms	Ps	21	66	13	I will come into thy house with burnt offerings; I will pay thee my vows,
 Psalms	Ps	21	66	14	that which my lips uttered and my mouth promised when I was in trouble.
 Psalms	Ps	21	66	15	I will offer to thee burnt offerings of fatlings, with the smoke of the sacrifice of rams; I will make an offering of bulls and goats. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	66	16	Come and hear, all you who fear God, and I will tell what he has done for me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	66	17	I cried aloud to him, and he was extolled with my tongue.
 Psalms	Ps	21	66	18	If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
 Psalms	Ps	21	66	19	But truly God has listened; he has given heed to the voice of my prayer.
 Psalms	Ps	21	66	20	Blessed be God, because he has not rejected my prayer or removed his steadfast love from me!
 Psalms	Ps	21	67	1	(To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Song.) May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	67	2	that thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving power among all nations.
 Psalms	Ps	21	67	3	Let the peoples praise thee, O God; let all the peoples praise thee!
 Psalms	Ps	21	67	4	Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for thou dost judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	67	5	Let the peoples praise thee, O God; let all the peoples praise thee!
 Psalms	Ps	21	67	6	The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, has blessed us.
 Psalms	Ps	21	67	7	God has blessed us; let all the ends of the earth fear him!
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	1	(To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A Song.) Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered; let those who hate him flee before him!
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	2	As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; as wax melts before fire, let the wicked perish before God!
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	3	But let the righteous be joyful; let them exult before God; let them be jubilant with joy!
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	4	Sing to God, sing praises to his name; lift up a song to him who rides upon the clouds; his name is the Lord, exult before him!
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	5	Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	6	God gives the desolate a home to dwell in; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity; but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	7	O God, when thou didst go forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness, [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	8	the earth quaked, the heavens poured down rain, at the presence of God; yon Sinai quaked at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	9	Rain in abundance, O God, thou didst shed abroad; thou didst restore thy heritage as it languished;
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	10	thy flock found a dwelling in it; in thy goodness, O God, thou didst provide for the needy.
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	11	The Lord gives the command; great is the host of those who bore the tidings:
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	12	“The kings of the armies, they flee, they flee!” The women at home divide the spoil,
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	13	though they stay among the sheepfolds— the wings of a dove covered with silver, its pinions with green gold.
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	14	When the Almighty scattered kings there, snow fell on Zalmon.
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	15	O mighty mountain, mountain of Bashan; O many-peaked mountain, mountain of Bashan!
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	16	Why look you with envy, O many-peaked mountain, at the mount which God desired for his abode, yea, where the Lord will dwell for ever?
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	17	With mighty chariotry, twice ten thousand, thousands upon thousands, the Lord came from Sinai into the holy place.
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	18	Thou didst ascend the high mount, leading captives in thy train, and receiving gifts among men, even among the rebellious, that the Lord God may dwell there.
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	19	Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up; God is our salvation. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	20	Our God is a God of salvation; and to GOD, the Lord, belongs escape from death.
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	21	But God will shatter the heads of his enemies, the hairy crown of him who walks in his guilty ways.
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	22	The Lord said, “I will bring them back from Bashan, I will bring them back from the depths of the sea,
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	23	that you may bathe your feet in blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from the foe.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	24	Thy solemn processions are seen, O God, the processions of my God, my King, into the sanctuary—
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	25	the singers in front, the minstrels last, between them maidens playing timbrels:
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	26	“Bless God in the great congregation, the Lord, O you who are of Israel’s fountain!”
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	27	There is Benjamin, the least of them, in the lead, the princes of Judah in their throng, the princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali.
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	28	Summon thy might, O God; show thy strength, O God, thou who hast wrought for us.
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	29	Because of thy temple at Jerusalem kings bear gifts to thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	30	Rebuke the beasts that dwell among the reeds, the herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples. Trample under foot those who lust after tribute; scatter the peoples who delight in war.
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	31	Let bronze be brought from Egypt; let Ethiopia hasten to stretch out her hands to God.
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	32	Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth; sing praises to the Lord, [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	33	to him who rides in the heavens, the ancient heavens; lo, he sends forth his voice, his mighty voice.
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	34	Ascribe power to God, whose majesty is over Israel, and his power is in the skies.
 Psalms	Ps	21	68	35	Terrible is God in his sanctuary, the God of Israel, he gives power and strength to his people. Blessed be God!
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	1	(To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Psalm of David.) Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck.
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	2	I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	3	I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	4	More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. What I did not steal must I now restore?
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	5	O God, thou knowest my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	6	Let not those who hope in thee be put to shame through me, O Lord GOD of hosts; let not those who seek thee be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel.
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	7	For it is for thy sake that I have borne reproach, that shame has covered my face.
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	8	I have become a stranger to my brethren, an alien to my mother’s sons.
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	9	For zeal for thy house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult thee have fallen on me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	10	When I humbled my soul with fasting, it became my reproach.
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	11	When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	12	I am the talk of those who sit in the gate, and the drunkards make songs about me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	13	But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O Lord. At an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of thy steadfast love answer me. With thy faithful help
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	14	rescue me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters.
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	15	Let not the flood sweep over me, or the deep swallow me up, or the pit close its mouth over me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	16	Answer me, O Lord, for thy steadfast love is good; according to thy abundant mercy, turn to me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	17	Hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in distress, make haste to answer me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	18	Draw near to me, redeem me, set me free because of my enemies!
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	19	Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame and my dishonor; my foes are all known to thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	20	Insults have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	21	They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	22	Let their own table before them become a snare; let their sacrificial feasts be a trap.
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	23	Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see; and make their loins tremble continually.
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	24	Pour out thy indignation upon them, and let thy burning anger overtake them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	25	May their camp be a desolation, let no one dwell in their tents.
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	26	For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten, and him whom thou hast wounded, they afflict still more.
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	27	Add to them punishment upon punishment; may they have no acquittal from thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	28	Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; let them not be enrolled among the righteous.
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	29	But I am afflicted and in pain; let thy salvation, O God, set me on high!
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	30	I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving.
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	31	This will please the Lord more than an ox or a bull with horns and hoofs.
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	32	Let the oppressed see it and be glad; you who seek God, let your hearts revive.
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	33	For the Lord hears the needy, and does not despise his own that are in bonds.
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	34	Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves therein.
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	35	For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah; and his servants shall dwell there and possess it;
 Psalms	Ps	21	69	36	the children of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name shall dwell in it.
 Psalms	Ps	21	70	1	(To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, for the memorial offering.) Be pleased, O God, to deliver me! O Lord, make haste to help me!
 Psalms	Ps	21	70	2	Let them be put to shame and confusion who seek my life! Let them be turned back and brought to dishonor who desire my hurt!
 Psalms	Ps	21	70	3	Let them be appalled because of their shame who say, “Aha, Aha!”
 Psalms	Ps	21	70	4	May all who seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee! May those who love thy salvation say evermore, “God is great!”
 Psalms	Ps	21	70	5	But I am poor and needy; hasten to me, O God! Thou art my help and my deliverer; O Lord, do not tarry!
 Psalms	Ps	21	71	1	In thee, O Lord, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame!
 Psalms	Ps	21	71	2	In thy righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline thy ear to me, and save me!
 Psalms	Ps	21	71	3	Be thou to me a rock of refuge, a strong fortress, to save me, for thou art my rock and my fortress.
 Psalms	Ps	21	71	4	Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
 Psalms	Ps	21	71	5	For thou, O Lord, art my hope, my trust, O Lord, from my youth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	71	6	Upon thee I have leaned from my birth; thou art he who took me from my mother’s womb. My praise is continually of thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	71	7	I have been as a portent to many; but thou art my strong refuge.
 Psalms	Ps	21	71	8	My mouth is filled with thy praise, and with thy glory all the day.
 Psalms	Ps	21	71	9	Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent.
 Psalms	Ps	21	71	10	For my enemies speak concerning me, those who watch for my life consult together,
 Psalms	Ps	21	71	11	and say, “God has forsaken him; pursue and seize him, for there is none to deliver him.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	71	12	O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste to help me!
 Psalms	Ps	21	71	13	May my accusers be put to shame and consumed; with scorn and disgrace may they be covered who seek my hurt.
 Psalms	Ps	21	71	14	But I will hope continually, and will praise thee yet more and more.
 Psalms	Ps	21	71	15	My mouth will tell of thy righteous acts, of thy deeds of salvation all the day, for their number is past my knowledge.
 Psalms	Ps	21	71	16	With the mighty deeds of the Lord GOD I will come, I will praise thy righteousness, thine alone.
 Psalms	Ps	21	71	17	O God, from my youth thou hast taught me, and I still proclaim thy wondrous deeds.
 Psalms	Ps	21	71	18	So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, till I proclaim thy might to all the generations to come. Thy power
 Psalms	Ps	21	71	19	and thy righteousness, O God, reach the high heavens. Thou who hast done great things, O God, who is like thee?
 Psalms	Ps	21	71	20	Thou who hast made me see many sore troubles wilt revive me again; from the depths of the earth thou wilt bring me up again.
 Psalms	Ps	21	71	21	Thou wilt increase my honor, and comfort me again.
 Psalms	Ps	21	71	22	I will also praise thee with the harp for thy faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praises to thee with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.
 Psalms	Ps	21	71	23	My lips will shout for joy, when I sing praises to thee; my soul also, which thou hast rescued.
 Psalms	Ps	21	71	24	And my tongue will talk of thy righteous help all the day long, for they have been put to shame and disgraced who sought to do me hurt.
 Psalms	Ps	21	72	1	(A Psalm of Solomon.) Give the king thy justice, O God, and thy righteousness to the royal son!
 Psalms	Ps	21	72	2	May he judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with justice!
 Psalms	Ps	21	72	3	Let the mountains bear prosperity for the people, and the hills, in righteousness!
 Psalms	Ps	21	72	4	May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the needy, and crush the oppressor!
 Psalms	Ps	21	72	5	May he live while the sun endures, and as long as the moon, throughout all generations!
 Psalms	Ps	21	72	6	May he be like rain that falls on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth!
 Psalms	Ps	21	72	7	In his days may righteousness flourish, and peace abound, till the moon be no more!
 Psalms	Ps	21	72	8	May he have dominion from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth!
 Psalms	Ps	21	72	9	May his foes bow down before him, and his enemies lick the dust!
 Psalms	Ps	21	72	10	May the kings of Tarshish and of the isles render him tribute, may the kings of Sheba and Seba bring gifts!
 Psalms	Ps	21	72	11	May all kings fall down before him, all nations serve him!
 Psalms	Ps	21	72	12	For he delivers the needy when he calls, the poor and him who has no helper.
 Psalms	Ps	21	72	13	He has pity on the weak and the needy, and saves the lives of the needy.
 Psalms	Ps	21	72	14	From oppression and violence he redeems their life; and precious is their blood in his sight.
 Psalms	Ps	21	72	15	Long may he live, may gold of Sheba be given to him! May prayer be made for him continually, and blessings invoked for him all the day!
 Psalms	Ps	21	72	16	May there be abundance of grain in the land; on the tops of the mountains may it wave; may its fruit be like Lebanon; and may men blossom forth from the cities like the grass of the field!
 Psalms	Ps	21	72	17	May his name endure for ever, his fame continue as long as the sun! May men bless themselves by him, all nations call him blessed!
 Psalms	Ps	21	72	18	Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things.
 Psalms	Ps	21	72	19	Blessed be his glorious name for ever; may his glory fill the whole earth! Amen and Amen!
 Psalms	Ps	21	72	20	The prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are ended.
 Psalms	Ps	21	73	1	(A Psalm of Asaph.) Truly God is good to the upright, to those who are pure in heart.
 Psalms	Ps	21	73	2	But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled, my steps had well nigh slipped.
 Psalms	Ps	21	73	3	For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
 Psalms	Ps	21	73	4	For they have no pangs; their bodies are sound and sleek.
 Psalms	Ps	21	73	5	They are not in trouble as other men are; they are not stricken like other men.
 Psalms	Ps	21	73	6	Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment.
 Psalms	Ps	21	73	7	Their eyes swell out with fatness, their hearts overflow with follies.
 Psalms	Ps	21	73	8	They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression.
 Psalms	Ps	21	73	9	They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	73	10	Therefore the people turn and praise them; and find no fault in them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	73	11	And they say, “How can God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
 Psalms	Ps	21	73	12	Behold, these are the wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches.
 Psalms	Ps	21	73	13	All in vain have I kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.
 Psalms	Ps	21	73	14	For all the day long I have been stricken, and chastened every morning.
 Psalms	Ps	21	73	15	If I had said, “I will speak thus,” I would have been untrue to the generation of thy children.
 Psalms	Ps	21	73	16	But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task,
 Psalms	Ps	21	73	17	until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I perceived their end.
 Psalms	Ps	21	73	18	Truly thou dost set them in slippery places; thou dost make them fall to ruin.
 Psalms	Ps	21	73	19	How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!
 Psalms	Ps	21	73	20	They are like a dream when one awakes, on awaking you despise their phantoms.
 Psalms	Ps	21	73	21	When my soul was embittered, when I was pricked in heart,
 Psalms	Ps	21	73	22	I was stupid and ignorant, I was like a beast toward thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	73	23	Nevertheless I am continually with thee; thou dost hold my right hand.
 Psalms	Ps	21	73	24	Thou dost guide me with thy counsel, and afterward thou wilt receive me to glory.
 Psalms	Ps	21	73	25	Whom have I in heaven but thee? And there is nothing upon earth that I desire besides thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	73	26	My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	73	27	For lo, those who are far from thee shall perish; thou dost put an end to those who are false to thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	73	28	But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all thy works.
 Psalms	Ps	21	74	1	(A Maskil of Asaph.) O God, why dost thou cast us off for ever? Why does thy anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
 Psalms	Ps	21	74	2	Remember thy congregation, which thou hast gotten of old, which thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of thy heritage! Remember Mount Zion, where thou hast dwelt.
 Psalms	Ps	21	74	3	Direct thy steps to the perpetual ruins; the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!
 Psalms	Ps	21	74	4	Thy foes have roared in the midst of thy holy place; they set up their own signs for signs.
 Psalms	Ps	21	74	5	At the upper entrance they hacked the wooden trellis with axes.
 Psalms	Ps	21	74	6	And then all its carved wood they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
 Psalms	Ps	21	74	7	They set thy sanctuary on fire; to the ground they desecrated the dwelling place of thy name.
 Psalms	Ps	21	74	8	They said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”; they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
 Psalms	Ps	21	74	9	We do not see our signs; there is no longer any prophet, and there is none among us who knows how long.
 Psalms	Ps	21	74	10	How long, O God, is the foe to scoff? Is the enemy to revile thy name for ever?
 Psalms	Ps	21	74	11	Why dost thou hold back thy hand, why dost thou keep thy right hand in thy bosom?
 Psalms	Ps	21	74	12	Yet God my King is from of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	74	13	Thou didst divide the sea by thy might; thou didst break the heads of the dragons on the waters.
 Psalms	Ps	21	74	14	Thou didst crush the heads of Leviathan, thou didst give him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
 Psalms	Ps	21	74	15	Thou didst cleave open springs and brooks; thou didst dry up ever-flowing streams.
 Psalms	Ps	21	74	16	Thine is the day, thine also the night; thou hast established the luminaries and the sun.
 Psalms	Ps	21	74	17	Thou hast fixed all the bounds of the earth; thou hast made summer and winter.
 Psalms	Ps	21	74	18	Remember this, O Lord, how the enemy scoffs, and an impious people reviles thy name.
 Psalms	Ps	21	74	19	Do not deliver the soul of thy dove to the wild beasts; do not forget the life of thy poor for ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	74	20	Have regard for thy covenant; for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
 Psalms	Ps	21	74	21	Let not the downtrodden be put to shame; let the poor and needy praise thy name.
 Psalms	Ps	21	74	22	Arise, O God, plead thy cause; remember how the impious scoff at thee all the day!
 Psalms	Ps	21	74	23	Do not forget the clamor of thy foes, the uproar of thy adversaries which goes up continually!
 Psalms	Ps	21	75	1	(To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song.) We give thanks to thee, O God; we give thanks; we call on thy name and recount thy wondrous deeds.
 Psalms	Ps	21	75	2	At the set time which I appoint I will judge with equity.
 Psalms	Ps	21	75	3	When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants, it is I who keep steady its pillars. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	75	4	I say to the boastful, “Do not boast,” and to the wicked, “Do not lift up your horn;
 Psalms	Ps	21	75	5	do not lift up your horn on high, or speak with insolent neck.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	75	6	For not from the east or from the west and not from the wilderness comes lifting up;
 Psalms	Ps	21	75	7	but it is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another.
 Psalms	Ps	21	75	8	For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, with foaming wine, well mixed; and he will pour a draught from it, and all the wicked of the earth shall drain it down to the dregs.
 Psalms	Ps	21	75	9	But I will rejoice for ever, I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
 Psalms	Ps	21	75	10	All the horns of the wicked he will cut off, but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
 Psalms	Ps	21	76	1	(To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song.) In Judah God is known, his name is great in Israel.
 Psalms	Ps	21	76	2	His abode has been established in Salem, his dwelling place in Zion.
 Psalms	Ps	21	76	3	There he broke the flashing arrows, the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	76	4	Glorious art thou, more majestic than the everlasting mountains.
 Psalms	Ps	21	76	5	The stouthearted were stripped of their spoil; they sank into sleep; all the men of war were unable to use their hands.
 Psalms	Ps	21	76	6	At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both rider and horse lay stunned.
 Psalms	Ps	21	76	7	But thou, terrible art thou! Who can stand before thee when once thy anger is roused?
 Psalms	Ps	21	76	8	From the heavens thou didst utter judgment; the earth feared and was still,
 Psalms	Ps	21	76	9	when God arose to establish judgment to save all the oppressed of the earth. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	76	10	Surely the wrath of men shall praise thee; the residue of wrath thou wilt gird upon thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	76	11	Make your vows to the Lord your God, and perform them; let all around him bring gifts to him who is to be feared,
 Psalms	Ps	21	76	12	who cuts off the spirit of princes, who is terrible to the kings of the earth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	77	1	(To the choirmaster: according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph.) I cry aloud to God, aloud to God, that he may hear me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	77	2	In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord; in the night my hand is stretched out without wearying; my soul refuses to be comforted.
 Psalms	Ps	21	77	3	I think of God, and I moan; I meditate, and my spirit faints. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	77	4	Thou dost hold my eyelids from closing; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
 Psalms	Ps	21	77	5	I consider the days of old, I remember the years long ago.
 Psalms	Ps	21	77	6	I commune with my heart in the night; I meditate and search my spirit:
 Psalms	Ps	21	77	7	“Will the Lord spurn for ever, and never again be favorable?
 Psalms	Ps	21	77	8	Has his steadfast love for ever ceased? Are his promises at an end for all time?
 Psalms	Ps	21	77	9	Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger shut up his compassion?” [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	77	10	And I say, “It is my grief that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	77	11	I will call to mind the deeds of the Lord; yea, I will remember thy wonders of old.
 Psalms	Ps	21	77	12	I will meditate on all thy work, and muse on thy mighty deeds.
 Psalms	Ps	21	77	13	Thy way, O God, is holy. What god is great like our God?
 Psalms	Ps	21	77	14	Thou art the God who workest wonders, who hast manifested thy might among the peoples.
 Psalms	Ps	21	77	15	Thou didst with thy arm redeem thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	77	16	When the waters saw thee, O God, when the waters saw thee, they were afraid, yea, the deep trembled.
 Psalms	Ps	21	77	17	The clouds poured out water; the skies gave forth thunder; thy arrows flashed on every side.
 Psalms	Ps	21	77	18	The crash of thy thunder was in the whirlwind; thy lightnings lighted up the world; the earth trembled and shook.
 Psalms	Ps	21	77	19	Thy way was through the sea, thy path through the great waters; yet thy footprints were unseen.
 Psalms	Ps	21	77	20	Thou didst lead thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	1	(A Maskil of Asaph.) Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth!
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	2	I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old,
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	3	things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	4	We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders which he has wrought.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	5	He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children;
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	6	that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children,
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	7	so that they should set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments;
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	8	and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	9	The Ephraimites, armed with the bow, turned back on the day of battle.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	10	They did not keep God’s covenant, but refused to walk according to his law.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	11	They forgot what he had done, and the miracles that he had shown them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	12	In the sight of their fathers he wrought marvels in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	13	He divided the sea and let them pass through it, and made the waters stand like a heap.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	14	In the daytime he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a fiery light.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	15	He cleft rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	16	He made streams come out of the rock, and caused waters to flow down like rivers.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	17	Yet they sinned still more against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	18	They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	19	They spoke against God, saying, “Can God spread a table in the wilderness?
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	20	He smote the rock so that water gushed out and streams overflowed. Can he also give bread, or provide meat for his people?”
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	21	Therefore, when the Lord heard, he was full of wrath; a fire was kindled against Jacob, his anger mounted against Israel;
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	22	because they had no faith in God, and did not trust his saving power.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	23	Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven;
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	24	and he rained down upon them manna to eat, and gave them the grain of heaven.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	25	Man ate of the bread of the angels; he sent them food in abundance.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	26	He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens, and by his power he led out the south wind;
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	27	he rained flesh upon them like dust, winged birds like the sand of the seas;
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	28	he let them fall in the midst of their camp, all around their habitations.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	29	And they ate and were well filled, for he gave them what they craved.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	30	But before they had sated their craving, while the food was still in their mouths,
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	31	the anger of God rose against them and he slew the strongest of them, and laid low the picked men of Israel.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	32	In spite of all this they still sinned; despite his wonders they did not believe.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	33	So he made their days vanish like a breath, and their years in terror.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	34	When he slew them, they sought for him; they repented and sought God earnestly.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	35	They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God their redeemer.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	36	But they flattered him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	37	Their heart was not steadfast toward him; they were not true to his covenant.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	38	Yet he, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity, and did not destroy them; he restrained his anger often, and did not stir up all his wrath.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	39	He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and comes not again.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	40	How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert!
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	41	They tested him again and again, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	42	They did not keep in mind his power, or the day when he redeemed them from the foe;
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	43	when he wrought his signs in Egypt, and his miracles in the fields of Zoan.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	44	He turned their rivers to blood, so that they could not drink of their streams.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	45	He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	46	He gave their crops to the caterpillar, and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	47	He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamores with frost.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	48	He gave over their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to thunderbolts.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	49	He let loose on them his fierce anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	50	He made a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	51	He smote all the first-born in Egypt, the first issue of their strength in the tents of Ham.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	52	Then he led forth his people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	53	He led them in safety, so that they were not afraid; but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	54	And he brought them to his holy land, to the mountain which his right hand had won.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	55	He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	56	Yet they tested and rebelled against the Most High God, and did not observe his testimonies,
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	57	but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers; they twisted like a deceitful bow.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	58	For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	59	When God heard, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	60	He forsook his dwelling at Shiloh, the tent where he dwelt among men,
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	61	and delivered his power to captivity, his glory to the hand of the foe.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	62	He gave his people over to the sword, and vented his wrath on his heritage.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	63	Fire devoured their young men, and their maidens had no marriage song.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	64	Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	65	Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a strong man shouting because of wine.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	66	And he put his adversaries to rout; he put them to everlasting shame.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	67	He rejected the tent of Joseph, he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim;
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	68	but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loves.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	69	He built his sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth, which he has founded for ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	70	He chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	71	from tending the ewes that had young he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob his people, of Israel his inheritance.
 Psalms	Ps	21	78	72	With upright heart he tended them, and guided them with skilful hand.
 Psalms	Ps	21	79	1	(A Psalm of Asaph.) O God, the heathen have come into thy inheritance; they have defiled thy holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
 Psalms	Ps	21	79	2	They have given the bodies of thy servants to the birds of the air for food, the flesh of thy saints to the beasts of the earth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	79	3	They have poured out their blood like water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	79	4	We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those round about us.
 Psalms	Ps	21	79	5	How long, O Lord? Wilt thou be angry for ever? Will thy jealous wrath burn like fire?
 Psalms	Ps	21	79	6	Pour out thy anger on the nations that do not know thee, and on the kingdoms that do not call on thy name!
 Psalms	Ps	21	79	7	For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation.
 Psalms	Ps	21	79	8	Do not remember against us the iniquities of our forefathers; let thy compassion come speedily to meet us, for we are brought very low.
 Psalms	Ps	21	79	9	Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name; deliver us, and forgive our sins, for thy name’s sake!
 Psalms	Ps	21	79	10	Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of thy servants be known among the nations before our eyes!
 Psalms	Ps	21	79	11	Let the groans of the prisoners come before thee; according to thy great power preserve those doomed to die!
 Psalms	Ps	21	79	12	Return sevenfold into the bosom of our neighbors the taunts with which they have taunted thee, O Lord!
 Psalms	Ps	21	79	13	Then we thy people, the flock of thy pasture, will give thanks to thee for ever; from generation to generation we will recount thy praise.
 Psalms	Ps	21	80	1	(To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Testimony of Asaph. A Psalm.) Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou who leadest Joseph like a flock! Thou who art enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth
 Psalms	Ps	21	80	2	before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh! Stir up thy might, and come to save us!
 Psalms	Ps	21	80	3	Restore us, O God; let thy face shine, that we may be saved!
 Psalms	Ps	21	80	4	O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry with thy people’s prayers?
 Psalms	Ps	21	80	5	Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in full measure.
 Psalms	Ps	21	80	6	Thou dost make us the scorn of our neighbors; and our enemies laugh among themselves.
 Psalms	Ps	21	80	7	Restore us, O God of hosts; let thy face shine, that we may be saved!
 Psalms	Ps	21	80	8	Thou didst bring a vine out of Egypt; thou didst drive out the nations and plant it.
 Psalms	Ps	21	80	9	Thou didst clear the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land.
 Psalms	Ps	21	80	10	The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches;
 Psalms	Ps	21	80	11	it sent out its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the River.
 Psalms	Ps	21	80	12	Why then hast thou broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?
 Psalms	Ps	21	80	13	The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it.
 Psalms	Ps	21	80	14	Turn again, O God of hosts! Look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine,
 Psalms	Ps	21	80	15	the stock which thy right hand planted.
 Psalms	Ps	21	80	16	They have burned it with fire, they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance!
 Psalms	Ps	21	80	17	But let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, the son of man whom thou hast made strong for thyself!
 Psalms	Ps	21	80	18	Then we will never turn back from thee; give us life, and we will call on thy name!
 Psalms	Ps	21	80	19	Restore us, O Lord God of hosts! let thy face shine, that we may be saved!
 Psalms	Ps	21	81	1	(To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph.) Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob!
 Psalms	Ps	21	81	2	Raise a song, sound the timbrel, the sweet lyre with the harp.
 Psalms	Ps	21	81	3	Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
 Psalms	Ps	21	81	4	For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
 Psalms	Ps	21	81	5	He made it a decree in Joseph, when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a voice I had not known:
 Psalms	Ps	21	81	6	“I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket.
 Psalms	Ps	21	81	7	In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	81	8	Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
 Psalms	Ps	21	81	9	There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
 Psalms	Ps	21	81	10	I am the Lord your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
 Psalms	Ps	21	81	11	“But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would have none of me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	81	12	So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
 Psalms	Ps	21	81	13	O that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
 Psalms	Ps	21	81	14	I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their foes.
 Psalms	Ps	21	81	15	Those who hate the Lord would cringe toward him, and their fate would last for ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	81	16	I would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	82	1	(A Psalm of Asaph.) God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:
 Psalms	Ps	21	82	2	“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	82	3	Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.
 Psalms	Ps	21	82	4	Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	82	5	They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
 Psalms	Ps	21	82	6	I say, “You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you;
 Psalms	Ps	21	82	7	nevertheless, you shall die like men, and fall like any prince.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	82	8	Arise, O God, judge the earth; for to thee belong all the nations!
 Psalms	Ps	21	83	1	(A Song. A Psalm of Asaph.) O God, do not keep silence; do not hold thy peace or be still, O God!
 Psalms	Ps	21	83	2	For lo, thy enemies are in tumult; those who hate thee have raised their heads.
 Psalms	Ps	21	83	3	They lay crafty plans against thy people; they consult together against thy protected ones.
 Psalms	Ps	21	83	4	They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”
 Psalms	Ps	21	83	5	Yea, they conspire with one accord; against thee they make a covenant—
 Psalms	Ps	21	83	6	the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,
 Psalms	Ps	21	83	7	Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
 Psalms	Ps	21	83	8	Assyria also has joined them; they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	83	9	Do to them as thou didst to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,
 Psalms	Ps	21	83	10	who were destroyed at En-dor, who became dung for the ground.
 Psalms	Ps	21	83	11	Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
 Psalms	Ps	21	83	12	who said, “Let us take possession for ourselves of the pastures of God.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	83	13	O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.
 Psalms	Ps	21	83	14	As fire consumes the forest, as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,
 Psalms	Ps	21	83	15	so do thou pursue them with thy tempest and terrify them with thy hurricane!
 Psalms	Ps	21	83	16	Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek thy name, O Lord.
 Psalms	Ps	21	83	17	Let them be put to shame and dismayed for ever; let them perish in disgrace.
 Psalms	Ps	21	83	18	Let them know that thou alone, whose name is the Lord, art the Most High over all the earth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	84	1	(To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.) How lovely is thy dwelling place, O Lord of hosts!
 Psalms	Ps	21	84	2	My soul longs, yea, faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.
 Psalms	Ps	21	84	3	Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at thy altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God.
 Psalms	Ps	21	84	4	Blessed are those who dwell in thy house, ever singing thy praise! [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	84	5	Blessed are the men whose strength is in thee, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.
 Psalms	Ps	21	84	6	As they go through the valley of Baca they make it a place of springs; the early rain also covers it with pools.
 Psalms	Ps	21	84	7	They go from strength to strength; the God of gods will be seen in Zion.
 Psalms	Ps	21	84	8	O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob! [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	84	9	Behold our shield, O God; look upon the face of thine anointed!
 Psalms	Ps	21	84	10	For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
 Psalms	Ps	21	84	11	For the Lord God is a sun and shield; he bestows favor and honor. No good thing does the Lord withhold from those who walk uprightly.
 Psalms	Ps	21	84	12	O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in thee!
 Psalms	Ps	21	85	1	(To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.) Lord, thou wast favorable to thy land; thou didst restore the fortunes of Jacob.
 Psalms	Ps	21	85	2	Thou didst forgive the iniquity of thy people; thou didst pardon all their sin. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	85	3	Thou didst withdraw all thy wrath; thou didst turn from thy hot anger.
 Psalms	Ps	21	85	4	Restore us again, O God of our salvation, and put away thy indignation toward us!
 Psalms	Ps	21	85	5	Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? Wilt thou prolong thy anger to all generations?
 Psalms	Ps	21	85	6	Wilt thou not revive us again, that thy people may rejoice in thee?
 Psalms	Ps	21	85	7	Show us thy steadfast love, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation.
 Psalms	Ps	21	85	8	Let me hear what God the Lord will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints, to those who turn to him in their hearts.
 Psalms	Ps	21	85	9	Surely his salvation is at hand for those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.
 Psalms	Ps	21	85	10	Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet; righteousness and peace will kiss each other.
 Psalms	Ps	21	85	11	Faithfulness will spring up from the ground, and righteousness will look down from the sky.
 Psalms	Ps	21	85	12	Yea, the Lord will give what is good, and our land will yield its increase.
 Psalms	Ps	21	85	13	Righteousness will go before him, and make his footsteps a way.
 Psalms	Ps	21	86	1	(A Prayer of David.) Incline thy ear, O Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
 Psalms	Ps	21	86	2	Preserve my life, for I am godly; save thy servant who trusts in thee. Thou art my God;
 Psalms	Ps	21	86	3	be gracious to me, O Lord, for to thee do I cry all the day.
 Psalms	Ps	21	86	4	Gladden the soul of thy servant, for to thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
 Psalms	Ps	21	86	5	For thou, O Lord, art good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call on thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	86	6	Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer; hearken to my cry of supplication.
 Psalms	Ps	21	86	7	In the day of my trouble I call on thee, for thou dost answer me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	86	8	There is none like thee among the gods, O Lord, nor are there any works like thine.
 Psalms	Ps	21	86	9	All the nations thou hast made shall come and bow down before thee, O Lord, and shall glorify thy name.
 Psalms	Ps	21	86	10	For thou art great and doest wondrous things, thou alone art God.
 Psalms	Ps	21	86	11	Teach me thy way, O Lord, that I may walk in thy truth; unite my heart to fear thy name.
 Psalms	Ps	21	86	12	I give thanks to thee, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify thy name for ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	86	13	For great is thy steadfast love toward me; thou hast delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.
 Psalms	Ps	21	86	14	O God, insolent men have risen up against me; a band of ruthless men seek my life, and they do not set thee before them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	86	15	But thou, O Lord, art a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
 Psalms	Ps	21	86	16	Turn to me and take pity on me; give thy strength to thy servant, and save the son of thy handmaid.
 Psalms	Ps	21	86	17	Show me a sign of thy favor, that those who hate me may see and be put to shame because thou, Lord, hast helped me and comforted me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	87	1	(A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. A Song.) On the holy mount stands the city he founded;
 Psalms	Ps	21	87	2	the Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.
 Psalms	Ps	21	87	3	Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	87	4	Among those who know me I mention Rahab and Babylon; behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia— “This one was born there,” they say.
 Psalms	Ps	21	87	5	And of Zion it shall be said, “This one and that one were born in her”; for the Most High himself will establish her.
 Psalms	Ps	21	87	6	The Lord records as he registers the peoples, “This one was born there.” [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	87	7	Singers and dancers alike say, “All my springs are in you.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	88	1	(A Song. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. To the choirmaster: according to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite.) O Lord, my God, I call for help by day; I cry out in the night before thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	88	2	Let my prayer come before thee, incline thy ear to my cry!
 Psalms	Ps	21	88	3	For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.
 Psalms	Ps	21	88	4	I am reckoned among those who go down to the Pit; I am a man who has no strength,
 Psalms	Ps	21	88	5	like one forsaken among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, like those whom thou dost remember no more, for they are cut off from thy hand.
 Psalms	Ps	21	88	6	Thou hast put me in the depths of the Pit, in the regions dark and deep.
 Psalms	Ps	21	88	7	Thy wrath lies heavy upon me, and thou dost overwhelm me with all thy waves. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	88	8	Thou hast caused my companions to shun me; thou hast made me a thing of horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape;
 Psalms	Ps	21	88	9	my eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call upon thee, O Lord; I spread out my hands to thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	88	10	Dost thou work wonders for the dead? Do the shades rise up to praise thee? [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	88	11	Is thy steadfast love declared in the grave, or thy faithfulness in Abaddon?
 Psalms	Ps	21	88	12	Are thy wonders known in the darkness, or thy saving help in the land of forgetfulness?
 Psalms	Ps	21	88	13	But I, O Lord, cry to thee; in the morning my prayer comes before thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	88	14	O Lord, why dost thou cast me off? Why dost thou hide thy face from me?
 Psalms	Ps	21	88	15	Afflicted and close to death from my youth up, I suffer thy terrors; I am helpless.
 Psalms	Ps	21	88	16	Thy wrath has swept over me; thy dread assaults destroy me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	88	17	They surround me like a flood all day long; they close in upon me together.
 Psalms	Ps	21	88	18	Thou hast caused lover and friend to shun me; my companions are in darkness.
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	1	(A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite.) I will sing of thy steadfast love, O Lord, for ever; with my mouth I will proclaim thy faithfulness to all generations.
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	2	For thy steadfast love was established for ever, thy faithfulness is firm as the heavens.
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	3	Thou hast said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David my servant:
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	4	‘I will establish your descendants for ever, and build your throne for all generations.’” [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	5	Let the heavens praise thy wonders, O Lord, thy faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones!
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	6	For who in the skies can be compared to the Lord? Who among the heavenly beings is like the Lord,
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	7	a God feared in the council of the holy ones, great and terrible above all that are round about him?
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	8	O Lord God of hosts, who is mighty as thou art, O Lord, with thy faithfulness round about thee?
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	9	Thou dost rule the raging of the sea; when its waves rise, thou stillest them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	10	Thou didst crush Rahab like a carcass, thou didst scatter thy enemies with thy mighty arm.
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	11	The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine; the world and all that is in it, thou hast founded them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	12	The north and the south, thou hast created them; Tabor and Hermon joyously praise thy name.
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	13	Thou hast a mighty arm; strong is thy hand, high thy right hand.
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	14	Righteousness and justice are the foundation of thy throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	15	Blessed are the people who know the festal shout, who walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance,
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	16	who exult in thy name all the day, and extol thy righteousness.
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	17	For thou art the glory of their strength; by thy favor our horn is exalted.
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	18	For our shield belongs to the Lord, our king to the Holy One of Israel.
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	19	Of old thou didst speak in a vision to thy faithful one, and say: “I have set the crown upon one who is mighty, I have exalted one chosen from the people.
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	20	I have found David, my servant; with my holy oil I have anointed him;
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	21	so that my hand shall ever abide with him, my arm also shall strengthen him.
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	22	The enemy shall not outwit him, the wicked shall not humble him.
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	23	I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	24	My faithfulness and my steadfast love shall be with him, and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	25	I will set his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers.
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	26	He shall cry to me, ‘Thou art my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.’
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	27	And I will make him the first-born, the highest of the kings of the earth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	28	My steadfast love I will keep for him for ever, and my covenant will stand firm for him.
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	29	I will establish his line for ever and his throne as the days of the heavens.
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	30	If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my ordinances,
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	31	if they violate my statutes and do not keep my commandments,
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	32	then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with scourges;
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	33	but I will not remove from him my steadfast love, or be false to my faithfulness.
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	34	I will not violate my covenant, or alter the word that went forth from my lips.
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	35	Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	36	His line shall endure for ever, his throne as long as the sun before me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	37	Like the moon it shall be established for ever; it shall stand firm while the skies endure.” [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	38	But now thou hast cast off and rejected, thou art full of wrath against thy anointed.
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	39	Thou hast renounced the covenant with thy servant; thou hast defiled his crown in the dust.
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	40	Thou hast breached all his walls; thou hast laid his strongholds in ruins.
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	41	All that pass by despoil him; he has become the scorn of his neighbors.
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	42	Thou hast exalted the right hand of his foes; thou hast made all his enemies rejoice.
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	43	Yea, thou hast turned back the edge of his sword, and thou hast not made him stand in battle.
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	44	Thou hast removed the scepter from his hand, and cast his throne to the ground.
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	45	Thou hast cut short the days of his youth; thou hast covered him with shame. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	46	How long, O Lord? Wilt thou hide thyself for ever? How long will thy wrath burn like fire?
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	47	Remember, O Lord, what the measure of life is, for what vanity thou hast created all the sons of men!
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	48	What man can live and never see death? Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	49	Lord, where is thy steadfast love of old, which by thy faithfulness thou didst swear to David?
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	50	Remember, O Lord, how thy servant is scorned; how I bear in my bosom the insults of the peoples,
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	51	with which thy enemies taunt, O Lord, with which they mock the footsteps of thy anointed.
 Psalms	Ps	21	89	52	Blessed be the Lord for ever! Amen and Amen.
 Psalms	Ps	21	90	1	(A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.) Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
 Psalms	Ps	21	90	2	Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting thou art God.
 Psalms	Ps	21	90	3	Thou turnest man back to the dust, and sayest, “Turn back, O children of men!”
 Psalms	Ps	21	90	4	For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.
 Psalms	Ps	21	90	5	Thou dost sweep men away; they are like a dream, like grass which is renewed in the morning:
 Psalms	Ps	21	90	6	in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers.
 Psalms	Ps	21	90	7	For we are consumed by thy anger; by thy wrath we are overwhelmed.
 Psalms	Ps	21	90	8	Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
 Psalms	Ps	21	90	9	For all our days pass away under thy wrath, our years come to an end like a sigh.
 Psalms	Ps	21	90	10	The years of our life are threescore and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.
 Psalms	Ps	21	90	11	Who considers the power of thy anger, and thy wrath according to the fear of thee?
 Psalms	Ps	21	90	12	So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
 Psalms	Ps	21	90	13	Return, O Lord! How long? Have pity on thy servants!
 Psalms	Ps	21	90	14	Satisfy us in the morning with thy steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
 Psalms	Ps	21	90	15	Make us glad as many days as thou hast afflicted us, and as many years as we have seen evil.
 Psalms	Ps	21	90	16	Let thy work be manifest to thy servants, and thy glorious power to their children.
 Psalms	Ps	21	90	17	Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish thou the work of our hands upon us, yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
 Psalms	Ps	21	91	1	He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High, who abides in the shadow of the Almighty,
 Psalms	Ps	21	91	2	will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	91	3	For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence;
 Psalms	Ps	21	91	4	he will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.
 Psalms	Ps	21	91	5	You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day,
 Psalms	Ps	21	91	6	nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.
 Psalms	Ps	21	91	7	A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you.
 Psalms	Ps	21	91	8	You will only look with your eyes and see the recompense of the wicked.
 Psalms	Ps	21	91	9	Because you have made the Lord your refuge, the Most High your habitation,
 Psalms	Ps	21	91	10	no evil shall befall you, no scourge come near your tent.
 Psalms	Ps	21	91	11	For he will give his angels charge of you to guard you in all your ways.
 Psalms	Ps	21	91	12	On their hands they will bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone.
 Psalms	Ps	21	91	13	You will tread on the lion and the adder, the young lion and the serpent you will trample under foot.
 Psalms	Ps	21	91	14	Because he cleaves to me in love, I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he knows my name.
 Psalms	Ps	21	91	15	When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will rescue him and honor him.
 Psalms	Ps	21	91	16	With long life I will satisfy him, and show him my salvation.
 Psalms	Ps	21	92	1	(A Psalm. A Song for the Sabbath.) It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to thy name, O Most High;
 Psalms	Ps	21	92	2	to declare thy steadfast love in the morning, and thy faithfulness by night,
 Psalms	Ps	21	92	3	to the music of the lute and the harp, to the melody of the lyre.
 Psalms	Ps	21	92	4	For thou, O Lord, hast made me glad by thy work; at the works of thy hands I sing for joy.
 Psalms	Ps	21	92	5	How great are thy works, O Lord! Thy thoughts are very deep!
 Psalms	Ps	21	92	6	The dull man cannot know, the stupid cannot understand this:
 Psalms	Ps	21	92	7	that, though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction for ever,
 Psalms	Ps	21	92	8	but thou, O Lord, art on high for ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	92	9	For, lo, thy enemies, O Lord, for, lo, thy enemies shall perish; all evildoers shall be scattered.
 Psalms	Ps	21	92	10	But thou hast exalted my horn like that of the wild ox; thou hast poured over me fresh oil.
 Psalms	Ps	21	92	11	My eyes have seen the downfall of my enemies, my ears have heard the doom of my evil assailants.
 Psalms	Ps	21	92	12	The righteous flourish like the palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
 Psalms	Ps	21	92	13	They are planted in the house of the Lord, they flourish in the courts of our God.
 Psalms	Ps	21	92	14	They still bring forth fruit in old age, they are ever full of sap and green,
 Psalms	Ps	21	92	15	to show that the Lord is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
 Psalms	Ps	21	93	1	The Lord reigns; he is robed in majesty; the Lord is robed, he is girded with strength. Yea, the world is established; it shall never be moved;
 Psalms	Ps	21	93	2	thy throne is established from of old; thou art from everlasting.
 Psalms	Ps	21	93	3	The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice, the floods lift up their roaring.
 Psalms	Ps	21	93	4	Mightier than the thunders of many waters, mightier than the waves of the sea, the Lord on high is mighty!
 Psalms	Ps	21	93	5	Thy decrees are very sure; holiness befits thy house, O Lord, for evermore.
 Psalms	Ps	21	94	1	O Lord, thou God of vengeance, thou God of vengeance, shine forth!
 Psalms	Ps	21	94	2	Rise up, O judge of the earth; render to the proud their deserts!
 Psalms	Ps	21	94	3	O Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult?
 Psalms	Ps	21	94	4	They pour out their arrogant words, they boast, all the evildoers.
 Psalms	Ps	21	94	5	They crush thy people, O Lord, and afflict thy heritage.
 Psalms	Ps	21	94	6	They slay the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless;
 Psalms	Ps	21	94	7	and they say, “The Lord does not see; the God of Jacob does not perceive.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	94	8	Understand, O dullest of the people! Fools, when will you be wise?
 Psalms	Ps	21	94	9	He who planted the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see?
 Psalms	Ps	21	94	10	He who chastens the nations, does he not chastise? He who teaches men knowledge,
 Psalms	Ps	21	94	11	the Lord, knows the thoughts of man, that they are but a breath.
 Psalms	Ps	21	94	12	Blessed is the man whom thou dost chasten, O Lord, and whom thou dost teach out of thy law
 Psalms	Ps	21	94	13	to give him respite from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.
 Psalms	Ps	21	94	14	For the Lord will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage;
 Psalms	Ps	21	94	15	for justice will return to the righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it.
 Psalms	Ps	21	94	16	Who rises up for me against the wicked? Who stands up for me against evildoers?
 Psalms	Ps	21	94	17	If the Lord had not been my help, my soul would soon have dwelt in the land of silence.
 Psalms	Ps	21	94	18	When I thought, “My foot slips,” thy steadfast love, O Lord, held me up.
 Psalms	Ps	21	94	19	When the cares of my heart are many, thy consolations cheer my soul.
 Psalms	Ps	21	94	20	Can wicked rulers be allied with thee, who frame mischief by statute?
 Psalms	Ps	21	94	21	They band together against the life of the righteous, and condemn the innocent to death.
 Psalms	Ps	21	94	22	But the Lord has become my stronghold, and my God the rock of my refuge.
 Psalms	Ps	21	94	23	He will bring back on them their iniquity and wipe them out for their wickedness; the Lord our God will wipe them out.
 Psalms	Ps	21	95	1	O come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!
 Psalms	Ps	21	95	2	Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!
 Psalms	Ps	21	95	3	For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
 Psalms	Ps	21	95	4	In his hand are the depths of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also.
 Psalms	Ps	21	95	5	The sea is his, for he made it; for his hands formed the dry land.
 Psalms	Ps	21	95	6	O come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!
 Psalms	Ps	21	95	7	For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. O that today you would hearken to his voice!
 Psalms	Ps	21	95	8	Harden not your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,
 Psalms	Ps	21	95	9	when your fathers tested me, and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.
 Psalms	Ps	21	95	10	For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people who err in heart, and they do not regard my ways.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	95	11	Therefore I swore in my anger that they should not enter my rest.
 Psalms	Ps	21	96	1	O sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth!
 Psalms	Ps	21	96	2	Sing to the Lord, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day.
 Psalms	Ps	21	96	3	Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!
 Psalms	Ps	21	96	4	For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above all gods.
 Psalms	Ps	21	96	5	For all the gods of the peoples are idols; but the Lord made the heavens.
 Psalms	Ps	21	96	6	Honor and majesty are before him; strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
 Psalms	Ps	21	96	7	Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength!
 Psalms	Ps	21	96	8	Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; bring an offering, and come into his courts!
 Psalms	Ps	21	96	9	Worship the Lord in holy array; tremble before him, all the earth!
 Psalms	Ps	21	96	10	Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns! Yea, the world is established, it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	96	11	Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; let the sea roar, and all that fills it;
 Psalms	Ps	21	96	12	let the field exult, and everything in it! Then shall all the trees of the wood sing for joy
 Psalms	Ps	21	96	13	before the Lord, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with his truth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	97	1	The Lord reigns; let the earth rejoice; let the many coastlands be glad!
 Psalms	Ps	21	97	2	Clouds and thick darkness are round about him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
 Psalms	Ps	21	97	3	Fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries round about.
 Psalms	Ps	21	97	4	His lightnings lighten the world; the earth sees and trembles.
 Psalms	Ps	21	97	5	The mountains melt like wax before the Lord, before the Lord of all the earth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	97	6	The heavens proclaim his righteousness; and all the peoples behold his glory.
 Psalms	Ps	21	97	7	All worshipers of images are put to shame, who make their boast in worthless idols; all gods bow down before him.
 Psalms	Ps	21	97	8	Zion hears and is glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoice, because of thy judgments, O God.
 Psalms	Ps	21	97	9	For thou, O Lord, art most high over all the earth; thou art exalted far above all gods.
 Psalms	Ps	21	97	10	The Lord loves those who hate evil; he preserves the lives of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
 Psalms	Ps	21	97	11	Light dawns for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart.
 Psalms	Ps	21	97	12	Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous, and give thanks to his holy name!
 Psalms	Ps	21	98	1	(A Psalm.) O sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have gotten him victory.
 Psalms	Ps	21	98	2	The Lord has made known his victory, he has revealed his vindication in the sight of the nations.
 Psalms	Ps	21	98	3	He has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness to the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the victory of our God.
 Psalms	Ps	21	98	4	Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth; break forth into joyous song and sing praises!
 Psalms	Ps	21	98	5	Sing praises to the Lord with the lyre, with the lyre and the sound of melody!
 Psalms	Ps	21	98	6	With trumpets and the sound of the horn make a joyful noise before the King, the Lord!
 Psalms	Ps	21	98	7	Let the sea roar, and all that fills it; the world and those who dwell in it!
 Psalms	Ps	21	98	8	Let the floods clap their hands; let the hills sing for joy together
 Psalms	Ps	21	98	9	before the Lord, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.
 Psalms	Ps	21	99	1	The Lord reigns; let the peoples tremble! He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake!
 Psalms	Ps	21	99	2	The Lord is great in Zion; he is exalted over all the peoples.
 Psalms	Ps	21	99	3	Let them praise thy great and terrible name! Holy is he!
 Psalms	Ps	21	99	4	Mighty King, lover of justice, thou hast established equity; thou hast executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.
 Psalms	Ps	21	99	5	Extol the Lord our God; worship at his footstool! Holy is he!
 Psalms	Ps	21	99	6	Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel also was among those who called on his name. They cried to the Lord, and he answered them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	99	7	He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud; they kept his testimonies, and the statutes that he gave them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	99	8	O Lord our God, thou didst answer them; thou wast a forgiving God to them, but an avenger of their wrongdoings.
 Psalms	Ps	21	99	9	Extol the Lord our God, and worship at his holy mountain; for the Lord our God is holy!
 Psalms	Ps	21	100	1	(A Psalm for the thank offering.) Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the lands!
 Psalms	Ps	21	100	2	Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing!
 Psalms	Ps	21	100	3	Know that the Lord is God! It is he that made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
 Psalms	Ps	21	100	4	Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him, bless his name!
 Psalms	Ps	21	100	5	For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures for ever, and his faithfulness to all generations.
 Psalms	Ps	21	101	1	(A Psalm of David.) I will sing of loyalty and of justice; to thee, O Lord, I will sing.
 Psalms	Ps	21	101	2	I will give heed to the way that is blameless. Oh when wilt thou come to me? I will walk with integrity of heart within my house;
 Psalms	Ps	21	101	3	I will not set before my eyes anything that is base. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cleave to me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	101	4	Perverseness of heart shall be far from me; I will know nothing of evil.
 Psalms	Ps	21	101	5	Him who slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. The man of haughty looks and arrogant heart I will not endure.
 Psalms	Ps	21	101	6	I will look with favor on the faithful in the land, that they may dwell with me; he who walks in the way that is blameless shall minister to me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	101	7	No man who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no man who utters lies shall continue in my presence.
 Psalms	Ps	21	101	8	Morning by morning I will destroy all the wicked in the land, cutting off all the evildoers from the city of the Lord.
 Psalms	Ps	21	102	1	(A prayer of one afflicted, when he is faint and pours out his complaint before the Lord.) Hear my prayer, O Lord; let my cry come to thee!
 Psalms	Ps	21	102	2	Do not hide thy face from me in the day of my distress! Incline thy ear to me; answer me speedily in the day when I call!
 Psalms	Ps	21	102	3	For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.
 Psalms	Ps	21	102	4	My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; I forget to eat my bread.
 Psalms	Ps	21	102	5	Because of my loud groaning my bones cleave to my flesh.
 Psalms	Ps	21	102	6	I am like a vulture of the wilderness, like an owl of the waste places;
 Psalms	Ps	21	102	7	I lie awake, I am like a lonely bird on the housetop.
 Psalms	Ps	21	102	8	All the day my enemies taunt me, those who deride me use my name for a curse.
 Psalms	Ps	21	102	9	For I eat ashes like bread, and mingle tears with my drink,
 Psalms	Ps	21	102	10	because of thy indignation and anger; for thou hast taken me up and thrown me away.
 Psalms	Ps	21	102	11	My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
 Psalms	Ps	21	102	12	But thou, O Lord, art enthroned for ever; thy name endures to all generations.
 Psalms	Ps	21	102	13	Thou wilt arise and have pity on Zion; it is the time to favor her; the appointed time has come.
 Psalms	Ps	21	102	14	For thy servants hold her stones dear, and have pity on her dust.
 Psalms	Ps	21	102	15	The nations will fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
 Psalms	Ps	21	102	16	For the Lord will build up Zion, he will appear in his glory;
 Psalms	Ps	21	102	17	he will regard the prayer of the destitute, and will not despise their supplication.
 Psalms	Ps	21	102	18	Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet unborn may praise the Lord:
 Psalms	Ps	21	102	19	that he looked down from his holy height, from heaven the Lord looked at the earth,
 Psalms	Ps	21	102	20	to hear the groans of the prisoners, to set free those who were doomed to die;
 Psalms	Ps	21	102	21	that men may declare in Zion the name of the Lord, and in Jerusalem his praise,
 Psalms	Ps	21	102	22	when peoples gather together, and kingdoms, to worship the Lord.
 Psalms	Ps	21	102	23	He has broken my strength in mid-course; he has shortened my days.
 Psalms	Ps	21	102	24	“O my God,” I say, “take me not hence in the midst of my days, thou whose years endure throughout all generations!”
 Psalms	Ps	21	102	25	Of old thou didst lay the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
 Psalms	Ps	21	102	26	They will perish, but thou dost endure; they will all wear out like a garment. Thou changest them like raiment, and they pass away;
 Psalms	Ps	21	102	27	but thou art the same, and thy years have no end.
 Psalms	Ps	21	102	28	The children of thy servants shall dwell secure; their posterity shall be established before thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	103	1	(A Psalm of David.) Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless his holy name!
 Psalms	Ps	21	103	2	Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits,
 Psalms	Ps	21	103	3	who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases,
 Psalms	Ps	21	103	4	who redeems your life from the Pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,
 Psalms	Ps	21	103	5	who satisfies you with good as long as you live so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
 Psalms	Ps	21	103	6	The Lord works vindication and justice for all who are oppressed.
 Psalms	Ps	21	103	7	He made known his ways to Moses, his acts to the people of Israel.
 Psalms	Ps	21	103	8	The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
 Psalms	Ps	21	103	9	He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger for ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	103	10	He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor requite us according to our iniquities.
 Psalms	Ps	21	103	11	For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;
 Psalms	Ps	21	103	12	as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
 Psalms	Ps	21	103	13	As a father pities his children, so the Lord pities those who fear him.
 Psalms	Ps	21	103	14	For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.
 Psalms	Ps	21	103	15	As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field;
 Psalms	Ps	21	103	16	for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more.
 Psalms	Ps	21	103	17	But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon those who fear him, and his righteousness to children’s children,
 Psalms	Ps	21	103	18	to those who keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments.
 Psalms	Ps	21	103	19	The Lord has established his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom rules over all.
 Psalms	Ps	21	103	20	Bless the Lord, O you his angels, you mighty ones who do his word, hearkening to the voice of his word!
 Psalms	Ps	21	103	21	Bless the Lord, all his hosts, his ministers that do his will!
 Psalms	Ps	21	103	22	Bless the Lord, all his works, in all places of his dominion. Bless the Lord, O my soul!
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	1	Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord my God, thou art very great! Thou art clothed with honor and majesty,
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	2	who coverest thyself with light as with a garment, who hast stretched out the heavens like a tent,
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	3	who hast laid the beams of thy chambers on the waters, who makest the clouds thy chariot, who ridest on the wings of the wind,
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	4	who makest the winds thy messengers, fire and flame thy ministers.
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	5	Thou didst set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be shaken.
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	6	Thou didst cover it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	7	At thy rebuke they fled; at the sound of thy thunder they took to flight.
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	8	The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place which thou didst appoint for them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	9	Thou didst set a bound which they should not pass, so that they might not again cover the earth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	10	Thou makest springs gush forth in the valleys; they flow between the hills,
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	11	they give drink to every beast of the field; the wild asses quench their thirst.
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	12	By them the birds of the air have their habitation; they sing among the branches.
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	13	From thy lofty abode thou waterest the mountains; the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy work.
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	14	Thou dost cause the grass to grow for the cattle, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth,
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	15	and wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine, and bread to strengthen man’s heart.
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	16	The trees of the Lord are watered abundantly, the cedars of Lebanon which he planted.
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	17	In them the birds build their nests; the stork has her home in the fir trees.
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	18	The high mountains are for the wild goats; the rocks are a refuge for the badgers.
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	19	Thou hast made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows its time for setting.
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	20	Thou makest darkness, and it is night, when all the beasts of the forest creep forth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	21	The young lions roar for their prey, seeking their food from God.
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	22	When the sun rises, they get them away and lie down in their dens.
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	23	Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until the evening.
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	24	O Lord, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all; the earth is full of thy creatures.
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	25	Yonder is the sea, great and wide, which teems with things innumerable, living things both small and great.
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	26	There go the ships, and Leviathan which thou didst form to sport in it.
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	27	These all look to thee, to give them their food in due season.
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	28	When thou givest to them, they gather it up; when thou openest thy hand, they are filled with good things.
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	29	When thou hidest thy face, they are dismayed; when thou takest away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	30	When thou sendest forth thy Spirit, they are created; and thou renewest the face of the ground.
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	31	May the glory of the Lord endure for ever, may the Lord rejoice in his works,
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	32	who looks on the earth and it trembles, who touches the mountains and they smoke!
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	33	I will sing to the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have being.
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	34	May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the Lord.
 Psalms	Ps	21	104	35	Let sinners be consumed from the earth, and let the wicked be no more! Bless the Lord, O my soul! Praise the Lord!
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	1	O give thanks to the Lord, call on his name, make known his deeds among the peoples!
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	2	Sing to him, sing praises to him, tell of all his wonderful works!
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	3	Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice!
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	4	Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his presence continually!
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	5	Remember the wonderful works that he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he uttered,
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	6	O offspring of Abraham his servant, sons of Jacob, his chosen ones!
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	7	He is the Lord our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	8	He is mindful of his covenant for ever, of the word that he commanded, for a thousand generations,
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	9	the covenant which he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac,
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	10	which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant,
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	11	saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan as your portion for an inheritance.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	12	When they were few in number, of little account, and sojourners in it,
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	13	wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	14	he allowed no one to oppress them; he rebuked kings on their account,
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	15	saying, “Touch not my anointed ones, do my prophets no harm!”
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	16	When he summoned a famine on the land, and broke every staff of bread,
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	17	he had sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	18	His feet were hurt with fetters, his neck was put in a collar of iron;
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	19	until what he had said came to pass the word of the Lord tested him.
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	20	The king sent and released him, the ruler of the peoples set him free;
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	21	he made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his possessions,
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	22	to instruct his princes at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom.
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	23	Then Israel came to Egypt; Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	24	And the Lord made his people very fruitful, and made them stronger than their foes.
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	25	He turned their hearts to hate his people, to deal craftily with his servants.
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	26	He sent Moses his servant, and Aaron whom he had chosen.
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	27	They wrought his signs among them, and miracles in the land of Ham.
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	28	He sent darkness, and made the land dark; they rebelled against his words.
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	29	He turned their waters into blood, and caused their fish to die.
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	30	Their land swarmed with frogs, even in the chambers of their kings.
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	31	He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, and gnats throughout their country.
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	32	He gave them hail for rain, and lightning that flashed through their land.
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	33	He smote their vines and fig trees, and shattered the trees of their country.
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	34	He spoke, and the locusts came, and young locusts without number;
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	35	which devoured all the vegetation in their land, and ate up the fruit of their ground.
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	36	He smote all the first-born in their land, the first issue of all their strength.
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	37	Then he led forth Israel with silver and gold, and there was none among his tribes who stumbled.
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	38	Egypt was glad when they departed, for dread of them had fallen upon it.
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	39	He spread a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light by night.
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	40	They asked, and he brought quails, and gave them bread from heaven in abundance.
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	41	He opened the rock, and water gushed forth; it flowed through the desert like a river.
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	42	For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	43	So he led forth his people with joy, his chosen ones with singing.
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	44	And he gave them the lands of the nations; and they took possession of the fruit of the peoples’ toil,
 Psalms	Ps	21	105	45	to the end that they should keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise the Lord!
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	1	Praise the Lord! O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures for ever!
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	2	Who can utter the mighty doings of the Lord, or show forth all his praise?
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	3	Blessed are they who observe justice, who do righteousness at all times!
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	4	Remember me, O Lord, when thou showest favor to thy people; help me when thou deliverest them;
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	5	that I may see the prosperity of thy chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thy heritage.
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	6	Both we and our fathers have sinned; we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	7	Our fathers, when they were in Egypt, did not consider thy wonderful works; they did not remember the abundance of thy steadfast love, but rebelled against the Most High at the Red Sea.
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	8	Yet he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make known his mighty power.
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	9	He rebuked the Red Sea, and it became dry; and he led them through the deep as through a desert.
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	10	So he saved them from the hand of the foe, and delivered them from the power of the enemy.
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	11	And the waters covered their adversaries; not one of them was left.
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	12	Then they believed his words; they sang his praise.
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	13	But they soon forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel.
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	14	But they had a wanton craving in the wilderness, and put God to the test in the desert;
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	15	he gave them what they asked, but sent a wasting disease among them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	16	When men in the camp were jealous of Moses and Aaron, the holy one of the Lord,
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	17	the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	18	Fire also broke out in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	19	They made a calf in Horeb and worshiped a molten image.
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	20	They exchanged the glory of God for the image of an ox that eats grass.
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	21	They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	22	wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red Sea.
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	23	Therefore he said he would destroy them— had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to turn away his wrath from destroying them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	24	Then they despised the pleasant land, having no faith in his promise.
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	25	They murmured in their tents, and did not obey the voice of the Lord.
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	26	Therefore he raised his hand and swore to them that he would make them fall in the wilderness,
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	27	and would disperse their descendants among the nations, scattering them over the lands.
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	28	Then they attached themselves to the Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead;
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	29	they provoked the Lord to anger with their doings, and a plague broke out among them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	30	Then Phinehas stood up and interposed, and the plague was stayed.
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	31	And that has been reckoned to him as righteousness from generation to generation for ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	32	They angered him at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses on their account;
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	33	for they made his spirit bitter, and he spoke words that were rash.
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	34	They did not destroy the peoples, as the Lord commanded them,
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	35	but they mingled with the nations and learned to do as they did.
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	36	They served their idols, which became a snare to them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	37	They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons;
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	38	they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	39	Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the harlot in their doings.
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	40	Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people, and he abhorred his heritage;
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	41	he gave them into the hand of the nations, so that those who hated them ruled over them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	42	Their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their power.
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	43	Many times he delivered them, but they were rebellious in their purposes, and were brought low through their iniquity.
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	44	Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry.
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	45	He remembered for their sake his covenant, and relented according to the abundance of his steadfast love.
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	46	He caused them to be pitied by all those who held them captive.
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	47	Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to thy holy name and glory in thy praise.
 Psalms	Ps	21	106	48	Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! And let all the people say, “Amen!” Praise the Lord!
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	1	O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures for ever!
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	2	Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he has redeemed from trouble
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	3	and gathered in from the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	4	Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to a city to dwell in;
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	5	hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted within them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	6	Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress;
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	7	he led them by a straight way, till they reached a city to dwell in.
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	8	Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love, for his wonderful works to the sons of men!
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	9	For he satisfies him who is thirsty, and the hungry he fills with good things.
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	10	Some sat in darkness and in gloom, prisoners in affliction and in irons,
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	11	for they had rebelled against the words of God, and spurned the counsel of the Most High.
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	12	Their hearts were bowed down with hard labor; they fell down, with none to help.
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	13	Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress;
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	14	he brought them out of darkness and gloom, and broke their bonds asunder.
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	15	Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love, for his wonderful works to the sons of men!
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	16	For he shatters the doors of bronze, and cuts in two the bars of iron.
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	17	Some were sick through their sinful ways, and because of their iniquities suffered affliction;
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	18	they loathed any kind of food, and they drew near to the gates of death.
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	19	Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress;
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	20	he sent forth his word, and healed them, and delivered them from destruction.
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	21	Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love, for his wonderful works to the sons of men!
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	22	And let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving, and tell of his deeds in songs of joy!
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	23	Some went down to the sea in ships, doing business on the great waters;
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	24	they saw the deeds of the Lord, his wondrous works in the deep.
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	25	For he commanded, and raised the stormy wind, which lifted up the waves of the sea.
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	26	They mounted up to heaven, they went down to the depths; their courage melted away in their evil plight;
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	27	they reeled and staggered like drunken men, and were at their wits’ end.
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	28	Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress;
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	29	he made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed.
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	30	Then they were glad because they had quiet, and he brought them to their desired haven.
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	31	Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love, for his wonderful works to the sons of men!
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	32	Let them extol him in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	33	He turns rivers into a desert, springs of water into thirsty ground,
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	34	a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	35	He turns a desert into pools of water, a parched land into springs of water.
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	36	And there he lets the hungry dwell, and they establish a city to live in;
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	37	they sow fields, and plant vineyards, and get a fruitful yield.
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	38	By his blessing they multiply greatly; and he does not let their cattle decrease.
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	39	When they are diminished and brought low through oppression, trouble, and sorrow,
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	40	he pours contempt upon princes and makes them wander in trackless wastes;
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	41	but he raises up the needy out of affliction, and makes their families like flocks.
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	42	The upright see it and are glad; and all wickedness stops its mouth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	107	43	Whoever is wise, let him give heed to these things; let men consider the steadfast love of the Lord.
 Psalms	Ps	21	108	1	(A Song. A Psalm of David.) My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast! I will sing and make melody! Awake, my soul!
 Psalms	Ps	21	108	2	Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn!
 Psalms	Ps	21	108	3	I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, among the peoples, I will sing praises to thee among the nations.
 Psalms	Ps	21	108	4	For thy steadfast love is great above the heavens, thy faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
 Psalms	Ps	21	108	5	Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let thy glory be over all the earth!
 Psalms	Ps	21	108	6	That thy beloved may be delivered, give help by thy right hand, and answer me!
 Psalms	Ps	21	108	7	God has promised in his sanctuary: “With exultation I will divide up Shechem, and portion out the Vale of Succoth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	108	8	Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is my helmet; Judah my scepter.
 Psalms	Ps	21	108	9	Moab is my washbasin; upon Edom I cast my shoe; over Philistia I shout in triumph.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	108	10	Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?
 Psalms	Ps	21	108	11	Hast thou not rejected us, O God? Thou dost not go forth, O God, with our armies.
 Psalms	Ps	21	108	12	O grant us help against the foe, for vain is the help of man!
 Psalms	Ps	21	108	13	With God we shall do valiantly; it is he who will tread down our foes.
 Psalms	Ps	21	109	1	(To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.) Be not silent, O God of my praise!
 Psalms	Ps	21	109	2	For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues.
 Psalms	Ps	21	109	3	They beset me with words of hate, and attack me without cause.
 Psalms	Ps	21	109	4	In return for my love they accuse me, even as I make prayer for them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	109	5	So they reward me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
 Psalms	Ps	21	109	6	Appoint a wicked man against him; let an accuser bring him to trial.
 Psalms	Ps	21	109	7	When he is tried, let him come forth guilty; let his prayer be counted as sin!
 Psalms	Ps	21	109	8	May his days be few; may another seize his goods!
 Psalms	Ps	21	109	9	May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow!
 Psalms	Ps	21	109	10	May his children wander about and beg; may they be driven out of the ruins they inhabit!
 Psalms	Ps	21	109	11	May the creditor seize all that he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil!
 Psalms	Ps	21	109	12	Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor any to pity his fatherless children!
 Psalms	Ps	21	109	13	May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation!
 Psalms	Ps	21	109	14	May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out!
 Psalms	Ps	21	109	15	Let them be before the Lord continually; and may his memory be cut off from the earth!
 Psalms	Ps	21	109	16	For he did not remember to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and the brokenhearted to their death.
 Psalms	Ps	21	109	17	He loved to curse; let curses come on him! He did not like blessing; may it be far from him!
 Psalms	Ps	21	109	18	He clothed himself with cursing as his coat, may it soak into his body like water, like oil into his bones!
 Psalms	Ps	21	109	19	May it be like a garment which he wraps round him, like a belt with which he daily girds himself!
 Psalms	Ps	21	109	20	May this be the reward of my accusers from the Lord, of those who speak evil against my life!
 Psalms	Ps	21	109	21	But thou, O GOD my Lord, deal on my behalf for thy name’s sake; because thy steadfast love is good, deliver me!
 Psalms	Ps	21	109	22	For I am poor and needy, and my heart is stricken within me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	109	23	I am gone, like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust.
 Psalms	Ps	21	109	24	My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt.
 Psalms	Ps	21	109	25	I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they wag their heads.
 Psalms	Ps	21	109	26	Help me, O Lord my God! Save me according to thy steadfast love!
 Psalms	Ps	21	109	27	Let them know that this is thy hand; thou, O Lord, hast done it!
 Psalms	Ps	21	109	28	Let them curse, but do thou bless! Let my assailants be put to shame; may thy servant be glad!
 Psalms	Ps	21	109	29	May my accusers be clothed with dishonor; may they be wrapped in their own shame as in a mantle!
 Psalms	Ps	21	109	30	With my mouth I will give great thanks to the Lord; I will praise him in the midst of the throng.
 Psalms	Ps	21	109	31	For he stands at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who condemn him to death.
 Psalms	Ps	21	110	1	(A Psalm of David.) The Lord says to my lord: “Sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	110	2	The Lord sends forth from Zion your mighty scepter. Rule in the midst of your foes!
 Psalms	Ps	21	110	3	Your people will offer themselves freely on the day you lead your host upon the holy mountains. From the womb of the morning like dew your youth will come to you.
 Psalms	Ps	21	110	4	The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, “You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	110	5	The Lord is at your right hand; he will shatter kings on the day of his wrath.
 Psalms	Ps	21	110	6	He will execute judgment among the nations, filling them with corpses; he will shatter chiefs over the wide earth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	110	7	He will drink from the brook by the way; therefore he will lift up his head.
 Psalms	Ps	21	111	1	Praise the Lord. I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart, in the company of the upright, in the congregation.
 Psalms	Ps	21	111	2	Great are the works of the Lord, studied by all who have pleasure in them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	111	3	Full of honor and majesty is his work, and his righteousness endures for ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	111	4	He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered; the Lord is gracious and merciful.
 Psalms	Ps	21	111	5	He provides food for those who fear him; he is ever mindful of his covenant.
 Psalms	Ps	21	111	6	He has shown his people the power of his works, in giving them the heritage of the nations.
 Psalms	Ps	21	111	7	The works of his hands are faithful and just; all his precepts are trustworthy,
 Psalms	Ps	21	111	8	they are established for ever and ever, to be performed with faithfulness and uprightness.
 Psalms	Ps	21	111	9	He sent redemption to his people; he has commanded his covenant for ever. Holy and terrible is his name!
 Psalms	Ps	21	111	10	The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all those who practice it. His praise endures for ever!
 Psalms	Ps	21	112	1	Praise the Lord. Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who greatly delights in his commandments!
 Psalms	Ps	21	112	2	His descendants will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.
 Psalms	Ps	21	112	3	Wealth and riches are in his house; and his righteousness endures for ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	112	4	Light rises in the darkness for the upright; the Lord is gracious, merciful, and righteous.
 Psalms	Ps	21	112	5	It is well with the man who deals generously and lends, who conducts his affairs with justice.
 Psalms	Ps	21	112	6	For the righteous will never be moved; he will be remembered for ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	112	7	He is not afraid of evil tidings; his heart is firm, trusting in the Lord.
 Psalms	Ps	21	112	8	His heart is steady, he will not be afraid, until he sees his desire on his adversaries.
 Psalms	Ps	21	112	9	He has distributed freely, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures for ever; his horn is exalted in honor.
 Psalms	Ps	21	112	10	The wicked man sees it and is angry; he gnashes his teeth and melts away; the desire of the wicked man comes to nought.
 Psalms	Ps	21	113	1	Praise the Lord! Praise, O servants of the Lord, praise the name of the Lord!
 Psalms	Ps	21	113	2	Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and for evermore!
 Psalms	Ps	21	113	3	From the rising of the sun to its setting the name of the Lord is to be praised!
 Psalms	Ps	21	113	4	The Lord is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens!
 Psalms	Ps	21	113	5	Who is like the Lord our God, who is seated on high,
 Psalms	Ps	21	113	6	who looks far down upon the heavens and the earth?
 Psalms	Ps	21	113	7	He raises the poor from the dust, and lifts the needy from the ash heap,
 Psalms	Ps	21	113	8	to make them sit with princes, with the princes of his people.
 Psalms	Ps	21	113	9	He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord!
 Psalms	Ps	21	114	1	When Israel went forth from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,
 Psalms	Ps	21	114	2	Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
 Psalms	Ps	21	114	3	The sea looked and fled, Jordan turned back.
 Psalms	Ps	21	114	4	The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
 Psalms	Ps	21	114	5	What ails you, O sea, that you flee? O Jordan, that you turn back?
 Psalms	Ps	21	114	6	O mountains, that you skip like rams? O hills, like lambs?
 Psalms	Ps	21	114	7	Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
 Psalms	Ps	21	114	8	who turns the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of water.
 Psalms	Ps	21	115	1	Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to thy name give glory, for the sake of thy steadfast love and thy faithfulness!
 Psalms	Ps	21	115	2	Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
 Psalms	Ps	21	115	3	Our God is in the heavens; he does whatever he pleases.
 Psalms	Ps	21	115	4	Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
 Psalms	Ps	21	115	5	They have mouths, but do not speak; eyes, but do not see.
 Psalms	Ps	21	115	6	They have ears, but do not hear; noses, but do not smell.
 Psalms	Ps	21	115	7	They have hands, but do not feel; feet, but do not walk; and they do not make a sound in their throat.
 Psalms	Ps	21	115	8	Those who make them are like them; so are all who trust in them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	115	9	O Israel, trust in the Lord! He is their help and their shield.
 Psalms	Ps	21	115	10	O house of Aaron, put your trust in the Lord! He is their help and their shield.
 Psalms	Ps	21	115	11	You who fear the Lord, trust in the Lord! He is their help and their shield.
 Psalms	Ps	21	115	12	The Lord has been mindful of us; he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron;
 Psalms	Ps	21	115	13	he will bless those who fear the Lord, both small and great.
 Psalms	Ps	21	115	14	May the Lord give you increase, you and your children!
 Psalms	Ps	21	115	15	May you be blessed by the Lord, who made heaven and earth!
 Psalms	Ps	21	115	16	The heavens are the Lor’s heavens, but the earth he has given to the sons of men.
 Psalms	Ps	21	115	17	The dead do not praise the Lord, nor do any that go down into silence.
 Psalms	Ps	21	115	18	But we will bless the Lord from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the Lord!
 Psalms	Ps	21	116	1	I love the Lord, because he has heard my voice and my supplications.
 Psalms	Ps	21	116	2	Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
 Psalms	Ps	21	116	3	The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish.
 Psalms	Ps	21	116	4	Then I called on the name of the Lord: “O Lord, I beseech thee, save my life!”
 Psalms	Ps	21	116	5	Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; our God is merciful.
 Psalms	Ps	21	116	6	The Lord preserves the simple; when I was brought low, he saved me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	116	7	Return, O my soul, to your rest; for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.
 Psalms	Ps	21	116	8	For thou hast delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling;
 Psalms	Ps	21	116	9	I walk before the Lord in the land of the living.
 Psalms	Ps	21	116	10	I kept my faith, even when I said, “I am greatly afflicted”;
 Psalms	Ps	21	116	11	I said in my consternation, “Men are all a vain hope.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	116	12	What shall I render to the Lord for all his bounty to me?
 Psalms	Ps	21	116	13	I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord,
 Psalms	Ps	21	116	14	I will pay my vows to the Lord in the presence of all his people.
 Psalms	Ps	21	116	15	Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.
 Psalms	Ps	21	116	16	O Lord, I am thy servant; I am thy servant, the son of thy handmaid. Thou hast loosed my bonds.
 Psalms	Ps	21	116	17	I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the Lord.
 Psalms	Ps	21	116	18	I will pay my vows to the Lord in the presence of all his people,
 Psalms	Ps	21	116	19	in the courts of the house of the Lord, in your midst, O Jerusalem. Praise the Lord!
 Psalms	Ps	21	117	1	Praise the Lord, all nations! Extol him, all peoples!
 Psalms	Ps	21	117	2	For great is his steadfast love toward us; and the faithfulness of the Lord endures for ever. Praise the Lord!
 Psalms	Ps	21	118	1	O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his steadfast love endures for ever!
 Psalms	Ps	21	118	2	Let Israel say, “His steadfast love endures for ever.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	118	3	Let the house of Aaron say, “His steadfast love endures for ever.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	118	4	Let those who fear the Lord say, “His steadfast love endures for ever.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	118	5	Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free.
 Psalms	Ps	21	118	6	With the Lord on my side I do not fear. What can man do to me?
 Psalms	Ps	21	118	7	The Lord is on my side to help me; I shall look in triumph on those who hate me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	118	8	It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to put confidence in man.
 Psalms	Ps	21	118	9	It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to put confidence in princes.
 Psalms	Ps	21	118	10	All nations surrounded me; in the name of the Lord I cut them off!
 Psalms	Ps	21	118	11	They surrounded me, surrounded me on every side; in the name of the Lord I cut them off!
 Psalms	Ps	21	118	12	They surrounded me like bees, they blazed like a fire of thorns; in the name of the Lord I cut them off!
 Psalms	Ps	21	118	13	I was pushed hard, so that I was falling, but the Lord helped me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	118	14	The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.
 Psalms	Ps	21	118	15	Hark, glad songs of victory in the tents of the righteous: “The right hand of the Lord does valiantly,
 Psalms	Ps	21	118	16	the right hand of the Lord is exalted, the right hand of the Lord does valiantly!”
 Psalms	Ps	21	118	17	I shall not die, but I shall live, and recount the deeds of the Lord.
 Psalms	Ps	21	118	18	The Lord has chastened me sorely, but he has not given me over to death.
 Psalms	Ps	21	118	19	Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the Lord.
 Psalms	Ps	21	118	20	This is the gate of the Lord; the righteous shall enter through it.
 Psalms	Ps	21	118	21	I thank thee that thou hast answered me and hast become my salvation.
 Psalms	Ps	21	118	22	The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner.
 Psalms	Ps	21	118	23	This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.
 Psalms	Ps	21	118	24	This is the day which the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
 Psalms	Ps	21	118	25	Save us, we beseech thee, O Lord! O Lord, we beseech thee, give us success!
 Psalms	Ps	21	118	26	Blessed be he who enters in the name of the Lord! We bless you from the house of the Lord.
 Psalms	Ps	21	118	27	The Lord is God, and he has given us light. Bind the festal procession with branches, up to the horns of the altar!
 Psalms	Ps	21	118	28	Thou art my God, and I will give thanks to thee; thou art my God, I will extol thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	118	29	O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures for ever!
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	1	Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord!
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	2	Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart,
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	3	who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways!
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	4	Thou hast commanded thy precepts to be kept diligently.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	5	O that my ways may be steadfast in keeping thy statutes!
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	6	Then I shall not be put to shame, having my eyes fixed on all thy commandments.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	7	I will praise thee with an upright heart, when I learn thy righteous ordinances.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	8	I will observe thy statutes; O forsake me not utterly!
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	9	How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to thy word.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	10	With my whole heart I seek thee; let me not wander from thy commandments!
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	11	I have laid up thy word in my heart, that I might not sin against thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	12	Blessed be thou, O Lord; teach me thy statutes!
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	13	With my lips I declare all the ordinances of thy mouth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	14	In the way of thy testimonies I delight as much as in all riches.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	15	I will meditate on thy precepts, and fix my eyes on thy ways.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	16	I will delight in thy statutes; I will not forget thy word.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	17	Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live and observe thy word.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	18	Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	19	I am a sojourner on earth; hide not thy commandments from me!
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	20	My soul is consumed with longing for thy ordinances at all times.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	21	Thou dost rebuke the insolent, accursed ones, who wander from thy commandments;
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	22	take away from me their scorn and contempt, for I have kept thy testimonies.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	23	Even though princes sit plotting against me, thy servant will meditate on thy statutes.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	24	Thy testimonies are my delight, they are my counselors.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	25	My soul cleaves to the dust; revive me according to thy word!
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	26	When I told of my ways, thou didst answer me; teach me thy statutes!
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	27	Make me understand the way of thy precepts, and I will meditate on thy wondrous works.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	28	My soul melts away for sorrow; strengthen me according to thy word!
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	29	Put false ways far from me; and graciously teach me thy law!
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	30	I have chosen the way of faithfulness, I set thy ordinances before me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	31	I cleave to thy testimonies, O Lord; let me not be put to shame!
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	32	I will run in the way of thy commandments when thou enlargest my understanding!
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	33	Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes; and I will keep it to the end.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	34	Give me understanding, that I may keep thy law and observe it with my whole heart.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	35	Lead me in the path of thy commandments, for I delight in it.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	36	Incline my heart to thy testimonies, and not to gain!
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	37	Turn my eyes from looking at vanities; and give me life in thy ways.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	38	Confirm to thy servant thy promise, which is for those who fear thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	39	Turn away the reproach which I dread; for thy ordinances are good.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	40	Behold, I long for thy precepts; in thy righteousness give me life!
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	41	Let thy steadfast love come to me, O Lord, thy salvation according to thy promise;
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	42	then shall I have an answer for those who taunt me, for I trust in thy word.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	43	And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, for my hope is in thy ordinances.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	44	I will keep thy law continually, for ever and ever;
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	45	and I shall walk at liberty, for I have sought thy precepts.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	46	I will also speak of thy testimonies before kings, and shall not be put to shame;
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	47	for I find my delight in thy commandments, which I love.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	48	I revere thy commandments, which I love, and I will meditate on thy statutes.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	49	Remember thy word to thy servant, in which thou hast made me hope.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	50	This is my comfort in my affliction that thy promise gives me life.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	51	Godless men utterly deride me, but I do not turn away from thy law.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	52	When I think of thy ordinances from of old, I take comfort, O Lord.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	53	Hot indignation seizes me because of the wicked, who forsake thy law.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	54	Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	55	I remember thy name in the night, O Lord, and keep thy law.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	56	This blessing has fallen to me, that I have kept thy precepts.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	57	The Lord is my portion; I promise to keep thy words.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	58	I entreat thy favor with all my heart; be gracious to me according to thy promise.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	59	When I think of thy ways, I turn my feet to thy testimonies;
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	60	I hasten and do not delay to keep thy commandments.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	61	Though the cords of the wicked ensnare me, I do not forget thy law.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	62	At midnight I rise to praise thee, because of thy righteous ordinances.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	63	I am a companion of all who fear thee, of those who keep thy precepts.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	64	The earth, O Lord, is full of thy steadfast love; teach me thy statutes!
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	65	Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O Lord, according to thy word.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	66	Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in thy commandments.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	67	Before I was afflicted I went astray; but now I keep thy word.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	68	Thou art good and doest good; teach me thy statutes.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	69	The godless besmear me with lies, but with my whole heart I keep thy precepts;
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	70	their heart is gross like fat, but I delight in thy law.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	71	It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	72	The law of thy mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	73	Thy hands have made and fashioned me; give me understanding that I may learn thy commandments.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	74	Those who fear thee shall see me and rejoice, because I have hoped in thy word.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	75	I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right, and that in faithfulness thou hast afflicted me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	76	Let thy steadfast love be ready to comfort me according to thy promise to thy servant.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	77	Let thy mercy come to me, that I may live; for thy law is my delight.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	78	Let the godless be put to shame, because they have subverted me with guile; as for me, I will meditate on thy precepts.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	79	Let those who fear thee turn to me, that they may know thy testimonies.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	80	May my heart be blameless in thy statutes, that I may not be put to shame!
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	81	My soul languishes for thy salvation; I hope in thy word.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	82	My eyes fail with watching for thy promise; I ask, “When wilt thou comfort me?”
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	83	For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, yet I have not forgotten thy statutes.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	84	How long must thy servant endure? When wilt thou judge those who persecute me?
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	85	Godless men have dug pitfalls for me, men who do not conform to thy law.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	86	All thy commandments are sure; they persecute me with falsehood; help me!
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	87	They have almost made an end of me on earth; but I have not forsaken thy precepts.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	88	In thy steadfast love spare my life, that I may keep the testimonies of thy mouth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	89	For ever, O Lord, thy word is firmly fixed in the heavens.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	90	Thy faithfulness endures to all generations; thou hast established the earth, and it stands fast.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	91	By thy appointment they stand this day; for all things are thy servants.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	92	If thy law had not been my delight, I should have perished in my affliction.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	93	I will never forget thy precepts; for by them thou hast given me life.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	94	I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	95	The wicked lie in wait to destroy me; but I consider thy testimonies.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	96	I have seen a limit to all perfection, but thy commandment is exceedingly broad.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	97	Oh, how I love thy law! It is my meditation all the day.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	98	Thy commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	99	I have more understanding than all my teachers, for thy testimonies are my meditation.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	100	I understand more than the aged, for I keep thy precepts.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	101	I hold back my feet from every evil way, in order to keep thy word.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	102	I do not turn aside from thy ordinances, for thou hast taught me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	103	How sweet are thy words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	104	Through thy precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	105	Thy word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	106	I have sworn an oath and confirmed it, to observe thy righteous ordinances.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	107	I am sorely afflicted; give me life, O Lord, according to thy word!
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	108	Accept my offerings of praise, O Lord, and teach me thy ordinances.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	109	I hold my life in my hand continually, but I do not forget thy law.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	110	The wicked have laid a snare for me, but I do not stray from thy precepts.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	111	Thy testimonies are my heritage for ever; yea, they are the joy of my heart.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	112	I incline my heart to perform thy statutes for ever, to the end.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	113	I hate double-minded men, but I love thy law.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	114	Thou art my hiding place and my shield; I hope in thy word.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	115	Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	116	Uphold me according to thy promise, that I may live, and let me not be put to shame in my hope!
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	117	Hold me up, that I may be safe and have regard for thy statutes continually!
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	118	Thou dost spurn all who go astray from thy statutes; yea, their cunning is in vain.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	119	All the wicked of the earth thou dost count as dross; therefore I love thy testimonies.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	120	My flesh trembles for fear of thee, and I am afraid of thy judgments.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	121	I have done what is just and right; do not leave me to my oppressors.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	122	Be surety for thy servant for good; let not the godless oppress me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	123	My eyes fail with watching for thy salvation, and for the fulfilment of thy righteous promise.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	124	Deal with thy servant according to thy steadfast love, and teach me thy statutes.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	125	I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies!
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	126	It is time for the Lord to act, for thy law has been broken.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	127	Therefore I love thy commandments above gold, above fine gold.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	128	Therefore I direct my steps by all thy precepts; I hate every false way.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	129	Thy testimonies are wonderful; therefore my soul keeps them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	130	The unfolding of thy words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	131	With open mouth I pant, because I long for thy commandments.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	132	Turn to me and be gracious to me, as is thy wont toward those who love thy name.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	133	Keep steady my steps according to thy promise, and let no iniquity get dominion over me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	134	Redeem me from man’s oppression, that I may keep thy precepts.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	135	Make thy face shine upon thy servant, and teach me thy statutes.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	136	My eyes shed streams of tears, because men do not keep thy law.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	137	Righteous art thou, O Lord, and right are thy judgments.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	138	Thou hast appointed thy testimonies in righteousness and in all faithfulness.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	139	My zeal consumes me, because my foes forget thy words.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	140	Thy promise is well tried, and thy servant loves it.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	141	I am small and despised, yet I do not forget thy precepts.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	142	Thy righteousness is righteous for ever, and thy law is true.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	143	Trouble and anguish have come upon me, but thy commandments are my delight.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	144	Thy testimonies are righteous for ever; give me understanding that I may live.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	145	With my whole heart I cry; answer me, O Lord! I will keep thy statutes.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	146	I cry to thee; save me, that I may observe thy testimonies.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	147	I rise before dawn and cry for help; I hope in thy words.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	148	My eyes are awake before the watches of the night, that I may meditate upon thy promise.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	149	Hear my voice in thy steadfast love; O Lord, in thy justice preserve my life.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	150	They draw near who persecute me with evil purpose; they are far from thy law.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	151	But thou art near, O Lord, and all thy commandments are true.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	152	Long have I known from thy testimonies that thou hast founded them for ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	153	Look on my affliction and deliver me, for I do not forget thy law.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	154	Plead my cause and redeem me; give me life according to thy promise!
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	155	Salvation is far from the wicked, for they do not seek thy statutes.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	156	Great is thy mercy, O Lord; give me life according to thy justice.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	157	Many are my persecutors and my adversaries, but I do not swerve from thy testimonies.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	158	I look at the faithless with disgust, because they do not keep thy commands.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	159	Consider how I love thy precepts! Preserve my life according to thy steadfast love.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	160	The sum of thy word is truth; and every one of thy righteous ordinances endures for ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	161	Princes persecute me without cause, but my heart stands in awe of thy words.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	162	I rejoice at thy word like one who finds great spoil.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	163	I hate and abhor falsehood, but I love thy law.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	164	Seven times a day I praise thee for thy righteous ordinances.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	165	Great peace have those who love thy law; nothing can make them stumble.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	166	I hope for thy salvation, O Lord, and I do thy commandments.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	167	My soul keeps thy testimonies; I love them exceedingly.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	168	I keep thy precepts and testimonies, for all my ways are before thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	169	Let my cry come before thee, O Lord; give me understanding according to thy word!
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	170	Let my supplication come before thee; deliver me according to thy word.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	171	My lips will pour forth praise that thou dost teach me thy statutes.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	172	My tongue will sing of thy word, for all thy commandments are right.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	173	Let thy hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen thy precepts.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	174	I long for thy salvation, O Lord, and thy law is my delight.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	175	Let me live, that I may praise thee, and let thy ordinances help me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	119	176	I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant, for I do not forget thy commandments.
 Psalms	Ps	21	120	1	(A Song of Ascents.) In my distress I cry to the Lord, that he may answer me:
 Psalms	Ps	21	120	2	“Deliver me, O Lord, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	120	3	What shall be given to you? And what more shall be done to you, you deceitful tongue?
 Psalms	Ps	21	120	4	A warrior’s sharp arrows, with glowing coals of the broom tree!
 Psalms	Ps	21	120	5	Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
 Psalms	Ps	21	120	6	Too long have I had my dwelling among those who hate peace.
 Psalms	Ps	21	120	7	I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war!
 Psalms	Ps	21	121	1	(A Song of Ascents.) I lift up my eyes to the hills. From whence does my help come?
 Psalms	Ps	21	121	2	My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	121	3	He will not let your foot be moved, he who keeps you will not slumber.
 Psalms	Ps	21	121	4	Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
 Psalms	Ps	21	121	5	The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand.
 Psalms	Ps	21	121	6	The sun shall not smite you by day, nor the moon by night.
 Psalms	Ps	21	121	7	The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life.
 Psalms	Ps	21	121	8	The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and for evermore.
 Psalms	Ps	21	122	1	(A Song of Ascents. Of David.) I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord!”
 Psalms	Ps	21	122	2	Our feet have been standing within your gates, O Jerusalem!
 Psalms	Ps	21	122	3	Jerusalem, built as a city which is bound firmly together,
 Psalms	Ps	21	122	4	to which the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, as was decreed for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the Lord.
 Psalms	Ps	21	122	5	There thrones for judgment were set, the thrones of the house of David.
 Psalms	Ps	21	122	6	Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! “May they prosper who love you!
 Psalms	Ps	21	122	7	Peace be within your walls, and security within your towers!”
 Psalms	Ps	21	122	8	For my brethren and companions’ sake I will say, “Peace be within you!”
 Psalms	Ps	21	122	9	For the sake of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek your good.
 Psalms	Ps	21	123	1	(A Song of Ascents.) To thee I lift up my eyes, O thou who art enthroned in the heavens!
 Psalms	Ps	21	123	2	Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the Lord our God, till he have mercy upon us.
 Psalms	Ps	21	123	3	Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us, for we have had more than enough of contempt.
 Psalms	Ps	21	123	4	Too long our soul has been sated with the scorn of those who are at ease, the contempt of the proud.
 Psalms	Ps	21	124	1	(A Song of Ascents. Of David.) If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, let Israel now say—
 Psalms	Ps	21	124	2	if it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us,
 Psalms	Ps	21	124	3	then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us;
 Psalms	Ps	21	124	4	then the flood would have swept us away, the torrent would have gone over us;
 Psalms	Ps	21	124	5	then over us would have gone the raging waters.
 Psalms	Ps	21	124	6	Blessed be the Lord, who has not given us as prey to their teeth!
 Psalms	Ps	21	124	7	We have escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped!
 Psalms	Ps	21	124	8	Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	125	1	(A Song of Ascents.) Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides for ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	125	2	As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people, from this time forth and for evermore.
 Psalms	Ps	21	125	3	For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest upon the land allotted to the righteous, lest the righteous put forth their hands to do wrong.
 Psalms	Ps	21	125	4	Do good, O Lord, to those who are good, and to those who are upright in their hearts!
 Psalms	Ps	21	125	5	But those who turn aside upon their crooked ways the Lord will lead away with evildoers! Peace be in Israel!
 Psalms	Ps	21	126	1	(A Song of Ascents.) When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.
 Psalms	Ps	21	126	2	Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	126	3	The Lord has done great things for us; we are glad.
 Psalms	Ps	21	126	4	Restore our fortunes, O Lord, like the watercourses in the Negeb!
 Psalms	Ps	21	126	5	May those who sow in tears reap with shouts of joy!
 Psalms	Ps	21	126	6	He that goes forth weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.
 Psalms	Ps	21	127	1	(A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon.) Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.
 Psalms	Ps	21	127	2	It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.
 Psalms	Ps	21	127	3	Lo, sons are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.
 Psalms	Ps	21	127	4	Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the sons of one’s youth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	127	5	Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.
 Psalms	Ps	21	128	1	(A Song of Ascents.) Blessed is every one who fears the Lord, who walks in his ways!
 Psalms	Ps	21	128	2	You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be happy, and it shall be well with you.
 Psalms	Ps	21	128	3	Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.
 Psalms	Ps	21	128	4	Lo, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the Lord.
 Psalms	Ps	21	128	5	The Lor bless you from Zion! May you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life!
 Psalms	Ps	21	128	6	May you see your children’s children! Peace be upon Israel!
 Psalms	Ps	21	129	1	(A Song of Ascents.) “Sorely have they afflicted me from my youth,” let Israel now say—
 Psalms	Ps	21	129	2	“Sorely have they afflicted me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	129	3	The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	129	4	The Lord is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked.
 Psalms	Ps	21	129	5	May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward!
 Psalms	Ps	21	129	6	Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,
 Psalms	Ps	21	129	7	with which the reaper does not fill his hand or the binder of sheaves his bosom,
 Psalms	Ps	21	129	8	while those who pass by do not say, “The blessing of the Lord be upon you! We bless you in the name of the Lord!”
 Psalms	Ps	21	130	1	(A Song of Ascents.) Out of the depths I cry to thee, O Lord!
 Psalms	Ps	21	130	2	Lord, hear my voice! Let thy ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications!
 Psalms	Ps	21	130	3	If thou, O Lord, shouldst mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand?
 Psalms	Ps	21	130	4	But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.
 Psalms	Ps	21	130	5	I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope;
 Psalms	Ps	21	130	6	my soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.
 Psalms	Ps	21	130	7	O Israel, hope in the Lord! For with the Lord there is steadfast love, and with him is plenteous redemption.
 Psalms	Ps	21	130	8	And he will redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
 Psalms	Ps	21	131	1	(A Song of Ascents. Of David.) O Lord, my heart is not lifted up, my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	131	2	But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a child quieted at its mother’s breast; like a child that is quieted is my soul.
 Psalms	Ps	21	131	3	O Israel, hope in the Lord from this time forth and for evermore.
 Psalms	Ps	21	132	1	(A Song of Ascents.) Remember, O Lord, in David’s favor, all the hardships he endured;
 Psalms	Ps	21	132	2	how he swore to the Lord and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob,
 Psalms	Ps	21	132	3	“I will not enter my house or get into my bed;
 Psalms	Ps	21	132	4	I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids,
 Psalms	Ps	21	132	5	until I find a place for the Lord, a dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	132	6	Lo, we heard of it in Ephrathah, we found it in the fields of Jaar.
 Psalms	Ps	21	132	7	“Let us go to his dwelling place; let us worship at his footstool!”
 Psalms	Ps	21	132	8	Arise, O Lord, and go to thy resting place, thou and the ark of thy might.
 Psalms	Ps	21	132	9	Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness, and let thy saints shout for joy.
 Psalms	Ps	21	132	10	For thy servant David’s sake do not turn away the face of thy anointed one.
 Psalms	Ps	21	132	11	The Lord swore to David a sure oath from which he will not turn back: “One of the sons of your body I will set on your throne.
 Psalms	Ps	21	132	12	If your sons keep my covenant and my testimonies which I shall teach them, their sons also for ever shall sit upon your throne.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	132	13	For the Lord has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation:
 Psalms	Ps	21	132	14	“This is my resting place for ever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it.
 Psalms	Ps	21	132	15	I will abundantly bless her provisions; I will satisfy her poor with bread.
 Psalms	Ps	21	132	16	Her priests I will clothe with salvation, and her saints will shout for joy.
 Psalms	Ps	21	132	17	There I will make a horn to sprout for David; I have prepared a lamp for my anointed.
 Psalms	Ps	21	132	18	His enemies I will clothe with shame, but upon himself his crown will shed its luster.”
 Psalms	Ps	21	133	1	(A Song of Ascents.) Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!
 Psalms	Ps	21	133	2	It is like the precious oil upon the head, running down upon the beard, upon the beard of Aaron, running down on the collar of his robes!
 Psalms	Ps	21	133	3	It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion! For there the Lord has commanded the blessing, life for evermore.
 Psalms	Ps	21	134	1	(A Song of Ascents.) Come, bless the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, who stand by night in the house of the Lord!
 Psalms	Ps	21	134	2	Lift up your hands to the holy place, and bless the Lord!
 Psalms	Ps	21	134	3	May the Lord bless you from Zion, he who made heaven and earth!
 Psalms	Ps	21	135	1	Praise the Lord. Praise the name of the Lord, give praise, O servants of the Lord,
 Psalms	Ps	21	135	2	you that stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God!
 Psalms	Ps	21	135	3	Praise the Lor, for the Lord is good; sing to his name, for he is gracious!
 Psalms	Ps	21	135	4	For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel as his own possession.
 Psalms	Ps	21	135	5	For I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.
 Psalms	Ps	21	135	6	Whatever the Lord pleases he does, in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all deeps.
 Psalms	Ps	21	135	7	He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth, who makes lightnings for the rain and brings forth the wind from his storehouses.
 Psalms	Ps	21	135	8	He it was who smote the first-born of Egypt, both of man and of beast;
 Psalms	Ps	21	135	9	who in thy midst, O Egypt, sent signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all his servants;
 Psalms	Ps	21	135	10	who smote many nations and slew mighty kings,
 Psalms	Ps	21	135	11	Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan,
 Psalms	Ps	21	135	12	and gave their land as a heritage, a heritage to his people Israel.
 Psalms	Ps	21	135	13	Thy name, O Lord, endures for ever, thy renown, O Lord, throughout all ages.
 Psalms	Ps	21	135	14	For the Lord will vindicate his people, and have compassion on his servants.
 Psalms	Ps	21	135	15	The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
 Psalms	Ps	21	135	16	They have mouths, but they speak not, they have eyes, but they see not,
 Psalms	Ps	21	135	17	they have ears, but they hear not, nor is there any breath in their mouths.
 Psalms	Ps	21	135	18	Like them be those who make them!— yea, every one who trusts in them!
 Psalms	Ps	21	135	19	O house of Israel, bless the Lord! O house of Aaron, bless the Lord!
 Psalms	Ps	21	135	20	O house of Levi, bless the Lord! You that fear the Lord, bless the Lord!
 Psalms	Ps	21	135	21	Blessed be the Lord from Zion, he who dwells in Jerusalem! Praise the Lord!
 Psalms	Ps	21	136	1	O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures for ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	136	2	O give thanks to the God of gods, for his steadfast love endures for ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	136	3	O give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his steadfast love endures for ever;
 Psalms	Ps	21	136	4	to him who alone does great wonders, for his steadfast love endures for ever;
 Psalms	Ps	21	136	5	to him who by understanding made the heavens, for his steadfast love endures for ever;
 Psalms	Ps	21	136	6	to him who spread out the earth upon the waters, for his steadfast love endures for ever;
 Psalms	Ps	21	136	7	to him who made the great lights, for his steadfast love endures for ever;
 Psalms	Ps	21	136	8	the sun to rule over the day, for his steadfast love endures for ever;
 Psalms	Ps	21	136	9	the moon and stars to rule over the night, for his steadfast love endures for ever;
 Psalms	Ps	21	136	10	to him who smote the first-born of Egypt, for his steadfast love endures for ever;
 Psalms	Ps	21	136	11	and brought Israel out from among them, for his steadfast love endures for ever;
 Psalms	Ps	21	136	12	with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, for his steadfast love endures for ever;
 Psalms	Ps	21	136	13	to him who divided the Red Sea in sunder, for his steadfast love endures for ever;
 Psalms	Ps	21	136	14	and made Israel pass through the midst of it, for his steadfast love endures for ever;
 Psalms	Ps	21	136	15	but overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea, for his steadfast love endures for ever;
 Psalms	Ps	21	136	16	to him who led his people through the wilderness, for his steadfast love endures for ever;
 Psalms	Ps	21	136	17	to him who smote great kings, for his steadfast love endures for ever;
 Psalms	Ps	21	136	18	and slew famous kings, for his steadfast love endures for ever;
 Psalms	Ps	21	136	19	Sihon, king of the Amorites, for his steadfast love endures for ever;
 Psalms	Ps	21	136	20	and Og, king of Bashan, for his steadfast love endures for ever;
 Psalms	Ps	21	136	21	and gave their land as a heritage, for his steadfast love endures for ever;
 Psalms	Ps	21	136	22	a heritage to Israel his servant, for his steadfast love endures for ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	136	23	It is he who remembered us in our low estate, for his steadfast love endures for ever;
 Psalms	Ps	21	136	24	and rescued us from our foes, for his steadfast love endures for ever;
 Psalms	Ps	21	136	25	he who gives food to all flesh, for his steadfast love endures for ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	136	26	O give thanks to the God of heaven, for his steadfast love endures for ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	137	1	By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion.
 Psalms	Ps	21	137	2	On the willows there we hung up our lyres.
 Psalms	Ps	21	137	3	For there our captors required of us songs, and our tormentors, mirth, saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
 Psalms	Ps	21	137	4	How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a foreign land?
 Psalms	Ps	21	137	5	If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither!
 Psalms	Ps	21	137	6	Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy!
 Psalms	Ps	21	137	7	Remember, O Lord, against the Edomites the day of Jerusalem, how they said, “Rase it, rase it! Down to its foundations!”
 Psalms	Ps	21	137	8	O daughter of Babylon, you devastator! Happy shall he be who requites you with what you have done to us!
 Psalms	Ps	21	137	9	Happy shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!
 Psalms	Ps	21	138	1	(A Psalm of David.) I give thee thanks, O Lord, with my whole heart; before the gods I sing thy praise;
 Psalms	Ps	21	138	2	I bow down toward thy holy temple and give thanks to thy name for thy steadfast love and thy faithfulness; for thou hast exalted above everything thy name and thy word.
 Psalms	Ps	21	138	3	On the day I called, thou didst answer me, my strength of soul thou didst increase.
 Psalms	Ps	21	138	4	All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O Lord, for they have heard the words of thy mouth;
 Psalms	Ps	21	138	5	and they shall sing of the ways of the Lord, for great is the glory of the Lord.
 Psalms	Ps	21	138	6	For though the Lord is high, he regards the lowly; but the haughty he knows from afar.
 Psalms	Ps	21	138	7	Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou dost preserve my life; thou dost stretch out thy hand against the wrath of my enemies, and thy right hand delivers me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	138	8	The Lord will fulfil his purpose for me; thy steadfast love, O Lord, endures for ever. Do not forsake the work of thy hands.
 Psalms	Ps	21	139	1	(To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.) O Lord, thou hast searched me and known me!
 Psalms	Ps	21	139	2	Thou knowest when I sit down and when I rise up; thou discernest my thoughts from afar.
 Psalms	Ps	21	139	3	Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
 Psalms	Ps	21	139	4	Even before a word is on my tongue, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.
 Psalms	Ps	21	139	5	Thou dost beset me behind and before, and layest thy hand upon me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	139	6	Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain it.
 Psalms	Ps	21	139	7	Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
 Psalms	Ps	21	139	8	If I ascend to heaven, thou art there! If I make my bed in Sheol, thou art there!
 Psalms	Ps	21	139	9	If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
 Psalms	Ps	21	139	10	even there thy hand shall lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	139	11	If I say, “Let only darkness cover me, and the light about me be night,”
 Psalms	Ps	21	139	12	even the darkness is not dark to thee, the night is bright as the day; for darkness is as light with thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	139	13	For thou didst form my inward parts, thou didst knit me together in my mother’s womb.
 Psalms	Ps	21	139	14	I praise thee, for thou art fearful and wonderful. Wonderful are thy works! Thou knowest me right well;
 Psalms	Ps	21	139	15	my frame was not hidden from thee, when I was being made in secret, intricately wrought in the depths of the earth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	139	16	Thy eyes beheld my unformed substance; in thy book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	139	17	How precious to me are thy thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
 Psalms	Ps	21	139	18	If I would count them, they are more than the sand. When I awake, I am still with thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	139	19	O that thou wouldst slay the wicked, O God, and that men of blood would depart from me,
 Psalms	Ps	21	139	20	men who maliciously defy thee, who lift themselves up against thee for evil!
 Psalms	Ps	21	139	21	Do I not hate them that hate thee, O Lord? And do I not loathe them that rise up against thee?
 Psalms	Ps	21	139	22	I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them my enemies.
 Psalms	Ps	21	139	23	Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!
 Psalms	Ps	21	139	24	And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
 Psalms	Ps	21	140	1	(To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.) Deliver me, O Lord, from evil men; preserve me from violent men,
 Psalms	Ps	21	140	2	who plan evil things in their heart, and stir up wars continually.
 Psalms	Ps	21	140	3	They make their tongue sharp as a serpent’s, and under their lips is the poison of vipers. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	140	4	Guard me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from violent men, who have planned to trip up my feet.
 Psalms	Ps	21	140	5	Arrogant men have hidden a trap for me, and with cords they have spread a net, by the wayside they have set snares for me. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	140	6	I say to the Lord, Thou art my God; give ear to the voice of my supplications, O Lord!
 Psalms	Ps	21	140	7	O Lord, my Lord, my strong deliverer, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.
 Psalms	Ps	21	140	8	Grant not, O Lord, the desires of the wicked; do not further his evil plot! [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	140	9	Those who surround me lift up their head, let the mischief of their lips overwhelm them!
 Psalms	Ps	21	140	10	Let burning coals fall upon them! Let them be cast into pits, no more to rise!
 Psalms	Ps	21	140	11	Let not the slanderer be established in the land; let evil hunt down the violent man speedily!
 Psalms	Ps	21	140	12	I know that the Lord maintains the cause of the afflicted, and executes justice for the needy.
 Psalms	Ps	21	140	13	Surely the righteous shall give thanks to thy name; the upright shall dwell in thy presence.
 Psalms	Ps	21	141	1	(A Psalm of David.) I call upon thee, O Lord; make haste to me! Give ear to my voice, when I call to thee!
 Psalms	Ps	21	141	2	Let my prayer be counted as incense before thee, and the lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice!
 Psalms	Ps	21	141	3	Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord, keep watch over the door of my lips!
 Psalms	Ps	21	141	4	Incline not my heart to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with men who work iniquity; and let me not eat of their dainties!
 Psalms	Ps	21	141	5	Let a good man strike or rebuke me in kindness, but let the oil of the wicked never anoint my head; for my prayer is continually against their wicked deeds.
 Psalms	Ps	21	141	6	When they are given over to those who shall condemn them, then they shall learn that the word of the Lord is true.
 Psalms	Ps	21	141	7	As a rock which one cleaves and shatters on the land, so shall their bones be strewn at the mouth of Sheol.
 Psalms	Ps	21	141	8	But my eyes are toward thee, O Lord God; in thee I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless!
 Psalms	Ps	21	141	9	Keep me from the trap which they have laid for me, and from the snares of evildoers!
 Psalms	Ps	21	141	10	Let the wicked together fall into their own nets, while I escape.
 Psalms	Ps	21	142	1	(A Maskil of David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer.) I cry with my voice to the Lord, with my voice I make supplication to the Lord,
 Psalms	Ps	21	142	2	I pour out my complaint before him, I tell my trouble before him.
 Psalms	Ps	21	142	3	When my spirit is faint, thou knowest my way! In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	142	4	I look to the right and watch, but there is none who takes notice of me; no refuge remains to me, no man cares for me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	142	5	I cry to thee, O Lord; I say, Thou art my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.
 Psalms	Ps	21	142	6	Give heed to my cry; for I am brought very low! Deliver me from my persecutors; for they are too strong for me!
 Psalms	Ps	21	142	7	Bring me out of prison, that I may give thanks to thy name! The righteous will surround me; for thou wilt deal bountifully with me.
 Psalms	Ps	21	143	1	(A Psalm of David.) Hear my prayer, O Lord; give ear to my supplications! In thy faithfulness answer me, in thy righteousness!
 Psalms	Ps	21	143	2	Enter not into judgment with thy servant; for no man living is righteous before thee.
 Psalms	Ps	21	143	3	For the enemy has pursued me; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead.
 Psalms	Ps	21	143	4	Therefore my spirit faints within me; my heart within me is appalled.
 Psalms	Ps	21	143	5	I remember the days of old, I meditate on all that thou hast done; I muse on what thy hands have wrought.
 Psalms	Ps	21	143	6	I stretch out my hands to thee; my soul thirsts for thee like a parched land. [Selah]
 Psalms	Ps	21	143	7	Make haste to answer me, O Lord! My spirit fails! Hide not thy face from me, lest I be like those who go down to the Pit.
 Psalms	Ps	21	143	8	Let me hear in the morning of thy steadfast love, for in thee I put my trust. Teach me the way I should go, for to thee I lift up my soul.
 Psalms	Ps	21	143	9	Deliver me, O Lord, from my enemies! I have fled to thee for refuge!
 Psalms	Ps	21	143	10	Teach me to do thy will, for thou art my God! Let thy good spirit lead me on a level path!
 Psalms	Ps	21	143	11	For thy name’s sake, O Lord, preserve my life! In thy righteousness bring me out of trouble!
 Psalms	Ps	21	143	12	And in thy steadfast love cut off my enemies, and destroy all my adversaries, for I am thy servant.
 Psalms	Ps	21	144	1	(A Psalm of David.) Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle;
 Psalms	Ps	21	144	2	my rock and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues the peoples under him.
 Psalms	Ps	21	144	3	O Lord, what is man that thou dost regard him, or the son of man that thou dost think of him?
 Psalms	Ps	21	144	4	Man is like a breath, his days are like a passing shadow.
 Psalms	Ps	21	144	5	Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down! Touch the mountains that they smoke!
 Psalms	Ps	21	144	6	Flash forth the lightning and scatter them, send out thy arrows and rout them!
 Psalms	Ps	21	144	7	Stretch forth thy hand from on high, rescue me and deliver me from the many waters, from the hand of aliens,
 Psalms	Ps	21	144	8	whose mouths speak lies, and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
 Psalms	Ps	21	144	9	I will sing a new song to thee, O God; upon a ten-stringed harp I will play to thee,
 Psalms	Ps	21	144	10	who givest victory to kings, who rescuest David thy servant.
 Psalms	Ps	21	144	11	Rescue me from the cruel sword, and deliver me from the hand of aliens, whose mouths speak lies, and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
 Psalms	Ps	21	144	12	May our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, our daughters like corner pillars cut for the structure of a palace;
 Psalms	Ps	21	144	13	may our garners be full, providing all manner of store; may our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields;
 Psalms	Ps	21	144	14	may our cattle be heavy with young, suffering no mischance or failure in bearing; may there be no cry of distress in our streets!
 Psalms	Ps	21	144	15	Happy the people to whom such blessings fall! Happy the people whose God is the Lord!
 Psalms	Ps	21	145	1	(A Song of Praise. Of David.) I will extol thee, my God and King, and bless thy name for ever and ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	145	2	Every day I will bless thee, and praise thy name for ever and ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	145	3	Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.
 Psalms	Ps	21	145	4	One generation shall laud thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.
 Psalms	Ps	21	145	5	On the glorious splendor of thy majesty, and on thy wondrous works, I will meditate.
 Psalms	Ps	21	145	6	Men shall proclaim the might of thy terrible acts, and I will declare thy greatness.
 Psalms	Ps	21	145	7	They shall pour forth the fame of thy abundant goodness, and shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
 Psalms	Ps	21	145	8	The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
 Psalms	Ps	21	145	9	The Lord is good to all, and his compassion is over all that he has made.
 Psalms	Ps	21	145	10	All thy works shall give thanks to thee, O Lord, and all thy saints shall bless thee!
 Psalms	Ps	21	145	11	They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and tell of thy power,
 Psalms	Ps	21	145	12	to make known to the sons of men thy mighty deeds, and the glorious splendor of thy kingdom.
 Psalms	Ps	21	145	13	Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endures throughout all generations. The Lord is faithful in all his words, and gracious in all his deeds.
 Psalms	Ps	21	145	14	The Lord upholds all who are falling, and raises up all who are bowed down.
 Psalms	Ps	21	145	15	The eyes of all look to thee, and thou givest them their food in due season.
 Psalms	Ps	21	145	16	Thou openest thy hand, thou satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
 Psalms	Ps	21	145	17	The Lord is just in all his ways, and kind in all his doings.
 Psalms	Ps	21	145	18	The Lord is near to all who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth.
 Psalms	Ps	21	145	19	He fulfils the desire of all who fear him, he also hears their cry, and saves them.
 Psalms	Ps	21	145	20	The Lord preserves all who love him; but all the wicked he will destroy.
 Psalms	Ps	21	145	21	My mouth will speak the praise of the Lord, and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.
 Psalms	Ps	21	146	1	Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, O my soul!
 Psalms	Ps	21	146	2	I will praise the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have being.
 Psalms	Ps	21	146	3	Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no help.
 Psalms	Ps	21	146	4	When his breath departs he returns to his earth; on that very day his plans perish.
 Psalms	Ps	21	146	5	Happy is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lor his God,
 Psalms	Ps	21	146	6	who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps faith for ever;
 Psalms	Ps	21	146	7	who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free;
 Psalms	Ps	21	146	8	the Lord opens the eyes of the blind. The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down; the Lord loves the righteous.
 Psalms	Ps	21	146	9	The Lord watches over the sojourners, he upholds the widow and the fatherless; but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.
 Psalms	Ps	21	146	10	The Lord will reign for ever, thy God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the Lord!
 Psalms	Ps	21	147	1	Praise the Lord! For it is good to sing praises to our God; for he is gracious, and a song of praise is seemly.
 Psalms	Ps	21	147	2	The Lord builds up Jerusalem; he gathers the outcasts of Israel.
 Psalms	Ps	21	147	3	He heals the brokenhearted, and binds up their wounds.
 Psalms	Ps	21	147	4	He determines the number of the stars, he gives to all of them their names.
 Psalms	Ps	21	147	5	Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure.
 Psalms	Ps	21	147	6	The Lord lifts up the downtrodden, he casts the wicked to the ground.
 Psalms	Ps	21	147	7	Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving; make melody to our God upon the lyre!
 Psalms	Ps	21	147	8	He covers the heavens with clouds, he prepares rain for the earth, he makes grass grow upon the hills.
 Psalms	Ps	21	147	9	He gives to the beasts their food, and to the young ravens which cry.
 Psalms	Ps	21	147	10	His delight is not in the strength of the horse, nor his pleasure in the legs of a man;
 Psalms	Ps	21	147	11	but the Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his steadfast love.
 Psalms	Ps	21	147	12	Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem! Praise your God, O Zion!
 Psalms	Ps	21	147	13	For he strengthens the bars of your gates; he blesses your sons within you.
 Psalms	Ps	21	147	14	He makes peace in your borders; he fills you with the finest of the wheat.
 Psalms	Ps	21	147	15	He sends forth his command to the earth; his word runs swiftly.
 Psalms	Ps	21	147	16	He gives snow like wool; he scatters hoarfrost like ashes.
 Psalms	Ps	21	147	17	He casts forth his ice like morsels; who can stand before his cold?
 Psalms	Ps	21	147	18	He sends forth his word, and melts them; he makes his wind blow, and the waters flow.
 Psalms	Ps	21	147	19	He declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and ordinances to Israel.
 Psalms	Ps	21	147	20	He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know his ordinances. Praise the Lord!
 Psalms	Ps	21	148	1	Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise him in the heights!
 Psalms	Ps	21	148	2	Praise him, all his angels, praise him, all his host!
 Psalms	Ps	21	148	3	Praise him, sun and moon, praise him, all you shining stars!
 Psalms	Ps	21	148	4	Praise him, you highest heavens, and you waters above the heavens!
 Psalms	Ps	21	148	5	Let them praise the name of the Lord! For he commanded and they were created.
 Psalms	Ps	21	148	6	And he established them for ever and ever; he fixed their bounds which cannot be passed.
 Psalms	Ps	21	148	7	Praise the Lord from the earth, you sea monsters and all deeps,
 Psalms	Ps	21	148	8	fire and hail, snow and frost, stormy wind fulfilling his command!
 Psalms	Ps	21	148	9	Mountains and all hills, fruit trees and all cedars!
 Psalms	Ps	21	148	10	Beasts and all cattle, creeping things and flying birds!
 Psalms	Ps	21	148	11	Kings of the earth and all peoples, princes and all rulers of the earth!
 Psalms	Ps	21	148	12	Young men and maidens together, old men and children!
 Psalms	Ps	21	148	13	Let them praise the name of the Lord, for his name alone is exalted; his glory is above earth and heaven.
 Psalms	Ps	21	148	14	He has raised up a horn for his people, praise for all his saints, for the people of Israel who are near to him. Praise the Lord!
 Psalms	Ps	21	149	1	Praise the Lord! Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise in the assembly of the faithful!
 Psalms	Ps	21	149	2	Let Israel be glad in his Maker, let the sons of Zion rejoice in their King!
 Psalms	Ps	21	149	3	Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with timbrel and lyre!
 Psalms	Ps	21	149	4	For the Lord takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with victory.
 Psalms	Ps	21	149	5	Let the faithful exult in glory; let them sing for joy on their couches.
 Psalms	Ps	21	149	6	Let the high praises of God be in their throats and two-edged swords in their hands,
 Psalms	Ps	21	149	7	to wreak vengeance on the nations and chastisement on the peoples,
 Psalms	Ps	21	149	8	to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron,
 Psalms	Ps	21	149	9	to execute on them the judgment written! This is glory for all his faithful ones. Praise the Lord!
 Psalms	Ps	21	150	1	Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty firmament!
 Psalms	Ps	21	150	2	Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his exceeding greatness!
 Psalms	Ps	21	150	3	Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp!
 Psalms	Ps	21	150	4	Praise him with timbrel and dance; praise him with strings and pipe!
 Psalms	Ps	21	150	5	Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals!
 Psalms	Ps	21	150	6	Let everything that breathes praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!
 Proverbs	Prov	22	1	1	The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:
 Proverbs	Prov	22	1	2	That men may know wisdom and instruction, understand words of insight,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	1	3	receive instruction in wise dealing, righteousness, justice, and equity;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	1	4	that prudence may be given to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth—
 Proverbs	Prov	22	1	5	the wise man also may hear and increase in learning, and the man of understanding acquire skill,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	1	6	to understand a proverb and a figure, the words of the wise and their riddles.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	1	7	The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	1	8	Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and reject not your mother’s teaching;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	1	9	for they are a fair garland for your head, and pendants for your neck.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	1	10	My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	1	11	If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us wantonly ambush the innocent;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	1	12	like Sheol let us swallow them alive and whole, like those who go down to the Pit;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	1	13	we shall find all precious goods, we shall fill our houses with spoil;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	1	14	throw in your lot among us, we will all have one purse”—
 Proverbs	Prov	22	1	15	my son, do not walk in the way with them, hold back your foot from their paths;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	1	16	for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	1	17	For in vain is a net spread in the sight of any bird;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	1	18	but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they set an ambush for their own lives.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	1	19	Such are the ways of all who get gain by violence; it takes away the life of its possessors.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	1	20	Wisdom cries aloud in the street; in the markets she raises her voice;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	1	21	on the top of the walls she cries out; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:
 Proverbs	Prov	22	1	22	“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
 Proverbs	Prov	22	1	23	Give heed to my reproof; behold, I will pour out my thoughts to you; I will make my words known to you.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	1	24	Because I have called and you refused to listen, have stretched out my hand and no one has heeded,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	1	25	and you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	1	26	I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when panic strikes you,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	1	27	when panic strikes you like a storm, and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	1	28	Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	1	29	Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	1	30	would have none of my counsel, and despised all my reproof,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	1	31	therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way and be sated with their own devices.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	1	32	For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacence of fools destroys them;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	1	33	but he who listens to me will dwell secure and will be at ease, without dread of evil.”
 Proverbs	Prov	22	2	1	My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	2	2	making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	2	3	yes, if you cry out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	2	4	if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	2	5	then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	2	6	For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	2	7	he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	2	8	guarding the paths of justice and preserving the way of his saints.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	2	9	Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	2	10	for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	2	11	discretion will watch over you; understanding will guard you;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	2	12	delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	2	13	who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	2	14	who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	2	15	men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	2	16	You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adventuress with her smooth words,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	2	17	who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	2	18	for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the shades;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	2	19	none who go to her come back nor do they regain the paths of life.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	2	20	So you will walk in the way of good men and keep to the paths of the righteous.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	2	21	For the upright will inhabit the land, and men of integrity will remain in it;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	2	22	but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	1	My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	2	for length of days and years of life and abundant welfare will they give you.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	3	Let not loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them about your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	4	So you will find favor and good repute in the sight of God and man.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	5	Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	6	In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	7	Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	8	It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	9	Honor the Lord with your substance and with the first fruits of all your produce;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	10	then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	11	My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline or be weary of his reproof,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	12	for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	13	Happy is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gets understanding,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	14	for the gain from it is better than gain from silver and its profit better than gold.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	15	She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	16	Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	17	Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	18	She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called happy.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	19	The Lord by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding he established the heavens;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	20	by his knowledge the deeps broke forth, and the clouds drop down the dew.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	21	My son, keep sound wisdom and discretion; let them not escape from your sight,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	22	and they will be life for your soul and adornment for your neck.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	23	Then you will walk on your way securely and your foot will not stumble.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	24	If you sit down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	25	Do not be afraid of sudden panic, or of the ruin of the wicked, when it comes;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	26	for the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	27	Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	28	Do not say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again, tomorrow I will give it”—when you have it with you.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	29	Do not plan evil against your neighbor who dwells trustingly beside you.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	30	Do not contend with a man for no reason, when he has done you no harm.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	31	Do not envy a man of violence and do not choose any of his ways;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	32	for the perverse man is an abomination to the Lord, but the upright are in his confidence.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	33	The Lord’s curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the abode of the righteous.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	34	Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he shows favor.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	3	35	The wise will inherit honor, but fools get disgrace.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	4	1	Hear, O sons, a father’s instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	4	2	for I give you good precepts: do not forsake my teaching.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	4	3	When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	4	4	he taught me, and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	4	5	do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. Get wisdom; get insight.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	4	6	Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	4	7	The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	4	8	Prize her highly, and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	4	9	She will place on your head a fair garland; she will bestow on you a beautiful crown.”
 Proverbs	Prov	22	4	10	Hear, my son, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	4	11	I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	4	12	When you walk, your step will not be hampered; and if you run, you will not stumble.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	4	13	Keep hold of instruction, do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	4	14	Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of evil men.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	4	15	Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	4	16	For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made some one stumble.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	4	17	For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	4	18	But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	4	19	The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	4	20	My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	4	21	Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	4	22	For they are life to him who finds them, and healing to all his flesh.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	4	23	Keep your heart with all vigilance; for from it flow the springs of life.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	4	24	Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	4	25	Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	4	26	Take heed to the path of your feet, then all your ways will be sure.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	4	27	Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	5	1	My son, be attentive to my wisdom, incline your ear to my understanding;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	5	2	that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	5	3	For the lips of a loose woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	5	4	but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	5	5	Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	5	6	she does not take heed to the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	5	7	And now, O sons, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	5	8	Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	5	9	lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	5	10	lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of an alien;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	5	11	and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	5	12	and you say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
 Proverbs	Prov	22	5	13	I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	5	14	I was at the point of utter ruin in the assembled congregation.”
 Proverbs	Prov	22	5	15	Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	5	16	Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?
 Proverbs	Prov	22	5	17	Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	5	18	Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	5	19	a lovely hind, a graceful doe. Let her affection fill you at all times with delight, be infatuated always with her love.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	5	20	Why should you be infatuated, my son, with a loose woman and embrace the bosom of an adventuress?
 Proverbs	Prov	22	5	21	For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he watches all his paths.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	5	22	The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is caught in the toils of his sin.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	5	23	He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is lost.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	1	My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	2	if you are snared in the utterance of your lips, caught in the words of your mouth;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	3	then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into your neighbor’s power: go, hasten, and importune your neighbor.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	4	Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	5	save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	6	Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	7	Without having any chief, officer or ruler,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	8	she prepares her food in summer, and gathers her sustenance in harvest.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	9	How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	10	A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	11	and poverty will come upon you like a vagabond, and want like an armed man.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	12	A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	13	winks with his eyes, scrapes with his feet, points with his finger,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	14	with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	15	therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	16	There are six things which the Lord hates, seven which are an abomination to him:
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	17	haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	18	a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	19	a false witness who breathes out lies, and a man who sows discord among brothers.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	20	My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	21	Bind them upon your heart always; tie them about your neck.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	22	When you walk, they will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	23	For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	24	to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adventuress.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	25	Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	26	for a harlot may be hired for a loaf of bread, but an adulteress stalks a man’s very life.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	27	Can a man carry fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned?
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	28	Or can one walk upon hot coals and his feet not be scorched?
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	29	So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife; none who touches her will go unpunished.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	30	Do not men despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry?
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	31	And if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold; he will give all the goods of his house.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	32	He who commits adultery has no sense; he who does it destroys himself.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	33	Wounds and dishonor will he get, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	34	For jealousy makes a man furious, and he will not spare when he takes revenge.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	6	35	He will accept no compensation, nor be appeased though you multiply gifts.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	7	1	My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	7	2	keep my commandments and live, keep my teachings as the apple of your eye;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	7	3	bind them on your fingers, write them on the tablet of your heart.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	7	4	Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call insight your intimate friend;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	7	5	to preserve you from the loose woman, from the adventuress with her smooth words.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	7	6	For at the window of my house I have looked out through my lattice,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	7	7	and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man without sense,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	7	8	passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house
 Proverbs	Prov	22	7	9	in the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	7	10	And lo, a woman meets him, dressed as a harlot, wily of heart.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	7	11	She is loud and wayward, her feet do not stay at home;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	7	12	now in the street, now in the market, and at every corner she lies in wait.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	7	13	She seizes him and kisses him, and with impudent face she says to him:
 Proverbs	Prov	22	7	14	“I had to offer sacrifices, and today I have paid my vows;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	7	15	so now I have come out to meet you, to seek you eagerly, and I have found you.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	7	16	I have decked my couch with coverings, colored spreads of Egyptian linen;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	7	17	I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	7	18	Come, let us take our fill of love till morning; let us delight ourselves with love.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	7	19	For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	7	20	he took a bag of money with him; at full moon he will come home.”
 Proverbs	Prov	22	7	21	With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	7	22	All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast
 Proverbs	Prov	22	7	23	till an arrow pierces its entrails; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	7	24	And now, O sons, listen to me, and be attentive to the words of my mouth.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	7	25	Let not your heart turn aside to her ways, do not stray into her paths;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	7	26	for many a victim has she laid low; yea, all her slain are a mighty host.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	7	27	Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	1	Does not wisdom call, does not understanding raise her voice?
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	2	On the heights beside the way, in the paths she takes her stand;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	3	beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud:
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	4	“To you, O men, I call, and my cry is to the sons of men.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	5	O simple ones, learn prudence; O foolish men, pay attention.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	6	Hear, for I will speak noble things, and from my lips will come what is right;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	7	for my mouth will utter truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	8	All the words of my mouth are righteous; there is nothing twisted or crooked in them.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	9	They are all straight to him who understands and right to those who find knowledge.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	10	Take my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	11	for wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	12	I, wisdom, dwell in prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	13	The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	14	I have counsel and sound wisdom, I have insight, I have strength.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	15	By me kings reign, and rulers decree what is just;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	16	by me princes rule, and nobles govern the earth.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	17	I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	18	Riches and honor are with me, enduring wealth and prosperity.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	19	My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold, and my yield than choice silver.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	20	I walk in the way of righteousness, in the paths of justice,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	21	endowing with wealth those who love me, and filling their treasuries.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	22	The Lord created me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	23	Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	24	When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	25	Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	26	before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	27	When he established the heavens, I was there, when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	28	when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	29	when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	30	then I was beside him, like a master workman; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	31	rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the sons of men.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	32	And now, my sons, listen to me: happy are those who keep my ways.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	33	Hear instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	34	Happy is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	35	For he who finds me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	8	36	but he who misses me injures himself; all who hate me love death.”
 Proverbs	Prov	22	9	1	Wisdom has built her house, she has set up her seven pillars.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	9	2	She has slaughtered her beasts, she has mixed her wine, she has also set her table.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	9	3	She has sent out her maids to call from the highest places in the town,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	9	4	“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” To him who is without sense she says,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	9	5	“Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	9	6	Leave simpleness, and live, and walk in the way of insight.”
 Proverbs	Prov	22	9	7	He who corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse, and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	9	8	Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	9	9	Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man and he will increase in learning.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	9	10	The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	9	11	For by me your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	9	12	If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scoff, you alone will bear it.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	9	13	A foolish woman is noisy; she is wanton and knows no shame.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	9	14	She sits at the door of her house, she takes a seat on the high places of the town,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	9	15	calling to those who pass by, who are going straight on their way,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	9	16	“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” And to him who is without sense she says,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	9	17	“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”
 Proverbs	Prov	22	9	18	But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	10	1	The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	10	2	Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	10	3	The Lord does not let the righteous go hungry, but he thwarts the craving of the wicked.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	10	4	A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	10	5	A son who gathers in summer is prudent, but a son who sleeps in harvest brings shame.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	10	6	Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	10	7	The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	10	8	The wise of heart will heed commandments, but a prating fool will come to ruin.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	10	9	He who walks in integrity walks securely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	10	10	He who winks the eye causes trouble, but he who boldly reproves makes peace.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	10	11	The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	10	12	Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	10	13	On the lips of him who has understanding wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks sense.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	10	14	Wise men lay up knowledge, but the babbling of a fool brings ruin near.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	10	15	A rich man’s wealth is his strong city; the poverty of the poor is their ruin.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	10	16	The wage of the righteous leads to life, the gain of the wicked to sin.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	10	17	He who heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who rejects reproof goes astray.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	10	18	He who conceals hatred has lying lips, and he who utters slander is a fool.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	10	19	When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but he who restrains his lips is prudent.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	10	20	The tongue of the righteous is choice silver; the mind of the wicked is of little worth.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	10	21	The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	10	22	The blessing of the Lord makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	10	23	It is like sport to a fool to do wrong, but wise conduct is pleasure to a man of understanding.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	10	24	What the wicked dreads will come upon him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	10	25	When the tempest passes, the wicked is no more, but the righteous is established for ever.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	10	26	Like vinegar to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	10	27	The fear of the Lord prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be short.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	10	28	The hope of the righteous ends in gladness, but the expectation of the wicked comes to nought.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	10	29	The Lord is a stronghold to him whose way is upright, but destruction to evildoers.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	10	30	The righteous will never be removed, but the wicked will not dwell in the land.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	10	31	The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	10	32	The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked, what is perverse.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	11	1	A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	11	2	When pride comes, then comes disgrace; but with the humble is wisdom.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	11	3	The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	11	4	Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	11	5	The righteousness of the blameless keeps his way straight, but the wicked falls by his own wickedness.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	11	6	The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the treacherous are taken captive by their lust.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	11	7	When the wicked dies, his hope perishes, and the expectation of the godless comes to nought.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	11	8	The righteous is delivered from trouble, and the wicked gets into it instead.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	11	9	With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	11	10	When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices; and when the wicked perish there are shouts of gladness.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	11	11	By the blessing of the upright a city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	11	12	He who belittles his neighbor lacks sense, but a man of understanding remains silent.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	11	13	He who goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets, but he who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a thing hidden.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	11	14	Where there is no guidance, a people falls; but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	11	15	He who gives surety for a stranger will smart for it, but he who hates suretyship is secure.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	11	16	A gracious woman gets honor, and violent men get riches.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	11	17	A man who is kind benefits himself, but a cruel man hurts himself.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	11	18	A wicked man earns deceptive wages, but one who sows righteousness gets a sure reward.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	11	19	He who is steadfast in righteousness will live, but he who pursues evil will die.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	11	20	Men of perverse mind are an abomination to the Lord, but those of blameless ways are his delight.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	11	21	Be assured, an evil man will not go unpunished, but those who are righteous will be delivered.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	11	22	Like a gold ring in a swine’s snout is a beautiful woman without discretion.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	11	23	The desire of the righteous ends only in good; the expectation of the wicked in wrath.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	11	24	One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	11	25	A liberal man will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	11	26	The people curse him who holds back grain, but a blessing is on the head of him who sells it.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	11	27	He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but evil comes to him who searches for it.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	11	28	He who trusts in his riches will wither, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	11	29	He who troubles his household will inherit wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	11	30	The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, but lawlessness takes away lives.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	11	31	If the righteous is requited on earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner!
 Proverbs	Prov	22	12	1	Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	12	2	A good man obtains favor from the Lord, but a man of evil devices he condemns.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	12	3	A man is not established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never be moved.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	12	4	A good wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	12	5	The thoughts of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are treacherous.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	12	6	The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright delivers men.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	12	7	The wicked are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous will stand.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	12	8	A man is commended according to his good sense, but one of perverse mind is despised.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	12	9	Better is a man of humble standing who works for himself than one who plays the great man but lacks bread.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	12	10	A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	12	11	He who tills his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits has no sense.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	12	12	The strong tower of the wicked comes to ruin, but the root of the righteous stands firm.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	12	13	An evil man is ensnared by the transgression of his lips, but the righteous escapes from trouble.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	12	14	From the fruit of his words a man is satisfied with good, and the work of a man’s hand comes back to him.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	12	15	The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	12	16	The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent man ignores an insult.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	12	17	He who speaks the truth gives honest evidence, but a false witness utters deceit.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	12	18	There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	12	19	Truthful lips endure for ever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	12	20	Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil, but those who plan good have joy.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	12	21	No ill befalls the righteous, but the wicked are filled with trouble.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	12	22	Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	12	23	A prudent man conceals his knowledge, but fools proclaim their folly.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	12	24	The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	12	25	Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	12	26	A righteous man turns away from evil, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	12	27	A slothful man will not catch his prey, but the diligent man will get precious wealth.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	12	28	In the path of righteousness is life, but the way of error leads to death.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	13	1	A wise son hears his father’s instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	13	2	From the fruit of his mouth a good man eats good, but the desire of the treacherous is for violence.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	13	3	He who guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	13	4	The soul of the sluggard craves, and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	13	5	A righteous man hates falsehood, but a wicked man acts shamefully and disgracefully.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	13	6	Righteousness guards him whose way is upright, but sin overthrows the wicked.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	13	7	One man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	13	8	The ransom of a man’s life is his wealth, but a poor man has no means of redemption.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	13	9	The light of the righteous rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked will be put out.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	13	10	By insolence the heedless make strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	13	11	Wealth hastily gotten will dwindle, but he who gathers little by little will increase it.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	13	12	Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	13	13	He who despises the word brings destruction on himself, but he who respects the commandment will be rewarded.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	13	14	The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, that one may avoid the snares of death.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	13	15	Good sense wins favor, but the way of the faithless is their ruin.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	13	16	In everything a prudent man acts with knowledge, but a fool flaunts his folly.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	13	17	A bad messenger plunges men into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	13	18	Poverty and disgrace come to him who ignores instruction, but he who heeds reproof is honored.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	13	19	A desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul; but to turn away from evil is an abomination to fools.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	13	20	He who walks with wise men becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	13	21	Misfortune pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	13	22	A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	13	23	The fallow ground of the poor yields much food, but it is swept away through injustice.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	13	24	He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	13	25	The righteous has enough to satisfy his appetite, but the belly of the wicked suffers want.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	1	Wisdom builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	2	He who walks in uprightness fears the Lord, but he who is devious in his ways despises him.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	3	The talk of a fool is a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will preserve them.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	4	Where there are no oxen, there is no grain; but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	5	A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	6	A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	7	Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	8	The wisdom of a prudent man is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deceiving.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	9	God scorns the wicked, but the upright enjoy his favor.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	10	The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	11	The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	12	There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	13	Even in laughter the heart is sad, and the end of joy is grief.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	14	A perverse man will be filled with the fruit of his ways, and a good man with the fruit of his deeds.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	15	The simple believes everything, but the prudent looks where he is going.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	16	A wise man is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool throws off restraint and is careless.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	17	A man of quick temper acts foolishly, but a man of discretion is patient.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	18	The simple acquire folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	19	The evil bow down before the good, the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	20	The poor is disliked even by his neighbor, but the rich has many friends.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	21	He who despises his neighbor is a sinner, but happy is he who is kind to the poor.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	22	Do they not err that devise evil? Those who devise good meet loyalty and faithfulness.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	23	In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to want.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	24	The crown of the wise is their wisdom, but folly is the garland of fools.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	25	A truthful witness saves lives, but one who utters lies is a betrayer.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	26	In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence, and his children will have a refuge.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	27	The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, that one may avoid the snares of death.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	28	In a multitude of people is the glory of a king, but without people a prince is ruined.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	29	He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	30	A tranquil mind gives life to the flesh, but passion makes the bones rot.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	31	He who oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	32	The wicked is overthrown through his evil-doing, but the righteous finds refuge through his integrity.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	33	Wisdom abides in the mind of a man of understanding, but it is not known in the heart of fools.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	34	Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	14	35	A servant who deals wisely has the king’s favor, but his wrath falls on one who acts shamefully.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	15	1	A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	15	2	The tongue of the wise dispenses knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	15	3	The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	15	4	A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	15	5	A fool despises his father’s instruction, but he who heeds admonition is prudent.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	15	6	In the house of the righteous there is much treasure, but trouble befalls the income of the wicked.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	15	7	The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so the minds of fools.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	15	8	The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	15	9	The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but he loves him who pursues righteousness.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	15	10	There is severe discipline for him who forsakes the way; he who hates reproof will die.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	15	11	Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the Lord, how much more the hearts of men!
 Proverbs	Prov	22	15	12	A scoffer does not like to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	15	13	A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	15	14	The mind of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	15	15	All the days of the afflicted are evil, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	15	16	Better is a little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble with it.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	15	17	Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fatted ox and hatred with it.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	15	18	A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	15	19	The way of a sluggard is overgrown with thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	15	20	A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	15	21	Folly is a joy to him who has no sense, but a man of understanding walks aright.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	15	22	Without counsel plans go wrong, but with many advisers they succeed.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	15	23	To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season, how good it is!
 Proverbs	Prov	22	15	24	The wise man’s path leads upward to life, that he may avoid Sheol beneath.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	15	25	The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but maintains the widow’s boundaries.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	15	26	The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord, the words of the pure are pleasing to him.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	15	27	He who is greedy for unjust gain makes trouble for his household, but he who hates bribes will live.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	15	28	The mind of the righteous ponders how to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	15	29	The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	15	30	The light of the eyes rejoices the heart, and good news refreshes the bones.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	15	31	He whose ear heeds wholesome admonition will abide among the wise.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	15	32	He who ignores instruction despises himself, but he who heeds admonition gains understanding.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	15	33	The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom, and humility goes before honor.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	16	1	The plans of the mind belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	16	2	All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirit.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	16	3	Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	16	4	The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	16	5	Every one who is arrogant is an abomination to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	16	6	By loyalty and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the Lord a man avoids evil.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	16	7	When a man’s ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	16	8	Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	16	9	A man’s mind plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	16	10	Inspired decisions are on the lips of a king; his mouth does not sin in judgment.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	16	11	A just balance and scales are the Lord’s; all the weights in the bag are his work.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	16	12	It is an abomination to kings to do evil, for the throne is established by righteousness.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	16	13	Righteous lips are the delight of a king, and he loves him who speaks what is right.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	16	14	A king’s wrath is a messenger of death, and a wise man will appease it.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	16	15	In the light of a king’s face there is life, and his favor is like the clouds that bring the spring rain.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	16	16	To get wisdom is better than gold; to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	16	17	The highway of the upright turns aside from evil; he who guards his way preserves his life.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	16	18	Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	16	19	It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	16	20	He who gives heed to the word will prosper, and happy is he who trusts in the Lord.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	16	21	The wise of heart is called a man of discernment, and pleasant speech increases persuasiveness.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	16	22	Wisdom is a fountain of life to him who has it, but folly is the chastisement of fools.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	16	23	The mind of the wise makes his speech judicious, and adds persuasiveness to his lips.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	16	24	Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	16	25	There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	16	26	A worker’s appetite works for him; his mouth urges him on.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	16	27	A worthless man plots evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	16	28	A perverse man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	16	29	A man of violence entices his neighbor and leads him in a way that is not good.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	16	30	He who winks his eyes plans perverse things, he who compresses his lips brings evil to pass.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	16	31	A hoary head is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	16	32	He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	16	33	The lot is cast into the lap, but the decision is wholly from the Lord.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	17	1	Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	17	2	A slave who deals wisely will rule over a son who acts shamefully, and will share the inheritance as one of the brothers.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	17	3	The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the Lord tries hearts.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	17	4	An evildoer listens to wicked lips; and a liar gives heed to a mischievous tongue.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	17	5	He who mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	17	6	Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of sons is their fathers.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	17	7	Fine speech is not becoming to a fool; still less is false speech to a prince.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	17	8	A bribe is like a magic stone in the eyes of him who gives it; wherever he turns he prospers.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	17	9	He who forgives an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter alienates a friend.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	17	10	A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred blows into a fool.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	17	11	An evil man seeks only rebellion, and a cruel messenger will be sent against him.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	17	12	Let a man meet a she-bear robbed of her cubs, rather than a fool in his folly.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	17	13	If a man returns evil for good, evil will not depart from his house.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	17	14	The beginning of strife is like letting out water; so quit before the quarrel breaks out.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	17	15	He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the Lord.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	17	16	Why should a fool have a price in his hand to buy wisdom, when he has no mind?
 Proverbs	Prov	22	17	17	A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	17	18	A man without sense gives a pledge, and becomes surety in the presence of his neighbor.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	17	19	He who loves transgression loves strife; he who makes his door high seeks destruction.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	17	20	A man of crooked mind does not prosper, and one with a perverse tongue falls into calamity.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	17	21	A stupid son is a grief to a father; and the father of a fool has no joy.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	17	22	A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a downcast spirit dries up the bones.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	17	23	A wicked man accepts a bribe from the bosom to pervert the ways of justice.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	17	24	A man of understanding sets his face toward wisdom, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	17	25	A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	17	26	To impose a fine on a righteous man is not good; to flog noble men is wrong.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	17	27	He who restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	17	28	Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	18	1	He who is estranged seeks pretexts to break out against all sound judgment.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	18	2	A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	18	3	When wickedness comes, contempt comes also; and with dishonor comes disgrace.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	18	4	The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a gushing stream.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	18	5	It is not good to be partial to a wicked man, or to deprive a righteous man of justice.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	18	6	A fool’s lips bring strife, and his mouth invites a flogging.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	18	7	A fool’s mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to himself.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	18	8	The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	18	9	He who is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	18	10	The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	18	11	A rich man’s wealth is his strong city, and like a high wall protecting him.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	18	12	Before destruction a man’s heart is haughty, but humility goes before honor.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	18	13	If one gives answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	18	14	A man’s spirit will endure sickness; but a broken spirit who can bear?
 Proverbs	Prov	22	18	15	An intelligent mind acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	18	16	A man’s gift makes room for him and brings him before great men.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	18	17	He who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	18	18	The lot puts an end to disputes and decides between powerful contenders.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	18	19	A brother helped is like a strong city, but quarreling is like the bars of a castle.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	18	20	From the fruit of his mouth a man is satisfied; he is satisfied by the yield of his lips.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	18	21	Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	18	22	He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from the Lord.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	18	23	The poor use entreaties, but the rich answer roughly.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	18	24	There are friends who pretend to be friends, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	19	1	Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a man who is perverse in speech, and is a fool.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	19	2	It is not good for a man to be without knowledge, and he who makes haste with his feet misses his way.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	19	3	When a man’s folly brings his way to ruin, his heart rages against the Lord.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	19	4	Wealth brings many new friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	19	5	A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who utters lies will not escape.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	19	6	Many seek the favor of a generous man, and every one is a friend to a man who gives gifts.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	19	7	All a poor man’s brothers hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues them with words, but does not have them.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	19	8	He who gets wisdom loves himself; he who keeps understanding will prosper.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	19	9	A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who utters lies will perish.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	19	10	It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury, much less for a slave to rule over princes.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	19	11	Good sense makes a man slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	19	12	A king’s wrath is like the growling of a lion, but his favor is like dew upon the grass.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	19	13	A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	19	14	House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	19	15	Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	19	16	He who keeps the commandment keeps his life; he who despises the word will die.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	19	17	He who is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	19	18	Discipline your son while there is hope; do not set your heart on his destruction.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	19	19	A man of great wrath will pay the penalty; for if you deliver him, you will only have to do it again.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	19	20	Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom for the future.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	19	21	Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will be established.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	19	22	What is desired in a man is loyalty, and a poor man is better than a liar.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	19	23	The fear of the Lord leads to life; and he who has it rests satisfied; he will not be visited by harm.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	19	24	The sluggard buries his hand in the dish, and will not even bring it back to his mouth.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	19	25	Strike a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; reprove a man of understanding, and he will gain knowledge.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	19	26	He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	19	27	Cease, my son, to hear instruction only to stray from the words of knowledge.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	19	28	A worthless witness mocks at justice, and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	19	29	Condemnation is ready for scoffers, and flogging for the backs of fools.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	20	1	Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	20	2	The dread wrath of a king is like the growling of a lion; he who provokes him to anger forfeits his life.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	20	3	It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; but every fool will be quarreling.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	20	4	The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	20	5	The purpose in a man’s mind is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	20	6	Many a man proclaims his own loyalty, but a faithful man who can find?
 Proverbs	Prov	22	20	7	A righteous man who walks in his integrity— blessed are his sons after him!
 Proverbs	Prov	22	20	8	A king who sits on the throne of judgment winnows all evil with his eyes.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	20	9	Who can say, “I have made my heart clean; I am pure from my sin”?
 Proverbs	Prov	22	20	10	Diverse weights and diverse measures are both alike an abomination to the Lord.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	20	11	Even a child makes himself known by his acts, whether what he does is pure and right.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	20	12	The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the Lord has made them both.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	20	13	Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	20	14	“It is bad, it is bad,” says the buyer; but when he goes away, then he boasts.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	20	15	There is gold, and abundance of costly stones; but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	20	16	Take a man’s garment when he has given surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge when he gives surety for foreigners.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	20	17	Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth will be full of gravel.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	20	18	Plans are established by counsel; by wise guidance wage war.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	20	19	He who goes about gossiping reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with one who speaks foolishly.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	20	20	If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	20	21	An inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning will in the end not be blessed.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	20	22	Do not say, “I will repay evil”; wait for the Lord, and he will help you.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	20	23	Diverse weights are an abomination to the Lord, and false scales are not good.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	20	24	A man’s steps are ordered by the Lord; how then can man understand his way?
 Proverbs	Prov	22	20	25	It is a snare for a man to say rashly, “It is holy,” and to reflect only after making his vows.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	20	26	A wise king winnows the wicked, and drives the wheel over them.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	20	27	The spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all his innermost parts.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	20	28	Loyalty and faithfulness preserve the king, and his throne is upheld by righteousness.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	20	29	The glory of young men is their strength, but the beauty of old men is their gray hair.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	20	30	Blows that wound cleanse away evil; strokes make clean the innermost parts.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	21	1	The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	21	2	Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	21	3	To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	21	4	Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	21	5	The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but every one who is hasty comes only to want.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	21	6	The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	21	7	The violence of the wicked will sweep them away, because they refuse to do what is just.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	21	8	The way of the guilty is crooked, but the conduct of the pure is right.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	21	9	It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a contentious woman.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	21	10	The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	21	11	When a scoffer is punished, the simple becomes wise; when a wise man is instructed, he gains knowledge.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	21	12	The righteous observes the house of the wicked; the wicked are cast down to ruin.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	21	13	He who closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself cry out and not be heard.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	21	14	A gift in secret averts anger; and a bribe in the bosom, strong wrath.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	21	15	When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous, but dismay to evildoers.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	21	16	A man who wanders from the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	21	17	He who loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	21	18	The wicked is a ransom for the righteous, and the faithless for the upright.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	21	19	It is better to live in a desert land than with a contentious and fretful woman.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	21	20	Precious treasure remains in a wise man’s dwelling, but a foolish man devours it.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	21	21	He who pursues righteousness and kindness will find life and honor.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	21	22	A wise man scales the city of the mighty and brings down the stronghold in which they trust.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	21	23	He who keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	21	24	“Scoffer” is the name of the proud, haughty man who acts with arrogant pride.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	21	25	The desire of the sluggard kills him for his hands refuse to labor.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	21	26	All day long the wicked covets, but the righteous gives and does not hold back.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	21	27	The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when he brings it with evil intent.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	21	28	A false witness will perish, but the word of a man who hears will endure.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	21	29	A wicked man puts on a bold face, but an upright man considers his ways.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	21	30	No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel, can avail against the Lord.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	21	31	The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the Lord.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	22	1	A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	22	2	The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the maker of them all.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	22	3	A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple go on, and suffer for it.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	22	4	The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	22	5	Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; he who guards himself will keep far from them.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	22	6	Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	22	7	The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	22	8	He who sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	22	9	He who has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	22	10	Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out, and quarreling and abuse will cease.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	22	11	He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	22	12	The eyes of the Lord keep watch over knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the faithless.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	22	13	The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I shall be slain in the streets!”
 Proverbs	Prov	22	22	14	The mouth of a loose woman is a deep pit; he with whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	22	15	Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	22	16	He who oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to want.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	22	17	Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your mind to my knowledge;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	22	18	for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	22	19	That your trust may be in the Lord, I have made them known to you today, even to you.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	22	20	Have I not written for you thirty sayings of admonition and knowledge,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	22	21	to show you what is right and true, that you may give a true answer to those who sent you?
 Proverbs	Prov	22	22	22	Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	22	23	for the Lord will plead their cause and despoil of life those who despoil them.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	22	24	Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	22	25	lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	22	26	Be not one of those who give pledges, who become surety for debts.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	22	27	If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
 Proverbs	Prov	22	22	28	Remove not the ancient landmark which your fathers have set.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	22	29	Do you see a man skilful in his work? he will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	1	When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	2	and put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	3	Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	4	Do not toil to acquire wealth; be wise enough to desist.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	5	When your eyes light upon it, it is gone; for suddenly it takes to itself wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	6	Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy; do not desire his delicacies;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	7	for he is like one who is inwardly reckoning. “Eat and drink!” he says to you; but his heart is not with you.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	8	You will vomit up the morsels which you have eaten, and waste your pleasant words.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	9	Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	10	Do not remove an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	11	for their Redeemer is strong; he will plead their cause against you.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	12	Apply your mind to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	13	Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you beat him with a rod, he will not die.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	14	If you beat him with the rod you will save his life from Sheol.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	15	My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	16	My soul will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	17	Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of the Lord all the day.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	18	Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	19	Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your mind in the way.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	20	Be not among winebibbers, or among gluttonous eaters of meat;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	21	for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	22	Hearken to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	23	Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	24	The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who begets a wise son will be glad in him.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	25	Let your father and mother be glad, let her who bore you rejoice.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	26	My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	27	For a harlot is a deep pit; an adventuress is a narrow well.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	28	She lies in wait like a robber and increases the faithless among men.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	29	Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	30	Those who tarry long over wine, those who go to try mixed wine.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	31	Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	32	At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	33	Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind utter perverse things.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	34	You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	23	35	“They struck me,” you will say, “but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I will seek another drink.”
 Proverbs	Prov	22	24	1	Be not envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	24	2	for their minds devise violence, and their lips talk of mischief.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	24	3	By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	24	4	by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	24	5	A wise man is mightier than a strong man, and a man of knowledge than he who has strength;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	24	6	for by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	24	7	Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he does not open his mouth.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	24	8	He who plans to do evil will be called a mischief-maker.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	24	9	The devising of folly is sin, and the scoffer is an abomination to men.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	24	10	If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	24	11	Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	24	12	If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not requite man according to his work?
 Proverbs	Prov	22	24	13	My son, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	24	14	Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	24	15	Lie not in wait as a wicked man against the dwelling of the righteous; do not violence to his home;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	24	16	for a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	24	17	Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	24	18	lest the Lord see it, and be displeased, and turn away his anger from him.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	24	19	Fret not yourself because of evildoers, and be not envious of the wicked;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	24	20	for the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be put out.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	24	21	My son, fear the Lord and the king, and do not disobey either of them;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	24	22	for disaster from them will rise suddenly, and who knows the ruin that will come from them both?
 Proverbs	Prov	22	24	23	These also are sayings of the wise. Partiality in judging is not good.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	24	24	He who says to the wicked, “You are innocent,” will be cursed by peoples, abhorred by nations;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	24	25	but those who rebuke the wicked will have delight, and a good blessing will be upon them.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	24	26	He who gives a right answer kisses the lips.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	24	27	Prepare your work outside, get everything ready for you in the field; and after that build your house.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	24	28	Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	24	29	Do not say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will pay the man back for what he has done.”
 Proverbs	Prov	22	24	30	I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of a man without sense;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	24	31	and lo, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	24	32	Then I saw and considered it; I looked and received instruction.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	24	33	A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	24	34	and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	25	1	These also are proverbs of Solomon which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	25	2	It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	25	3	As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the mind of kings is unsearchable.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	25	4	Take away the dross from the silver, and the smith has material for a vessel;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	25	5	take away the wicked from the presence of the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	25	6	Do not put yourself forward in the king’s presence or stand in the place of the great;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	25	7	for it is better to be told, “Come up here,” than to be put lower in the presence of the prince. What your eyes have seen
 Proverbs	Prov	22	25	8	do not hastily bring into court; for what will you do in the end, when your neighbor puts you to shame?
 Proverbs	Prov	22	25	9	Argue your case with your neighbor himself, and do not disclose another’s secret;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	25	10	lest he who hears you bring shame upon you, and your ill repute have no end.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	25	11	A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	25	12	Like a gold ring or an ornament of gold is a wise reprover to a listening ear.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	25	13	Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest is a faithful messenger to those who send him, he refreshes the spirit of his masters.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	25	14	Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of a gift he does not give.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	25	15	With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	25	16	If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you be sated with it and vomit it.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	25	17	Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s house, lest he become weary of you and hate you.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	25	18	A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is like a war club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	25	19	Trust in a faithless man in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a foot that slips.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	25	20	He who sings songs to a heavy heart is like one who takes off a garment on a cold day, and like vinegar on a wound.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	25	21	If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	25	22	for you will heap coals of fire on his head, and the Lord will reward you.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	25	23	The north wind brings forth rain; and a backbiting tongue, angry looks.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	25	24	It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a contentious woman.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	25	25	Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	25	26	Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	25	27	It is not good to eat much honey, so be sparing of complimentary words.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	25	28	A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	26	1	Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	26	2	Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	26	3	A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the back of fools.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	26	4	Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	26	5	Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	26	6	He who sends a message by the hand of a fool cuts off his own feet and drinks violence.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	26	7	Like a lame man’s legs, which hang useless, is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	26	8	Like one who binds the stone in the sling is he who gives honor to a fool.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	26	9	Like a thorn that goes up into the hand of a drunkard is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	26	10	Like an archer who wounds everybody is he who hires a passing fool or drunkard.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	26	11	Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool that repeats his folly.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	26	12	Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	26	13	The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! There is a lion in the streets!”
 Proverbs	Prov	22	26	14	As a door turns on its hinges, so does a sluggard on his bed.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	26	15	The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; it wears him out to bring it back to his mouth.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	26	16	The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who can answer discreetly.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	26	17	He who meddles in a quarrel not his own is like one who takes a passing dog by the ears.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	26	18	Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	26	19	is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “I am only joking!”
 Proverbs	Prov	22	26	20	For lack of wood the fire goes out; and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	26	21	As charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	26	22	The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	26	23	Like the glaze covering an earthen vessel are smooth lips with an evil heart.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	26	24	He who hates, dissembles with his lips and harbors deceit in his heart;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	26	25	when he speaks graciously, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	26	26	though his hatred be covered with guile, his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	26	27	He who digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back upon him who starts it rolling.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	26	28	A lying tongue hates its victims, and a flattering mouth works ruin.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	27	1	Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	27	2	Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	27	3	A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	27	4	Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming; but who can stand before jealousy?
 Proverbs	Prov	22	27	5	Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	27	6	Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	27	7	He who is sated loathes honey, but to one who is hungry everything bitter is sweet.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	27	8	Like a bird that strays from its nest, is a man who strays from his home.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	27	9	Oil and perfume make the heart glad, but the soul is torn by trouble.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	27	10	Your friend, and your father’s friend, do not forsake; and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	27	11	Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	27	12	A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple go on, and suffer for it.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	27	13	Take a man’s garment when he has given surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge when he gives surety for foreigners.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	27	14	He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, will be counted as cursing.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	27	15	A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	27	16	to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp oil in his right hand.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	27	17	Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	27	18	He who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honored.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	27	19	As in water face answers to face, so the mind of man reflects the man.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	27	20	Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	27	21	The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and a man is judged by his praise.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	27	22	Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his folly will not depart from him.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	27	23	Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	27	24	for riches do not last for ever; and does a crown endure to all generations?
 Proverbs	Prov	22	27	25	When the grass is gone, and the new growth appears, and the herbage of the mountains is gathered,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	27	26	the lambs will provide your clothing, and the goats the price of a field;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	27	27	there will be enough goats’ milk for your food, for the food of your household and maintenance for your maidens.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	28	1	The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	28	2	When a land transgresses it has many rulers; but with men of understanding and knowledge its stability will long continue.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	28	3	A poor man who oppresses the poor is a beating rain that leaves no food.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	28	4	Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law strive against them.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	28	5	Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it completely.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	28	6	Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is perverse in his ways.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	28	7	He who keeps the law is a wise son, but a companion of gluttons shames his father.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	28	8	He who augments his wealth by interest and increase gathers it for him who is kind to the poor.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	28	9	If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	28	10	He who misleads the upright into an evil way will fall into his own pit; but the blameless will have a goodly inheritance.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	28	11	A rich man is wise in his own eyes, but a poor man who has understanding will find him out.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	28	12	When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	28	13	He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	28	14	Blessed is the man who fears the Lord always; but he who hardens his heart will fall into calamity.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	28	15	Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	28	16	A ruler who lacks understanding is a cruel oppressor; but he who hates unjust gain will prolong his days.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	28	17	If a man is burdened with the blood of another, let him be a fugitive until death; let no one help him.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	28	18	He who walks in integrity will be delivered, but he who is perverse in his ways will fall into a pit.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	28	19	He who tills his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	28	20	A faithful man will abound with blessings, but he who hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	28	21	To show partiality is not good; but for a piece of bread a man will do wrong.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	28	22	A miserly man hastens after wealth, and does not know that want will come upon him.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	28	23	He who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than he who flatters with his tongue.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	28	24	He who robs his father or his mother and says, “That is no transgression,” is the companion of a man who destroys.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	28	25	A greedy man stirs up strife, but he who trusts in the Lord will be enriched.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	28	26	He who trusts in his own mind is a fool; but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	28	27	He who gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	28	28	When the wicked rise, men hide themselves, but when they perish, the righteous increase.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	29	1	He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck will suddenly be broken beyond healing.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	29	2	When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people groan.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	29	3	He who loves wisdom makes his father glad, but one who keeps company with harlots squanders his substance.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	29	4	By justice a king gives stability to the land, but one who exacts gifts ruins it.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	29	5	A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	29	6	An evil man is ensnared in his transgression, but a righteous man sings and rejoices.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	29	7	A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	29	8	Scoffers set a city aflame, but wise men turn away wrath.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	29	9	If a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	29	10	Bloodthirsty men hate one who is blameless, and the wicked seek his life.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	29	11	A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man quietly holds it back.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	29	12	If a ruler listens to falsehood, all his officials will be wicked.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	29	13	The poor man and the oppressor meet together; the Lord gives light to the eyes of both.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	29	14	If a king judges the poor with equity his throne will be established for ever.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	29	15	The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	29	16	When the wicked are in authority, transgression increases; but the righteous will look upon their downfall.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	29	17	Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	29	18	Where there is no prophecy the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	29	19	By mere words a servant is not disciplined, for though he understands, he will not give heed.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	29	20	Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	29	21	He who pampers his servant from childhood, will in the end find him his heir.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	29	22	A man of wrath stirs up strife, and a man given to anger causes much transgression.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	29	23	A man’s pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	29	24	The partner of a thief hates his own life; he hears the curse, but discloses nothing.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	29	25	The fear of man lays a snare, but he who trusts in the Lord is safe.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	29	26	Many seek the favor of a ruler, but from the Lord a man gets justice.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	29	27	An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous, but he whose way is straight is an abomination to the wicked.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	30	1	The words of Agur son of Jakeh of Massa. The man says to Ithi-el, to Ithi-el and Ucal:
 Proverbs	Prov	22	30	2	Surely I am too stupid to be a man. I have not the understanding of a man.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	30	3	I have not learned wisdom, nor have I knowledge of the Holy One.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	30	4	Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name? Surely you know!
 Proverbs	Prov	22	30	5	Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	30	6	Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you, and you be found a liar.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	30	7	Two things I ask of thee; deny them not to me before I die:
 Proverbs	Prov	22	30	8	Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me,
 Proverbs	Prov	22	30	9	lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, “Who is the Lord?” or lest I be poor, and steal, and profane the name of my God.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	30	10	Do not slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	30	11	There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	30	12	There are those who are pure in their own eyes but are not cleansed of their filth.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	30	13	There are those—how lofty are their eyes, how high their eyelids lift!
 Proverbs	Prov	22	30	14	There are those whose teeth are swords, whose teeth are knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among men.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	30	15	The leech has two daughters; “Give, give,” they cry. Three things are never satisfied; four never say, “Enough”:
 Proverbs	Prov	22	30	16	Sheol, the barren womb, the earth ever thirsty for water, and the fire which never says, “Enough.”
 Proverbs	Prov	22	30	17	The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	30	18	Three things are too wonderful for me; four I do not understand:
 Proverbs	Prov	22	30	19	the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a maiden.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	30	20	This is the way of an adulteress: she eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, “I have done no wrong.”
 Proverbs	Prov	22	30	21	Under three things the earth trembles; under four it cannot bear up:
 Proverbs	Prov	22	30	22	a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is filled with food;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	30	23	an unloved woman when she gets a husband, and a maid when she succeeds her mistress.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	30	24	Four things on earth are small, but they are exceedingly wise:
 Proverbs	Prov	22	30	25	the ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	30	26	the badgers are a people not mighty, yet they make their homes in the rocks;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	30	27	the locusts have no king, yet all of them march in rank;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	30	28	the lizard you can take in your hands, yet it is in kings’ palaces.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	30	29	Three things are stately in their tread; four are stately in their stride:
 Proverbs	Prov	22	30	30	the lion, which is mightiest among beasts and does not turn back before any;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	30	31	the strutting cock, the he-goat, and a king striding before his people.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	30	32	If you have been foolish, exalting yourself, or if you have been devising evil, put your hand on your mouth.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	30	33	For pressing milk produces curds, pressing the nose produces blood, and pressing anger produces strife.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	31	1	The words of Lemuel, king of Massa, which his mother taught him:
 Proverbs	Prov	22	31	2	What, my son? What, son of my womb? What, son of my vows?
 Proverbs	Prov	22	31	3	Give not your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	31	4	It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to desire strong drink;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	31	5	lest they drink and forget what has been decreed, and pervert the rights of all the afflicted.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	31	6	Give strong drink to him who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress;
 Proverbs	Prov	22	31	7	let them drink and forget their poverty, and remember their misery no more.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	31	8	Open your mouth for the dumb, for the rights of all who are left desolate.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	31	9	Open your mouth, judge righteously, maintain the rights of the poor and needy.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	31	10	A good wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	31	11	The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	31	12	She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	31	13	She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	31	14	She is like the ships of the merchant, she brings her food from afar.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	31	15	She rises while it is yet night and provides food for her household and tasks for her maidens.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	31	16	She considers a field and buys it; with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	31	17	She girds her loins with strength and makes her arms strong.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	31	18	She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp does not go out at night.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	31	19	She puts her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	31	20	She opens her hand to the poor, and reaches out her hands to the needy.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	31	21	She is not afraid of snow for her household, for all her household are clothed in scarlet.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	31	22	She makes herself coverings; her clothing is fine linen and purple.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	31	23	Her husband is known in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	31	24	She makes linen garments and sells them; she delivers girdles to the merchant.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	31	25	Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	31	26	She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	31	27	She looks well to the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	31	28	Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:
 Proverbs	Prov	22	31	29	“Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.”
 Proverbs	Prov	22	31	30	Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
 Proverbs	Prov	22	31	31	Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	1	1	The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	1	2	Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	1	3	What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	1	4	A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains for ever.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	1	5	The sun rises and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	1	6	The wind blows to the south, and goes round to the north; round and round goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	1	7	All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the streams flow, there they flow again.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	1	8	All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	1	9	What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	1	10	Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, this is new”? It has been already, in the ages before us.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	1	11	There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to happen among those who come after.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	1	12	I the Preacher have been king over Israel in Jerusalem.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	1	13	And I applied my mind to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven; it is an unhappy business that God has given to the sons of men to be busy with.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	1	14	I have seen everything that is done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	1	15	What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be numbered.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	1	16	I said to myself, “I have acquired great wisdom, surpassing all who were over Jerusalem before me; and my mind has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.”
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	1	17	And I applied my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	1	18	For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	2	1	I said to myself, “Come now, I will make a test of pleasure; enjoy yourself.” But behold, this also was vanity.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	2	2	I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?”
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	2	3	I searched with my mind how to cheer my body with wine—my mind still guiding me with wisdom—and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under heaven during the few days of their life.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	2	4	I made great works; I built houses and planted vineyards for myself;
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	2	5	I made myself gardens and parks, and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	2	6	I made myself pools from which to water the forest of growing trees.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	2	7	I bought male and female slaves, and had slaves who were born in my house; I had also great possessions of herds and flocks, more than any who had been before me in Jerusalem.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	2	8	I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces; I got singers, both men and women, and many concubines, man’s delight.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	2	9	So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem; also my wisdom remained with me.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	2	10	And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them; I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	2	11	Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had spent in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	2	12	So I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly; for what can the man do who comes after the king? Only what he has already done.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	2	13	Then I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	2	14	The wise man has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness; and yet I perceived that one fate comes to all of them.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	2	15	Then I said to myself, “What befalls the fool will befall me also; why then have I been so very wise?” And I said to myself that this also is vanity.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	2	16	For of the wise man as of the fool there is no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How the wise man dies just like the fool!
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	2	17	So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	2	18	I hated all my toil in which I had toiled under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me;
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	2	19	and who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	2	20	So I turned about and gave my heart up to despair over all the toil of my labors under the sun,
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	2	21	because sometimes a man who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave all to be enjoyed by a man who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	2	22	What has a man from all the toil and strain with which he toils beneath the sun?
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	2	23	For all his days are full of pain, and his work is a vexation; even in the night his mind does not rest. This also is vanity.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	2	24	There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God;
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	2	25	for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment?
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	2	26	For to the man who pleases him God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	3	1	For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	3	2	a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	3	3	a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	3	4	a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	3	5	a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	3	6	a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	3	7	a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	3	8	a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	3	9	What gain has the worker from his toil?
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	3	10	I have seen the business that God has given to the sons of men to be busy with.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	3	11	He has made everything beautiful in its time; also he has put eternity into man’s mind, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	3	12	I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live;
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	3	13	also that it is God’s gift to man that every one should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	3	14	I know that whatever God does endures for ever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; God has made it so, in order that men should fear before him.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	3	15	That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	3	16	Moreover I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	3	17	I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for he has appointed a time for every matter, and for every work.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	3	18	I said in my heart with regard to the sons of men that God is testing them to show them that they are but beasts.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	3	19	For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts; for all is vanity.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	3	20	All go to one place; all are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	3	21	Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down to the earth?
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	3	22	So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should enjoy his work, for that is his lot; who can bring him to see what will be after him?
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	4	1	Again I saw all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	4	2	And I thought the dead who are already dead more fortunate than the living who are still alive;
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	4	3	but better than both is he who has not yet been, and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	4	4	Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	4	5	The fool folds his hands, and eats his own flesh.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	4	6	Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	4	7	Again, I saw vanity under the sun:
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	4	8	a person who has no one, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, “For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	4	9	Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	4	10	For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	4	11	Again, if two lie together, they are warm; but how can one be warm alone?
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	4	12	And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him. A threefold cord is not quickly broken.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	4	13	Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who will no longer take advice,
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	4	14	even though he had gone from prison to the throne or in his own kingdom had been born poor.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	4	15	I saw all the living who move about under the sun, as well as that youth, who was to stand in his place;
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	4	16	there was no end of all the people; he was over all of them. Yet those who come later will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	5	1	Guard your steps when you go to the house of God; to draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools; for they do not know that they are doing evil.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	5	2	Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven, and you upon earth; therefore let your words be few.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	5	3	For a dream comes with much business, and a fool’s voice with many words.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	5	4	When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	5	5	It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	5	6	Let not your mouth lead you into sin, and do not say before the messenger that it was a mistake; why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	5	7	For when dreams increase, empty words grow many: but do you fear God.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	5	8	If you see in a province the poor oppressed and justice and right violently taken away, do not be amazed at the matter; for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	5	9	But in all, a king is an advantage to a land with cultivated fields.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	5	10	He who loves money will not be satisfied with money; nor he who loves wealth, with gain: this also is vanity.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	5	11	When goods increase, they increase who eat them; and what gain has their owner but to see them with his eyes?
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	5	12	Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much; but the surfeit of the rich will not let him sleep.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	5	13	There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owner to his hurt,
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	5	14	and those riches were lost in a bad venture; and he is father of a son, but he has nothing in his hand.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	5	15	As he came from his mother’s womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil, which he may carry away in his hand.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	5	16	This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go; and what gain has he that he toiled for the wind,
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	5	17	and spent all his days in darkness and grief, in much vexation and sickness and resentment?
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	5	18	Behold, what I have seen to be good and to be fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life which God has given him, for this is his lot.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	5	19	Every man also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and find enjoyment in his toil—this is the gift of God.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	5	20	For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with joy in his heart.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	6	1	There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy upon men:
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	6	2	a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them; this is vanity; it is a sore affliction.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	6	3	If a man begets a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but he does not enjoy life’s good things, and also has no burial, I say that an untimely birth is better off than he.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	6	4	For it comes into vanity and goes into darkness, and in darkness its name is covered;
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	6	5	moreover it has not seen the sun or known anything; yet it finds rest rather than he.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	6	6	Even though he should live a thousand years twice told, yet enjoy no good—do not all go to the one place?
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	6	7	All the toil of man is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not satisfied.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	6	8	For what advantage has the wise man over the fool? And what does the poor man have who knows how to conduct himself before the living?
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	6	9	Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire; this also is vanity and a striving after wind.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	6	10	Whatever has come to be has already been named, and it is known what man is, and that he is not able to dispute with one stronger than he.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	6	11	The more words, the more vanity, and what is man the better?
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	6	12	For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun?
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	7	1	A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death, than the day of birth.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	7	2	It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for this is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to heart.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	7	3	Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of countenance the heart is made glad.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	7	4	The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	7	5	It is better for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise than to hear the song of fools.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	7	6	For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fools; this also is vanity.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	7	7	Surely oppression makes the wise man foolish, and a bribe corrupts the mind.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	7	8	Better is the end of a thing than its beginning; and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	7	9	Be not quick to anger, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	7	10	Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	7	11	Wisdom is good with an inheritance, an advantage to those who see the sun.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	7	12	For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money; and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	7	13	Consider the work of God; who can make straight what he has made crooked?
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	7	14	In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	7	15	In my vain life I have seen everything; there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evil-doing.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	7	16	Be not righteous overmuch, and do not make yourself overwise; why should you destroy yourself?
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	7	17	Be not wicked overmuch, neither be a fool; why should you die before your time?
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	7	18	It is good that you should take hold of this, and from that withhold not your hand; for he who fears God shall come forth from them all.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	7	19	Wisdom gives strength to the wise man more than ten rulers that are in a city.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	7	20	Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	7	21	Do not give heed to all the things that men say, lest you hear your servant cursing you;
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	7	22	your heart knows that many times you have yourself cursed others.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	7	23	All this I have tested by wisdom; I said, “I will be wise”; but it was far from me.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	7	24	That which is, is far off, and deep, very deep; who can find it out?
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	7	25	I turned my mind to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the sum of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness which is madness.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	7	26	And I found more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters; he who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	7	27	Behold, this is what I found, says the Preacher, adding one thing to another to find the sum,
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	7	28	which my mind has sought repeatedly, but I have not found. One man among a thousand I found, but a woman among all these I have not found.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	7	29	Behold, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many devices.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	8	1	Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his countenance is changed.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	8	2	Keep the king’s command, and because of your sacred oath be not dismayed;
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	8	3	go from his presence, do not delay when the matter is unpleasant, for he does whatever he pleases.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	8	4	For the word of the king is supreme, and who may say to him, “What are you doing?”
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	8	5	He who obeys a command will meet no harm, and the mind of a wise man will know the time and way.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	8	6	For every matter has its time and way, although man’s trouble lies heavy upon him.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	8	7	For he does not know what is to be, for who can tell him how it will be?
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	8	8	No man has power to retain the spirit, or authority over the day of death; there is no discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	8	9	All this I observed while applying my mind to all that is done under the sun, while man lords it over man to his hurt.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	8	10	Then I saw the wicked buried; they used to go in and out of the holy place, and were praised in the city where they had done such things. This also is vanity.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	8	11	Because sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the sons of men is fully set to do evil.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	8	12	Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life, yet I know that it will be well with those who fear God, because they fear before him;
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	8	13	but it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	8	14	There is a vanity which takes place on earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	8	15	And I commend enjoyment, for man has no good thing under the sun but to eat and drink, and enjoy himself, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of life which God gives him under the sun.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	8	16	When I applied my mind to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how neither day nor night one’s eyes see sleep;
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	8	17	then I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. However much man may toil in seeking, he will not find it out; even though a wise man claims to know, he cannot find it out.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	9	1	But all this I laid to heart, examining it all, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hate man does not know. Everything before them is vanity,
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	9	2	since one fate comes to all, to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil, to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As is the good man, so is the sinner; and he who swears is as he who shuns an oath.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	9	3	This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that one fate comes to all; also the hearts of men are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	9	4	But he who is joined with all the living has hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	9	5	For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward; but the memory of them is lost.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	9	6	Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and they have no more for ever any share in all that is done under the sun.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	9	7	Go, eat your bread with enjoyment, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already approved what you do.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	9	8	Let your garments be always white; let not oil be lacking on your head.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	9	9	Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life which he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	9	10	Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	9	11	Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to the men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	9	12	For man does not know his time. Like fish which are taken in an evil net, and like birds which are caught in a snare, so the sons of men are snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	9	13	I have also seen this example of wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great to me.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	9	14	There was a little city with few men in it; and a great king came against it and besieged it, building great siegeworks against it.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	9	15	But there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that poor man.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	9	16	But I say that wisdom is better than might, though the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heeded.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	9	17	The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the shouting of a ruler among fools.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	9	18	Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	10	1	Dead flies make the perfumer’s ointment give off an evil odor; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	10	2	A wise man’s heart inclines him toward the right, but a fool’s heart toward the left.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	10	3	Even when the fool walks on the road, he lacks sense, and he says to every one that he is a fool.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	10	4	If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place, for deference will make amends for great offenses.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	10	5	There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as it were an error proceeding from the ruler:
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	10	6	folly is set in many high places, and the rich sit in a low place.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	10	7	I have seen slaves on horses, and princes walking on foot like slaves.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	10	8	He who digs a pit will fall into it; and a serpent will bite him who breaks through a wall.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	10	9	He who quarries stones is hurt by them; and he who splits logs is endangered by them.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	10	10	If the iron is blunt, and one does not whet the edge, he must put forth more strength; but wisdom helps one to succeed.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	10	11	If the serpent bites before it is charmed, there is no advantage in a charmer.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	10	12	The words of a wise man’s mouth win him favor, but the lips of a fool consume him.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	10	13	The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness, and the end of his talk is wicked madness.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	10	14	A fool multiplies words, though no man knows what is to be, and who can tell him what will be after him?
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	10	15	The toil of a fool wearies him, so that he does not know the way to the city.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	10	16	Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes feast in the morning!
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	10	17	Happy are you, O land, when your king is the son of free men, and your princes feast at the proper time, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	10	18	Through sloth the roof sinks in, and through indolence the house leaks.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	10	19	Bread is made for laughter, and wine gladdens life, and money answers everything.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	10	20	Even in your thought, do not curse the king, nor in your bedchamber curse the rich; for a bird of the air will carry your voice, or some winged creature tell the matter.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	11	1	Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	11	2	Give a portion to seven, or even to eight, for you know not what evil may happen on earth.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	11	3	If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; and if a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	11	4	He who observes the wind will not sow; and he who regards the clouds will not reap.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	11	5	As you do not know how the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	11	6	In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand; for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	11	7	Light is sweet, and it is pleasant for the eyes to behold the sun.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	11	8	For if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is vanity.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	11	9	Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth; walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	11	10	Remove vexation from your mind, and put away pain from your body; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	12	1	Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	12	2	before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain;
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	12	3	in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look through the windows are dimmed,
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	12	4	and the doors on the street are shut; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low;
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	12	5	they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along and desire fails; because man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets;
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	12	6	before the silver cord is snapped, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern,
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	12	7	and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	12	8	Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; all is vanity.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	12	9	Besides being wise, the Preacher also taught the people knowledge, weighing and studying and arranging proverbs with great care.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	12	10	The Preacher sought to find pleasing words, and uprightly he wrote words of truth.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	12	11	The sayings of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings which are given by one Shepherd.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	12	12	My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	12	13	The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.
 Ecclesiastes	Eccles	23	12	14	For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	1	1	The Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	1	2	O that you would kiss me with the kisses of your mouth! For your love is better than wine,
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	1	3	your anointing oils are fragrant, your name is oil poured out; therefore the maidens love you.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	1	4	Draw me after you, let us make haste. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	1	5	I am very dark, but comely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	1	6	Do not gaze at me because I am swarthy, because the sun has scorched me. My mother’s sons were angry with me, they made me keeper of the vineyards; but, my own vineyard I have not kept!
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	1	7	Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture your flock, where you make it lie down at noon; for why should I be like one who wanders beside the flocks of your companions?
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	1	8	If you do not know, O fairest among women, follow in the tracks of the flock, and pasture your kids beside the shepherds’ tents.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	1	9	I compare you, my love, to a mare of Pharaoh’s chariots.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	1	10	Your cheeks are comely with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	1	11	We will make you ornaments of gold, studded with silver.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	1	12	While the king was on his couch, my nard gave forth its fragrance.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	1	13	My beloved is to me a bag of myrrh, that lies between my breasts.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	1	14	My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of Engedi.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	1	15	Behold, you are beautiful, my love; behold, you are beautiful; your eyes are doves.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	1	16	Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, truly lovely. Our couch is green;
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	1	17	the beams of our house are cedar, our rafters are pine.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	2	1	I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	2	2	As a lily among brambles, so is my love among maidens.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	2	3	As an apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among young men. With great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	2	4	He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	2	5	Sustain me with raisins, refresh me with apples; for I am sick with love.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	2	6	O that his left hand were under my head, and that his right hand embraced me!
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	2	7	I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the hinds of the field, that you stir not up nor awaken love until it please.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	2	8	The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping upon the mountains, bounding over the hills.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	2	9	My beloved is like a gazelle, or a young stag. Behold, there he stands behind our wall, gazing in at the windows, looking through the lattice.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	2	10	My beloved speaks and says to me: “Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away;
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	2	11	for lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	2	12	The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	2	13	The fig tree puts forth its figs, and the vines are in blossom; they give forth fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	2	14	O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the covert of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet, and your face is comely.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	2	15	Catch us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vineyards, for our vineyards are in blossom.”
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	2	16	My beloved is mine and I am his, he pastures his flock among the lilies.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	2	17	Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved, be like a gazelle, or a young stag upon rugged mountains.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	3	1	Upon my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loves; I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he gave no answer.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	3	2	“I will rise now and go about the city, in the streets and in the squares; I will seek him whom my soul loves.” I sought him, but found him not.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	3	3	The watchmen found me, as they went about in the city. “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	3	4	Scarcely had I passed them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	3	5	I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the hinds of the field, that you stir not up nor awaken love until it please.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	3	6	What is that coming up from the wilderness, like a column of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all the fragrant powders of the merchant?
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	3	7	Behold, it is the litter of Solomon! About it are sixty mighty men of the mighty men of Israel,
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	3	8	all girt with swords and expert in war, each with his sword at his thigh, against alarms by night.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	3	9	King Solomon made himself a palanquin from the wood of Lebanon.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	3	10	He made its posts of silver, its back of gold, its seat of purple; it was lovingly wrought within by the daughters of Jerusalem.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	3	11	Go forth, O daughters of Zion, and behold King Solomon, with the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, on the day of the gladness of his heart.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	4	1	Behold, you are beautiful, my love, behold, you are beautiful! Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats, moving down the slopes of Gilead.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	4	2	Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes that have come up from the washing, all of which bear twins, and not one among them is bereaved.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	4	3	Your lips are like a scarlet thread, and your mouth is lovely. Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	4	4	Your neck is like the tower of David, built for an arsenal, whereon hang a thousand bucklers, all of them shields of warriors.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	4	5	Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, that feed among the lilies.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	4	6	Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, I will hie me to the mountain of myrrh and the hill of frankincense.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	4	7	You are all fair, my love; there is no flaw in you.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	4	8	Come with me from Lebanon, my bride; come with me from Lebanon. Depart from the peak of Amana, from the peak of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of lions, from the mountains of leopards.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	4	9	You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride, you have ravished my heart with a glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	4	10	How sweet is your love, my sister, my bride! how much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	4	11	Your lips distil nectar, my bride; honey and milk are under your tongue; the scent of your garments is like the scent of Lebanon.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	4	12	A garden locked is my sister, my bride, a garden locked, a fountain sealed.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	4	13	Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates with all choicest fruits, henna with nard,
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	4	14	nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, with all chief spices—
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	4	15	a garden fountain, a well of living water, and flowing streams from Lebanon.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	4	16	Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind! Blow upon my garden, let its fragrance be wafted abroad. Let my beloved come to his garden, and eat its choicest fruits.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	5	1	I come to my garden, my sister, my bride, I gather my myrrh with my spice, I eat my honeycomb with my honey, I drink my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink: drink deeply, O lovers!
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	5	2	I slept, but my heart was awake. Hark! my beloved is knocking. “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one; for my head is wet with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.”
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	5	3	I had put off my garment, how could I put it on? I had bathed my feet, how could I soil them?
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	5	4	My beloved put his hand to the latch, and my heart was thrilled within me.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	5	5	I arose to open to my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, upon the handles of the bolt.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	5	6	I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had turned and gone. My soul failed me when he spoke. I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he gave no answer.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	5	7	The watchmen found me, as they went about in the city; they beat me, they wounded me, they took away my mantle, those watchmen of the walls.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	5	8	I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him I am sick with love.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	5	9	What is your beloved more than another beloved, O fairest among women? What is your beloved more than another beloved, that you thus adjure us?
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	5	10	My beloved is all radiant and ruddy, distinguished among ten thousand.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	5	11	His head is the finest gold; his locks are wavy, black as a raven.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	5	12	His eyes are like doves beside springs of water, bathed in milk, fitly set.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	5	13	His cheeks are like beds of spices, yielding fragrance. His lips are lilies, distilling liquid myrrh.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	5	14	His arms are rounded gold, set with jewels. His body is ivory work, encrusted with sapphires.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	5	15	His legs are alabaster columns, set upon bases of gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as the cedars.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	5	16	His speech is most sweet, and he is altogether desirable. This is my beloved and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	6	1	Whither has your beloved gone, O fairest among women? Whither has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	6	2	My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	6	3	I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine; he pastures his flock among the lilies.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	6	4	You are beautiful as Tirzah, my love, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	6	5	Turn away your eyes from me, for they disturb me— Your hair is like a flock of goats, moving down the slopes of Gilead.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	6	6	Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, that have come up from the washing, all of them bear twins, not one among them is bereaved.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	6	7	Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	6	8	There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and maidens without number.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	6	9	My dove, my perfect one, is only one, the darling of her mother, flawless to her that bore her. The maidens saw her and called her happy; the queens and concubines also, and they praised her.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	6	10	“Who is this that looks forth like the dawn, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army with banners?”
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	6	11	I went down to the nut orchard, to look at the blossoms of the valley, to see whether the vines had budded, whether the pomegranates were in bloom.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	6	12	Before I was aware, my fancy set me in a chariot beside my prince.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	6	13	Return, return, O Shulammite, return, return, that we may look upon you. Why should you look upon the Shulammite, as upon a dance before two armies?
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	7	1	How graceful are your feet in sandals, O queenly maiden! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	7	2	Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat, encircled with lilies.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	7	3	Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	7	4	Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim. Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon, overlooking Damascus.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	7	5	Your head crowns you like Carmel, and your flowing locks are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	7	6	How fair and pleasant you are, O loved one, delectable maiden!
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	7	7	You are stately as a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	7	8	I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its branches. Oh, may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples,
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	7	9	and your kisses like the best wine that goes down smoothly, gliding over lips and teeth.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	7	10	I am my beloved’s, and his desire is for me.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	7	11	Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the fields, and lodge in the villages;
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	7	12	let us go out early to the vineyards, and see whether the vines have budded, whether the grape blossoms have opened and the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	7	13	The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and over our doors are all choice fruits, new as well as old, which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	8	1	O that you were like a brother to me, that nursed at my mother’s breast! If I met you outside, I would kiss you, and none would despise me.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	8	2	I would lead you and bring you into the house of my mother, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the juice of my pomegranates.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	8	3	O that his left hand were under my head, and that his right hand embraced me!
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	8	4	I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up nor awaken love until it please.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	8	5	Who is that coming up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I awakened you. There your mother was in travail with you, there she who bore you was in travail.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	8	6	Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a most vehement flame.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	8	7	Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, it would be utterly scorned.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	8	8	We have a little sister, and she has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister, on the day when she is spoken for?
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	8	9	If she is a wall, we will build upon her a battlement of silver; but if she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	8	10	I was a wall, and my breasts were like towers; then I was in his eyes as one who brings peace.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	8	11	Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard to keepers; each one was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	8	12	My vineyard, my very own, is for myself; you, O Solomon, may have the thousand, and the keepers of the fruit two hundred.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	8	13	O you who dwell in the gardens, my companions are listening for your voice; let me hear it.
 Song of Solomon	Song	24	8	14	Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag upon the mountains of spices.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	1	1	Love righteousness, you rulers of the earth, think of the Lord with uprightness, and seek him with sincerity of heart;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	1	2	because he is found by those who do not put him to the test, and manifests himself to those who do not distrust him.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	1	3	For perverse thoughts separate men from God, and when his power is tested, it convicts the foolish;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	1	4	because wisdom will not enter a deceitful soul, nor dwell in a body enslaved to sin.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	1	5	For a holy and disciplined spirit will flee from deceit, and will rise and depart from foolish thoughts, and will be ashamed at the approach of unrighteousness.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	1	6	For wisdom is a kindly spirit and will not free a blasphemer from the guilt of his words; because God is witness of his inmost feelings, and a true observer of his heart, and a hearer of his tongue.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	1	7	Because the Spirit of the Lord has filled the world, and that which holds all things together knows what is said;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	1	8	therefore no one who utters unrighteous things will escape notice, and justice, when it punishes, will not pass him by.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	1	9	For inquiry will be made into the counsels of an ungodly man, and a report of his words will come to the Lord, to convict him of his lawless deeds;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	1	10	because a jealous ear hears all things, and the sound of murmurings does not go unheard.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	1	11	Beware then of useless murmuring, and keep your tongue from slander; because no secret word is without result, and a lying mouth destroys the soul.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	1	12	Do not invite death by the error of your life, nor bring on destruction by the works of your hands;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	1	13	because God did not make death, and he does not delight in the death of the living.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	1	14	For he created all things that they might exist, and the generative forces of the world are wholesome, and there is no destructive poison in them; and the dominion of Hades is not on earth.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	1	15	For righteousness is immortal.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	1	16	But ungodly men by their words and deeds summoned death; considering him a friend, they pined away, and they made a covenant with him, because they are fit to belong to his party.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	2	1	For they reasoned unsoundly, saying to themselves, “Short and sorrowful is our life, and there is no remedy when a man comes to his end, and no one has been known to return from Hades.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	2	2	Because we were born by mere chance, and hereafter we shall be as though we had never been; because the breath in our nostrils is smoke, and reason is a spark kindled by the beating of our hearts.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	2	3	When it is extinguished, the body will turn to ashes, and the spirit will dissolve like empty air.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	2	4	Our name will be forgotten in time and no one will remember our works; our life will pass away like the traces of a cloud, and be scattered like mist that is chased by the rays of the sun and overcome by its heat.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	2	5	For our allotted time is the passing of a shadow, and there is no return from our death, because it is sealed up and no one turns back.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	2	6	“Come, therefore, let us enjoy the good things that exist, and make use of the creation to the full as in youth.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	2	7	Let us take our fill of costly wine and perfumes, and let no flower of spring pass by us.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	2	8	Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they wither.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	2	9	Let none of us fail to share in our revelry, everywhere let us leave signs of enjoyment, because this is our portion, and this our lot.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	2	10	Let us oppress the righteous poor man; let us not spare the widow nor regard the gray hairs of the aged.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	2	11	But let our might be our law of right, for what is weak proves itself to be useless.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	2	12	“Let us lie in wait for the righteous man, because he is inconvenient to us and opposes our actions; he reproaches us for sins against the law, and accuses us of sins against our training.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	2	13	He professes to have knowledge of God, and calls himself a child of the Lord.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	2	14	He became to us a reproof of our thoughts;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	2	15	the very sight of him is a burden to us, because his manner of life is unlike that of others, and his ways are strange.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	2	16	We are considered by him as something base, and he avoids our ways as unclean; he calls the last end of the righteous happy, and boasts that God is his father.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	2	17	Let us see if his words are true, and let us test what will happen at the end of his life;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	2	18	for if the righteous man is God’s son, he will help him, and will deliver him from the hand of his adversaries.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	2	19	Let us test him with insult and torture, that we may find out how gentle he is, and make trial of his forbearance.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	2	20	Let us condemn him to a shameful death, for, according to what he says, he will be protected.”
 Wisdom	Wis	25	2	21	Thus they reasoned, but they were led astray, for their wickedness blinded them,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	2	22	and they did not know the secret purposes of God, nor hope for the wages of holiness, nor discern the prize for blameless souls;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	2	23	for God created man for incorruption, and made him in the image of his own eternity,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	2	24	but through the devil’s envy death entered the world, and those who belong to his party experience it.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	3	1	But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will ever touch them.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	3	2	In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died, and their departure was thought to be an affliction,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	3	3	and their going from us to be their destruction; but they are at peace.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	3	4	For though in the sight of men they were punished, their hope is full of immortality.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	3	5	Having been disciplined a little, they will receive great good, because God tested them and found them worthy of himself;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	3	6	like gold in the furnace he tried them, and like a sacrificial burnt offering he accepted them.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	3	7	In the time of their visitation they will shine forth, and will run like sparks through the stubble.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	3	8	They will govern nations and rule over peoples, and the Lord will reign over them for ever.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	3	9	Those who trust in him will understand truth, and the faithful will abide with him in love, because grace and mercy are upon his elect, and he watches over his holy ones.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	3	10	But the ungodly will be punished as their reasoning deserves, who disregarded the righteous man and rebelled against the Lord;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	3	11	for whoever despises wisdom and instruction is miserable. Their hope is vain, their labors are unprofitable, and their works are useless.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	3	12	Their wives are foolish, and their children evil;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	3	13	their offspring are accursed. For blessed is the barren woman who is undefiled, who has not entered into a sinful union; she will have fruit when God examines souls.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	3	14	Blessed also is the eunuch whose hands have done no lawless deed, and who has not devised wicked things against the Lord; for special favor will be shown him for his faithfulness, and a place of great delight in the temple of the Lord.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	3	15	For the fruit of good labors is renowned, and the root of understanding does not fail.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	3	16	But children of adulterers will not come to maturity, and the offspring of an unlawful union will perish.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	3	17	Even if they live long they will be held of no account, and finally their old age will be without honor.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	3	18	If they die young, they will have no hope and no consolation in the day of decision.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	3	19	For the end of an unrighteous generation is grievous.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	4	1	Better than this is childlessness with virtue, for in the memory of virtue is immortality, because it is known both by God and by men.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	4	2	When it is present, men imitate it, and they long for it when it has gone; and throughout all time it marches crowned in triumph, victor in the contest for prizes that are undefiled.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	4	3	But the prolific brood of the ungodly will be of no use, and none of their illegitimate seedlings will strike a deep root or take a firm hold.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	4	4	For even if they put forth boughs for a while, standing insecurely they will be shaken by the wind, and by the violence of the winds they will be uprooted.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	4	5	The branches will be broken off before they come to maturity, and their fruit will be useless, not ripe enough to eat, and good for nothing.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	4	6	For children born of unlawful unions are witnesses of evil against their parents when God examines them.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	4	7	But the righteous man, though he die early, will be at rest.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	4	8	For old age is not honored for length of time, nor measured by number of years;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	4	9	but understanding is gray hair for men, and a blameless life is ripe old age.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	4	10	There was one who pleased God and was loved by him, and while living among sinners he was taken up.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	4	11	He was caught up lest evil change his understanding or guile deceive his soul.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	4	12	For the fascination of wickedness obscures what is good, and roving desire perverts the innocent mind.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	4	13	Being perfected in a short time, he fulfilled long years;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	4	14	for his soul was pleasing to the Lord, therefore he took him quickly from the midst of wickedness.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	4	15	Yet the peoples saw and did not understand, nor take such a thing to heart, that God’s grace and mercy are with his elect, and he watches over his holy ones.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	4	16	The righteous man who had died will condemn the ungodly who are living, and youth that is quickly perfected will condemn the prolonged old age of the unrighteous man.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	4	17	For they will see the end of the wise man, and will not understand what the Lord purposed for him, and for what he kept him safe.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	4	18	They will see, and will have contempt for him, but the Lord will laugh them to scorn. After this they will become dishonored corpses, and an outrage among the dead for ever;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	4	19	because he will dash them speechless to the ground, and shake them from the foundations; they will be left utterly dry and barren, and they will suffer anguish, and the memory of them will perish.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	4	20	They will come with dread when their sins are reckoned up, and their lawless deeds will convict them to their face.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	5	1	Then the righteous man will stand with great confidence in the presence of those who have afflicted him, and those who make light of his labors.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	5	2	When they see him, they will be shaken with dreadful fear, and they will be amazed at his unexpected salvation.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	5	3	They will speak to one another in repentance, and in anguish of spirit they will groan, and say,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	5	4	“This is the man whom we once held in derision and made a byword of reproach—we fools! We thought that his life was madness and that his end was without honor.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	5	5	Why has he been numbered among the sons of God? And why is his lot among the saints?
 Wisdom	Wis	25	5	6	So it was we who strayed from the way of truth, and the light of righteousness did not shine on us, and the sun did not rise upon us.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	5	7	We took our fill of the paths of lawlessness and destruction, and we journeyed through trackless deserts, but the way of the Lord we have not known.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	5	8	What has our arrogance profited us? And what good has our boasted wealth brought us?
 Wisdom	Wis	25	5	9	“All those things have vanished like a shadow, and like a rumor that passes by;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	5	10	like a ship that sails through the billowy water, and when it has passed no trace can be found, nor track of its keel in the waves;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	5	11	or as, when a bird flies through the air, no evidence of its passage is found; the light air, lashed by the beat of its pinions and pierced by the force of its rushing flight, is traversed by the movement of its wings, and afterward no sign of its coming is found there;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	5	12	or as, when an arrow is shot at a target, the air, thus divided, comes together at once, so that no one knows its pathway.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	5	13	So we also, as soon as we were born, ceased to be, and we had no sign of virtue to show, but were consumed in our wickedness.”
 Wisdom	Wis	25	5	14	Because the hope of the ungodly man is like chaff carried by the wind, and like a light hoarfrost driven away by a storm; it is dispersed like smoke before the wind, and it passes like the remembrance of a guest who stays but a day.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	5	15	But the righteous live for ever, and their reward is with the Lord; the Most High takes care of them.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	5	16	Therefore they will receive a glorious crown and a beautiful diadem from the hand of the Lord, because with his right hand he will cover them, and with his arm he will shield them.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	5	17	The Lord will take his zeal as his whole armor, and will arm all creation to repel his enemies;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	5	18	he will put on righteousness as a breastplate, and wear impartial justice as a helmet;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	5	19	he will take holiness as an invincible shield,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	5	20	and sharpen stern wrath for a sword, and creation will join with him to fight against the madmen.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	5	21	Shafts of lightning will fly with true aim, and will leap to the target as from a well-drawn bow of clouds,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	5	22	and hailstones full of wrath will be hurled as from a catapult; the water of the sea will rage against them, and rivers will relentlessly overwhelm them;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	5	23	a mighty wind will rise against them, and like a tempest it will winnow them away. Lawlessness will lay waste the whole earth, and evil-doing will overturn the thrones of rulers.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	6	1	Listen therefore, O kings, and understand; learn, O judges of the ends of the earth.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	6	2	Give ear, you that rule over multitudes, and boast of many nations.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	6	3	For your dominion was given you from the Lord, and your sovereignty from the Most High, who will search out your works and inquire into your plans.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	6	4	Because as servants of his kingdom you did not rule rightly, nor keep the law, nor walk according to the purpose of God,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	6	5	he will come upon you terribly and swiftly, because severe judgment falls on those in high places.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	6	6	For the lowliest man may be pardoned in mercy, but mighty men will be mightily tested.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	6	7	For the Lord of all will not stand in awe of any one, nor show deference to greatness; because he himself made both small and great, and he takes thought for all alike.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	6	8	But a strict inquiry is in store for the mighty.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	6	9	To you then, O monarchs, my words are directed, that you may learn wisdom and not transgress.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	6	10	For they will be made holy who observe holy things in holiness, and those who have been taught them will find a defense.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	6	11	Therefore set your desire on my words; long for them, and you will be instructed.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	6	12	Wisdom is radiant and unfading, and she is easily discerned by those who love her, and is found by those who seek her.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	6	13	She hastens to make herself known to those who desire her.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	6	14	He who rises early to seek her will have no difficulty, for he will find her sitting at his gates.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	6	15	To fix one’s thought on her is perfect understanding, and he who is vigilant on her account will soon be free from care,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	6	16	because she goes about seeking those worthy of her, and she graciously appears to them in their paths, and meets them in every thought.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	6	17	The beginning of wisdom is the most sincere desire for instruction, and concern for instruction is love of her,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	6	18	and love of her is the keeping of her laws, and giving heed to her laws is assurance of immortality,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	6	19	and immortality brings one near to God;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	6	20	so the desire for wisdom leads to a kingdom.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	6	21	Therefore if you delight in thrones and scepters, O monarchs over the peoples, honor wisdom, that you may reign for ever.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	6	22	I will tell you what wisdom is and how she came to be, and I will hide no secrets from you, but I will trace her course from the beginning of creation, and make knowledge of her clear, and I will not pass by the truth;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	6	23	neither will I travel in the company of sickly envy, for envy does not associate with wisdom.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	6	24	A multitude of wise men is the salvation of the world, and a sensible king is the stability of his people.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	6	25	Therefore be instructed by my words, and you will profit.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	7	1	I also am mortal, like all men, a descendant of the first-formed child of earth; and in the womb of a mother I was molded into flesh,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	7	2	within the period of ten months, compacted with blood, from the seed of a man and the pleasure of marriage.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	7	3	And when I was born, I began to breathe the common air, and fell upon the kindred earth, and my first sound was a cry, like that of all.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	7	4	I was nursed with care in swaddling cloths.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	7	5	For no king has had a different beginning of existence;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	7	6	there is for all mankind one entrance into life, and a common departure.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	7	7	Therefore I prayed, and understanding was given me; I called upon God, and the spirit of wisdom came to me.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	7	8	I preferred her to scepters and thrones, and I accounted wealth as nothing in comparison with her.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	7	9	Neither did I liken to her any priceless gem, because all gold is but a little sand in her sight, and silver will be accounted as clay before her.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	7	10	I loved her more than health and beauty, and I chose to have her rather than light, because her radiance never ceases.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	7	11	All good things came to me along with her, and in her hands uncounted wealth.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	7	12	I rejoiced in them all, because wisdom leads them; but I did not know that she was their mother.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	7	13	I learned without guile and I impart without grudging; I do not hide her wealth,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	7	14	for it is an unfailing treasure for men; those who get it obtain friendship with God, commended for the gifts that come from instruction.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	7	15	May God grant that I speak with judgment and have thought worthy of what I have received, for he is the guide even of wisdom and the corrector of the wise.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	7	16	For both we and our words are in his hand, as are all understanding and skill in crafts.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	7	17	For it is he who gave me unerring knowledge of what exists, to know the structure of the world and the activity of the elements;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	7	18	the beginning and end and middle of times, the alternations of the solstices and the changes of the seasons,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	7	19	the cycles of the year and the constellations of the stars,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	7	20	the natures of animals and the tempers of wild beasts, the powers of spirits and the reasonings of men, the varieties of plants and the virtues of roots;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	7	21	I learned both what is secret and what is manifest,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	7	22	for wisdom, the fashioner of all things, taught me. For in her there is a spirit that is intelligent, holy, unique, manifold, subtle, mobile, clear, unpolluted, distinct, invulnerable, loving the good, keen, irresistible,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	7	23	beneficent, humane, steadfast, sure, free from anxiety, all-powerful, overseeing all, and penetrating through all spirits that are intelligent and pure and most subtle.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	7	24	For wisdom is more mobile than any motion; because of her pureness she pervades and penetrates all things.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	7	25	For she is a breath of the power of God, and a pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty; therefore nothing defiled gains entrance into her.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	7	26	For she is a reflection of eternal light, a spotless mirror of the working of God, and an image of his goodness.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	7	27	Though she is but one, she can do all things, and while remaining in herself, she renews all things; in every generation she passes into holy souls and makes them friends of God, and prophets;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	7	28	for God loves nothing so much as the man who lives with wisdom.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	7	29	For she is more beautiful than the sun, and excels every constellation of the stars. Compared with the light she is found to be superior,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	7	30	for it is succeeded by the night, but against wisdom evil does not prevail.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	8	1	She reaches mightily from one end of the earth to the other, and she orders all things well.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	8	2	I loved her and sought her from my youth, and I desired to take her for my bride, and I became enamored of her beauty.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	8	3	She glorifies her noble birth by living with God, and the Lord of all loves her.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	8	4	For she is an initiate in the knowledge of God, and an associate in his works.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	8	5	If riches are a desirable possession in life, what is richer than wisdom who effects all things?
 Wisdom	Wis	25	8	6	And if understanding is effective, who more than she is fashioner of what exists?
 Wisdom	Wis	25	8	7	And if any one loves righteousness, her labors are virtues; for she teaches self-control and prudence, justice and courage; nothing in life is more profitable for men than these.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	8	8	And if any one longs for wide experience, she knows the things of old, and infers the things to come; she understands turns of speech and the solutions of riddles; she has foreknowledge of signs and wonders and of the outcome of seasons and times.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	8	9	Therefore I determined to take her to live with me, knowing that she would give me good counsel and encouragement in cares and grief.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	8	10	Because of her I shall have glory among the multitudes and honor in the presence of the elders, though I am young.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	8	11	I shall be found keen in judgment, and in the sight of rulers I shall be admired.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	8	12	When I am silent they will wait for me, and when I speak they will give heed; and when I speak at greater length they will put their hands on their mouths.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	8	13	Because of her I shall have immortality, and leave an everlasting remembrance to those who come after me.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	8	14	I shall govern peoples, and nations will be subject to me;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	8	15	dread monarchs will be afraid of me when they hear of me; among the people I shall show myself capable, and courageous in war.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	8	16	When I enter my house, I shall find rest with her, for companionship with her has no bitterness, and life with her has no pain, but gladness and joy.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	8	17	When I considered these things inwardly, and thought upon them in my mind, that in kinship with wisdom there is immortality,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	8	18	and in friendship with her, pure delight, and in the labors of her hands, unfailing wealth, and in the experience of her company, understanding, and renown in sharing her words, I went about seeking how to get her for myself.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	8	19	As a child I was by nature well endowed, and a good soul fell to my lot;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	8	20	or rather, being good, I entered an undefiled body.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	8	21	But I perceived that I would not possess wisdom unless God gave her to me— and it was a mark of insight to know whose gift she was— so I appealed to the Lord and besought him, and with my whole heart I said:
 Wisdom	Wis	25	9	1	“O God of my fathers and Lord of mercy, who hast made all things by thy word,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	9	2	and by thy wisdom hast formed man, to have dominion over the creatures thou hast made,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	9	3	and rule the world in holiness and righteousness, and pronounce judgment in uprightness of soul,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	9	4	give me the wisdom that sits by thy throne, and do not reject me from among thy servants.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	9	5	For I am thy slave and the son of thy maidservant, a man who is weak and short-lived, with little understanding of judgment and laws;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	9	6	for even if one is perfect among the sons of men, yet without the wisdom that comes from thee he will be regarded as nothing.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	9	7	Thou hast chosen me to be king of thy people and to be judge over thy sons and daughters.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	9	8	Thou hast given command to build a temple on thy holy mountain, and an altar in the city of thy habitation, a copy of the holy tent which thou didst prepare from the beginning.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	9	9	With thee is wisdom, who knows thy works and was present when thou didst make the world, and who understand what is pleasing in thy sight and what is right according to thy commandments.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	9	10	Send her forth from the holy heavens, and from the throne of thy glory send her, that she may be with me and toil, and that I may learn what is pleasing to thee.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	9	11	For she knows and understands all things, and she will guide me wisely in my actions and guard me with her glory.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	9	12	Then my works will be acceptable, and I shall judge thy people justly, and shall be worthy of the throne of my father.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	9	13	For what man can learn the counsel of God? Or who can discern what the Lord wills?
 Wisdom	Wis	25	9	14	For the reasoning of mortals is worthless, and our designs are likely to fail,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	9	15	for a perishable body weighs down the soul, and this earthy tent burdens the thoughtful mind.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	9	16	We can hardly guess at what is on earth, and what is at hand we find with labor; but who has traced out what is in the heavens?
 Wisdom	Wis	25	9	17	Who has learned thy counsel, unless thou hast given wisdom and sent thy holy Spirit from on high?
 Wisdom	Wis	25	9	18	And thus the paths of those on earth were set right, and men were taught what pleases thee, and were saved by wisdom.”
 Wisdom	Wis	25	10	1	Wisdom protected the first-formed father of the world, when he alone had been created; she delivered him from his transgression,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	10	2	and gave him strength to rule all things.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	10	3	But when an unrighteous man departed from her in his anger, he perished because in rage he slew his brother.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	10	4	When the earth was flooded because of him, wisdom again saved it, steering the righteous man by a paltry piece of wood.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	10	5	Wisdom also, when the nations in wicked agreement had been confounded, recognized the righteous man and preserved him blameless before God, and kept him strong in the face of his compassion for his child.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	10	6	Wisdom rescued a righteous man when the ungodly were perishing; he escaped the fire that descended on the Five Cities.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	10	7	Evidence of their wickedness still remains: a continually smoking wasteland, plants bearing fruit that does not ripen, and a pillar of salt standing as a monument to an unbelieving soul.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	10	8	For because they passed wisdom by, they not only were hindered from recognizing the good, but also left for mankind a reminder of their folly, so that their failures could never go unnoticed.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	10	9	Wisdom rescued from troubles those who served her.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	10	10	When a righteous man fled from his brother’s wrath, she guided him on straight paths; she showed him the kingdom of God, and gave him knowledge of angels; she prospered him in his labors, and increased the fruit of his toil.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	10	11	When his oppressors were covetous, she stood by him and made him rich.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	10	12	She protected him from his enemies, and kept him safe from those who lay in wait for him; in his arduous contest she gave him the victory, so that he might learn that godliness is more powerful than anything.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	10	13	When a righteous man was sold, wisdom did not desert him, but delivered him from sin. She descended with him into the dungeon,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	10	14	and when he was in prison she did not leave him, until she brought him the scepter of a kingdom and authority over his masters. Those who accused him she showed to be false, and she gave him everlasting honor.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	10	15	A holy people and blameless race wisdom delivered from a nation of oppressors.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	10	16	She entered the soul of a servant of the Lord, and withstood dread kings with wonders and signs.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	10	17	She gave holy men the reward of their labors; she guided them along a marvelous way, and became a shelter to them by day, and a starry flame through the night.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	10	18	She brought them over the Red Sea, and led them through deep waters;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	10	19	but she drowned their enemies, and cast them up from the depth of the sea.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	10	20	Therefore the righteous plundered the ungodly; they sang hymns, O Lord, to thy holy name, and praised with one accord thy defending hand,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	10	21	because wisdom opened the mouth of the dumb, and made the tongues of babes speak clearly.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	11	1	Wisdom prospered their works by the hand of a holy prophet.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	11	2	They journeyed through an uninhabited wilderness, and pitched their tents in untrodden places.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	11	3	They withstood their enemies and fought off their foes.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	11	4	When they thirsted they called upon thee, and water was given them out of flinty rock, and slaking of thirst from hard stone.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	11	5	For through the very things by which their enemies were punished, they themselves received benefit in their need.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	11	6	Instead of the fountain of an ever-flowing river, stirred up and defiled with blood
 Wisdom	Wis	25	11	7	in rebuke for the decree to slay the infants, thou gavest them abundant water unexpectedly,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	11	8	showing by their thirst at that time how thou didst punish their enemies.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	11	9	For when they were tried, though they were being disciplined in mercy, they learned how the ungodly were tormented when judged in wrath.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	11	10	For thou didst test them as a father does in warning, but thou didst examine the ungodly as a stern king does in condemnation.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	11	11	Whether absent or present, they were equally distressed,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	11	12	for a twofold grief possessed them, and a groaning at the memory of what had occurred.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	11	13	For when they heard that through their own punishments the righteous had received benefit, they perceived it was the Lord’s doing.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	11	14	For though they had mockingly rejected him who long before had been cast out and exposed, at the end of the events they marveled at him, for their thirst was not like that of the righteous.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	11	15	In return for their foolish and wicked thoughts, which led them astray to worship irrational serpents and worthless animals, thou didst send upon them a multitude of irrational creatures to punish them,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	11	16	that they might learn that one is punished by the very things by which he sins.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	11	17	For thy all-powerful hand, which created the world out of formless matter, did not lack the means to send upon them a multitude of bears, or bold lions,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	11	18	or newly created unknown beasts full of rage, or such as breathe out fiery breath, or belch forth a thick pall of smoke, or flash terrible sparks from their eyes;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	11	19	not only could their damage exterminate men, but the mere sight of them could kill by fright.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	11	20	Even apart from these, men could fall at a single breath when pursued by justice and scattered by the breath of thy power. But thou hast arranged all things by measure and number and weight.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	11	21	For it is always in thy power to show great strength, and who can withstand the might of thy arm?
 Wisdom	Wis	25	11	22	Because the whole world before thee is like a speck that tips the scales, and like a drop of morning dew that falls upon the ground.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	11	23	But thou art merciful to all, for thou canst do all things, and thou dost overlook men’s sins, that they may repent.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	11	24	For thou lovest all things that exist, and hast loathing for none of the things which thou hast made, for thou wouldst not have made anything if thou hadst hated it.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	11	25	How would anything have endured if thou hadst not willed it? Or how would anything not called forth by thee have been preserved?
 Wisdom	Wis	25	11	26	Thou sparest all things, for they are thine, O Lord who lovest the living.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	12	1	For thy immortal spirit is in all things.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	12	2	Therefore thou dost correct little by little those who trespass, and dost remind and warn them of the things wherein they sin, that they may be freed from wickedness and put their trust in thee, O Lord.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	12	3	Those who dwelt of old in thy holy land
 Wisdom	Wis	25	12	4	thou didst hate for their detestable practices, their works of sorcery and unholy rites,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	12	5	their merciless slaughter of children, and their sacrificial feasting on human flesh and blood. These initiates from the midst of a heathen cult,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	12	6	these parents who murder helpless lives, thou didst will to destroy by the hands of our fathers,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	12	7	that the land most precious of all to thee might receive a worthy colony of the servants of God.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	12	8	But even these thou didst spare, since they were but men, and didst send wasps as forerunners of thy army, to destroy them little by little,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	12	9	though thou wast not unable to give the ungodly into the hands of the righteous in battle, or to destroy them at one blow by dread wild beasts or thy stern word.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	12	10	But judging them little by little thou gavest them a chance to repent, though thou wast not unaware that their origin was evil and their wickedness inborn, and that their way of thinking would never change.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	12	11	For they were an accursed race from the beginning, and it was not through fear of any one that thou didst leave them unpunished for their sins.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	12	12	For who will say, “What hast thou done?” Or will resist thy judgment? Who will accuse thee for the destruction of nations which thou didst make? Or who will come before thee to plead as an advocate for unrighteous men?
 Wisdom	Wis	25	12	13	For neither is there any god besides thee, whose care is for all men, to whom thou shouldst prove that thou hast not judged unjustly;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	12	14	nor can any king or monarch confront thee about those whom thou hast punished.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	12	15	Thou art righteous and rulest all things righteously, deeming it alien to thy power to condemn him who does not deserve to be punished.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	12	16	For thy strength is the source of righteousness, and thy sovereignty over all causes thee to spare all.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	12	17	For thou dost show thy strength when men doubt the completeness of thy power, and dost rebuke any insolence among those who know it.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	12	18	Thou who art sovereign in strength dost judge with mildness, and with great forbearance thou dost govern us; for thou hast power to act whenever thou dost choose.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	12	19	Through such works thou has taught thy people that the righteous man must be kind, and thou hast filled thy sons with good hope, because thou givest repentance for sins.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	12	20	For if thou didst punish with such great care and indulgence the enemies of thy servants and those deserving of death, granting them time and opportunity to give up their wickedness,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	12	21	with what strictness thou hast judged thy sons, to whose fathers thou gavest oaths and covenants full of good promises!
 Wisdom	Wis	25	12	22	So while chastening us thou scourgest our enemies ten thousand times more, so that we may meditate upon thy goodness when we judge, and when we are judged we may expect mercy.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	12	23	Therefore those who in folly of life lived unrighteously thou didst torment through their own abominations.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	12	24	For they went far astray on the paths of error, accepting as gods those animals which even their enemies despised; they were deceived like foolish babes.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	12	25	Therefore, as to thoughtless children, thou didst send thy judgment to mock them.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	12	26	But those who have not heeded the warning of light rebukes will experience the deserved judgment of God.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	12	27	For when in their suffering they became incensed at those creatures which they had thought to be gods, being punished by means of them, they saw and recognized as the true God him whom they had before refused to know. Therefore the utmost condemnation came upon them.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	13	1	For all men who were ignorant of God were foolish by nature; and they were unable from the good things that are seen to know him who exists, nor did they recognize the craftsman while paying heed to his works;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	13	2	but they supposed that either fire or wind or swift air, or the circle of the stars, or turbulent water, or the luminaries of heaven were the gods that rule the world.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	13	3	If through delight in the beauty of these things men assumed them to be gods, let them know how much better than these is their Lord, for the author of beauty created them.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	13	4	And if men were amazed at their power and working, let them perceive from them how much more powerful is he who formed them.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	13	5	For from the greatness and beauty of created things comes a corresponding perception of their Creator.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	13	6	Yet these men are little to be blamed, for perhaps they go astray while seeking God and desiring to find him.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	13	7	For as they live among his works they keep searching, and they trust in what they see, because the things that are seen are beautiful.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	13	8	Yet again, not even they are to be excused;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	13	9	for if they had the power to know so much that they could investigate the world, how did they fail to find sooner the Lord of these things?
 Wisdom	Wis	25	13	10	But miserable, with their hopes set on dead things, are the men who give the name “gods” to the works of men’s hands, gold and silver fashioned with skill, and likenesses of animals, or a useless stone, the work of an ancient hand.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	13	11	A skilled woodcutter may saw down a tree easy to handle and skilfully strip off all its bark, and then with pleasing workmanship make a useful vessel that serves life’s needs,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	13	12	and burn the castoff pieces of his work to prepare his food, and eat his fill.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	13	13	But a castoff piece from among them, useful for nothing, a stick crooked and full of knots, he takes and carves with care in his leisure, and shapes it with skill gained in idleness; he forms it like the image of a man,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	13	14	or makes it like some worthless animal, giving it a coat of red paint and coloring its surface red and covering every blemish in it with paint;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	13	15	then he makes for it a niche that befits it, and sets it in the wall, and fastens it there with iron.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	13	16	So he takes thought for it, that it may not fall, because he knows that it cannot help itself, for it is only an image and has need of help.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	13	17	When he prays about possessions and his marriage and children, he is not ashamed to address a lifeless thing.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	13	18	For health he appeals to a thing that is weak; for life he prays to a thing that is dead; for aid he entreats a thing that is utterly inexperienced; for a prosperous journey, a thing that cannot take a step;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	13	19	for money-making and work and success with his hands he asks strength of a thing whose hands have no strength.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	14	1	Again, one preparing to sail and about to voyage over raging waves calls upon a piece of wood more fragile than the ship which carries him.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	14	2	For it was desire for gain that planned that vessel, and wisdom was the craftsman who built it;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	14	3	but it is thy providence, O Father, that steers its course, because thou hast given it a path in the sea, and a safe way through the waves,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	14	4	showing that thou canst save from every danger, so that even if a man lacks skill, he may put to sea.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	14	5	It is thy will that works of thy wisdom should not be without effect; therefore men trust their lives even to the smallest piece of wood, and passing through the billows on a raft they come safely to land.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	14	6	For even in the beginning, when arrogant giants were perishing, the hope of the world took refuge on a raft, and guided by thy hand left to the world the seed of a new generation.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	14	7	For blessed is the wood by which righteousness comes.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	14	8	But the idol made with hands is accursed, and so is he who made it; because he did the work, and the perishable thing was named a god.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	14	9	For equally hateful to God are the ungodly man and his ungodliness,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	14	10	for what was done will be punished together with him who did it.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	14	11	Therefore there will be a visitation also upon the heathen idols, because, though part of what God created, they became an abomination, and became traps for the souls of men and a snare to the feet of the foolish.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	14	12	For the idea of making idols was the beginning of fornication, and the invention of them was the corruption of life,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	14	13	for neither have they existed from the beginning nor will they exist for ever.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	14	14	For through the vanity of men they entered the world, and therefore their speedy end has been planned.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	14	15	For a father, consumed with grief at an untimely bereavement, made an image of his child, who had been suddenly taken from him; and he now honored as a god what was once a dead human being, and handed on to his dependents secret rites and initiations.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	14	16	Then the ungodly custom, grown strong with time, was kept as a law, and at the command of monarchs graven images were worshiped.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	14	17	When men could not honor monarchs in their presence, since they lived at a distance, they imagined their appearance far away, and made a visible image of the king whom they honored, so that by their zeal they might flatter the absent one as though present.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	14	18	Then the ambition of the craftsman impelled even those who did not know the king to intensify their worship.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	14	19	For he, perhaps wishing to please his ruler, skilfully forced the likeness to take more beautiful form,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	14	20	and the multitude, attracted by the charm of his work, now regarded as an object of worship the one whom shortly before they had honored as a man.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	14	21	And this became a hidden trap for mankind, because men, in bondage to misfortune or to royal authority, bestowed on objects of stone or wood the name that ought not to be shared.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	14	22	Afterward it was not enough for them to err about the knowledge of God, but they live in great strife due to ignorance, and they call such great evils peace.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	14	23	For whether they kill children in their initiations, or celebrate secret mysteries, or hold frenzied revels with strange customs,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	14	24	they no longer keep either their lives or their marriages pure, but they either treacherously kill one another, or grieve one another by adultery,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	14	25	and all is a raging riot of blood and murder, theft and deceit, corruption, faithlessness, tumult, perjury,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	14	26	confusion over what is good, forgetfulness of favors, pollution of souls, sex perversion, disorder in marriage, adultery, and debauchery.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	14	27	For the worship of idols not to be named is the beginning and cause and end of every evil.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	14	28	For their worshipers either rave in exultation, or prophesy lies, or live unrighteously, or readily commit perjury;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	14	29	for because they trust in lifeless idols they swear wicked oaths and expect to suffer no harm.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	14	30	But just penalties will overtake them on two counts: because they thought wickedly of God in devoting themselves to idols, and because in deceit they swore unrighteously through contempt for holiness.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	14	31	For it is not the power of the things by which men swear, but the just penalty for those who sin, that always pursues the transgression of the unrighteous.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	15	1	But thou, our God, art kind and true, patient, and ruling all things in mercy.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	15	2	For even if we sin we are thine, knowing thy power; but we will not sin, because we know that we are accounted thine.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	15	3	For to know thee is complete righteousness, and to know thy power is the root of immortality.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	15	4	For neither has the evil intent of human art misled us, nor the fruitless toil of painters, a figure stained with varied colors,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	15	5	whose appearance arouses yearning in fools, so that they desire the lifeless form of a dead image.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	15	6	Lovers of evil things and fit for such objects of hope are those who either make or desire or worship them.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	15	7	For when a potter kneads the soft earth and laboriously molds each vessel for our service, he fashions out of the same clay both the vessels that serve clean uses and those for contrary uses, making all in like manner; but which shall be the use of each of these the worker in clay decides.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	15	8	With misspent toil, he forms a futile god from the same clay— this man who was made of earth a short time before and after a little while goes to the earth from which he was taken, when he is required to return the soul that was lent him.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	15	9	But he is not concerned that he is destined to die or that his life is brief, but he competes with workers in gold and silver, and imitates workers in copper; and he counts it his glory that he molds counterfeit gods.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	15	10	His heart is ashes, his hope is cheaper than dirt, and his life is of less worth than clay,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	15	11	because he failed to know the one who formed him and inspired him with an active soul and breathed into him a living spirit.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	15	12	But he considered our existence an idle game, and life a festival held for profit, for he says one must get money however one can, even by base means.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	15	13	For this man, more than all others, knows that he sins when he makes from earthy matter fragile vessels and graven images.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	15	14	But most foolish, and more miserable than an infant, are all the enemies who oppressed thy people.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	15	15	For they thought that all their heathen idols were gods, though these have neither the use of their eyes to see with, nor nostrils with which to draw breath, nor ears with which to hear, nor fingers to feel with, and their feet are of no use for walking.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	15	16	For a man made them, and one whose spirit is borrowed formed them; for no man can form a god which is like himself.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	15	17	He is mortal, and what he makes with lawless hands is dead, for he is better than the objects he worships, since he has life, but they never have.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	15	18	The enemies of thy people worship even the most hateful animals, which are worse than all others, when judged by their lack of intelligence;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	15	19	and even as animals they are not so beautiful in appearance that one would desire them, but they have escaped both the praise of God and his blessing.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	16	1	Therefore those men were deservedly punished through such creatures, and were tormented by a multitude of animals.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	16	2	Instead of this punishment thou didst show kindness to thy people, and thou didst prepare quails to eat, a delicacy to satisfy the desire of appetite;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	16	3	in order that those men, when they desired food, might lose the least remnant of appetite because of the odious creatures sent to them, while thy people, after suffering want a short time, might partake of delicacies.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	16	4	For it was necessary that upon those oppressors inexorable want should come, while to these it was merely shown how their enemies were being tormented.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	16	5	For when the terrible rage of wild beasts came upon thy people and they were being destroyed by the bites of writhing serpents, thy wrath did not continue to the end;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	16	6	they were troubled for a little while as a warning, and received a token of deliverance to remind them of thy law’s command.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	16	7	For he who turned toward it was saved, not by what he saw, but by thee, the Savior of all.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	16	8	And by this also thou didst convince our enemies that it is thou who deliverest from every evil.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	16	9	For they were killed by the bites of locusts and flies, and no healing was found for them, because they deserved to be punished by such things;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	16	10	but thy sons were not conquered even by the teeth of venomous serpents, for thy mercy came to their help and healed them.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	16	11	To remind them of thy oracles they were bitten, and then were quickly delivered, lest they should fall into deep forgetfulness and become unresponsive to thy kindness.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	16	12	For neither herb nor poultice cured them, but it was thy word, O Lord, which heals all men.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	16	13	For thou hast power over life and death; thou dost lead men down to the gates of Hades and back again.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	16	14	A man in his wickedness kills another, but he cannot bring back the departed spirit, nor set free the imprisoned soul.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	16	15	To escape from thy hand is impossible;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	16	16	for the ungodly, refusing to know thee, were scourged by the strength of thy arm, pursued by unusual rains and hail and relentless storms, and utterly consumed by fire.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	16	17	For—most incredible of all—in the water, which quenches all things, the fire had still greater effect, for the universe defends the righteous.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	16	18	At one time the flame was restrained, so that it might not consume the creatures sent against the ungodly, but that seeing this they might know that they were being pursued by the judgment of God;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	16	19	and at another time even in the midst of water it burned more intensely than fire, to destroy the crops of the unrighteous land.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	16	20	Instead of these things thou didst give thy people food of angels, and without their toil thou didst supply them from heaven with bread ready to eat, providing every pleasure and suited to every taste.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	16	21	For thy sustenance manifested thy sweetness toward thy children; and the bread, ministering to the desire of the one who took it, was changed to suit every one’s liking.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	16	22	Snow and ice withstood fire without melting, so that they might know that the crops of their enemies were being destroyed by the fire that blazed in the hail and flashed in the showers of rain;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	16	23	whereas the fire, in order that the righteous might be fed, even forgot its native power.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	16	24	For creation, serving thee who hast made it, exerts itself to punish the unrighteous, and in kindness relaxes on behalf of those who trust in thee.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	16	25	Therefore at that time also, changed into all forms, it served thy all-nourishing bounty, according to the desire of those who had need,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	16	26	so that thy sons, whom thou didst love, O Lord, might learn that it is not the production of crops that feeds man, but that thy word preserves those who trust in thee.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	16	27	For what was not destroyed by fire was melted when simply warmed by a fleeting ray of the sun,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	16	28	to make it known that one must rise before the sun to give thee thanks, and must pray to thee at the dawning of the light;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	16	29	for the hope of an ungrateful man will melt like wintry frost, and flow away like waste water.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	17	1	Great are thy judgments and hard to describe; therefore uninstructed souls have gone astray.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	17	2	For when lawless men supposed that they held the holy nation in their power, they themselves lay as captives of darkness and prisoners of long night, shut in under their roofs, exiles from eternal providence.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	17	3	For thinking that in their secret sins they were unobserved behind a dark curtain of forgetfulness, they were scattered, terribly alarmed, and appalled by specters.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	17	4	For not even the inner chamber that held them protected them from fear, but terrifying sounds rang out around them, and dismal phantoms with gloomy faces appeared.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	17	5	And no power of fire was able to give light, nor did the brilliant flames of the stars avail to illumine that hateful night.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	17	6	Nothing was shining through to them except a dreadful, self-kindled fire, and in terror they deemed the things which they saw to be worse than that unseen appearance.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	17	7	The delusions of their magic art lay humbled, and their boasted wisdom was scornfully rebuked.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	17	8	For those who promised to drive off the fears and disorders of a sick soul were sick themselves with ridiculous fear.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	17	9	For even if nothing disturbing frightened them, yet, scared by the passing of beasts and the hissing of serpents,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	17	10	they perished in trembling fear, refusing to look even at the air, though it nowhere could be avoided.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	17	11	For wickedness is a cowardly thing, condemned by its own testimony; distressed by conscience, it has always exaggerated the difficulties.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	17	12	For fear is nothing but surrender of the helps that come from reason;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	17	13	and the inner expectation of help, being weak, prefers ignorance of what causes the torment.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	17	14	But throughout the night, which was really powerless, and which beset them from the recesses of powerless Hades, they all slept the same sleep,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	17	15	and now were driven by monstrous specters, and now were paralyzed by their souls’ surrender, for sudden and unexpected fear overwhelmed them.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	17	16	And whoever was there fell down, and thus was kept shut up in a prison not made of iron;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	17	17	for whether he was a farmer or a shepherd or a workman who toiled in the wilderness, he was seized, and endured the inescapable fate; for with one chain of darkness they all were bound.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	17	18	Whether there came a whistling wind, or a melodious sound of birds in wide-spreading branches, or the rhythm of violently rushing water,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	17	19	or the harsh crash of rocks hurled down, or the unseen running of leaping animals, or the sound of the most savage roaring beasts, or an echo thrown back from a hollow of the mountains, it paralyzed them with terror.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	17	20	For the whole world was illumined with brilliant light, and was engaged in unhindered work,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	17	21	while over those men alone heavy night was spread, an image of the darkness that was destined to receive them; but still heavier than darkness were they to themselves.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	18	1	But for thy holy ones there was very great light. Their enemies heard their voices but did not see their forms, and counted them happy for not having suffered,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	18	2	and were thankful that thy holy ones, though previously wronged, were doing them no injury; and they begged their pardon for having been at variance with them.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	18	3	Therefore thou didst provide a flaming pillar of fire as a guide for thy people’s unknown journey, and a harmless sun for their glorious wandering.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	18	4	For their enemies deserved to be deprived of light and imprisoned in darkness, those who had kept thy sons imprisoned, through whom the imperishable light of the law was to be given to the world.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	18	5	When they had resolved to kill the babes of thy holy ones, and one child had been exposed and rescued, thou didst in punishment take away a multitude of their children; and thou didst destroy them all together by a mighty flood.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	18	6	That night was made known beforehand to our fathers, so that they might rejoice in sure knowledge of the oaths in which they trusted.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	18	7	The deliverance of the righteous and the destruction of their enemies were expected by thy people.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	18	8	For by the same means by which thou didst punish our enemies thou didst call us to thyself and glorify us.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	18	9	For in secret the holy children of good men offered sacrifices, and with one accord agreed to the divine law, that the saints would share alike the same things, both blessings and dangers; and already they were singing the praises of the fathers.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	18	10	But the discordant cry of their enemies echoed back, and their piteous lament for their children was spread abroad.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	18	11	The slave was punished with the same penalty as the master, and the common man suffered the same loss as the king;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	18	12	and they all together, by the one form of death, had corpses too many to count. For the living were not sufficient even to bury them, since in one instant their most valued children had been destroyed.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	18	13	For though they had disbelieved everything because of their magic arts, yet, when their first-born were destroyed, they acknowledged thy people to be God’s son.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	18	14	For while gentle silence enveloped all things, and night in its swift course was now half gone,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	18	15	thy all-powerful word leaped from heaven, from the royal throne, into the midst of the land that was doomed, a stern warrior
 Wisdom	Wis	25	18	16	carrying the sharp sword of thy authentic command, and stood and filled all things with death, and touched heaven while standing on the earth.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	18	17	Then at once apparitions in dreadful dreams greatly troubled them, and unexpected fears assailed them;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	18	18	and one here and another there, hurled down half dead, made known why they were dying;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	18	19	for the dreams which disturbed them forewarned them of this, so that they might not perish without knowing why they suffered.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	18	20	The experience of death touched also the righteous, and a plague came upon the multitude in the desert, but the wrath did not long continue.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	18	21	For a blameless man was quick to act as their champion; he brought forward the shield of his ministry, prayer and propitiation by incense; he withstood the anger and put an end to the disaster, showing that he was thy servant.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	18	22	He conquered the wrath not by strength of body, and not by force of arms, but by his word he subdued the punisher, appealing to the oaths and covenants given to our fathers.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	18	23	For when the dead had already fallen on one another in heaps, he intervened and held back the wrath, and cut off its way to the living.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	18	24	For upon his long robe the whole world was depicted, and the glories of the fathers were engraved on the four rows of stones, and thy majesty on the diadem upon his head.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	18	25	To these the destroyer yielded, these he feared; for merely to test the wrath was enough.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	19	1	But the ungodly were assailed to the end by pitiless anger, for God knew in advance even their future actions,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	19	2	that, though they themselves had permitted thy people to depart and hastily sent them forth, they would change their minds and pursue them.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	19	3	For while they were still busy at mourning, and were lamenting at the graves of their dead, they reached another foolish decision, and pursued as fugitives those whom they had begged and compelled to depart.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	19	4	For the fate they deserved drew them on to this end, and made them forget what had happened, in order that they might fill up the punishment which their torments still lacked,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	19	5	and that thy people might experience an incredible journey, but they themselves might meet a strange death.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	19	6	For the whole creation in its nature was fashioned anew, complying with thy commands, that thy children might be kept unharmed.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	19	7	The cloud was seen overshadowing the camp, and dry land emerging where water had stood before, an unhindered way out of the Red Sea, and a grassy plain out of the raging waves,
 Wisdom	Wis	25	19	8	where those protected by thy hand passed through as one nation, after gazing on marvelous wonders.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	19	9	For they ranged like horses, and leaped like lambs, praising thee, O Lord, who didst deliver them.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	19	10	For they still recalled the events of their sojourn, how instead of producing animals the earth brought forth gnats, and instead of fish the river spewed out vast numbers of frogs.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	19	11	Afterward they saw also a new kind of birds, when desire led them to ask for luxurious food;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	19	12	for, to give them relief, quails came up from the sea.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	19	13	The punishments did not come upon the sinners without prior signs in the violence of thunder, for they justly suffered because of their wicked acts; for they practiced a more bitter hatred of strangers.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	19	14	Others had refused to receive strangers when they came to them, but these made slaves of guests who were their benefactors.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	19	15	And not only so, but punishment of some sort will come upon the former for their hostile reception of the aliens;
 Wisdom	Wis	25	19	16	but the latter, after receiving them with festal celebrations, afflicted with terrible sufferings those who had already shared the same rights.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	19	17	They were stricken also with loss of sight— just as were those at the door of the righteous man— when, surrounded by yawning darkness, each tried to find the way through his own door.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	19	18	For the elements changed places with one another, as on a harp the notes vary the nature of the rhythm, while each note remains the same. This may be clearly inferred from the sight of what took place.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	19	19	For land animals were transformed into water creatures, and creatures that swim moved over to the land.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	19	20	Fire even in water retained its normal power, and water forgot its fire-quenching nature.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	19	21	Flames, on the contrary, failed to consume the flesh of perishable creatures that walked among them, nor did they melt the crystalline, easily melted kind of heavenly food.
 Wisdom	Wis	25	19	22	For in everything, O Lord, thou hast exalted and glorified thy people; and thou hast not neglected to help them at all times and in all places.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	1	1	All wisdom comes from the Lord and is with him for ever.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	1	2	The sand of the sea, the drops of rain, and the days of eternity—who can count them?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	1	3	The height of heaven, the breadth of the earth, the abyss, and wisdom—who can search them out?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	1	4	Wisdom was created before all things, and prudent understanding from eternity.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	1	6	The root of wisdom—to whom has it been revealed? Her clever devices—who knows them?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	1	8	There is One who is wise, greatly to be feared, sitting upon his throne.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	1	9	The Lord himself created wisdom; he saw her and apportioned her, he poured her out upon all his works.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	1	10	She dwells with all flesh according to his gift, and he supplied her to those who love him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	1	11	The fear of the Lord is glory and exultation, and gladness and a crown of rejoicing.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	1	12	The fear of the Lord delights the heart, and gives gladness and joy and long life.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	1	13	With him who fears the Lord it will go well at the end; on the day of his death he will be blessed.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	1	14	To fear the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; she is created with the faithful in the womb.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	1	15	She made among men an eternal foundation, and among their descendants she will be trusted.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	1	16	To fear the Lord is wisdom’s full measure; she satisfies men with her fruits;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	1	17	she fills their whole house with desirable goods, and their storehouses with her produce.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	1	18	The fear of the Lord is the crown of wisdom, making peace and perfect health to flourish.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	1	19	He saw her and apportioned her; he rained down knowledge and discerning comprehension, and he exalted the glory of those who held her fast.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	1	20	To fear the Lord is the root of wisdom, and her branches are long life.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	1	22	Unrighteous anger cannot be justified, for a man’s anger tips the scale to his ruin.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	1	23	A patient man will endure until the right moment, and then joy will burst forth for him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	1	24	He will hide his words until the right moment, and the lips of many will tell of his good sense.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	1	25	In the treasuries of wisdom are wise sayings, but godliness is an abomination to a sinner.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	1	26	If you desire wisdom, keep the commandments, and the Lord will supply it for you.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	1	27	For the fear of the Lord is wisdom and instruction, and he delights in fidelity and meekness.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	1	28	Do not disobey the fear of the Lord; do not approach him with a divided mind.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	1	29	Be not a hypocrite in men’s sight, and keep watch over your lips.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	1	30	Do not exalt yourself lest you fall, and thus bring dishonor upon yourself. The Lord will reveal your secrets and cast you down in the midst of the congregation, because you did not come in the fear of the Lord, and your heart was full of deceit.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	2	1	My son, if you come forward to serve the Lord, prepare yourself for temptation.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	2	2	Set your heart right and be steadfast, and do not be hasty in time of calamity.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	2	3	Cleave to him and do not depart, that you may be honored at the end of your life.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	2	4	Accept whatever is brought upon you, and in changes that humble you be patient.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	2	5	For gold is tested in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of humiliation.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	2	6	Trust in him, and he will help you; make your ways straight, and hope in him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	2	7	You who fear the Lord, wait for his mercy; and turn not aside, lest you fall.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	2	8	You who fear the Lord, trust in him, and your reward will not fail;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	2	9	you who fear the Lord, hope for good things, for everlasting joy and mercy.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	2	10	Consider the ancient generations and see: who ever trusted in the Lord and was put to shame? Or who ever persevered in the fear of the Lord and was forsaken? Or who ever called upon him and was overlooked?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	2	11	For the Lord is compassionate and merciful; he forgives sins and saves in time of affliction.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	2	12	Woe to timid hearts and to slack hands, and to the sinner who walks along two ways!
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	2	13	Woe to the faint heart, for it has no trust! Therefore it will not be sheltered.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	2	14	Woe to you who have lost your endurance! What will you do when the Lord punishes you?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	2	15	Those who fear the Lord will not disobey his words, and those who love him will keep his ways.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	2	16	Those who fear the Lord will seek his approval, and those who love him will be filled with the law.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	2	17	Those who fear the Lord will prepare their hearts, and will humble themselves before him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	2	18	Let us fall into the hands of the Lord, but not into the hands of men; for as his majesty is, so also is his mercy.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	3	1	Listen to me your father, O children; and act accordingly, that you may be kept in safety.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	3	2	For the Lord honored the father above the children, and he confirmed the right of the mother over her sons.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	3	3	Whoever honors his father atones for sins,
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	3	4	and whoever glorifies his mother is like one who lays up treasure.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	3	5	Whoever honors his father will be gladdened by his own children, and when he prays he will be heard.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	3	6	Whoever glorifies his father will have long life, and whoever obeys the Lord will refresh his mother;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	3	7	he will serve his parents as his masters.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	3	8	Honor your father by word and deed, that a blessing from him may come upon you.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	3	9	For a father’s blessing strengthens the houses of the children, but a mother’s curse uproots their foundations.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	3	10	Do not glorify yourself by dishonoring your father, for your father’s dishonor is no glory to you.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	3	11	For a man’s glory comes from honoring his father, and it is a disgrace for children not to respect their mother.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	3	12	O son, help your father in his old age, and do not grieve him as long as he lives;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	3	13	even if he is lacking in understanding, show forbearance; in all your strength do not despise him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	3	14	For kindness to a father will not be forgotten, and against your sins it will be credited to you;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	3	15	in the day of your affliction it will be remembered in your favor; as frost in fair weather, your sins will melt away.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	3	16	Whoever forsakes his father is like a blasphemer, and whoever angers his mother is cursed by the Lord.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	3	17	My son, perform your tasks in meekness; then you will be loved by those whom God accepts.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	3	18	The greater you are, the more you must humble yourself; so you will find favor in the sight of the Lord.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	3	20	For great is the might of the Lord; he is glorified by the humble.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	3	21	Seek not what is too difficult for you, nor investigate what is beyond your power.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	3	22	Reflect upon what has been assigned to you, for you do not need what is hidden.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	3	23	Do not meddle in what is beyond your tasks, for matters too great for human understanding have been shown you.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	3	24	For their hasty judgment has led many astray, and wrong opinion has caused their thoughts to slip.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	3	26	A stubborn mind will be afflicted at the end, and whoever loves danger will perish by it.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	3	27	A stubborn mind will be burdened by troubles, and the sinner will heap sin upon sin.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	3	28	The affliction of the proud has no healing, for a plant of wickedness has taken root in him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	3	29	The mind of the intelligent man will ponder a parable, and an attentive ear is the wise man’s desire.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	3	30	Water extinguishes a blazing fire: so almsgiving atones for sin.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	3	31	Whoever requites favors gives thought to the future; at the moment of his falling he will find support.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	4	1	My son, deprive not the poor of his living, and do not keep needy eyes waiting.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	4	2	Do not grieve the one who is hungry, nor anger a man in want.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	4	3	Do not add to the troubles of an angry mind, nor delay your gift to a beggar.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	4	4	Do not reject an afflicted suppliant, nor turn your face away from the poor.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	4	5	Do not avert your eye from the needy, nor give a man occasion to curse you;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	4	6	for if in bitterness of soul he calls down a curse upon you, his Creator will hear his prayer.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	4	7	Make yourself beloved in the congregation; bow your head low to a great man.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	4	8	Incline your ear to the poor, and answer him peaceably and gently.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	4	9	Deliver him who is wronged from the hand of the wrongdoer; and do not be fainthearted in judging a case.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	4	10	Be like a father to orphans, and instead of a husband to their mother; you will then be like a son of the Most High, and he will love you more than does your mother.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	4	11	Wisdom exalts her sons and gives help to those who seek her.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	4	12	Whoever loves her loves life, and those who seek her early will be filled with joy.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	4	13	Whoever holds her fast will obtain glory, and the Lord will bless the place she enters.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	4	14	Those who serve her will minister to the Holy One; the Lord loves those who love her.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	4	15	He who obeys her will judge the nations, and whoever gives heed to her will dwell secure.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	4	16	If he has faith in her he will obtain her; and his descendants will remain in possession of her.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	4	17	For at first she will walk with him on tortuous paths, she will bring fear and cowardice upon him, and will torment him by her discipline until she trusts him, and she will test him with her ordinances.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	4	18	Then she will come straight back to him and gladden him, and will reveal her secrets to him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	4	19	If he goes astray she will forsake him, and hand him over to his ruin.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	4	20	Observe the right time, and beware of evil; and do not bring shame on yourself.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	4	21	For there is a shame which brings sin, and there is a shame which is glory and favor.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	4	22	Do not show partiality, to your own harm, or deference, to your downfall.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	4	23	Do not refrain from speaking at the crucial time, and do not hide your wisdom.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	4	24	For wisdom is known through speech, and education through the words of the tongue.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	4	25	Never speak against the truth, but be mindful of your ignorance.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	4	26	Do not be ashamed to confess your sins, and do not try to stop the current of a river.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	4	27	Do not subject yourself to a foolish fellow, nor show partiality to a ruler.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	4	28	Strive even to death for the truth and the Lord God will fight for you.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	4	29	Do not be reckless in your speech, or sluggish and remiss in your deeds.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	4	30	Do not be like a lion in your home, nor be a faultfinder with your servants.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	4	31	Let not your hand be extended to receive, but withdrawn when it is time to repay.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	5	1	Do not set your heart on your wealth, nor say, “I have enough.”
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	5	2	Do not follow your inclination and strength, walking according to the desires of your heart.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	5	3	Do not say, “Who will have power over me?” for the Lord will surely punish you.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	5	4	Do not say, “I sinned, and what happened to me?” for the Lord is slow to anger.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	5	5	Do not be so confident of atonement that you add sin to sin.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	5	6	Do not say, “His mercy is great, he will forgive the multitude of my sins,” for both mercy and wrath are with him, and his anger rests on sinners.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	5	7	Do not delay to turn to the Lord, nor postpone it from day to day; for suddenly the wrath of the Lord will go forth, and at the time of punishment you will perish.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	5	8	Do not depend on dishonest wealth, for it will not benefit you in the day of calamity.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	5	9	Do not winnow with every wind, nor follow every path: the double-tongued sinner does that.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	5	10	Be steadfast in your understanding, and let your speech be consistent.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	5	11	Be quick to hear, and be deliberate in answering.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	5	12	If you have understanding, answer your neighbor; but if not, put your hand on your mouth.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	5	13	Glory and dishonor come from speaking, and a man’s tongue is his downfall.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	5	14	Do not be called a slanderer, and do not lie in ambush with your tongue; for shame comes to the thief, and severe condemnation to the double-tongued.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	5	15	In great and small matters do not act amiss, and do not become an enemy instead of a friend;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	1	for a bad name incurs shame and reproach: so fares the double-tongued sinner.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	2	Do not exalt yourself through your soul’s counsel, lest your soul be torn in pieces like a bull.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	3	You will devour your leaves and destroy your fruit, and will be left like a withered tree.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	4	An evil soul will destroy him who has it, and make him the laughingstock of his enemies.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	5	A pleasant voice multiplies friends, and a gracious tongue multiplies courtesies.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	6	Let those that are at peace with you be many, but let your advisers be one in a thousand.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	7	When you gain a friend, gain him through testing, and do not trust him hastily.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	8	For there is a friend who is such at his own convenience, but will not stand by you in your day of trouble.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	9	And there is a friend who changes into an enemy, and will disclose a quarrel to your disgrace.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	10	And there is a friend who is a table companion, but will not stand by you in your day of trouble.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	11	In prosperity he will make himself your equal, and be bold with your servants;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	12	but if you are brought low he will turn against you, and will hide himself from your presence.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	13	Keep yourself far from your enemies, and be on guard toward your friends.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	14	A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter: he that has found one has found a treasure.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	15	There is nothing so precious as a faithful friend, and no scales can measure his excellence.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	16	A faithful friend is an elixir of life; and those who fear the Lord will find him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	17	Whoever fears the Lord directs his friendship aright, for as he is, so is his neighbor also.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	18	My son, from your youth up choose instruction, and until you are old you will keep finding wisdom.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	19	Come to her like one who plows and sows, and wait for her good harvest. For in her service you will toil a little while, and soon you will eat of her produce.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	20	She seems very harsh to the uninstructed; a weakling will not remain with her.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	21	She will weigh him down like a heavy testing stone, and he will not be slow to cast her off.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	22	For wisdom is like her name, and is not manifest to many.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	23	Listen, my son, and accept my judgment; do not reject my counsel.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	24	Put your feet into her fetters, and your neck into her collar.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	25	Put your shoulder under her and carry her, and do not fret under her bonds.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	26	Come to her with all your soul, and keep her ways with all your might.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	27	Search out and seek, and she will become known to you; and when you get hold of her, do not let her go.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	28	For at last you will find the rest she gives, and she will be changed into joy for you.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	29	Then her fetters will become for you a strong protection, and her collar a glorious robe.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	30	Her yoke is a golden ornament, and her bonds are a cord of blue.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	31	You will wear her like a glorious robe, and put her on like a crown of gladness.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	32	If you are willing, my son, you will be taught, and if you apply yourself you will become clever.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	33	If you love to listen you will gain knowledge, and if you incline your ear you will become wise.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	34	Stand in the assembly of the elders. Who is wise? Cleave to him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	35	Be ready to listen to every narrative, and do not let wise proverbs escape you.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	36	If you see an intelligent man, visit him early; let your foot wear out his doorstep.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	6	37	Reflect on the statutes of the Lord, and meditate at all times on his commandments. It is he who will give insight to your mind, and your desire for wisdom will be granted.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	1	Do no evil, and evil will never befall you.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	2	Stay away from wrong, and it will turn away from you.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	3	My son, do not sow the furrows of injustice, and you will not reap a sevenfold crop.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	4	Do not seek from the Lord the highest office, nor the seat of honor from the king.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	5	Do not assert your righteousness before the Lord, nor display your wisdom before the king.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	6	Do not seek to become a judge, lest you be unable to remove iniquity, lest you be partial to a powerful man, and thus put a blot on your integrity.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	7	Do not offend against the public, and do not disgrace yourself among the people.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	8	Do not commit a sin twice; even for one you will not go unpunished.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	9	Do not say, “He will consider the multitude of my gifts, and when I make an offering to the Most High God he will accept it.”
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	10	Do not be fainthearted in your prayer, nor neglect to give alms.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	11	Do not ridicule a man who is bitter in soul, for there is One who abases and exalts.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	12	Do not devise a lie against your brother, nor do the like to a friend.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	13	Refuse to utter any lie, for the habit of lying serves no good.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	14	Do not prattle in the assembly of the elders, nor repeat yourself in your prayer.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	15	Do not hate toilsome labor, or farm work, which were created by the Most High.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	16	Do not count yourself among the crowd of sinners; remember that wrath does not delay.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	17	Humble yourself greatly, for the punishment of the ungodly is fire and worms.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	18	Do not exchange a friend for money, or a real brother for the gold of Ophir.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	19	Do not deprive yourself of a wise and good wife, for her charm is worth more than gold.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	20	Do not abuse a servant who performs his work faithfully, or a hired laborer who devotes himself to you.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	21	Let your soul love an intelligent servant; do not withhold from him his freedom.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	22	Do you have cattle? Look after them; if they are profitable to you, keep them.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	23	Do you have children? Discipline them, and make them obedient from their youth.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	24	Do you have daughters? Be concerned for their chastity, and do not show yourself too indulgent with them.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	25	Give a daughter in marriage; you will have finished a great task. But give her to a man of understanding.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	26	If you have a wife who pleases you, do not cast her out; but do not trust yourself to one whom you detest.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	27	With all your heart honor your father, and do not forget the birth pangs of your mother.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	28	Remember that through your parents you were born; and what can you give back to them that equals their gift to you?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	29	With all your soul fear the Lord, and honor his priests.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	30	With all your might love your Maker, and do not forsake his ministers.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	31	Fear the Lord and honor the priest, and give him his portion, as is commanded you: the first fruits, the guilt offering, the gift of the shoulders, the sacrifice of sanctification, and the first fruits of the holy things.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	32	Stretch forth your hand to the poor, so that your blessing may be complete.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	33	Give graciously to all the living, and withhold not kindness from the dead.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	34	Do not fail those who weep, but mourn with those who mourn.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	35	Do not shrink from visiting a sick man, because for such deeds you will be loved.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	7	36	In all you do, remember the end of your life, and then you will never sin.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	8	1	Do not contend with a powerful man, lest you fall into his hands.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	8	2	Do not quarrel with a rich man, lest his resources outweigh yours; for gold has ruined many, and has perverted the minds of kings.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	8	3	Do not argue with a chatterer, nor heap wood on his fire.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	8	4	Do not jest with an ill-bred person, lest your ancestors be disgraced.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	8	5	Do not reproach a man who is turning away from sin; remember that we all deserve punishment.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	8	6	Do not disdain a man when he is old, for some of us are growing old.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	8	7	Do not rejoice over any one’s death; remember that we all must die.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	8	8	Do not slight the discourse of the sages, but busy yourself with their maxims; because from them you will gain instruction and learn how to serve great men.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	8	9	Do not disregard the discourse of the aged, for they themselves learned from their fathers; because from them you will gain understanding and learn how to give an answer in time of need.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	8	10	Do not kindle the coals of a sinner, lest you be burned in his flaming fire.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	8	11	Do not get up and leave an insolent fellow, lest he lie in ambush against your words.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	8	12	Do not lend to a man who is stronger than you; but if you do lend anything, be as one who has lost it.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	8	13	Do not give surety beyond your means, but if you give surety, be concerned as one who must pay.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	8	14	Do not go to law against a judge, for the decision will favor him because of his standing.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	8	15	Do not travel on the road with a foolhardy fellow, lest he be burdensome to you; for he will act as he pleases, and through his folly you will perish with him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	8	16	Do not fight with a wrathful man, and do not cross the wilderness with him; because blood is as nothing in his sight, and where no help is at hand, he will strike you down.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	8	17	Do not consult with a fool, for he will not be able to keep a secret.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	8	18	In the presence of a stranger do nothing that is to be kept secret, for you do not know what he will divulge.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	8	19	Do not reveal your thoughts to every one, lest you drive away your good luck.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	9	1	Do not be jealous of the wife of your bosom, and do not teach her an evil lesson to your own hurt.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	9	2	Do not give yourself to a woman so that she gains mastery over your strength.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	9	3	Do not go to meet a loose woman, lest you fall into her snares.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	9	4	Do not associate with a woman singer, lest you be caught in her intrigues.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	9	5	Do not look intently at a virgin, lest you stumble and incur penalties for her.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	9	6	Do not give yourself to harlots lest you lose your inheritance.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	9	7	Do not look around in the streets of a city, nor wander about in its deserted sections.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	9	8	Turn away your eyes from a shapely woman, and do not look intently at beauty belonging to another; many have been misled by a woman’s beauty, and by it passion is kindled like a fire.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	9	9	Never dine with another man’s wife, nor revel with her at wine; lest your heart turn aside to her, and in blood you be plunged into destruction.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	9	10	Forsake not an old friend, for a new one does not compare with him. A new friend is like new wine; when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	9	11	Do not envy the honors of a sinner, for you do not know what his end will be.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	9	12	Do not delight in what pleases the ungodly; remember that they will not be held guiltless as long as they live.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	9	13	Keep far from a man who has the power to kill, and you will not be worried by the fear of death. But if you approach him, make no misstep, lest he rob you of your life. Know that you are walking in the midst of snares, and that you are going about on the city battlements.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	9	14	As much as you can, aim to know your neighbors, and consult with the wise.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	9	15	Let your conversation be with men of understanding, and let all your discussion be about the law of the Most High.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	9	16	Let righteous men be your dinner companions, and let your glorying be in the fear of the Lord.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	9	17	A work will be praised for the skill of the craftsmen; so a people’s leader is proved wise by his words.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	9	18	A babbler is feared in his city, and the man who is reckless in speech will be hated.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	10	1	A wise magistrate will educate his people, and the rule of an understanding man will be well ordered.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	10	2	Like the magistrate of the people, so are his officials; and like the ruler of the city, so are all its inhabitants.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	10	3	An undisciplined king will ruin his people, but a city will grow through the understanding of its rulers.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	10	4	The government of the earth is in the hands of the Lord, and over it he will raise up the right man for the time.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	10	5	The success of a man is in the hands of the Lord, and he confers his honor upon the person of the scribe.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	10	6	Do not be angry with your neighbor for any injury, and do not attempt anything by acts of insolence.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	10	7	Arrogance is hateful before the Lord and before men, and injustice is outrageous to both.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	10	8	Sovereignty passes from nation to nation on account of injustice and insolence and wealth.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	10	9	How can he who is dust and ashes be proud? for even in life his bowels decay.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	10	10	A long illness baffles the physician; the king of today will die tomorrow.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	10	11	For when a man is dead, he will inherit creeping things, and wild beasts, and worms.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	10	12	The beginning of man’s pride is to depart from the Lord; his heart has forsaken his Maker.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	10	13	For the beginning of pride is sin, and the man who clings to it pours out abominations. Therefore the Lord brought upon them extraordinary afflictions, and destroyed them utterly.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	10	14	The Lord has cast down the thrones of rulers, and has seated the lowly in their place.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	10	15	The Lord has plucked up the roots of the nations, and has planted the humble in their place.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	10	16	The Lord has overthrown the lands of the nations, and has destroyed them to the foundations of the earth.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	10	17	He has removed some of them and destroyed them, and has extinguished the memory of them from the earth.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	10	18	Pride was not created for men, nor fierce anger for those born of women.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	10	19	What race is worthy of honor? The human race. What race is worthy of honor? Those who fear the Lord. What race is unworthy of honor? The human race. What race is unworthy of honor? Those who transgress the commandments.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	10	20	Among brothers their leader is worthy of honor, and those who fear the Lord are worthy of honor in his eyes.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	10	22	The rich, and the eminent, and the poor— their glory is the fear of the Lord.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	10	23	It is not right to despise an intelligent poor man, nor is it proper to honor a sinful man.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	10	24	The nobleman, and the judge, and the ruler will be honored, but none of them is greater than the man who fears the Lord.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	10	25	Free men will be at the service of a wise servant, and a man of understanding will not grumble.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	10	26	Do not make a display of your wisdom when you do your work, nor glorify yourself at a time when you are in want.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	10	27	Better is a man who works and has an abundance of everything, than one who goes about boasting, but lacks bread.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	10	28	My son, glorify yourself with humility, and ascribe to yourself honor according to your worth.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	10	29	Who will justify the man that sins against himself? And who will honor the man that dishonors his own life?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	10	30	A poor man is honored for his knowledge, while a rich man is honored for his wealth.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	10	31	A man honored in poverty, how much more in wealth! And a man dishonored in wealth, how much more in poverty!
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	11	1	The wisdom of a humble man will lift up his head, and will seat him among the great.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	11	2	Do not praise a man for his good looks, nor loathe a man because of his appearance.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	11	3	The bee is small among flying creatures, but her product is the best of sweet things.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	11	4	Do not boast about wearing fine clothes, nor exalt yourself in the day that you are honored; for the works of the Lord are wonderful, and his works are concealed from men.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	11	5	Many kings have had to sit on the ground, but one who was never thought of has worn a crown.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	11	6	Many rulers have been greatly disgraced, and illustrious men have been handed over to others.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	11	7	Do not find fault before you investigate; first consider, and then reprove.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	11	8	Do not answer before you have heard, nor interrupt a speaker in the midst of his words.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	11	9	Do not argue about a matter which does not concern you, nor sit with sinners when they judge a case.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	11	10	My son, do not busy yourself with many matters; if you multiply activities you will not go unpunished, and if you pursue you will not overtake, and by fleeing you will not escape.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	11	11	There is a man who works, and toils, and presses on, but is so much the more in want.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	11	12	There is another who is slow and needs help, who lacks strength and abounds in poverty; but the eyes of the Lord look upon him for his good; he lifts him out of his low estate
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	11	13	and raises up his head, so that many are amazed at him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	11	14	Good things and bad, life and death, poverty and wealth, come from the Lord.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	11	17	The gift of the Lord endures for those who are godly, and what he approves will have lasting success.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	11	18	There is a man who is rich through his diligence and self-denial, and this is the reward allotted to him:
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	11	19	when he says, “I have found rest, and now I shall enjoy my goods!” he does not know how much time will pass until he leaves them to others and dies.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	11	20	Stand by your covenant and attend to it, and grow old in your work.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	11	21	Do not wonder at the works of a sinner, but trust in the Lord and keep at your toil; for it is easy in the sight of the Lord to enrich a poor man quickly and suddenly.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	11	22	The blessing of the Lord is the reward of the godly, and quickly God causes his blessing to flourish.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	11	23	Do not say, “What do I need, and what prosperity could be mine in the future?”
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	11	24	Do not say, “I have enough, and what calamity could happen to me in the future?”
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	11	25	In the day of prosperity, adversity is forgotten, and in the day of adversity, prosperity is not remembered.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	11	26	For it is easy in the sight of the Lord to reward a man on the day of death according to his conduct.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	11	27	The misery of an hour makes one forget luxury, and at the close of a man’s life his deeds will be revealed.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	11	28	Call no one happy before his death; a man will be known through his children.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	11	29	Do not bring every man into your home, for many are the wiles of the crafty.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	11	30	Like a decoy partridge in a cage, so is the mind of a proud man, and like a spy he observes your weakness;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	11	31	for he lies in wait, turning good into evil, and to worthy actions he will attach blame.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	11	32	From a spark of fire come many burning coals, and a sinner lies in wait to shed blood.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	11	33	Beware of a scoundrel, for he devises evil, lest he give you a lasting blemish.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	11	34	Receive a stranger into your home and he will upset you with commotion, and will estrange you from your family.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	12	1	If you do a kindness, know to whom you do it, and you will be thanked for your good deeds.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	12	2	Do good to a godly man, and you will be repaid— if not by him, certainly by the Most High.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	12	3	No good will come to the man who persists in evil or to him who does not give alms.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	12	4	Give to the godly man, but do not help the sinner.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	12	5	Do good to the humble, but do not give to the ungodly; hold back his bread, and do not give it to him, lest by means of it he subdue you; for you will receive twice as much evil for all the good which you do to him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	12	6	For the Most High also hates sinners and will inflict punishment on the ungodly.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	12	7	Give to the good man, but do not help the sinner.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	12	8	A friend will not be known in prosperity, nor will an enemy be hidden in adversity.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	12	9	A man’s enemies are grieved when he prospers, and in his adversity even his friend will separate from him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	12	10	Never trust your enemy, for like the rusting of copper, so is his wickedness.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	12	11	Even if he humbles himself and goes about cringing, watch yourself, and be on your guard against him; and you will be to him like one who has polished a mirror, and you will know that it was not hopelessly tarnished.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	12	12	Do not put him next to you, lest he overthrow you and take your place; do not have him sit at your right, lest he try to take your seat of honor, and at last you will realize the truth of my words, and be stung by what I have said.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	12	13	Who will pity a snake charmer bitten by a serpent, or any who go near wild beasts?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	12	14	So no one will pity a man who associates with a sinner and becomes involved in his sins.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	12	15	He will stay with you for a time, but if you falter, he will not stand by you.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	12	16	An enemy will speak sweetly with his lips, but in his mind he will plan to throw you into a pit; an enemy will weep with his eyes, but if he finds an opportunity his thirst for blood will be insatiable.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	12	17	If calamity befalls you, you will find him there ahead of you; and while pretending to help you, he will trip you by the heel;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	12	18	he will shake his head, and clap his hands, and whisper much, and change his expression.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	13	1	Whoever touches pitch will be defiled, and whoever associates with a proud man will become like him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	13	2	Do not lift a weight beyond your strength, nor associate with a man mightier and richer than you. How can the clay pot associate with the iron kettle? The pot will strike against it, and will itself be broken.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	13	3	A rich man does wrong, and he even adds reproaches; a poor man suffers wrong, and he must add apologies.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	13	4	A rich man will exploit you if you can be of use to him, but if you are in need he will forsake you.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	13	5	If you own something, he will live with you; he will drain your resources and he will not care.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	13	6	When he needs you he will deceive you, he will smile at you and give you hope. He will speak to you kindly and say, “What do you need?”
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	13	7	He will shame you with his foods, until he has drained you two or three times; and finally he will deride you. Should he see you afterwards, he will forsake you, and shake his head at you.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	13	8	Take care not to be led astray, and not to be humiliated in your feasting.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	13	9	When a powerful man invites you, be reserved; and he will invite you the more often.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	13	10	Do not push forward, lest you be repulsed; and do not remain at a distance, lest you be forgotten.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	13	11	Do not try to treat him as an equal, nor trust his abundance of words; for he will test you through much talk, and while he smiles he will be examining you.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	13	12	Cruel is he who does not keep words to himself; he will not hesitate to injure or to imprison.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	13	13	Keep words to yourself and be very watchful, for you are walking about with your own downfall.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	13	15	Every creature loves its like, and every person his neighbor;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	13	16	all living beings associate by species, and a man clings to one like himself.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	13	17	What fellowship has a wolf with a lamb? No more has a sinner with a godly man.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	13	18	What peace is there between a hyena and a dog? And what peace between a rich man and a poor man?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	13	19	Wild asses in the wilderness are the prey of lions; likewise the poor are pastures for the rich.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	13	20	Humility is an abomination to a proud man; likewise a poor man is an abomination to a rich one.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	13	21	When a rich man totters, he is steadied by friends, but when a humble man falls, he is even pushed away by friends.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	13	22	If a rich man slips, his helpers are many; he speaks unseemly words, and they justify him. If a humble man slips, they even reproach him; he speaks sensibly, and receives no attention.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	13	23	When the rich man speaks all are silent, and they extol to the clouds what he says. When the poor man speaks they say, “Who is this fellow?” And should he stumble, they even push him down.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	13	24	Riches are good if they are free from sin, and poverty is evil in the opinion of the ungodly.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	13	25	A man’s heart changes his countenance, either for good or for evil.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	13	26	The mark of a happy heart is a cheerful face, but to devise proverbs requires painful thinking.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	14	1	Blessed is the man who does not blunder with his lips and need not suffer grief for sin.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	14	2	Blessed is he whose heart does not condemn him, and who has not given up his hope.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	14	3	Riches are not seemly for a stingy man; and of what use is property to an envious man?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	14	4	Whoever accumulates by depriving himself, accumulates for others; and others will live in luxury on his goods.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	14	5	If a man is mean to himself, to whom will he be generous? He will not enjoy his own riches.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	14	6	No one is meaner than the man who is grudging to himself, and this is the retribution for his baseness;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	14	7	even if he does good, he does it unintentionally, and betrays his baseness in the end.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	14	8	Evil is the man with a grudging eye; he averts his face and disregards people.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	14	9	A greedy man’s eye is not satisfied with a portion, and mean injustice withers the soul.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	14	10	A stingy man’s eye begrudges bread, and it is lacking at his table.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	14	11	My son, treat yourself well, according to your means, and present worthy offerings to the Lord.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	14	12	Remember that death will not delay, and the decree of Hades has not been shown to you.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	14	13	Do good to a friend before you die, and reach out and give to him as much as you can.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	14	14	Do not deprive yourself of a happy day; let not your share of desired good pass by you.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	14	15	Will you not leave the fruit of your labors to another, and what you acquired by toil to be divided by lot?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	14	16	Give, and take, and beguile yourself, because in Hades one cannot look for luxury.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	14	17	All living beings become old like a garment, for the decree from of old is, “You must surely die!”
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	14	18	Like flourishing leaves on a spreading tree which sheds some and puts forth others, so are the generations of flesh and blood: one dies and another is born.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	14	19	Every product decays and ceases to exist, and the man who made it will pass away with it.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	14	20	Blessed is the man who meditates on wisdom and who reasons intelligently.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	14	21	He who reflects in his mind on her ways will also ponder her secrets.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	14	22	Pursue wisdom like a hunter, and lie in wait on her paths.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	14	23	He who peers through her windows will also listen at her doors;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	14	24	he who encamps near her house will also fasten his tent peg to her walls;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	14	25	he will pitch his tent near her, and will lodge in an excellent lodging place;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	14	26	he will place his children under her shelter, and will camp under her boughs;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	14	27	he will be sheltered by her from the heat, and will dwell in the midst of her glory.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	15	1	The man who fears the Lord will do this, and he who holds to the law will obtain wisdom.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	15	2	She will come to meet him like a mother, and like the wife of his youth she will welcome him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	15	3	She will feed him with the bread of understanding, and give him the water of wisdom to drink.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	15	4	He will lean on her and will not fall, and he will rely on her and will not be put to shame.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	15	5	She will exalt him above his neighbors, and will open his mouth in the midst of the assembly.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	15	6	He will find gladness and a crown of rejoicing, and will acquire an everlasting name.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	15	7	Foolish men will not obtain her, and sinful men will not see her.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	15	8	She is far from men of pride, and liars will never think of her.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	15	9	A hymn of praise is not fitting on the lips of a sinner, for it has not been sent from the Lord.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	15	10	For a hymn of praise should be uttered in wisdom, and the Lord will prosper it.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	15	11	Do not say, “Because of the Lord I left the right way”; for he will not do what he hates.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	15	12	Do not say, “It was he who led me astray”; for he had no need of a sinful man.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	15	13	The Lord hates all abominations, and they are not loved by those who fear him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	15	14	It was he who created man in the beginning, and he left him in the power of his own inclination.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	15	15	If you will, you can keep the commandments, and to act faithfully is a matter of your own choice.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	15	16	He has placed before you fire and water: stretch out your hand for whichever you wish.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	15	17	Before a man are life and death, and whichever he chooses will be given to him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	15	18	For great is the wisdom of the Lord; he is mighty in power and sees everything;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	15	19	his eyes are on those who fear him, and he knows every deed of man.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	15	20	He has not commanded any one to be ungodly, and he has not given any one permission to sin.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	16	1	Do not desire a multitude of useless children, nor rejoice in ungodly sons.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	16	2	If they multiply, do not rejoice in them, unless the fear of the Lord is in them.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	16	3	Do not trust in their survival, and do not rely on their multitude; for one is better than a thousand, and to die childless is better than to have ungodly children.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	16	4	For through one man of understanding a city will be filled with people, but through a tribe of lawless men it will be made desolate.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	16	5	Many such things my eye has seen, and my ear has heard things more striking than these.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	16	6	In an assembly of sinners a fire will be kindled, and in a disobedient nation wrath was kindled.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	16	7	He was not propitiated for the ancient giants who revolted in their might.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	16	8	He did not spare the neighbors of Lot, whom he loathed on account of their insolence.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	16	9	He showed no pity for a nation devoted to destruction, for those destroyed in their sins;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	16	10	nor for the six hundred thousand men on foot, who rebelliously assembled in their stubbornness.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	16	11	Even if there is only one stiff-necked person, it will be a wonder if he remains unpunished. For mercy and wrath are with the Lord; he is mighty to forgive, and he pours out wrath.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	16	12	As great as his mercy, so great is also his reproof; he judges a man according to his deeds.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	16	13	The sinner will not escape with his plunder, and the patience of the godly will not be frustrated.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	16	14	He will make room for every act of mercy; every one will receive in accordance with his deeds.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	16	17	Do not say, “I shall be hidden from the Lord, and who from on high will remember me? Among so many people I shall not be known, for what is my soul in the boundless creation?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	16	18	Behold, heaven and the highest heaven, the abyss and the earth, will tremble at his visitation.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	16	19	The mountains also and the foundations of the earth shake with trembling when he looks upon them.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	16	20	And no mind will reflect on this. Who will ponder his ways?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	16	21	Like a tempest which no man can see, so most of his works are concealed.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	16	22	Who will announce his acts of justice? Or who will await them? For the covenant is far off.”
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	16	23	This is what one devoid of understanding thinks; a senseless and misguided man thinks foolishly.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	16	24	Listen to me, my son, and acquire knowledge, and pay close attention to my words.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	16	25	I will impart instruction by weight, and declare knowledge accurately.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	16	26	The works of the Lord have existed from the beginning by his creation, and when he made them, he determined their divisions.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	16	27	He arranged his works in an eternal order, and their dominion for all generations; they neither hunger nor grow weary, and they do not cease from their labors.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	16	28	They do not crowd one another aside, and they will never disobey his word.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	16	29	After this the Lord looked upon the earth, and filled it with his good things;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	16	30	with all kinds of living beings he covered its surface, and to it they return.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	17	1	The Lord created man out of earth, and turned him back to it again.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	17	2	He gave to men few days, a limited time, but granted them authority over the things upon the earth.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	17	3	He endowed them with strength like his own, and made them in his own image.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	17	4	He placed the fear of them in all living beings, and granted them dominion over beasts and birds.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	17	6	He made for them tongue and eyes; he gave them ears and a mind for thinking.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	17	7	He filled them with knowledge and understanding, and showed them good and evil.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	17	8	He set his eye upon their hearts to show them the majesty of his works.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	17	10	And they will praise his holy name, to proclaim the grandeur of his works.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	17	11	He bestowed knowledge upon them, and allotted to them the law of life.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	17	12	He established with them an eternal covenant, and showed them his judgments.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	17	13	Their eyes saw his glorious majesty, and their ears heard the glory of his voice.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	17	14	And he said to them, “Beware of all unrighteousness.” And he gave commandment to each of them concerning his neighbor.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	17	15	Their ways are always before him, they will not be hid from his eyes.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	17	17	He appointed a ruler for every nation, but Israel is the Lord’s own portion.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	17	19	All their works are as the sun before him, and his eyes are continually upon their ways.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	17	20	Their iniquities are not hidden from him, and all their sins are before the Lord.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	17	22	A man’s almsgiving is like a signet with the Lord and he will keep a person’s kindness like the apple of his eye.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	17	23	Afterward he will arise and requite them, and he will bring their recompense on their heads.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	17	24	Yet to those who repent he grants a return, and he encourages those whose endurance is failing.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	17	25	Turn to the Lord and forsake your sins; pray in his presence and lessen your offenses.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	17	26	Return to the Most High and turn away from iniquity, and hate abominations intensely.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	17	27	Who will sing praises to the Most High in Hades, as do those who are alive and give thanks?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	17	28	From the dead, as from one who does not exist, thanksgiving has ceased; he who is alive and well sings the Lord’s praises.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	17	29	How great is the mercy of the Lord, and his forgiveness for those who turn to him!
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	17	30	For all things cannot be in men, since a son of man is not immortal.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	17	31	What is brighter than the sun? Yet its light fails. So flesh and blood devise evil.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	17	32	He marshals the host of the height of heaven; but all men are dust and ashes.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	18	1	He who lives for ever created the whole universe;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	18	2	the Lord alone will be declared righteous.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	18	4	To none has he given power to proclaim his works; and who can search out his mighty deeds?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	18	5	Who can measure his majestic power? And who can fully recount his mercies?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	18	6	It is not possible to diminish or increase them, nor is it possible to trace the wonders of the Lord.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	18	7	When a man has finished, he is just beginning, and when he stops, he will be at a loss.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	18	8	What is man, and of what use is he? What is his good and what is his evil?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	18	9	The number of a man’s days is great if he reaches a hundred years.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	18	10	Like a drop of water from the sea and a grain of sand so are a few years in the day of eternity.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	18	11	Therefore the Lord is patient with them and pours out his mercy upon them.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	18	12	He sees and recognizes that their end will be evil; therefore he grants them forgiveness in abundance.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	18	13	The compassion of man is for his neighbor, but the compassion of the Lord is for all living beings. He rebukes and trains and teaches them, and turns them back, as a shepherd his flock.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	18	14	He has compassion on those who accept his discipline and who are eager for his judgments.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	18	15	My son, do not mix reproach with your good deeds, nor cause grief by your words when you present a gift.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	18	16	Does not the dew assuage the scorching heat? So a word is better than a gift.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	18	17	Indeed, does not a word surpass a good gift? Both are to be found in a gracious man.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	18	18	A fool is ungracious and abusive, and the gift of a grudging man makes the eyes dim.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	18	19	Before you speak, learn, and before you fall ill, take care of your health.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	18	20	Before judgment, examine yourself, and in the hour of visitation you will find forgiveness.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	18	21	Before falling ill, humble yourself, and when you are on the point of sinning, turn back.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	18	22	Let nothing hinder you from paying a vow promptly, and do not wait until death to be released from it.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	18	23	Before making a vow, prepare yourself; and do not be like a man who tempts the Lord.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	18	24	Think of his wrath on the day of death, and of the moment of vengeance when he turns away his face.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	18	25	In the time of plenty think of the time of hunger; in the days of wealth think of poverty and need.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	18	26	From morning to evening conditions change, and all things move swiftly before the Lord.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	18	27	A wise man is cautious in everything, and in days of sin he guards against wrongdoing.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	18	28	Every intelligent man knows wisdom, and he praises the one who finds her.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	18	29	Those who understand sayings become skilled themselves, and pour forth apt proverbs.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	18	30	Do not follow your base desires, but restrain your appetites.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	18	31	If you allow your soul to take pleasure in base desire, it will make you the laughingstock of your enemies.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	18	32	Do not revel in great luxury, lest you become impoverished by its expense.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	18	33	Do not become a beggar by feasting with borrowed money, when you have nothing in your purse.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	19	1	A workman who is a drunkard will not become rich; he who despises small things will fail little by little.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	19	2	Wine and women lead intelligent men astray, and the man who consorts with harlots is very reckless.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	19	3	Decay and worms will inherit him, and the reckless soul will be snatched away.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	19	4	One who trusts others too quickly is lightminded, and one who sins does wrong to himself.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	19	5	One who rejoices in wickedness will be condemned,
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	19	6	and for one who hates gossip evil is lessened.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	19	7	Never repeat a conversation, and you will lose nothing at all.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	19	8	With friend or foe do not report it, and unless it would be a sin for you, do not disclose it;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	19	9	for some one has heard you and watched you, and when the time comes he will hate you.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	19	10	Have you heard a word? Let it die with you. Be brave! It will not make you burst!
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	19	11	With such a word a fool will suffer pangs like a woman in labor with a child.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	19	12	Like an arrow stuck in the flesh of the thigh, so is a word inside a fool.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	19	13	Question a friend, perhaps he did not do it; but if he did anything, so that he may do it no more.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	19	14	Question a neighbor, perhaps he did not say it; but if he said it, so that he may not say it again.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	19	15	Question a friend, for often it is slander; so do not believe everything you hear.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	19	16	A person may make a slip without intending it. Who has never sinned with his tongue?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	19	17	Question your neighbor before you threaten him; and let the law of the Most High take its course.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	19	20	All wisdom is the fear of the Lord, and in all wisdom there is the fulfilment of the law.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	19	22	But the knowledge of wickedness is not wisdom, nor is there prudence where sinners take counsel.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	19	23	There is a cleverness which is abominable, but there is a fool who merely lacks wisdom.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	19	24	Better is the God-fearing man who lacks intelligence, than the highly prudent man who transgresses the law.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	19	25	There is a cleverness which is scrupulous but unjust, and there are people who distort kindness to gain a verdict.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	19	26	There is a rascal bowed down in mourning, but inwardly he is full of deceit.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	19	27	He hides his face and pretends not to hear; but where no one notices, he will forestall you.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	19	28	And if by lack of strength he is prevented from sinning, he will do evil when he finds an opportunity.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	19	29	A man is known by his appearance, and a sensible man is known by his face, when you meet him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	19	30	A man’s attire and open-mouthed laughter, and a man’s manner of walking, show what he is.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	20	1	There is a reproof which is not timely; and there is a man who keeps silent but is wise.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	20	2	How much better it is to reprove than to stay angry! And the one who confesses his fault will be kept from loss.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	20	4	Like a eunuch’s desire to violate a maiden is a man who executes judgments by violence.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	20	5	There is one who by keeping silent is found wise, while another is detested for being too talkative.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	20	6	There is one who keeps silent because he has no answer, while another keeps silent because he knows when to speak.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	20	7	A wise man will be silent until the right moment, but a braggart and fool goes beyond the right moment.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	20	8	Whoever uses too many words will be loathed, and whoever usurps the right to speak will be hated.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	20	9	There may be good fortune for a man in adversity, and a windfall may result in a loss.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	20	10	There is a gift that profits you nothing, and there is a gift that brings a double return.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	20	11	There are losses because of glory, and there are men who have raised their heads from humble circumstances.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	20	12	There is a man who buys much for a little, but pays for it seven times over.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	20	13	The wise man makes himself beloved through his words, but the courtesies of fools are wasted.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	20	14	A fool’s gift will profit you nothing, for he has many eyes instead of one.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	20	15	He gives little and upbraids much, he opens his mouth like a herald; today he lends and tomorrow he asks it back; such a one is a hateful man.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	20	16	A fool will say, “I have no friend, and there is no gratitude for my good deeds; those who eat my bread speak unkindly.”
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	20	17	How many will ridicule him, and how often!
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	20	18	A slip on the pavement is better than a slip of the tongue; so the downfall of the wicked will occur speedily.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	20	19	An ungracious man is like a story told at the wrong time, which is continually on the lips of the ignorant.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	20	20	A proverb from a fool’s lips will be rejected, for he does not tell it at its proper time.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	20	21	A man may be prevented from sinning by his poverty, so when he rests he feels no remorse.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	20	22	A man may lose his life through shame, or lose it because of his foolish look.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	20	23	A man may for shame make promises to a friend, and needlessly make him an enemy.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	20	24	A lie is an ugly blot on a man; it is continually on the lips of the ignorant.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	20	25	A thief is preferable to a habitual liar, but the lot of both is ruin.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	20	26	The disposition of a liar brings disgrace, and his shame is ever with him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	20	27	He who speaks wisely will advance himself, and a sensible man will please great men.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	20	28	Whoever cultivates the soil will heap up his harvest, and whoever pleases great men will atone for injustice.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	20	29	Presents and gifts blind the eyes of the wise; like a muzzle on the mouth they avert reproofs.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	20	30	Hidden wisdom and unseen treasure, what advantage is there in either of them?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	20	31	Better is the man who hides his folly than the man who hides his wisdom.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	21	1	Have you sinned, my son? Do so no more, but pray about your former sins.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	21	2	Flee from sin as from a snake; for if you approach sin, it will bite you. Its teeth are lion’s teeth, and destroy the souls of men.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	21	3	All lawlessness is like a two-edged sword; there is no healing for its wound.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	21	4	Terror and violence will lay waste riches; thus the house of the proud will be laid waste.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	21	5	The prayer of a poor man goes from his lips to the ears of God, and his judgment comes speedily.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	21	6	Whoever hates reproof walks in the steps of the sinner, but he that fears the Lord will repent in his heart.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	21	7	He who is mighty in speech is known from afar; but the sensible man, when he slips, is aware of it.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	21	8	A man who builds his house with other people’s money is like one who gathers stones for his burial mound.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	21	9	An assembly of the wicked is like tow gathered together, and their end is a flame of fire.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	21	10	The way of sinners is smoothly paved with stones, but at its end is the pit of Hades.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	21	11	Whoever keeps the law controls his thoughts, and wisdom is the fulfilment of the fear of the Lord.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	21	12	He who is not clever cannot be taught, but there is a cleverness which increases bitterness.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	21	13	The knowledge of a wise man will increase like a flood, and his counsel like a flowing spring.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	21	14	The mind of a fool is like a broken jar; it will hold no knowledge.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	21	15	When a man of understanding hears a wise saying, he will praise it and add to it; when a reveler hears it, he dislikes it and casts it behind his back.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	21	16	A fool’s narration is like a burden on a journey, but delight will be found in the speech of the intelligent.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	21	17	The utterance of a sensible man will be sought in the assembly, and they will ponder his words in their minds.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	21	18	Like a house that has vanished, so is wisdom to a fool; and the knowledge of the ignorant is unexamined talk.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	21	19	To a senseless man education is fetters on his feet, and like manacles on his right hand.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	21	20	A fool raises his voice when he laughs, but a clever man smiles quietly.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	21	21	To a sensible man education is like a golden ornament, and like a bracelet on the right arm.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	21	22	The foot of a fool rushes into a house, but a man of experience stands respectfully before it.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	21	23	A boor peers into the house from the door, but a cultivated man remains outside.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	21	24	It is ill-mannered for a man to listen at a door, and a discreet man is grieved by the disgrace.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	21	25	The lips of strangers will speak of these things, but the words of the prudent will be weighed in the balance.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	21	26	The mind of fools is in their mouth, but the mouth of wise men is in their mind.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	21	27	When an ungodly man curses his adversary, he curses his own soul.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	21	28	A whisperer defiles his own soul and is hated in his neighborhood.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	22	1	The indolent may be compared to a filthy stone, and every one hisses at his disgrace.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	22	2	The indolent may be compared to the filth of dunghills; any one that picks it up will shake it off his hand.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	22	3	It is a disgrace to be the father of an undisciplined son, and the birth of a daughter is a loss.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	22	4	A sensible daughter obtains her husband, but one who acts shamefully brings grief to her father.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	22	5	An impudent daughter disgraces father and husband, and will be despised by both.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	22	6	Like music in mourning is a tale told at the wrong time, but chastising and discipline are wisdom at all times.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	22	7	He who teaches a fool is like one who glues potsherds together, or who rouses a sleeper from deep slumber.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	22	8	He who tells a story to a fool tells it to a drowsy man; and at the end he will say, “What is it?”
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	22	11	Weep for the dead, for he lacks the light; and weep for the fool, for he lacks intelligence; weep less bitterly for the dead, for he has attained rest; but the life of the fool is worse than death.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	22	12	Mourning for the dead lasts seven days, but for a fool or an ungodly man it lasts all his life.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	22	13	Do not talk much with a foolish man, and do not visit an unintelligent man; guard yourself from him to escape trouble, and you will not be soiled when he shakes himself off; avoid him and you will find rest, and you will never be wearied by his madness.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	22	14	What is heavier than lead? And what is its name except “Fool”?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	22	15	Sand, salt, and a piece of iron are easier to bear than a stupid man.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	22	16	A wooden beam firmly bonded into a building will not be torn loose by an earthquake; so the mind firmly fixed on a reasonable counsel will not be afraid in a crisis.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	22	17	A mind settled on an intelligent thought is like the stucco decoration on the wall of a colonnade.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	22	18	Fences set on a high place will not stand firm against the wind; so a timid heart with a fool’s purpose will not stand firm against any fear.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	22	19	A man who pricks an eye will make tears fall, and one who pricks the heart makes it show feeling.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	22	20	One who throws a stone at birds scares them away, and one who reviles a friend will break off the friendship.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	22	21	Even if you have drawn your sword against a friend, do not despair, for a renewal of friendship is possible.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	22	22	If you have opened your mouth against your friend, do not worry, for reconciliation is possible; but as for reviling, arrogance, disclosure of secrets, or a treacherous blow— in these cases any friend will flee.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	22	23	Gain the trust of your neighbor in his poverty, that you may rejoice with him in his prosperity; stand by him in time of affliction, that you may share with him in his inheritance.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	22	24	The vapor and smoke of the furnace precede the fire; so insults precede bloodshed.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	22	25	I will not be ashamed to protect a friend, and I will not hide from him;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	22	26	but if some harm should happen to me because of him, whoever hears of it will beware of him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	22	27	O that a guard were set over my mouth, and a seal of prudence upon my lips, that it may keep me from falling, so that my tongue may not destroy me!
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	23	1	O Lord, Father and Ruler of my life, do not abandon me to their counsel, and let me not fall because of them!
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	23	2	O that whips were set over my thoughts, and the discipline of wisdom over my mind! That they may not spare me in my errors, and that it may not pass by my sins;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	23	3	in order that my mistakes may not be multiplied, and my sins may not abound; then I will not fall before my adversaries, and my enemy will not rejoice over me.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	23	4	O Lord, Father and God of my life, do not give me haughty eyes,
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	23	5	and remove from me evil desire.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	23	6	Let neither gluttony nor lust overcome me, and do not surrender me to a shameless soul.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	23	7	Listen, my children, to instruction concerning speech; the one who observes it will never be caught.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	23	8	The sinner is overtaken through his lips, the reviler and the arrogant are tripped by them.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	23	9	Do not accustom your mouth to oaths, and do not habitually utter the name of the Holy One;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	23	10	for as a servant who is continually examined under torture will not lack bruises, so also the man who always swears and utters the Name will not be cleansed from sin.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	23	11	A man who swears many oaths will be filled with iniquity, and the scourge will not leave his house; if he offends, his sin remains on him, and if he disregards it, he sins doubly; if he has sworn needlessly, he will not be justified, for his house will be filled with calamities.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	23	12	There is an utterance which is comparable to death; may it never be found in the inheritance of Jacob! For all these errors will be far from the godly, and they will not wallow in sins.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	23	13	Do not accustom your mouth to lewd vulgarity, for it involves sinful speech.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	23	14	Remember your father and mother when you sit among great men; lest you be forgetful in their presence, and be deemed a fool on account of your habits; then you will wish that you had never been born, and you will curse the day of your birth.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	23	15	A man accustomed to use insulting words will never become disciplined all his days.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	23	16	Two sorts of men multiply sins, and a third incurs wrath. The soul heated like a burning fire will not be quenched until it is consumed; a man who commits fornication with his near of kin will never cease until the fire burns him up.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	23	17	To a fornicator all bread tastes sweet; he will never cease until he dies.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	23	18	A man who breaks his marriage vows says to himself, “Who sees me? Darkness surrounds me, and the walls hide me, and no one sees me. Why should I fear? The Most High will not take notice of my sins.”
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	23	19	His fear is confined to the eyes of men, and he does not realize that the eyes of the Lord are ten thousand times brighter than the sun; they look upon all the ways of men, and perceive even the hidden places.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	23	20	Before the universe was created, it was known to him; so it was also after it was finished.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	23	21	This man will be punished in the streets of the city, and where he least suspects it, he will be seized.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	23	22	So it is with a woman who leaves her husband and provides an heir by a stranger.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	23	23	For first of all, she has disobeyed the law of the Most High; second, she has committed an offense against her husband; and third, she has committed adultery through harlotry and brought forth children by another man.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	23	24	She herself will be brought before the assembly, and punishment will fall on her children.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	23	25	Her children will not take root, and her branches will not bear fruit.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	23	26	She will leave her memory for a curse, and her disgrace will not be blotted out.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	23	27	Those who survive her will recognize that nothing is better than the fear of the Lord, and nothing sweeter than to heed the commandments of the Lord.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	24	1	Wisdom will praise herself, and will glory in the midst of her people.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	24	2	In the assembly of the Most High she will open her mouth, and in the presence of his host she will glory:
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	24	3	“I came forth from the mouth of the Most High, and covered the earth like a mist.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	24	4	I dwelt in high places, and my throne was in a pillar of cloud.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	24	5	Alone I have made the circuit of the vault of heaven and have walked in the depths of the abyss.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	24	6	In the waves of the sea, in the whole earth, and in every people and nation I have gotten a possession.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	24	7	Among all these I sought a resting place; I sought in whose territory I might lodge.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	24	8	“Then the Creator of all things gave me a commandment, and the one who created me assigned a place for my tent. And he said, ‘Make your dwelling in Jacob, and in Israel receive your inheritance.’
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	24	9	From eternity, in the beginning, he created me, and for eternity I shall not cease to exist.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	24	10	In the holy tabernacle I ministered before him, and so I was established in Zion.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	24	11	In the beloved city likewise he gave me a resting place, and in Jerusalem was my dominion.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	24	12	So I took root in an honored people, in the portion of the Lord, who is their inheritance.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	24	13	“I grew tall like a cedar in Lebanon, and like a cypress on the heights of Hermon.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	24	14	I grew tall like a palm tree in En-gedi, and like rose plants in Jericho; like a beautiful olive tree in the field, and like a plane tree I grew tall.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	24	15	Like cassia and camel’s thorn I gave forth the aroma of spices, and like choice myrrh I spread a pleasant odor, like galbanum, onycha, and stacte, and like the fragrance of frankincense in the tabernacle.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	24	16	Like a terebinth I spread out my branches, and my branches are glorious and graceful.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	24	17	Like a vine I caused loveliness to bud, and my blossoms became glorious and abundant fruit.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	24	19	“Come to me, you who desire me, and eat your fill of my produce.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	24	20	For the remembrance of me is sweeter than honey, and my inheritance sweeter than the honeycomb.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	24	21	Those who eat me will hunger for more, and those who drink me will thirst for more.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	24	22	Whoever obeys me will not be put to shame, and those who work with my help will not sin.”
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	24	23	All this is the book of the covenant of the Most High God, the law which Moses commanded us as an inheritance for the congregations of Jacob.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	24	25	It fills men with wisdom, like the Pishon, and like the Tigris at the time of the first fruits.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	24	26	It makes them full of understanding, like the Euphrates, and like the Jordan at harvest time.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	24	27	It makes instruction shine forth like light, like the Gihon at the time of vintage.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	24	28	Just as the first man did not know her perfectly, the last one has not fathomed her;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	24	29	for her thought is more abundant than the sea, and her counsel deeper than the great abyss.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	24	30	I went forth like a canal from a river and like a water channel into a garden.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	24	31	I said, “I will water my orchard and drench my garden plot”; and lo, my canal became a river, and my river became a sea.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	24	32	I will again make instruction shine forth like the dawn, and I will make it shine afar;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	24	33	I will again pour out teaching like prophecy, and leave it to all future generations.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	24	34	Observe that I have not labored for myself alone, but for all who seek instruction.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	25	1	My soul takes pleasure in three things, and they are beautiful in the sight of the Lord and of men; agreement between brothers, friendship between neighbors, and a wife and a husband who live in harmony.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	25	2	My soul hates three kinds of men, and I am greatly offended at their life: a beggar who is proud, a rich man who is a liar, and an adulterous old man who lacks good sense.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	25	3	You have gathered nothing in your youth; how then can you find anything in your old age?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	25	4	What an attractive thing is judgment in gray-haired men, and for the aged to possess good counsel!
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	25	5	How attractive is wisdom in the aged, and understanding and counsel in honorable men!
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	25	6	Rich experience is the crown of the aged, and their boast is the fear of the Lord.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	25	7	With nine thoughts I have gladdened my heart, and a tenth I shall tell with my tongue: a man rejoicing in his children; a man who lives to see the downfall of his foes;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	25	8	happy is he who lives with an intelligent wife, and he who has not made a slip with his tongue, and he who has not served a man inferior to himself;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	25	9	happy is he who has gained good sense, and he who speaks to attentive listeners.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	25	10	How great is he who has gained wisdom! But there is no one superior to him who fears the Lord.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	25	11	The fear of the Lord surpasses everything; to whom shall be likened the one who holds it fast?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	25	13	Any wound, but not a wound of the heart! Any wickedness, but not the wickedness of a wife!
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	25	14	Any attack, but not an attack from those who hate! And any vengeance, but not the vengeance of enemies!
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	25	15	There is no venom worse than a snake’s venom, and no wrath worse than an enemy’s wrath.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	25	16	I would rather dwell with a lion and a dragon than dwell with an evil wife.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	25	17	The wickedness of a wife changes her appearance, and darkens her face like that of a bear.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	25	18	Her husband takes his meals among the neighbors, and he cannot help sighing bitterly.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	25	19	Any iniquity is insignificant compared to a wife’s iniquity; may a sinner’s lot befall her!
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	25	20	A sandy ascent for the feet of the aged— such is a garrulous wife for a quiet husband.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	25	21	Do not be ensnared by a woman’s beauty, and do not desire a woman for her possessions.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	25	22	There is wrath and impudence and great disgrace when a wife supports her husband.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	25	23	A dejected mind, a gloomy face, and a wounded heart are caused by an evil wife. Drooping hands and weak knees are caused by the wife who does not make her husband happy.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	25	24	From a woman sin had its beginning, and because of her we all die.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	25	25	Allow no outlet to water, and no boldness of speech in an evil wife.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	25	26	If she does not go as you direct, separate her from yourself.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	26	1	Happy is the husband of a good wife; the number of his days will be doubled.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	26	2	A loyal wife rejoices her husband, and he will complete his years in peace.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	26	3	A good wife is a great blessing; she will be granted among the blessings of the man who fears the Lord.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	26	4	Whether rich or poor, his heart is glad, and at all times his face is cheerful.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	26	5	Of three things my heart is afraid, and of a fourth I am frightened: The slander of a city, the gathering of a mob, and false accusation—all these are worse than death.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	26	6	There is grief of heart and sorrow when a wife is envious of a rival, and a tongue-lashing makes it known to all.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	26	7	An evil wife is an ox yoke which chafes; taking hold of her is like grasping a scorpion.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	26	8	There is great anger when a wife is drunken; she will not hide her shame.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	26	9	A wife’s harlotry shows in her lustful eyes, and she is known by her eyelids.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	26	10	Keep strict watch over a headstrong daughter, lest, when she finds liberty, she use it to her hurt.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	26	11	Be on guard against her impudent eye, and do not wonder if she sins against you.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	26	12	As a thirsty wayfarer opens his mouth and drinks from any water near him, so will she sit in front of every post and open her quiver to the arrow.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	26	13	A wife’s charm delights her husband, and her skill puts fat on his bones.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	26	14	A silent wife is a gift of the Lord, and there is nothing so precious as a disciplined soul.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	26	15	A modest wife adds charm to charm, and no balance can weigh the value of a chaste soul.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	26	16	Like the sun rising in the heights of the Lord, so is the beauty of a good wife in her well-ordered home.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	26	17	Like the shining lamp on the holy lampstand, so is a beautiful face on a stately figure.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	26	18	Like pillars of gold on a base of silver, so are beautiful feet with a steadfast heart.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	26	28	At two things my heart is grieved, and because of a third anger comes over me: a warrior in want through poverty, and intelligent men who are treated contemptuously; a man who turns back from righteousness to sin— the Lord will prepare him for the sword!
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	26	29	A merchant can hardly keep from wrongdoing, and a tradesman will not be declared innocent of sin.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	27	1	Many have committed sin for a trifle, and whoever seeks to get rich will avert his eyes.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	27	2	As a stake is driven firmly into a fissure between stones, so sin is wedged in between selling and buying.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	27	3	If a man is not steadfast and zealous in the fear of the Lord, his house will be quickly overthrown.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	27	4	When a sieve is shaken, the refuse remains; so a man’s filth remains in his thoughts.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	27	5	The kiln tests the potter’s vessels; so the test of a man is in his reasoning.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	27	6	The fruit discloses the cultivation of a tree; so the expression of a thought discloses the cultivation of a man’s mind.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	27	7	Do not praise a man before you hear him reason, for this is the test of men.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	27	8	If you pursue justice, you will attain it and wear it as a glorious robe.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	27	9	Birds flock with their kind; so truth returns to those who practice it.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	27	10	A lion lies in wait for prey; so does sin for the workers of iniquity.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	27	11	The talk of the godly man is always wise, but the fool changes like the moon.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	27	12	Among stupid people watch for a chance to leave, but among thoughtful people stay on.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	27	13	The talk of fools is offensive, and their laughter is wantonly sinful.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	27	14	The talk of men given to swearing makes one’s hair stand on end, and their quarrels make a man stop his ears.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	27	15	The strife of the proud leads to bloodshed, and their abuse is grievous to hear.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	27	16	Whoever betrays secrets destroys confidence, and he will never find a congenial friend.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	27	17	Love your friend and keep faith with him; but if you betray his secrets, do not run after him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	27	18	For as a man destroys his enemy, so you have destroyed the friendship of your neighbor.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	27	19	And as you allow a bird to escape from your hand, so you have let your neighbor go, and will not catch him again.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	27	20	Do not go after him, for he is too far off, and has escaped like a gazelle from a snare.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	27	21	For a wound may be bandaged, and there is reconciliation after abuse, but whoever has betrayed secrets is without hope.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	27	22	Whoever winks his eye plans evil deeds, and no one can keep him from them.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	27	23	In your presence his mouth is all sweetness, and he admires your words; but later he will twist his speech and with your own words he will give offense.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	27	24	I have hated many things, but none to be compared to him; even the Lord will hate him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	27	25	Whoever throws a stone straight up throws it on his own head; and a treacherous blow opens up wounds.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	27	26	He who digs a pit will fall into it, and he who sets a snare will be caught in it.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	27	27	If a man does evil, it will roll back upon him, and he will not know where it came from.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	27	28	Mockery and abuse issue from the proud man, but vengeance lies in wait for him like a lion.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	27	29	Those who rejoice in the fall of the godly will be caught in a snare, and pain will consume them before their death.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	27	30	Anger and wrath, these also are abominations, and the sinful man will possess them.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	28	1	He that takes vengeance will suffer vengeance from the Lord, and he will firmly establish his sins.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	28	2	Forgive your neighbor the wrong he has done, and then your sins will be pardoned when you pray.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	28	3	Does a man harbor anger against another, and yet seek for healing from the Lord?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	28	4	Does he have no mercy toward a man like himself, and yet pray for his own sins?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	28	5	If he himself, being flesh, maintains wrath, who will make expiation for his sins?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	28	6	Remember the end of your life, and cease from enmity, remember destruction and death, and be true to the commandments.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	28	7	Remember the commandments, and do not be angry with your neighbor; remember the covenant of the Most High, and overlook ignorance.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	28	8	Refrain from strife, and you will lessen sins; for a man given to anger will kindle strife,
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	28	9	and a sinful man will disturb friends and inject enmity among those who are at peace.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	28	10	In proportion to the fuel for the fire, so will be the burning, and in proportion to the obstinacy of strife will be the burning; in proportion to the strength of the man will be his anger, and in proportion to his wealth he will heighten his wrath.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	28	11	A hasty quarrel kindles fire, and urgent strife sheds blood.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	28	12	If you blow on a spark, it will glow; if you spit on it, it will be put out; and both come out of your mouth.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	28	13	Curse the whisperer and deceiver, for he has destroyed many who were at peace.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	28	14	Slander has shaken many, and scattered them from nation to nation, and destroyed strong cities, and overturned the houses of great men.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	28	15	Slander has driven away courageous women, and deprived them of the fruit of their toil.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	28	16	Whoever pays heed to slander will not find rest, nor will he settle down in peace.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	28	17	The blow of a whip raises a welt, but a blow of the tongue crushes the bones.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	28	18	Many have fallen by the edge of the sword, but not so many as have fallen because of the tongue.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	28	19	Happy is the man who is protected from it, who has not been exposed to its anger, who has not borne its yoke, and has not been bound with its fetters;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	28	20	for its yoke is a yoke of iron, and its fetters are fetters of bronze;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	28	21	its death is an evil death, and Hades is preferable to it.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	28	22	It will not be master over the godly, and they will not be burned in its flame.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	28	23	Those who forsake the Lord will fall into its power; it will burn among them and will not be put out. It will be sent out against them like a lion; like a leopard it will mangle them.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	28	24	See that you fence in your property with thorns, lock up your silver and gold,
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	28	25	make balances and scales for your words, and make a door and a bolt for your mouth.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	28	26	Beware lest you err with your tongue, lest you fall before him who lies in wait.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	29	1	He that shows mercy will lend to his neighbor, and he that strengthens him with his hand keeps the commandments.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	29	2	Lend to your neighbor in the time of his need; and in turn, repay your neighbor promptly.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	29	3	Confirm your word and keep faith with him, and on every occasion you will find what you need.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	29	4	Many persons regard a loan as a windfall, and cause trouble to those who help them.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	29	5	A man will kiss another’s hands until he gets a loan, and will lower his voice in speaking of his neighbor’s money; but at the time for repayment he will delay, and will pay in words of unconcern, and will find fault with the time.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	29	6	If the lender exert pressure, he will hardly get back half, and will regard that as a windfall. If he does not, the borrower has robbed him of his money, and he has needlessly made him his enemy; he will repay him with curses and reproaches, and instead of glory will repay him with dishonor.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	29	7	Because of such wickedness, therefore, many have refused to lend; they have been afraid of being defrauded needlessly.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	29	8	Nevertheless, be patient with a man in humble circumstances, and do not make him wait for your alms.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	29	9	Help a poor man for the commandment’s sake, and because of his need do not send him away empty.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	29	10	Lose your silver for the sake of a brother or a friend, and do not let it rust under a stone and be lost.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	29	11	Lay up your treasure according to the commandments of the Most High, and it will profit you more than gold.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	29	12	Store up almsgiving in your treasury, and it will rescue you from all affliction;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	29	13	more than a mighty shield and more than a heavy spear, it will fight on your behalf against your enemy.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	29	14	A good man will be surety for his neighbor, but a man who has lost his sense of shame will fail him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	29	15	Do not forget all the kindness of your surety, for he has given his life for you.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	29	16	A sinner will overthrow the prosperity of his surety,
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	29	17	and one who does not feel grateful will abandon his rescuer.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	29	18	Being surety has ruined many men who were prosperous, and has shaken them like a wave of the sea; it has driven men of power into exile, and they have wandered among foreign nations.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	29	19	The sinner who has fallen into suretyship and pursues gain will fall into lawsuits.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	29	20	Assist your neighbor according to your ability, but take heed to yourself lest you fall.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	29	21	The essentials for life are water and bread and clothing and a house to cover one’s nakedness.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	29	22	Better is the life of a poor man under the shelter of his roof than sumptuous food in another man’s house.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	29	23	Be content with little or much.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	29	24	It is a miserable life to go from house to house, and where you are a stranger you may not open your mouth;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	29	25	you will play the host and provide drink without being thanked, and besides this you will hear bitter words:
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	29	26	“Come here, stranger, prepare the table, and if you have anything at hand, let me have it to eat.”
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	29	27	“Give place, stranger, to an honored person; my brother has come to stay with me; I need my house.”
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	29	28	These things are hard to bear for a man who has feeling: scolding about lodging and the reproach of the moneylender.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	30	1	He who loves his son will whip him often, in order that he may rejoice at the way he turns out.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	30	2	He who disciplines his son will profit by him, and will boast of him among acquaintances.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	30	3	He who teaches his son will make his enemies envious, and will glory in him in the presence of friends.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	30	4	The father may die, and yet he is not dead, for he has left behind him one like himself;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	30	5	while alive he saw and rejoiced, and when he died he was not grieved;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	30	6	he has left behind him an avenger against his enemies, and one to repay the kindness of his friends.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	30	7	He who spoils his son will bind up his wounds, and his feelings will be troubled at every cry.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	30	8	A horse that is untamed turns out to be stubborn, and a son unrestrained turns out to be wilful.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	30	9	Pamper a child, and he will frighten you; play with him, and he will give you grief.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	30	10	Do not laugh with him, lest you have sorrow with him, and in the end you will gnash your teeth.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	30	11	Give him no authority in his youth, and do not ignore his errors.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	30	12	Bow down his neck in his youth, and beat his sides while he is young, lest he become stubborn and disobey you, and you have sorrow of soul from him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	30	13	Discipline your son and take pains with him, that you may not be offended by his shamelessness.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	30	14	Better off is a poor man who is well and strong in constitution than a rich man who is severely afflicted in body.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	30	15	Health and soundness are better than all gold, and a robust body than countless riches.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	30	16	There is no wealth better than health of body, and there is no gladness above joy of heart.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	30	17	Death is better than a miserable life, and eternal rest than chronic sickness.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	30	18	Good things poured out upon a mouth that is closed are like offerings of food placed upon a grave.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	30	19	Of what use to an idol is an offering of fruit? For it can neither eat nor smell. So is he who is afflicted by the Lord;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	30	20	he sees with his eyes and groans, like a eunuch who embraces a maiden and groans.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	30	21	Do not give yourself over to sorrow, and do not afflict yourself deliberately.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	30	22	Gladness of heart is the life of man, and the rejoicing of a man is length of days.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	30	23	Delight your soul and comfort your heart, and remove sorrow far from you, for sorrow has destroyed many, and there is no profit in it.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	30	24	Jealousy and anger shorten life, and anxiety brings on old age too soon.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	30	25	A man of cheerful and good heart will give heed to the food he eats.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	31	1	Wakefulness over wealth wastes away one’s flesh, and anxiety about it removes sleep.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	31	2	Wakeful anxiety prevents slumber, and a severe illness carries off sleep.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	31	3	The rich man toils as his wealth accumulates, and when he rests he fills himself with his dainties.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	31	4	The poor man toils as his livelihood diminishes, and when he rests he becomes needy.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	31	5	He who loves gold will not be justified, and he who pursues money will be led astray by it.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	31	6	Many have come to ruin because of gold, and their destruction has met them face to face.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	31	7	It is a stumbling block to those who are devoted to it, and every fool will be taken captive by it.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	31	8	Blessed is the rich man who is found blameless, and who does not go after gold.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	31	9	Who is he? And we will call him blessed, for he has done wonderful things among his people.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	31	10	Who has been tested by it and been found perfect? Let it be for him a ground for boasting. Who has had the power to transgress and did not transgress, and to do evil and did not do it?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	31	11	His prosperity will be established, and the assembly will relate his acts of charity.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	31	12	Are you seated at the table of a great man? Do not be greedy at it, and do not say, “There is certainly much upon it!”
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	31	13	Remember that a greedy eye is a bad thing. What has been created more greedy than the eye? Therefore it sheds tears from every face.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	31	14	Do not reach out your hand for everything you see, and do not crowd your neighbor at the dish.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	31	15	Judge your neighbor’s feelings by your own, and in every matter be thoughtful.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	31	16	Eat like a human being what is set before you, and do not chew greedily, lest you be hated.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	31	17	Be the first to stop eating, for the sake of good manners, and do not be insatiable, lest you give offense.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	31	18	If you are seated among many persons, do not reach out your hand before they do.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	31	19	How ample a little is for a well-disciplined man! He does not breathe heavily upon his bed.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	31	20	Healthy sleep depends on moderate eating; he rises early, and feels fit. The distress of sleeplessness and of nausea and colic are with the glutton.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	31	21	If you are overstuffed with food, get up in the middle of the meal, and you will have relief.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	31	22	Listen to me, my son, and do not disregard me, and in the end you will appreciate my words. In all your work be industrious, and no sickness will overtake you.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	31	23	Men will praise the one who is liberal with food, and their testimony to his excellence is trustworthy.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	31	24	The city will complain of the one who is niggardly with food, and their testimony to his niggardliness is accurate.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	31	25	Do not aim to be valiant over wine, for wine has destroyed many.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	31	26	Fire and water prove the temper of steel, so wine tests hearts in the strife of the proud.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	31	27	Wine is like life to men, if you drink it in moderation. What is life to a man who is without wine? It has been created to make men glad.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	31	28	Wine drunk in season and temperately is rejoicing of heart and gladness of soul.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	31	29	Wine drunk to excess is bitterness of soul, with provocation and stumbling.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	31	30	Drunkenness increases the anger of a fool to his injury, reducing his strength and adding wounds.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	31	31	Do not reprove your neighbor at a banquet of wine, and do not despise him in his merrymaking; speak no word of reproach to him, and do not afflict him by making demands of him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	32	1	If they make you master of the feast, do not exalt yourself; be among them as one of them; take good care of them and then be seated;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	32	2	when you have fulfilled your duties, take your place, that you may be merry on their account and receive a wreath for your excellent leadership.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	32	3	Speak, you who are older, for it is fitting that you should, but with accurate knowledge, and do not interrupt the music.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	32	4	Where there is entertainment, do not pour out talk; do not display your cleverness out of season.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	32	5	A ruby seal in a setting of gold is a concert of music at a banquet of wine.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	32	6	A seal of emerald in a rich setting of gold is the melody of music with good wine.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	32	7	Speak, young man, if there is need of you, but no more than twice, and only if asked.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	32	8	Speak concisely, say much in few words; be as one who knows and yet holds his tongue.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	32	9	Among the great do not act as their equal; and when another is speaking, do not babble.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	32	10	Lightning speeds before the thunder, and approval precedes a modest man.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	32	11	Leave in good time and do not be the last; go home quickly and do not linger.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	32	12	Amuse yourself there, and do what you have in mind, but do not sin through proud speech.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	32	13	And for these things bless him who made you and satisfies you with his good gifts.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	32	14	He who fears the Lord will accept his discipline, and those who rise early to seek him will find favor.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	32	15	He who seeks the law will be filled with it, but the hypocrite will stumble at it.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	32	16	Those who fear the Lord will form true judgments, and like a light they will kindle righteous deeds.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	32	17	A sinful man will shun reproof, and will find a decision according to his liking.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	32	18	A man of judgment will not overlook an idea, and an insolent and proud man will not cower in fear.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	32	19	Do nothing without deliberation; and when you have acted, do not regret it.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	32	20	Do not go on a path full of hazards, and do not stumble over stony ground.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	32	21	Do not be overconfident on a smooth way,
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	32	22	and give good heed to your paths.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	32	23	Guard yourself in every act, for this is the keeping of the commandments.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	32	24	He who believes the law gives heed to the commandments, and he who trusts the Lord will not suffer loss.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	33	1	No evil will befall the man who fears the Lord, but in trial he will deliver him again and again.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	33	2	A wise man will not hate the law, but he who is hypocritical about it is like a boat in a storm.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	33	3	A man of understanding will trust in the law; for him the law is as dependable as an inquiry by means of Urim.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	33	4	Prepare what to say, and thus you will be heard; bind together your instruction, and make your answer.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	33	5	The heart of a fool is like a cart wheel, and his thoughts like a turning axle.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	33	6	A stallion is like a mocking friend; he neighs under every one who sits on him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	33	7	Why is any day better than another, when all the daylight in the year is from the sun?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	33	8	By the Lord’s decision they were distinguished, and he appointed the different seasons and feasts;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	33	9	some of them he exalted and hallowed, and some of them he made ordinary days.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	33	10	All men are from the ground, and Adam was created of the dust.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	33	11	In the fulness of his knowledge the Lord distinguished them and appointed their different ways;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	33	12	some of them he blessed and exalted, and some of them he made holy and brought near to himself; but some of them he cursed and brought low, and he turned them out of their place.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	33	13	As clay in the hand of the potter— for all his ways are as he pleases— so men are in the hand of him who made them, to give them as he decides.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	33	14	Good is the opposite of evil, and life the opposite of death; so the sinner is the opposite of the godly.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	33	15	Look upon all the works of the Most High; they likewise are in pairs, one the opposite of the other.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	33	16	I was the last on watch; I was like one who gleans after the grape-gatherers; by the blessing of the Lord I excelled, and like a grape-gatherer I filled my wine press.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	33	17	Consider that I have not labored for myself alone, but for all who seek instruction.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	33	18	Hear me, you who are great among the people, and you leaders of the congregation, hearken.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	33	19	To son or wife, to brother or friend, do not give power over yourself, as long as you live; and do not give your property to another, lest you change your mind and must ask for it.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	33	20	While you are still alive and have breath in you, do not let any one take your place.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	33	21	For it is better that your children should ask from you than that you should look to the hand of your sons.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	33	22	Excel in all that you do; bring no stain upon your honor.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	33	23	At the time when you end the days of your life, in the hour of death, distribute your inheritance.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	33	24	Fodder and a stick and burdens for an ass; bread and discipline and work for a servant.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	33	25	Set your slave to work, and you will find rest; leave his hands idle, and he will seek liberty.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	33	26	Yoke and thong will bow the neck, and for a wicked servant there are racks and tortures.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	33	27	Put him to work, that he may not be idle, for idleness teaches much evil.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	33	28	Set him to work, as is fitting for him, and if he does not obey, make his fetters heavy.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	33	29	Do not act immoderately toward anybody, and do nothing without discretion.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	33	30	If you have a servant, let him be as yourself, because you have bought him with blood.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	33	31	If you have a servant, treat him as a brother, for as your own soul you will need him. If you ill-treat him, and he leaves and runs away, which way will you go to seek him?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	34	1	A man of no understanding has vain and false hopes, and dreams give wings to fools.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	34	2	As one who catches at a shadow and pursues the wind, so is he who gives heed to dreams.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	34	3	The vision of dreams is this against that, the likeness of a face confronting a face.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	34	4	From an unclean thing what will be made clean? And from something false what will be true?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	34	5	Divinations and omens and dreams are folly, and like a woman in travail the mind has fancies.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	34	6	Unless they are sent from the Most High as a visitation, do not give your mind to them.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	34	7	For dreams have deceived many, and those who put their hope in them have failed.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	34	8	Without such deceptions the law will be fulfilled, and wisdom is made perfect in truthful lips.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	34	9	An educated man knows many things, and one with much experience will speak with understanding.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	34	10	He that is inexperienced knows few things, but he that has traveled acquires much cleverness.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	34	11	I have seen many things in my travels, and I understand more than I can express.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	34	12	I have often been in danger of death, but have escaped because of these experiences.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	34	13	The spirit of those who fear the Lord will live, for their hope is in him who saves them.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	34	14	He who fears the Lord will not be timid, nor play the coward, for he is his hope.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	34	15	Blessed is the soul of the man who fears the Lord! To whom does he look? And who is his support?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	34	16	The eyes of the Lord are upon those who love him, a mighty protection and strong support, a shelter from the hot wind and a shade from noonday sun, a guard against stumbling and a defense against falling.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	34	17	He lifts up the soul and gives light to the eyes; he grants healing, life, and blessing.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	34	18	If one sacrifices from what has been wrongfully obtained, the offering is blemished; the gifts of the lawless are not acceptable.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	34	19	The Most High is not pleased with the offerings of the ungodly; and he is not propitiated for sins by a multitude of sacrifices.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	34	20	Like one who kills a son before his father’s eyes is the man who offers a sacrifice from the property of the poor.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	34	21	The bread of the needy is the life of the poor; whoever deprives them of it is a man of blood.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	34	22	To take away a neighbor’s living is to murder him; to deprive an employee of his wages is to shed blood.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	34	23	When one builds and another tears down, what do they gain but toil?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	34	24	When one prays and another curses, to whose voice will the Lord listen?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	34	25	If a man washes after touching a dead body, and touches it again, what has he gained by his washing?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	34	26	So if a man fasts for his sins, and goes again and does the same things, who will listen to his prayer? And what has he gained by humbling himself?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	35	1	He who keeps the law makes many offerings; he who heeds the commandments sacrifices a peace offering.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	35	2	He who returns a kindness offers fine flour, and he who gives alms sacrifices a thank offering.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	35	3	To keep from wickedness is pleasing to the Lord, and to forsake unrighteousness is atonement.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	35	4	Do not appear before the Lord empty-handed,
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	35	5	for all these things are to be done because of the commandment.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	35	6	The offering of a righteous man anoints the altar, and its pleasing odor rises before the Most High.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	35	7	The sacrifice of a righteous man is acceptable, and the memory of it will not be forgotten.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	35	8	Glorify the Lord generously, and do not stint the first fruits of your hands.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	35	9	With every gift show a cheerful face, and dedicate your tithe with gladness.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	35	10	Give to the Most High as he has given, and as generously as your hand has found.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	35	11	For the Lord is the one who repays, and he will repay you sevenfold.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	35	12	Do not offer him a bribe, for he will not accept it; and do not trust to an unrighteous sacrifice; for the Lord is the judge, and with him is no partiality.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	35	13	He will not show partiality in the case of a poor man; and he will listen to the prayer of one who is wronged.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	35	14	He will not ignore the supplication of the fatherless, nor the widow when she pours out her story.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	35	15	Do not the tears of the widow run down her cheek as she cries out against him who has caused them to fall?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	35	16	He whose service is pleasing to the Lord will be accepted, and his prayer will reach to the clouds.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	35	17	The prayer of the humble pierces the clouds, and he will not be consoled until it reaches the Lord; he will not desist until the Most High visits him, and does justice for the righteous, and executes judgment.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	35	18	And the Lord will not delay, neither will he be patient with them, till he crushes the loins of the unmerciful and repays vengeance on the nations; till he takes away the multitude of the insolent, and breaks the scepters of the unrighteous;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	35	19	till he repays the man according to his deeds, and the works of men according to their devices; till he judges the case of his people and makes them rejoice in his mercy.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	35	20	Mercy is as welcome when he afflicts them as clouds of rain in the time of drought.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	36	1	Have mercy upon us, O Lord, the God of all, and look upon us,
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	36	2	and cause the fear of thee to fall upon all the nations.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	36	3	Lift up thy hand against foreign nations and let them see thy might.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	36	4	As in us thou hast been sanctified before them, so in them be thou magnified before us;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	36	5	and let them know thee, as we have known that there is not God but thee, O Lord.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	36	6	Show signs anew, and work further wonders; make thy hand and thy right arm glorious.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	36	7	Rouse thy anger and pour out thy wrath; destroy the adversary and wipe out the enemy.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	36	8	Hasten the day, and remember the appointed time, and let people recount thy mighty deeds.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	36	9	Let him who survives be consumed in the fiery wrath, and may those who harm thy people meet destruction.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	36	10	Crush the heads of the rulers of the enemy, who say, “There is no one but ourselves.”
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	36	11	Gather all the tribes of Jacob, and give them their inheritance, as at the beginning.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	36	12	Have mercy, O Lord, upon the people called by thy name, upon Israel, whom thou hast likened to a first-born son.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	36	13	Have pity on the city of thy sanctuary, Jerusalem, the place of thy rest.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	36	14	Fill Zion with the celebration of thy wondrous deeds, and thy temple with thy glory.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	36	15	Bear witness to those whom thou didst create in the beginning, and fulfil the prophecies spoken in thy name.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	36	16	Reward those who wait for thee, and let thy prophets be found trustworthy.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	36	17	Hearken, O Lord, to the prayer of thy servants, according to the blessing of Aaron for thy people, and all who are on the earth will know that thou art the Lord, the God of the ages.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	36	18	The stomach will take any food, yet one food is better than another.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	36	19	As the palate tastes the kinds of game, so an intelligent mind detects false words.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	36	20	A perverse mind will cause grief, but a man of experience will pay him back.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	36	21	A woman will accept any man, but one daughter is better than another.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	36	22	A woman’s beauty gladdens the countenance, and surpasses every human desire.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	36	23	If kindness and humility mark her speech, her husband is not like other men.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	36	24	He who acquires a wife gets his best possession, a helper fit for him and a pillar of support.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	36	25	Where there is no fence, the property will be plundered; and where there is no wife, a man will wander about and sigh.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	36	26	For who will trust a nimble robber that skips from city to city? So who will trust a man that has no home, and lodges wherever night finds him?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	37	1	Every friend will say, “I too am a friend”; but some friends are friends only in name.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	37	2	Is it not a grief to the death when a companion and friend turns to enmity?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	37	3	O evil imagination, why were you formed to cover the land with deceit?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	37	4	Some companions rejoice in the happiness of a friend, but in time of trouble are against him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	37	5	Some companions help a friend for their stomach’s sake, and in the face of battle take up the shield.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	37	6	Do not forget a friend in your heart, and be not unmindful of him in your wealth.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	37	7	Every counselor praises counsel, but some give counsel in their own interest.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	37	8	Be wary of a counselor, and learn first what is his interest— for he will take thought for himself— lest he cast the lot against you
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	37	9	and tell you, “Your way is good,” and then stand aloof to see what will happen to you.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	37	10	Do not consult the one who looks at you suspiciously; hide your counsel from those who are jealous of you.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	37	11	Do not consult with a woman about her rival or with a coward about war, with a merchant about barter or with a buyer about selling, with a grudging man about gratitude or with a merciless man about kindness, with an idler about any work or with a man hired for a year about completing his work, with a lazy servant about a big task— pay no attention to these in any matter of counsel.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	37	12	But stay constantly with a godly man whom you know to be a keeper of the commandments, whose soul is in accord with your soul, and who will sorrow with you if you fail.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	37	13	And establish the counsel of your own heart, for no one is more faithful to you than it is.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	37	14	For a man’s soul sometimes keeps him better informed than seven watchmen sitting high on a watchtower.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	37	15	And besides all this pray to the Most High that he may direct your way in truth.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	37	16	Reason is the beginning of every work, and counsel precedes every undertaking.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	37	17	As a clue to changes of heart
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	37	18	four turns of fortune appear, good and evil, life and death; and it is the tongue that continually rules them.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	37	19	A man may be shrewd and the teacher of many, and yet be unprofitable to himself.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	37	20	A man skilled in words may be hated; he will be destitute of all food,
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	37	21	for grace was not given him by the Lord, since he is lacking in all wisdom.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	37	22	A man may be wise to his own advantage, and the fruits of his understanding may be trustworthy on his lips.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	37	23	A wise man will instruct his own people, and the fruits of his understanding will be trustworthy.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	37	24	A wise man will have praise heaped upon him, and all who see him will call him happy.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	37	25	The life of a man is numbered by days, but the days of Israel are without number.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	37	26	He who is wise among his people will inherit confidence, and his name will live for ever.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	37	27	My son, test your soul while you live; see what is bad for it and do not give it that.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	37	28	For not everything is good for every one, and not every person enjoys everything.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	37	29	Do not have an insatiable appetite for any luxury, and do not give yourself up to food;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	37	30	for overeating brings sickness, and gluttony leads to nausea.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	37	31	Many have died of gluttony, but he who is careful to avoid it prolongs his life.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	38	1	Honor the physician with the honor due him, according to your need of him, for the Lord created him;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	38	2	for healing comes from the Most High, and he will receive a gift from the king.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	38	3	The skill of the physician lifts up his head, and in the presence of great men he is admired.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	38	4	The Lord created medicines from the earth, and a sensible man will not despise them.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	38	5	Was not water made sweet with a tree in order that his power might be known?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	38	6	And he gave skill to men that he might be glorified in his marvelous works.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	38	7	By them he heals and takes away pain;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	38	8	the pharmacist makes of them a compound. His works will never be finished; and from him health is upon the face of the earth.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	38	9	My son, when you are sick do not be negligent, but pray to the Lord, and he will heal you.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	38	10	Give up your faults and direct your hands aright, and cleanse your heart from all sin.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	38	11	Offer a sweet-smelling sacrifice, and a memorial portion of fine flour, and pour oil on your offering, as much as you can afford.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	38	12	And give the physician his place, for the Lord created him; let him not leave you, for there is need of him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	38	13	There is a time when success lies in the hands of physicians,
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	38	14	for they too will pray to the Lord that he should grant them success in diagnosis and in healing, for the sake of preserving life.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	38	15	He who sins before his Maker, may he fall into the care of a physician.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	38	16	My son, let your tears fall for the dead, and as one who is suffering grievously begin the lament. Lay out his body with the honor due him, and do not neglect his burial.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	38	17	Let your weeping be bitter and your wailing fervent; observe the mourning according to his merit, for one day, or two, to avoid criticism; then be comforted for your sorrow.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	38	18	For sorrow results in death, and sorrow of heart saps one’s strength.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	38	19	In calamity sorrow continues, and the life of the poor man weighs down his heart.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	38	20	Do not give your heart to sorrow; drive it away, remembering the end of life.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	38	21	Do not forget, there is no coming back; you do the dead no good, and you injure yourself.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	38	22	“Remember my doom, for yours is like it: yesterday it was mine, and today it is yours.”
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	38	23	When the dead is at rest, let his remembrance cease, and be comforted for him when his spirit is departed.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	38	24	The wisdom of the scribe depends on the opportunity of leisure; and he who has little business may become wise.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	38	25	How can he become wise who handles the plow, and who glories in the shaft of a goad, who drives oxen and is occupied with their work, and whose talk is about bulls?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	38	26	He sets his heart on plowing furrows, and he is careful about fodder for the heifers.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	38	27	So too is every craftsman and master workman who labors by night as well as by day; those who cut the signets of seals, each is diligent in making a great variety; he sets his heart on painting a lifelike image, and he is careful to finish his work.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	38	28	So too is the smith sitting by the anvil, intent upon his handiwork in iron; the breath of the fire melts his flesh, and he wastes away in the heat of the furnace; he inclines his ear to the sound of the hammer, and his eyes are on the pattern of the object. He sets his heart on finishing his handiwork, and he is careful to complete its decoration.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	38	29	So too is the potter sitting at his work and turning the wheel with his feet; he is always deeply concerned over his work, and all his output is by number.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	38	30	He moulds the clay with his arm and makes it pliable with his feet; he sets his heart to finish the glazing, and he is careful to clean the furnace.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	38	31	All these rely upon their hands, and each is skilful in his own work.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	38	32	Without them a city cannot be established, and men can neither sojourn nor live there.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	38	33	Yet they are not sought out for the council of the people, nor do they attain eminence in the public assembly. They do not sit in the judge’s seat, nor do they understand the sentence of judgment; they cannot expound discipline or judgment, and they are not found using proverbs.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	38	34	But they keep stable the fabric of the world, and their prayer is in the practice of their trade.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	1	On the other hand he who devotes himself to the study of the law of the Most High will seek out the wisdom of all the ancients, and will be concerned with prophecies;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	2	he will preserve the discourse of notable men and penetrate the subtleties of parables;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	3	he will seek out the hidden meanings of proverbs and be at home with the obscurities of parables.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	4	He will serve among great men and appear before rulers; he will travel through the lands of foreign nations, for he tests the good and the evil among men.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	5	He will set his heart to rise early to seek the Lord who made him, and will make supplication before the Most High; he will open his mouth in prayer and make supplication for his sins.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	6	If the great Lord is willing, he will be filled with the spirit of understanding; he will pour forth words of wisdom and give thanks to the Lord in prayer.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	7	He will direct his counsel and knowledge aright, and meditate on his secrets.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	8	He will reveal instruction in his teaching, and will glory in the law of the Lord’s covenant.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	9	Many will praise his understanding, and it will never be blotted out; his memory will not disappear, and his name will live through all generations.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	10	Nations will declare his wisdom, and the congregation will proclaim his praise;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	11	if he lives long, he will leave a name greater than a thousand, and if he goes to rest, it is enough for him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	12	I have yet more to say, which I have thought upon, and I am filled, like the moon at the full.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	13	Listen to me, O you holy sons, and bud like a rose growing by a stream of water;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	14	send forth fragrance like frankincense, and put forth blossoms like a lily. Scatter the fragrance, and sing a hymn of praise; bless the Lord for all his works;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	15	ascribe majesty to his name and give thanks to him with praise, with songs on your lips, and with lyres; and this you shall say in thanksgiving:
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	16	“All things are the works of the Lord, for they are very good, and whatever he commands will be done in his time.”
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	17	No one can say, “What is this?” “Why is that?” for in God’s time all things will be sought after. At his word the waters stood in a heap, and the reservoirs of water at the word of his mouth.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	18	At his command whatever pleases him is done, and none can limit his saving power.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	19	The works of all flesh are before him, and nothing can be hid from his eyes.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	20	From everlasting to everlasting he beholds them, and nothing is marvelous to him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	21	No one can say, “What is this?” “Why is that?” for everything has been created for its use.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	22	His blessing covers the dry land like a river, and drenches it like a flood.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	23	The nations will incur his wrath, just as he turns fresh water into salt.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	24	To the holy his ways are straight, just as they are obstacles to the wicked.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	25	From the beginning good things were created for good people, just as evil things for sinners.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	26	Basic to all the needs of man’s life are water and fire and iron and salt and wheat flour and milk and honey, the blood of the grape, and oil and clothing.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	27	All these are for good to the godly, just as they turn into evils for sinners.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	28	There are winds that have been created for vengeance, and in their anger they scourge heavily; in the time of consummation they will pour out their strength and calm the anger of their Maker.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	29	Fire and hail and famine and pestilence, all these have been created for vengeance;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	30	the teeth of wild beasts, and scorpions and vipers, and the sword that punishes the ungodly with destruction;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	31	they will rejoice in his commands, and be made ready on earth for their service, and when their times come they will not transgress his word.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	32	Therefore from the beginning I have been convinced, and have thought this out and left it in writing:
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	33	The works of the Lord are all good, and he will supply every need in its hour.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	34	And no one can say, “This is worse than that,” for all things will prove good in their season.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	39	35	So now sing praise with all your heart and voice, and bless the name of the Lord.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	40	1	Much labor was created for every man, and a heavy yoke is upon the sons of Adam, from the day they come forth from their mother’s womb till the day they return to the mother of all.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	40	2	Their perplexities and fear of heart— their anxious thought is the day of death,
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	40	3	from the man who sits on a splendid throne to the one who is humbled in dust and ashes,
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	40	4	from the man who wears purple and a crown to the one who is clothed in burlap;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	40	5	there is anger and envy and trouble and unrest, and fear of death, and fury and strife. And when one rests upon his bed, his sleep at night confuses his mind.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	40	6	He gets little or no rest, and afterward in his sleep, as though he were on watch, he is troubled by the visions of his mind like one who has escaped from the battle-front;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	40	7	at the moment of his rescue he wakes up, and wonders that his fear came to nothing.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	40	8	With all flesh, both man and beast, and upon sinners seven times more,
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	40	9	are death and bloodshed and strife and sword, calamities, famine and affliction and plague.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	40	10	All these were created for the wicked, and on their account the flood came.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	40	11	All things that are from the earth turn back to the earth, and what is from the waters returns to the sea.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	40	12	All bribery and injustice will be blotted out, but good faith will stand for ever.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	40	13	The wealth of the unjust will dry up like a torrent, and crash like a loud clap of thunder in a rain.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	40	14	A generous man will be made glad; likewise transgressors will utterly fail.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	40	15	The children of the ungodly will not put forth many branches; they are unhealthy roots upon sheer rock.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	40	16	The reeds by any water or river bank will be plucked up before any grass.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	40	17	Kindness is like a garden of blessings, and almsgiving endures for ever.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	40	18	Life is sweet for the self-reliant and the worker, but he who finds treasure is better off than both.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	40	19	Children and the building of a city establish a man’s name, but a blameless wife is accounted better than both.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	40	20	Wine and music gladden the heart, but the love of wisdom is better than both.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	40	21	The flute and the harp make pleasant melody, but a pleasant voice is better than both.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	40	22	The eye desires grace and beauty, but the green shoots of grain more than both.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	40	23	A friend or a companion never meets one amiss, but a wife with her husband is better than both.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	40	24	Brothers and help are for a time of trouble, but almsgiving rescues better than both.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	40	25	Gold and silver make the foot stand sure, but good counsel is esteemed more than both.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	40	26	Riches and strength lift up the heart, but the fear of the Lord is better than both. There is no loss in the fear of the Lord, and with it there is no need to seek for help.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	40	27	The fear of the Lord is like a garden of blessing, and covers a man better than any glory.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	40	28	My son, do not lead the life of a beggar; it is better to die than to beg.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	40	29	When a man looks to the table of another, his existence cannot be considered as life. He pollutes himself with another man’s food, but a man who is intelligent and well instructed guards against that.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	40	30	In the mouth of the shameless begging is sweet, but in his stomach a fire is kindled.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	41	1	O death, how bitter is the reminder of you to one who lives at peace among his possessions, to a man without distractions, who is prosperous in everything, and who still has the vigor to enjoy his food!
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	41	2	O death, how welcome is your sentence to one who is in need and is failing in strength, very old and distracted over everything; to one who is contrary, and has lost his patience!
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	41	3	Do not fear the sentence of death; remember your former days and the end of life; this is the decree from the Lord for all flesh,
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	41	4	and how can you reject the good pleasure of the Most High? Whether life is for ten or a hundred or a thousand years, there is no inquiry about it in Hades.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	41	5	The children of sinners are abominable children, and they frequent the haunts of the ungodly.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	41	6	The inheritance of the children of sinners will perish, and on their posterity will be a perpetual reproach.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	41	7	Children will blame an ungodly father, for they suffer reproach because of him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	41	8	Woe to you, ungodly men, who have forsaken the law of the Most High God!
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	41	9	When you are born, you are born to a curse; and when you die, a curse is your lot.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	41	10	Whatever is from the dust returns to dust; so the ungodly go from curse to destruction.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	41	11	The mourning of men is about their bodies, but the evil name of sinners will be blotted out.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	41	12	Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a thousand great stores of gold.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	41	13	The days of a good life are numbered, but a good name endures for ever.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	41	14	My children, observe instruction and be at peace; hidden wisdom and unseen treasure, what advantage is there in either of them?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	41	15	Better is the man who hides his folly than the man who hides his wisdom.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	41	16	Therefore show respect for my words: For it is good to retain every kind of shame, and not everything is confidently esteemed by every one.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	41	17	Be ashamed of immorality, before your father or mother; and of a lie, before a prince or a ruler;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	41	18	of a transgression, before a judge or magistrate; and of iniquity, before a congregation or the people; of unjust dealing, before your partner or friend;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	41	19	and of theft, in the place where you live. Be ashamed before the truth of God and his covenant. Be ashamed of selfish behavior at meals, of surliness in receiving and giving,
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	41	20	and of silence, before those who greet you; of looking at a woman who is a harlot,
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	41	21	and of rejecting the appeal of a kinsman; of taking away some one’s portion or gift, and of gazing at another man’s wife;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	41	22	of meddling with his maidservant— and do not approach her bed; of abusive words, before friends— and do not upbraid after making a gift;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	41	23	of repeating and telling what you hear, and of revealing secrets. Then you will show proper shame, and will find favor with every man.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	42	1	Of the following things do not be ashamed, and do not let partiality lead you to sin:
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	42	2	of the law of the Most High and his covenant, and of rendering judgment to acquit the ungodly;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	42	3	of keeping accounts with a partner or with traveling companions, and of dividing the inheritance of friends;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	42	4	of accuracy with scales and weights, and of acquiring much or little;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	42	5	of profit from dealing with merchants, and of much discipline of children, and of whipping a wicked servant severely.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	42	6	Where there is an evil wife, a seal is a good thing; and where there are many hands, lock things up.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	42	7	Whatever you deal out, let it be by number and weight, and make a record of all that you give out or take in.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	42	8	Do not be ashamed to instruct the stupid or foolish or the aged man who quarrels with the young. Then you will be truly instructed, and will be approved before all men.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	42	9	A daughter keeps her father secretly wakeful, and worry over her robs him of sleep; when she is young, lest she do not marry, or if married, lest she be hated;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	42	10	while a virgin, lest she be defiled or become pregnant in her father’s house; or having a husband, lest she prove unfaithful, or, though married, lest she be barren.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	42	11	Keep strict watch over a headstrong daughter, lest she make you a laughingstock to your enemies, a byword in the city and notorious among the people, and put you to shame before the great multitude.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	42	12	Do not look upon any one for beauty, and do not sit in the midst of women;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	42	13	for from garments comes the moth, and from a woman comes woman’s wickedness.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	42	14	Better is the wickedness of a man than a woman who does good; and it is a woman who brings shame and disgrace.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	42	15	I will now call to mind the works of the Lord, and will declare what I have seen. By the words of the Lord his works are done.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	42	16	The sun looks down on everything with its light, and the work of the Lord is full of his glory.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	42	17	The Lord has not enabled his holy ones to recount all his marvelous works, which the Lord the Almighty has established that the universe may stand firm in his glory.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	42	18	He searches out the abyss, and the hearts of men, and considers their crafty devices. For the Most High knows all that may be known, and he looks into the signs of the age.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	42	19	He declares what has been and what is to be, and he reveals the tracks of hidden things.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	42	20	No thought escapes him, and not one word is hidden from him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	42	21	He has ordained the splendors of his wisdom, and he is from everlasting and to everlasting. Nothing can be added or taken away, and he needs no one to be his counselor.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	42	22	How greatly to be desired are all his works, and how sparkling they are to see!
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	42	23	All these things live and remain for ever for every need, and are all obedient.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	42	24	All things are twofold, one opposite the other, and he has made nothing incomplete.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	42	25	One confirms the good things of the other, and who can have enough of beholding his glory?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	43	1	The pride of the heavenly heights is the clear firmament, the appearance of heaven in a spectacle of glory.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	43	2	The sun, when it appears, making proclamation as it goes forth, is a marvelous instrument, the work of the Most High.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	43	3	At noon it parches the land; and who can withstand its burning heat?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	43	4	A man tending a furnace works in burning heat, but the sun burns the mountains three times as much; it breathes out fiery vapors, and with bright beams it blinds the eyes.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	43	5	Great is the Lord who made it; and at his command it hastens on its course.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	43	6	He made the moon also, to serve in its season to mark the times and to be an everlasting sign.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	43	7	From the moon comes the sign for feast days, a light that wanes when it has reached the full.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	43	8	The month is named for the moon, increasing marvelously in its phases, an instrument of the hosts on high shining forth in the firmament of heaven.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	43	9	The glory of the stars is the beauty of heaven, a gleaming array in the heights of the Lord.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	43	10	At the command of the Holy One they stand as ordered, they never relax in their watches.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	43	11	Look upon the rainbow, and praise him who made it, exceedingly beautiful in its brightness.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	43	12	It encircles the heaven with its glorious arc; the hands of the Most High have stretched it out.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	43	13	By his command he sends the driving snow and speeds the lightnings of his judgment.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	43	14	Therefore the storehouses are opened, and the clouds fly forth like birds.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	43	15	In his majesty he amasses the clouds, and the hailstones are broken in pieces.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	43	16	At his appearing the mountains are shaken; at his will the south wind blows.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	43	17	The voice of his thunder rebukes the earth; so do the tempest from the north and the whirlwind. He scatters the snow like birds flying down, and its descent is like locusts alighting.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	43	18	The eye marvels at the beauty of its whiteness, and the mind is amazed at its falling.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	43	19	He pours the hoarfrost upon the earth like salt, and when it freezes, it becomes pointed thorns.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	43	20	The cold north wind blows, and ice freezes over the water; it rests upon every pool of water, and the water puts it on like a breastplate.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	43	21	He consumes the mountains and burns up the wilderness, and withers the tender grass like fire.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	43	22	A mist quickly heals all things; when the dew appears, it refreshes from the heat.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	43	23	By his counsel he stilled the great deep and planted islands in it.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	43	24	Those who sail the sea tell of its dangers, and we marvel at what we hear.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	43	25	for in it are strange and marvelous works, all kinds of living things, and huge creatures of the sea.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	43	26	Because of him his messenger finds the way, and by his word all things hold together.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	43	27	Though we speak much we cannot reach the end, and the sum of our words is: “He is the all.”
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	43	28	Where shall we find strength to praise him? For he is greater than all his works.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	43	29	Terrible is the Lord and very great, and marvelous is his power.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	43	30	When you praise the Lord, exalt him as much as you can; for he will surpass even that. When you exalt him, put forth all your strength, and do not grow weary, for you cannot praise him enough.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	43	31	Who has seen him and can describe him? Or who can extol him as he is?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	43	32	Many things greater than these lie hidden, for we have seen but few of his works.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	43	33	For the Lord has made all things, and to the godly he has granted wisdom.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	44	1	Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers in their generations.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	44	2	The Lord apportioned to them great glory, his majesty from the beginning.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	44	3	There were those who ruled in their kingdoms, and were men renowned for their power, giving counsel by their understanding, and proclaiming prophecies;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	44	4	leaders of the people in their deliberations and in understanding of learning for the people, wise in their words of instruction;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	44	5	those who composed musical tunes, and set forth verses in writing;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	44	6	rich men furnished with resources, living peaceably in their habitations—
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	44	7	all these were honored in their generations, and were the glory of their times.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	44	8	There are some of them who have left a name, so that men declare their praise.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	44	9	And there are some who have no memorial, who have perished as though they had not lived; they have become as though they had not been born, and so have their children after them.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	44	10	But these were men of mercy, whose righteous deeds have not been forgotten;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	44	11	their prosperity will remain with their descendants, and their inheritance to their children’s children.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	44	12	Their descendants stand by the covenants; their children also, for their sake.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	44	13	Their posterity will continue for ever, and their glory will not be blotted out.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	44	14	Their bodies were buried in peace, and their name lives to all generations.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	44	15	Peoples will declare their wisdom, and the congregation proclaims their praise.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	44	16	Enoch pleased the Lord, and was taken up; he was an example of repentance to all generations.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	44	17	Noah was found perfect and righteous; in the time of wrath he was taken in exchange; therefore a remnant was left to the earth when the flood came.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	44	18	Everlasting covenants were made with him that all flesh should not be blotted out by a flood.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	44	19	Abraham was the great father of a multitude of nations, and no one has been found like him in glory;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	44	20	he kept the law of the Most High, and was taken into covenant with him; he established the covenant in his flesh, and when he was tested he was found faithful.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	44	21	Therefore the Lord assured him by an oath that the nations would be blessed through his posterity; that he would multiply him like the dust of the earth, and exalt his posterity like the stars, and cause them to inherit from sea to sea and from the River to the ends of the earth.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	44	22	To Isaac also he gave the same assurance for the sake of Abraham his father.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	44	23	The blessing of all men and the covenant he made to rest upon the head of Jacob; he acknowledged him with his blessings, and gave him his inheritance; he determined his portions, and distributed them among twelve tribes.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	45	1	From his descendants the Lord brought forth a man of mercy, who found favor in the sight of all flesh and was beloved by God and man, Moses, whose memory is blessed.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	45	2	He made him equal in glory to the holy ones, and made him great in the fears of his enemies.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	45	3	By his words he caused signs to cease; the Lord glorified him in the presence of kings. He gave him commands for his people, and showed him part of his glory.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	45	4	He sanctified him through faithfulness and meekness; he chose him out of all mankind.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	45	5	He made him hear his voice, and led him into the thick darkness, and gave him the commandments face to face, the law of life and knowledge, to teach Jacob the covenant, and Israel his judgments.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	45	6	He exalted Aaron, the brother of Moses, a holy man like him, of the tribe of Levi.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	45	7	He made an everlasting covenant with him, and gave him the priesthood of the people. He blessed him with splendid vestments, and put a glorious robe upon him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	45	8	He clothed him with superb perfection, and strengthened him with the symbols of authority, the linen breeches, the long robe, and the ephod.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	45	9	And he encircled him with pomegranates, with very many golden bells round about, to send forth a sound as he walked, to make their ringing heard in the temple as a reminder to the sons of his people;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	45	10	with a holy garment, of gold and blue and purple, the work of an embroiderer; with the oracle of judgment, Urim and Thummim;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	45	11	with twisted scarlet, the work of a craftsman; with precious stones engraved like signets, in a setting of gold, the work of a jeweler, for a reminder, in engraved letters, according to the number of the tribes of Israel;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	45	12	with a gold crown upon his turban, inscribed like a signet with “Holiness,” a distinction to be prized, the work of an expert, the delight of the eyes, richly adorned.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	45	13	Before his time there never were such beautiful things. No outsider ever put them on, but only his sons and his descendants perpetually.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	45	14	His sacrifices shall be wholly burned twice every day continually.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	45	15	Moses ordained him, and anointed him with holy oil; it was an everlasting covenant for him and for his descendants all the days of heaven, to minister to the Lord and serve as priest and bless his people in his name.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	45	16	He chose him out of all the living to offer sacrifice to the Lord, incense and a pleasing odor as a memorial portion, to make atonement for the people.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	45	17	In his commandments he gave him authority and statutes and judgments, to teach Jacob the testimonies, and to enlighten Israel with his law.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	45	18	Outsiders conspired against him, and envied him in the wilderness, Dathan and Abiram and their men and the company of Korah, in wrath and anger.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	45	19	The Lord saw it and was not pleased, and in the wrath of his anger they were destroyed; he wrought wonders against them to consume them in flaming fire.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	45	20	He added glory to Aaron and gave him a heritage; he allotted to him the first of the first fruits, he prepared bread of first fruits in abundance;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	45	21	for they eat the sacrifices to the Lord, which he gave to him and his descendants.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	45	22	But in the land of the people he has no inheritance, and he has no portion among the people; for the Lord himself is his portion and inheritance.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	45	23	Phinehas the son of Eleazar is the third in glory, for he was zealous in the fear of the Lord, and stood fast, when the people turned away, in the ready goodness of his soul, and made atonement for Israel.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	45	24	Therefore a covenant of peace was established with him, that he should be leader of the sanctuary and of his people, that he and his descendants should have the dignity of the priesthood for ever.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	45	25	A covenant was also established with David, the son of Jesse, of the tribe of Judah: the heritage of the king is from son to son only; so the heritage of Aaron is for his descendants.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	45	26	May the Lord grant you wisdom in your heart to judge his people in righteousness, so that their prosperity may not vanish, and that their glory may endure throughout their generations.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	46	1	Joshua the son of Nun was mighty in war, and was the successor of Moses in prophesying. He became, in accordance with his name, a great savior of God’s elect, to take vengeance on the enemies that rose against them, so that he might give Israel its inheritance.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	46	2	How glorious he was when he lifted his hands and stretched out his sword against the cities!
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	46	3	Who before him ever stood so firm? For he waged the wars of the Lord.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	46	4	Was not the sun held back by his hand? And did not one day become as long as two?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	46	5	He called upon the Most High, the Mighty One, when enemies pressed him on every side,
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	46	6	and the great Lord answered him with hailstones of mighty power. He hurled down war upon that nation, and at the descent of Beth-horon he destroyed those who resisted, so that the nations might know his armament, that he was fighting in the sight of the Lord; for he wholly followed the Mighty One.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	46	7	And in the days of Moses he did a loyal deed, he and Caleb the son of Jephunneh: they withstood the congregation, restrained the people from sin, and stilled their wicked murmuring.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	46	8	And these two alone were preserved out of six hundred thousand people on foot, to bring them into their inheritance, into a land flowing with milk and honey.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	46	9	And the Lord gave Caleb strength, which remained with him to old age, so that he went up to the hill country, and his children obtained it for an inheritance;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	46	10	so that all the sons of Israel might see that it is good to follow the Lord.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	46	11	The judges also, with their respective names, those whose hearts did not fall into idolatry and who did not turn away from the Lord— may their memory be blessed!
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	46	12	May their bones revive from where they lie, and may the name of those who have been honored live again in their sons!
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	46	13	Samuel, beloved by his Lord, a prophet of the Lord, established the kingdom and anointed rulers over his people.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	46	14	By the law of the Lord he judged the congregation, and the Lord watched over Jacob.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	46	15	By his faithfulness he was proved to be a prophet, and by his words he became known as a trustworthy seer.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	46	16	He called upon the Lord, the Mighty One, when his enemies pressed him on every side, and he offered in sacrifice a sucking lamb.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	46	17	Then the Lord thundered from heaven, and made his voice heard with a mighty sound;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	46	18	and he wiped out the leaders of the people of Tyre and all the rulers of the Philistines.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	46	19	Before the time of his eternal sleep, Samuel called men to witness before the Lord and his anointed: “I have not taken any one’s property, not so much as a pair of shoes.” And no man accused him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	46	20	Even after he had fallen asleep he prophesied and revealed to the king his death, and lifted up his voice out of the earth in prophecy, to blot out the wickedness of the people.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	47	1	And after him Nathan rose up to prophesy in the days of David.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	47	2	As the fat is selected from the peace offering, so David was selected from the sons of Israel.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	47	3	He played with lions as with young goats, and with bears as with lambs of the flock.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	47	4	In his youth did he not kill a giant, and take away reproach from the people, when he lifted his hand with a stone in the sling and struck down the boasting of Goliath?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	47	5	For he appealed to the Lord, the Most High, and he gave him strength in his right hand to slay a man mighty in war, to exalt the power of his people.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	47	6	So they glorified him for his ten thousands, and praised him for the blessings of the Lord, when the glorious diadem was bestowed upon him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	47	7	For he wiped out his enemies on every side, and annihilated his adversaries the Philistines; he crushed their power even to this day.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	47	8	In all that he did he gave thanks to the Holy One, the Most High, with ascriptions of glory; he sang praise with all his heart, and he loved his Maker.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	47	9	He placed singers before the altar, to make sweet melody with their voices.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	47	10	He gave beauty to the feasts, and arranged their times throughout the year, while they praised God’s holy name, and the sanctuary resounded from early morning.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	47	11	The Lord took away his sins, and exalted his power for ever; he gave him the covenant of kings and a throne of glory in Israel.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	47	12	After him rose up a wise son who fared amply because of him;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	47	13	Solomon reigned in days of peace, and God gave him rest on every side, that he might build a house for his name and prepare a sanctuary to stand for ever.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	47	14	How wise you became in your youth! You overflowed like a river with understanding.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	47	15	Your soul covered the earth, and you filled it with parables and riddles.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	47	16	Your name reached to far-off islands, and you were loved for your peace.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	47	17	For your songs and proverbs and parables, and for your interpretations, the countries marveled at you.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	47	18	In the name of the Lord God, who is called the God of Israel, you gathered gold like tin and amassed silver like lead.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	47	19	But you laid your loins beside women, and through your body you were brought into subjection.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	47	20	You put stain upon your honor, and defiled your posterity, so that you brought wrath upon your children and they were grieved at your folly,
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	47	21	so that the sovereignty was divided and a disobedient kingdom arose out of Ephraim.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	47	22	But the Lord will never give up his mercy, nor cause any of his works to perish; he will never blot out the descendants of his chosen one, nor destroy the posterity of him who loved him; so he gave a remnant to Jacob, and to David a root of his stock.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	47	23	Solomon rested with his fathers, and left behind him one of his sons, ample in folly and lacking in understanding, Rehoboam, whose policy caused the people to revolt. Also Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin and gave to Ephraim a sinful way.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	47	24	Their sins became exceedingly many, so as to remove them from their land.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	47	25	For they sought out every sort of wickedness, till vengeance came upon them.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	48	1	Then the prophet Elijah arose like a fire, and his word burned like a torch.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	48	2	He brought a famine upon them, and by his zeal he made them few in number.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	48	3	By the word of the Lord he shut up the heavens, and also three times brought down fire.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	48	4	How glorious you were, O Elijah, in your wondrous deeds! And who has the right to boast which you have?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	48	5	You who raised a corpse from death and from Hades, by the word of the Most High;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	48	6	who brought kings down to destruction, and famous men from their beds;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	48	7	who heard rebuke at Sinai and judgments of vengeance at Horeb;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	48	8	who anointed kings to inflict retribution, and prophets to succeed you.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	48	9	You who were taken up by a whirlwind of fire, in a chariot with horses of fire;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	48	10	you who are ready at the appointed time, it is written, to calm the wrath of God before it breaks out in fury, to turn the heart of the father to the son, and to restore the tribes of Jacob.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	48	11	Blessed are those who saw you, and those who have been adorned in love; for we also shall surely live.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	48	12	It was Elijah who was covered by the whirlwind, and Elisha was filled with his spirit; in all his days he did not tremble before any ruler, and no one brought him into subjection.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	48	13	Nothing was too hard for him, and when he was dead his body prophesied.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	48	14	As in his life he did wonders, so in death his deeds were marvelous.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	48	15	For all this the people did not repent, and they did not forsake their sins, till they were carried away captive from their land and were scattered over all the earth; the people were left very few in number, but with rulers from the house of David.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	48	16	Some of them did what was pleasing to God, but others multiplied sins.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	48	17	Hezekiah fortified his city, and brought water into the midst of it; he tunneled the sheer rock with iron and built pools for water.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	48	18	In his days Sennacherib came up, and sent the Rabshakeh; he lifted up his hand against Zion and made great boasts in his arrogance.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	48	19	Then their hearts were shaken and their hands trembled, and they were in anguish, like women in travail.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	48	20	But they called upon the Lord who is merciful, spreading forth their hands toward him; and the Holy One quickly heard them from heaven, and delivered them by the hand of Isaiah.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	48	21	The Lord smote the camp of the Assyrians, and his angel wiped them out.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	48	22	For Hezekiah did what was pleasing to the Lord, and he held strongly to the ways of David his father, which Isaiah the prophet commanded, who was great and faithful in his vision.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	48	23	In his days the sun went backward, and he lengthened the life of the king.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	48	24	By the spirit of might he saw the last things, and comforted those who mourned in Zion.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	48	25	He revealed what was to occur to the end of time, and the hidden things before they came to pass.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	49	1	The memory of Josiah is like a blending of incense prepared by the art of the perfumer; it is sweet as honey to every mouth, and like music at a banquet of wine.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	49	2	He was led aright in converting the people, and took away the abominations of iniquity.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	49	3	He set his heart upon the Lord; in the days of wicked men he strengthened godliness.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	49	4	Except David and Hezekiah and Josiah they all sinned greatly, for they forsook the law of the Most High; the kings of Judah came to an end;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	49	5	for they gave their power to others, and their glory to a foreign nation,
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	49	6	who set fire to the chosen city of the sanctuary, and made her streets desolate, according to the word of Jeremiah.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	49	7	For they had afflicted him; yet he had been consecrated in the womb as prophet, to pluck up and afflict and destroy, and likewise to build and to plant.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	49	8	It was Ezekiel who saw the vision of glory which God showed him above the chariot of the cherubim.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	49	9	For God remembered his enemies with storm, and did good to those who directed their ways aright.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	49	10	May the bones of the twelve prophets revive from where they lie, for they comforted the people of Jacob and delivered them with confident hope.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	49	11	How shall we magnify Zerubbabel? He was like a signet on the right hand,
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	49	12	and so was Jeshua the son of Jozadak; in their days they built the house and raised a temple holy to the Lord, prepared for everlasting glory.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	49	13	The memory of Nehemiah also is lasting; he raised for us the walls that had fallen, and set up the gates and bars and rebuilt our ruined houses.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	49	14	No one like Enoch has been created on earth, for he was taken up from the earth.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	49	15	And no man like Joseph has been born, and his bones are cared for.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	49	16	Shem and Seth were honored among men, and Adam above every living being in the creation.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	50	1	The leader of his brethren and the pride of his people was Simon the high priest, son of Onias, who in his life repaired the house, and in his time fortified the temple.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	50	2	He laid the foundations for the high double walls, the high retaining walls for the temple enclosure.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	50	3	In his days a cistern for water was quarried out, a reservoir like the sea in circumference.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	50	4	He considered how to save his people from ruin, and fortified the city to withstand a siege.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	50	5	How glorious he was when the people gathered round him as he came out of the inner sanctuary!
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	50	6	Like the morning star among the clouds, like the moon when it is full;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	50	7	like the sun shining upon the temple of the Most High, and like the rainbow gleaming in glorious clouds;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	50	8	like roses in the days of the first fruits, like lilies by a spring of water, like a green shoot on Lebanon on a summer day;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	50	9	like fire and incense in the censer, like a vessel of hammered gold adorned with all kinds of precious stones;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	50	10	like an olive tree putting forth its fruit, and like a cypress towering in the clouds.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	50	11	When he put on his glorious robe and clothed himself with superb perfection and went up to the holy altar, he made the court of the sanctuary glorious.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	50	12	And when he received the portions from the hands of the priests, as he stood by the hearth of the altar with a garland of brethren around him, he was like a young cedar on Lebanon; and they surrounded him like the trunks of palm trees,
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	50	13	all the sons of Aaron in their splendor with the Lord’s offering in their hands, before the whole congregation of Israel.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	50	14	Finishing the service at the altars, and arranging the offering to the Most High, the Almighty,
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	50	15	he reached out his hand to the cup and poured a libation of the blood of the grape; he poured it out at the foot of the altar, a pleasing odor to the Most High, the King of all.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	50	16	Then the sons of Aaron shouted, they sounded the trumpets of hammered work, they made a great noise to be heard for remembrance before the Most High.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	50	17	Then all the people together made haste and fell to the ground upon their faces to worship their Lord, the Almighty, God Most High.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	50	18	And the singers praised him with their voices in sweet and full-toned melody.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	50	19	And the people besought the Lord Most High in prayer before him who is merciful, till the order of worship of the Lord was ended; so they completed his service.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	50	20	Then Simon came down, and lifted up his hands over the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, to pronounce the blessing of the Lord with his lips, and to glory in his name;
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	50	21	and they bowed down in worship a second time, to receive the blessing from the Most High.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	50	22	And now bless the God of all, who in every way does great things; who exalts our days from birth, and deals with us according to his mercy.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	50	23	May he give us gladness of heart, and grant that peace may be in our days in Israel, as in the days of old.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	50	24	May he entrust to us his mercy! And let him deliver us in our days!
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	50	25	With two nations my soul is vexed, and the third is no nation:
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	50	26	Those who live on Mount Seir, and the Philistines, and the foolish people that dwell in Shechem.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	50	27	Instruction in understanding and knowledge I have written in this book, Jesus the son of Sirach, son of Eleazar, of Jerusalem, who out of his heart poured forth wisdom.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	50	28	Blessed is he who concerns himself with these things, and he who lays them to heart will become wise.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	50	29	For if he does them, he will be strong for all things, for the light of the Lord is his path.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	51	1	I will give thanks to thee, O Lord and King, and will praise thee as God my Savior. I give thanks to thy name,
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	51	2	for thou hast been my protector and helper and hast delivered my body from destruction and from the snare of a slanderous tongue, from lips that utter lies. Before those who stood by thou wast my helper,
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	51	3	and didst deliver me, in the greatness of thy mercy and of thy name, from the gnashings of teeth about to devour me, from the hand of those who sought my life, from the many afflictions that I endured,
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	51	4	from choking fire on every side and from the midst of fire which I did not kindle,
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	51	5	from the depths of the belly of Hades, from an unclean tongue and lying words—
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	51	6	the slander of an unrighteous tongue to the king. My soul drew near to death, and my life was very near to Hades beneath.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	51	7	They surrounded me on every side, and there was no one to help me; I looked for the assistance of men, and there was none.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	51	8	Then I remembered thy mercy, O Lord, and thy work from of old, that thou dost deliver those who wait for thee and dost save them from the hand of their enemies.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	51	9	And I sent up my supplication from the earth, and prayed for deliverance from death.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	51	10	I appealed to the Lord, the Father of my lord, not to forsake me in the days of affliction, at the time when there is no help against the proud.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	51	11	I will praise thy name continually, and will sing praise with thanksgiving. My prayer was heard,
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	51	12	for thou didst save me from destruction and rescue me from an evil plight. Therefore I will give thanks to thee and praise thee, and I will bless the name of the Lord.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	51	13	While I was still young, before I went on my travels, I sought wisdom openly in my prayer.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	51	14	Before the temple I asked for her, and I will search for her to the last.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	51	15	From blossom to ripening grape my heart delighted in her; my foot entered upon the straight path; from my youth I followed her steps.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	51	16	I inclined my ear a little and received her, and I found for myself much instruction.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	51	17	I made progress therein; to him who gives wisdom I will give glory.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	51	18	For I resolved to live according to wisdom, and I was zealous for the good; and I shall never be put to shame.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	51	19	My soul grappled with wisdom, and in my conduct I was strict; I spread out my hands to the heavens, and lamented my ignorance of her.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	51	20	I directed my soul to her, and through purification I found her. I gained understanding with her from the first, therefore I will not be forsaken.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	51	21	My heart was stirred to seek her, therefore I have gained a good possession.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	51	22	The Lord gave me a tongue as my reward, and I will praise him with it.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	51	23	Draw near to me, you who are untaught, and lodge in my school.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	51	24	Why do you say you are lacking in these things, and why are your souls very thirsty?
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	51	25	I opened my mouth and said, Get these things for yourselves without money.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	51	26	Put your neck under the yoke, and let your souls receive instruction; it is to be found close by.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	51	27	See with your eyes that I have labored little and found myself much rest.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	51	28	Get instruction with a large sum of silver, and you will gain by it much gold.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	51	29	May your soul rejoice in his mercy, and may you not be put to shame when you praise him.
 Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)	Sir	26	51	30	Do your work before the appointed time, and in God’s time he will give you your reward.
 Isaiah	Is	27	1	1	The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
 Isaiah	Is	27	1	2	Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Sons have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.
 Isaiah	Is	27	1	3	The ox knows its owner, and the ass its master’s crib; but Israel does not know, my people does not understand.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	1	4	Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, sons who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged.
 Isaiah	Is	27	1	5	Why will you still be smitten, that you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
 Isaiah	Is	27	1	6	From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but bruises and sores and bleeding wounds; they are not pressed out, or bound up, or softened with oil.
 Isaiah	Is	27	1	7	Your country lies desolate, your cities are burned with fire; in your very presence aliens devour your land; it is desolate, as overthrown by aliens.
 Isaiah	Is	27	1	8	And the daughter of Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a lodge in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.
 Isaiah	Is	27	1	9	If the Lord of hosts had not left us a few survivors, we should have been like Sodom, and become like Gomorrah.
 Isaiah	Is	27	1	10	Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Give ear to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
 Isaiah	Is	27	1	11	“What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
 Isaiah	Is	27	1	12	“When you come to appear before me, who requires of you this trampling of my courts?
 Isaiah	Is	27	1	13	Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination to me. New moon and sabbath and the calling of assemblies— I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly.
 Isaiah	Is	27	1	14	Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they have become a burden to me, I am weary of bearing them.
 Isaiah	Is	27	1	15	When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.
 Isaiah	Is	27	1	16	Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil,
 Isaiah	Is	27	1	17	learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.
 Isaiah	Is	27	1	18	“Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
 Isaiah	Is	27	1	19	If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;
 Isaiah	Is	27	1	20	But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	1	21	How the faithful city has become a harlot, she that was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
 Isaiah	Is	27	1	22	Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.
 Isaiah	Is	27	1	23	Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Every one loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend the fatherless, and the widow’s cause does not come to them.
 Isaiah	Is	27	1	24	Therefore the Lord says, the Lord of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: “Ah, I will vent my wrath on my enemies, and avenge myself on my foes.
 Isaiah	Is	27	1	25	I will turn my hand against you and will smelt away your dross as with lye and remove all your alloy.
 Isaiah	Is	27	1	26	And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	1	27	Zion shall be redeemed by justice, and those in her who repent, by righteousness.
 Isaiah	Is	27	1	28	But rebels and sinners shall be destroyed together, and those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed.
 Isaiah	Is	27	1	29	For you shall be ashamed of the oaks in which you delighted; and you shall blush for the gardens which you have chosen.
 Isaiah	Is	27	1	30	For you shall be like an oak whose leaf withers, and like a garden without water.
 Isaiah	Is	27	1	31	And the strong shall become tow and his work a spark, and both of them shall burn together, with none to quench them.
 Isaiah	Is	27	2	1	The word which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
 Isaiah	Is	27	2	2	It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it,
 Isaiah	Is	27	2	3	and many peoples shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
 Isaiah	Is	27	2	4	He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
 Isaiah	Is	27	2	5	O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord.
 Isaiah	Is	27	2	6	For thou hast rejected thy people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of diviners from the east and of soothsayers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with foreigners.
 Isaiah	Is	27	2	7	Their land is filled with silver and gold, and there is no end to their treasures; their land is filled with horses, and there is no end to their chariots.
 Isaiah	Is	27	2	8	Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made.
 Isaiah	Is	27	2	9	So man is humbled, and men are brought low— forgive them not!
 Isaiah	Is	27	2	10	Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust from before the terror of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty.
 Isaiah	Is	27	2	11	The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the pride of men shall be humbled; and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
 Isaiah	Is	27	2	12	For the Lord of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up and high;
 Isaiah	Is	27	2	13	against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up; and against all the oaks of Bashan;
 Isaiah	Is	27	2	14	against all the high mountains, and against all the lofty hills;
 Isaiah	Is	27	2	15	against every high tower, and against every fortified wall;
 Isaiah	Is	27	2	16	against all the ships of Tarshish, and against all the beautiful craft.
 Isaiah	Is	27	2	17	And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the pride of men shall be brought low; and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
 Isaiah	Is	27	2	18	And the idols shall utterly pass away.
 Isaiah	Is	27	2	19	And men shall enter the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground, from before the terror of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.
 Isaiah	Is	27	2	20	In that day men will cast forth their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats,
 Isaiah	Is	27	2	21	to enter the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs, from before the terror of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.
 Isaiah	Is	27	2	22	Turn away from man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he?
 Isaiah	Is	27	3	1	For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water;
 Isaiah	Is	27	3	2	the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder,
 Isaiah	Is	27	3	3	the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skilful magician and the expert in charms.
 Isaiah	Is	27	3	4	And I will make boys their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
 Isaiah	Is	27	3	5	And the people will oppress one another, every man his fellow and every man his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the base fellow to the honorable.
 Isaiah	Is	27	3	6	When a man takes hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying: “You have a mantle; you shall be our leader, and this heap of ruins shall be under your rule”;
 Isaiah	Is	27	3	7	in that day he will speak out, saying: “I will not be a healer; in my house there is neither bread nor mantle; you shall not make me leader of the people.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	3	8	For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen; because their speech and their deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence.
 Isaiah	Is	27	3	9	Their partiality witnesses against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom, they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil upon themselves.
 Isaiah	Is	27	3	10	Tell the righteous that it shall be well with them, for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
 Isaiah	Is	27	3	11	Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for what his hands have done shall be done to him.
 Isaiah	Is	27	3	12	My people—children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, your leaders mislead you, and confuse the course of your paths.
 Isaiah	Is	27	3	13	The Lord has taken his place to contend, he stands to judge his people.
 Isaiah	Is	27	3	14	The Lord enters into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: “It is you who have devoured the vineyard, the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
 Isaiah	Is	27	3	15	What do you mean by crushing my people, by grinding the face of the poor?” says the Lord GOD of hosts.
 Isaiah	Is	27	3	16	The Lord said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet;
 Isaiah	Is	27	3	17	the Lord will smite with a scab the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will lay bare their secret parts.
 Isaiah	Is	27	3	18	In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets, the headbands, and the crescents;
 Isaiah	Is	27	3	19	the pendants, the bracelets, and the scarfs;
 Isaiah	Is	27	3	20	the headdresses, the armlets, the sashes, the perfume boxes, and the amulets;
 Isaiah	Is	27	3	21	the signet rings and nose rings;
 Isaiah	Is	27	3	22	the festal robes, the mantles, the cloaks, and the handbags;
 Isaiah	Is	27	3	23	the garments of gauze, the linen garments, the turbans, and the veils.
 Isaiah	Is	27	3	24	Instead of perfume there will be rottenness; and instead of a girdle, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a rich robe, a girding of sackcloth; instead of beauty, shame.
 Isaiah	Is	27	3	25	Your men shall fall by the sword and your mighty men in battle.
 Isaiah	Is	27	3	26	And her gates shall lament and mourn; ravaged, she shall sit upon the ground.
 Isaiah	Is	27	4	1	And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; take away our reproach.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	4	2	In that day the branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be the pride and glory of the survivors of Israel.
 Isaiah	Is	27	4	3	And he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy, every one who has been recorded for life in Jerusalem,
 Isaiah	Is	27	4	4	when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains of Jerusalem from its midst by a spirit of judgment and by a spirit of burning.
 Isaiah	Is	27	4	5	Then the Lord will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, and smoke and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory there will be a canopy and a pavilion.
 Isaiah	Is	27	4	6	It will be for a shade by day from the heat, and for a refuge and a shelter from the storm and rain.
 Isaiah	Is	27	5	1	Let me sing for my beloved a love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
 Isaiah	Is	27	5	2	He digged it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
 Isaiah	Is	27	5	3	And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.
 Isaiah	Is	27	5	4	What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes?
 Isaiah	Is	27	5	5	And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.
 Isaiah	Is	27	5	6	I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and briers and thorns shall grow up; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
 Isaiah	Is	27	5	7	For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, a cry!
 Isaiah	Is	27	5	8	Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land.
 Isaiah	Is	27	5	9	The Lord of hosts has sworn in my hearing: “Surely many houses shall be desolate, large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.
 Isaiah	Is	27	5	10	For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	5	11	Woe to those who rise early in the morning, that they may run after strong drink, who tarry late into the evening till wine inflames them!
 Isaiah	Is	27	5	12	They have lyre and harp, timbrel and flute and wine at their feasts; but they do not regard the deeds of the Lord, or see the work of his hands.
 Isaiah	Is	27	5	13	Therefore my people go into exile for want of knowledge; their honored men are dying of hunger, and their multitude is parched with thirst.
 Isaiah	Is	27	5	14	Therefore Sheol has enlarged its appetite and opened its mouth beyond measure, and the nobility of Jerusalem and her multitude go down, her throng and he who exults in her.
 Isaiah	Is	27	5	15	Man is bowed down, and men are brought low, and the eyes of the haughty are humbled.
 Isaiah	Is	27	5	16	But the Lord of hosts is exalted in justice, and the Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness.
 Isaiah	Is	27	5	17	Then shall the lambs graze as in their pasture, fatlings and kids shall feed among the ruins.
 Isaiah	Is	27	5	18	Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, who draw sin as with cart ropes,
 Isaiah	Is	27	5	19	who say: “Let him make haste, let him speed his work that we may see it; let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel draw near, and let it come, that we may know it!”
 Isaiah	Is	27	5	20	Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
 Isaiah	Is	27	5	21	Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!
 Isaiah	Is	27	5	22	Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, and valiant men in mixing strong drink,
 Isaiah	Is	27	5	23	who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right!
 Isaiah	Is	27	5	24	Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will be as rottenness, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
 Isaiah	Is	27	5	25	Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people, and he stretched out his hand against them and smote them, and the mountains quaked; and their corpses were as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away and his hand is stretched out still.
 Isaiah	Is	27	5	26	He will raise a signal for a nation afar off, and whistle for it from the ends of the earth; and lo, swiftly, speedily it comes!
 Isaiah	Is	27	5	27	None is weary, none stumbles, none slumbers or sleeps, not a waistcloth is loose, not a sandal-thong broken;
 Isaiah	Is	27	5	28	their arrows are sharp, all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs seem like flint, and their wheels like the whirlwind.
 Isaiah	Is	27	5	29	Their roaring is like a lion, like young lions they roar; they growl and seize their prey, they carry it off, and none can rescue.
 Isaiah	Is	27	5	30	They will growl over it on that day, like the roaring of the sea. And if one look to the land, behold, darkness and distress; and the light is darkened by its clouds.
 Isaiah	Is	27	6	1	In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.
 Isaiah	Is	27	6	2	Above him stood the seraphim; each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.
 Isaiah	Is	27	6	3	And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	6	4	And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.
 Isaiah	Is	27	6	5	And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”
 Isaiah	Is	27	6	6	Then flew one of the seraphim to me, having in his hand a burning coal which he had taken with tongs from the altar.
 Isaiah	Is	27	6	7	And he touched my mouth, and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin forgiven.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	6	8	And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	6	9	And he said, “Go, and say to this people: ‘Hear and hear, but do not understand; see and see, but do not perceive.’
 Isaiah	Is	27	6	10	Make the heart of this people fat, and their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	6	11	Then I said, “How long, O Lord?” And he said: “Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without men, and the land is utterly desolate,
 Isaiah	Is	27	6	12	and the Lord removes men far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
 Isaiah	Is	27	6	13	And though a tenth remain in it, it will be burned again, like a terebinth or an oak, whose stump remains standing when it is felled.” The holy seed is its stump.
 Isaiah	Is	27	7	1	In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah the king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but they could not conquer it.
 Isaiah	Is	27	7	2	When the house of David was told, “Syria is in league with Ephraim,” his heart and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.
 Isaiah	Is	27	7	3	And the Lord said to Isaiah, “Go forth to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Fuller’s Field,
 Isaiah	Is	27	7	4	and say to him, ‘Take heed, be quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint because of these two smoldering stumps of firebrands, at the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria and the son of Remaliah.
 Isaiah	Is	27	7	5	Because Syria, with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has devised evil against you, saying,
 Isaiah	Is	27	7	6	“Let us go up against Judah and terrify it, and let us conquer it for ourselves, and set up the son of Tabe-el as king in the midst of it,”
 Isaiah	Is	27	7	7	thus says the Lord GOD: It shall not stand, and it shall not come to pass.
 Isaiah	Is	27	7	8	For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. (Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be broken to pieces so that it will no longer be a people.)
 Isaiah	Is	27	7	9	And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.’”
 Isaiah	Is	27	7	10	Again the Lord spoke to Ahaz,
 Isaiah	Is	27	7	11	“Ask a sign of the Lord your God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	7	12	But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, and I will not put the Lord to the test.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	7	13	And he said, “Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary men, that you weary my God also?
 Isaiah	Is	27	7	14	Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, a young woman shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanu-el.
 Isaiah	Is	27	7	15	He shall eat curds and honey when he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good.
 Isaiah	Is	27	7	16	For before the child knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land before whose two kings you are in dread will be deserted.
 Isaiah	Is	27	7	17	The Lord will bring upon you and upon your people and upon your father’s house such days as have not come since the day that Ephraim departed from Judah—the king of Assyria.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	7	18	In that day the Lord will whistle for the fly which is at the sources of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Assyria.
 Isaiah	Is	27	7	19	And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines, and in the clefts of the rocks, and on all the thornbushes, and on all the pastures.
 Isaiah	Is	27	7	20	In that day the Lord will shave with a razor which is hired beyond the River—with the king of Assyria—the head and the hair of the feet, and it will sweep away the beard also.
 Isaiah	Is	27	7	21	In that day a man will keep alive a young cow and two sheep;
 Isaiah	Is	27	7	22	and because of the abundance of milk which they give, he will eat curds; for every one that is left in the land will eat curds and honey.
 Isaiah	Is	27	7	23	In that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels of silver, will become briers and thorns.
 Isaiah	Is	27	7	24	With bow and arrows men will come there, for all the land will be briers and thorns;
 Isaiah	Is	27	7	25	and as for all the hills which used to be hoed with a hoe, you will not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but they will become a place where cattle are let loose and where sheep tread.
 Isaiah	Is	27	8	1	Then the Lord said to me, “Take a large tablet and write upon it in common characters, ‘Belonging to Maher-shalal-hash-baz.’”
 Isaiah	Is	27	8	2	And I got reliable witnesses, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah, to attest for me.
 Isaiah	Is	27	8	3	And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then the Lord said to me, “Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz;
 Isaiah	Is	27	8	4	for before the child knows how to cry ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	8	5	The Lord spoke to me again:
 Isaiah	Is	27	8	6	“Because this people have refused the waters of Shiloah that flow gently, and melt in fear before Rezin and the son of Remaliah;
 Isaiah	Is	27	8	7	therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them the waters of the River, mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory; and it will rise over all its channels and go over all its banks;
 Isaiah	Is	27	8	8	and it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass on, reaching even to the neck; and its outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanu-el.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	8	9	Be broken, you peoples, and be dismayed; give ear, all you far countries; gird yourselves and be dismayed; gird yourselves and be dismayed.
 Isaiah	Is	27	8	10	Take counsel together, but it will come to nought; speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us.
 Isaiah	Is	27	8	11	For the Lord spoke thus to me with his strong hand upon me, and warned me not to walk in the way of this people, saying:
 Isaiah	Is	27	8	12	“Do not call conspiracy all that this people call conspiracy, and do not fear what they fear, nor be in dread.
 Isaiah	Is	27	8	13	But the Lord of hosts, him you shall regard as holy; let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
 Isaiah	Is	27	8	14	And he will become a sanctuary, and a stone of offense, and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
 Isaiah	Is	27	8	15	And many shall stumble thereon; they shall fall and be broken; they shall be snared and taken.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	8	16	Bind up the testimony, seal the teaching among my disciples.
 Isaiah	Is	27	8	17	I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.
 Isaiah	Is	27	8	18	Behold, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
 Isaiah	Is	27	8	19	And when they say to you, “Consult the mediums and the wizards who chirp and mutter,” should not a people consult their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?
 Isaiah	Is	27	8	20	To the teaching and to the testimony! Surely for this word which they speak there is no dawn.
 Isaiah	Is	27	8	21	They will pass through the land, greatly distressed and hungry; and when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will curse their king and their God, and turn their faces upward;
 Isaiah	Is	27	8	22	and they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they will be thrust into thick darkness.
 Isaiah	Is	27	9	1	But there will be no gloom for her that was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he will make glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
 Isaiah	Is	27	9	2	The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shined.
 Isaiah	Is	27	9	3	Thou hast multiplied the nation, thou hast increased its joy; they rejoice before thee as with joy at the harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
 Isaiah	Is	27	9	4	For the yoke of his burden, and the staff for his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, thou hast broken as on the day of Midian.
 Isaiah	Is	27	9	5	For every boot of the tramping warrior in battle tumult and every garment rolled in blood will be burned as fuel for the fire.
 Isaiah	Is	27	9	6	For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called “Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	9	7	Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David, and over his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and for evermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
 Isaiah	Is	27	9	8	The Lord has sent a word against Jacob, and it will light upon Israel;
 Isaiah	Is	27	9	9	and all the people will know, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart:
 Isaiah	Is	27	9	10	“The bricks have fallen, but we will build with dressed stones; the sycamores have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	9	11	So the Lord raises adversaries against them, and stirs up their enemies.
 Isaiah	Is	27	9	12	The Syrians on the east and the Philistines on the west devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away and his hand is stretched out still.
 Isaiah	Is	27	9	13	The people did not turn to him who smote them, nor seek the Lord of hosts.
 Isaiah	Is	27	9	14	So the Lord cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in one day—
 Isaiah	Is	27	9	15	the elder and honored man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail;
 Isaiah	Is	27	9	16	for those who lead this people lead them astray, and those who are led by them are swallowed up.
 Isaiah	Is	27	9	17	Therefore the Lord does not rejoice over their young men, and has no compassion on their fatherless and widows; for every one is godless and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away and his hand is stretched out still.
 Isaiah	Is	27	9	18	For wickedness burns like a fire, it consumes briers and thorns; it kindles the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
 Isaiah	Is	27	9	19	Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts the land is burned, and the people are like fuel for the fire; no man spares his brother.
 Isaiah	Is	27	9	20	They snatch on the right, but are still hungry, and they devour on the left, but are not satisfied; each devours his neighbor’s flesh,
 Isaiah	Is	27	9	21	Manasseh Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh, and together they are against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away and his hand is stretched out still.
 Isaiah	Is	27	10	1	Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression,
 Isaiah	Is	27	10	2	to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
 Isaiah	Is	27	10	3	What will you do on the day of punishment, in the storm which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth?
 Isaiah	Is	27	10	4	Nothing remains but to crouch among the prisoners or fall among the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away and his hand is stretched out still.
 Isaiah	Is	27	10	5	Ah, Assyria, the rod of my anger, the staff of my fury!
 Isaiah	Is	27	10	6	Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
 Isaiah	Is	27	10	7	But he does not so intend, and his mind does not so think; but it is in his mind to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few;
 Isaiah	Is	27	10	8	for he says: “Are not my commanders all kings?
 Isaiah	Is	27	10	9	Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
 Isaiah	Is	27	10	10	As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols whose graven images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
 Isaiah	Is	27	10	11	shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols as I have done to Samaria and her images?”
 Isaiah	Is	27	10	12	When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem he will punish the arrogant boasting of the king of Assyria and his haughty pride.
 Isaiah	Is	27	10	13	For he says: “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding; I have removed the boundaries of peoples, and have plundered their treasures; like a bull I have brought down those who sat on thrones.
 Isaiah	Is	27	10	14	My hand has found like a nest the wealth of the peoples; and as men gather eggs that have been forsaken so I have gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved a wing, or opened the mouth, or chirped.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	10	15	Shall the axe vaunt itself over him who hews with it, or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? As if a rod should wield him who lifts it, or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!
 Isaiah	Is	27	10	16	Therefore the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will send wasting sickness among his stout warriors, and under his glory a burning will be kindled, like the burning of fire.
 Isaiah	Is	27	10	17	The light of Israel will become a fire, and his Holy One a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day.
 Isaiah	Is	27	10	18	The glory of his forest and of his fruitful land the Lord will destroy, both soul and body, and it will be as when a sick man wastes away.
 Isaiah	Is	27	10	19	The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few that a child can write them down.
 Isaiah	Is	27	10	20	In that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no more lean upon him that smote them, but will lean upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
 Isaiah	Is	27	10	21	A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.
 Isaiah	Is	27	10	22	For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.
 Isaiah	Is	27	10	23	For the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will make a full end, as decreed, in the midst of all the earth.
 Isaiah	Is	27	10	24	Therefore thus says the Lord, the Lord of hosts: “O my people, who dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrians when they smite with the rod and lift up their staff against you as the Egyptians did.
 Isaiah	Is	27	10	25	For in a very little while my indignation will come to an end, and my anger will be directed to their destruction.
 Isaiah	Is	27	10	26	And the Lord of hosts will wield against them a scourge, as when he smote Midian at the rock of Oreb; and his rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it as he did in Egypt.
 Isaiah	Is	27	10	27	And in that day his burden will depart from your shoulder, and his yoke will be destroyed from your neck.” He has gone up from Rimmon,
 Isaiah	Is	27	10	28	he has come to Aiath; he has passed through Migron, at Michmash he stores his baggage;
 Isaiah	Is	27	10	29	they have crossed over the pass, at Geba they lodge for the night; Ramah trembles, Gibe-ah of Saul has fled.
 Isaiah	Is	27	10	30	Cry aloud, O daughter of Gallim! Hearken, O Laishah! Answer her, O Anathoth!
 Isaiah	Is	27	10	31	Madmenah is in flight, the inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.
 Isaiah	Is	27	10	32	This very day he will halt at Nob, he will shake his fist at the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
 Isaiah	Is	27	10	33	Behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts will lop the boughs with terrifying power; the great in height will be hewn down, and the lofty will be brought low.
 Isaiah	Is	27	10	34	He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an axe, and Lebanon with its majestic trees will fall.
 Isaiah	Is	27	11	1	There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots.
 Isaiah	Is	27	11	2	And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
 Isaiah	Is	27	11	3	And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord. He shall not judge by what his eyes see, or decide by what his ears hear;
 Isaiah	Is	27	11	4	but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked.
 Isaiah	Is	27	11	5	Righteousness shall be the girdle of his waist, and faithfulness the girdle of his loins.
 Isaiah	Is	27	11	6	The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them.
 Isaiah	Is	27	11	7	The cow and the bear shall feed; their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
 Isaiah	Is	27	11	8	The sucking child shall play over the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder’s den.
 Isaiah	Is	27	11	9	They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
 Isaiah	Is	27	11	10	In that day the root of Jesse shall stand as an ensign to the peoples; him shall the nations seek, and his dwellings shall be glorious.
 Isaiah	Is	27	11	11	In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant which is left of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Ethiopia, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.
 Isaiah	Is	27	11	12	He will raise an ensign for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
 Isaiah	Is	27	11	13	The jealousy of Ephraim shall depart, and those who harass Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah, and Judah shall not harass Ephraim.
 Isaiah	Is	27	11	14	But they shall swoop down upon the shoulder of the Philistines in the west, and together they shall plunder the people of the east. They shall put forth their hand against Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites shall obey them.
 Isaiah	Is	27	11	15	And the Lord will utterly destroy the tongue of the sea of Egypt; and will wave his hand over the River with his scorching wind, and smite it into seven channels that men may cross dryshod.
 Isaiah	Is	27	11	16	And there will be a highway from Assyria for the remnant which is left of his people, as there was for Israel when they came up from the land of Egypt.
 Isaiah	Is	27	12	1	You will say in that day: “I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, for though thou wast angry with me, thy anger turned away, and thou didst comfort me.
 Isaiah	Is	27	12	2	“Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord GOD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	12	3	With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.
 Isaiah	Is	27	12	4	And you will say in that day: “Give thanks to the Lord, call upon his name; make known his deeds among the nations, proclaim that his name is exalted.
 Isaiah	Is	27	12	5	“Sing praises to the Lord, for he has done gloriously; let this be known in all the earth.
 Isaiah	Is	27	12	6	Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	13	1	The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
 Isaiah	Is	27	13	2	On a bare hill raise a signal, cry aloud to them; wave the hand for them to enter the gates of the nobles.
 Isaiah	Is	27	13	3	I myself have commanded my consecrated ones, have summoned my mighty men to execute my anger, my proudly exulting ones.
 Isaiah	Is	27	13	4	Hark, a tumult on the mountains as of a great multitude! Hark, an uproar of kingdoms, of nations gathering together! The Lord of hosts is mustering a host for battle.
 Isaiah	Is	27	13	5	They come from a distant land, from the end of the heavens, the Lord and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole earth.
 Isaiah	Is	27	13	6	Wail, for the day of the Lord is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come!
 Isaiah	Is	27	13	7	Therefore all hands will be feeble, and every man’s heart will melt,
 Isaiah	Is	27	13	8	and they will be dismayed. Pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in travail. They will look aghast at one another; their faces will be aflame.
 Isaiah	Is	27	13	9	Behold, the day of the Lord comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the earth a desolation and to destroy its sinners from it.
 Isaiah	Is	27	13	10	For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising and the moon will not shed its light.
 Isaiah	Is	27	13	11	I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant, and lay low the haughtiness of the ruthless.
 Isaiah	Is	27	13	12	I will make men more rare than fine gold, and mankind than the gold of Ophir.
 Isaiah	Is	27	13	13	Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place, at the wrath of the Lord of hosts in the day of his fierce anger.
 Isaiah	Is	27	13	14	And like a hunted gazelle, or like sheep with none to gather them, every man will turn to his own people, and every man will flee to his own land.
 Isaiah	Is	27	13	15	Whoever is found will be thrust through, and whoever is caught will fall by the sword.
 Isaiah	Is	27	13	16	Their infants will be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered and their wives ravished.
 Isaiah	Is	27	13	17	Behold, I am stirring up the Medes against them, who have no regard for silver and do not delight in gold.
 Isaiah	Is	27	13	18	Their bows will slaughter the young men; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; their eyes will not pity children.
 Isaiah	Is	27	13	19	And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the splendor and pride of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.
 Isaiah	Is	27	13	20	It will never be inhabited or dwelt in for all generations; no Arab will pitch his tent there, no shepherds will make their flocks lie down there.
 Isaiah	Is	27	13	21	But wild beasts will lie down there, and its houses will be full of howling creatures; there ostriches will dwell, and there satyrs will dance.
 Isaiah	Is	27	13	22	Hyenas will cry in its towers, and jackals in the pleasant palaces; its time is close at hand and its days will not be prolonged.
 Isaiah	Is	27	14	1	The Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and will set them in their own land, and aliens will join them and will cleave to the house of Jacob.
 Isaiah	Is	27	14	2	And the peoples will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them in the Lord’s land as male and female slaves; they will take captive those who were their captors, and rule over those who oppressed them.
 Isaiah	Is	27	14	3	When the Lord has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service with which you were made to serve,
 Isaiah	Is	27	14	4	you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: “How the oppressor has ceased, the insolent fury ceased!
 Isaiah	Is	27	14	5	The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers,
 Isaiah	Is	27	14	6	that smote the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution.
 Isaiah	Is	27	14	7	The whole earth is at rest and quiet; they break forth into singing.
 Isaiah	Is	27	14	8	The cypresses rejoice at you, the cedars of Lebanon, saying, ‘Since you were laid low, no hewer comes up against us.’
 Isaiah	Is	27	14	9	Sheol beneath is stirred up to meet you when you come, it rouses the shades to greet you, all who were leaders of the earth; it raises from their thrones all who were kings of the nations.
 Isaiah	Is	27	14	10	All of them will speak and say to you: ‘You too have become as weak as we! You have become like us!’
 Isaiah	Is	27	14	11	Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, the sound of your harps; maggots are the bed beneath you, and worms are your covering.
 Isaiah	Is	27	14	12	“How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!
 Isaiah	Is	27	14	13	You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far north;
 Isaiah	Is	27	14	14	I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will make myself like the Most High.’
 Isaiah	Is	27	14	15	But you are brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the Pit.
 Isaiah	Is	27	14	16	Those who see you will stare at you, and ponder over you: ‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms,
 Isaiah	Is	27	14	17	who made the world like a desert and overthrew its cities, who did not let his prisoners go home?’
 Isaiah	Is	27	14	18	All the kings of the nations lie in glory, each in his own tomb;
 Isaiah	Is	27	14	19	but you are cast out, away from your sepulchre, like a loathed untimely birth, clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the Pit, like a dead body trodden under foot.
 Isaiah	Is	27	14	20	You will not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, you have slain your people. “May the descendants of evildoers nevermore be named!
 Isaiah	Is	27	14	21	Prepare slaughter for his sons because of the guilt of their fathers, lest they rise and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	14	22	“I will rise up against them,” says the Lord of hosts, “and will cut off from Babylon name and remnant, offspring and posterity, says the Lord.
 Isaiah	Is	27	14	23	And I will make it a possession of the hedgehog, and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the Lord of hosts.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	14	24	The Lord of hosts has sworn: “As I have planned, so shall it be, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand,
 Isaiah	Is	27	14	25	that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains trample him under foot; and his yoke shall depart from them, and his burden from their shoulder.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	14	26	This is the purpose that is purposed concerning the whole earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
 Isaiah	Is	27	14	27	For the Lord of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?
 Isaiah	Is	27	14	28	In the year that King Ahaz died came this oracle:
 Isaiah	Is	27	14	29	“Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of you, that the rod which smote you is broken, for from the serpent’s root will come forth an adder, and its fruit will be a flying serpent.
 Isaiah	Is	27	14	30	And the first-born of the poor will feed, and the needy lie down in safety; but I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant I will slay.
 Isaiah	Is	27	14	31	Wail, O gate; cry, O city; melt in fear, O Philistia, all of you! For smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	14	32	What will one answer the messengers of the nation? “The Lord has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	15	1	An oracle concerning Moab. Because Ar is laid waste in a night Moab is undone; because Kir is laid waste in a night Moab is undone.
 Isaiah	Is	27	15	2	The daughter of Dibon has gone up to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails. On every head is baldness, every beard is shorn;
 Isaiah	Is	27	15	3	in the streets they gird on sackcloth; on the housetops and in the squares every one wails and melts in tears.
 Isaiah	Is	27	15	4	Heshbon and Ele-aleh cry out, their voice is heard as far as Jahaz; therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; his soul trembles.
 Isaiah	Is	27	15	5	My heart cries out for Moab; his fugitives flee to Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah. For at the ascent of Luhith they go up weeping; on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of destruction;
 Isaiah	Is	27	15	6	the waters of Nimrim are a desolation; the grass is withered, the new growth fails, the verdure is no more.
 Isaiah	Is	27	15	7	Therefore the abundance they have gained and what they have laid up they carry away over the Brook of the Willows.
 Isaiah	Is	27	15	8	For a cry has gone round the land of Moab; the wailing reaches to Eglaim, the wailing reaches to Beer-elim.
 Isaiah	Is	27	15	9	For the waters of Dibon are full of blood; yet I will bring upon Dibon even more, a lion for those of Moab who escape, for the remnant of the land.
 Isaiah	Is	27	16	1	They have sent lambs to the ruler of the land, from Sela, by way of the desert, to the mount of the daughter of Zion.
 Isaiah	Is	27	16	2	Like fluttering birds, like scattered nestlings, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon.
 Isaiah	Is	27	16	3	“Give counsel, grant justice; make your shade like night at the height of noon; hide the outcasts, betray not the fugitive;
 Isaiah	Is	27	16	4	let the outcasts of Moab sojourn among you; be a refuge to them from the destroyer. When the oppressor is no more, and destruction has ceased, and he who tramples under foot has vanished from the land,
 Isaiah	Is	27	16	5	then a throne will be established in steadfast love and on it will sit in faithfulness in the tent of David one who judges and seeks justice and is swift to do righteousness.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	16	6	We have heard of the pride of Moab, how proud he was; of his arrogance, his pride, and his insolence— his boasts are false.
 Isaiah	Is	27	16	7	Therefore let Moab wail, let every one wail for Moab. Mourn, utterly stricken, for the raisin-cakes of Kir-hareseth.
 Isaiah	Is	27	16	8	For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have struck down its branches, which reached to Jazer and strayed to the desert; its shoots spread abroad and passed over the sea.
 Isaiah	Is	27	16	9	Therefore I weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Ele-aleh; for upon your fruit and your harvest the battle shout has fallen.
 Isaiah	Is	27	16	10	And joy and gladness are taken away from the fruitful field; and in the vineyards no songs are sung, no shouts are raised; no treader treads out wine in the presses; the vintage shout is hushed.
 Isaiah	Is	27	16	11	Therefore my soul moans like a lyre for Moab, and my heart for Kir-heres.
 Isaiah	Is	27	16	12	And when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself upon the high place, when he comes to his sanctuary to pray, he will not prevail.
 Isaiah	Is	27	16	13	This is the word which the Lord spoke concerning Moab in the past.
 Isaiah	Is	27	16	14	But now the Lord says, “In three years, like the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, in spite of all his great multitude, and those who survive will be very few and feeble.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	17	1	An oracle concerning Damascus. Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city, and will become a heap of ruins.
 Isaiah	Is	27	17	2	Her cities will be deserted for ever; they will be for flocks, which will lie down, and none will make them afraid.
 Isaiah	Is	27	17	3	The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Syria will be like the glory of the children of Israel, says the Lord of hosts.
 Isaiah	Is	27	17	4	And in that day the glory of Jacob will be brought low, and the fat of his flesh will grow lean.
 Isaiah	Is	27	17	5	And it shall be as when the reaper gathers standing grain and his arm harvests the ears, and as when one gleans the ears of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.
 Isaiah	Is	27	17	6	Gleanings will be left in it, as when an olive tree is beaten— two or three berries in the top of the highest bough, four or five on the branches of a fruit tree, says the Lord God of Israel.
 Isaiah	Is	27	17	7	In that day men will regard their Maker, and their eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel;
 Isaiah	Is	27	17	8	they will not have regard for the altars, the work of their hands, and they will not look to what their own fingers have made, either the Asherim or the altars of incense.
 Isaiah	Is	27	17	9	In that day their strong cities will be like the deserted places of the Hivites and the Amorites, which they deserted because of the children of Israel, and there will be desolation.
 Isaiah	Is	27	17	10	For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge; therefore, though you plant pleasant plants and set out slips of an alien god,
 Isaiah	Is	27	17	11	though you make them grow on the day that you plant them, and make them blossom in the morning that you sow; yet the harvest will flee away in a day of grief and incurable pain.
 Isaiah	Is	27	17	12	Ah, the thunder of many peoples, they thunder like the thundering of the sea! Ah, the roar of nations, they roar like the roaring of mighty waters!
 Isaiah	Is	27	17	13	The nations roar like the roaring of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind and whirling dust before the storm.
 Isaiah	Is	27	17	14	At evening time, behold, terror! Before morning, they are no more! This is the portion of those who despoil us, and the lot of those who plunder us.
 Isaiah	Is	27	18	1	Ah, land of whirring wings which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;
 Isaiah	Is	27	18	2	which sends ambassadors by the Nile, in vessels of papyrus upon the waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation, tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide.
 Isaiah	Is	27	18	3	All you inhabitants of the world, you who dwell on the earth, when a signal is raised on the mountains, look! When a trumpet is blown, hear!
 Isaiah	Is	27	18	4	For thus the Lord said to me: “I will quietly look from my dwelling like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	18	5	For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the shoots with pruning hooks, and the spreading branches he will hew away.
 Isaiah	Is	27	18	6	They shall all of them be left to the birds of prey of the mountains and to the beasts of the earth. And the birds of prey will summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth will winter upon them.
 Isaiah	Is	27	18	7	At that time gifts will be brought to the Lord of hosts from a people tall and smooth, from a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide, to Mount Zion, the place of the name of the Lord of hosts.
 Isaiah	Is	27	19	1	An oracle concerning Egypt. Behold, the Lord is riding on a swift cloud and comes to Egypt; and the idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence, and the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.
 Isaiah	Is	27	19	2	And I will stir up Egyptians against Egyptians, and they will fight, every man against his brother and every man against his neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom;
 Isaiah	Is	27	19	3	and the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out, and I will confound their plans; and they will consult the idols and the sorcerers, and the mediums and the wizards;
 Isaiah	Is	27	19	4	and I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a hard master; and a fierce king will rule over them, says the Lord, the Lord of hosts.
 Isaiah	Is	27	19	5	And the waters of the Nile will be dried up, and the river will be parched and dry;
 Isaiah	Is	27	19	6	and its canals will become foul, and the branches of Egypt’s Nile will diminish and dry up, reeds and rushes will rot away.
 Isaiah	Is	27	19	7	There will be bare places by the Nile, on the brink of the Nile, and all that is sown by the Nile will dry up, be driven away, and be no more.
 Isaiah	Is	27	19	8	The fishermen will mourn and lament, all who cast hook in the Nile; and they will languish who spread nets upon the water.
 Isaiah	Is	27	19	9	The workers in combed flax will be in despair, and the weavers of white cotton.
 Isaiah	Is	27	19	10	Those who are the pillars of the land will be crushed, and all who work for hire will be grieved.
 Isaiah	Is	27	19	11	The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the wise counselors of Pharaoh give stupid counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings”?
 Isaiah	Is	27	19	12	Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you and make known what the Lord of hosts has purposed against Egypt.
 Isaiah	Is	27	19	13	The princes of Zoan have become fools, and the princes of Memphis are deluded; those who are the cornerstones of her tribes have led Egypt astray.
 Isaiah	Is	27	19	14	The Lord has mingled within her a spirit of confusion; and they have made Egypt stagger in all her doings as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
 Isaiah	Is	27	19	15	And there will be nothing for Egypt which head or tail, palm branch or reed, may do.
 Isaiah	Is	27	19	16	In that day the Egyptians will be like women, and tremble with fear before the hand which the Lord of hosts shakes over them.
 Isaiah	Is	27	19	17	And the land of Judah will become a terror to the Egyptians; every one to whom it is mentioned will fear because of the purpose which the Lord of hosts has purposed against them.
 Isaiah	Is	27	19	18	In that day there will be five cities in the land of Egypt which speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the Lord of hosts. One of these will be called the City of the Sun.
 Isaiah	Is	27	19	19	In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the Lord at its border.
 Isaiah	Is	27	19	20	It will be a sign and a witness to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt; when they cry to the Lord because of oppressors he will send them a savior, and will defend and deliver them.
 Isaiah	Is	27	19	21	And the Lord will make himself known to the Egyptians; and the Egyptians will know the Lord in that day and worship with sacrifice and burnt offering, and they will make vows to the Lord and perform them.
 Isaiah	Is	27	19	22	And the Lord will smite Egypt, smiting and healing, and they will return to the Lord, and he will heed their supplications and heal them.
 Isaiah	Is	27	19	23	In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian will come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.
 Isaiah	Is	27	19	24	In that day Israel will be the third with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth,
 Isaiah	Is	27	19	25	whom the Lord of hosts has blessed, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my heritage.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	20	1	In the year that the commander in chief, who was sent by Sargon the king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and fought against it and took it,—
 Isaiah	Is	27	20	2	at that time the Lord had spoken by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loose the sackcloth from your loins and take off your shoes from your feet,” and he had done so, walking naked and barefoot—
 Isaiah	Is	27	20	3	the Lord said, “As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and a portent against Egypt and Ethiopia,
 Isaiah	Is	27	20	4	so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians captives and the Ethiopians exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
 Isaiah	Is	27	20	5	Then they shall be dismayed and confounded because of Ethiopia their hope and of Egypt their boast.
 Isaiah	Is	27	20	6	And the inhabitants of this coastland will say in that day, ‘Behold, this is what has happened to those in whom we hoped and to whom we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria! And we, how shall we escape?’”
 Isaiah	Is	27	21	1	The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the Negeb sweep on, it comes from the desert, from a terrible land.
 Isaiah	Is	27	21	2	A stern vision is told to me; the plunderer plunders, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam, lay siege, O Media; all the sighing she has caused I bring to an end.
 Isaiah	Is	27	21	3	Therefore my loins are filled with anguish; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in travail; I am bowed down so that I cannot hear, I am dismayed so that I cannot see.
 Isaiah	Is	27	21	4	My mind reels, horror has appalled me; the twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling.
 Isaiah	Is	27	21	5	They prepare the table, they spread the rugs, they eat, they drink. Arise, O princes, oil the shield!
 Isaiah	Is	27	21	6	For thus the Lord said to me: “Go, set a watchman, let him announce what he sees.
 Isaiah	Is	27	21	7	When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs, riders on asses, riders on camels, let him listen diligently, very diligently.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	21	8	Then he who saw cried: “Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord, continually by day, and at my post I am stationed whole nights.
 Isaiah	Is	27	21	9	And, behold, here come riders, horsemen in pairs!” And he answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the images of her gods he has shattered to the ground.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	21	10	O my threshed and winnowed one, what I have heard from the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I announce to you.
 Isaiah	Is	27	21	11	The oracle concerning Dumah. One is calling to me from Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”
 Isaiah	Is	27	21	12	The watchman says: “Morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire; come back again.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	21	13	The oracle concerning Arabia. In the thickets in Arabia you will lodge, O caravans of Dedanites.
 Isaiah	Is	27	21	14	To the thirsty bring water, meet the fugitive with bread, O inhabitants of the land of Tema.
 Isaiah	Is	27	21	15	For they have fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the press of battle.
 Isaiah	Is	27	21	16	For thus the Lord said to me, “Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end;
 Isaiah	Is	27	21	17	and the remainder of the archers of the mighty men of the sons of Kedar will be few; for the Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	22	1	The oracle concerning the valley of vision. What do you mean that you have gone up, all of you, to the housetops,
 Isaiah	Is	27	22	2	you who are full of shoutings, tumultuous city, exultant town? Your slain are not slain with the sword or dead in battle.
 Isaiah	Is	27	22	3	All your rulers have fled together, without the bow they were captured. All of you who were found were captured, though they had fled far away.
 Isaiah	Is	27	22	4	Therefore I said: “Look away from me, let me weep bitter tears; do not labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	22	5	For the Lord GOD of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the valley of vision, a battering down of walls and a shouting to the mountains.
 Isaiah	Is	27	22	6	And Elam bore the quiver with chariots and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
 Isaiah	Is	27	22	7	Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen took their stand at the gates.
 Isaiah	Is	27	22	8	He has taken away the covering of Judah. In that day you looked to the weapons of the House of the Forest,
 Isaiah	Is	27	22	9	and you saw that the breaches of the city of David were many, and you collected the waters of the lower pool,
 Isaiah	Is	27	22	10	and you counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.
 Isaiah	Is	27	22	11	You made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you did not look to him who did it, or have regard for him who planned it long ago.
 Isaiah	Is	27	22	12	In that day the Lord GOD of hosts called to weeping and mourning, to baldness and girding with sackcloth;
 Isaiah	Is	27	22	13	and behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine. “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	22	14	The Lord of hosts has revealed himself in my ears: “Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you till you die,” says the Lord GOD of hosts.
 Isaiah	Is	27	22	15	Thus says the Lord GOD of hosts, “Come, go to this steward, to Shebna, who is over the household, and say to him:
 Isaiah	Is	27	22	16	What have you to do here and whom have you here, that you have hewn here a tomb for yourself, you who hew a tomb on the height, and carve a habitation for yourself in the rock?
 Isaiah	Is	27	22	17	Behold, the Lord will hurl you away violently, O you strong man. He will seize firm hold on you,
 Isaiah	Is	27	22	18	and whirl you round and round, and throw you like a ball into a wide land; there you shall die, and there shall be your splendid chariots, you shame of your master’s house.
 Isaiah	Is	27	22	19	I will thrust you from your office, and you will be cast down from your station.
 Isaiah	Is	27	22	20	In that day I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,
 Isaiah	Is	27	22	21	and I will clothe him with your robe, and will bind your girdle on him, and will commit your authority to his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.
 Isaiah	Is	27	22	22	And I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David; he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
 Isaiah	Is	27	22	23	And I will fasten him like a peg in a sure place, and he will become a throne of honor to his father’s house.
 Isaiah	Is	27	22	24	And they will hang on him the whole weight of his father’s house, the offspring and issue, every small vessel, from the cups to all the flagons.
 Isaiah	Is	27	22	25	In that day, says the Lord of hosts, the peg that was fastened in a sure place will give way; and it will be cut down and fall, and the burden that was upon it will be cut off, for the Lord has spoken.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	23	1	The oracle concerning Tyre. Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or haven! From the land of Cyprus it is revealed to them.
 Isaiah	Is	27	23	2	Be still, O inhabitants of the coast, O merchants of Sidon; your messengers passed over the sea
 Isaiah	Is	27	23	3	and were on many waters; your revenue was the grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile; you were the merchant of the nations.
 Isaiah	Is	27	23	4	Be ashamed, O Sidon, for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying: “I have neither travailed nor given birth, I have neither reared young men nor brought up virgins.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	23	5	When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish over the report about Tyre.
 Isaiah	Is	27	23	6	Pass over to Tarshish, wail, O inhabitants of the coast!
 Isaiah	Is	27	23	7	Is this your exultant city whose origin is from days of old, whose feet carried her to settle afar?
 Isaiah	Is	27	23	8	Who has purposed this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth?
 Isaiah	Is	27	23	9	The Lor of hosts has purposed it, to defile the pride of all glory, to dishonor all the honored of the earth.
 Isaiah	Is	27	23	10	Overflow your land like the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no restraint any more.
 Isaiah	Is	27	23	11	He has stretched out his hand over the sea, he has shaken the kingdoms; the Lord has given command concerning Canaan to destroy its strongholds.
 Isaiah	Is	27	23	12	And he said: “You will no more exult, O oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon; arise, pass over to Cyprus, even there you will have no rest.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	23	13	Behold the land of the Chaldeans! This is the people; it was not Assyria. They destined Tyre for wild beasts. They erected their siegetowers, they razed her palaces, they made her a ruin.
 Isaiah	Is	27	23	14	Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste.
 Isaiah	Is	27	23	15	In that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:
 Isaiah	Is	27	23	16	“Take a harp, go about the city, O forgotten harlot! Make sweet melody, sing many songs, that you may be remembered.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	23	17	At the end of seventy years, the Lord will visit Tyre, and she will return to her hire, and will play the harlot with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.
 Isaiah	Is	27	23	18	Her merchandise and her hire will be dedicated to the Lord; it will not be stored or hoarded, but her merchandise will supply abundant food and fine clothing for those who dwell before the Lord.
 Isaiah	Is	27	24	1	Behold, the Lord will lay waste the earth and make it desolate, and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants.
 Isaiah	Is	27	24	2	And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the slave, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the debtor.
 Isaiah	Is	27	24	3	The earth shall be utterly laid waste and utterly despoiled; for the Lord has spoken this word.
 Isaiah	Is	27	24	4	The earth mourns and withers, the world languishes and withers; the heavens languish together with the earth.
 Isaiah	Is	27	24	5	The earth lies polluted under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.
 Isaiah	Is	27	24	6	Therefore a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched, and few men are left.
 Isaiah	Is	27	24	7	The wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted sigh.
 Isaiah	Is	27	24	8	The mirth of the timbrels is stilled, the noise of the jubilant has ceased, the mirth of the lyre is stilled.
 Isaiah	Is	27	24	9	No more do they drink wine with singing; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.
 Isaiah	Is	27	24	10	The city of chaos is broken down, every house is shut up so that none can enter.
 Isaiah	Is	27	24	11	There is an outcry in the streets for lack of wine; all joy has reached its eventide; the gladness of the earth is banished.
 Isaiah	Is	27	24	12	Desolation is left in the city, the gates are battered into ruins.
 Isaiah	Is	27	24	13	For thus it shall be in the midst of the earth among the nations, as when an olive tree is beaten, as at the gleaning when the vintage is done.
 Isaiah	Is	27	24	14	They lift up their voices, they sing for joy; over the majesty of the Lord they shout from the west.
 Isaiah	Is	27	24	15	Therefore in the east give glory to the Lord; in the coastlands of the sea, to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
 Isaiah	Is	27	24	16	From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise, of glory to the Righteous One. But I say, “I pine away, I pine away. Woe is me! For the treacherous deal treacherously, the treacherous deal very treacherously.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	24	17	Terror, and the pit, and the snare are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth!
 Isaiah	Is	27	24	18	He who flees at the sound of the terror shall fall into the pit; and he who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.
 Isaiah	Is	27	24	19	The earth is utterly broken, the earth is rent asunder, the earth is violently shaken.
 Isaiah	Is	27	24	20	The earth staggers like a drunken man, it sways like a hut; its transgression lies heavy upon it, and it falls, and will not rise again.
 Isaiah	Is	27	24	21	On that day the Lord will punish the host of heaven, in heaven, and the kings of the earth, on the earth.
 Isaiah	Is	27	24	22	They will be gathered together as prisoners in a pit; they will be shut up in a prison, and after many days they will be punished.
 Isaiah	Is	27	24	23	Then the moon will be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for the Lord of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem and before his elders he will manifest his glory.
 Isaiah	Is	27	25	1	O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure.
 Isaiah	Is	27	25	2	For thou hast made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin; the palace of aliens is a city no more, it will never be rebuilt.
 Isaiah	Is	27	25	3	Therefore strong peoples will glorify thee; cities of ruthless nations will fear thee.
 Isaiah	Is	27	25	4	For thou hast been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the blast of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,
 Isaiah	Is	27	25	5	like heat in a dry place. Thou dost subdue the noise of the aliens; as heat by the shade of a cloud, so the song of the ruthless is stilled.
 Isaiah	Is	27	25	6	On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wine on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wine on the lees well refined.
 Isaiah	Is	27	25	7	And he will destroy on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations.
 Isaiah	Is	27	25	8	He will swallow up death for ever, and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth; for the Lord has spoken.
 Isaiah	Is	27	25	9	It will be said on that day, “Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is the Lord; we have waited for him; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	25	10	For the hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain, and Moab shall be trodden down in his place, as straw is trodden down in a dung-pit.
 Isaiah	Is	27	25	11	And he will spread out his hands in the midst of it as a swimmer spreads his hands out to swim; but the Lord will lay low his pride together with the skill of his hands.
 Isaiah	Is	27	25	12	And the high fortifications of his walls he will bring down, lay low, and cast to the ground, even to the dust.
 Isaiah	Is	27	26	1	In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city; he sets up salvation as walls and bulwarks.
 Isaiah	Is	27	26	2	Open the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps faith may enter in.
 Isaiah	Is	27	26	3	Thou dost keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusts in thee.
 Isaiah	Is	27	26	4	Trust in the Lord for ever, for the Lord GOD is an everlasting rock.
 Isaiah	Is	27	26	5	For he has brought low the inhabitants of the height, the lofty city. He lays it low, lays it low to the ground, casts it to the dust.
 Isaiah	Is	27	26	6	The foot tramples it, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	26	7	The way of the righteous is level; thou dost make smooth the path of the righteous.
 Isaiah	Is	27	26	8	In the path of thy judgments, O Lord, we wait for thee; thy memorial name is the desire of our soul.
 Isaiah	Is	27	26	9	My soul yearns for thee in the night, my spirit within me earnestly seeks thee. For when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
 Isaiah	Is	27	26	10	If favor is shown to the wicked, he does not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness he deals perversely and does not see the majesty of the Lord.
 Isaiah	Is	27	26	11	O Lord, thy hand is lifted up, but they see it not. Let them see thy zeal for thy people, and be ashamed. Let the fire for thy adversaries consume them.
 Isaiah	Is	27	26	12	O Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us, thou hast wrought for us all our works.
 Isaiah	Is	27	26	13	O Lord our God, other lords besides thee have ruled over us, but thy name alone we acknowledge.
 Isaiah	Is	27	26	14	They are dead, they will not live; they are shades, they will not arise; to that end thou hast visited them with destruction and wiped out all remembrance of them.
 Isaiah	Is	27	26	15	But thou hast increased the nation, O Lord, thou hast increased the nation; thou art glorified; thou hast enlarged all the borders of the land.
 Isaiah	Is	27	26	16	O Lord, in distress they sought thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
 Isaiah	Is	27	26	17	Like a woman with child, who writhes and cries out in her pangs, when she is near her time, so were we because of thee, O Lord;
 Isaiah	Is	27	26	18	we were with child, we writhed, we have as it were brought forth wind. We have wrought no deliverance in the earth, and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.
 Isaiah	Is	27	26	19	Thy dead shall live, their bodies shall rise. O dwellers in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For thy dew is a dew of light, and on the land of the shades thou wilt let it fall.
 Isaiah	Is	27	26	20	Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until the wrath is past.
 Isaiah	Is	27	26	21	For behold, the Lord is coming forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed upon her, and will no more cover her slain.
 Isaiah	Is	27	27	1	In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.
 Isaiah	Is	27	27	2	In that day: “A pleasant vineyard, sing of it!
 Isaiah	Is	27	27	3	I, the Lord, am its keeper; every moment I water it. Lest any one harm it, I guard it night and day;
 Isaiah	Is	27	27	4	I have no wrath. Would that I had thorns and briers to battle! I would set out against them, I would burn them up together.
 Isaiah	Is	27	27	5	Or let them lay hold of my protection, let them make peace with me, let them make peace with me.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	27	6	In days to come Jacob shall take root, Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots, and fill the whole world with fruit.
 Isaiah	Is	27	27	7	Has he smitten them as he smote those who smote them? Or have they been slain as their slayers were slain?
 Isaiah	Is	27	27	8	Measure by measure, by exile thou didst contend with them; he removed them with his fierce blast in the day of the east wind.
 Isaiah	Is	27	27	9	Therefore by this the guilt of Jacob will be expiated, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altars like chalkstones crushed to pieces, no Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.
 Isaiah	Is	27	27	10	For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness; there the calf grazes, there he lies down, and strips its branches.
 Isaiah	Is	27	27	11	When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and make a fire of them. For this is a people without discernment; therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, he that formed them will show them no favor.
 Isaiah	Is	27	27	12	In that day from the river Euphrates to the Brook of Egypt the Lord will thresh out the grain, and you will be gathered one by one, O people of Israel.
 Isaiah	Is	27	27	13	And in that day a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
 Isaiah	Is	27	28	1	Woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley of those overcome with wine!
 Isaiah	Is	27	28	2	Behold, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong; like a storm of hail, a destroying tempest, like a storm of mighty, overflowing waters, he will cast down to the earth with violence.
 Isaiah	Is	27	28	3	The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot;
 Isaiah	Is	27	28	4	and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley, will be like a first-ripe fig before the summer: when a man sees it, he eats it up as soon as it is in his hand.
 Isaiah	Is	27	28	5	In that day the Lord of hosts will be a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty, to the remnant of his people;
 Isaiah	Is	27	28	6	and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
 Isaiah	Is	27	28	7	These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are confused with wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in giving judgment.
 Isaiah	Is	27	28	8	For all tables are full of vomit, no place is without filthiness.
 Isaiah	Is	27	28	9	“Whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast?
 Isaiah	Is	27	28	10	For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	28	11	Nay, but by men of strange lips and with an alien tongue the Lord will speak to this people,
 Isaiah	Is	27	28	12	to whom he has said, “This is rest; give rest to the weary; and this is repose”; yet they would not hear.
 Isaiah	Is	27	28	13	Therefore the word of the Lord will be to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little; that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
 Isaiah	Is	27	28	14	Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scoffers, who rule this people in Jerusalem!
 Isaiah	Is	27	28	15	Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement; when the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter”;
 Isaiah	Is	27	28	16	therefore thus says the Lord GOD, “Behold, I am laying in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: ‘He who believes will not be in haste.’
 Isaiah	Is	27	28	17	And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	28	18	Then your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through you will be beaten down by it.
 Isaiah	Is	27	28	19	As often as it passes through it will take you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be sheer terror to understand the message.
 Isaiah	Is	27	28	20	For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on it, and the covering too narrow to wrap oneself in it.
 Isaiah	Is	27	28	21	For the Lord will rise up as on Mount Perazim, he will be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon; to do his deed—strange is his deed! and to work his work—alien is his work!
 Isaiah	Is	27	28	22	Now therefore do not scoff, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord god of hosts upon the whole land.
 Isaiah	Is	27	28	23	Give ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
 Isaiah	Is	27	28	24	Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? does he continually open and harrow his ground?
 Isaiah	Is	27	28	25	When he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter dill, sow cummin, and put in wheat in rows and barley in its proper place, and spelt as the border?
 Isaiah	Is	27	28	26	For he is instructed aright; his God teaches him.
 Isaiah	Is	27	28	27	Dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a cart wheel rolled over cummin; but dill is beaten out with a stick, and cummin with a rod.
 Isaiah	Is	27	28	28	Does one crush bread grain? No, he does not thresh it for ever; when he drives his cart wheel over it with his horses, he does not crush it.
 Isaiah	Is	27	28	29	This also comes from the Lord of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.
 Isaiah	Is	27	29	1	Ho Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts run their round.
 Isaiah	Is	27	29	2	Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be moaning and lamentation, and she shall be to me like an Ariel.
 Isaiah	Is	27	29	3	And I will encamp against you round about, and will besiege you with towers and I will raise siegeworks against you.
 Isaiah	Is	27	29	4	Then deep from the earth you shall speak, from low in the dust your words shall come; your voice shall come from the ground like the voice of a ghost, and your speech shall whisper out of the dust.
 Isaiah	Is	27	29	5	But the multitude of your foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the ruthless like passing chaff. And in an instant, suddenly,
 Isaiah	Is	27	29	6	you will be visited by the Lord of hosts with thunder and with earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.
 Isaiah	Is	27	29	7	And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, all that fight against her and her stronghold and distress her, shall be like a dream, a vision of the night.
 Isaiah	Is	27	29	8	As when a hungry man dreams he is eating and awakes with his hunger not satisfied, or as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking and awakes faint, with his thirst not quenched, so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.
 Isaiah	Is	27	29	9	Stupefy yourselves and be in a stupor, blind yourselves and be blind! Be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not with strong drink!
 Isaiah	Is	27	29	10	For the Lord has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets, and covered your heads, the seers.
 Isaiah	Is	27	29	11	And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed. When men give it to one who can read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot, for it is sealed.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	29	12	And when they give the book to one who cannot read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot read.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	29	13	And the Lord said: “Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men learned by rote;
 Isaiah	Is	27	29	14	therefore, behold, I will again do marvelous things with this people, wonderful and marvelous; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hid.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	29	15	Woe to those who hide deep from the Lord their counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”
 Isaiah	Is	27	29	16	You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay; that the thing made should say of its maker, “He did not make me”; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding”?
 Isaiah	Is	27	29	17	Is it not yet a very little while until Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest?
 Isaiah	Is	27	29	18	In that day the deaf shall hear the words of a book, and out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see.
 Isaiah	Is	27	29	19	The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the Lord, and the poor among men shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.
 Isaiah	Is	27	29	20	For the ruthless shall come to nought and the scoffer cease, and all who watch to do evil shall be cut off,
 Isaiah	Is	27	29	21	who by a word make a man out to be an offender, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and with an empty plea turn aside him who is in the right.
 Isaiah	Is	27	29	22	Therefore thus says the Lord, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: “Jacob shall no more be ashamed, no more shall his face grow pale.
 Isaiah	Is	27	29	23	For when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in his midst, they will sanctify my name; they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
 Isaiah	Is	27	29	24	And those who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who murmur will accept instruction.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	30	1	“Woe to the rebellious children,” says the Lord, “who carry out a plan, but not mine; and who make a league, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin;
 Isaiah	Is	27	30	2	who set out to go down to Egypt, without asking for my counsel, to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh, and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!
 Isaiah	Is	27	30	3	Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation.
 Isaiah	Is	27	30	4	For though his officials are at Zoan and his envoys reach Hanes,
 Isaiah	Is	27	30	5	every one comes to shame through a people that cannot profit them, that brings neither help nor profit, but shame and disgrace.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	30	6	An oracle on the beasts of the Negeb. Through a land of trouble and anguish, from where come the lioness and the lion, the viper and the flying serpent, they carry their riches on the backs of asses, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that cannot profit them.
 Isaiah	Is	27	30	7	For Egypt’s help is worthless and empty, therefore I have called her “Rahab who sits still.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	30	8	And now, go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness for ever.
 Isaiah	Is	27	30	9	For they are a rebellious people, lying sons, sons who will not hear the instruction of the Lord;
 Isaiah	Is	27	30	10	who say to the seers, “See not”; and to the prophets, “Prophesy not to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions,
 Isaiah	Is	27	30	11	leave the way, turn aside from the path, let us hear no more of the Holy One of Israel.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	30	12	Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on them;
 Isaiah	Is	27	30	13	therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a break in a high wall, bulging out, and about to collapse, whose crash comes suddenly, in an instant;
 Isaiah	Is	27	30	14	and its breaking is like that of a potter’s vessel which is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a sherd is found with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	30	15	For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, “In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.” And you would not,
 Isaiah	Is	27	30	16	but you said, “No! We will speed upon horses,” therefore you shall speed away; and, “We will ride upon swift steeds,” therefore your pursuers shall be swift.
 Isaiah	Is	27	30	17	A thousand shall flee at the threat of one, at the threat of five you shall flee, till you are left like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain, like a signal on a hill.
 Isaiah	Is	27	30	18	Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you; therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.
 Isaiah	Is	27	30	19	Yea, O people in Zion who dwell at Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when he hears it, he will answer you.
 Isaiah	Is	27	30	20	And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself any more, but your eyes shall see your Teacher.
 Isaiah	Is	27	30	21	And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.
 Isaiah	Is	27	30	22	Then you will defile your silver-covered graven images and your gold-plated molten images. You will scatter them as unclean things; you will say to them, “Begone!”
 Isaiah	Is	27	30	23	And he will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and grain, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. In that day your cattle will graze in large pastures;
 Isaiah	Is	27	30	24	and the oxen and the asses that till the ground will eat salted provender, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork.
 Isaiah	Is	27	30	25	And upon every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks running with water, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
 Isaiah	Is	27	30	26	Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day when the Lord binds up the hurt of his people, and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow.
 Isaiah	Is	27	30	27	Behold, the name of the Lord comes from far, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke; his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is like a devouring fire;
 Isaiah	Is	27	30	28	his breath is like an overflowing stream that reaches up to the neck; to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction, and to place on the jaws of the peoples a bridle that leads astray.
 Isaiah	Is	27	30	29	You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.
 Isaiah	Is	27	30	30	And the Lord will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst and tempest and hailstones.
 Isaiah	Is	27	30	31	The Assyrians will be terror-stricken at the voice of the Lord, when he smites with his rod.
 Isaiah	Is	27	30	32	And every stroke of the staff of punishment which the Lord lays upon them will be to the sound of timbrels and lyres; battling with brandished arm he will fight with them.
 Isaiah	Is	27	30	33	For a burning place has long been prepared; yea, for the king it is made ready, its pyre made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, kindles it.
 Isaiah	Is	27	31	1	Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel or consult the Lord!
 Isaiah	Is	27	31	2	And yet he is wise and brings disaster, he does not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the helpers of those who work iniquity.
 Isaiah	Is	27	31	3	The Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit. When the Lord stretches out his hand, the helper will stumble, and he who is helped will fall, and they will all perish together.
 Isaiah	Is	27	31	4	For thus the Lord said to me, As a lion or a young lion growls over his prey, and when a band of shepherds is called forth against him is not terrified by their shouting or daunted at their noise, so the Lord of hosts will come down to fight upon Mount Zion and upon its hill.
 Isaiah	Is	27	31	5	Like birds hovering, so the Lord of hosts will protect Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver it, he will spare and rescue it.
 Isaiah	Is	27	31	6	Turn to him from whom you have deeply revolted, O people of Israel.
 Isaiah	Is	27	31	7	For in that day every one shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your hands have sinfully made for you.
 Isaiah	Is	27	31	8	“And the Assyrian shall fall by a sword, not of man; and a sword, not of man, shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be put to forced labor.
 Isaiah	Is	27	31	9	His rock shall pass away in terror, and his officers desert the standard in panic,” says the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.
 Isaiah	Is	27	32	1	Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule in justice.
 Isaiah	Is	27	32	2	Each will be like a hiding place from the wind, a covert from the tempest, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.
 Isaiah	Is	27	32	3	Then the eyes of those who see will not be closed, and the ears of those who hear will hearken.
 Isaiah	Is	27	32	4	The mind of the rash will have good judgment, and the tongue of the stammerers will speak readily and distinctly.
 Isaiah	Is	27	32	5	The fool will no more be called noble, nor the knave said to be honorable.
 Isaiah	Is	27	32	6	For the fool speaks folly, and his mind plots iniquity: to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning the Lord, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink.
 Isaiah	Is	27	32	7	The knaveries of the knave are evil; he devises wicked devices to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right.
 Isaiah	Is	27	32	8	But he who is noble devises noble things, and by noble things he stands.
 Isaiah	Is	27	32	9	Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice; you complacent daughters, give ear to my speech.
 Isaiah	Is	27	32	10	In little more than a year you will shudder, you complacent women; for the vintage will fail, the fruit harvest will not come.
 Isaiah	Is	27	32	11	Tremble, you women who are at ease, shudder, you complacent ones; strip, and make yourselves bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
 Isaiah	Is	27	32	12	Beat upon your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,
 Isaiah	Is	27	32	13	for the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briers; yea, for all the joyous houses in the joyful city.
 Isaiah	Is	27	32	14	For the palace will be forsaken, the populous city deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
 Isaiah	Is	27	32	15	until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is deemed a forest.
 Isaiah	Is	27	32	16	Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness abide in the fruitful field.
 Isaiah	Is	27	32	17	And the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust for ever.
 Isaiah	Is	27	32	18	My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.
 Isaiah	Is	27	32	19	And the forest will utterly go down, and the city will be utterly laid low.
 Isaiah	Is	27	32	20	Happy are you who sow beside all waters, who let the feet of the ox and the ass range free.
 Isaiah	Is	27	33	1	Woe to you, destroyer, who yourself have not been destroyed; you treacherous one, with whom none has dealt treacherously! When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed; and when you have made an end of dealing treacherously, you will be dealt with treacherously.
 Isaiah	Is	27	33	2	O Lord, be gracious to us; we wait for thee. Be our arm every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble.
 Isaiah	Is	27	33	3	At the thunderous noise peoples flee, at the lifting up of thyself nations are scattered;
 Isaiah	Is	27	33	4	and spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; as locusts leap, men leap upon it.
 Isaiah	Is	27	33	5	The Lord is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness;
 Isaiah	Is	27	33	6	and he will be the stability of your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge; the fear of the Lord is his treasure.
 Isaiah	Is	27	33	7	Behold, the valiant ones cry without; the envoys of peace weep bitterly.
 Isaiah	Is	27	33	8	The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceases. Covenants are broken, witnesses are despised, there is no regard for man.
 Isaiah	Is	27	33	9	The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is confounded and withers away; Sharon is like a desert; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
 Isaiah	Is	27	33	10	“Now I will arise,” says the Lord, “now I will lift myself up; now I will be exalted.
 Isaiah	Is	27	33	11	You conceive chaff, you bring forth stubble; your breath is a fire that will consume you.
 Isaiah	Is	27	33	12	And the peoples will be as if burned to lime, like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	33	13	Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and you who are near, acknowledge my might.
 Isaiah	Is	27	33	14	The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless: “Who among us can dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?”
 Isaiah	Is	27	33	15	He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking upon evil,
 Isaiah	Is	27	33	16	he will dwell on the heights; his place of defense will be the fortresses of rocks; his bread will be given him, his water will be sure.
 Isaiah	Is	27	33	17	Your eyes will see the king in his beauty; they will behold a land that stretches afar.
 Isaiah	Is	27	33	18	Your mind will muse on the terror: “Where is he who counted, where is he who weighed the tribute? Where is he who counted the towers?”
 Isaiah	Is	27	33	19	You will see no more the insolent people, the people of an obscure speech which you cannot comprehend, stammering in a tongue which you cannot understand.
 Isaiah	Is	27	33	20	Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts! Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, an immovable tent, whose stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken.
 Isaiah	Is	27	33	21	But there the Lord in majesty will be for us a place of broad rivers and streams, where no galley with oars can go, nor stately ship can pass.
 Isaiah	Is	27	33	22	For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our ruler, the Lord is our king; he will save us.
 Isaiah	Is	27	33	23	Your tackle hangs loose; it cannot hold the mast firm in its place, or keep the sail spread out. Then prey and spoil in abundance will be divided; even the lame will take the prey.
 Isaiah	Is	27	33	24	And no inhabitant will say, “I am sick”; the people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity.
 Isaiah	Is	27	34	1	Draw near, O nations, to hear, and hearken, O peoples! Let the earth listen, and all that fills it; the world, and all that comes from it.
 Isaiah	Is	27	34	2	For the Lord is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their host, he has doomed them, has given them over for slaughter.
 Isaiah	Is	27	34	3	Their slain shall be cast out, and the stench of their corpses shall rise; the mountains shall flow with their blood.
 Isaiah	Is	27	34	4	All the host of heaven shall rot away, and the skies roll up like a scroll. All their host shall fall, as leaves fall from the vine, like leaves falling from the fig tree.
 Isaiah	Is	27	34	5	For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; behold, it descends for judgment upon Edom, upon the people I have doomed.
 Isaiah	Is	27	34	6	The Lord has a sword; it is sated with blood, it is gorged with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
 Isaiah	Is	27	34	7	Wild oxen shall fall with them, and young steers with the mighty bulls. Their land shall be soaked with blood, and their soil made rich with fat.
 Isaiah	Is	27	34	8	For the Lord has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
 Isaiah	Is	27	34	9	And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and her soil into brimstone; her land shall become burning pitch.
 Isaiah	Is	27	34	10	Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up for ever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
 Isaiah	Is	27	34	11	But the hawk and the porcupine shall possess it, the owl and the raven shall dwell in it. He shall stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plummet of chaos over its nobles.
 Isaiah	Is	27	34	12	They shall name it No Kingdom There, and all its princes shall be nothing.
 Isaiah	Is	27	34	13	Thorns shall grow over its strongholds, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It shall be the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches.
 Isaiah	Is	27	34	14	And wild beasts shall meet with hyenas, the satyr shall cry to his fellow; yea, there shall the night hag alight, and find for herself a resting place.
 Isaiah	Is	27	34	15	There shall the owl nest and lay and hatch and gather her young in her shadow; yea, there shall the kites be gathered, each one with her mate.
 Isaiah	Is	27	34	16	Seek and read from the book of the Lord: Not one of these shall be missing; none shall be without her mate. For the mouth of the Lord has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.
 Isaiah	Is	27	34	17	He has cast the lot for them, his hand has portioned it out to them with the line; they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.
 Isaiah	Is	27	35	1	The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad, the desert shall rejoice and blossom; like the crocus
 Isaiah	Is	27	35	2	it shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the majesty of Carmel and Sharon. They shall see the glory of the Lord, the majesty of our God.
 Isaiah	Is	27	35	3	Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.
 Isaiah	Is	27	35	4	Say to those who are of a fearful heart, “Be strong, fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	35	5	Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped;
 Isaiah	Is	27	35	6	then shall the lame man leap like a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing for joy. For waters shall break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert;
 Isaiah	Is	27	35	7	the burning sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water; the haunt of jackals shall become a swamp, the grass shall become reeds and rushes.
 Isaiah	Is	27	35	8	And a highway shall be there, and it shall be called the Holy Way; the unclean shall not pass over it, and fools shall not err therein.
 Isaiah	Is	27	35	9	No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast come up on it; they shall not be found there, but the redeemed shall walk there.
 Isaiah	Is	27	35	10	And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
 Isaiah	Is	27	36	1	In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.
 Isaiah	Is	27	36	2	And the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem, with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Fuller’s Field.
 Isaiah	Is	27	36	3	And there came out to him Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder.
 Isaiah	Is	27	36	4	And the Rabshakeh said to them, “Say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this confidence of yours?
 Isaiah	Is	27	36	5	Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? On whom do you now rely, that you have rebelled against me?
 Isaiah	Is	27	36	6	Behold, you are relying on Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him.
 Isaiah	Is	27	36	7	But if you say to me, “We rely on the Lord our God,” is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, “You shall worship before this altar”?
 Isaiah	Is	27	36	8	Come now, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders upon them.
 Isaiah	Is	27	36	9	How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master’s servants, when you rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
 Isaiah	Is	27	36	10	Moreover, is it without the Lord that I have come up against this land to destroy it? The Lord said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.’”
 Isaiah	Is	27	36	11	Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Pray, speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	36	12	But the Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”
 Isaiah	Is	27	36	13	Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out in a loud voice in the language of Judah: “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!
 Isaiah	Is	27	36	14	Thus says the king: ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you.
 Isaiah	Is	27	36	15	Do not let Hezekiah make you rely on the Lord by saying, “The Lord will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	36	16	Do not listen to Hezekiah; for thus says the king of Assyria: Make your peace with me and come out to me; then every one of you will eat of his own vine, and every one of his own fig tree, and every one of you will drink the water of his own cistern;
 Isaiah	Is	27	36	17	until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
 Isaiah	Is	27	36	18	Beware lest Hezekiah mislead you by saying, “The Lord will deliver us.” Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
 Isaiah	Is	27	36	19	Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
 Isaiah	Is	27	36	20	Who among all the gods of these countries have delivered their countries out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”
 Isaiah	Is	27	36	21	But they were silent and answered him not a word, for the king’s command was, “Do not answer him.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	36	22	Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of the Rabshakeh.
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	1	When King Hezekiah heard it, he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	2	And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, clothed with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz.
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	3	They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	4	It may be that the Lord your God heard the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words which the Lord your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’”
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	5	When the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah,
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	6	Isaiah said to them, “Say to your master, ‘Thus says the Lord: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have reviled me.
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	7	Behold, I will put a spirit in him, so that he shall hear a rumor, and return to his own land; and I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.’”
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	8	The Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah; for he had heard that the king had left Lachish.
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	9	Now the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, “He has set out to fight against you.” And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	10	“Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God on whom you rely deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	11	Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, destroying them utterly. And shall you be delivered?
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	12	Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations which my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Tel-assar?
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	13	Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, the king of Hena, or the king of Ivvah?’”
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	14	Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord.
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	15	And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord:
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	16	“O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, who art enthroned above the cherubim, thou art the God, thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	17	Incline thy ear, O Lord, and hear; open thy eyes, O Lord, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God.
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	18	Of a truth, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands,
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	19	and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone; therefore they were destroyed.
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	20	So now, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou alone art the Lord.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	21	Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria,
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	22	this is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him: ‘She despises you, she scorns you— the virgin daughter of Zion; she wags her head behind you— the daughter of Jerusalem.
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	23	‘Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and haughtily lifted your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	24	By your servants you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon; I felled its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses; I came to its remotest height, its densest forest.
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	25	I dug wells and drank waters, and I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	26	‘Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should make fortified cities crash into heaps of ruins,
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	27	while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops, blighted before it is grown.
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	28	‘I know your sitting down and your going out and coming in, and your raging against me.
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	29	Because you have raged against me and your arrogance has come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came.’
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	30	“And this shall be the sign for you: this year eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs of the same; then in the third year sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	31	And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward;
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	32	for out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will accomplish this.
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	33	“Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city, or shoot an arrow there, or come before it with a shield, or cast up a siege mound against it.
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	34	By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, says the Lord.
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	35	For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	36	And the angel of the Lord went forth, and slew a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	37	Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went home and dwelt at Nineveh.
 Isaiah	Is	27	37	38	And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, slew him with the sword, and escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.
 Isaiah	Is	27	38	1	In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: Set your house in order; for you shall die, you shall not recover.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	38	2	Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the Lord,
 Isaiah	Is	27	38	3	and said, “Remember now, O Lord, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in thy sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
 Isaiah	Is	27	38	4	Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah:
 Isaiah	Is	27	38	5	“Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
 Isaiah	Is	27	38	6	I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and defend this city.
 Isaiah	Is	27	38	7	“This is the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that he has promised:
 Isaiah	Is	27	38	8	Behold, I will make the shadow cast by the declining sun on the dial of Ahaz turn back ten steps.” So the sun turned back on the dial the ten steps by which it had declined.
 Isaiah	Is	27	38	9	A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, after he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:
 Isaiah	Is	27	38	10	I said, In the noontide of my days I must depart; I am consigned to the gates of Sheol for the rest of my years.
 Isaiah	Is	27	38	11	I said, I shall not see the Lord in the land of the living; I shall look upon man no more among the inhabitants of the world.
 Isaiah	Is	27	38	12	My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night thou dost bring me to an end;
 Isaiah	Is	27	38	13	I cry for help until morning; like a lion he breaks all my bones; from day to night thou dost bring me to an end.
 Isaiah	Is	27	38	14	Like a swallow or a crane I clamor, I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be thou my security!
 Isaiah	Is	27	38	15	But what can I say? For he has spoken to me, and he himself has done it. All my sleep has fled because of the bitterness of my soul.
 Isaiah	Is	27	38	16	O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these is the life of my spirit. Oh, restore me to health and make me live!
 Isaiah	Is	27	38	17	Lo, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but thou hast held back my life from the pit of destruction, for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
 Isaiah	Is	27	38	18	For Sheol cannot thank thee, death cannot praise thee; those who go down to the pit cannot hope for thy faithfulness.
 Isaiah	Is	27	38	19	The living, the living, he thanks thee, as I do this day; the father makes known to the children thy faithfulness.
 Isaiah	Is	27	38	20	The Lord will save me, and we will sing to stringed instruments all the days of our life, at the house of the Lord.
 Isaiah	Is	27	38	21	Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs, and apply it to the boil, that he may recover.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	38	22	Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?”
 Isaiah	Is	27	39	1	At that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent envoys with letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered.
 Isaiah	Is	27	39	2	And Hezekiah welcomed them; and he showed them his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his whole armory, all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them.
 Isaiah	Is	27	39	3	Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men say? And whence did they come to you?” Hezekiah said, “They have come to me from a far country, from Babylon.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	39	4	He said, “What have they seen in your house?” Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing in my storehouses that I did not show them.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	39	5	Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord of hosts:
 Isaiah	Is	27	39	6	Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left, says the Lord.
 Isaiah	Is	27	39	7	And some of your own sons, who are born to you, shall be taken away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	39	8	Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, “The word of the Lord which you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “There will be peace and security in my days.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	40	1	Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.
 Isaiah	Is	27	40	2	Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.
 Isaiah	Is	27	40	3	A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
 Isaiah	Is	27	40	4	Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain.
 Isaiah	Is	27	40	5	And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	40	6	A voice says, “Cry!” And I said, “What shall I cry?” All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field.
 Isaiah	Is	27	40	7	The grass withers, the flower fades, when the breath of the Lord blows upon it; surely the people is grass.
 Isaiah	Is	27	40	8	The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God will stand for ever.
 Isaiah	Is	27	40	9	Get you up to a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good tidings; lift up your voice with strength, O Jerusalem, herald of good tidings, lift it up, fear not; say to the cities of Judah, “Behold your God!”
 Isaiah	Is	27	40	10	Behold, the Lord GOD comes with might, and his arm rules for him; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.
 Isaiah	Is	27	40	11	He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather the lambs in his arms, he will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young.
 Isaiah	Is	27	40	12	Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?
 Isaiah	Is	27	40	13	Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord, or as his counselor has instructed him?
 Isaiah	Is	27	40	14	Whom did he consult for his enlightenment, and who taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?
 Isaiah	Is	27	40	15	Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the isles like fine dust.
 Isaiah	Is	27	40	16	Lebanon would not suffice for fuel, nor are its beasts enough for a burnt offering.
 Isaiah	Is	27	40	17	All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.
 Isaiah	Is	27	40	18	To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with him?
 Isaiah	Is	27	40	19	The idol! a workman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts for it silver chains.
 Isaiah	Is	27	40	20	He who is impoverished chooses for an offering wood that will not rot; he seeks out a skilful craftsman to set up an image that will not move.
 Isaiah	Is	27	40	21	Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
 Isaiah	Is	27	40	22	It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;
 Isaiah	Is	27	40	23	who brings princes to nought, and makes the rulers of the earth as nothing.
 Isaiah	Is	27	40	24	Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth, when he blows upon them, and they wither, and the tempest carries them off like stubble.
 Isaiah	Is	27	40	25	To whom then will you compare me, that I should be like him? says the Holy One.
 Isaiah	Is	27	40	26	Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power not one is missing.
 Isaiah	Is	27	40	27	Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, “My way is hid from the Lord, and my right is disregarded by my God”?
 Isaiah	Is	27	40	28	Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary, his understanding is unsearchable.
 Isaiah	Is	27	40	29	He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.
 Isaiah	Is	27	40	30	Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted;
 Isaiah	Is	27	40	31	but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.
 Isaiah	Is	27	41	1	Listen to me in silence, O coastlands; let the peoples renew their strength; let them approach, then let them speak; let us together draw near for judgment.
 Isaiah	Is	27	41	2	Who stirred up one from the east whom victory meets at every step? He gives up nations before him, so that he tramples kings under foot; he makes them like dust with his sword, like driven stubble with his bow.
 Isaiah	Is	27	41	3	He pursues them and passes on safely, by paths his feet have not trod.
 Isaiah	Is	27	41	4	Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, the first, and with the last; I am He.
 Isaiah	Is	27	41	5	The coastlands have seen and are afraid, the ends of the earth tremble; they have drawn near and come.
 Isaiah	Is	27	41	6	Every one helps his neighbor, and says to his brother, “Take courage!”
 Isaiah	Is	27	41	7	The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, and he who smooths with the hammer him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, “It is good”; and they fasten it with nails so that it cannot be moved.
 Isaiah	Is	27	41	8	But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend;
 Isaiah	Is	27	41	9	you whom I took from the ends of the earth, and called from its farthest corners, saying to you, “You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you off”;
 Isaiah	Is	27	41	10	fear not, for I am with you, be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my victorious right hand.
 Isaiah	Is	27	41	11	Behold, all who are incensed against you shall be put to shame and confounded; those who strive against you shall be as nothing and shall perish.
 Isaiah	Is	27	41	12	You shall seek those who contend with you, but you shall not find them; those who war against you shall be as nothing at all.
 Isaiah	Is	27	41	13	For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, “Fear not, I will help you.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	41	14	Fear not, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel! I will help you, says the Lord; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
 Isaiah	Is	27	41	15	Behold, I will make of you a threshing sledge, new, sharp, and having teeth; you shall thresh the mountains and crush them, and you shall make the hills like chaff;
 Isaiah	Is	27	41	16	You shall winnow them and the wind shall carry them away, and the tempest shall scatter them. And you shall rejoice in the Lord; in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.
 Isaiah	Is	27	41	17	When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord will answer them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
 Isaiah	Is	27	41	18	I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
 Isaiah	Is	27	41	19	I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive; I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane and the pine together;
 Isaiah	Is	27	41	20	that men may see and know, may consider and understand together, that the hand of the Lord has done this, the Holy One of Israel has created it.
 Isaiah	Is	27	41	21	Set forth your case, says the Lord; bring your proofs, says the King of Jacob.
 Isaiah	Is	27	41	22	Let them bring them, and tell us what is to happen. Tell us the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, that we may know their outcome; or declare to us the things to come.
 Isaiah	Is	27	41	23	Tell us what is to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods; do good, or do harm, that we may be dismayed and terrified.
 Isaiah	Is	27	41	24	Behold, you are nothing, and your work is nought; an abomination is he who chooses you.
 Isaiah	Is	27	41	25	I stirred up one from the north, and he has come, from the rising of the sun, and he shall call on my name; he shall trample on rulers as on mortar, as the potter treads clay.
 Isaiah	Is	27	41	26	Who declared it from the beginning, that we might know, and beforetime, that we might say, “He is right”? There was none who declared it, none who proclaimed, none who heard your words.
 Isaiah	Is	27	41	27	I first have declared it to Zion, and I give to Jerusalem a herald of good tidings.
 Isaiah	Is	27	41	28	But when I look there is no one; among these there is no counselor who, when I ask, gives an answer.
 Isaiah	Is	27	41	29	Behold, they are all a delusion; their works are nothing; their molten images are empty wind.
 Isaiah	Is	27	42	1	Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him, he will bring forth justice to the nations.
 Isaiah	Is	27	42	2	He will not cry or lift up his voice, or make it heard in the street;
 Isaiah	Is	27	42	3	a bruised reed he will not break, and a dimly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice.
 Isaiah	Is	27	42	4	He will not fail or be discouraged till he has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands wait for his law.
 Isaiah	Is	27	42	5	Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread forth the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people upon it and spirit to those who walk in it:
 Isaiah	Is	27	42	6	“I am the Lord, I have called you in righteousness, I have taken you by the hand and kept you; I have given you as a covenant to the people, a light to the nations,
 Isaiah	Is	27	42	7	to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.
 Isaiah	Is	27	42	8	I am the Lord, that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to graven images.
 Isaiah	Is	27	42	9	Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	42	10	Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise from the end of the earth! Let the sea roar and all that fills it, the coastlands and their inhabitants.
 Isaiah	Is	27	42	11	Let the desert and its cities lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar inhabits; let the inhabitants of Sela sing for joy, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
 Isaiah	Is	27	42	12	Let them give glory to the Lord, and declare his praise in the coastlands.
 Isaiah	Is	27	42	13	The Lord goes forth like a mighty man, like a man of war he stirs up his fury; he cries out, he shouts aloud, he shows himself mighty against his foes.
 Isaiah	Is	27	42	14	For a long time I have held my peace, I have kept still and restrained myself; now I will cry out like a woman in travail, I will gasp and pant.
 Isaiah	Is	27	42	15	I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbage; I will turn the rivers into islands, and dry up the pools.
 Isaiah	Is	27	42	16	And I will lead the blind in a way that they know not, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I will do, and I will not forsake them.
 Isaiah	Is	27	42	17	They shall be turned back and utterly put to shame, who trust in graven images, who say to molten images, “You are our gods.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	42	18	Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see!
 Isaiah	Is	27	42	19	Who is blind but my servant, or deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is blind as my dedicated one, or blind as the servant of the Lord?
 Isaiah	Is	27	42	20	He sees many things, but does not observe them; his ears are open, but he does not hear.
 Isaiah	Is	27	42	21	The Lord was pleased, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify his law and make it glorious.
 Isaiah	Is	27	42	22	But this is a people robbed and plundered, they are all of them trapped in holes and hidden in prisons; they have become a prey with none to rescue, a spoil with none to say, “Restore!”
 Isaiah	Is	27	42	23	Who among you will give ear to this, will attend and listen for the time to come?
 Isaiah	Is	27	42	24	Who gave up Jacob to the spoiler, and Israel to the robbers? Was it not the Lord, against whom we have sinned, in whose ways they would not walk, and whose law they would not obey?
 Isaiah	Is	27	42	25	So he poured upon him the heat of his anger and the might of battle; it set him on fire round about, but he did not understand; it burned him, but he did not take it to heart.
 Isaiah	Is	27	43	1	But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.
 Isaiah	Is	27	43	2	When you pass through the waters I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.
 Isaiah	Is	27	43	3	For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in exchange for you.
 Isaiah	Is	27	43	4	Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life.
 Isaiah	Is	27	43	5	Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and from the west I will gather you;
 Isaiah	Is	27	43	6	I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Do not withhold; bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth,
 Isaiah	Is	27	43	7	every one who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	43	8	Bring forth the people who are blind, yet have eyes, who are deaf, yet have ears!
 Isaiah	Is	27	43	9	Let all the nations gather together, and let the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and show us the former things? Let them bring their witnesses to justify them, and let them hear and say, It is true.
 Isaiah	Is	27	43	10	“You are my witnesses,” says the Lord, “and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am He. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.
 Isaiah	Is	27	43	11	I, I am the Lord, and besides me there is no savior.
 Isaiah	Is	27	43	12	I declared and saved and proclaimed, when there was no strange god among you; and you are my witnesses,” says the Lord.
 Isaiah	Is	27	43	13	“I am God, and also henceforth I am He; there is none who can deliver from my hand; I work and who can hinder it?”
 Isaiah	Is	27	43	14	Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “For your sake I will send to Babylon and break down all the bars, and the shouting of the Chaldeans will be turned to lamentations.
 Isaiah	Is	27	43	15	I am the Lord, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	43	16	Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters,
 Isaiah	Is	27	43	17	who brings forth chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick:
 Isaiah	Is	27	43	18	“Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old.
 Isaiah	Is	27	43	19	Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
 Isaiah	Is	27	43	20	The wild beasts will honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; for I give water in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to my chosen people,
 Isaiah	Is	27	43	21	the people whom I formed for myself that they might declare my praise.
 Isaiah	Is	27	43	22	“Yet you did not call upon me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of me, O Israel!
 Isaiah	Is	27	43	23	You have not brought me your sheep for burnt offerings, or honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, or wearied you with frankincense.
 Isaiah	Is	27	43	24	You have not bought me sweet cane with money, or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins, you have wearied me with your iniquities.
 Isaiah	Is	27	43	25	“I, I am He who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.
 Isaiah	Is	27	43	26	Put me in remembrance, let us argue together; set forth your case, that you may be proved right.
 Isaiah	Is	27	43	27	Your first father sinned, and your mediators transgressed against me.
 Isaiah	Is	27	43	28	Therefore I profaned the princes of the sanctuary, I delivered Jacob to utter destruction and Israel to reviling.
 Isaiah	Is	27	44	1	“But now hear, O Jacob my servant, Israel whom I have chosen!
 Isaiah	Is	27	44	2	Thus says the Lord who made you, who formed you from the womb and will help you: Fear not, O Jacob my servant, Jeshurun whom I have chosen.
 Isaiah	Is	27	44	3	For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring.
 Isaiah	Is	27	44	4	They shall spring up like grass amid waters, like willows by flowing streams.
 Isaiah	Is	27	44	5	This one will say, ‘I am the Lord’s,’ another will call himself by the name of Jacob, and another will write on his hand, ‘The Lord’s,’ and surname himself by the name of Israel.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	44	6	Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: “I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.
 Isaiah	Is	27	44	7	Who is like me? Let him proclaim it, let him declare and set it forth before me. Who has announced from of old the things to come? Let them tell us what is yet to be.
 Isaiah	Is	27	44	8	Fear not, nor be afraid; have I not told you from of old and declared it? And you are my witnesses! Is there a God besides me? There is no Rock; I know not any.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	44	9	All who make idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit; their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be put to shame.
 Isaiah	Is	27	44	10	Who fashions a god or casts an image, that is profitable for nothing?
 Isaiah	Is	27	44	11	Behold, all his fellows shall be put to shame, and the craftsmen are but men; let them all assemble, let them stand forth, they shall be terrified, they shall be put to shame together.
 Isaiah	Is	27	44	12	The ironsmith fashions it and works it over the coals; he shapes it with hammers, and forges it with his strong arm; he becomes hungry and his strength fails, he drinks no water and is faint.
 Isaiah	Is	27	44	13	The carpenter stretches a line, he marks it out with a pencil; he fashions it with planes, and marks it with a compass; he shapes it into the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.
 Isaiah	Is	27	44	14	He cuts down cedars; or he chooses a holm tree or an oak and lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest; he plants a cedar and the rain nourishes it.
 Isaiah	Is	27	44	15	Then it becomes fuel for a man; he takes a part of it and warms himself, he kindles a fire and bakes bread; also he makes a god and worships it, he makes it a graven image and falls down before it.
 Isaiah	Is	27	44	16	Half of it he burns in the fire; over the half he eats flesh, he roasts meat and is satisfied; also he warms himself and says, “Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire!”
 Isaiah	Is	27	44	17	And the rest of it he makes into a god, his idol; and falls down to it and worships it; he prays to it and says, “Deliver me, for thou art my god!”
 Isaiah	Is	27	44	18	They know not, nor do they discern; for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their minds, so that they cannot understand.
 Isaiah	Is	27	44	19	No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, “Half of it I burned in the fire, I also baked bread on its coals, I roasted flesh and have eaten; and shall I make the residue of it an abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?”
 Isaiah	Is	27	44	20	He feeds on ashes; a deluded mind has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”
 Isaiah	Is	27	44	21	Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for you are my servant; I formed you, you are my servant; O Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.
 Isaiah	Is	27	44	22	I have swept away your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you.
 Isaiah	Is	27	44	23	Sing, O heavens, for the Lord has done it; shout, O depths of the earth; break forth into singing, O mountains, O forest, and every tree in it! For the Lord has redeemed Jacob, and will be glorified in Israel.
 Isaiah	Is	27	44	24	Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: “I am the Lord, who made all things, who stretched out the heavens alone, who spread out the earth—Who was with me? —
 Isaiah	Is	27	44	25	who frustrates the omens of liars, and makes fools of diviners; who turns wise men back, and makes their knowledge foolish;
 Isaiah	Is	27	44	26	who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be inhabited,’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They shall be built, and I will raise up their ruins’;
 Isaiah	Is	27	44	27	who says to the deep, ‘Be dry, I will dry up your rivers’;
 Isaiah	Is	27	44	28	who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd, and he shall fulfil all my purpose’; saying of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be built,’ and of the temple, ‘Your foundation shall be laid.’”
 Isaiah	Is	27	45	1	Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him and ungird the loins of kings, to open doors before him that gates may not be closed:
 Isaiah	Is	27	45	2	“I will go before you and level the mountains, I will break in pieces the doors of bronze and cut asunder the bars of iron,
 Isaiah	Is	27	45	3	I will give you the treasures of darkness and the hoards in secret places, that you may know that it is I, the Lord, the God of Israel, who call you by your name.
 Isaiah	Is	27	45	4	For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my chosen, I call you by your name, I surname you, though you do not know me.
 Isaiah	Is	27	45	5	I am the Lord, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I gird you, though you do not know me,
 Isaiah	Is	27	45	6	that men may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the Lord, and there is no other.
 Isaiah	Is	27	45	7	I form light and create darkness, I make weal and create woe, I am the Lord, who do all these things.
 Isaiah	Is	27	45	8	“Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the skies rain down righteousness; let the earth open, that salvation may sprout forth, and let it cause righteousness to spring up also; I the Lord have created it.
 Isaiah	Is	27	45	9	“Woe to him who strives with his Maker, an earthen vessel with the potter! Does the clay say to him who fashions it, ‘What are you making’? or ‘Your work has no handles’?
 Isaiah	Is	27	45	10	Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’ or to a woman, ‘With what are you in travail?’”
 Isaiah	Is	27	45	11	Thus says the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: “Will you question me about my children, or command me concerning the work of my hands?
 Isaiah	Is	27	45	12	I made the earth, and created man upon it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host.
 Isaiah	Is	27	45	13	I have aroused him in righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways; he shall build my city and set my exiles free, not for price or reward,” says the Lord of hosts.
 Isaiah	Is	27	45	14	Thus says the Lord: “The wealth of Egypt and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you and be yours, they shall follow you; they shall come over in chains and bow down to you. They will make supplication to you, saying: ‘God is with you only, and there is no other, no god besides him.’”
 Isaiah	Is	27	45	15	Truly, thou art a God who hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Savior.
 Isaiah	Is	27	45	16	All of them are put to shame and confounded, the makers of idols go in confusion together.
 Isaiah	Is	27	45	17	But Israel is saved by the Lord with everlasting salvation; you shall not be put to shame or confounded to all eternity.
 Isaiah	Is	27	45	18	For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it a chaos, he formed it to be inhabited!): “I am the Lord, and there is no other.
 Isaiah	Is	27	45	19	I did not speak in secret, in a land of darkness; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in chaos.’ I the Lord speak the truth, I declare what is right.
 Isaiah	Is	27	45	20	“Assemble yourselves and come, draw near together, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge who carry about their wooden idols, and keep on praying to a god that cannot save.
 Isaiah	Is	27	45	21	Declare and present your case; let them take counsel together! Who told this long ago? Who declared it of old? Was it not I, the Lord? And there is no other god besides me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none besides me.
 Isaiah	Is	27	45	22	“Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.
 Isaiah	Is	27	45	23	By myself I have sworn, from my mouth has gone forth in righteousness a word that shall not return: ‘To me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.’
 Isaiah	Is	27	45	24	“Only in the Lord, it shall be said of me, are righteousness and strength; to him shall come and be ashamed, all who were incensed against him.
 Isaiah	Is	27	45	25	In the Lord all the offspring of Israel shall triumph and glory.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	46	1	Bel bows down, Nebo stoops, their idols are on beasts and cattle; these things you carry are loaded as burdens on weary beasts.
 Isaiah	Is	27	46	2	They stoop, they bow down together, they cannot save the burden, but themselves go into captivity.
 Isaiah	Is	27	46	3	“Hearken to me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been borne by me from your birth, carried from the womb;
 Isaiah	Is	27	46	4	even to your old age I am He, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save.
 Isaiah	Is	27	46	5	“To whom will you liken me and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be alike?
 Isaiah	Is	27	46	6	Those who lavish gold from the purse, and weigh out silver in the scales, hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god; then they fall down and worship!
 Isaiah	Is	27	46	7	They lift it upon their shoulders, they carry it, they set it in its place, and it stands there; it cannot move from its place. If one cries to it, it does not answer or save him from his trouble.
 Isaiah	Is	27	46	8	“Remember this and consider, recall it to mind, you transgressors,
 Isaiah	Is	27	46	9	remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me,
 Isaiah	Is	27	46	10	declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’
 Isaiah	Is	27	46	11	calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have purposed, and I will do it.
 Isaiah	Is	27	46	12	“Hearken to me, you stubborn of heart, you who are far from deliverance:
 Isaiah	Is	27	46	13	I bring near my deliverance, it is not far off, and my salvation will not tarry; I will put salvation in Zion, for Israel my glory.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	47	1	Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
 Isaiah	Is	27	47	2	Take the millstones and grind meal, put off your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers.
 Isaiah	Is	27	47	3	Your nakedness shall be uncovered, and your shame shall be seen. I will take vengeance, and I will spare no man.
 Isaiah	Is	27	47	4	Our Redeemer—the Lord of hosts is his name— is the Holy One of Israel.
 Isaiah	Is	27	47	5	Sit in silence, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms.
 Isaiah	Is	27	47	6	I was angry with my people, I profaned my heritage; I gave them into your hand, you showed them no mercy; on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy.
 Isaiah	Is	27	47	7	You said, “I shall be mistress for ever,” so that you did not lay these things to heart or remember their end.
 Isaiah	Is	27	47	8	Now therefore hear this, you lover of pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me; I shall not sit as a widow or know the loss of children”:
 Isaiah	Is	27	47	9	These two things shall come to you in a moment, in one day; the loss of children and widowhood shall come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the great power of your enchantments.
 Isaiah	Is	27	47	10	You felt secure in your wickedness, you said, “No one sees me”; your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	47	11	But evil shall come upon you, for which you cannot atone; disaster shall fall upon you, which you will not be able to expiate; and ruin shall come on you suddenly, of which you know nothing.
 Isaiah	Is	27	47	12	Stand fast in your enchantments and your many sorceries, with which you have labored from your youth; perhaps you may be able to succeed, perhaps you may inspire terror.
 Isaiah	Is	27	47	13	You are wearied with your many counsels; let them stand forth and save you, those who divide the heavens, who gaze at the stars, who at the new moons predict what shall befall you.
 Isaiah	Is	27	47	14	Behold, they are like stubble, the fire consumes them; they cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. No coal for warming oneself is this, no fire to sit before!
 Isaiah	Is	27	47	15	Such to you are those with whom you have labored, who have trafficked with you from your youth; they wander about each in his own direction; there is no one to save you.
 Isaiah	Is	27	48	1	Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and who came forth from the loins of Judah; who swear by the name of the Lord, and confess the God of Israel, but not in truth or right.
 Isaiah	Is	27	48	2	For they call themselves after the holy city, and stay themselves on the God of Israel; the Lord of hosts is his name.
 Isaiah	Is	27	48	3	“The former things I declared of old, they went forth from my mouth and I made them known; then suddenly I did them and they came to pass.
 Isaiah	Is	27	48	4	Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass,
 Isaiah	Is	27	48	5	I declared them to you from of old, before they came to pass I announced them to you, lest you should say, ‘My idol did them, my graven image and my molten image commanded them.’
 Isaiah	Is	27	48	6	“You have heard; now see all this; and will you not declare it? From this time forth I make you hear new things, hidden things which you have not known.
 Isaiah	Is	27	48	7	They are created now, not long ago; before today you have never heard of them, lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’
 Isaiah	Is	27	48	8	You have never heard, you have never known, from of old your ear has not been opened. For I knew that you would deal very treacherously, and that from birth you were called a rebel.
 Isaiah	Is	27	48	9	“For my name’s sake I defer my anger, for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you, that I may not cut you off.
 Isaiah	Is	27	48	10	Behold, I have refined you, but not like silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction.
 Isaiah	Is	27	48	11	For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another.
 Isaiah	Is	27	48	12	“Hearken to me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I called! I am He, I am the first, and I am the last.
 Isaiah	Is	27	48	13	My hand laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I call to them, they stand forth together.
 Isaiah	Is	27	48	14	“Assemble, all of you, and hear! Who among them has declared these things? The Lord loves him; he shall perform his purpose on Babylon, and his arm shall be against the Chaldeans.
 Isaiah	Is	27	48	15	I, even I, have spoken and called him, I have brought him, and he will prosper in his way.
 Isaiah	Is	27	48	16	Draw near to me, hear this: from the beginning I have not spoken in secret, from the time it came to be I have been there.” And now the Lord GOD has sent me and his Spirit.
 Isaiah	Is	27	48	17	Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.
 Isaiah	Is	27	48	18	O that you had hearkened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;
 Isaiah	Is	27	48	19	your offspring would have been like the sand, and your descendants like its grains; their name would never be cut off or destroyed from before me.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	48	20	Go forth from Babylon, flee from Chaldea, declare this with a shout of joy, proclaim it, send it forth to the end of the earth; say, “The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!”
 Isaiah	Is	27	48	21	They thirsted not when he led them through the deserts; he made water flow for them from the rock; he cleft the rock and the water gushed out.
 Isaiah	Is	27	48	22	“There is no peace,” says the Lord, “for the wicked.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	49	1	Listen to me, O coastlands, and hearken, you peoples from afar. The Lord called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name.
 Isaiah	Is	27	49	2	He made my mouth like a sharp sword, in the shadow of his hand he hid me; he made me a polished arrow, in his quiver he hid me away.
 Isaiah	Is	27	49	3	And he said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	49	4	But I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my right is with the Lord, and my recompense with my God.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	49	5	And now the Lord says, who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob back to him, and that Israel might be gathered to him, for I am honored in the eyes of the Lord, and my God has become my strength—
 Isaiah	Is	27	49	6	he says: “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved of Israel; I will give you as a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	49	7	Thus says the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One, to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nations, the servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall prostrate themselves; because of the Lord, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	49	8	Thus says the Lord: “In a time of favor I have answered you, in a day of salvation I have helped you; I have kept you and given you as a covenant to the people, to establish the land, to apportion the desolate heritages;
 Isaiah	Is	27	49	9	saying to the prisoners, ‘Come forth,’ to those who are in darkness, ‘Appear.’ They shall feed along the ways, on all bare heights shall be their pasture;
 Isaiah	Is	27	49	10	they shall not hunger or thirst, neither scorching wind nor sun shall smite them, for he who has pity on them will lead them, and by springs of water will guide them.
 Isaiah	Is	27	49	11	And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be raised up.
 Isaiah	Is	27	49	12	Lo, these shall come from afar, and lo, these from the north and from the west, and these from the land of Syene.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	49	13	Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the Lord has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted.
 Isaiah	Is	27	49	14	But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me, my Lord has forgotten me.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	49	15	“Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.
 Isaiah	Is	27	49	16	Behold, I have graven you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.
 Isaiah	Is	27	49	17	Your builders outstrip your destroyers, and those who laid you waste go forth from you.
 Isaiah	Is	27	49	18	Lift up your eyes round about and see; they all gather, they come to you. As I live, says the Lord, you shall put them all on as an ornament, you shall bind them on as a bride does.
 Isaiah	Is	27	49	19	“Surely your waste and your desolate places and your devastated land— surely now you will be too narrow for your inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away.
 Isaiah	Is	27	49	20	The children born in the time of your bereavement will yet say in your ears: ‘The place is too narrow for me; make room for me to dwell in.’
 Isaiah	Is	27	49	21	Then you will say in your heart: ‘Who has borne me these? I was bereaved and barren, exiled and put away, but who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; whence then have these come?’”
 Isaiah	Is	27	49	22	Thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and raise my signal to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
 Isaiah	Is	27	49	23	Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; those who wait for me shall not be put to shame.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	49	24	Can the prey be taken from the mighty, or the captives of a tyrant be rescued?
 Isaiah	Is	27	49	25	Surely, thus says the Lord: “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken, and the prey of the tyrant be rescued, for I will contend with those who contend with you, and I will save your children.
 Isaiah	Is	27	49	26	I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh, and they shall be drunk with their own blood as with wine. Then all flesh shall know that I am the Lord your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	50	1	Thus says the Lord: “Where is your mother’s bill of divorce, with which I put her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was put away.
 Isaiah	Is	27	50	2	Why, when I came, was there no man? When I called, was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, by my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a desert; their fish stink for lack of water, and die of thirst.
 Isaiah	Is	27	50	3	I clothe the heavens with blackness, and make sackcloth their covering.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	50	4	The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him that is weary. Morning by morning he wakens, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
 Isaiah	Is	27	50	5	The Lord God has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, I turned not backward.
 Isaiah	Is	27	50	6	I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard; I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
 Isaiah	Is	27	50	7	For the Lord God helps me; therefore I have not been confounded; therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame;
 Isaiah	Is	27	50	8	he who vindicates me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.
 Isaiah	Is	27	50	9	Behold, the Lord God helps me; who will declare me guilty? Behold, all of them will wear out like a garment; the moth will eat them up.
 Isaiah	Is	27	50	10	Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the voice of his servant, who walks in darkness and has no light, yet trusts in the name of the Lord and relies upon his God?
 Isaiah	Is	27	50	11	Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who set brands alight! Walk by the light of your fire, and by the brands which you have kindled! This shall you have from my hand: you shall lie down in torment.
 Isaiah	Is	27	51	1	“Hearken to me, you who pursue deliverance, you who seek the Lord; look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the quarry from which you were digged.
 Isaiah	Is	27	51	2	Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him and made him many.
 Isaiah	Is	27	51	3	For the Lord will comfort Zion; he will comfort all her waste places, and will make her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the voice of song.
 Isaiah	Is	27	51	4	“Listen to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation; for a law will go forth from me, and my justice for a light to the peoples.
 Isaiah	Is	27	51	5	My deliverance draws near speedily, my salvation has gone forth, and my arms will rule the peoples; the coastlands wait for me, and for my arm they hope.
 Isaiah	Is	27	51	6	Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and they who dwell in it will die like gnats; but my salvation will be for ever, and my deliverance will never be ended.
 Isaiah	Is	27	51	7	“Hearken to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear not the reproach of men, and be not dismayed at their revilings.
 Isaiah	Is	27	51	8	For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my deliverance will be for ever, and my salvation to all generations.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	51	9	Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in days of old, the generations of long ago. Was it not thou that didst cut Rahab in pieces, that didst pierce the dragon?
 Isaiah	Is	27	51	10	Was it not thou that didst dry up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that didst make the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
 Isaiah	Is	27	51	11	And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
 Isaiah	Is	27	51	12	“I, I am he that comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man who dies, of the son of man who is made like grass,
 Isaiah	Is	27	51	13	and have forgotten the Lord, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, and fear continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he sets himself to destroy? And where is the fury of the oppressor?
 Isaiah	Is	27	51	14	He who is bowed down shall speedily be released; he shall not die and go down to the Pit, neither shall his bread fail.
 Isaiah	Is	27	51	15	For I am the Lord your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the Lord of hosts is his name.
 Isaiah	Is	27	51	16	And I have put my words in your mouth, and hid you in the shadow of my hand, stretching out the heavens and laying the foundations of the earth, and saying to Zion, ‘You are my people.’”
 Isaiah	Is	27	51	17	Rouse yourself, rouse yourself, stand up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his wrath, who have drunk to the dregs the bowl of staggering.
 Isaiah	Is	27	51	18	There is none to guide her among all the sons she has borne; there is none to take her by the hand among all the sons she has brought up.
 Isaiah	Is	27	51	19	These two things have befallen you— who will condole with you?— devastation and destruction, famine and sword; who will comfort you?
 Isaiah	Is	27	51	20	Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of every street like an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of the Lord, the rebuke of your God.
 Isaiah	Is	27	51	21	Therefore hear this, you who are afflicted, who are drunk, but not with wine:
 Isaiah	Is	27	51	22	Thus says your Lord, the Lord, your God who pleads the cause of his people: “Behold, I have taken from your hand the cup of staggering; the bowl of my wrath you shall drink no more;
 Isaiah	Is	27	51	23	and I will put it into the hand of your tormentors, who have said to you, ‘Bow down, that we may pass over’; and you have made your back like the ground and like the street for them to pass over.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	52	1	Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; for there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.
 Isaiah	Is	27	52	2	Shake yourself from the dust, arise, O captive Jerusalem; loose the bonds from your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
 Isaiah	Is	27	52	3	For thus says the Lord: “You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money.
 Isaiah	Is	27	52	4	For thus says the Lord GOD: My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing.
 Isaiah	Is	27	52	5	Now therefore what have I here, says the Lord, seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail, says the Lord, and continually all the day my name is despised.
 Isaiah	Is	27	52	6	Therefore my people shall know my name; therefore in that day they shall know that it is I who speak; here am I.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	52	7	How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good tidings, who publishes peace, who brings good tidings of good, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	52	8	Hark, your watchmen lift up their voice, together they sing for joy; for eye to eye they see the return of the Lord to Zion.
 Isaiah	Is	27	52	9	Break forth together into singing, you waste places of Jerusalem; for the Lord has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.
 Isaiah	Is	27	52	10	The Lord has bared his holy arm before the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
 Isaiah	Is	27	52	11	Depart, depart, go out thence, touch no unclean thing; go out from the midst of her, purify yourselves, you who bear the vessels of the Lord.
 Isaiah	Is	27	52	12	For you shall not go out in haste, and you shall not go in flight, for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
 Isaiah	Is	27	52	13	Behold, my servant shall prosper, he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high.
 Isaiah	Is	27	52	14	As many were astonished at him — his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of the sons of men—
 Isaiah	Is	27	52	15	so shall he startle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of him; for that which has not been told them they shall see, and that which they have not heard they shall understand.
 Isaiah	Is	27	53	1	Who has believed what we have heard? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
 Isaiah	Is	27	53	2	For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or comeliness that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.
 Isaiah	Is	27	53	3	He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
 Isaiah	Is	27	53	4	Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
 Isaiah	Is	27	53	5	But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that made us whole, and with his stripes we are healed.
 Isaiah	Is	27	53	6	All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
 Isaiah	Is	27	53	7	He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.
 Isaiah	Is	27	53	8	By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?
 Isaiah	Is	27	53	9	And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.
 Isaiah	Is	27	53	10	Yet it was the will of the Lord to bruise him; he has put him to grief; when he makes himself an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring, he shall prolong his days; the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand;
 Isaiah	Is	27	53	11	he shall see the fruit of the travail of his soul and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous; and he shall bear their iniquities.
 Isaiah	Is	27	53	12	Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
 Isaiah	Is	27	54	1	“Sing, O barren one, who did not bear; break forth into singing and cry aloud, you who have not been in travail! For the children of the desolate one will be more than the children of her that is married, says the Lord.
 Isaiah	Is	27	54	2	Enlarge the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out; hold not back, lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes.
 Isaiah	Is	27	54	3	For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left, and your descendants will possess the nations and will people the desolate cities.
 Isaiah	Is	27	54	4	“Fear not, for you will not be ashamed; be not confounded, for you will not be put to shame; for you will forget the shame of your youth, and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more.
 Isaiah	Is	27	54	5	For your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called.
 Isaiah	Is	27	54	6	For the Lord has called you like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, like a wife of youth when she is cast off, says your God.
 Isaiah	Is	27	54	7	For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will gather you.
 Isaiah	Is	27	54	8	In overflowing wrath for a moment I hid my face from you, but with everlasting love I will have compassion on you, says the Lord, your Redeemer.
 Isaiah	Is	27	54	9	“For this is like the days of Noah to me: as I swore that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you and will not rebuke you.
 Isaiah	Is	27	54	10	For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed, says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
 Isaiah	Is	27	54	11	“O afflicted one, storm-tossed, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in antimony, and lay your foundations with sapphires.
 Isaiah	Is	27	54	12	I will make your pinnacles of agate, your gates of carbuncles, and all your wall of precious stones.
 Isaiah	Is	27	54	13	All your sons shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the prosperity of your sons.
 Isaiah	Is	27	54	14	In righteousness you shall be established; you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near you.
 Isaiah	Is	27	54	15	If any one stirs up strife, it is not from me; whoever stirs up strife with you shall fall because of you.
 Isaiah	Is	27	54	16	Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals, and produces a weapon for its purpose. I have also created the ravager to destroy;
 Isaiah	Is	27	54	17	no weapon that is fashioned against you shall prosper, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their vindication from me, says the Lord.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	55	1	“Ho, every one who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
 Isaiah	Is	27	55	2	Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in fatness.
 Isaiah	Is	27	55	3	Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.
 Isaiah	Is	27	55	4	Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples.
 Isaiah	Is	27	55	5	Behold, you shall call nations that you know not, and nations that knew you not shall run to you, because of the Lord your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.
 Isaiah	Is	27	55	6	“Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near;
 Isaiah	Is	27	55	7	let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
 Isaiah	Is	27	55	8	For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the Lord.
 Isaiah	Is	27	55	9	For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
 Isaiah	Is	27	55	10	“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return not thither but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
 Isaiah	Is	27	55	11	so shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
 Isaiah	Is	27	55	12	“For you shall go out in joy, and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
 Isaiah	Is	27	55	13	Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress; instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle; and it shall be to the Lord for a memorial, for an everlasting sign which shall not be cut off.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	56	1	Thus says the Lord: “Keep justice, and do righteousness, for soon my salvation will come, and my deliverance be revealed.
 Isaiah	Is	27	56	2	Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the sabbath, not profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	56	3	Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord say, “The Lord will surely separate me from his people”; and let not the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	56	4	For thus says the Lord: “To the eunuchs who keep my sabbaths, who choose the things that please me and hold fast my covenant,
 Isaiah	Is	27	56	5	I will give in my house and within my walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name which shall not be cut off.
 Isaiah	Is	27	56	6	“And the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord, to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord, and to be his servants, every one who keeps the sabbath, and does not profane it, and holds fast my covenant—
 Isaiah	Is	27	56	7	these I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.
 Isaiah	Is	27	56	8	Thus says the Lord God, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, I will gather yet others to him besides those already gathered.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	56	9	All you beasts of the field, come to devour— all you beasts in the forest.
 Isaiah	Is	27	56	10	His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
 Isaiah	Is	27	56	11	The dogs have a mighty appetite; they never have enough. The shepherds also have no understanding; they have all turned to their own way, each to his own gain, one and all.
 Isaiah	Is	27	56	12	“Come,” they say, “let us get wine, let us fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be like this day, great beyond measure.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	57	1	The righteous man perishes, and no one lays it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from calamity,
 Isaiah	Is	27	57	2	he enters into peace; they rest in their beds who walk in their uprightness.
 Isaiah	Is	27	57	3	But you, draw near hither, sons of the sorceress, offspring of the adulterer and the harlot.
 Isaiah	Is	27	57	4	Of whom are you making sport? Against whom do you open your mouth wide and put out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, the offspring of deceit,
 Isaiah	Is	27	57	5	you who burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree; who slay your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
 Isaiah	Is	27	57	6	Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion; they, they, are your lot; to them you have poured out a drink offering, you have brought a cereal offering. Shall I be appeased for these things?
 Isaiah	Is	27	57	7	Upon a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed, and thither you went up to offer sacrifice.
 Isaiah	Is	27	57	8	Behind the door and the doorpost you have set up your symbol; for, deserting me, you have uncovered your bed, you have gone up to it, you have made it wide; and you have made a bargain for yourself with them, you have loved their bed, you have looked on nakedness.
 Isaiah	Is	27	57	9	You journeyed to Molech with oil and multiplied your perfumes; you sent your envoys far off, and sent down even to Sheol.
 Isaiah	Is	27	57	10	You were wearied with the length of your way, but you did not say, “It is hopeless”; you found new life for your strength, and so you were not faint.
 Isaiah	Is	27	57	11	Whom did you dread and fear, so that you lied, and did not remember me, did not give me a thought? Have I not held my peace, even for a long time, and so you do not fear me?
 Isaiah	Is	27	57	12	I will tell of your righteousness and your doings, but they will not help you.
 Isaiah	Is	27	57	13	When you cry out, let your collection of idols deliver you! The wind will carry them off, a breath will take them away. But he who takes refuge in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.
 Isaiah	Is	27	57	14	And it shall be said, “Build up, build up, prepare the way, remove every obstruction from my people’s way.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	57	15	For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
 Isaiah	Is	27	57	16	For I will not contend for ever, nor will I always be angry; for from me proceeds the spirit, and I have made the breath of life.
 Isaiah	Is	27	57	17	Because of the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry, I smote him, I hid my face and was angry; but he went on backsliding in the way of his own heart.
 Isaiah	Is	27	57	18	I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and requite him with comfort, creating for his mourners the fruit of the lips.
 Isaiah	Is	27	57	19	Peace, peace, to the far and to the near, says the Lord; and I will heal him.
 Isaiah	Is	27	57	20	But the wicked are like the tossing sea; for it cannot rest, and its waters toss up mire and dirt.
 Isaiah	Is	27	57	21	There is no peace, says my God, for the wicked.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	58	1	“Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their transgression, to the house of Jacob their sins.
 Isaiah	Is	27	58	2	Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the ordinance of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments, they delight to draw near to God.
 Isaiah	Is	27	58	3	‘Why have we fasted, and thou seest it not? Why have we humbled ourselves, and thou takest no knowledge of it?’ Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers.
 Isaiah	Is	27	58	4	Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to hit with wicked fist. Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high.
 Isaiah	Is	27	58	5	Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a man to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head like a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the Lord?
 Isaiah	Is	27	58	6	“Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?
 Isaiah	Is	27	58	7	Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?
 Isaiah	Is	27	58	8	Then shall your light break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up speedily; your righteousness shall go before you, the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.
 Isaiah	Is	27	58	9	Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, Here I am. “If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness,
 Isaiah	Is	27	58	10	if you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday.
 Isaiah	Is	27	58	11	And the Lord will guide you continually, and satisfy your desire with good things, and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
 Isaiah	Is	27	58	12	And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; you shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to dwell in.
 Isaiah	Is	27	58	13	“If you turn back your foot from the sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day, and call the sabbath a delight and the holy day of the Lord honorable; if you honor it, not going your own ways, or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly;
 Isaiah	Is	27	58	14	then you shall take delight in the Lord, and I will make you ride upon the heights of the earth; I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	59	1	Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear;
 Isaiah	Is	27	59	2	but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you so that he does not hear.
 Isaiah	Is	27	59	3	For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.
 Isaiah	Is	27	59	4	No one enters suit justly, no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.
 Isaiah	Is	27	59	5	They hatch adders’ eggs, they weave the spider’s web; he who eats their eggs dies, and from one which is crushed a viper is hatched.
 Isaiah	Is	27	59	6	Their webs will not serve as clothing; men will not cover themselves with what they make. Their works are works of iniquity, and deeds of violence are in their hands.
 Isaiah	Is	27	59	7	Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, desolation and destruction are in their highways.
 Isaiah	Is	27	59	8	The way of peace they know not, and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked, no one who goes in them knows peace.
 Isaiah	Is	27	59	9	Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us; we look for light, and behold, darkness, and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
 Isaiah	Is	27	59	10	We grope for the wall like the blind, we grope like those who have no eyes; we stumble at noon as in the twilight, among those in full vigor we are like dead men.
 Isaiah	Is	27	59	11	We all growl like bears, we moan and moan like doves; we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.
 Isaiah	Is	27	59	12	For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and we know our iniquities:
 Isaiah	Is	27	59	13	transgressing, and denying the Lord, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.
 Isaiah	Is	27	59	14	Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth has fallen in the public squares, and uprightness cannot enter.
 Isaiah	Is	27	59	15	Truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. The Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.
 Isaiah	Is	27	59	16	He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no one to intervene; then his own arm brought him victory, and his righteousness upheld him.
 Isaiah	Is	27	59	17	He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and wrapped himself in fury as a mantle.
 Isaiah	Is	27	59	18	According to their deeds, so will he repay, wrath to his adversaries, requital to his enemies; to the coastlands he will render requital.
 Isaiah	Is	27	59	19	So they shall fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come like a rushing stream, which the wind of the Lord drives.
 Isaiah	Is	27	59	20	“And he will come to Zion as Redeemer, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression, says the Lord.
 Isaiah	Is	27	59	21	“And as for me, this is my covenant with them, says the Lord: my spirit which is upon you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your children, or out of the mouth of your children’s children, says the Lord, from this time forth and for evermore.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	60	1	Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
 Isaiah	Is	27	60	2	For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the Lord will arise upon you, and his glory will be seen upon you.
 Isaiah	Is	27	60	3	And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
 Isaiah	Is	27	60	4	Lift up your eyes round about, and see; they all gather together, they come to you; your sons shall come from far, and your daughters shall be carried in the arms.
 Isaiah	Is	27	60	5	Then you shall see and be radiant, your heart shall thrill and rejoice; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you.
 Isaiah	Is	27	60	6	A multitude of camels shall cover you, the young camels of Midian and Ephah; all those from Sheba shall come. They shall bring gold and frankincense, and shall proclaim the praise of the Lord.
 Isaiah	Is	27	60	7	All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered to you, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you; they shall come up with acceptance on my altar, and I will glorify my glorious house.
 Isaiah	Is	27	60	8	Who are these that fly like a cloud, and like doves to their windows?
 Isaiah	Is	27	60	9	For the coastlands shall wait for me, the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far, their silver and gold with them, for the name of the Lord your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you.
 Isaiah	Is	27	60	10	Foreigners shall build up your walls, and their kings shall minister to you; for in my wrath I smote you, but in my favor I have had mercy on you.
 Isaiah	Is	27	60	11	Your gates shall be open continually; day and night they shall not be shut; that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, with their kings led in procession.
 Isaiah	Is	27	60	12	For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; those nations shall be utterly laid waste.
 Isaiah	Is	27	60	13	The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the cypress, the plane, and the pine, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
 Isaiah	Is	27	60	14	The sons of those who oppressed you shall come bending low to you; and all who despised you shall bow down at your feet; they shall call you the City of the Lord, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
 Isaiah	Is	27	60	15	Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, with no one passing through, I will make you majestic for ever, a joy from age to age.
 Isaiah	Is	27	60	16	You shall suck the milk of nations, you shall suck the breast of kings; and you shall know that I, the Lord, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
 Isaiah	Is	27	60	17	Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver; instead of wood, bronze, instead of stones, iron. I will make your overseers peace and your taskmasters righteousness.
 Isaiah	Is	27	60	18	Violence shall no more be heard in your land, devastation or destruction within your borders; you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.
 Isaiah	Is	27	60	19	The sun shall be no more your light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give light to you by night; but the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.
 Isaiah	Is	27	60	20	Your sun shall no more go down, nor your moon withdraw itself; for the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your days of mourning shall be ended.
 Isaiah	Is	27	60	21	Your people shall all be righteous; they shall possess the land for ever, the shoot of my planting, the work of my hands, that I might be glorified.
 Isaiah	Is	27	60	22	The least one shall become a clan, and the smallest one a mighty nation; I am the Lord; in its time I will hasten it.
 Isaiah	Is	27	61	1	The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good tidings to the afflicted; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
 Isaiah	Is	27	61	2	to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;
 Isaiah	Is	27	61	3	to grant to those who mourn in Zion— to give them a garland instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantle of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified.
 Isaiah	Is	27	61	4	They shall build up the ancient ruins, they shall raise up the former devastations; they shall repair the ruined cities, the devastations of many generations.
 Isaiah	Is	27	61	5	Aliens shall stand and feed your flocks, foreigners shall be your plowmen and vinedressers;
 Isaiah	Is	27	61	6	but you shall be called the priests of the Lord, men shall speak of you as the ministers of our God; you shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their riches you shall glory.
 Isaiah	Is	27	61	7	Instead of your shame you shall have a double portion, instead of dishonor you shall rejoice in your lot; therefore in your land you shall possess a double portion; yours shall be everlasting joy.
 Isaiah	Is	27	61	8	For I the Lord love justice, I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
 Isaiah	Is	27	61	9	Their descendants shall be known among the nations, and their offspring in the midst of the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are a people whom the Lord has blessed.
 Isaiah	Is	27	61	10	I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall exult in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
 Isaiah	Is	27	61	11	For as the earth brings forth its shoots, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
 Isaiah	Is	27	62	1	For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her vindication goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a burning torch.
 Isaiah	Is	27	62	2	The nations shall see your vindication, and all the kings your glory; and you shall be called by a new name which the mouth of the Lord will give.
 Isaiah	Is	27	62	3	You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
 Isaiah	Is	27	62	4	You shall no more be termed Forsaken, and your land shall no more be termed Desolate; but you shall be called My delight is in her, and your land Married; for the Lord delights in you, and your land shall be married.
 Isaiah	Is	27	62	5	For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.
 Isaiah	Is	27	62	6	Upon your walls, O Jerusalem, I have set watchmen; all the day and all the night they shall never be silent. You who put the Lord in remembrance, take no rest,
 Isaiah	Is	27	62	7	and give him no rest until he establishes Jerusalem and makes it a praise in the earth.
 Isaiah	Is	27	62	8	The Lord has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: “I will not again give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners shall not drink your wine for which you have labored;
 Isaiah	Is	27	62	9	but those who garner it shall eat it and praise the Lord, and those who gather it shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	62	10	Go through, go through the gates, prepare the way for the people; build up, build up the highway, clear it of stones, lift up an ensign over the peoples.
 Isaiah	Is	27	62	11	Behold, the Lord has proclaimed to the end of the earth: Say to the daughter of Zion, “Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	62	12	And they shall be called The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord; and you shall be called Sought out, a city not forsaken.
 Isaiah	Is	27	63	1	Who is this that comes from Edom, in crimsoned garments from Bozrah, he that is glorious in his apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I, announcing vindication, mighty to save.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	63	2	Why is thy apparel red, and thy garments like his that treads in the wine press?
 Isaiah	Is	27	63	3	“I have trodden the wine press alone, and from the peoples no one was with me; I trod them in my anger and trampled them in my wrath; their lifeblood is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained all my raiment.
 Isaiah	Is	27	63	4	For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and my year of redemption has come.
 Isaiah	Is	27	63	5	I looked, but there was no one to help; I was appalled, but there was no one to uphold; so my own arm brought me victory, and my wrath upheld me.
 Isaiah	Is	27	63	6	I trod down the peoples in my anger, I made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	63	7	I will recount the steadfast love of the Lord, the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord has granted us, and the great goodness to the house of Israel which he has granted them according to his mercy, according to the abundance of his steadfast love.
 Isaiah	Is	27	63	8	For he said, Surely they are my people, sons who will not deal falsely; and he became their Savior.
 Isaiah	Is	27	63	9	In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
 Isaiah	Is	27	63	10	But they rebelled and grieved his holy Spirit; therefore he turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.
 Isaiah	Is	27	63	11	Then he remembered the days of old, of Moses his servant. Where is he who brought up out of the sea the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put in the midst of them his holy Spirit,
 Isaiah	Is	27	63	12	who caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to make for himself an everlasting name,
 Isaiah	Is	27	63	13	who led them through the depths? Like a horse in the desert, they did not stumble.
 Isaiah	Is	27	63	14	Like cattle that go down into the valley, the Spirit of the Lord gave them rest. So thou didst lead thy people, to make for thyself a glorious name.
 Isaiah	Is	27	63	15	Look down from heaven and see, from thy holy and glorious habitation. Where are thy zeal and thy might? The yearning of thy heart and thy compassion are withheld from me.
 Isaiah	Is	27	63	16	For thou art our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us; thou, O Lord, art our Father, our Redeemer from of old is thy name.
 Isaiah	Is	27	63	17	O Lord, why dost thou make us err from thy ways and harden our heart, so that we fear thee not? Return for the sake of thy servants, the tribes of thy heritage.
 Isaiah	Is	27	63	18	Thy holy people possessed thy sanctuary a little while; our adversaries have trodden it down.
 Isaiah	Is	27	63	19	We have become like those over whom thou hast never ruled, like those who are not called by thy name.
 Isaiah	Is	27	64	1	O that thou wouldst rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains might quake at thy presence—
 Isaiah	Is	27	64	2	as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil— to make thy name known to thy adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at thy presence!
 Isaiah	Is	27	64	3	When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains quaked at thy presence.
 Isaiah	Is	27	64	4	From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides thee, who works for those who wait for him.
 Isaiah	Is	27	64	5	Thou meetest him that joyfully works righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways. Behold, thou wast angry, and we sinned; in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?
 Isaiah	Is	27	64	6	We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
 Isaiah	Is	27	64	7	There is no one that calls upon thy name, that bestirs himself to take hold of thee; for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast delivered us into the hand of our iniquities.
 Isaiah	Is	27	64	8	Yet, O Lord, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou art our potter; we are all the work of thy hand.
 Isaiah	Is	27	64	9	Be not exceedingly angry, O Lord, and remember not iniquity for ever. Behold, consider, we are all thy people.
 Isaiah	Is	27	64	10	Thy holy cities have become a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
 Isaiah	Is	27	64	11	Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, has been burned by fire, and all our pleasant places have become ruins.
 Isaiah	Is	27	64	12	Wilt thou restrain thyself at these things, O Lord? Wilt thou keep silent, and afflict us sorely?
 Isaiah	Is	27	65	1	I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, “Here am I, here am I,” to a nation that did not call on my name.
 Isaiah	Is	27	65	2	I spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, following their own devices;
 Isaiah	Is	27	65	3	a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens and burning incense upon bricks;
 Isaiah	Is	27	65	4	who sit in tombs, and spend the night in secret places; who eat swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
 Isaiah	Is	27	65	5	who say, “Keep to yourself, do not come near me, for I am set apart from you.” These are a smoke in my nostrils, a fire that burns all the day.
 Isaiah	Is	27	65	6	Behold, it is written before me: “I will not keep silent, but I will repay, yea, I will repay into their bosom
 Isaiah	Is	27	65	7	their iniquities and their fathers’ iniquities together, says the Lord; because they burned incense upon the mountains and reviled me upon the hills, I will measure into their bosom payment for their former doings.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	65	8	Thus says the Lord: “As the wine is found in the cluster, and they say, ‘Do not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it,’ so I will do for my servants’ sake, and not destroy them all.
 Isaiah	Is	27	65	9	I will bring forth descendants from Jacob, and from Judah inheritors of my mountains; my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
 Isaiah	Is	27	65	10	Sharon shall become a pasture for flocks, and the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down, for my people who have sought me.
 Isaiah	Is	27	65	11	But you who forsake the Lord, who forget my holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune and fill cups of mixed wine for Destiny;
 Isaiah	Is	27	65	12	I will destine you to the sword, and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter; because, when I called, you did not answer, when I spoke, you did not listen, but you did what was evil in my eyes, and chose what I did not delight in.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	65	13	Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be put to shame;
 Isaiah	Is	27	65	14	behold, my servants shall sing for gladness of heart, but you shall cry out for pain of heart, and shall wail for anguish of spirit.
 Isaiah	Is	27	65	15	You shall leave your name to my chosen for a curse, and the Lord God will slay you; but his servants he will call by a different name.
 Isaiah	Is	27	65	16	So that he who blesses himself in the land shall bless himself by the God of truth, and he who takes an oath in the land shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten and are hid from my eyes.
 Isaiah	Is	27	65	17	“For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind.
 Isaiah	Is	27	65	18	But be glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
 Isaiah	Is	27	65	19	I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and be glad in my people; no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping and the cry of distress.
 Isaiah	Is	27	65	20	No more shall there be in it an infant that lives but a few days, or an old man who does not fill out his days, for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.
 Isaiah	Is	27	65	21	They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
 Isaiah	Is	27	65	22	They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
 Isaiah	Is	27	65	23	They shall not labor in vain, or bear children for calamity; for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord, and their children with them.
 Isaiah	Is	27	65	24	Before they call I will answer, while they are yet speaking I will hear.
 Isaiah	Is	27	65	25	The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent’s food. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain, says the Lord.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	66	1	Thus says the Lord: “Heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool; what is the house which you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest?
 Isaiah	Is	27	66	2	All these things my hand has made, and so all these things are mine, says the Lord. But this is the man to whom I will look, he that is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at my word.
 Isaiah	Is	27	66	3	“He who slaughters an ox is like him who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, like him who breaks a dog’s neck; he who presents a cereal offering, like him who offers swine’s blood; he who makes a memorial offering of frankincense, like him who blesses an idol. These have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations;
 Isaiah	Is	27	66	4	I also will choose affliction for them, and bring their fears upon them; because, when I called, no one answered, when I spoke they did not listen; but they did what was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I did not delight.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	66	5	Hear the word of the Lord, you who tremble at his word: “Your brethren who hate you and cast you out for my name’s sake have said, ‘Let the Lord be glorified, that we may see your joy’; but it is they who shall be put to shame.
 Isaiah	Is	27	66	6	“Hark, an uproar from the city! A voice from the temple! The voice of the Lord, rendering recompense to his enemies!
 Isaiah	Is	27	66	7	“Before she was in labor she gave birth; before her pain came upon her she was delivered of a son.
 Isaiah	Is	27	66	8	Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? Shall a nation be brought forth in one moment? For as soon as Zion was in labor she brought forth her sons.
 Isaiah	Is	27	66	9	Shall I bring to the birth and not cause to bring forth? says the Lord; shall I, who cause to bring forth, shut the womb? says your God.
 Isaiah	Is	27	66	10	“Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her; rejoice with her in joy, all you who mourn over her;
 Isaiah	Is	27	66	11	that you may suck and be satisfied with her consoling breasts; that you may drink deeply with delight from the abundance of her glory.”
 Isaiah	Is	27	66	12	For thus says the Lord: “Behold, I will extend prosperity to her like a river, and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you shall suck, you shall be carried upon her hip, and dandled upon her knees.
 Isaiah	Is	27	66	13	As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
 Isaiah	Is	27	66	14	You shall see, and your heart shall rejoice; your bones shall flourish like the grass; and it shall be known that the hand of the Lord is with his servants, and his indignation is against his enemies.
 Isaiah	Is	27	66	15	“For behold, the Lord will come in fire, and his chariots like the stormwind, to render his anger in fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
 Isaiah	Is	27	66	16	For by fire will the Lord execute judgment, and by his sword, upon all flesh; and those slain by the Lord shall be many.
 Isaiah	Is	27	66	17	“Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one in the midst, eating swine’s flesh and the abomination and mice, shall come to an end together, says the Lord.
 Isaiah	Is	27	66	18	“For I know their works and their thoughts, and I am coming to gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come and shall see my glory,
 Isaiah	Is	27	66	19	and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Put, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.
 Isaiah	Is	27	66	20	And they shall bring all your brethren from all the nations as an offering to the Lord, upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the Lord, just as the Israelites bring their cereal offering in a clean vessel to the house of the Lord.
 Isaiah	Is	27	66	21	And some of them also I will take for priests and for Levites, says the Lord.
 Isaiah	Is	27	66	22	“For as the new heavens and the new earth which I will make shall remain before me, says the Lord; so shall your descendants and your name remain.
 Isaiah	Is	27	66	23	From new moon to new moon, and from sabbath to sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before me, says the Lord.
 Isaiah	Is	27	66	24	“And they shall go forth and look on the dead bodies of the men that have rebelled against me; for their worm shall not die, their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	1	1	The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	1	2	to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	1	3	It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, and until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the captivity of Jerusalem in the fifth month.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	1	4	Now the word of the Lord came to me saying,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	1	5	“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	1	6	Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	1	7	But the Lord said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am only a youth’; for to all to whom I send you you shall go, and whatever I command you you shall speak.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	1	8	Be not afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, says the Lord.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	1	9	Then the Lord put forth his hand and touched my mouth; and the Lord said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	1	10	See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	1	11	And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” And I said, “I see a rod of almond.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	1	12	Then the Lord said to me, “You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	1	13	The word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see a boiling pot, facing away from the north.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	1	14	Then the Lord said to me, “Out of the north evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	1	15	For, lo, I am calling all the tribes of the kingdoms of the north, says the Lord; and they shall come and every one shall set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, against all its walls round about, and against all the cities of Judah.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	1	16	And I will utter my judgments against them, for all their wickedness in forsaking me; they have burned incense to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	1	17	But you, gird up your loins; arise, and say to them everything that I command you. Do not be dismayed by them, lest I dismay you before them.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	1	18	And I, behold, I make you this day a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, its princes, its priests, and the people of the land.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	1	19	They will fight against you; but they shall not prevail against you, for I am with you, says the Lord, to deliver you.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	1	The word of the Lord came to me, saying,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	2	“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord, I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	3	Israel was holy to the Lord, the first fruits of his harvest. All who ate of it became guilty; evil came upon them, says the Lord.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	4	Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	5	Thus says the Lord: “What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	6	They did not say, ‘Where is the Lord who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought and deep darkness, in a land that none passes through, where no man dwells?’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	7	And I brought you into a plentiful land to enjoy its fruits and its good things. But when you came in you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	8	The priests did not say, ‘Where is the Lord?’ Those who handle the law did not know me; the rulers transgressed against me; the prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after things that do not profit.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	9	“Therefore I still contend with you, says the Lord, and with your children’s children I will contend.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	10	For cross to the coasts of Cyprus and see, or send to Kedar and examine with care; see if there has been such a thing.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	11	Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	12	Be appalled, O heavens, at this, be shocked, be utterly desolate, says the Lord,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	13	for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	14	“Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn servant? Why then has he become a prey?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	15	The lions have roared against him, they have roared loudly. They have made his land a waste; his cities are in ruins, without inhabitant.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	16	Moreover, the men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	17	Have you not brought this upon yourself by forsaking the Lord your God, when he led you in the way?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	18	And now what do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Nile? Or what do you gain by going to Assyria, to drink the waters of the Euphrates?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	19	Your wickedness will chasten you, and your apostasy will reprove you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the Lord your God; the fear of me is not in you, says the Lord GOD of hosts.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	20	“For long ago you broke your yoke and burst your bonds; and you said, ‘I will not serve.’ Yea, upon every high hill and under every green tree you bowed down as a harlot.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	21	Yet I planted you a choice vine, wholly of pure seed. How then have you turned degenerate and become a wild vine?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	22	Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me, says the Lord God.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	23	How can you say, ‘I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baals’? Look at your way in the valley; know what you have done— a restive young camel interlacing her tracks,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	24	a wild ass used to the wilderness, in her heat sniffing the wind! Who can restrain her lust? None who seek her need weary themselves; in her month they will find her.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	25	Keep your feet from going unshod and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is hopeless, for I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	26	“As a thief is shamed when caught, so the house of Israel shall be shamed: they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	27	who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their back to me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble they say, ‘Arise and save us!’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	28	But where are your gods that you made for yourself? Let them arise, if they can save you, in your time of trouble; for as many as your cities are your gods, O Judah.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	29	“Why do you complain against me? You have all rebelled against me, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	30	In vain have I smitten your children, they took no correction; your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	31	And you, O generation, heed the word of the Lord. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why then do my people say, ‘We are free, we will come no more to thee’?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	32	Can a maiden forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	33	“How well you direct your course to seek lovers! So that even to wicked women you have taught your ways.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	34	Also on your skirts is found the lifeblood of guiltless poor; you did not find them breaking in. Yet in spite of all these things
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	35	you say, ‘I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.’ Behold, I will bring you to judgment for saying, ‘I have not sinned.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	36	How lightly you gad about, changing your way! You shall be put to shame by Egypt as you were put to shame by Assyria.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	2	37	From it too you will come away with your hands upon your head, for the Lord has rejected those in whom you trust, and you will not prosper by them.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	3	1	“If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man’s wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the harlot with many lovers; and would you return to me? says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	3	2	Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers like an Arab in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your vile harlotry.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	3	3	Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have a harlot’s brow, you refuse to be ashamed.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	3	4	Have you not just now called to me, ‘My father, thou art the friend of my youth—
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	3	5	will he be angry for ever, will he be indignant to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken, but you have done all the evil that you could.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	3	6	The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah: “Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there played the harlot?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	3	7	And I thought, ‘After she has done all this she will return to me’; but she did not return, and her false sister Judah saw it.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	3	8	She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce; yet her false sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the harlot.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	3	9	Because harlotry was so light to her, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	3	10	Yet for all this her false sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart, but in pretense, says the Lord.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	3	11	And the Lord said to me, “Faithless Israel has shown herself less guilty than false Judah.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	3	12	Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, faithless Israel, says the Lord. I will not look on you in anger, for I am merciful, says the Lord; I will not be angry for ever.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	3	13	Only acknowledge your guilt, that you rebelled against the Lord your God and scattered your favors among strangers under every green tree, and that you have not obeyed my voice, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	3	14	Return, O faithless children, says the Lord; for I am your master; I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	3	15	“‘And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	3	16	And when you have multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, says the Lord, they shall no more say, “The ark of the covenant of the Lord.” It shall not come to mind, or be remembered, or missed; it shall not be made again.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	3	17	At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the Lord, and all nations shall gather to it, to the presence of the Lord in Jerusalem, and they shall no more stubbornly follow their own evil heart.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	3	18	In those days the house of Judah shall join the house of Israel, and together they shall come from the land of the north to the land that I gave your fathers for a heritage.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	3	19	“‘I thought how I would set you among my sons, and give you a pleasant land, a heritage most beauteous of all nations. And I thought you would call me, My Father, and would not turn from following me.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	3	20	Surely, as a faithless wife leaves her husband, so have you been faithless to me, O house of Israel, says the Lord.’”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	3	21	A voice on the bare heights is heard, the weeping and pleading of Israel’s sons, because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten the Lord their God.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	3	22	“Return, O faithless sons, I will heal your faithlessness.” “Behold, we come to thee; for thou art the Lord our God.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	3	23	Truly the hills are a delusion, the orgies on the mountains. Truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	3	24	“But from our youth the shameful thing has devoured all for which our fathers labored, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	3	25	Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us; for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	4	1	“If you return, O Israel, says the Lord, to me you should return. If you remove your abominations from my presence, and do not waver,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	4	2	and if you swear, ‘As the Lord lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in uprightness, then nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	4	3	For thus says the Lord to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem: “Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	4	4	Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, remove the foreskin of your hearts, O men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of the evil of your doings.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	4	5	Declare in Judah, and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say, “Blow the trumpet through the land; cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble, and let us go into the fortified cities!’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	4	6	Raise a standard toward Zion, flee for safety, stay not, for I bring evil from the north, and great destruction.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	4	7	A lion has gone up from his thicket, a destroyer of nations has set out; he has gone forth from his place to make your land a waste; your cities will be ruins without inhabitant.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	4	8	For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of the Lord has not turned back from us.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	4	9	“In that day, says the Lord, courage shall fail both king and princes; the priests shall be appalled and the prophets astounded.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	4	10	Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, surely thou hast utterly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘It shall be well with you’; whereas the sword has reached their very life.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	4	11	At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind from the bare heights in the desert toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow or cleanse,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	4	12	a wind too full for this comes for me. Now it is I who speak in judgment upon them.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	4	13	Behold, he comes up like clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles— woe to us, for we are ruined!
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	4	14	O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	4	15	For a voice declares from Dan and proclaims evil from Mount Ephraim.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	4	16	Warn the nations that he is coming; announce to Jerusalem, “Besiegers come from a distant land; they shout against the cities of Judah.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	4	17	Like keepers of a field are they against her round about, because she has rebelled against me, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	4	18	Your ways and your doings have brought this upon you. This is your doom, and it is bitter; it has reached your very heart.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	4	19	My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the walls of my heart! My heart is beating wildly; I cannot keep silent; for I hear the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	4	20	Disaster follows hard on disaster, the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, my curtains in a moment.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	4	21	How long must I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	4	22	“For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are stupid children, they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but how to do good they know not.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	4	23	I looked on the earth, and lo, it was waste and void; and to the heavens, and they had no light.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	4	24	I looked on the mountains, and lo, they were quaking, and all the hills moved to and fro.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	4	25	I looked, and lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the air had fled.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	4	26	I looked, and lo, the fruitful land was a desert, and all its cities were laid in ruins before the Lord, before his fierce anger.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	4	27	For thus says the Lord, “The whole land shall be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	4	28	For this the earth shall mourn, and the heavens above be black; for I have spoken, I have purposed; I have not relented nor will I turn back.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	4	29	At the noise of horseman and archer every city takes to flight; they enter thickets; they climb among rocks; all the cities are forsaken, and no man dwells in them.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	4	30	And you, O desolate one, what do you mean that you dress in scarlet, that you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, that you enlarge your eyes with paint? In vain you beautify yourself. Your lovers despise you; they seek your life.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	4	31	For I heard a cry as of a woman in travail, anguish as of one bringing forth her first child, the cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands, “Woe is me! I am fainting before murderers.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	5	1	Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, look and take note! Search her squares to see if you can find a man, one who does justice and seeks truth; that I may pardon her.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	5	2	Though they say, “As the Lord lives,” yet they swear falsely.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	5	3	O Lord, do not thy eyes look for truth? Thou hast smitten them, but they felt no anguish; thou hast consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to repent.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	5	4	Then I said, “These are only the poor, they have no sense; for they do not know the way of the Lord, the law of their God.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	5	5	I will go to the great, and will speak to them; for they know the way of the Lord, the law of their God.” But they all alike had broken the yoke, they had burst the bonds.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	5	6	Therefore a lion from the forest shall slay them, a wolf from the desert shall destroy them. A leopard is watching against their cities, every one who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, their apostasies are great.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	5	7	“How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and have sworn by those who are no gods. When I fed them to the full, they committed adultery and trooped to the houses of harlots.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	5	8	They were well-fed lusty stallions, each neighing for his neighbor’s wife.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	5	9	Shall I not punish them for these things? says the Lord; and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	5	10	“Go up through her vine-rows and destroy, but make not a full end; strip away her branches, for they are not the Lord’s.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	5	11	For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been utterly faithless to me, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	5	12	They have spoken falsely of the Lord, and have said, ‘He will do nothing; no evil will come upon us, nor shall we see sword or famine.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	5	13	The prophets will become wind; the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them!’”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	5	14	Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of hosts: “Because they have spoken this word, behold, I am making my words in your mouth a fire, and this people wood, and the fire shall devour them.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	5	15	Behold, I am bringing upon you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, says the Lord. It is an enduring nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor can you understand what they say.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	5	16	Their quiver is like an open tomb, they are all mighty men.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	5	17	They shall eat up your harvest and your food; they shall eat up your sons and your daughters; they shall eat up your flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees; your fortified cities in which you trust they shall destroy with the sword.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	5	18	“But even in those days, says the Lord, I will not make a full end of you.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	5	19	And when your people say, ‘Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?’ you shall say to them, ‘As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	5	20	Declare this in the house of Jacob, proclaim it in Judah:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	5	21	“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	5	22	Do you not fear me? says the Lord; Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as the bound for the sea, a perpetual barrier which it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail, though they roar, they cannot pass over it.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	5	23	But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; they have turned aside and gone away.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	5	24	They do not say in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives the rain in its season, the autumn rain and the spring rain, and keeps for us the weeks appointed for the harvest.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	5	25	Your iniquities have turned these away, and your sins have kept good from you.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	5	26	For wicked men are found among my people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	5	27	Like a basket full of birds, their houses are full of treachery; therefore they have become great and rich,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	5	28	they have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of wickedness; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	5	29	Shall I not punish them for these things? says the Lord, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	5	30	An appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	5	31	the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	6	1	Flee for safety, O people of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise a signal on Beth-haccherem; for evil looms out of the north, and great destruction.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	6	2	The comely and delicately bred I will destroy, the daughter of Zion.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	6	3	Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her; they shall pitch their tents around her, they shall pasture, each in his place.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	6	4	“Prepare war against her; up, and let us attack at noon!” “Woe to us, for the day declines, for the shadows of evening lengthen!”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	6	5	“Up, and let us attack by night, and destroy her palaces!”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	6	6	For thus says the Lord of hosts: “Hew down her trees; cast up a siege mound against Jerusalem. This is the city which must be punished; there is nothing but oppression within her.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	6	7	As a well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps fresh her wickedness; violence and destruction are heard within her; sickness and wounds are ever before me.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	6	8	Be warned, O Jerusalem, lest I be alienated from you; lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	6	9	Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Glean thoroughly as a vine the remnant of Israel; like a grape-gatherer pass your hand again over its branches.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	6	10	To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are closed, they cannot listen; behold, the word of the Lord is to them an object of scorn, they take no pleasure in it.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	6	11	Therefore I am full of the wrath of the Lord; I am weary of holding it in. “Pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the gatherings of young men, also; both husband and wife shall be taken, the old folk and the very aged.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	6	12	Their houses shall be turned over to others, their fields and wives together; for I will stretch out my hand against the inhabitants of the land,” says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	6	13	“For from the least to the greatest of them, every one is greedy for unjust gain; and from prophet to priest, every one deals falsely.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	6	14	They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	6	15	Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I punish them, they shall be overthrown,” says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	6	16	Thus says the Lord: “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	6	17	I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Give heed to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not give heed.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	6	18	Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, what will happen to them.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	6	19	Hear, O earth; behold, I am bringing evil upon this people, the fruit of their devices, because they have not given heed to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	6	20	To what purpose does frankincense come to me from Sheba, or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	6	21	Therefore thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, I will lay before this people stumbling blocks against which they shall stumble; fathers and sons together, neighbor and friend shall perish.’”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	6	22	Thus says the Lord: “Behold, a people is coming from the north country, a great nation is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	6	23	They lay hold on bow and spear, they are cruel and have no mercy, the sound of them is like the roaring sea; they ride upon horses, set in array as a man for battle, against you, O daughter of Zion!”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	6	24	We have heard the report of it, our hands fall helpless; anguish has taken hold of us, pain as of a woman in travail.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	6	25	Go not forth into the field, nor walk on the road; for the enemy has a sword, terror is on every side.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	6	26	O daughter of my people, gird on sackcloth, and roll in ashes; make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	6	27	“I have made you an assayer and tester among my people, that you may know and assay their ways.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	6	28	They are all stubbornly rebellious, going about with slanders; they are bronze and iron, all of them act corruptly.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	6	29	The bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed by the fire; in vain the refining goes on, for the wicked are not removed.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	6	30	Refuse silver they are called, for the Lord has rejected them.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	7	1	The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	7	2	“Stand in the gate of the Lord’s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the Lord, all you men of Judah who enter these gates to worship the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	7	3	Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will let you dwell in this place.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	7	4	Do not trust in these deceptive words: ‘This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	7	5	“For if you truly amend your ways and your doings, if you truly execute justice one with another,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	7	6	if you do not oppress the alien, the fatherless or the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own hurt,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	7	7	then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your fathers for ever.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	7	8	“Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	7	9	Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	7	10	and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	7	11	Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	7	12	Go now to my place that was in Shiloh, where I made my name dwell at first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	7	13	And now, because you have done all these things, says the Lord, and when I spoke to you persistently you did not listen, and when I called you, you did not answer,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	7	14	therefore I will do to the house which is called by my name, and in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	7	15	And I will cast you out of my sight, as I cast out all your kinsmen, all the offspring of Ephraim.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	7	16	“As for you, do not pray for this people, or lift up cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with me, for I do not hear you.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	7	17	Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	7	18	The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	7	19	Is it I whom they provoke? says the Lord. Is it not themselves, to their own confusion?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	7	20	Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, upon man and beast, upon the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; it will burn and not be quenched.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	7	21	Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	7	22	For in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to your fathers or command them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	7	23	But this command I gave them, ‘Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	7	24	But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	7	25	From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	7	26	yet they did not listen to me, or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	7	27	“So you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall call to them, but they will not answer you.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	7	28	And you shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the Lord their God, and did not accept discipline; truth has perished; it is cut off from their lips.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	7	29	Cut off your hair and cast it away; raise a lamentation on the bare heights, for the Lord has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	7	30	“For the sons of Judah have done evil in my sight, says the Lord; they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	7	31	And they have built the high place of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	7	32	Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when it will no more be called Topheth, or the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of Slaughter: for they will bury in Topheth, because there is no room elsewhere.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	7	33	And the dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the air, and for the beasts of the earth; and none will frighten them away.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	7	34	And I will make to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	8	1	“At that time, says the Lord, the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of its princes, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be brought out of their tombs;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	8	2	and they shall be spread before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, which they have gone after, and which they have sought and worshiped; and they shall not be gathered or buried; they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	8	3	Death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family in all the places where I have driven them, says the Lord of hosts.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	8	4	“You shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: When men fall, do they not rise again? If one turns away, does he not return?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	8	5	Why then has this people turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit, they refuse to return.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	8	6	I have given heed and listened, but they have not spoken aright; no man repents of his wickedness, saying, ‘What have I done?’ Every one turns to his own course, like a horse plunging headlong into battle.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	8	7	Even the stork in the heavens knows her times; and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming; but my people know not the ordinance of the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	8	8	“How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us’? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made it into a lie.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	8	9	The wise men shall be put to shame, they shall be dismayed and taken; lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord, and what wisdom is in them?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	8	10	Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to conquerors, because from the least to the greatest every one is greedy for unjust gain; from prophet to priest every one deals falsely.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	8	11	They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	8	12	Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they shall be overthrown, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	8	13	When I would gather them, says the Lord, there are no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree; even the leaves are withered, and what I gave them has passed away from them.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	8	14	Why do we sit still? Gather together, let us go into the fortified cities and perish there; for the Lord our God has doomed us to perish, and has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	8	15	We looked for peace, but no good came, for a time of healing, but behold, terror.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	8	16	“The snorting of their horses is heard from Dan; at the sound of the neighing of their stallions the whole land quakes. They come and devour the land and all that fills it, the city and those who dwell in it.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	8	17	For behold, I am sending among you serpents, adders which cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you,” says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	8	18	My grief is beyond healing, my heart is sick within me.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	8	19	Hark, the cry of the daughter of my people from the length and breadth of the land: “Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King not in her?” “Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with their foreign idols?”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	8	20	“The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	8	21	For the wound of the daughter of my people is my heart wounded, I mourn, and dismay has taken hold on me.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	8	22	Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	9	1	O that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	9	2	O that I had in the desert a wayfarers’ lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a company of treacherous men.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	9	3	They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	9	4	Let every one beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother; for every brother is a supplanter, and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	9	5	Every one deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they commit iniquity and are too weary to repent.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	9	6	Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit, they refuse to know me, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	9	7	Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: “Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do, because of my people?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	9	8	Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceitfully; with his mouth each speaks peaceably to his neighbor, but in his heart he plans an ambush for him.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	9	9	Shall I not punish them for these things? says the Lord; and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	9	10	“Take up weeping and wailing for the mountains, and a lamentation for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are laid waste so that no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard; both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled and are gone.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	9	11	I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	9	12	Who is the man so wise that he can understand this? To whom has the mouth of the Lord spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined and laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	9	13	And the Lor says: “Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, or walked in accord with it,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	9	14	but have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	9	15	Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them poisonous water to drink.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	9	16	I will scatter them among the nations whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	9	17	Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Consider, and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skilful women to come;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	9	18	let them make haste and raise a wailing over us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush with water.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	9	19	For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How we are ruined! We are utterly shamed, because we have left the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	9	20	Hear, O women, the word of the Lord, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; teach to your daughters a lament, and each to her neighbor a dirge.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	9	21	For death has come up into our windows, it has entered our palaces, cutting off the children from the streets and the young men from the squares.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	9	22	Speak, “Thus says the Lord: ‘The dead bodies of men shall fall like dung upon the open field, like sheaves after the reaper, and none shall gather them.’”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	9	23	Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let not the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	9	24	but let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practice steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth; for in these things I delight, says the Lord.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	9	25	“Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will punish all those who are circumcised but yet uncircumcised—
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	9	26	Egypt, Judah, Edom, the sons of Ammon, Moab, and all who dwell in the desert that cut the corners of their hair; for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	10	1	Hear the word which the Lord speaks to you, O house of Israel.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	10	2	Thus says the Lord: “Learn not the way of the nations, nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens because the nations are dismayed at them,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	10	3	for the customs of the peoples are false. A tree from the forest is cut down, and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	10	4	Men deck it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so that it cannot move.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	10	5	Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field, and they cannot speak; they have to be carried, for they cannot walk. Be not afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	10	6	There is none like thee, O Lord; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	10	7	Who would not fear thee, O King of the nations? For this is thy due; for among all the wise ones of the nations and in all their kingdoms there is none like thee.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	10	8	They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but wood!
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	10	9	Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz. They are the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the goldsmith; their clothing is violet and purple; they are all the work of skilled men.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	10	10	But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	10	11	Thus shall you say to them: “The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	10	12	It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	10	13	When he utters his voice there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain, and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	10	14	Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols; for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	10	15	They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	10	16	Not like these is he who is the portion of Jacob, for he is the one who formed all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance; the Lord of hosts is his name.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	10	17	Gather up your bundle from the ground, O you who dwell under siege!
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	10	18	For thus says the Lord: “Behold, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and I will bring distress on them, that they may feel it.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	10	19	Woe is me because of my hurt! My wound is grievous. But I said, “Truly this is an affliction, and I must bear it.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	10	20	My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken; my children have gone from me, and they are not; there is no one to spread my tent again, and to set up my curtains.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	10	21	For the shepherds are stupid, and do not inquire of the Lord; therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	10	22	Hark, a rumor! Behold, it comes!— a great commotion out of the north country to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a lair of jackals.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	10	23	I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	10	24	Correct me, O Lord, but in just measure; not in thy anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	10	25	Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the peoples that call not on thy name; for they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	11	1	The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	11	2	“Hear the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	11	3	You shall say to them, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man who does not heed the words of this covenant
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	11	4	which I commanded your fathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Listen to my voice, and do all that I command you. So shall you be my people, and I will be your God,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	11	5	that I may perform the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day.” Then I answered, “So be it, Lord.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	11	6	And the Lord said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: Hear the words of this covenant and do them.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	11	7	For I solemnly warned your fathers when I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, warning them persistently, even to this day, saying, Obey my voice.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	11	8	Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but every one walked in the stubbornness of his evil heart. Therefore I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	11	9	Again the Lord said to me, “There is revolt among the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	11	10	They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; they have gone after other gods to serve them; the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	11	11	Therefore, thus says the Lord, Behold, I am bringing evil upon them which they cannot escape; though they cry to me, I will not listen to them.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	11	12	Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they cannot save them in the time of their trouble.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	11	13	For your gods have become as many as your cities, O Judah; and as many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to shame, altars to burn incense to Baal.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	11	14	“Therefore do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer on their behalf, for I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their trouble.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	11	15	What right has my beloved in my house, when she has done vile deeds? Can vows and sacrificial flesh avert your doom? Can you then exult?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	11	16	The Lord once called you, ‘A green olive tree, fair with goodly fruit’; but with the roar of a great tempest he will set fire to it, and its branches will be consumed.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	11	17	The Lord of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil which the house of Israel and the house of Judah have done, provoking me to anger by burning incense to Baal.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	11	18	The Lord made it known to me and I knew; then thou didst show me their evil deeds.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	11	19	But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. I did not know it was against me they devised schemes, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	11	20	But, O Lord of hosts, who judgest righteously, who triest the heart and the mind, let me see thy vengeance upon them, for to thee have I committed my cause.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	11	21	Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, and say, “Do not prophesy in the name of the Lord, or you will die by our hand”—
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	11	22	therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: “Behold, I will punish them; the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	11	23	and none of them shall be left. For I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, the year of their punishment.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	12	1	Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I complain to thee; yet I would plead my case before thee. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	12	2	Thou plantest them, and they take root; they grow and bring forth fruit; thou art near in their mouth and far from their heart.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	12	3	But thou, O Lord, knowest me; thou seest me, and triest my mind toward thee. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	12	4	How long will the land mourn, and the grass of every field wither? For the wickedness of those who dwell in it the beasts and the birds are swept away, because men said, “He will not see our latter end.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	12	5	“If you have raced with men on foot, and they have wearied you, how will you compete with horses? And if in a safe land you fall down, how will you do in the jungle of the Jordan?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	12	6	For even your brothers and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; they are in full cry after you; believe them not, though they speak fair words to you.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	12	7	“I have forsaken my house, I have abandoned my heritage; I have given the beloved of my soul into the hands of her enemies.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	12	8	My heritage has become to me like a lion in the forest, she has lifted up her voice against me; therefore I hate her.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	12	9	Is my heritage to me like a speckled bird of prey? Are the birds of prey against her round about? Go, assemble all the wild beasts; bring them to devour.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	12	10	Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trampled down my portion, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	12	11	They have made it a desolation; desolate, it mourns to me. The whole land is made desolate, but no man lays it to heart.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	12	12	Upon all the bare heights in the desert destroyers have come; for the sword of the Lord devours from one end of the land to the other; no flesh has peace.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	12	13	They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns, they have tired themselves out but profit nothing. They shall be ashamed of their harvests because of the fierce anger of the Lord.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	12	14	Thus says the Lord concerning all my evil neighbors who touch the heritage which I have given my people Israel to inherit: “Behold, I will pluck them up from their land, and I will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	12	15	And after I have plucked them up, I will again have compassion on them, and I will bring them again each to his heritage and each to his land.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	12	16	And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, ‘As the Lord lives,’ even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they shall be built up in the midst of my people.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	12	17	But if any nation will not listen, then I will utterly pluck it up and destroy it, says the Lord.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	13	1	Thus said the Lord to me, “Go and buy a linen waistcloth, and put it on your loins, and do not dip it in water.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	13	2	So I bought a waistcloth according to the word of the Lord, and put it on my loins.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	13	3	And the word of the Lord came to me a second time,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	13	4	“Take the waistcloth which you have bought, which is upon your loins, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	13	5	So I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord commanded me.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	13	6	And after many days the Lord said to me, “Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take from there the waistcloth which I commanded you to hide there.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	13	7	Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and I took the waistcloth from the place where I had hidden it. And behold, the waistcloth was spoiled; it was good for nothing.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	13	8	Then the word of the Lord came to me:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	13	9	“Thus says the Lord: Even so will I spoil the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	13	10	This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who stubbornly follow their own heart and have gone after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be like this waistcloth, which is good for nothing.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	13	11	For as the waistcloth clings to the loins of a man, so I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to me, says the Lord, that they might be for me a people, a name, a praise, and a glory, but they would not listen.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	13	12	“You shall speak to them this word: ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, “Every jar shall be filled with wine.”’ And they will say to you, ‘Do we not indeed know that every jar will be filled with wine?’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	13	13	Then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord: Behold, I will fill with drunkenness all the inhabitants of this land: the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	13	14	And I will dash them one against another, fathers and sons together, says the Lord. I will not pity or spare or have compassion, that I should not destroy them.’”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	13	15	Hear and give ear; be not proud, for the Lord has spoken.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	13	16	Give glory to the Lord your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the twilight mountains, and while you look for light he turns it into gloom and makes it deep darkness.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	13	17	But if you will not listen, my soul will weep in secret for your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears, because the Lord’s flock has been taken captive.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	13	18	Say to the king and the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your beautiful crown has come down from your head.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	13	19	The cities of the Negeb are shut up, with none to open them; all Judah is taken into exile, wholly taken into exile.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	13	20	“Lift up your eyes and see those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	13	21	What will you say when they set as head over you those whom you yourself have taught to be friends to you? Will not pangs take hold of you, like those of a woman in travail?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	13	22	And if you say in your heart, ‘Why have these things come upon me?’ it is for the greatness of your iniquity that your skirts are lifted up, and you suffer violence.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	13	23	Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	13	24	I will scatter you like chaff driven by the wind from the desert.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	13	25	This is your lot, the portion I have measured out to you, says the Lord, because you have forgotten me and trusted in lies.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	13	26	I myself will lift up your skirts over your face, and your shame will be seen.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	13	27	I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your lewd harlotries, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	14	1	The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	14	2	“Judah mourns and her gates languish; her people lament on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem goes up.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	14	3	Her nobles send their servants for water; they come to the cisterns, they find no water, they return with their vessels empty; they are ashamed and confounded and cover their heads.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	14	4	Because of the ground which is dismayed, since there is no rain on the land, the farmers are ashamed, they cover their heads.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	14	5	Even the hind in the field forsakes her newborn calf because there is no grass.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	14	6	The wild asses stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail because there is no herbage.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	14	7	“Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O Lord, for thy name’s sake; for our backslidings are many, we have sinned against thee.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	14	8	O thou hope of Israel, its savior in time of trouble, why shouldst thou be like a stranger in the land, like a wayfarer who turns aside to tarry for a night?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	14	9	Why shouldst thou be like a man confused, like a mighty man who cannot save? Yet thou, O Lord, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	14	10	Thus says the Lord concerning this people: “They have loved to wander thus, they have not restrained their feet; therefore the Lord does not accept them, now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	14	11	The Lord said to me: “Do not pray for the welfare of this people.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	14	12	Though they fast, I will not hear their cry, and though they offer burnt offering and cereal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	14	13	Then I said: “Ah, Lord GOD, behold, the prophets say to them, ‘You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you assured peace in this place.’”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	14	14	And the Lord said to me: “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name; I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	14	15	Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name although I did not send them, and who say, ‘Sword and famine shall not come on this land’: By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	14	16	And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and sword, with none to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. For I will pour out their wickedness upon them.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	14	17	“You shall say to them this word: ‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people is smitten with a great wound, with a very grievous blow.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	14	18	If I go out into the field, behold, those slain by the sword! And if I enter the city, behold, the diseases of famine! For both prophet and priest ply their trade through the land, and have no knowledge.’”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	14	19	Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? Does thy soul loathe Zion? Why hast thou smitten us so that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; for a time of healing, but behold, terror.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	14	20	We acknowledge our wickedness, O Lord, and the iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against thee.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	14	21	Do not spurn us, for thy name’s sake; do not dishonor thy glorious throne; remember and do not break thy covenant with us.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	14	22	Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Art thou not he, O Lord our God? We set our hope on thee, for thou doest all these things.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	15	1	Then the Lord said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go!
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	15	2	And when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Those who are for pestilence, to pestilence, and those who are for the sword, to the sword; those who are for famine, to famine, and those who are for captivity, to captivity.”’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	15	3	“I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, says the Lord: the sword to slay, the dogs to tear, and the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	15	4	And I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	15	5	“Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem, or who will bemoan you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	15	6	You have rejected me, says the Lord, you keep going backward; so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you;— I am weary of relenting.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	15	7	I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them, I have destroyed my people; they did not turn from their ways.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	15	8	I have made their widows more in number than the sand of the seas; I have brought against the mothers of young men a destroyer at noonday; I have made anguish and terror fall upon them suddenly.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	15	9	She who bore seven has languished; she has swooned away; her sun went down while it was yet day; she has been shamed and disgraced. And the rest of them I will give to the sword before their enemies, says the Lord.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	15	10	Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	15	11	So let it be, O Lord, if I have not entreated thee for their good, if I have not pleaded with thee on behalf of the enemy in the time of trouble and in the time of distress!
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	15	12	Can one break iron, iron from the north, and bronze?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	15	13	“Your wealth and your treasures I will give as spoil, without price, for all your sins, throughout all your territory.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	15	14	I will make you serve your enemies in a land which you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled which shall burn for ever.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	15	15	O Lord, thou knowest; remember me and visit me, and take vengeance for me on my persecutors. In thy forbearance take me not away; know that for thy sake I bear reproach.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	15	16	Thy words were found, and I ate them, and thy words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart; for I am called by thy name, O Lord, God of hosts.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	15	17	I did not sit in the company of merrymakers, nor did I rejoice; I sat alone, because thy hand was upon me, for thou hadst filled me with indignation.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	15	18	Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Wilt thou be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	15	19	Therefore thus says the Lord: “If you return, I will restore you, and you shall stand before me. If you utter what is precious, and not what is worthless, you shall be as my mouth. They shall turn to you, but you shall not turn to them.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	15	20	And I will make you to this people a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you, but they shall not prevail over you, for I am with you to save you and deliver you, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	15	21	I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	16	1	The word of the Lord came to me:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	16	2	“You shall not take a wife, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	16	3	For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place, and concerning the mothers who bore them and the fathers who begot them in this land:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	16	4	They shall die of deadly diseases. They shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried; they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground. They shall perish by the sword and by famine, and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	16	5	“For thus says the Lord: Do not enter the house of mourning, or go to lament, or bemoan them; for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the Lord, my steadfast love and mercy.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	16	6	Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, and no one shall lament for them or cut himself or make himself bald for them.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	16	7	No one shall break bread for the mourner, to comfort him for the dead; nor shall any one give him the cup of consolation to drink for his father or his mother.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	16	8	You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and drink.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	16	9	For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will make to cease from this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	16	10	“And when you tell this people all these words, and they say to you, ‘Why has the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	16	11	then you shall say to them: ‘Because your fathers have forsaken me, says the Lord, and have gone after other gods and have served and worshiped them, and have forsaken me and have not kept my law,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	16	12	and because you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, every one of you follows his stubborn evil will, refusing to listen to me;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	16	13	therefore I will hurl you out of this land into a land which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	16	14	“Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when it shall no longer be said, ‘As the Lord lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	16	15	but ‘As the Lord lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he had driven them.’ For I will bring them back to their own land which I gave to their fathers.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	16	16	“Behold, I am sending for many fishers, says the Lord, and they shall catch them; and afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	16	17	For my eyes are upon all their ways; they are not hid from me, nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	16	18	And I will doubly recompense their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	16	19	O Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: “Our fathers have inherited nought but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	16	20	Can man make for himself gods? Such are no gods!”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	16	21	“Therefore, behold, I will make them know, this once I will make them know my power and my might, and they shall know that my name is the Lord.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	17	1	“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; with a point of diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of their altars,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	17	2	while their children remember their altars and their Asherim, beside every green tree, and on the high hills,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	17	3	on the mountains in the open country. Your wealth and all your treasures I will give for spoil as the price of your sin throughout all your territory.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	17	4	You shall loosen your hand from your heritage which I gave to you, and I will make you serve your enemies in a land which you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled which shall burn for ever.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	17	5	Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm, whose heart turns away from the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	17	6	He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	17	7	“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	17	8	He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	17	9	The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately corrupt; who can understand it?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	17	10	“I the Lord search the mind and try the heart, to give to every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	17	11	Like the partridge that gathers a brood which she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by right; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	17	12	A glorious throne set on high from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	17	13	O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who forsake thee shall be put to shame; those who turn away from thee shall be written in the earth, for they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living water.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	17	14	Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved; for thou art my praise.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	17	15	Behold, they say to me, “Where is the word of the Lord? Let it come!”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	17	16	I have not pressed thee to send evil, nor have I desired the day of disaster, thou knowest; that which came out of my lips was before thy face.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	17	17	Be not a terror to me; thou art my refuge in the day of evil.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	17	18	Let those be put to shame who persecute me, but let me not be put to shame; let them be dismayed, but let me not be dismayed; bring upon them the day of evil; destroy them with double destruction!
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	17	19	Thus said the Lord to me: “Go and stand in the Benjamin Gate, by which the kings of Judah enter and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	17	20	and say: ‘Hear the word of the Lord, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, who enter by these gates.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	17	21	Thus says the Lord: Take heed for the sake of your lives, and do not bear a burden on the sabbath day or bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	17	22	And do not carry a burden out of your houses on the sabbath or do any work, but keep the sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	17	23	Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck, that they might not hear and receive instruction.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	17	24	“‘But if you listen to me, says the Lord, and bring in no burden by the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but keep the sabbath day holy and do no work on it,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	17	25	then there shall enter by the gates of this city kings who sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their princes, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city shall be inhabited for ever.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	17	26	And people shall come from the cities of Judah and the places round about Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, from the Shephelah, from the hill country, and from the Negeb, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, cereal offerings and frankincense, and bringing thank offerings to the house of the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	17	27	But if you do not listen to me, to keep the sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter by the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem and shall not be quenched.’”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	18	1	The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	18	2	“Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear my words.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	18	3	So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was working at his wheel.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	18	4	And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	18	5	Then the word of the Lord came to me:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	18	6	“O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? says the Lord. Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	18	7	If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	18	8	and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will repent of the evil that I intended to do to it.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	18	9	And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	18	10	and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will repent of the good which I had intended to do to it.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	18	11	Now, therefore, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: ‘Thus says the Lord, Behold, I am shaping evil against you and devising a plan against you. Return, every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	18	12	“But they say, ‘That is in vain! We will follow our own plans, and will every one act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	18	13	“Therefore thus says the Lord: Ask among the nations, who has heard the like of this? The virgin Israel has done a very horrible thing.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	18	14	Does the snow of Lebanon leave the crags of Sirion? Do the mountain waters run dry, the cold flowing streams?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	18	15	But my people have forgotten me, they burn incense to false gods; they have stumbled in their ways, in the ancient roads, and have gone into bypaths, not the highway,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	18	16	making their land a horror, a thing to be hissed at for ever. Every one who passes by it is horrified and shakes his head.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	18	17	Like the east wind I will scatter them before the enemy. I will show them my back, not my face, in the day of their calamity.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	18	18	Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not heed any of his words.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	18	19	Give heed to me, O Lord, and hearken to my plea.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	18	20	Is evil a recompense for good? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	18	21	Therefore deliver up their children to famine; give them over to the power of the sword, let their wives become childless and widowed. May their men meet death by pestilence, their youths be slain by the sword in battle.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	18	22	May a cry be heard from their houses, when thou bringest the marauder suddenly upon them! For they have dug a pit to take me, and laid snares for my feet.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	18	23	Yet, thou, O Lord, knowest all their plotting to slay me. Forgive not their iniquity, nor blot out their sin from thy sight. Let them be overthrown before thee; deal with them in the time of thine anger.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	19	1	Thus said the Lord, “Go, buy a potter’s earthen flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the senior priests,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	19	2	and go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom at the entry of the Potsherd Gate, and proclaim there the words that I tell you.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	19	3	You shall say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon this place that the ears of every one who hears of it will tingle.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	19	4	Because the people have forsaken me, and have profaned this place by burning incense in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	19	5	and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	19	6	therefore, behold, days are coming, says the Lord, when this place shall no more be called Topheth, or the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of Slaughter.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	19	7	And in this place I will make void the plans of Judah and Jerusalem, and will cause their people to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the earth.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	19	8	And I will make this city a horror, a thing to be hissed at; every one who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its disasters.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	19	9	And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and every one shall eat the flesh of his neighbor in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies and those who seek their life afflict them.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	19	10	“Then you shall break the flask in the sight of the men who go with you,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	19	11	and shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: So will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, so that it can never be mended. Men shall bury in Topheth because there will be no place else to bury.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	19	12	Thus will I do to this place, says the Lord, and to its inhabitants, making this city like Topheth.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	19	13	The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah—all the houses upon whose roofs incense has been burned to all the host of heaven, and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods—shall be defiled like the place of Topheth.’”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	19	14	Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of the Lord’s house, and said to all the people:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	19	15	“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing upon this city and upon all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have stiffened their neck, refusing to hear my words.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	20	1	Now Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer, who was chief officer in the house of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	20	2	Then Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper Benjamin Gate of the house of the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	20	3	On the morrow, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The Lord does not call your name Pashhur, but Terror on every side.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	20	4	For thus says the Lord: Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They shall fall by the sword of their enemies while you look on. And I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon; he shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	20	5	Moreover, I will give all the wealth of the city, all its gains, all its prized belongings, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah into the hand of their enemies, who shall plunder them, and seize them, and carry them to Babylon.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	20	6	And you, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house, shall go into captivity; to Babylon you shall go; and there you shall die, and there you shall be buried, you and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	20	7	O Lord, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived; thou art stronger than I, and thou hast prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all the day; every one mocks me.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	20	8	For whenever I speak, I cry out, I shout, “Violence and destruction!” For the word of the Lord has become for me a reproach and derision all day long.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	20	9	If I say, “I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name,” there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	20	10	For I hear many whispering. Terror is on every side! “Denounce him! Let us denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, watching for my fall. “Perhaps he will be deceived, then we can overcome him, and take our revenge on him.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	20	11	But the Lord is with me as a dread warrior; therefore my persecutors will stumble, they will not overcome me. They will be greatly shamed, for they will not succeed. Their eternal dishonor will never be forgotten.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	20	12	O Lord of hosts, who triest the righteous, who seest the heart and the mind, let me see thy vengeance upon them, for to thee have I committed my cause.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	20	13	Sing to the Lord; praise the Lord! For he has delivered the life of the needy from the hand of evildoers.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	20	14	Cursed be the day on which I was born! The day when my mother bore me, let it not be blessed!
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	20	15	Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father, “A son is born to you,” making him very glad.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	20	16	Let that man be like the cities which the Lord overthrew without pity; let him hear a cry in the morning and an alarm at noon,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	20	17	because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb for ever great.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	20	18	Why did I come forth from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and spend my days in shame?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	21	1	This is the word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchiah and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Ma-aseiah, saying,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	21	2	“Inquire of the Lord for us, for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon is making war against us; perhaps the Lord will deal with us according to all his wonderful deeds, and will make him withdraw from us.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	21	3	Then Jeremiah said to them:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	21	4	“Thus you shall say to Zedekiah, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war which are in your hands and with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and against the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the walls; and I will bring them together into the midst of this city.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	21	5	I myself will fight against you with outstretched hand and strong arm, in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	21	6	And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they shall die of a great pestilence.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	21	7	Afterward, says the Lord, I will give Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people in this city who survive the pestilence, sword, and famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of their enemies, into the hand of those who seek their lives. He shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not pity them, or spare them, or have compassion.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	21	8	“And to this people you shall say: ‘Thus says the Lord: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	21	9	He who stays in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; but he who goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who are besieging you shall live and shall have his life as a prize of war.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	21	10	For I have set my face against this city for evil and not for good, says the Lord: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	21	11	“And to the house of the king of Judah say, ‘Hear the word of the Lor,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	21	12	O house of David! Thus says the Lord: “‘Execute justice in the morning, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of your evil doings.’”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	21	13	“Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, O rock of the plain, says the Lord; you who say, ‘Who shall come down against us, or who shall enter our habitations?’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	21	14	I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says the Lord; I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	22	1	Thus says the Lord: “Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	22	2	and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, O King of Judah, who sit on the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people who enter these gates.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	22	3	Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	22	4	For if you will indeed obey this word, then there shall enter the gates of this house kings who sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their servants, and their people.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	22	5	But if you will not heed these words, I swear by myself, says the Lord, that this house shall become a desolation.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	22	6	For thus says the Lord concerning the house of the king of Judah: “‘You are as Gilead to me, as the summit of Lebanon, yet surely I will make you a desert, an uninhabited city.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	22	7	I will prepare destroyers against you, each with his weapons; and they shall cut down your choicest cedars, and cast them into the fire.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	22	8	“‘And many nations will pass by this city, and every man will say to his neighbor, “Why has the Lord dealt thus with this great city?”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	22	9	And they will answer, “Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshiped other gods and served them.”’”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	22	10	Weep not for him who is dead, nor bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away, for he shall return no more to see his native land.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	22	11	For thus says the Lord concerning Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went away from this place: “He shall return here no more,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	22	12	but in the place where they have carried him captive, there shall he die, and he shall never see this land again.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	22	13	“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice; who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing, and does not give him his wages;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	22	14	who says, ‘I will build myself a great house with spacious upper rooms,’ and cuts out windows for it, paneling it with cedar, and painting it with vermilion.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	22	15	Do you think you are a king because you compete in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	22	16	He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	22	17	But you have eyes and heart only for your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	22	18	Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: “They shall not lament for him, saying, ‘Ah my brother!’ or ‘Ah sister!’ They shall not lament for him, saying, ‘Ah lord!’ or ‘Ah his majesty!’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	22	19	With the burial of an ass he shall be buried, dragged and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	22	20	“Go up to Lebanon, and cry out, and lift up your voice in Bashan; cry from Abarim, for all your lovers are destroyed.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	22	21	I spoke to you in your prosperity, but you said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from your youth, that you have not obeyed my voice.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	22	22	The wind shall shepherd all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity; then you will be ashamed and confounded because of all your wickedness.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	22	23	O inhabitant of Lebanon, nested among the cedars, how you will groan when pangs come upon you, pain as of a woman in travail!”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	22	24	“As I live, says the Lord, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were the signet ring on my right hand, yet I would tear you off
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	22	25	and give you into the hand of those who seek your life, into the hand of those of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	22	26	I will hurl you and the mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born, and there you shall die.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	22	27	But to the land to which they will long to return, there they shall not return.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	22	28	Is this man Coniah a despised, broken pot, a vessel no one cares for? Why are he and his children hurled and cast into a land which they do not know?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	22	29	O land, land, land, hear the word of the Lord!
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	22	30	Thus says the Lord: “Write this man down as childless, a man who shall not succeed in his days; for none of his offspring shall succeed in sitting on the throne of David, and ruling again in Judah.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	1	“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	2	Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who care for my people: “You have scattered my flock, and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for your evil doings, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	3	Then I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their fold, and they shall be fruitful and multiply.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	4	I will set shepherds over them who will care for them, and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be missing, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	5	“Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	6	In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: ‘The Lord is our righteousness.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	7	“Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when men shall no longer say, ‘As the Lord lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	8	but ‘As the Lord lives who brought up and led the descendants of the house of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he had driven them.’ Then they shall dwell in their own land.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	9	Concerning the prophets: My heart is broken within me, all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, like a man overcome by wine, because of the Lord and because of his holy words.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	10	For the land is full of adulterers; because of the curse the land mourns, and the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	11	“Both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in my house I have found their wickedness, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	12	Therefore their way shall be to them like slippery paths in the darkness, into which they shall be driven and fall; for I will bring evil upon them in the year of their punishment, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	13	In the prophets of Samaria I saw an unsavory thing: they prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	14	But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns from his wickedness; all of them have become like Sodom to me, and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	15	Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets: “Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and give them poisoned water to drink; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone forth into all the land.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	16	Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, filling you with vain hopes; they speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	17	They say continually to those who despise the word of the Lord, ‘It shall be well with you’; and to every one who stubbornly follows his own heart, they say, ‘No evil shall come upon you.’”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	18	For who among them has stood in the council of the Lord to perceive and to hear his word, or who has given heed to his word and listened?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	19	Behold, the storm of the Lord! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon the head of the wicked.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	20	The anger of the Lord will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intents of his mind. In the latter days you will understand it clearly.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	21	“I did not send the prophets, yet they ran; I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	22	But if they had stood in my council, then they would have proclaimed my words to my people, and they would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	23	“Am I a God at hand, says the Lord, and not a God afar off?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	24	Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? says the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	25	I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I have dreamed, I have dreamed!’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	26	How long shall there be lies in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, and who prophesy the deceit of their own heart,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	27	who think to make my people forget my name by their dreams which they tell one another, even as their fathers forgot my name for Baal?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	28	Let the prophet who has a dream tell the dream, but let him who has my word speak my word faithfully. What has straw in common with wheat? says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	29	Is not my word like fire, says the Lord, and like a hammer which breaks the rock in pieces?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	30	Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says the Lord, who steal my words from one another.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	31	Behold, I am against the prophets, says the Lord, who use their tongues and say, ‘Says the Lord.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	32	Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says the Lord, and who tell them and lead my people astray by their lies and their recklessness, when I did not send them or charge them; so they do not profit this people at all, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	33	“When one of this people, or a prophet, or a priest asks you, ‘What is the burden of the Lord?’ you shall say to them, ‘You are the burden, and I will cast you off, says the Lord.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	34	And as for the prophet, priest, or one of the people who says, ‘The burden of the Lord,’ I will punish that man and his household.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	35	Thus shall you say, every one to his neighbor and every one to his brother, ‘What has the Lord answered?’ or ‘What has the Lord spoken?’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	36	But ‘the burden of the Lord’ you shall mention no more, for the burden is every man’s own word, and you pervert the words of the living God, the Lord of hosts, our God.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	37	Thus you shall say to the prophet, ‘What has the Lord answered you?’ or ‘What has the Lord spoken?’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	38	But if you say, ‘The burden of the Lord,’ thus says the Lord, ‘Because you have said these words, “The burden of the Lord,” when I sent to you, saying, “You shall not say, ‘The burden of the Lord,’”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	39	therefore, behold, I will surely lift you up and cast you away from my presence, you and the city which I gave to you and your fathers.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	23	40	And I will bring upon you everlasting reproach and perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.’”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	24	1	After Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had taken into exile from Jerusalem Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, together with the princes of Judah, the craftsmen, and the smiths, and had brought them to Babylon, the Lord showed me this vision: Behold, two baskets of figs placed before the temple of the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	24	2	One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, but the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	24	3	And the Lord said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I said, “Figs, the good figs very good, and the bad figs very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	24	4	Then the word of the Lord came to me:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	24	5	“Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	24	6	I will set my eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up, and not tear them down; I will plant them, and not uproot them.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	24	7	I will give them a heart to know that I am the Lord; and they shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	24	8	“But thus says the Lord: Like the bad figs which are so bad they cannot be eaten, so will I treat Zedekiah the king of Judah, his princes, the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	24	9	I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a reproach, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I shall drive them.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	24	10	And I will send sword, famine, and pestilence upon them, until they shall be utterly destroyed from the land which I gave to them and their fathers.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	1	The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon),
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	2	which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	3	“For twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, to this day, the word of the Lord has come to me, and I have spoken persistently to you, but you have not listened.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	4	You have neither listened nor inclined your ears to hear, although the Lord persistently sent to you all his servants the prophets,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	5	saying, ‘Turn now, every one of you, from his evil way and wrong doings, and dwell upon the land which the Lord has given to you and your fathers from of old and for ever;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	6	do not go after other gods to serve and worship them, or provoke me to anger with the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	7	Yet you have not listened to me, says the Lord, that you might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	8	“Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: Because you have not obeyed my words,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	9	behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, says the Lord, and for Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about; I will utterly destroy them, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting reproach.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	10	Moreover, I will banish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the grinding of the millstones and the light of the lamp.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	11	This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	12	Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, says the Lord, making the land an everlasting waste.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	13	I will bring upon that land all the words which I have uttered against it, everything written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	14	For many nations and great kings shall make slaves even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	15	Thus the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	16	They shall drink and stagger and be crazed because of the sword which I am sending among them.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	17	So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand, and made all the nations to whom the Lord sent me drink it:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	18	Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and princes, to make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	19	Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his princes, all his people,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	20	and all the foreign folk among them; all the kings of the land of Uz and all the kings of the land of the Philistines (Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod);
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	21	Edom, Moab, and the sons of Ammon;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	22	all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastland across the sea;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	23	Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	24	all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the mixed tribes that dwell in the desert;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	25	all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of Media;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	26	all the kings of the north, far and near, one after another, and all the kingdoms of the world which are on the face of the earth. And after them the king of Babylon shall drink.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	27	“Then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink, be drunk and vomit, fall and rise no more, because of the sword which I am sending among you.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	28	“And if they refuse to accept the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: You must drink!
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	29	For behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name, and shall you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth, says the Lord of hosts.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	30	“You, therefore, shall prophesy against them all these words, and say to them: ‘The Lord will roar from on high, and from his holy habitation utter his voice; he will roar mightily against his fold, and shout, like those who tread grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	31	The clamor will resound to the ends of the earth, for the Lord has an indictment against the nations; he is entering into judgment with all flesh, and the wicked he will put to the sword, says the Lord.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	32	“Thus says the Lord of hosts: Behold, evil is going forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth!
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	33	“And those slain by the Lord on that day shall extend from one end of the earth to the other. They shall not be lamented, or gathered, or buried; they shall be dung on the surface of the ground.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	34	“Wail, you shepherds, and cry, and roll in ashes, you lords of the flock, for the days of your slaughter and dispersion have come, and you shall fall like choice rams.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	35	No refuge will remain for the shepherds, nor escape for the lords of the flock.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	36	Hark, the cry of the shepherds, and the wail of the lords of the flock! For the Lord is despoiling their pasture,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	37	and the peaceful folds are devastated, because of the fierce anger of the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	25	38	Like a lion he has left his covert, for their land has become a waste because of the sword of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	26	1	In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came from the Lord,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	26	2	“Thus says the Lord: Stand in the court of the Lord’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah which come to worship in the house of the Lord all the words that I command you to speak to them; do not hold back a word.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	26	3	It may be they will listen, and every one turn from his evil way, that I may repent of the evil which I intend to do to them because of their evil doings.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	26	4	You shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law which I have set before you,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	26	5	and to heed the words of my servants the prophets whom I send to you urgently, though you have not heeded,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	26	6	then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.’”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	26	7	The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	26	8	And when Jeremiah had finished speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, then the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold of him, saying, “You shall die!
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	26	9	Why have you prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant’?” And all the people gathered about Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	26	10	When the princes of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king’s house to the house of the Lord and took their seat in the entry of the New Gate of the house of the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	26	11	Then the priests and the prophets said to the princes and to all the people, “This man deserves the sentence of death, because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	26	12	Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and all the people, saying, “The Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and this city all the words you have heard.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	26	13	Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the Lord your God, and the Lord will repent of the evil which he has pronounced against you.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	26	14	But as for me, behold, I am in your hands. Do with me as seems good and right to you.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	26	15	Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city and its inhabitants, for in truth the Lord sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	26	16	Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, “This man does not deserve the sentence of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	26	17	And certain of the elders of the land arose and spoke to all the assembled people, saying,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	26	18	“Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and said to all the people of Judah: ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	26	19	Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Did he not fear the Lord and entreat the favor of the Lord, and did not the Lord repent of the evil which he had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great evil upon ourselves.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	26	20	There was another man who prophesied in the name of the Lord, Uriah the son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim. He prophesied against this city and against this land in words like those of Jeremiah.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	26	21	And when King Jehoiakim, with all his warriors and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uriah heard of it, he was afraid and fled and escaped to Egypt.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	26	22	Then King Jehoiakim sent to Egypt certain men, Elnathan the son of Achbor and others with him,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	26	23	and they fetched Uriah from Egypt and brought him to King Jehoiakim, who slew him with the sword and cast his dead body into the burial place of the common people.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	26	24	But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah so that he was not given over to the people to be put to death.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	27	1	In the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	27	2	Thus the Lord said to me: “Make yourself thongs and yoke-bars, and put them on your neck.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	27	3	Send word to the king of Edom, the king of Moab, the king of the sons of Ammon, the king of Tyre, and the king of Sidon by the hand of the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	27	4	Give them this charge for their masters: ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: This is what you shall say to your masters:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	27	5	“It is I who by my great power and my outstretched arm have made the earth, with the men and animals that are on the earth, and I give it to whomever it seems right to me.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	27	6	Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant, and I have given him also the beasts of the field to serve him.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	27	7	All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	27	8	“‘“But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, says the Lord, until I have consumed it by his hand.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	27	9	So do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your soothsayers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	27	10	For it is a lie which they are prophesying to you, with the result that you will be removed far from your land, and I will drive you out, and you will perish.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	27	11	But any nation which will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave on its own land, to till it and dwell there, says the Lord.”’”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	27	12	To Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke in like manner: “Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	27	13	Why will you and your people die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, as the Lord has spoken concerning any nation which will not serve the king of Babylon?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	27	14	Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are saying to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon,’ for it is a lie which they are prophesying to you.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	27	15	I have not sent them, says the Lord, but they are prophesying falsely in my name, with the result that I will drive you out and you will perish, you and the prophets who are prophesying to you.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	27	16	Then I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, “Thus says the Lord: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who are prophesying to you, saying, ‘Behold, the vessels of the Lord’s house will now shortly be brought back from Babylon,’ for it is a lie which they are prophesying to you.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	27	17	Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon and live. Why should this city become a desolation?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	27	18	If they are prophets, and if the word of the Lord is with them, then let them intercede with the Lord of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the Lord, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem may not go to Babylon.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	27	19	For thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the pillars, the sea, the stands, and the rest of the vessels which are left in this city,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	27	20	which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take away, when he took into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem—
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	27	21	thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels which are left in the house of the Lord, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	27	22	They shall be carried to Babylon and remain there until the day when I give attention to them, says the Lord. Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	28	1	In that same year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fifth month of the fourth year, Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the Lord, in the presence of the priests and all the people, saying,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	28	2	“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	28	3	Within two years I will bring back to this place all the vessels of the Lord’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	28	4	I will also bring back to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the exiles from Judah who went to Babylon, says the Lord, for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	28	5	Then the prophet Jeremiah spoke to Hananiah the prophet in the presence of the priests and all the people who were standing in the house of the Lord;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	28	6	and the prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! May the Lord do so; may the Lord make the words which you have prophesied come true, and bring back to this place from Babylon the vessels of the house of the Lord, and all the exiles.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	28	7	Yet hear now this word which I speak in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	28	8	The prophets who preceded you and me from ancient times prophesied war, famine, and pestilence against many countries and great kingdoms.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	28	9	As for the prophet who prophesies peace, when the word of that prophet comes to pass, then it will be known that the Lord has truly sent the prophet.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	28	10	Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke-bars from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet, and broke them.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	28	11	And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, “Thus says the Lord: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all the nations within two years.” But Jeremiah the prophet went his way.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	28	12	Sometime after the prophet Hananiah had broken the yoke-bars from off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	28	13	“Go, tell Hananiah, ‘Thus says the Lord: You have broken wooden bars, but I will make in their place bars of iron.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	28	14	For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put upon the neck of all these nations an iron yoke of servitude to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they shall serve him, for I have given to him even the beasts of the field.’”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	28	15	And Jeremiah the prophet said to the prophet Hananiah, “Listen, Hananiah, the Lord has not sent you, and you have made this people trust in a lie.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	28	16	Therefore thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, I will remove you from the face of the earth. This very year you shall die, because you have uttered rebellion against the Lord.’”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	28	17	In that same year, in the seventh month, the prophet Hananiah died.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	29	1	These are the words of the letter which Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the elders of the exiles, and to the priests, the prophets, and all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	29	2	This was after King Jeconiah, and the queen mother, the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the smiths had departed from Jerusalem.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	29	3	The letter was sent by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. It said:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	29	4	“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	29	5	Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	29	6	Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	29	7	But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	29	8	For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are among you deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams which they dream,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	29	9	for it is a lie which they are prophesying to you in my name; I did not send them, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	29	10	“For thus says the Lord: When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you, and I will fulfil to you my promise and bring you back to this place.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	29	11	For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	29	12	Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	29	13	You will seek me and find me; when you seek me with all your heart,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	29	14	I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	29	15	“Because you have said, ‘The Lord has raised up prophets for us in Babylon,’—
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	29	16	Thus says the Lord concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your kinsmen who did not go out with you into exile:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	29	17	‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, Behold, I am sending on them sword, famine, and pestilence, and I will make them like vile figs which are so bad they cannot be eaten.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	29	18	I will pursue them with sword, famine, and pestilence, and will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, a terror, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	29	19	because they did not heed my words, says the Lord, which I persistently sent to you by my servants the prophets, but you would not listen, says the Lord.’—
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	29	20	Hear the word of the Lord, all you exiles whom I sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	29	21	‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah the son of Ma-aseiah, who are prophesying a lie to you in my name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall slay them before your eyes.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	29	22	Because of them this curse shall be used by all the exiles from Judah in Babylon: “The Lord make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	29	23	because they have committed folly in Israel, they have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and they have spoken in my name lying words which I did not command them. I am the one who knows, and I am witness, says the Lord.’”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	29	24	To Shemaiah of Nehelam you shall say:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	29	25	“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: You have sent letters in your name to all the people who are in Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Ma-aseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	29	26	‘The Lord has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, to have charge in the house of the Lord over every madman who prophesies, to put him in the stocks and collar.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	29	27	Now why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth who is prophesying to you?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	29	28	For he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, “Your exile will be long; build houses and live in them, and plant gardens and eat their produce.”’”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	29	29	Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the hearing of Jeremiah the prophet.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	29	30	Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	29	31	“Send to all the exiles, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord concerning Shemaiah of Nehelam: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you when I did not send him, and has made you trust in a lie,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	29	32	therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I will punish Shemaiah of Nehelam and his descendants; he shall not have any one living among this people to see the good that I will do to my people, says the Lord, for he has talked rebellion against the Lord.’”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	30	1	The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	30	2	“Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	30	3	For behold, days are coming, says the Lord, when I will restore the fortunes of my people, Israel and Judah, says the Lord, and I will bring them back to the land which I gave to their fathers, and they shall take possession of it.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	30	4	These are the words which the Lord spoke concerning Israel and Judah:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	30	5	“Thus says the Lord: We have heard a cry of panic, of terror, and no peace.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	30	6	Ask now, and see, can a man bear a child? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his loins like a woman in labor? Why has every face turned pale?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	30	7	Alas! that day is so great there is none like it; it is a time of distress for Jacob; yet he shall be saved out of it.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	30	8	“And it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord of hosts, that I will break the yoke from off their neck, and I will burst their bonds, and strangers shall no more make servants of them.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	30	9	But they shall serve the Lord their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	30	10	“Then fear not, O Jacob my servant, says the Lord, nor be dismayed, O Israel; for lo, I will save you from afar, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return and have quiet and ease, and none shall make him afraid.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	30	11	For I am with you to save you, says the Lord; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will chasten you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	30	12	“For thus says the Lord: Your hurt is incurable, and your wound is grievous.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	30	13	There is none to uphold your cause, no medicine for your wound, no healing for you.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	30	14	All your lovers have forgotten you; they care nothing for you; for I have dealt you the blow of an enemy, the punishment of a merciless foe, because your guilt is great, because your sins are flagrant.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	30	15	Why do you cry out over your hurt? Your pain is incurable. Because your guilt is great, because your sins are flagrant, I have done these things to you.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	30	16	Therefore all who devour you shall be devoured, and all your foes, every one of them, shall go into captivity; those who despoil you shall become a spoil, and all who prey on you I will make a prey.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	30	17	For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, says the Lord, because they have called you an outcast: ‘It is Zion, for whom no one cares!’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	30	18	“Thus says the Lord: Behold, I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob, and have compassion on his dwellings; the city shall be rebuilt upon its mound, and the palace shall stand where it used to be.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	30	19	Out of them shall come songs of thanksgiving, and the voices of those who make merry. I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will make them honored, and they shall not be small.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	30	20	Their children shall be as they were of old, and their congregation shall be established before me; and I will punish all who oppress them.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	30	21	Their prince shall be one of themselves, their ruler shall come forth from their midst; I will make him draw near, and he shall approach me, for who would dare of himself to approach me? says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	30	22	And you shall be my people, and I will be your God.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	30	23	Behold the storm of the Lord! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon the head of the wicked.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	30	24	The fierce anger of the Lord will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intents of his mind. In the latter days you will understand this.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	1	“At that time, says the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	2	Thus says the Lord: “The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness; when Israel sought for rest,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	3	the Lord appeared to him from afar. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	4	Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin Israel! Again you shall adorn yourself with timbrels, and shall go forth in the dance of the merrymakers.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	5	Again you shall plant vineyards upon the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant, and shall enjoy the fruit.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	6	For there shall be a day when watchmen will call in the hill country of Ephraim: ‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion, to the Lord our God.’”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	7	For thus says the Lord: “Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, and say, ‘The Lord has saved his people, the remnant of Israel.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	8	Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, among them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who is in travail, together; a great company, they shall return here.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	9	With weeping they shall come, and with consolations I will lead them back, I will make them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	10	“Hear the word of the Lord, O nations, and declare it in the coastlands afar off; say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	11	For the Lord has ransomed Jacob, and has redeemed him from hands too strong for him.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	12	They shall come and sing aloud on the height of Zion, and they shall be radiant over the goodness of the Lord, over the grain, the wine, and the oil, and over the young of the flock and the herd; their life shall be like a watered garden, and they shall languish no more.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	13	Then shall the maidens rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old shall be merry. I will turn their mourning into joy, I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	14	I will feast the soul of the priests with abundance, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says the Lord.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	15	Thus says the Lord: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are not.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	16	Thus says the Lord: “Keep your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work shall be rewarded, says the Lord, and they shall come back from the land of the enemy.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	17	There is hope for your future, says the Lord, and your children shall come back to their own country.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	18	I have heard Ephraim bemoaning, ‘Thou hast chastened me, and I was chastened, like an untrained calf; bring me back that I may be restored, for thou art the Lord my God.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	19	For after I had turned away I repented; and after I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh; I was ashamed, and I was confounded, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	20	Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he my darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I do remember him still. Therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	21	“Set up waymarks for yourself, make yourself guideposts; consider well the highway, the road by which you went. Return, O virgin Israel, return to these your cities.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	22	How long will you waver, O faithless daughter? For the Lord has created a new thing on the earth: a woman protects a man.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	23	Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Once more they shall use these words in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I restore their fortunes: ‘The Lord bless you, O habitation of righteousness, O holy hill!’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	24	And Judah and all its cities shall dwell there together, and the farmers and those who wander with their flocks.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	25	For I will satisfy the weary soul, and every languishing soul I will replenish.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	26	Thereupon I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	27	“Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	28	And it shall come to pass that as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring evil, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	29	In those days they shall no longer say: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	30	But every one shall die for his own sin; each man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	31	“Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	32	not like the covenant which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant which they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	33	But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	34	And no longer shall each man teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	35	Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the Lord of hosts is his name:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	36	“If this fixed order departs from before me, says the Lord, then shall the descendants of Israel cease from being a nation before me for ever.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	37	Thus says the Lord: “If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth below can be explored, then I will cast off all the descendants of Israel for all that they have done, says the Lord.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	38	“Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when the city shall be rebuilt for the Lord from the tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	39	And the measuring line shall go out farther, straight to the hill Gareb, and shall then turn to Goah.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	31	40	The whole valley of the dead bodies and the ashes, and all the fields as far as the brook Kidron, to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, shall be sacred to the Lord. It shall not be uprooted or overthrown any more for ever.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	1	The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	2	At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard which was in the palace of the king of Judah.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	3	For Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him, saying, “Why do you prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	4	Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	5	and he shall take Zedekiah to Babylon, and there he shall remain until I visit him, says the Lord; though you fight against the Chaldeans, you shall not succeed’?”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	6	Jeremiah said, “The word of the Lord came to me:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	7	Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you and say, ‘Buy my field which is at Anathoth, for the right of redemption by purchase is yours.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	8	Then Hanamel my cousin came to me in the court of the guard, in accordance with the word of the Lord, and said to me, ‘Buy my field which is at Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for the right of possession and redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.’ Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	9	“And I bought the field at Anathoth from Hanamel my cousin, and weighed out the money to him, seventeen shekels of silver.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	10	I signed the deed, sealed it, got witnesses, and weighed the money on scales.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	11	Then I took the sealed deed of purchase, containing the terms and conditions, and the open copy;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	12	and I gave the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my cousin, in the presence of the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase, and in the presence of all the Jews who were sitting in the court of the guard.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	13	I charged Baruch in their presence, saying,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	14	‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Take these deeds, both this sealed deed of purchase and this open deed, and put them in an earthenware vessel, that they may last for a long time.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	15	For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall again be bought in this land.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	16	“After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to the Lord, saying:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	17	‘Ah Lord GOD! It is thou who hast made the heavens and the earth by thy great power and by thy outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for thee,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	18	who showest steadfast love to thousands, but dost requite the guilt of fathers to their children after them, O great and mighty God whose name is the Lord of hosts,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	19	great in counsel and mighty in deed; whose eyes are open to all the ways of men, rewarding every man according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	20	who hast shown signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and to this day in Israel and among all mankind, and hast made thee a name, as at this day.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	21	Thou didst bring thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and outstretched arm, and with great terror;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	22	and thou gavest them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	23	and they entered and took possession of it. But they did not obey thy voice or walk in thy law; they did nothing of all thou didst command them to do. Therefore thou hast made all this evil come upon them.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	24	Behold, the siege mounds have come up to the city to take it, and because of sword and famine and pestilence the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What thou didst speak has come to pass, and behold, thou seest it.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	25	Yet thou, O Lord GOD, hast said to me, “Buy the field for money and get witnesses”—though the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans.’”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	26	The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	27	“Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh; is anything too hard for me?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	28	Therefore, thus says the Lord: Behold, I am giving this city into the hands of the Chaldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	29	The Chaldeans who are fighting against this city shall come and set this city on fire, and burn it, with the houses on whose roofs incense has been offered to Baal and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods, to provoke me to anger.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	30	For the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have done nothing but evil in my sight from their youth; the sons of Israel have done nothing but provoke me to anger by the work of their hands, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	31	This city has aroused my anger and wrath, from the day it was built to this day, so that I will remove it from my sight
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	32	because of all the evil of the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah which they did to provoke me to anger—their kings and their princes, their priests and their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	33	They have turned to me their back and not their face; and though I have taught them persistently they have not listened to receive instruction.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	34	They set up their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	35	They built the high places of Baal in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	36	“Now therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning this city of which you say, ‘It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword, by famine, and by pestilence’:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	37	Behold, I will gather them from all the countries to which I drove them in my anger and my wrath and in great indignation; I will bring them back to this place, and I will make them dwell in safety.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	38	And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	39	I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for their own good and the good of their children after them.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	40	I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them; and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	41	I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and all my soul.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	42	“For thus says the Lord: Just as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so I will bring upon them all the good that I promise them.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	43	Fields shall be bought in this land of which you are saying, It is a desolation, without man or beast; it is given into the hands of the Chaldeans.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	32	44	Fields shall be bought for money, and deeds shall be signed and sealed and witnessed, in the land of Benjamin, in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the Shephelah, and in the cities of the Negeb; for I will restore their fortunes, says the Lord.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	33	1	The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah a second time, while he was still shut up in the court of the guard:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	33	2	“Thus says the Lord who made the earth, the Lord who formed it to establish it—the Lord is his name:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	33	3	Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things which you have not known.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	33	4	For thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and the houses of the kings of Judah which were torn down to make a defense against the siege mounds and before the sword:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	33	5	The Chaldeans are coming in to fight and to fill them with the dead bodies of men whom I shall smite in my anger and my wrath, for I have hidden my face from this city because of all their wickedness.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	33	6	Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	33	7	I will restore the fortunes of Judah and the fortunes of Israel, and rebuild them as they were at first.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	33	8	I will cleanse them from all the guilt of their sin against me, and I will forgive all the guilt of their sin and rebellion against me.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	33	9	And this city shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth who shall hear of all the good that I do for them; they shall fear and tremble because of all the good and all the prosperity I provide for it.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	33	10	“Thus says the Lord: In this place of which you say, ‘It is a waste without man or beast,’ in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man or inhabitant or beast, there shall be heard again
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	33	11	the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who sing, as they bring thank offerings to the house of the Lord: ‘Give thanks to the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good, for his steadfast love endures for ever!’ For I will restore the fortunes of the land as at first, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	33	12	“Thus says the Lord of hosts: In this place which is waste, without man or beast, and in all of its cities, there shall again be habitations of shepherds resting their flocks.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	33	13	In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the Shephelah, and in the cities of the Negeb, in the land of Benjamin, the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, flocks shall again pass under the hands of the one who counts them, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	33	14	“Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will fulfil the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	33	15	In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring forth for David; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	33	16	In those days Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will dwell securely. And this is the name by which it will be called: ‘The Lord is our righteousness.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	33	17	“For thus says the Lord: David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	33	18	and the Levitical priests shall never lack a man in my presence to offer burnt offerings, to burn cereal offerings, and to make sacrifices for ever.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	33	19	The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	33	20	“Thus says the Lord: If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night will not come at their appointed time,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	33	21	then also my covenant with David my servant may be broken, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and my covenant with the Levitical priests my ministers.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	33	22	As the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the descendants of David my servant, and the Levitical priests who minister to me.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	33	23	The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	33	24	“Have you not observed what these people are saying, ‘The Lord has rejected the two families which he chose’? Thus they have despised my people so that they are no longer a nation in their sight.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	33	25	Thus says the Lord: If I have not established my covenant with day and night and the ordinances of heaven and earth,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	33	26	then I will reject the descendants of Jacob and David my servant and will not choose one of his descendants to rule over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore their fortunes, and will have mercy upon them.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	34	1	The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army and all the kingdoms of the earth under his dominion and all the peoples were fighting against Jerusalem and all of its cities:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	34	2	“Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	34	3	You shall not escape from his hand, but shall surely be captured and delivered into his hand; you shall see the king of Babylon eye to eye and speak with him face to face; and you shall go to Babylon.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	34	4	Yet hear the word of the Lord, O Zedekiah king of Judah! Thus says the Lord concerning you: ‘You shall not die by the sword.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	34	5	You shall die in peace. And as spices were burned for your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so men shall burn spices for you and lament for you, saying, “Alas, lord!”’ For I have spoken the word, says the Lord.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	34	6	Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah, in Jerusalem,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	34	7	when the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that were left, Lachish and Azekah; for these were the only fortified cities of Judah that remained.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	34	8	The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to make a proclamation of liberty to them,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	34	9	that every one should set free his Hebrew slaves, male and female, so that no one should enslave a Jew, his brother.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	34	10	And they obeyed, all the princes and all the people who had entered into the covenant that every one would set free his slave, male or female, so that they would not be enslaved again; they obeyed and set them free.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	34	11	But afterward they turned around and took back the male and female slaves they had set free, and brought them into subjection as slaves.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	34	12	The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	34	13	“Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	34	14	‘At the end of six years each of you must set free the fellow Hebrew who has been sold to you and has served you six years; you must set him free from your service.’ But your fathers did not listen to me or incline their ears to me.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	34	15	You recently repented and did what was right in my eyes by proclaiming liberty, each to his neighbor, and you made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	34	16	but then you turned around and profaned my name when each of you took back his male and female slaves, whom you had set free according to their desire, and you brought them into subjection to be your slaves.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	34	17	Therefore, thus says the Lord: You have not obeyed me by proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and to his neighbor; behold, I proclaim to you liberty to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine, says the Lord. I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	34	18	And the men who transgressed my covenant and did not keep the terms of the covenant which they made before me, I will make like the calf which they cut in two and passed between its parts—
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	34	19	the princes of Judah, the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	34	20	and I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their lives. Their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	34	21	And Zedekiah king of Judah, and his princes I will give into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their lives, into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon which has withdrawn from you.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	34	22	Behold, I will command, says the Lord, and will bring them back to this city; and they will fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without inhabitant.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	35	1	The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	35	2	“Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak with them, and bring them to the house of the Lord, into one of the chambers; then offer them wine to drink.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	35	3	So I took Ja-azaniah the son of Jeremiah, son of Habazziniah, and his brothers, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	35	4	I brought them to the house of the Lord into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was near the chamber of the princes, above the chamber of Ma-aseiah the son of Shallum, keeper of the threshold.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	35	5	Then I set before the Rechabites pitchers full of wine, and cups; and I said to them, “Drink wine.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	35	6	But they answered, “We will drink no wine, for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, ‘You shall not drink wine, neither you nor your sons for ever;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	35	7	you shall not build a house; you shall not sow seed; you shall not plant or have a vineyard; but you shall live in tents all your days, that you may live many days in the land where you sojourn.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	35	8	We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, ourselves, our wives, our sons, or our daughters,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	35	9	and not to build houses to dwell in. We have no vineyard or field or seed;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	35	10	but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed and done all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	35	11	But when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up against the land, we said, ‘Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans and the army of the Syrians.’ So we are living in Jerusalem.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	35	12	Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	35	13	“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Go and say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will you not receive instruction and listen to my words? says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	35	14	The command which Jonadab the son of Rechab gave to his sons, to drink no wine, has been kept; and they drink none to this day, for they have obeyed their father’s command. I have spoken to you persistently, but you have not listened to me.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	35	15	I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, sending them persistently, saying, ‘Turn now every one of you from his evil way, and amend your doings, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and then you shall dwell in the land which I gave to you and your fathers.’ But you did not incline your ear or listen to me.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	35	16	The sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have kept the command which their father gave them, but this people has not obeyed me.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	35	17	Therefore, thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing on Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them; because I have spoken to them and they have not listened, I have called to them and they have not answered.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	35	18	But to the house of the Rechabites Jeremiah said, “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the command of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done all that he commanded you,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	35	19	therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Jonadab the son of Rechab shall never lack a man to stand before me.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	36	1	In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	36	2	“Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and Judah and all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah until today.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	36	3	It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I intend to do to them, so that every one may turn from his evil way, and that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	36	4	Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote upon a scroll at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord which he had spoken to him.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	36	5	And Jeremiah ordered Baruch, saying, “I am debarred from going to the house of the Lord;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	36	6	so you are to go, and on a fast day in the hearing of all the people in the Lord’s house you shall read the words of the Lord from the scroll which you have written at my dictation. You shall read them also in the hearing of all the men of Judah who come out of their cities.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	36	7	It may be that their supplication will come before the Lord, and that every one will turn from his evil way, for great is the anger and wrath that the Lord has pronounced against this people.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	36	8	And Baruch the son of Neriah did all that Jeremiah the prophet ordered him about reading from the scroll the words of the Lord in the Lord’s house.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	36	9	In the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem proclaimed a fast before the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	36	10	Then, in the hearing of all the people, Baruch read the words of Jeremiah from the scroll, in the house of the Lord, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the secretary, which was in the upper court, at the entry of the New Gate of the Lord’s house.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	36	11	When Micaiah the son of Gemariah, son of Shaphan, heard all the words of the Lord from the scroll,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	36	12	he went down to the king’s house, into the secretary’s chamber; and all the princes were sitting there: Elishama the secretary, Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, Elnathan the son of Achbor, Gemariah the son of Shaphan, Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	36	13	And Micaiah told them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the scroll in the hearing of the people.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	36	14	Then all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, son of Shelemiah, son of Cushi, to say to Baruch, “Take in your hand the scroll that you read in the hearing of the people, and come.” So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand and came to them.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	36	15	And they said to him, “Sit down and read it.” So Baruch read it to them.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	36	16	When they heard all the words, they turned one to another in fear; and they said to Baruch, “We must report all these words to the king.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	36	17	Then they asked Baruch, “Tell us, how did you write all these words? Was it at his dictation?”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	36	18	Baruch answered them, “He dictated all these words to me, while I wrote them with ink on the scroll.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	36	19	Then the princes said to Baruch, “Go and hide, you and Jeremiah, and let no one know where you are.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	36	20	So they went into the court to the king, having put the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the secretary; and they reported all the words to the king.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	36	21	Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it from the chamber of Elishama the secretary; and Jehudi read it to the king and all the princes who stood beside the king.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	36	22	It was the ninth month, and the king was sitting in the winter house and there was a fire burning in the brazier before him.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	36	23	As Jehudi read three or four columns, the king would cut them off with a penknife and throw them into the fire in the brazier, until the entire scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	36	24	Yet neither the king, nor any of his servants who heard all these words, was afraid, nor did they rend their garments.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	36	25	Even when Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	36	26	And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son and Seraiah the son of Azri-el and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel to seize Baruch the secretary and Jeremiah the prophet, but the Lord hid them.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	36	27	Now, after the king had burned the scroll with the words which Baruch wrote at Jeremiah’s dictation, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	36	28	“Take another scroll and write on it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	36	29	And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘Thus says the Lord, You have burned this scroll, saying, “Why have you written in it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will cut off from it man and beast?”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	36	30	Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah, He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David, and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat by day and the frost by night.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	36	31	And I will punish him and his offspring and his servants for their iniquity; I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they would not hear.’”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	36	32	Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote on it at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the scroll which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and many similar words were added to them.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	37	1	Zedekiah the son of Josiah, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah, reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	37	2	But neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land listened to the words of the Lord which he spoke through Jeremiah the prophet.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	37	3	King Zedekiah sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Ma-aseiah, to Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “Pray for us to the Lord our God.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	37	4	Now Jeremiah was still going in and out among the people, for he had not yet been put in prison.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	37	5	The army of Pharaoh had come out of Egypt; and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news of them, they withdrew from Jerusalem.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	37	6	Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	37	7	“Thus says the Lord, God of Israel: Thus shall you say to the king of Judah who sent you to me to inquire of me, ‘Behold, Pharaoh’s army which came to help you is about to return to Egypt, to its own land.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	37	8	And the Chaldeans shall come back and fight against this city; they shall take it and burn it with fire.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	37	9	Thus says the Lord, Do not deceive yourselves, saying, “The Chaldeans will surely stay away from us,” for they will not stay away.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	37	10	For even if you should defeat the whole army of Chaldeans who are fighting against you, and there remained of them only wounded men, every man in his tent, they would rise up and burn this city with fire.’”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	37	11	Now when the Chaldean army had withdrawn from Jerusalem at the approach of Pharaoh’s army,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	37	12	Jeremiah set out from Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin to receive his portion there among the people.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	37	13	When he was at the Benjamin Gate, a sentry there named Irijah the son of Shelemiah, son of Hananiah, seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	37	14	And Jeremiah said, “It is false; I am not deserting to the Chaldeans.” But Irijah would not listen to him, and seized Jeremiah and brought him to the princes.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	37	15	And the princes were enraged at Jeremiah, and they beat him and imprisoned him in the house of Jonathan the secretary, for it had been made a prison.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	37	16	When Jeremiah had come to the dungeon cells, and remained there many days,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	37	17	King Zedekiah sent for him, and received him. The king questioned him secretly in his house, and said, “Is there any word from the Lord?” Jeremiah said, “There is.” Then he said, “You shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	37	18	Jeremiah also said to King Zedekiah, “What wrong have I done to you or your servants or this people, that you have put me in prison?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	37	19	Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land’?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	37	20	Now hear, I pray you, O my lord the king: let my humble plea come before you, and do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the secretary, lest I die there.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	37	21	So King Zedekiah gave orders, and they committed Jeremiah to the court of the guard; and a loaf of bread was given him daily from the bakers’ street, until all the bread of the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	38	1	Now Shephatiah the son of Mattan, Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchiah heard the words that Jeremiah was saying to all the people,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	38	2	“Thus says the Lord, He who stays in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; but he who goes out to the Chaldeans shall live; he shall have his life as a prize of war, and live.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	38	3	Thus says the Lord, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon and be taken.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	38	4	Then the princes said to the king, “Let this man be put to death, for he is weakening the hands of the soldiers who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking such words to them. For this man is not seeking the welfare of this people, but their harm.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	38	5	King Zedekiah said, “Behold, he is in your hands; for the king can do nothing against you.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	38	6	So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. And there was no water in the cistern, but only mire, and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	38	7	When Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern—the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate—
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	38	8	Ebed-melech went from the king’s house and said to the king,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	38	9	“My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they did to Jeremiah the prophet by casting him into the cistern; and he will die there of hunger, for there is no bread left in the city.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	38	10	Then the king commanded Ebed-melech, the Ethiopian, “Take three men with you from here, and lift Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	38	11	So Ebed-melech took the men with him and went to the house of the king, to a wardrobe of the storehouse, and took from there old rags and worn-out clothes, which he let down to Jeremiah in the cistern by ropes.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	38	12	Then Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, “Put the rags and clothes between your armpits and the ropes.” Jeremiah did so.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	38	13	Then they drew Jeremiah up with ropes and lifted him out of the cistern. And Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	38	14	King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and received him at the third entrance of the temple of the Lord. The king said to Jeremiah, “I will ask you a question; hide nothing from me.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	38	15	Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “If I tell you, will you not be sure to put me to death? And if I give you counsel, you will not listen to me.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	38	16	Then King Zedekiah swore secretly to Jeremiah, “As the Lord lives, who made our souls, I will not put you to death or deliver you into the hand of these men who seek your life.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	38	17	Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “Thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, If you will surrender to the princes of the king of Babylon, then your life shall be spared, and this city shall not be burned with fire, and you and your house shall live.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	38	18	But if you do not surrender to the princes of the king of Babylon, then this city shall be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape from their hand.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	38	19	King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Jews who have deserted to the Chaldeans, lest I be handed over to them and they abuse me.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	38	20	Jeremiah said, “You shall not be given to them. Obey now the voice of the Lord in what I say to you, and it shall be well with you, and your life shall be spared.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	38	21	But if you refuse to surrender, this is the vision which the Lord has shown to me:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	38	22	Behold, all the women left in the house of the king of Judah were being led out to the princes of the king of Babylon and were saying, ‘Your trusted friends have deceived you and prevailed against you; now that your feet are sunk in the mire, they turn away from you.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	38	23	All your wives and your sons shall be led out to the Chaldeans, and you yourself shall not escape from their hand, but shall be seized by the king of Babylon; and this city shall be burned with fire.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	38	24	Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “Let no one know of these words and you shall not die.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	38	25	If the princes hear that I have spoken with you and come to you and say to you, ‘Tell us what you said to the king and what the king said to you; hide nothing from us and we will not put you to death,’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	38	26	then you shall say to them, ‘I made a humble plea to the king that he would not send me back to the house of Jonathan to die there.’”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	38	27	Then all the princes came to Jeremiah and asked him, and he answered them as the king had instructed him. So they left off speaking with him, for the conversation had not been overheard.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	38	28	And Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	39	1	In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and besieged it;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	39	2	in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	39	3	When Jerusalem was taken, all the princes of the king of Babylon came and sat in the middle gate: Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim the Rabsaris, Nergal-sharezer the Rabmag, with all the rest of the officers of the king of Babylon.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	39	4	When Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled, going out of the city at night by way of the king’s garden through the gate between the two walls; and they went toward the Arabah.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	39	5	But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, at Riblah, in the land of Hamath; and he passed sentence upon him.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	39	6	The king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah at Riblah before his eyes; and the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	39	7	He put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters to take him to Babylon.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	39	8	The Chaldeans burned the king’s house and the house of the people, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	39	9	Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, carried into exile to Babylon the rest of the people who were left in the city, those who had deserted to him, and the people who remained.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	39	10	Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, left in the land of Judah some of the poor people who owned nothing, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	39	11	Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave command concerning Jeremiah through Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, saying,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	39	12	“Take him, look after him well and do him no harm, but deal with him as he tells you.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	39	13	So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, Nebushazban the Rabsaris, Nergal-sharezer the Rabmag, and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	39	14	sent and took Jeremiah from the court of the guard. They entrusted him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, that he should take him home. So he dwelt among the people.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	39	15	The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah while he was shut up in the court of the guard:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	39	16	“Go, and say to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will fulfil my words against this city for evil and not for good, and they shall be accomplished before you on that day.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	39	17	But I will deliver you on that day, says the Lord, and you shall not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	39	18	For I will surely save you, and you shall not fall by the sword; but you shall have your life as a prize of war, because you have put your trust in me, says the Lord.’”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	40	1	The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he took him bound in chains along with all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	40	2	The captain of the guard took Jeremiah and said to him, “The Lord your God pronounced this evil against this place;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	40	3	the Lord has brought it about, and has done as he said. Because you sinned against the Lord, and did not obey his voice, this thing has come upon you.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	40	4	Now, behold, I release you today from the chains on your hands. If it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will look after you well; but if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, do not come. See, the whole land is before you; go wherever you think it good and right to go.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	40	5	If you remain, then return to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon appointed governor of the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people; or go wherever you think it right to go.” So the captain of the guard gave him an allowance of food and a present, and let him go.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	40	6	Then Jeremiah went to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, at Mizpah, and dwelt with him among the people who were left in the land.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	40	7	When all the captains of the forces in the open country and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed to him men, women, and children, those of the poorest of the land who had not been taken into exile to Babylon,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	40	8	they went to Gedaliah at Mizpah—Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, Johanan the son of Kareah, Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, Jezaniah the son of the Ma-acathite, they and their men.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	40	9	Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, swore to them and their men, saying, “Do not be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	40	10	As for me, I will dwell at Mizpah, to stand for you before the Chaldeans who will come to us; but as for you, gather wine and summer fruits and oil, and store them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	40	11	Likewise, when all the Jews who were in Moab and among the Ammonites and in Edom and in other lands heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah and had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, as governor over them,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	40	12	then all the Jews returned from all the places to which they had been driven and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah; and they gathered wine and summer fruits in great abundance.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	40	13	Now Johanan the son of Kareah and all the leaders of the forces in the open country came to Gedaliah at Mizpah
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	40	14	and said to him, “Do you know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life?” But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam would not believe them.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	40	15	Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke secretly to Gedaliah at Mizpah, “Let me go and slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no one will know it. Why should he take your life, so that all the Jews who are gathered about you would be scattered, and the remnant of Judah would perish?”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	40	16	But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, “You shall not do this thing, for you are speaking falsely of Ishmael.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	41	1	In the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, of the royal family, one of the chief officers of the king, came with ten men to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, at Mizpah. As they ate bread together there at Mizpah,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	41	2	Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the ten men with him rose up and struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, with the sword, and killed him, whom the king of Babylon had appointed governor in the land.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	41	3	Ishmael also slew all the Jews who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah, and the Chaldean soldiers who happened to be there.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	41	4	On the day after the murder of Gedaliah, before any one knew of it,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	41	5	eighty men arrived from Shechem and Shiloh and Samaria, with their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and their bodies gashed, bringing cereal offerings and incense to present at the temple of the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	41	6	And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah came out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping as he came. As he met them, he said to them, “Come in to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	41	7	When they came into the city, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the men with him slew them, and cast them into a cistern.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	41	8	But there were ten men among them who said to Ishmael, “Do not kill us, for we have stores of wheat, barley, oil, and honey hidden in the fields.” So he refrained and did not kill them with their companions.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	41	9	Now the cistern into which Ishmael cast all the bodies of the men whom he had slain was the large cistern which King Asa had made for defense against Baasha king of Israel; Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	41	10	Then Ishmael took captive all the rest of the people who were in Mizpah, the king’s daughters and all the people who were left at Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah took them captive and set out to cross over to the Ammonites.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	41	11	But when Johanan the son of Kareah and all the leaders of the forces with him heard of all the evil which Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	41	12	they took all their men and went to fight against Ishmael the son of Nethaniah. They came upon him at the great pool which is in Gibeon.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	41	13	And when all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah and all the leaders of the forces with him, they rejoiced.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	41	14	So all the people whom Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah turned about and came back, and went to Johanan the son of Kareah.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	41	15	But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the Ammonites.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	41	16	Then Johanan the son of Kareah and all the leaders of the forces with him took all the rest of the people whom Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had carried away captive from Mizpah after he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam—soldiers, women, children, and eunuchs, whom Johanan brought back from Gibeon.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	41	17	And they went and stayed at Geruth Chimham near Bethlehem, intending to go to Egypt
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	41	18	because of the Chaldeans; for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	42	1	Then all the commanders of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah and Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least to the greatest, came near
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	42	2	and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Let our supplication come before you, and pray to the Lord your God for us, for all this remnant (for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes see us),
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	42	3	that the Lord your God may show us the way we should go, and the thing that we should do.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	42	4	Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard you; behold, I will pray to the Lord your God according to your request, and whatever the Lord answers you I will tell you; I will keep nothing back from you.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	42	5	Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the Lord be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act according to all the word with which the Lord your God sends you to us.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	42	6	Whether it is good or evil, we will obey the voice of the Lord our God to whom we are sending you, that it may be well with us when we obey the voice of the Lord our God.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	42	7	At the end of ten days the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	42	8	Then he summoned Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces who were with him, and all the people from the least to the greatest,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	42	9	and said to them, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your supplication before him:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	42	10	If you will remain in this land, then I will build you up and not pull you down; I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I repent of the evil which I did to you.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	42	11	Do not fear the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid; do not fear him, says the Lord, for I am with you, to save you and to deliver you from his hand.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	42	12	I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you and let you remain in your own land.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	42	13	But if you say, ‘We will not remain in this land,’ disobeying the voice of the Lord your God
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	42	14	and saying, ‘No, we will go to the land of Egypt, where we shall not see war, or hear the sound of the trumpet, or be hungry for bread, and we will dwell there,’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	42	15	then hear the word of the Lord, O remnant of Judah. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: If you set your faces to enter Egypt and go to live there,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	42	16	then the sword which you fear shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine of which you are afraid shall follow hard after you to Egypt; and there you shall die.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	42	17	All the men who set their faces to go to Egypt to live there shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; they shall have no remnant or survivor from the evil which I will bring upon them.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	42	18	“For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: As my anger and my wrath were poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you when you go to Egypt. You shall become an execration, a horror, a curse, and a taunt. You shall see this place no more.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	42	19	The Lord has said to you, O remnant of Judah, ‘Do not go to Egypt.’ Know for a certainty that I have warned you this day
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	42	20	that you have gone astray at the cost of your lives. For you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to the Lord our God, and whatever the Lord our God says declare to us and we will do it.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	42	21	And I have this day declared it to you, but you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord your God in anything that he sent me to tell you.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	42	22	Now therefore know for a certainty that you shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence in the place where you desire to go to live.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	43	1	When Jeremiah finished speaking to all the people all these words of the Lord their God, with which the Lord their God had sent him to them,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	43	2	Azariah the son of Hoshaiah and Johanan the son of Kareah and all the insolent men said to Jeremiah, “You are telling a lie. The Lord our God did not send you to say, ‘Do not go to Egypt to live there’;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	43	3	but Baruch the son of Neriah has set you against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may kill us or take us into exile in Babylon.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	43	4	So Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces and all the people did not obey the voice of the Lord, to remain in the land of Judah.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	43	5	But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces took all the remnant of Judah who had returned to live in the land of Judah from all the nations to which they had been driven—
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	43	6	the men, the women, the children, the princesses, and every person whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan; also Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch the son of Neriah.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	43	7	And they came into the land of Egypt, for they did not obey the voice of the Lord. And they arrived at Tahpanhes.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	43	8	Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	43	9	“Take in your hands large stones, and hide them in the mortar in the pavement which is at the entrance to Pharaoh’s palace in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	43	10	and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and he will set his throne above these stones which I have hid, and he will spread his royal canopy over them.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	43	11	He shall come and smite the land of Egypt, giving to the pestilence those who are doomed to the pestilence, to captivity those who are doomed to captivity, and to the sword those who are doomed to the sword.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	43	12	He shall kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them and carry them away captive; and he shall clean the land of Egypt, as a shepherd cleans his cloak of vermin; and he shall go away from there in peace.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	43	13	He shall break the obelisks of Heliopolis which is in the land of Egypt; and the temples of the gods of Egypt he shall burn with fire.’”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	44	1	The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews that dwelt in the land of Egypt, at Migdol, at Tahpanhes, at Memphis, and in the land of Pathros,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	44	2	“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: You have seen all the evil that I brought upon Jerusalem and upon all the cities of Judah. Behold, this day they are a desolation, and no one dwells in them,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	44	3	because of the wickedness which they committed, provoking me to anger, in that they went to burn incense and serve other gods that they knew not, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	44	4	Yet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets, saying, ‘Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate!’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	44	5	But they did not listen or incline their ear, to turn from their wickedness and burn no incense to other gods.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	44	6	Therefore my wrath and my anger were poured forth and kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they became a waste and a desolation, as at this day.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	44	7	And now thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel: Why do you commit this great evil against yourselves, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and child, from the midst of Judah, leaving you no remnant?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	44	8	Why do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to live, that you may be cut off and become a curse and a taunt among all the nations of the earth?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	44	9	Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, the wickedness of the kings of Judah, the wickedness of their wives, your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	44	10	They have not humbled themselves even to this day, nor have they feared, nor walked in my law and my statutes which I set before you and before your fathers.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	44	11	“Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, to cut off all Judah.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	44	12	I will take the remnant of Judah who have set their faces to come to the land of Egypt to live, and they shall all be consumed; in the land of Egypt they shall fall; by the sword and by famine they shall be consumed; from the least to the greatest, they shall die by the sword and by famine; and they shall become an execration, a horror, a curse, and a taunt.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	44	13	I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	44	14	so that none of the remnant of Judah who have come to live in the land of Egypt shall escape or survive or return to the land of Judah, to which they desire to return to dwell there; for they shall not return, except some fugitives.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	44	15	Then all the men who knew that their wives had offered incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, all the people who dwelt in Pathros in the land of Egypt, answered Jeremiah:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	44	16	“As for the word which you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not listen to you.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	44	17	But we will do everything that we have vowed, burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour out libations to her, as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no evil.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	44	18	But since we left off burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out libations to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	44	19	And the women said, “When we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out libations to her, was it without our husbands’ approval that we made cakes for her bearing her image and poured out libations to her?”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	44	20	Then Jeremiah said to all the people, men and women, all the people who had given him this answer:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	44	21	“As for the incense that you burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the Lord remember it? Did it not come into his mind?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	44	22	The Lord could no longer bear your evil doings and the abominations which you committed; therefore your land has become a desolation and a waste and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	44	23	It is because you burned incense, and because you sinned against the Lord and did not obey the voice of the Lord or walk in his law and in his statutes and in his testimonies, that this evil has befallen you, as at this day.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	44	24	Jeremiah said to all the people and all the women, “Hear the word of the Lord, all you of Judah who are in the land of Egypt,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	44	25	Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: You and your wives have declared with your mouths, and have fulfilled it with your hands, saying, ‘We will surely perform our vows that we have made, to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to pour out libations to her.’ Then confirm your vows and perform your vows!
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	44	26	Therefore hear the word of the Lord, all you of Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by my great name, says the Lord, that my name shall no more be invoked by the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, ‘As the Lord GOD lives.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	44	27	Behold, I am watching over them for evil and not for good; all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, until there is an end of them.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	44	28	And those who escape the sword shall return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah, few in number; and all the remnant of Judah, who came to the land of Egypt to live, shall know whose word will stand, mine or theirs.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	44	29	This shall be the sign to you, says the Lord, that I will punish you in this place, in order that you may know that my words will surely stand against you for evil:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	44	30	Thus says the Lord, Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies and into the hand of those who seek his life, as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy and sought his life.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	45	1	The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he wrote these words in a book at the dictation of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	45	2	“Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, to you, O Baruch:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	45	3	You said, ‘Woe is me! for the Lord has added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	45	4	Thus shall you say to him, Thus says the Lord: Behold, what I have built I am breaking down, and what I have planted I am plucking up—that is, the whole land.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	45	5	And do you seek great things for yourself? Seek them not; for, behold, I am bringing evil upon all flesh, says the Lord; but I will give you your life as a prize of war in all places to which you may go.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	46	1	The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	46	2	About Egypt. Concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates at Carchemish and which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	46	3	“Prepare buckler and shield, and advance for battle!
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	46	4	Harness the horses; mount, O horsemen! Take your stations with your helmets, polish your spears, put on your coats of mail!
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	46	5	Why have I seen it? They are dismayed and have turned backward. Their warriors are beaten down, and have fled in haste; they look not back— terror on every side! says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	46	6	The swift cannot flee away, nor the warrior escape; in the north by the river Euphrates they have stumbled and fallen.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	46	7	“Who is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	46	8	Egypt rises like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge. He said, I will rise, I will cover the earth, I will destroy cities and their inhabitants.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	46	9	Advance, O horses, and rage, O chariots! Let the warriors go forth: men of Ethiopia and Put who handle the shield, men of Lud, skilled in handling the bow.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	46	10	That day is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, to avenge himself on his foes. The sword shall devour and be sated, and drink its fill of their blood. For the Lord GOD of hosts holds a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	46	11	Go up to Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain you have used many medicines; there is no healing for you.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	46	12	The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for warrior has stumbled against warrior; they have both fallen together.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	46	13	The word which the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon to smite the land of Egypt:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	46	14	“Declare in Egypt, and proclaim in Migdol; proclaim in Memphis and Tahpanhes; Say, ‘Stand ready and be prepared, for the sword shall devour round about you.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	46	15	Why has Apis fled? Why did not your bull stand? Because the Lord thrust him down.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	46	16	Your multitude stumbled and fell, and they said one to another, ‘Arise, and let us go back to our own people and to the land of our birth, because of the sword of the oppressor.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	46	17	Call the name of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, ‘Noisy one who lets the hour go by.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	46	18	“As I live, says the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts, like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, shall one come.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	46	19	Prepare yourselves baggage for exile, O inhabitants of Egypt! For Memphis shall become a waste, a ruin, without inhabitant.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	46	20	“A beautiful heifer is Egypt, but a gadfly from the north has come upon her.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	46	21	Even her hired soldiers in her midst are like fatted calves; yea, they have turned and fled together, they did not stand; for the day of their calamity has come upon them, the time of their punishment.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	46	22	“She makes a sound like a serpent gliding away; for her enemies march in force, and come against her with axes, like those who fell trees.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	46	23	They shall cut down her forest, says the Lord, though it is impenetrable, because they are more numerous than locusts; they are without number.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	46	24	The daughter of Egypt shall be put to shame, she shall be delivered into the hand of a people from the north.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	46	25	The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, said: “Behold, I am bringing punishment upon Amon of Thebes, and Pharaoh, and Egypt and her gods and her kings, upon Pharaoh and those who trust in him.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	46	26	I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their life, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and his officers. Afterward Egypt shall be inhabited as in the days of old, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	46	27	“But fear not, O Jacob my servant, nor be dismayed, O Israel; for lo, I will save you from afar, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return and have quiet and ease, and none shall make him afraid.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	46	28	Fear not, O Jacob my servant, says the Lord, for I am with you. I will make a full end of all the nations to which I have driven you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will chasten you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	47	1	The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh smote Gaza.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	47	2	“Thus says the Lord: Behold, waters are rising out of the north, and shall become an overflowing torrent; they shall overflow the land and all that fills it, the city and those who dwell in it. Men shall cry out, and every inhabitant of the land shall wail.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	47	3	At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of their wheels, the fathers look not back to their children, so feeble are their hands,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	47	4	because of the day that is coming to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper that remains. For the Lord is destroying the Philistines, the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	47	5	Baldness has come upon Gaza, Ashkelon has perished. O remnant of the Anakim, how long will you gash yourselves?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	47	6	Ah, sword of the Lord! How long till you are quiet? Put yourself into your scabbard, rest and be still!
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	47	7	How can it be quiet, when the Lord has given it a charge? Against Ashkelon and against the seashore he has appointed it.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	1	Concerning Moab. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Woe to Nebo, for it is laid waste! Kiriathaim is put to shame, it is taken; the fortress is put to shame and broken down;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	2	the renown of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they planned evil against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from being a nation!’ You also, O Madmen, shall be brought to silence; the sword shall pursue you.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	3	“Hark! a cry from Horonaim, ‘Desolation and great destruction!’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	4	Moab is destroyed; a cry is heard as far as Zoar.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	5	For at the ascent of Luhith they go up weeping; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the cry of destruction.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	6	Flee! Save yourselves! Be like a wild ass in the desert!
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	7	For, because you trusted in your strongholds and your treasures, you also shall be taken; and Chemosh shall go forth into exile, with his priests and his princes.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	8	The destroyer shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape; the valley shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the Lord has spoken.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	9	“Give wings to Moab, for she would fly away; her cities shall become a desolation, with no inhabitant in them.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	10	“Cursed is he who does the work of the Lord with slackness; and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from bloodshed.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	11	“Moab has been at ease from his youth and has settled on his lees; he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, nor has he gone into exile; so his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	12	“Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I shall send to him tilters who will tilt him, and empty his vessels, and break his jars in pieces.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	13	Then Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	14	“How do you say, ‘We are heroes and mighty men of war’?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	15	The destroyer of Moab and his cities has come up, and the choicest of his young men have gone down to slaughter, says the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	16	The calamity of Moab is near at hand and his affliction hastens apace.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	17	Bemoan him, all you who are round about him, and all who know his name; say, ‘How the mighty scepter is broken, the glorious staff.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	18	“Come down from your glory, and sit on the parched ground, O inhabitant of Dibon! For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you; he has destroyed your strongholds.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	19	Stand by the way and watch, O inhabitant of Aroer! Ask him who flees and her who escapes; say, ‘What has happened?’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	20	Moab is put to shame, for it is broken; wail and cry! Tell it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	21	“Judgment has come upon the tableland, upon Holon, and Jahzah, and Mepha-ath,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	22	and Dibon, and Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	23	and Kiriathaim, and Beth-gamul, and Beth-meon,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	24	and Keri-oth, and Bozrah, and all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	25	The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	26	“Make him drunk, because he magnified himself against the Lord; so that Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he too shall be held in derision.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	27	Was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves, that whenever you spoke of him you wagged your head?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	28	“Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, O inhabitants of Moab! Be like the dove that nests in the sides of the mouth of a gorge.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	29	We have heard of the pride of Moab— he is very proud— of his loftiness, his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	30	I know his insolence, says the Lord; his boasts are false, his deeds are false.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	31	Therefore I wail for Moab; I cry out for all Moab; for the men of Kir-heres I mourn.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	32	More than for Jazer I weep for you, O vine of Sibmah! Your branches passed over the sea, reached as far as Jazer; upon your summer fruits and your vintage the destroyer has fallen.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	33	Gladness and joy have been taken away from the fruitful land of Moab; I have made the wine cease from the wine presses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; the shouting is not the shout of joy.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	34	“Heshbon and Ele-aleh cry out; as far as Jahaz they utter their voice, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah. For the waters of Nimrim also have become desolate.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	35	And I will bring to an end in Moab, says the Lord, him who offers sacrifice in the high place and burns incense to his god.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	36	Therefore my heart moans for Moab like a flute, and my heart moans like a flute for the men of Kir-heres; therefore the riches they gained have perished.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	37	“For every head is shaved and every beard cut off; upon all the hands are gashes, and on the loins is sackcloth.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	38	On all the housetops of Moab and in the squares there is nothing but lamentation; for I have broken Moab like a vessel for which no one cares, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	39	How it is broken! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! So Moab has become a derision and a horror to all that are round about him.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	40	For thus says the Lord: “Behold, one shall fly swiftly like an eagle, and spread his wings against Moab;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	41	the cities shall be taken and the strongholds seized. The heart of the warriors of Moab shall be in that day like the heart of a woman in her pangs;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	42	Moab shall be destroyed and be no longer a people, because he magnified himself against the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	43	Terror, pit, and snare are before you, O inhabitant of Moab! says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	44	He who flees from the terror shall fall into the pit, and he who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For I will bring these things upon Moab in the year of their punishment, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	45	“In the shadow of Heshbon fugitives stop without strength; for a fire has gone forth from Heshbon, a flame from the house of Sihon; it has destroyed the forehead of Moab, the crown of the sons of tumult.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	46	Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh is undone; for your sons have been taken captive, and your daughters into captivity.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	48	47	Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the latter days, says the Lord.” Thus far is the judgment on Moab.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	1	Concerning the Ammonites. Thus says the Lord: “Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then has Milcom dispossessed Gad, and his people settled in its cities?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	2	Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will cause the battle cry to be heard against Rabbah of the Ammonites; it shall become a desolate mound, and its villages shall be burned with fire; then Israel shall dispossess those who dispossessed him, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	3	“Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste! Cry, O daughters of Rabbah! Gird yourselves with sackcloth, lament, and run to and fro among the hedges! For Milcom shall go into exile, with his priests and his princes.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	4	Why do you boast of your valleys, O faithless daughter, who trusted in her treasures, saying, ‘Who will come against me?’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	5	Behold, I will bring terror upon you, says the Lord GOD of hosts, from all who are round about you, and you shall be driven out, every man straight before him, with none to gather the fugitives.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	6	But afterward I will restore the fortunes of the Ammonites, says the Lord.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	7	Concerning Edom. Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	8	Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Dedan! For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time when I punish him.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	9	If grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves came by night, would they not destroy only enough for themselves?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	10	But I have stripped Esau bare, I have uncovered his hiding places, and he is not able to conceal himself. His children are destroyed, and his brothers, and his neighbors; and he is no more.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	11	Leave your fatherless children, I will keep them alive; and let your widows trust in me.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	12	For thus says the Lord: “If those who did not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, will you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you must drink.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	13	For I have sworn by myself, says the Lord, that Bozrah shall become a horror, a taunt, a waste, and a curse; and all her cities shall be perpetual wastes.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	14	I have heard tidings from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Gather yourselves together and come against her, and rise up for battle!”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	15	For behold, I will make you small among the nations, despised among men.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	16	The horror you inspire has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, you who live in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as the eagle’s, I will bring you down from there, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	17	“Edom shall become a horror; every one who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its disasters.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	18	As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbor cities were overthrown, says the Lord, no man shall dwell there, no man shall sojourn in her.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	19	Behold, like a lion coming up from the jungle of the Jordan against a strong sheepfold, I will suddenly make them run away from her; and I will appoint over her whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who will summon me? What shepherd can stand before me?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	20	Therefore hear the plan which the Lord has made against Edom and the purposes which he has formed against the inhabitants of Teman: Even the little ones of the flock shall be dragged away; surely their fold shall be appalled at their fate.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	21	At the sound of their fall the earth shall tremble; the sound of their cry shall be heard at the Red Sea.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	22	Behold, one shall mount up and fly swiftly like an eagle, and spread his wings against Bozrah, and the heart of the warriors of Edom shall be in that day like the heart of a woman in her pangs.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	23	Concerning Damascus. “Hamath and Arpad are confounded, for they have heard evil tidings; they melt in fear, they are troubled like the sea which cannot be quiet.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	24	Damascus has become feeble, she turned to flee, and panic seized her; anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	25	How the famous city is forsaken, the joyful city!
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	26	Therefore her young men shall fall in her squares, and all her soldiers shall be destroyed in that day, says the Lord of hosts.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	27	And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	28	Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote. Thus says the Lord: “Rise up, advance against Kedar! Destroy the people of the east!
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	29	Their tents and their flocks shall be taken, their curtains and all their goods; their camels shall be borne away from them, and men shall cry to them: ‘Terror on every side!’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	30	Flee, wander far away, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Hazor! says the Lord. For Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has made a plan against you, and formed a purpose against you.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	31	“Rise up, advance against a nation at ease, that dwells securely, says the Lord, that has no gates or bars, that dwells alone.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	32	Their camels shall become booty, their herds of cattle a spoil. I will scatter to every wind those who cut the corners of their hair, and I will bring their calamity from every side of them, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	33	Hazor shall become a haunt of jackals, an everlasting waste; no man shall dwell there, no man shall sojourn in her.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	34	The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	35	Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the mainstay of their might;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	36	and I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the four quarters of heaven; and I will scatter them to all those winds, and there shall be no nation to which those driven out of Elam shall not come.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	37	I will terrify Elam before their enemies, and before those who seek their life; I will bring evil upon them, my fierce anger, says the Lord. I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	38	and I will set my throne in Elam, and destroy their king and princes, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	49	39	“But in the latter days I will restore the fortunes of Elam, says the Lord.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	1	The word which the Lord spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	2	“Declare among the nations and proclaim, set up a banner and proclaim, conceal it not, and say: ‘Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed. Her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	3	“For out of the north a nation has come up against her, which shall make her land a desolation, and none shall dwell in it; both man and beast shall flee away.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	4	“In those days and in that time, says the Lord, the people of Israel and the people of Judah shall come together, weeping as they come; and they shall seek the Lord their God.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	5	They shall ask the way to Zion, with faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, let us join ourselves to the Lord in an everlasting covenant which will never be forgotten.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	6	“My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray, turning them away on the mountains; from mountain to hill they have gone, they have forgotten their fold.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	7	All who found them have devoured them, and their enemies have said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the Lord, their true habitation, the Lord, the hope of their fathers.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	8	“Flee from the midst of Babylon, and go out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as he-goats before the flock.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	9	For behold, I am stirring up and bringing against Babylon a company of great nations, from the north country; and they shall array themselves against her; from there she shall be taken. Their arrows are like a skilled warrior who does not return empty-handed.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	10	Chaldea shall be plundered; all who plunder her shall be sated, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	11	“Though you rejoice, though you exult, O plunderers of my heritage, though you are wanton as a heifer at grass, and neigh like stallions,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	12	your mother shall be utterly shamed, and she who bore you shall be disgraced. Lo, she shall be the last of the nations, a wilderness dry and desert.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	13	Because of the wrath of the Lord she shall not be inhabited, but shall be an utter desolation; every one who passes by Babylon shall be appalled, and hiss because of all her wounds.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	14	Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all you that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows, for she has sinned against the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	15	Raise a shout against her round about, she has surrendered; her bulwarks have fallen, her walls are thrown down. For this is the vengeance of the Lord: take vengeance on her, do to her as she has done.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	16	Cut off from Babylon the sower, and the one who handles the sickle in time of harvest; because of the sword of the oppressor, every one shall turn to his own people, and every one shall flee to his own land.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	17	“Israel is a hunted sheep driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has gnawed his bones.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	18	Therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing punishment on the king of Babylon and his land, as I punished the king of Assyria.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	19	I will restore Israel to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and in Bashan, and his desire shall be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	20	In those days and in that time, says the Lord, iniquity shall be sought in Israel, and there shall be none; and sin in Judah, and none shall be found; for I will pardon those whom I leave as a remnant.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	21	“Go up against the land of Merathaim, and against the inhabitants of Pekod. Slay, and utterly destroy after them, says the Lord, and do all that I have commanded you.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	22	The noise of battle is in the land, and great destruction!
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	23	How the hammer of the whole earth is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	24	I set a snare for you and you were taken, O Babylon, and you did not know it; you were found and caught, because you strove against the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	25	The Lord has opened his armory, and brought out the weapons of his wrath, for the Lord God of hosts has a work to do in the land of the Chaldeans.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	26	Come against her from every quarter; open her granaries; pile her up like heaps of grain, and destroy her utterly; let nothing be left of her.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	27	Slay all her bulls, let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	28	“Hark! they flee and escape from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, vengeance for his temple.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	29	“Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp round about her; let no one escape. Requite her according to her deeds, do to her according to all that she has done; for she has proudly defied the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	30	Therefore her young men shall fall in her squares, and all her soldiers shall be destroyed on that day, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	31	“Behold, I am against you, O proud one, says the Lord GOD of hosts; for your day has come, the time when I will punish you.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	32	The proud one shall stumble and fall, with none to raise him up, and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it will devour all that is round about him.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	33	“Thus says the Lord of hosts: The people of Israel are oppressed, and the people of Judah with them; all who took them captive have held them fast, they refuse to let them go.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	34	Their Redeemer is strong; the Lord of hosts is his name. He will surely plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, but unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	35	“A sword upon the Chaldeans, says the Lord, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes and her wise men!
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	36	A sword upon the diviners, that they may become fools! A sword upon her warriors, that they may be destroyed!
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	37	A sword upon her horses and upon her chariots, and upon all the foreign troops in her midst, that they may become women! A sword upon all her treasures, that they may be plundered!
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	38	A drought upon her waters, that they may be dried up! For it is a land of images, and they are mad over idols.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	39	“Therefore wild beasts shall dwell with hyenas in Babylon, and ostriches shall dwell in her; she shall be peopled no more for ever, nor inhabited for all generations.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	40	As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbor cities, says the Lord, so no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn in her.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	41	“Behold, a people comes from the north; a mighty nation and many kings are stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	42	They lay hold of bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy. The sound of them is like the roaring of the sea; they ride upon horses, arrayed as a man for battle against you, O daughter of Babylon!
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	43	“The king of Babylon heard the report of them, and his hands fell helpless; anguish seized him, pain as of a woman in travail.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	44	“Behold, like a lion coming up from the jungle of the Jordan against a strong sheepfold, I will suddenly make them run away from her; and I will appoint over her whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who will summon me? What shepherd can stand before me?
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	45	Therefore hear the plan which the Lord has made against Babylon, and the purposes which he has formed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the little ones of their flock shall be dragged away; surely their fold shall be appalled at their fate.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	50	46	At the sound of the capture of Babylon the earth shall tremble, and her cry shall be heard among the nations.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	1	Thus says the Lord: “Behold, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer against Babylon, against the inhabitants of Chaldea;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	2	and I will send to Babylon winnowers, and they shall winnow her, and they shall empty her land, when they come against her from every side on the day of trouble.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	3	Let not the archer bend his bow, and let him not stand up in his coat of mail. Spare not her young men; utterly destroy all her host.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	4	They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and wounded in her streets.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	5	For Israel and Judah have not been forsaken by their God, the Lord of hosts; but the land of the Chaldeans is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	6	“Flee from the midst of Babylon, let every man save his life! Be not cut off in her punishment, for this is the time of the Lord’s vengeance, the requital he is rendering her.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	7	Babylon was a golden cup in the Lord’s hand, making all the earth drunken; the nations drank of her wine, therefore the nations went mad.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	8	Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken; wail for her! Take balm for her pain; perhaps she may be healed.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	9	We would have healed Babylon, but she was not healed. Forsake her, and let us go each to his own country; for her judgment has reached up to heaven and has been lifted up even to the skies.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	10	The Lord has brought forth our vindication; come, let us declare in Zion the work of the Lord our God.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	11	“Sharpen the arrows! Take up the shields! The Lord has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose concerning Babylon is to destroy it, for that is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance for his temple.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	12	Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon; make the watch strong; set up watchmen; prepare the ambushes; for the Lord has both planned and done what he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	13	O you who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, the thread of your life is cut.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	14	The Lord of hosts has sworn by himself: Surely I will fill you with men, as many as locusts, and they shall raise the shout of victory over you.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	15	“It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	16	When he utters his voice there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain, and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	17	Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols; for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	18	They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	19	Not like these is he who is the portion of Jacob, for he is the one who formed all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance; the Lord of hosts is his name.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	20	“You are my hammer and weapon of war: with you I break nations in pieces; with you I destroy kingdoms;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	21	with you I break in pieces the horse and his rider; with you I break in pieces the chariot and the charioteer;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	22	with you I break in pieces man and woman; with you I break in pieces the old man and the youth; with you I break in pieces the young man and the maiden;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	23	with you I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; with you I break in pieces the farmer and his team; with you I break in pieces governors and commanders.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	24	“I will requite Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the evil that they have done in Zion, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	25	“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, says the Lord, which destroys the whole earth; I will stretch out my hand against you, and roll you down from the crags, and make you a burnt mountain.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	26	No stone shall be taken from you for a corner and no stone for a foundation, but you shall be a perpetual waste, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	27	“Set up a standard on the earth, blow the trumpet among the nations; prepare the nations for war against her, summon against her the kingdoms, Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a marshal against her, bring up horses like bristling locusts.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	28	Prepare the nations for war against her, the kings of the Medes, with their governors and deputies, and every land under their dominion.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	29	The land trembles and writhes in pain, for the Lord’s purposes against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	30	The warriors of Babylon have ceased fighting, they remain in their strongholds; their strength has failed, they have become women; her dwellings are on fire, her bars are broken.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	31	One runner runs to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every side;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	32	the fords have been seized, the bulwarks are burned with fire, and the soldiers are in panic.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	33	For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while and the time of her harvest will come.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	34	“Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel, he has swallowed me like a monster; he has filled his belly with my delicacies, he has rinsed me out.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	35	The violence done to me and to my kinsmen be upon Babylon,” let the inhabitant of Zion say. “My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,” let Jerusalem say.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	36	Therefore thus says the Lord: “Behold, I will plead your cause and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her fountain dry;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	37	and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, the haunt of jackals, a horror and a hissing, without inhabitant.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	38	“They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl like lions’ whelps.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	39	While they are inflamed I will prepare them a feast and make them drunk, till they swoon away and sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	40	I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and he-goats.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	41	“How Babylon is taken, the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	42	The sea has come up on Babylon; she is covered with its tumultuous waves.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	43	Her cities have become a horror, a land of drought and a desert, a land in which no one dwells, and through which no son of man passes.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	44	And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what he has swallowed. The nations shall no longer flow to him; the wall of Babylon has fallen.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	45	“Go out of the midst of her, my people! Let every man save his life from the fierce anger of the Lord!
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	46	Let not your heart faint, and be not fearful at the report heard in the land, when a report comes in one year and afterward a report in another year, and violence is in the land, and ruler is against ruler.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	47	“Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the images of Babylon; her whole land shall be put to shame, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	48	Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is in them, shall sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers shall come against them out of the north, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	49	Babylon must fall for the slain of Israel, as for Babylon have fallen the slain of all the earth.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	50	“You that have escaped from the sword, go, stand not still! Remember the Lord from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind:
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	51	‘We are put to shame, for we have heard reproach; dishonor has covered our face, for aliens have come into the holy places of the Lord’s house.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	52	“Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will execute judgment upon her images, and through all her land the wounded shall groan.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	53	Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify her strong height, yet destroyers would come from me upon her, says the Lord.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	54	“Hark! a cry from Babylon! The noise of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	55	For the Lord is laying Babylon waste, and stilling her mighty voice. Their waves roar like many waters, the noise of their voice is raised;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	56	for a destroyer has come upon her, upon Babylon; her warriors are taken, their bows are broken in pieces; for the Lord is a God of recompense, he will surely requite.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	57	I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors, her commanders, and her warriors; they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, says the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	58	“Thus says the Lord of hosts: The broad wall of Babylon shall be leveled to the ground and her high gates shall be burned with fire. The peoples labor for nought, and the nations weary themselves only for fire.”
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	59	The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign. Seraiah was the quartermaster.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	60	Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, all these words that are written concerning Babylon.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	61	And Jeremiah said to Seraiah: “When you come to Babylon, see that you read all these words,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	62	and say, ‘O Lord, thou hast said concerning this place that thou wilt cut it off, so that nothing shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, and it shall be desolate for ever.’
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	63	When you finish reading this book, bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates,
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	51	64	and say, ‘Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the evil that I am bringing upon her.’” Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	52	1	Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	52	2	And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	52	3	Surely because of the anger of the Lord things came to such a pass in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	52	4	And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem, and they laid siege to it and built siegeworks against it round about.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	52	5	So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	52	6	On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city, that there was no food for the people of the land.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	52	7	Then a breach was made in the city; and all the men of war fled and went out from the city by night by the way of a gate between the two walls, by the king’s garden, while the Chaldeans were round about the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	52	8	But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	52	9	Then they captured the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence upon him.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	52	10	The king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and also slew all the princes of Judah at Riblah.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	52	11	He put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and the king of Babylon took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	52	12	In the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month—which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon—Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard who served the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	52	13	And he burned the house of the Lord, and the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	52	14	And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls round about Jerusalem.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	52	15	And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive some of the poorest of the people and the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the artisans.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	52	16	But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	52	17	And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the Lord, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried all the bronze to Babylon.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	52	18	And they took away the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the dishes for incense, and all the vessels of bronze used in the temple service;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	52	19	also the small bowls, and the firepans, and the basins, and the pots, and the lampstands, and the dishes for incense, and the bowls for libation. What was of gold the captain of the guard took away as gold, and what was of silver, as silver.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	52	20	As for the two pillars, the one sea, the twelve bronze bulls which were under the sea, and the stands, which Solomon the king had made for the house of the Lord, the bronze of all these things was beyond weight.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	52	21	As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, its circumference was twelve cubits, and its thickness was four fingers, and it was hollow.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	52	22	Upon it was a capital of bronze; the height of the one capital was five cubits; a network and pomegranates, all of bronze, were upon the capital round about. And the second pillar had the like, with pomegranates.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	52	23	There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were a hundred upon the network round about.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	52	24	And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	52	25	and from the city he took an officer who had been in command of the men of war, and seven men of the king’s council, who were found in the city; and the secretary of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the midst of the city.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	52	26	And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	52	27	And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried captive out of its land.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	52	28	This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	52	29	in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred and thirty-two persons;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	52	30	in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred and forty-five persons; all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	52	31	And in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he became king, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	52	32	and he spoke kindly to him, and gave him a seat above the seats of the kings who were with him in Babylon.
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	52	33	So Jehoiachin put off his prison garments. And every day of his life he dined regularly at the king’s table;
 Jeremiah	Jer	28	52	34	as for his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king according to his daily need, until the day of his death as long as he lived.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	1	1	How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How like a widow has she become, she that was great among the nations! She that was a princess among the cities has become a vassal.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	1	2	She weeps bitterly in the night, tears on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they have become her enemies.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	1	3	Judah has gone into exile because of affliction and hard servitude; she dwells now among the nations, but finds no resting place; her pursuers have all overtaken her in the midst of her distress.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	1	4	The roads to Zion mourn, for none come to the appointed feasts; all her gates are desolate, her priests groan; her maidens have been dragged away, and she herself suffers bitterly.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	1	5	Her foes have become the head, her enemies prosper, because the Lord has made her suffer for the multitude of her transgressions; her children have gone away, captives before the foe.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	1	6	From the daughter of Zion has departed all her majesty. Her princes have become like harts that find no pasture; they fled without strength before the pursuer.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	1	7	Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and bitterness all the precious things that were hers from days of old. When her people fell into the hand of the foe, and there was none to help her, the foe gloated over her, mocking at her downfall.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	1	8	Jerusalem sinned grievously, therefore she became filthy; all who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; yea, she herself groans, and turns her face away.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	1	9	Her uncleanness was in her skirts; she took no thought of her doom; therefore her fall is terrible, she has no comforter. “O Lord, behold my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!”
 Lamentations	Lam	29	1	10	The enemy has stretched out his hands over all her precious things; yea, she has seen the nations invade her sanctuary, those whom thou didst forbid to enter thy congregation.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	1	11	All her people groan as they search for bread; they trade their treasures for food to revive their strength. “Look, O Lord, and behold, for I am despised.”
 Lamentations	Lam	29	1	12	“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow which was brought upon me, which the Lord inflicted on the day of his fierce anger.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	1	13	“From on high he sent fire; into my bones he made it descend; he spread a net for my feet; he turned me back; he has left me stunned, faint all the day long.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	1	14	“My transgressions were bound into a yoke; by his hand they were fastened together; they were set upon my neck; he caused my strength to fail; the Lord gave me into the hands of those whom I cannot withstand.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	1	15	“The Lord flouted all my mighty men in the midst of me; he summoned an assembly against me to crush my young men; the Lord has trodden as in a wine press the virgin daughter of Judah.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	1	16	“For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears; for a comforter is far from me, one to revive my courage; my children are desolate, for the enemy has prevailed.”
 Lamentations	Lam	29	1	17	Zion stretches out her hands, but there is none to comfort her; the Lord has commanded against Jacob that his neighbors should be his foes; Jerusalem has become a filthy thing among them.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	1	18	“The Lord is in the right, for I have rebelled against his word; but hear, all you peoples, and behold my suffering; my maidens and my young men have gone into captivity.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	1	19	“I called to my lovers but they deceived me; my priests and elders perished in the city, while they sought food to revive their strength.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	1	20	“Behold, O Lord, for I am in distress, my soul is in tumult, my heart is wrung within me, because I have been very rebellious. In the street the sword bereaves; in the house it is like death.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	1	21	“Hear how I groan; there is none to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it. Bring thou the day thou hast announced, and let them be as I am.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	1	22	“Let all their evil doing come before thee; and deal with them as thou hast dealt with me because of all my transgressions; for my groans are many and my heart is faint.”
 Lamentations	Lam	29	2	1	How the Lord in his anger has set the daughter of Zion under a cloud! He has cast down from heaven to earth the splendor of Israel; he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	2	2	The Lord has destroyed without mercy all the habitations of Jacob; in his wrath he has broken down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought down to the ground in dishonor the kingdom and its rulers.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	2	3	He has cut down in fierce anger all the might of Israel; he has withdrawn from them his right hand in the face of the enemy; he has burned like a flaming fire in Jacob, consuming all around.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	2	4	He has bent his bow like an enemy, with his right hand set like a foe; and he has slain all the pride of our eyes in the tent of the daughter of Zion; he has poured out his fury like fire.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	2	5	The Lord has become like an enemy, he has destroyed Israel; he has destroyed all its palaces, laid in ruins its strongholds; and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	2	6	He has broken down his booth like that of a garden, laid in ruins the place of his appointed feasts; the Lord has brought to an end in Zion appointed feast and sabbath, and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	2	7	The Lord has scorned his altar, disowned his sanctuary; he has delivered into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; a clamor was raised in the house of the Lord as on the day of an appointed feast.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	2	8	The Lord determined to lay in ruins the wall of the daughter of Zion; he marked it off by the line; he restrained not his hand from destroying; he caused rampart and wall to lament, they languish together.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	2	9	Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has ruined and broken her bars; her king and princes are among the nations; the law is no more, and her prophets obtain no vision from the Lord.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	2	10	The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have cast dust on their heads and put on sackcloth; the maidens of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	2	11	My eyes are spent with weeping; my soul is in tumult; my heart is poured out in grief because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because infants and babes faint in the streets of the city.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	2	12	They cry to their mothers, “Where is bread and wine?” as they faint like wounded men in the streets of the city, as their life is poured out on their mothers’ bosom.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	2	13	What can I say for you, to what compare you, O daughter of Jerusalem? What can I liken to you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For vast as the sea is your ruin; who can restore you?
 Lamentations	Lam	29	2	14	Your prophets have seen for you false and deceptive visions; they have not exposed your iniquity to restore your fortunes, but have seen for you oracles false and misleading.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	2	15	All who pass along the way clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem; “Is this the city which was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”
 Lamentations	Lam	29	2	16	All your enemies rail against you; they hiss, they gnash their teeth, they cry: “We have destroyed her! Ah, this is the day we longed for; now we have it; we see it!”
 Lamentations	Lam	29	2	17	The Lord has done what he purposed, has carried out his threat; as he ordained long ago, he has demolished without pity; he has made the enemy rejoice over you, and exalted the might of your foes.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	2	18	Cry aloud to the Lord! O daughter of Zion! Let tears stream down like a torrent day and night! Give yourself no rest, your eyes no respite!
 Lamentations	Lam	29	2	19	Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord! Lift your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	2	20	Look, O Lord, and see! With whom hast thou dealt thus? Should women eat their offspring, the children of their tender care? Should priest and prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
 Lamentations	Lam	29	2	21	In the dust of the streets lie the young and the old; my maidens and my young men have fallen by the sword; in the day of thy anger thou hast slain them, slaughtering without mercy.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	2	22	Thou didst invite as to the day of an appointed feast my terrors on every side; and on the day of the anger of the Lord none escaped or survived; those whom I dandled and reared my enemy destroyed.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	1	I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his wrath;
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	2	he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light;
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	3	surely against me he turns his hand again and again the whole day long.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	4	He has made my flesh and my skin waste away, and broken my bones;
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	5	he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	6	he has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	7	He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has put heavy chains on me;
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	8	though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer;
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	9	he has blocked my ways with hewn stones, he has made my paths crooked.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	10	He is to me like a bear lying in wait, like a lion in hiding;
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	11	he led me off my way and tore me to pieces; he has made me desolate;
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	12	he bent his bow and set me as a mark for his arrow.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	13	He drove into my heart the arrows of his quiver;
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	14	I have become the laughingstock of all peoples, the burden of their songs all day long.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	15	He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	16	He has made my teeth grind on gravel, and made me cower in ashes;
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	17	my soul is bereft of peace, I have forgotten what happiness is;
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	18	so I say, “Gone is my glory, and my expectation from the Lord.”
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	19	Remember my affliction and my bitterness, the wormwood and the gall!
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	20	My soul continually thinks of it and is bowed down within me.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	21	But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope:
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	22	The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end;
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	23	they are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	24	“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.”
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	25	The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	26	It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	27	It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	28	Let him sit alone in silence when he has laid it on him;
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	29	let him put his mouth in the dust— there may yet be hope;
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	30	let him give his cheek to the smiter, and be filled with insults.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	31	For the Lord will not cast off for ever,
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	32	but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love;
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	33	for he does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	34	To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	35	to turn aside the right of a man in the presence of the Most High,
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	36	to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord does not approve.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	37	Who has commanded and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	38	Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and evil come?
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	39	Why should a living man complain, a man, about the punishment of his sins?
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	40	Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the Lord!
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	41	Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	42	“We have transgressed and rebelled, and thou hast not forgiven.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	43	“Thou hast wrapped thyself with anger and pursued us, slaying without pity;
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	44	thou hast wrapped thyself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	45	Thou hast made us offscouring and refuse among the peoples.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	46	“All our enemies rail against us;
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	47	panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction;
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	48	my eyes flow with rivers of tears because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	49	“My eyes will flow without ceasing, without respite,
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	50	until the Lord from heaven looks down and sees;
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	51	my eyes cause me grief at the fate of all the maidens of my city.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	52	“I have been hunted like a bird by those who were my enemies without cause;
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	53	they flung me alive into the pit and cast stones on me;
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	54	water closed over my head; I said, ‘I am lost.’
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	55	“I called on thy name, O Lor, from the depths of the pit;
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	56	thou didst hear my plea, ‘Do not close thine ear to my cry for help!’
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	57	Thou didst come near when I called on thee; thou didst say, ‘Do not fear!’
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	58	“Thou hast taken up my cause, O Lord, thou hast redeemed my life.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	59	Thou hast seen the wrong done to me, O Lord; judge thou my cause.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	60	Thou hast seen all their vengeance, all their devices against me.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	61	“Thou hast heard their taunts, O Lord, all their devices against me.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	62	The lips and thoughts of my assailants are against me all the day long.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	63	Behold their sitting and their rising; I am the burden of their songs.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	64	“Thou wilt requite them, O Lord, according to the work of their hands.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	65	Thou wilt give them dullness of heart; thy curse will be on them.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	3	66	Thou wilt pursue them in anger and destroy them from under thy heavens, O Lord.”
 Lamentations	Lam	29	4	1	How the gold has grown dim, how the pure gold is changed! The holy stones lie scattered at the head of every street.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	4	2	The precious sons of Zion, worth their weight in fine gold, how they are reckoned as earthen pots, the work of a potter’s hands!
 Lamentations	Lam	29	4	3	Even the jackals give the breast and suckle their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	4	4	The tongue of the nursling cleaves to the roof of its mouth for thirst; the children beg for food, but no one gives to them.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	4	5	Those who feasted on dainties perish in the streets; those who were brought up in purple lie on ash heaps.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	4	6	For the chastisement of the daughter of my people has been greater than the punishment of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment, no hand being laid on it.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	4	7	Her princes were purer than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than coral, the beauty of their form was like sapphire.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	4	8	Now their visage is blacker than soot, they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled upon their bones, it has become as dry as wood.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	4	9	Happier were the victims of the sword than the victims of hunger, who pined away, stricken by want of the fruits of the field.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	4	10	The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	4	11	The Lord gave full vent to his wrath, he poured out his hot anger; and he kindled a fire in Zion, which consumed its foundations.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	4	12	The kings of the earth did not believe, or any of the inhabitants of the world, that foe or enemy could enter the gates of Jerusalem.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	4	13	This was for the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed in the midst of her the blood of the righteous.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	4	14	They wandered, blind, through the streets, so defiled with blood that none could touch their garments.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	4	15	“Away! Unclean!” men cried at them; “Away! Away! Touch not!” So they became fugitives and wanderers; men said among the nations, “They shall stay with us no longer.”
 Lamentations	Lam	29	4	16	The Lord himself has scattered them, he will regard them no more; no honor was shown to the priests, no favor to the elders.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	4	17	Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; in our watching we watched for a nation which could not save.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	4	18	Men dogged our steps so that we could not walk in our streets; our end drew near; our days were numbered; for our end had come.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	4	19	Our pursuers were swifter than the vultures in the heavens; they chased us on the mountains, they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	4	20	The breath of our nostrils, the Lord’s anointed, was taken in their pits, he of whom we said, “Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.”
 Lamentations	Lam	29	4	21	Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, dweller in the land of Uz; but to you also the cup shall pass; you shall become drunk and strip yourself bare.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	4	22	The punishment of your iniquity, O daughter of Zion, is accomplished, he will keep you in exile no longer; but your iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he will punish, he will uncover your sins.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	5	1	Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us; behold, and see our disgrace!
 Lamentations	Lam	29	5	2	Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to aliens.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	5	3	We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	5	4	We must pay for the water we drink, the wood we get must be bought.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	5	5	With a yoke on our necks we are hard driven; we are weary, we are given no rest.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	5	6	We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	5	7	Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	5	8	Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	5	9	We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	5	10	Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	5	11	Women are ravished in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	5	12	Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	5	13	Young men are compelled to grind at the mill; and boys stagger under loads of wood.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	5	14	The old men have quit the city gate, the young men their music.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	5	15	The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	5	16	The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!
 Lamentations	Lam	29	5	17	For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim,
 Lamentations	Lam	29	5	18	for Mount Zion which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	5	19	But thou, O Lord, dost reign for ever; thy throne endures to all generations.
 Lamentations	Lam	29	5	20	Why dost thou forget us for ever, why dost thou so long forsake us?
 Lamentations	Lam	29	5	21	Restore us to thyself, O Lord, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old!
 Lamentations	Lam	29	5	22	Or hast thou utterly rejected us? Art thou exceedingly angry with us?
 Baruch	Bar	30	1	1	These are the words of the book which Baruch the son of Neraiah, son of Mahseiah, son of Zedekiah, son of Hasadiah, son of Hilkiah, wrote in Babylon,
 Baruch	Bar	30	1	2	in the fifth year, on the seventh day of the month, at the time when the Chaldeans took Jerusalem and burned it with fire.
 Baruch	Bar	30	1	3	And Baruch read the words of this book in the hearing of Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and in the hearing of all the people who came to hear the book,
 Baruch	Bar	30	1	4	and in the hearing of the mighty men and the princes, and in the hearing of the elders, and in the hearing of all the people, small and great, all who dwelt in Babylon by the river Sud.
 Baruch	Bar	30	1	5	Then they wept, and fasted, and prayed before the Lord;
 Baruch	Bar	30	1	6	and they collected money, each giving what he could;
 Baruch	Bar	30	1	7	and they sent it to Jerusalem to Jehoiakim the high priest, the son of Hilkiah, son of Shallum, and to the priests, and to all the people who were present with him in Jerusalem.
 Baruch	Bar	30	1	8	At the same time, on the tenth day of Sivan, Baruch took the vessels of the house of the Lord, which had been carried away from the temple, to return them to the land of Judah—the silver vessels which Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, had made,
 Baruch	Bar	30	1	9	after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away from Jerusalem Jeconiah and the princes and the prisoners and the mighty men and the people of the land, and brought them to Babylon.
 Baruch	Bar	30	1	10	And they said: “Herewith we send you money; so buy with the money burnt offerings and sin offerings and incense, and prepare a cereal offering, and offer them upon the altar of the Lord our God;
 Baruch	Bar	30	1	11	and pray for the life of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and for the life of Belshazzar his son, that their days on earth may be like the days of heaven.
 Baruch	Bar	30	1	12	And the Lord will give us strength, and he will give light to our eyes, and we shall live under the protection of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and under the protection of Belshazzar his son, and we shall serve them many days and find favor in their sight.
 Baruch	Bar	30	1	13	And pray for us to the Lord our God, for we have sinned against the Lord our God, and to this day the anger of the Lord and his wrath have not turned away from us.
 Baruch	Bar	30	1	14	And you shall read this book which we are sending you, to make your confession in the house of the Lord on the days of the feasts and at appointed seasons.
 Baruch	Bar	30	1	15	“And you shall say: ‘Righteousness belongs to the Lord our God, but confusion of face, as at this day, to us, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
 Baruch	Bar	30	1	16	and to our kings and our princes and our priests and our prophets and our fathers,
 Baruch	Bar	30	1	17	because we have sinned before the Lord,
 Baruch	Bar	30	1	18	and have disobeyed him, and have not heeded the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in the statutes of the Lord which he set before us.
 Baruch	Bar	30	1	19	From the day when the Lord brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt until today, we have been disobedient to the Lord our God, and we have been negligent, in not heeding his voice.
 Baruch	Bar	30	1	20	So to this day there have clung to us the calamities and the curse which the Lord declared through Moses his servant at the time when he brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt to give to us a land flowing with milk and honey.
 Baruch	Bar	30	1	21	We did not heed the voice of the Lord our God in all the words of the prophets whom he sent to us, but we each followed the intent of his own wicked heart by serving other gods and doing what is evil in the sight of the Lord our God.
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	1	“‘So the Lord confirmed his word, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged Israel, and against our kings and against our princes and against the men of Israel and Judah.
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	2	Under the whole heaven there has not been done the like of what he has done in Jerusalem, in accordance with what is written in the law of Moses,
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	3	that we should eat, one the flesh of his son and another the flesh of his daughter.
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	4	And he gave them into subjection to all the kingdoms around us, to be a reproach and a desolation among all the surrounding peoples, where the Lord has scattered them.
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	5	They were brought low and not raised up, because we sinned against the Lord our God, in not heeding his voice.
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	6	“‘Righteousness belongs to the Lord our God, but confusion of face to us and our fathers, as at this day.
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	7	All those calamities with which the Lord threatened us have come upon us.
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	8	Yet we have not entreated the favor of the Lord by turning away, each of us, from the thoughts of his wicked heart.
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	9	And the Lord has kept the calamities ready, and the Lord has brought them upon us, for the Lord is righteous in all his works which he has commanded us to do.
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	10	Yet we have not obeyed his voice, to walk in the statutes of the Lord which he set before us.
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	11	“‘And now, O Lord God of Israel, who didst bring thy people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and with signs and wonders and with great power and outstretched arm, and hast made thee a name, as at this day,
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	12	we have sinned, we have been ungodly, we have done wrong, O Lord our God, against all thy ordinances.
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	13	Let thy anger turn away from us, for we are left, few in number, among the nations where thou hast scattered us.
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	14	Hear, O Lord, our prayer and our supplication, and for thy own sake deliver us, and grant us favor in the sight of those who have carried us into exile;
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	15	that all the earth may know that thou art the Lord our God, for Israel and his descendants are called by thy name.
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	16	O Lord, look down from thy holy habitation, and consider us. Incline thy ear, O Lord, and hear;
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	17	open thy eyes, O Lord, and see; for the dead who are in Hades, whose spirit has been taken from their bodies, will not ascribe glory or justice to the Lord,
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	18	but the person that is greatly distressed, that goes about bent over and feeble, and the eyes that are failing, and the person that hungers, will ascribe to thee glory and righteousness, O Lord.
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	19	For it is not because of any righteous deeds of our fathers or our kings that we bring before thee our prayer for mercy, O Lord our God.
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	20	For thou hast sent thy anger and thy wrath upon us, as thou didst declare by thy servants the prophets, saying:
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	21	“Thus says the Lord: Bend your shoulders and serve the king of Babylon, and you will remain in the land which I gave to your fathers.
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	22	But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord and will not serve the king of Babylon,
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	23	I will make to cease from the cities of Judah and from the region about Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, and the whole land will be a desolation without inhabitants.”
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	24	“‘But we did not obey thy voice, to serve the king of Babylon; and thou hast confirmed thy words, which thou didst speak by thy servants the prophets, that the bones of our kings and the bones of our fathers would be brought out of their graves;
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	25	and behold, they have been cast out to the heat of day and the frost of night. They perished in great misery, by famine and sword and pestilence.
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	26	And the house which is called by thy name thou hast made as it is today, because of the wickedness of the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	27	“‘Yet thou hast dealt with us, O Lord our God, in all thy kindness and in all thy great compassion,
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	28	as thou didst speak by thy servant Moses on the day when thou didst command him to write thy law in the presence of the people of Israel, saying,
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	29	“If you will not obey my voice, this very great multitude will surely turn into a small number among the nations, where I will scatter them.
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	30	For I know that they will not obey me, for they are a stiff-necked people. But in the land of their exile they will come to themselves,
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	31	and they will know that I am the Lord their God. I will give them a heart that obeys and ears that hear;
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	32	and they will praise me in the land of their exile, and will remember my name,
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	33	and will turn from their stubbornness and their wicked deeds; for they will remember the ways of their fathers, who sinned before the Lord.
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	34	I will bring them again into the land which I swore to give to their fathers, to Abraham and to Isaac and to Jacob, and they will rule over it; and I will increase them, and they will not be diminished.
 Baruch	Bar	30	2	35	I will make an everlasting covenant with them to be their God and they shall be my people; and I will never again remove my people Israel from the land which I have given them.”
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	1	“‘O Lord Almighty, God of Israel, the soul in anguish and the wearied spirit cry out to thee.
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	2	Hear, O Lord, and have mercy, for we have sinned before thee.
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	3	For thou art enthroned for ever, and we are perishing for ever.
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	4	O Lord Almighty, God of Israel, hear now the prayer of the dead of Israel and of the sons of those who sinned before thee, who did not heed the voice of the Lord their God, so that calamities have clung to us.
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	5	Remember not the iniquities of our fathers, but in this crisis remember thy power and thy name.
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	6	For thou art the Lord our God, and thee, O Lord, will we praise.
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	7	For thou hast put the fear of thee in our hearts in order that we should call upon thy name; and we will praise thee in our exile, for we have put away from our hearts all the iniquity of our fathers who sinned before thee.
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	8	Behold, we are today in our exile where thou hast scattered us, to be reproached and cursed and punished for all the iniquities of our fathers who forsook the Lord our God.’”
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	9	Hear the commandments of life, O Israel; give ear, and learn wisdom!
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	10	Why is it, O Israel, why is it that you are in the land of your enemies, that you are growing old in a foreign country, that you are defiled with the dead,
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	11	that you are counted among those in Hades?
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	12	You have forsaken the fountain of wisdom.
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	13	If you had walked in the way of God, you would be dwelling in peace for ever.
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	14	Learn where there is wisdom, where there is strength, where there is understanding, that you may at the same time discern where there is length of days, and life, where there is light for the eyes, and peace.
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	15	Who has found her place? And who has entered her storehouses?
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	16	Where are the princes of the nations, and those who rule over the beasts on earth;
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	17	those who have sport with the birds of the air, and who hoard up silver and gold, in which men trust, and there is no end to their getting;
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	18	those who scheme to get silver, and are anxious, whose labors are beyond measure?
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	19	They have vanished and gone down to Hades, and others have arisen in their place.
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	20	Young men have seen the light of day, and have dwelt upon the earth; but they have not learned the way to knowledge, nor understood her paths, nor laid hold of her.
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	21	Their sons have strayed far from her way.
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	22	She has not been heard of in Canaan, nor seen in Teman;
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	23	the sons of Hagar, who seek for understanding on the earth, the merchants of Merran and Teman, the story-tellers and the seekers for understanding, have not learned the way to wisdom, nor given thought to her paths.
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	24	O Israel, how great is the house of God! And how vast the territory that he possesses!
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	25	It is great and has no bounds; it is high and immeasurable.
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	26	The giants were born there, who were famous of old, great in stature, expert in war.
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	27	God did not choose them, nor give them the way to knowledge;
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	28	so they perished because they had no wisdom, they perished through their folly.
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	29	Who has gone up into heaven, and taken her, and brought her down from the clouds?
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	30	Who has gone over the sea, and found her, and will buy her for pure gold?
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	31	No one knows the way to her, or is concerned about the path to her.
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	32	But he who knows all things knows her, he found her by his understanding. He who prepared the earth for all time filled it with four-footed creatures;
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	33	he who sends forth the light, and it goes, called it, and it obeyed him in fear;
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	34	the stars shone in their watches, and were glad; he called them, and they said, “Here we are!” They shone with gladness for him who made them.
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	35	This is our God; no other can be compared to him!
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	36	He found the whole way to knowledge, and gave her to Jacob his servant and to Israel whom he loved.
 Baruch	Bar	30	3	37	Afterward she appeared upon earth and lived among men.
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	1	She is the book of the commandments of God, and the law that endures for ever. All who hold her fast will live, and those who forsake her will die.
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	2	Turn, O Jacob, and take her; walk toward the shining of her light.
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	3	Do not give your glory to another, or your advantages to an alien people.
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	4	Happy are we, O Israel, for we know what is pleasing to God.
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	5	Take courage, my people, O memorial of Israel!
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	6	It was not for destruction that you were sold to the nations, but you were handed over to your enemies because you angered God.
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	7	For you provoked him who made you, by sacrificing to demons and not to God.
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	8	You forgot the everlasting God, who brought you up, and you grieved Jerusalem, who reared you.
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	9	For she saw the wrath that came upon you from God, and she said: “Hearken, you neighbors of Zion, God has brought great sorrow upon me;
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	10	for I have seen the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting brought upon them.
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	11	With joy I nurtured them, but I sent them away with weeping and sorrow.
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	12	Let no one rejoice over me, a widow and bereaved of many; I was left desolate because of the sins of my children, because they turned away from the law of God.
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	13	They had no regard for his statutes; they did not walk in the ways of God’s commandments, nor tread the paths of discipline in his righteousness.
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	14	Let the neighbors of Zion come; remember the capture of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting brought upon them.
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	15	For he brought against them a nation from afar, a shameless nation, of a strange language, who had no respect for an old man, and had no pity for a child.
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	16	They led away the widow’s beloved sons, and bereaved the lonely woman of her daughters.
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	17	“But I, how can I help you?
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	18	For he who brought these calamities upon you will deliver you from the hand of your enemies.
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	19	Go, my children, go; for I have been left desolate.
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	20	I have taken off the robe of peace and put on the sackcloth of my supplication; I will cry to the Everlasting all my days.
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	21	“Take courage, my children, cry to God, and he will deliver you from the power and hand of the enemy.
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	22	For I have put my hope in the Everlasting to save you, and joy has come to me from the Holy One, because of the mercy which soon will come to you from your everlasting Savior.
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	23	For I sent you out with sorrow and weeping, but God will give you back to me with joy and gladness for ever.
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	24	For as the neighbors of Zion have now seen your capture, so they soon will see your salvation by God, which will come to you with great glory and with the splendor of the Everlasting.
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	25	My children, endure with patience the wrath that has come upon you from God. Your enemy has overtaken you, but you will soon see their destruction and will tread upon their necks.
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	26	My tender sons have traveled rough roads; they were taken away like a flock carried off by the enemy.
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	27	“Take courage, my children, and cry to God, for you will be remembered by him who brought this upon you.
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	28	For just as you purposed to go astray from God, return with tenfold zeal to seek him.
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	29	For he who brought these calamities upon you will bring you everlasting joy with your salvation.”
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	30	Take courage, O Jerusalem, for he who named you will comfort you.
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	31	Wretched will be those who afflicted you and rejoiced at your fall.
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	32	Wretched will be the cities which your children served as slaves; wretched will be the city which received your sons.
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	33	For just as she rejoiced at your fall and was glad for your ruin, so she will be grieved at her own desolation.
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	34	And I will take away her pride in her great population, and her insolence will be turned to grief.
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	35	For fire will come upon her from the Everlasting for many days, and for a long time she will be inhabited by demons.
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	36	Look toward the east, O Jerusalem, and see the joy that is coming to you from God!
 Baruch	Bar	30	4	37	Behold, your sons are coming, whom you sent away; they are coming, gathered from east and west, at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the glory of God.
 Baruch	Bar	30	5	1	Take off the garment of your sorrow and affliction, O Jerusalem, and put on for ever the beauty of the glory from God.
 Baruch	Bar	30	5	2	Put on the robe of the righteousness from God; put on your head the diadem of the glory of the Everlasting.
 Baruch	Bar	30	5	3	For God will show your splendor everywhere under heaven.
 Baruch	Bar	30	5	4	For your name will for ever be called by God, “Peace of righteousness and glory of godliness.”
 Baruch	Bar	30	5	5	Arise, O Jerusalem, stand upon the height and look toward the east, and see your children gathered from west and east, at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing that God has remembered them.
 Baruch	Bar	30	5	6	For they went forth from you on foot, led away by their enemies; but God will bring them back to you, carried in glory, as on a royal throne.
 Baruch	Bar	30	5	7	For God has ordered that every high mountain and the everlasting hills be made low and the valleys filled up, to make level ground, so that Israel may walk safely in the glory of God.
 Baruch	Bar	30	5	8	The woods and every fragrant tree have shaded Israel at God’s command.
 Baruch	Bar	30	5	9	For God will lead Israel with joy, in the light of his glory, with the mercy and righteousness that come from him.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	1	A copy of a letter which Jeremiah sent to those who were to be taken to Babylon as captives by the king of the Babylonians, to give them the message which God had commanded him.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	2	Because of the sins which you have committed before God, you will be taken to Babylon as captives by Nebuchadnezzar, king of the Babylonians.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	3	Therefore when you have come to Babylon you will remain there for many years, for a long time, up to seven generations; after that I will bring you away from there in peace.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	4	Now in Babylon you will see gods made of silver and gold and wood, which are carried on men’s shoulders and inspire fear in the heathen.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	5	So take care not to become at all like the foreigners or to let fear for these gods possess you, when you see the multitude before and behind them worshiping them.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	6	But say in your heart, “It is thou, O Lord, whom we must worship.”
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	7	For my angel is with you, and he is watching your lives.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	8	Their tongues are smoothed by the craftsman, and they themselves are overlaid with gold and silver; but they are false and cannot speak.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	9	People take gold and make crowns for the heads of their gods, as they would for a girl who loves ornaments;
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	10	and sometimes the priests secretly take gold and silver from their gods and spend it upon themselves,
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	11	and even give some of it to the harlots in the brothel. They deck their gods out with garments like men—these gods of silver and gold and wood,
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	12	which cannot save themselves from rust and corrosion. When they have been dressed in purple robes,
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	13	their faces are wiped because of the dust from the temple, which is thick upon them.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	14	Like a local ruler the god holds a scepter, though unable to destroy any one who offends it.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	15	It has a dagger in its right hand, and has an axe; but it cannot save itself from war and robbers.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	16	Therefore they evidently are not gods; so do not fear them.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	17	For just as one’s dish is useless when it is broken, so are the gods of the heathen, when they have been set up in the temples. Their eyes are full of the dust raised by the feet of those who enter.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	18	And just as the gates are shut on every side upon a man who has offended a king, as though he were sentenced to death, so the priests make their temples secure with doors and locks and bars, in order that they may not be plundered by robbers.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	19	They light lamps, even more than they light for themselves, though their gods can see none of them.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	20	They are just like a beam of the temple, but men say their hearts have melted, when worms from the earth devour them and their robes. They do not notice
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	21	when their faces have been blackened by the smoke of the temple.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	22	Bats, swallows, and birds light on their bodies and heads; and so do cats.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	23	From this you will know that they are not gods; so do not fear them.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	24	As for the gold which they wear for beauty—they will not shine unless some one wipes off the rust; for even when they were being cast, they had no feeling.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	25	They are bought at any cost, but there is no breath in them.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	26	Having no feet, they are carried on men’s shoulders, revealing to mankind their worthlessness.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	27	And those who serve them are ashamed because through them these gods are made to stand, lest they fall to the ground. If any one sets one of them upright, it cannot move itself; and if it is tipped over, it cannot straighten itself; but gifts are placed before them just as before the dead.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	28	The priests sell the sacrifices that are offered to these gods and use the money; and likewise their wives preserve some with salt, but give none to the poor or helpless.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	29	Sacrifices to them may be touched by women in menstruation or at childbirth. Since you know by these things that they are not gods, do not fear them.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	30	For why should they be called gods? Women serve meals for gods of silver and gold and wood;
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	31	and in their temples the priests sit with their clothes rent, their heads and beards shaved, and their heads uncovered.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	32	They howl and shout before their gods as some do at a funeral feast for a man who has died.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	33	The priests take some of the clothing of their gods to clothe their wives and children.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	34	Whether one does evil to them or good, they will not be able to repay it. They cannot set up a king or depose one.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	35	Likewise they are not able to give either wealth or money; if one makes a vow to them and does not keep it, they will not require it.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	36	They cannot save a man from death or rescue the weak from the strong.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	37	They cannot restore sight to a blind man; they cannot rescue a man who is in distress.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	38	They cannot take pity on a widow or do good to an orphan.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	39	These things that are made of wood and overlaid with gold and silver are like stones from the mountain, and those who serve them will be put to shame.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	40	Why then must any one think that they are gods, or call them gods? Besides, even the Chaldeans themselves dishonor them;
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	41	for when they see a dumb man, who cannot speak, they bring him and pray Bel that the man may speak, as though Bel were able to understand.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	42	Yet they themselves cannot perceive this and abandon them, for they have no sense.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	43	And the women, with cords about them, sit along the passageways, burning bran for incense; and when one of them is led off by one of the passers-by and is lain with, she derides the woman next to her, because she was not as attractive as herself and her cord was not broken.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	44	Whatever is done for them is false. Why then must any one think that they are gods, or call them gods?
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	45	They are made by carpenters and goldsmiths; they can be nothing but what the craftsmen wish them to be.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	46	The men that make them will certainly not live very long themselves; how then can the things that are made by them be gods?
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	47	They have left only lies and reproach for those who come after.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	48	For when war or calamity comes upon them, the priests consult together as to where they can hide themselves and their gods.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	49	How then can one fail to see that these are not gods, for they cannot save themselves from war or calamity?
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	50	Since they are made of wood and overlaid with gold and silver, it will afterward be known that they are false.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	51	It will be manifest to all the nations and kings that they are not gods but the work of men’s hands, and that there is no work of God in them.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	52	Who then can fail to know that they are not gods?
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	53	For they cannot set up a king over a country or give rain to men.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	54	They cannot judge their own cause or deliver one who is wronged, for they have no power; they are like crows between heaven and earth.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	55	When fire breaks out in a temple of wooden gods overlaid with gold or silver, their priests will flee and escape, but the gods will be burnt in two like beams.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	56	Besides, they can offer no resistance to a king or any enemies. Why then must any one admit or think that they are gods?
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	57	Gods made of wood and overlaid with silver and gold are not able to save themselves from thieves and robbers.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	58	Strong men will strip them of their gold and silver and of the robes they wear, and go off with this booty, and they will not be able to help themselves.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	59	So it is better to be a king who shows his courage, or a household utensil that serves its owner’s need, than to be these false gods; better even the door of a house that protects its contents, than these false gods; better also a wooden pillar in a palace, than these false gods.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	60	For sun and moon and stars, shining and sent forth for service, are obedient.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	61	So also the lightning, when it flashes, is widely seen; and the wind likewise blows in every land.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	62	When God commands the clouds to go over the whole world, they carry out his command.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	63	And the fire sent from above to consume mountains and woods does what it is ordered. But these idols are not to be compared with them in appearance or power.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	64	Therefore one must not think that they are gods nor call them gods, for they are not able either to decide a case or to do good to men.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	65	Since you know then that they are not gods, do not fear them.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	66	For they can neither curse nor bless kings;
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	67	they cannot show signs in the heavens and among the nations, or shine like the sun or give light like the moon.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	68	The wild beasts are better than they are, for they can flee to cover and help themselves.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	69	So we have no evidence whatever that they are gods; therefore do not fear them.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	70	Like a scarecrow in a cucumber bed, that guards nothing, so are their gods of wood, overlaid with gold and silver.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	71	In the same way, their gods of wood, overlaid with gold and silver, and like a thorn bush in a garden, on which every bird sits; or like a dead body cast out in the darkness.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	72	By the purple and linen that rot upon them you will know that they are not gods; and they will finally themselves be consumed, and be a reproach in the land.
 Baruch	Bar	30	6	73	Better therefore is a just man who has no idols, for he will be far from reproach.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	1	1	In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the exiles by the river Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	1	2	On the fifth day of the month (it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin),
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	1	3	the word of the Lord came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the Lord was upon him there.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	1	4	As I looked, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, and a great cloud, with brightness round about it, and fire flashing forth continually, and in the midst of the fire, as it were gleaming bronze.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	1	5	And from the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had the form of men,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	1	6	but each had four faces, and each of them had four wings.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	1	7	Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the sole of a calf’s foot; and they sparkled like burnished bronze.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	1	8	Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands. And the four had their faces and their wings thus:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	1	9	their wings touched one another; they went every one straight forward, without turning as they went.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	1	10	As for the likeness of their faces, each had the face of a man in front; the four had the face of a lion on the right side, the four had the face of an ox on the left side, and the four had the face of an eagle at the back.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	1	11	Such were their faces. And their wings were spread out above; each creature had two wings, each of which touched the wing of another, while two covered their bodies.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	1	12	And each went straight forward; wherever the spirit would go, they went, without turning as they went.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	1	13	In the midst of the living creatures there was something that looked like burning coals of fire, like torches moving to and fro among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	1	14	And the living creatures darted to and fro, like a flash of lightning.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	1	15	Now as I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel upon the earth beside the living creatures, one for each of the four of them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	1	16	As for the appearance of the wheels and their construction: their appearance was like the gleaming of a chrysolite; and the four had the same likeness, their construction being as it were a wheel within a wheel.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	1	17	When they went, they went in any of their four directions without turning as they went.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	1	18	The four wheels had rims and they had spokes; and their rims were full of eyes round about.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	1	19	And when the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures rose from the earth, the wheels rose.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	1	20	Wherever the spirit would go, they went, and the wheels rose along with them; for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	1	21	When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those rose from the earth, the wheels rose along with them; for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	1	22	Over the heads of the living creatures there was the likeness of a firmament, shining like crystal, spread out above their heads.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	1	23	And under the firmament their wings were stretched out straight, one toward another; and each creature had two wings covering its body.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	1	24	And when they went, I heard the sound of their wings like the sound of many waters, like the thunder of the Almighty, a sound of tumult like the sound of a host; when they stood still, they let down their wings.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	1	25	And there came a voice from above the firmament over their heads; when they stood still, they let down their wings.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	1	26	And above the firmament over their heads there was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like sapphire; and seated above the likeness of a throne was a likeness as it were of a human form.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	1	27	And upward from what had the appearance of his loins I saw as it were gleaming bronze, like the appearance of fire enclosed round about; and downward from what had the appearance of his loins I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness round about him.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	1	28	Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lor. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard the voice of one speaking.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	2	1	And he said to me, “Son of man, stand upon your feet, and I will speak with you.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	2	2	And when he spoke to me, the Spirit entered into me and set me upon my feet; and I heard him speaking to me.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	2	3	And he said to me, “Son of man, I send you to the people of Israel, to a nation of rebels, who have rebelled against me; they and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	2	4	The people also are impudent and stubborn: I send you to them; and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD.’
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	2	5	And whether they hear or refuse to hear (for they are a rebellious house) they will know that there has been a prophet among them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	2	6	And you, son of man, be not afraid of them, nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you and you sit upon scorpions; be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	2	7	And you shall speak my words to them, whether they hear or refuse to hear; for they are a rebellious house.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	2	8	“But you, son of man, hear what I say to you; be not rebellious like that rebellious house; open your mouth, and eat what I give you.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	2	9	And when I looked, behold, a hand was stretched out to me, and, lo, a written scroll was in it;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	2	10	and he spread it before me; and it had writing on the front and on the back, and there were written on it words of lamentation and mourning and woe.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	3	1	And he said to me, “Son of man, eat what is offered to you; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	3	2	So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	3	3	And he said to me, “Son of man, eat this scroll that I give you and fill your stomach with it.” Then I ate it; and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	3	4	And he said to me, “Son of man, go, get you to the house of Israel, and speak with my words to them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	3	5	For you are not sent to a people of foreign speech and a hard language, but to the house of Israel—
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	3	6	not to many peoples of foreign speech and a hard language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, if I sent you to such, they would listen to you.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	3	7	But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they are not willing to listen to me; because all the house of Israel are of a hard forehead and of a stubborn heart.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	3	8	Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	3	9	Like adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead; fear them not, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	3	10	Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	3	11	And go, get you to the exiles, to your people, and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD’; whether they hear or refuse to hear.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	3	12	Then the Spirit lifted me up, and as the glory of the Lord arose from its place, I heard behind me the sound of a great earthquake;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	3	13	it was the sound of the wings of the living creatures as they touched one another, and the sound of the wheels beside them, that sounded like a great earthquake.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	3	14	The Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, the hand of the Lord being strong upon me;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	3	15	and I came to the exiles at Tel-abib, who dwelt by the river Chebar. And I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	3	16	And at the end of seven days, the word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	3	17	“Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	3	18	If I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	3	19	But if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, or from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you will have saved your life.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	3	20	Again, if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die; because you have not warned him, he shall die for his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	3	21	Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man not to sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning; and you will have saved your life.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	3	22	And the hand of the Lord was there upon me; and he said to me, “Arise, go forth into the plain, and there I will speak with you.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	3	23	So I arose and went forth into the plain; and, lo, the glory of the Lord stood there, like the glory which I had seen by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	3	24	But the Spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet; and he spoke with me and said to me, “Go, shut yourself within your house.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	3	25	And you, O son of man, behold, cords will be placed upon you, and you shall be bound with them, so that you cannot go out among the people;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	3	26	and I will make your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth, so that you shall be dumb and unable to reprove them; for they are a rebellious house.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	3	27	But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD’; he that will hear, let him hear; and he that will refuse to hear, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	4	1	“And you, O son of man, take a brick and lay it before you, and portray upon it a city, even Jerusalem;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	4	2	and put siegeworks against it, and build a siege wall against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it round about.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	4	3	And take an iron plate, and place it as an iron wall between you and the city; and set your face toward it, and let it be in a state of siege, and press the siege against it. This is a sign for the house of Israel.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	4	4	“Then lie upon your left side, and I will lay the punishment of the house of Israel upon you; for the number of the days that you lie upon it, you shall bear their punishment.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	4	5	For I assign to you a number of days, three hundred and ninety days, equal to the number of the years of their punishment; so long shall you bear the punishment of the house of Israel.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	4	6	And when you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the punishment of the house of Judah; forty days I assign you, a day for each year.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	4	7	And you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm bared; and you shall prophesy against the city.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	4	8	And, behold, I will put cords upon you, so that you cannot turn from one side to the other, till you have completed the days of your siege.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	4	9	“And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt, and put them into a single vessel, and make bread of them. During the number of days that you lie upon your side, three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat it.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	4	10	And the food which you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; once a day you shall eat it.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	4	11	And water you shall drink by measure, the sixth part of a hin; once a day you shall drink.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	4	12	And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it in their sight on human dung.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	4	13	And the Lord said, “Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations whither I will drive them.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	4	14	Then I said, “Ah Lord GOD! behold, I have never defiled myself; from my youth up till now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has foul flesh come into my mouth.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	4	15	Then he said to me, “See, I will let you have cow’s dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	4	16	Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem; they shall eat bread by weight and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	4	17	I will do this that they may lack bread and water, and look at one another in dismay, and waste away under their punishment.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	5	1	“And you, O son of man, take a sharp sword; use it as a barber’s razor and pass it over your head and your beard; then take balances for weighing, and divide the hair.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	5	2	A third part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are completed; and a third part you shall take and strike with the sword round about the city; and a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will unsheathe the sword after them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	5	3	And you shall take from these a small number, and bind them in the skirts of your robe.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	5	4	And of these again you shall take some, and cast them into the fire, and burn them in the fire; from there a fire will come forth into all the house of Israel.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	5	5	Thus says the Lord GOD: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries round about her.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	5	6	And she has wickedly rebelled against my ordinances more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries round about her, by rejecting my ordinances and not walking in my statutes.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	5	7	Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes or kept my ordinances, but have acted according to the ordinances of the nations that are round about you;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	5	8	therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will execute judgments in the midst of you in the sight of the nations.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	5	9	And because of all your abominations I will do with you what I have never yet done, and the like of which I will never do again.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	5	10	Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in the midst of you, and sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	5	11	Wherefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will cut you down; my eye will not spare, and I will have no pity.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	5	12	A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in the midst of you; a third part shall fall by the sword round about you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	5	13	“Thus shall my anger spend itself, and I will vent my fury upon them and satisfy myself; and they shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken in my jealousy, when I spend my fury upon them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	5	14	Moreover I will make you a desolation and an object of reproach among the nations round about you and in the sight of all that pass by.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	5	15	You shall be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations round about you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and with furious chastisements—I, the Lord, have spoken—
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	5	16	when I loose against you my deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will loose to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon you, and break your staff of bread.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	5	17	I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will rob you of your children; pestilence and blood shall pass through you; and I will bring the sword upon you. I, the Lord, have spoken.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	6	1	The word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	6	2	“Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	6	3	and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	6	4	Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain before your idols.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	6	5	And I will lay the dead bodies of the people of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	6	6	Wherever you dwell your cities shall be waste and your high places ruined, so that your altars will be waste and ruined, your idols broken and destroyed, your incense altars cut down, and your works wiped out.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	6	7	And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	6	8	“Yet I will leave some of you alive. When you have among the nations some who escape the sword, and when you are scattered through the countries,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	6	9	then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, when I have broken their wanton heart which has departed from me, and blinded their eyes which turn wantonly after their idols; and they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils which they have committed, for all their abominations.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	6	10	And they shall know that I am the Lord; I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to them.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	6	11	Thus says the Lord GOD: “Clap your hands, and stamp your foot, and say, Alas! because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel; for they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	6	12	He that is far off shall die of pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that is left and is preserved shall die of famine. Thus I will spend my fury upon them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	6	13	And you shall know that I am the Lord, when their slain lie among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, on all the mountain tops, under every green tree, and under every leafy oak, wherever they offered pleasing odor to all their idols.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	6	14	And I will stretch out my hand against them, and make the land desolate and waste, throughout all their habitations, from the wilderness to Riblah. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	7	1	The word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	7	2	“And you, O son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	7	3	Now the end is upon you, and I will let loose my anger upon you, and will judge you according to your ways; and I will punish you for all your abominations.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	7	4	And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity; but I will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	7	5	“Thus says the Lord GOD: Disaster after disaster! Behold, it comes.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	7	6	An end has come, the end has come; it has awakened against you. Behold, it comes.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	7	7	Your doom has come to you, O inhabitant of the land; the time has come, the day is near, a day of tumult, and not of joyful shouting upon the mountains.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	7	8	Now I will soon pour out my wrath upon you, and spend my anger against you, and judge you according to your ways; and I will punish you for all your abominations.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	7	9	And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity; I will punish you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the Lord, who smite.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	7	10	“Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! Your doom has come, injustice has blossomed, pride has budded.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	7	11	Violence has grown up into a rod of wickedness; none of them shall remain, nor their abundance, nor their wealth; neither shall there be preeminence among them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	7	12	The time has come, the day draws near. Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all their multitude.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	7	13	For the seller shall not return to what he has sold, while they live. For wrath is upon all their multitude; it shall not turn back; and because of his iniquity, none can maintain his life.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	7	14	“They have blown the trumpet and made all ready; but none goes to battle, for my wrath is upon all their multitude.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	7	15	The sword is without, pestilence and famine are within; he that is in the field dies by the sword; and him that is in the city famine and pestilence devour.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	7	16	And if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one over his iniquity.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	7	17	All hands are feeble, and all knees weak as water.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	7	18	They gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror covers them; shame is upon all faces, and baldness on all their heads.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	7	19	They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing; their silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord; they cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. For it was the stumbling block of their iniquity.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	7	20	Their beautiful ornament they used for vainglory, and they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it; therefore I will make it an unclean thing to them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	7	21	And I will give it into the hands of foreigners for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	7	22	I will turn my face from them, that they may profane my precious place; robbers shall enter and profane it,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	7	23	and make a desolation. “Because the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	7	24	I will bring the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses; I will put an end to their proud might, and their holy places shall be profaned.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	7	25	When anguish comes, they will seek peace, but there shall be none.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	7	26	Disaster comes upon disaster, rumor follows rumor; they seek a vision from the prophet, but the law perishes from the priest, and counsel from the elders.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	7	27	The king mourns, the prince is wrapped in despair, and the hands of the people of the land are palsied by terror. According to their way I will do to them, and according to their own judgments I will judge them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	8	1	In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, with the elders of Judah sitting before me, the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	8	2	Then I beheld, and, lo, a form that had the appearance of a man; below what appeared to be his loins it was fire, and above his loins it was like the appearance of brightness, like gleaming bronze.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	8	3	He put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven, and brought me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the gateway of the inner court that faces north, where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	8	4	And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, like the vision that I saw in the plain.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	8	5	Then he said to me, “Son of man, lift up your eyes now in the direction of the north.” So I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and behold, north of the altar gate, in the entrance, was this image of jealousy.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	8	6	And he said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel are committing here, to drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see still greater abominations.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	8	7	And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, there was a hole in the wall.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	8	8	Then said he to me, “Son of man, dig in the wall”; and when I dug in the wall, lo, there was a door.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	8	9	And he said to me, “Go in, and see the vile abominations that they are committing here.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	8	10	So I went in and saw; and there, portrayed upon the wall round about, were all kinds of creeping things, and loathsome beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	8	11	And before them stood seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, with Ja-azaniah the son of Shaphan standing among them. Each had his censer in his hand, and the smoke of the cloud of incense went up.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	8	12	Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, every man in his room of pictures? For they say, ‘The Lord does not see us, the Lord has forsaken the land.’”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	8	13	He said also to me, “You will see still greater abominations which they commit.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	8	14	Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the Lord; and behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	8	15	Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? You will see still greater abominations than these.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	8	16	And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord; and behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs to the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east, worshiping the sun toward the east.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	8	17	Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it too slight a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations which they commit here, that they should fill the land with violence, and provoke me further to anger? Lo, they put the branch to their nose.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	8	18	Therefore I will deal in wrath; my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity; and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	9	1	Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, “Draw near, you executioners of the city, each with his destroying weapon in his hand.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	9	2	And lo, six men came from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, every man with his weapon for slaughter in his hand, and with them was a man clothed in linen, with a writing case at his side. And they went in and stood beside the bronze altar.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	9	3	Now the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the cherubim on which it rested to the threshold of the house; and he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writing case at his side.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	9	4	And the Lord said to him, “Go through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark upon the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	9	5	And to the others he said in my hearing, “Pass through the city after him, and smite; your eye shall not spare, and you shall show no pity;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	9	6	slay old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women, but touch no one upon whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the house.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	9	7	Then he said to them, “Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth.” So they went forth, and smote in the city.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	9	8	And while they were smiting, and I was left alone, I fell upon my face, and cried, “Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all that remains of Israel in the outpouring of thy wrath upon Jerusalem?”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	9	9	Then he said to me, “The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great; the land is full of blood, and the city full of injustice; for they say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see.’
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	9	10	As for me, my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity, but I will requite their deeds upon their heads.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	9	11	And lo, the man clothed in linen, with the writing case at his side, brought back word, saying, “I have done as thou didst command me.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	10	1	Then I looked, and behold, on the firmament that was over the heads of the cherubim there appeared above them something like a sapphire, in form resembling a throne.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	10	2	And he said to the man clothed in linen, “Go in among the whirling wheels underneath the cherubim; fill your hands with burning coals from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city.” And he went in before my eyes.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	10	3	Now the cherubim were standing on the south side of the house, when the man went in; and a cloud filled the inner court.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	10	4	And the glory of the Lord went up from the cherubim to the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the glory of the Lord.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	10	5	And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	10	6	And when he commanded the man clothed in linen, “Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim,” he went in and stood beside a wheel.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	10	7	And a cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took some of it, and put it into the hands of the man clothed in linen, who took it and went out.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	10	8	The cherubim appeared to have the form of a human hand under their wings.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	10	9	And I looked, and behold, there were four wheels beside the cherubim, one beside each cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like sparkling chrysolite.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	10	10	And as for their appearance, the four had the same likeness, as if a wheel were within a wheel.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	10	11	When they went, they went in any of their four directions without turning as they went, but in whatever direction the front wheel faced the others followed without turning as they went.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	10	12	And their rims, and their spokes, and the wheels were full of eyes round about—the wheels that the four of them had.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	10	13	As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing the whirling wheels.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	10	14	And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of the cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	10	15	And the cherubim mounted up. These were the living creatures that I saw by the river Chebar.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	10	16	And when the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels did not turn from beside them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	10	17	When they stood still, these stood still, and when they mounted up, these mounted up with them; for the spirit of the living creatures was in them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	10	18	Then the glory of the Lord went forth from the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	10	19	And the cherubim lifted up their wings and mounted up from the earth in my sight as they went forth, with the wheels beside them; and they stood at the door of the east gate of the house of the Lord; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	10	20	These were the living creatures that I saw underneath the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	10	21	Each had four faces, and each four wings, and underneath their wings the semblance of human hands.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	10	22	And as for the likeness of their faces, they were the very faces whose appearance I had seen by the river Chebar. They went every one straight forward.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	11	1	The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of the house of the Lord, which faces east. And behold, at the door of the gateway there were twenty-five men; and I saw among them Ja-azaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	11	2	And he said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity and who give wicked counsel in this city;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	11	3	who say, ‘The time is not near to build houses; this city is the caldron, and we are the flesh.’
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	11	4	Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	11	5	And the Spirit of the Lor fell upon me, and he said to me, “Say, Thus says the Lord: So you think, O house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	11	6	You have multiplied your slain in this city, and have filled its streets with the slain.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	11	7	Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron; but you shall be brought forth out of the midst of it.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	11	8	You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword upon you, says the Lord GOD.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	11	9	And I will bring you forth out of the midst of it, and give you into the hands of foreigners, and execute judgments upon you.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	11	10	You shall fall by the sword; I will judge you at the border of Israel; and you shall know that I am the Lord.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	11	11	This city shall not be your caldron, nor shall you be the flesh in the midst of it; I will judge you at the border of Israel;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	11	12	and you shall know that I am the Lord; for you have not walked in my statutes, nor executed my ordinances, but have acted according to the ordinances of the nations that are round about you.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	11	13	And it came to pass, while I was prophesying, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then I fell down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, “Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	11	14	And the word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	11	15	“Son of man, your brethren, even your brethren, your fellow exiles, the whole house of Israel, all of them, are those of whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘They have gone far from the Lord; to us this land is given for a possession.’
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	11	16	Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: Though I removed them far off among the nations, and though I scattered them among the countries, yet I have been a sanctuary to them for a while in the countries where they have gone.’
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	11	17	Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: I will gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.’
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	11	18	And when they come there, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	11	19	And I will give them one heart, and put a new spirit within them; I will take the stony heart out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	11	20	that they may walk in my statutes and keep my ordinances and obey them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	11	21	But as for those whose heart goes after their detestable things and their abominations, I will requite their deeds upon their own heads, says the Lord GOD.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	11	22	Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, with the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	11	23	And the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	11	24	And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to the exiles. Then the vision that I had seen went up from me.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	11	25	And I told the exiles all the things that the Lord had showed me.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	12	1	The word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	12	2	“Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, but see not, who have ears to hear, but hear not;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	12	3	for they are a rebellious house. Therefore, son of man, prepare for yourself an exile’s baggage, and go into exile by day in their sight; you shall go like an exile from your place to another place in their sight. Perhaps they will understand, though they are a rebellious house.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	12	4	You shall bring out your baggage by day in their sight, as baggage for exile; and you shall go forth yourself at evening in their sight, as men do who must go into exile.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	12	5	Dig through the wall in their sight, and go out through it.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	12	6	In their sight you shall lift the baggage upon your shoulder, and carry it out in the dark; you shall cover your face, that you may not see the land; for I have made you a sign for the house of Israel.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	12	7	And I did as I was commanded. I brought out my baggage by day, as baggage for exile, and in the evening I dug through the wall with my own hands; I went forth in the dark, carrying my outfit upon my shoulder in their sight.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	12	8	In the morning the word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	12	9	“Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, ‘What are you doing?’
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	12	10	Say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: This oracle concerns the prince in Jerusalem and all the house of Israel who are in it.’
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	12	11	Say, ‘I am a sign for you: as I have done, so shall it be done to them; they shall go into exile, into captivity.’
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	12	12	And the prince who is among them shall lift his baggage upon his shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth; he shall dig through the wall and go out through it; he shall cover his face, that he may not see the land with his eyes.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	12	13	And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare; and I will bring him to Babylon in the land of the Chaldeans, yet he shall not see it; and he shall die there.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	12	14	And I will scatter toward every wind all who are round about him, his helpers and all his troops; and I will unsheathe the sword after them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	12	15	And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them through the countries.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	12	16	But I will let a few of them escape from the sword, from famine and pestilence, that they may confess all their abominations among the nations where they go, and may know that I am the Lord.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	12	17	Moreover the word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	12	18	“Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink water with trembling and with fearfulness;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	12	19	and say of the people of the land, Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink water in dismay, because their land will be stripped of all it contains, on account of the violence of all those who dwell in it.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	12	20	And the inhabited cities shall be laid waste, and the land shall become a desolation; and you shall know that I am the Lord.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	12	21	And the word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	12	22	“Son of man, what is this proverb that you have about the land of Israel, saying, ‘The days grow long, and every vision comes to nought’?
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	12	23	Tell them therefore, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: I will put an end to this proverb, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel.’ But say to them, The days are at hand, and the fulfilment of every vision.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	12	24	For there shall be no more any false vision or flattering divination within the house of Israel.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	12	25	But I the Lord will speak the word which I will speak, and it will be performed. It will no longer be delayed, but in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak the word and perform it, says the Lord GOD.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	12	26	Again the word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	12	27	“Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, ‘The vision that he sees is for many days hence, and he prophesies of times far off.’
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	12	28	Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: None of my words will be delayed any longer, but the word which I speak will be performed, says the Lord GOD.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	13	1	The word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	13	2	“Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel, prophesy and say to those who prophesy out of their own minds: ‘Hear the word of the Lord!’
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	13	3	Thus says the Lord GOD, Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	13	4	Your prophets have been like foxes among ruins, O Israel.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	13	5	You have not gone up into the breaches, or built up a wall for the house of Israel, that it might stand in battle in the day of the Lord.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	13	6	They have spoken falsehood and divined a lie; they say, ‘Says the Lord,’ when the Lord has not sent them, and yet they expect him to fulfil their word.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	13	7	Have you not seen a delusive vision, and uttered a lying divination, whenever you have said, ‘Says the Lord,’ although I have not spoken?”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	13	8	Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Because you have uttered delusions and seen lies, therefore behold, I am against you, says the Lord GOD.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	13	9	My hand will be against the prophets who see delusive visions and who give lying divinations; they shall not be in the council of my people, nor be enrolled in the register of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter the land of Israel; and you shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	13	10	Because, yea, because they have misled my people, saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace; and because, when the people build a wall, these prophets daub it with whitewash;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	13	11	say to those who daub it with whitewash that it shall fall! There will be a deluge of rain, great hailstones will fall, and a stormy wind break out;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	13	12	and when the wall falls, will it not be said to you, ‘Where is the daubing with which you daubed it?’
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	13	13	Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: I will make a stormy wind break out in my wrath; and there shall be a deluge of rain in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to destroy it.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	13	14	And I will break down the wall that you have daubed with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be laid bare; when it falls, you shall perish in the midst of it; and you shall know that I am the Lord.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	13	15	Thus will I spend my wrath upon the wall, and upon those who have daubed it with whitewash; and I will say to you, The wall is no more, nor those who daubed it,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	13	16	the prophets of Israel who prophesied concerning Jerusalem and saw visions of peace for her, when there was no peace, says the Lord GOD.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	13	17	“And you, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own minds; prophesy against them
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	13	18	and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the women who sew magic bands upon all wrists, and make veils for the heads of persons of every stature, in the hunt for souls! Will you hunt down souls belonging to my people, and keep other souls alive for your profit?
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	13	19	You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, putting to death persons who should not die and keeping alive persons who should not live, by your lies to my people, who listen to lies.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	13	20	“Wherefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against your magic bands with which you hunt the souls, and I will tear them from your arms; and I will let the souls that you hunt go free like birds.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	13	21	Your veils also I will tear off, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand as prey; and you shall know that I am the Lord.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	13	22	Because you have disheartened the righteous falsely, although I have not disheartened him, and you have encouraged the wicked, that he should not turn from his wicked way to save his life;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	13	23	therefore you shall no more see delusive visions nor practice divination; I will deliver my people out of your hand. Then you will know that I am the Lord.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	14	1	Then came certain of the elders of Israel to me; and sat before me.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	14	2	And the word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	14	3	“Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their hearts, and set the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces; should I let myself be inquired of at all by them?
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	14	4	Therefore speak to them, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Any man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and sets the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to the prophet, I the Lord will answer him myself because of the multitude of his idols,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	14	5	that I may lay hold of the hearts of the house of Israel, who are all estranged from me through their idols.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	14	6	“Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: Repent and turn away from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	14	7	For any one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, who separates himself from me, taking his idols into his heart and putting the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to a prophet to inquire for himself of me, I the Lord will answer him myself;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	14	8	and I will set my face against that man, I will make him a sign and a byword and cut him off from the midst of my people; and you shall know that I am the Lord.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	14	9	And if the prophet be deceived and speak a word, I, the Lord, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	14	10	And they shall bear their punishment—the punishment of the prophet and the punishment of the inquirer shall be alike—
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	14	11	that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, nor defile themselves any more with all their transgressions, but that they may be my people and I may be their God, says the Lord GOD.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	14	12	And the word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	14	13	“Son of man, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it, and break its staff of bread and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	14	14	even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, says the Lord GOD.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	14	15	If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the beasts;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	14	16	even if these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord GOD, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters; they alone would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	14	17	Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Let a sword go through the land; and I cut off from it man and beast;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	14	18	though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord GOD, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they alone would be delivered.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	14	19	Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath upon it with blood, to cut off from it man and beast;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	14	20	even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, says the Lord GOD, they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	14	21	“For thus says the Lord GOD: How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four sore acts of judgment, sword, famine, evil beasts, and pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	14	22	Yet, if there should be left in it any survivors to lead out sons and daughters, when they come forth to you, and you see their ways and their doings, you will be consoled for the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, for all that I have brought upon it.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	14	23	They will console you, when you see their ways and their doings; and you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, says the Lord GOD.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	15	1	And the word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	15	2	“Son of man, how does the wood of the vine surpass any wood, the vine branch which is among the trees of the forest?
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	15	3	Is wood taken from it to make anything? Do men take a peg from it to hang any vessel on?
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	15	4	Lo, it is given to the fire for fuel; when the fire has consumed both ends of it, and the middle of it is charred, is it useful for anything?
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	15	5	Behold, when it was whole, it was used for nothing; how much less, when the fire has consumed it and it is charred, can it ever be used for anything!
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	15	6	Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give up the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	15	7	And I will set my face against them; though they escape from the fire, the fire shall yet consume them; and you will know that I am the Lord, when I set my face against them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	15	8	And I will make the land desolate, because they have acted faithlessly, says the Lord GOD.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	1	Again the word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	2	“Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	3	and say, Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth are of the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	4	And as for your birth, on the day you were born your navel string was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor swathed with bands.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	5	No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you out of compassion for you; but you were cast out on the open field, for you were abhorred, on the day that you were born.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	6	“And when I passed by you, and saw you weltering in your blood, I said to you in your blood, ‘Live,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	7	and grow up like a plant of the field.’ And you grew up and became tall and arrived at full maidenhood; your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet you were naked and bare.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	8	“When I passed by you again and looked upon you, behold, you were at the age for love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yea, I plighted my troth to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord GOD, and you became mine.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	9	Then I bathed you with water and washed off your blood from you, and anointed you with oil.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	10	I clothed you also with embroidered cloth and shod you with leather, I swathed you in fine linen and covered you with silk.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	11	And I decked you with ornaments, and put bracelets on your arms, and a chain on your neck.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	12	And I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown upon your head.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	13	Thus you were decked with gold and silver; and your raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered cloth; you ate fine flour and honey and oil. You grew exceedingly beautiful, and came to regal estate.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	14	And your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor which I had bestowed upon you, says the Lord GOD.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	15	“But you trusted in your beauty, and played the harlot because of your renown, and lavished your harlotries on any passer-by.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	16	You took some of your garments, and made for yourself gaily decked shrines, and on them played the harlot; the like has never been, nor ever shall be.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	17	You also took your fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and with them played the harlot;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	18	and you took your embroidered garments to cover them, and set my oil and my incense before them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	19	Also my bread which I gave you—I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey—you set before them for a pleasing odor, says the Lord GOD.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	20	And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your harlotries so small a matter
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	21	that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them?
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	22	And in all your abominations and your harlotries you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, weltering in your blood.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	23	“And after all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! says the Lord GOD),
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	24	you built yourself a vaulted chamber, and made yourself a lofty place in every square;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	25	at the head of every street you built your lofty place and prostituted your beauty, offering yourself to any passer-by, and multiplying your harlotry.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	26	You also played the harlot with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, multiplying your harlotry, to provoke me to anger.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	27	Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you, and diminished your allotted portion, and delivered you to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	28	You played the harlot also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yea, you played the harlot with them, and still you were not satisfied.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	29	You multiplied your harlotry also with the trading land of Chaldea; and even with this you were not satisfied.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	30	“How lovesick is your heart, says the Lord GOD, seeing you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen harlot;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	31	building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a harlot, because you scorned hire.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	32	Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	33	Men give gifts to all harlots; but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side for your harlotries.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	34	So you were different from other women in your harlotries: none solicited you to play the harlot; and you gave hire, while no hire was given to you; therefore you were different.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	35	“Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	36	Thus says the Lord GOD, Because your shame was laid bare and your nakedness uncovered in your harlotries with your lovers, and because of all your idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	37	therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and all those you loathed; I will gather them against you from every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	38	And I will judge you as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	39	And I will give you into the hand of your lovers, and they shall throw down your vaulted chamber and break down your lofty places; they shall strip you of your clothes and take your fair jewels, and leave you naked and bare.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	40	They shall bring up a host against you, and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	41	And they shall burn your houses and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women; I will make you stop playing the harlot, and you shall also give hire no more.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	42	So will I satisfy my fury on you, and my jealousy shall depart from you; I will be calm, and will no more be angry.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	43	Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things; therefore, behold, I will requite your deeds upon your head, says the Lord GOD. “Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations?
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	44	Behold, every one who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you, ‘Like mother, like daughter.’
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	45	You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	46	And your elder sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	47	Yet you were not content to walk in their ways, or do according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	48	As I live, says the Lord GOD, your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	49	Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, surfeit of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	50	They were haughty, and did abominable things before me; therefore I removed them, when I saw it.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	51	Samaria has not committed half your sins; you have committed more abominations than they, and have made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations which you have committed.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	52	Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have made judgment favorable to your sisters; because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	53	“I will restore their fortunes, both the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and I will restore your own fortunes in the midst of them,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	54	that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all that you have done, becoming a consolation to them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	55	As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate; and you and your daughters shall return to your former estate.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	56	Was not your sister Sodom a byword in your mouth in the day of your pride,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	57	before your wickedness was uncovered? Now you have become like her an object of reproach for the daughters of Edom and all her neighbors, and for the daughters of the Philistines, those round about who despise you.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	58	You bear the penalty of your lewdness and your abominations, says the Lord.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	59	“Yea, thus says the Lord GOD: I will deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	60	yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish with you an everlasting covenant.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	61	Then you will remember your ways, and be ashamed when I take your sisters, both your elder and your younger, and give them to you as daughters, but not on account of the covenant with you.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	62	I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the Lord,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	16	63	that you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I forgive you all that you have done, says the Lord GOD.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	17	1	The word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	17	2	“Son of man, propound a riddle, and speak an allegory to the house of Israel;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	17	3	say, Thus says the Lord GOD: A great eagle with great wings and long pinions, rich in plumage of many colors, came to Lebanon and took the top of the cedar;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	17	4	he broke off the topmost of its young twigs and carried it to a land of trade, and set it in a city of merchants.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	17	5	Then he took of the seed of the land and planted it in fertile soil; he placed it beside abundant waters. He set it like a willow twig,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	17	6	and it sprouted and became a low spreading vine, and its branches turned toward him, and its roots remained where it stood. So it became a vine, and brought forth branches and put forth foliage.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	17	7	“But there was another great eagle with great wings and much plumage; and behold, this vine bent its roots toward him, and shot forth its branches toward him that he might water it. From the bed where it was planted
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	17	8	he transplanted it to good soil by abundant waters, that it might bring forth branches, and bear fruit, and become a noble vine.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	17	9	Say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Will it thrive? Will he not pull up its roots and cut off its branches, so that all its fresh sprouting leaves wither? It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it from its roots.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	17	10	Behold, when it is transplanted, will it thrive? Will it not utterly wither when the east wind strikes it—wither away on the bed where it grew?”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	17	11	Then the word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	17	12	“Say now to the rebellious house, Do you not know what these things mean? Tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took her king and her princes and brought them to him to Babylon.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	17	13	And he took one of the seed royal and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. (The chief men of the land he had taken away,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	17	14	that the kingdom might be humble and not lift itself up, and that by keeping his covenant it might stand.)
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	17	15	But he rebelled against him by sending ambassadors to Egypt, that they might give him horses and a large army. Will he succeed? Can a man escape who does such things? Can he break the covenant and yet escape?
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	17	16	As I live, says the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant with him he broke, in Babylon he shall die.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	17	17	Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company will not help him in war, when mounds are cast up and siege walls built to cut off many lives.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	17	18	Because he despised the oath and broke the covenant, because he gave his hand and yet did all these things, he shall not escape.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	17	19	Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: As I live, surely my oath which he despised, and my covenant which he broke, I will requite upon his head.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	17	20	I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon and enter into judgment with him there for the treason he has committed against me.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	17	21	And all the pick of his troops shall fall by the sword, and the survivors shall be scattered to every wind; and you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	17	22	Thus says the Lord GOD: “I myself will take a sprig from the lofty top of the cedar, and will set it out; I will break off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I myself will plant it upon a high and lofty mountain;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	17	23	on the mountain height of Israel will I plant it, that it may bring forth boughs and bear fruit, and become a noble cedar; and under it will dwell all kinds of beasts; in the shade of its branches birds of every sort will nest.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	17	24	And all the trees of the field shall know that I the Lord bring low the high tree, and make high the low tree, dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree flourish. I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	18	1	The word of the Lord came to me again:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	18	2	“What do you mean by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	18	3	As I live, says the Lord GOD, this proverb shall no more be used by you in Israel.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	18	4	Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sins shall die.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	18	5	“If a man is righteous and does what is lawful and right—
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	18	6	if he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman in her time of impurity,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	18	7	does not oppress any one, but restores to the debtor his pledge, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	18	8	does not lend at interest or take any increase, withholds his hand from iniquity, executes true justice between man and man,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	18	9	walks in my statutes, and is careful to observe my ordinances—he is righteous, he shall surely live, says the Lord GOD.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	18	10	“If he begets a son who is a robber, a shedder of blood,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	18	11	who does none of these duties, but eats upon the mountains, defiles his neighbor’s wife,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	18	12	oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore the pledge, lifts up his eyes to the idols, commits abomination,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	18	13	lends at interest, and takes increase; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominable things; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon himself.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	18	14	“But if this man begets a son who sees all the sins which his father has done, and fears, and does not do likewise,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	18	15	who does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	18	16	does not wrong any one, exacts no pledge, commits no robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	18	17	withholds his hand from iniquity, takes no interest or increase, observes my ordinances, and walks in my statutes; he shall not die for his father’s iniquity; he shall surely live.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	18	18	As for his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what is not good among his people, behold, he shall die for his iniquity.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	18	19	“Yet you say, ‘Why should not the son suffer for the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done what is lawful and right, and has been careful to observe all my statutes, he shall surely live.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	18	20	The soul that sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	18	21	“But if a wicked man turns away from all his sins which he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	18	22	None of the transgressions which he has committed shall be remembered against him; for the righteousness which he has done he shall live.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	18	23	Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, says the Lord GOD, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live?
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	18	24	But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity and does the same abominable things that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of the righteous deeds which he has done shall be remembered; for the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, he shall die.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	18	25	“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is my way not just? Is it not your ways that are not just?
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	18	26	When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he shall die for it; for the iniquity which he has committed he shall die.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	18	27	Again, when a wicked man turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is lawful and right, he shall save his life.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	18	28	Because he considered and turned away from all the transgressions which he had committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	18	29	Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ O house of Israel, are my ways not just? Is it not your ways that are not just?
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	18	30	“Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, says the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	18	31	Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed against me, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel?
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	18	32	For I have no pleasure in the death of any one, says the Lord GOD; so turn, and live.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	19	1	And you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	19	2	and say: What a lioness was your mother among lions! She couched in the midst of young lions, rearing her whelps.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	19	3	And she brought up one of her whelps; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured men.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	19	4	The nations sounded an alarm against him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	19	5	When she saw that she was baffled, that her hope was lost, she took another of her whelps and made him a young lion.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	19	6	He prowled among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured men.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	19	7	And he ravaged their strongholds, and laid waste their cities; and the land was appalled and all who were in it at the sound of his roaring.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	19	8	Then the nations set against him snares on every side; they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	19	9	With hooks they put him in a cage, and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into custody, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	19	10	Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard transplanted by the water, fruitful and full of branches by reason of abundant water.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	19	11	Its strongest stem became a ruler’s scepter; it towered aloft among the thick boughs; it was seen in its height with the mass of its branches.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	19	12	But the vine was plucked up in fury, cast down to the ground; the east wind dried it up; its fruit was stripped off, its strong stem was withered; the fire consumed it.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	19	13	Now it is transplanted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	19	14	And fire has gone out from its stem, has consumed its branches and fruit, so that there remains in it no strong stem, no scepter for a ruler. This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	1	In the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the Lord, and sat before me.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	2	And the word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	3	“Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD, Is it to inquire of me that you come? As I live, says the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	4	Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Then let them know the abominations of their fathers,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	5	and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: On the day when I chose Israel, I swore to the seed of the house of Jacob, making myself known to them in the land of Egypt, I swore to them, saying, I am the Lord your God.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	6	On that day I swore to them that I would bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most glorious of all lands.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	7	And I said to them, Cast away the detestable things your eyes feast on, every one of you, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	8	But they rebelled against me and would not listen to me; they did not every man cast away the detestable things their eyes feasted on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. “Then I thought I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	9	But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they dwelt, in whose sight I made myself known to them in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	10	So I led them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	11	I gave them my statutes and showed them my ordinances, by whose observance man shall live.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	12	Moreover I gave them my sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, that they might know that I the Lord sanctify them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	13	But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; they did not walk in my statutes but rejected my ordinances, by whose observance man shall live; and my sabbaths they greatly profaned. “Then I thought I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	14	But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	15	Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most glorious of all lands,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	16	because they rejected my ordinances and did not walk in my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	17	Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I did not destroy them or make a full end of them in the wilderness.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	18	“And I said to their children in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	19	I the Lord am your God; walk in my statutes, and be careful to observe my ordinances,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	20	and hallow my sabbaths that they may be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I the Lord am your God.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	21	But the children rebelled against me; they did not walk in my statutes, and were not careful to observe my ordinances, by whose observance man shall live; they profaned my sabbaths. “Then I thought I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	22	But I withheld my hand, and acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	23	Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the countries,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	24	because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected my statutes and profaned my sabbaths, and their eyes were set on their fathers’ idols.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	25	Moreover I gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not have life;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	26	and I defiled them through their very gifts in making them offer by fire all their first-born, that I might horrify them; I did it that they might know that I am the Lord.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	27	“Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: In this again your fathers blasphemed me, by dealing treacherously with me.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	28	For when I had brought them into the land which I swore to give them, then wherever they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices and presented the provocation of their offering; there they sent up their soothing odors, and there they poured out their drink offerings.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	29	(I said to them, What is the high place to which you go? So its name is called Bamah to this day.)
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	30	Wherefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: Will you defile yourselves after the manner of your fathers and go astray after their detestable things?
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	31	When you offer your gifts and sacrifice your sons by fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	32	“What is in your mind shall never happen—the thought, ‘Let us be like the nations, like the tribes of the countries, and worship wood and stone.’
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	33	“As I live, says the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out, I will be king over you.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	34	I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you are scattered, with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	35	and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	36	As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, says the Lord GOD.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	37	I will make you pass under the rod, and I will let you go in by number.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	38	I will purge out the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against me; I will bring them out of the land where they sojourn, but they shall not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	39	“As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord GOD: Go serve every one of you his idols, now and hereafter, if you will not listen to me; but my holy name you shall no more profane with your gifts and your idols.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	40	“For on my holy mountain, the mountain height of Israel, says the Lord GOD, there all the house of Israel, all of them, shall serve me in the land; there I will accept them, and there I will require your contributions and the choicest of your gifts, with all your sacred offerings.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	41	As a pleasing odor I will accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples, and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered; and I will manifest my holiness among you in the sight of the nations.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	42	And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I bring you into the land of Israel, the country which I swore to give to your fathers.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	43	And there you shall remember your ways and all the doings with which you have polluted yourselves; and you shall loathe yourselves for all the evils that you have committed.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	44	And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I deal with you for my name’s sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O house of Israel, says the Lord GOD.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	45	And the word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	46	“Son of man, set your face toward the south, preach against the south, and prophesy against the forest land in the Negeb;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	47	say to the forest of the Negeb, Hear the word of the Lord: Thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you and every dry tree; the blazing flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from south to north shall be scorched by it.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	48	All flesh shall see that I the Lord have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	20	49	Then I said, “Ah Lord GOD! they are saying of me, ‘Is he not a maker of allegories?’”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	21	1	The word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	21	2	“Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem and preach against the sanctuaries; prophesy against the land of Israel
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	21	3	and say to the land of Israel, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am against you, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you both righteous and wicked.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	21	4	Because I will cut off from you both righteous and wicked, therefore my sword shall go out of its sheath against all flesh from south to north;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	21	5	and all flesh shall know that I the Lord have drawn my sword out of its sheath; it shall not be sheathed again.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	21	6	Sigh therefore, son of man; sigh with breaking heart and bitter grief before their eyes.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	21	7	And when they say to you, ‘Why do you sigh?’ you shall say, ‘Because of the tidings. When it comes, every heart will melt and all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it comes and it will be fulfilled,’” says the Lord GOD.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	21	8	And the word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	21	9	“Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord, Say: A sword, a sword is sharpened and also polished,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	21	10	sharpened for slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! Or do we make mirth? You have despised the rod, my son, with everything of wood.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	21	11	So the sword is given to be polished, that it may be handled; it is sharpened and polished to be given into the hand of the slayer.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	21	12	Cry and wail, son of man, for it is against my people; it is against all the princes of Israel; they are delivered over to the sword with my people. Smite therefore upon your thigh.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	21	13	For it will not be a testing—what could it do if you despise the rod?” says the Lord GOD.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	21	14	“Prophesy therefore, son of man; clap your hands and let the sword come down twice, yea thrice, the sword for those to be slain; it is the sword for the great slaughter, which encompasses them,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	21	15	that their hearts may melt, and many fall at all their gates. I have given the glittering sword; ah! it is made like lightning, it is polished for slaughter.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	21	16	Cut sharply to right and left where your edge is directed.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	21	17	I also will clap my hands, and I will satisfy my fury; I the Lord have spoken.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	21	18	The word of the Lord came to me again:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	21	19	“Son of man, mark two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come; both of them shall come forth from the same land. And make a signpost, make it at the head of the way to a city;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	21	20	mark a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the Ammonites and to Judah and to Jerusalem the fortified.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	21	21	For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination; he shakes the arrows, he consults the teraphim, he looks at the liver.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	21	22	Into his right hand comes the lot for Jerusalem, to open the mouth with a cry, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build siege towers.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	21	23	But to them it will seem like a false divination; they have sworn solemn oaths; but he brings their guilt to remembrance, that they may be captured.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	21	24	“Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have made your guilt to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear—because you have come to remembrance, you shall be taken in them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	21	25	And you, O unhallowed wicked one, prince of Israel, whose day has come, the time of your final punishment,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	21	26	thus says the Lord GOD: Remove the turban, and take off the crown; things shall not remain as they are; exalt that which is low, and abase that which is high.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	21	27	A ruin, ruin, ruin I will make it; there shall not be even a trace of it until he comes whose right it is; and to him I will give it.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	21	28	“And you, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; say, A sword, a sword is drawn for the slaughter, it is polished to glitter and to flash like lightning—
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	21	29	while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies for you—to be laid on the necks of the unhallowed wicked, whose day has come, the time of their final punishment.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	21	30	Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	21	31	And I will pour out my indignation upon you; I will blow upon you with the fire of my wrath; and I will deliver you into the hands of brutal men, skilful to destroy.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	21	32	You shall be fuel for the fire; your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you shall be no more remembered; for I the Lor have spoken.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	22	1	Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	22	2	“And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then declare to her all her abominable deeds.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	22	3	You shall say, Thus says the Lord GOD: A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself!
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	22	4	You have become guilty by the blood which you have shed, and defiled by the idols which you have made; and you have brought your day near, the appointed time of your years has come. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the countries.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	22	5	Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you, you infamous one, full of tumult.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	22	6	“Behold, the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	22	7	Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow are wronged in you.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	22	8	You have despised my holy things, and profaned my sabbaths.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	22	9	There are men in you who slander to shed blood, and men in you who eat upon the mountains; men commit lewdness in your midst.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	22	10	In you men uncover their fathers’ nakedness; in you they humble women who are unclean in their impurity.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	22	11	One commits abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; another in you defiles his sister, his father’s daughter.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	22	12	In you men take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and increase and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; and you have forgotten me, says the Lord GOD.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	22	13	“Behold, therefore, I strike my hands together at the dishonest gain which you have made, and at the blood which has been in the midst of you.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	22	14	Can your courage endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	22	15	I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and I will consume your filthiness out of you.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	22	16	And I shall be profaned through you in the sight of the nations; and you shall know that I am the Lord.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	22	17	And the word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	22	18	“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them, silver and bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace, have become dross.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	22	19	Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	22	20	As men gather silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into a furnace, to blow the fire upon it in order to melt it; so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will put you in and melt you.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	22	21	I will gather you and blow upon you with the fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst of it.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	22	22	As silver is melted in a furnace, so you shall be melted in the midst of it; and you shall know that I the Lord have poured out my wrath upon you.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	22	23	And the word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	22	24	“Son of man, say to her, You are a land that is not cleansed, or rained upon in the day of indignation.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	22	25	Her princes in the midst of her are like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in the midst of her.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	22	26	Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things; they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have disregarded my sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	22	27	Her princes in the midst of her are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	22	28	And her prophets have daubed for them with whitewash, seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD,’ when the Lord has not spoken.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	22	29	The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery; they have oppressed the poor and needy, and have extorted from the sojourner without redress.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	22	30	And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	22	31	Therefore I have poured out my indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath; their way have I requited upon their heads, says the Lord GOD.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	1	The word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	2	“Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	3	they played the harlot in Egypt; they played the harlot in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin bosoms handled.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	4	Oholah was the name of the elder and Oholibah the name of her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	5	“Oholah played the harlot while she was mine; and she doted on her lovers the Assyrians,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	6	warriors clothed in purple, governors and commanders, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	7	She bestowed her harlotries upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them; and she defiled herself with all the idols of every one on whom she doted.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	8	She did not give up her harlotry which she had practiced since her days in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her and handled her virgin bosom and poured out their lust upon her.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	9	Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	10	These uncovered her nakedness; they seized her sons and her daughters; and her they slew with the sword; and she became a byword among women, when judgment had been executed upon her.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	11	“Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt than she in her doting and in her harlotry, which was worse than that of her sister.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	12	She doted upon the Assyrians, governors and commanders, warriors clothed in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	13	And I saw that she was defiled; they both took the same way.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	14	But she carried her harlotry further; she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	15	girded with belts on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, a picture of Babylonians whose native land was Chaldea.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	16	When she saw them she doted upon them, and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	17	And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their lust; and after she was polluted by them, she turned from them in disgust.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	18	When she carried on her harlotry so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned from her sister.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	19	Yet she increased her harlotry, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the harlot in the land of Egypt
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	20	and doted upon her paramours there, whose members were like those of asses, and whose issue was like that of horses.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	21	Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom and pressed your young breasts.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	22	Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I will rouse against you your lovers from whom you turned in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	23	the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, governors and commanders all of them, officers and warriors, all of them riding on horses.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	24	And they shall come against you from the north with chariots and wagons and a host of peoples; they shall set themselves against you on every side with buckler, shield, and helmet, and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	25	And I will direct my indignation against you, that they may deal with you in fury. They shall cut off your nose and your ears, and your survivors shall fall by the sword. They shall seize your sons and your daughters, and your survivors shall be devoured by fire.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	26	They shall also strip you of your clothes and take away your fine jewels.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	27	Thus I will put an end to your lewdness and your harlotry brought from the land of Egypt; so that you shall not lift up your eyes to the Egyptians or remember them any more.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	28	For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will deliver you into the hands of those whom you hate, into the hands of those from whom you turned in disgust;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	29	and they shall deal with you in hatred, and take away all the fruit of your labor, and leave you naked and bare, and the nakedness of your harlotry shall be uncovered. Your lewdness and your harlotry
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	30	have brought this upon you, because you played the harlot with the nations, and polluted yourself with their idols.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	31	You have gone the way of your sister; therefore I will give her cup into your hand.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	32	Thus says the Lord GOD: “You shall drink your sister’s cup which is deep and large; you shall be laughed at and held in derision, for it contains much;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	33	you will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow. A cup of horror and desolation, is the cup of your sister Samaria;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	34	you shall drink it and drain it out, and pluck out your hair, and tear your breasts; for I have spoken, says the Lord GOD.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	35	Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, therefore bear the consequences of your lewdness and harlotry.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	36	The Lord said to me: “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominable deeds.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	37	For they have committed adultery, and blood is upon their hands; with their idols they have committed adultery; and they have even offered up to them for food the sons whom they had borne to me.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	38	Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day and profaned my sabbaths.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	39	For when they had slaughtered their children in sacrifice to their idols, on the same day they came into my sanctuary to profane it. And lo, this is what they did in my house.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	40	They even sent for men to come from far, to whom a messenger was sent, and lo, they came. For them you bathed yourself, painted your eyes, and decked yourself with ornaments;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	41	you sat upon a stately couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed my incense and my oil.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	42	The sound of a carefree multitude was with her; and with men of the common sort drunkards were brought from the wilderness; and they put bracelets upon the hands of the women, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	43	“Then I said, Do not men now commit adultery when they practice harlotry with her?
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	44	For they have gone in to her, as men go in to a harlot. Thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah to commit lewdness.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	45	But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is upon their hands.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	46	For thus says the Lord GOD: “Bring up a host against them, and make them an object of terror and a spoil.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	47	And the host shall stone them and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	48	Thus will I put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not commit lewdness as you have done.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	23	49	And your lewdness shall be requited upon you, and you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry; and you shall know that I am the Lord GOD.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	24	1	In the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	24	2	“Son of man, write down the name of this day, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	24	3	And utter an allegory to the rebellious house and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Set on the pot, set it on, pour in water also;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	24	4	put in it the pieces of flesh, all the good pieces, the thigh and the shoulder; fill it with choice bones.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	24	5	Take the choicest one of the flock, pile the logs under it; boil its pieces, seethe also its bones in it.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	24	6	“Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose rust is in it, and whose rust has not gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece, without making any choice.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	24	7	For the blood she has shed is still in the midst of her; she put it on the bare rock, she did not pour it upon the ground to cover it with dust.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	24	8	To rouse my wrath, to take vengeance, I have set on the bare rock the blood she has shed, that it may not be covered.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	24	9	Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	24	10	Heap on the logs, kindle the fire, boil well the flesh, and empty out the broth, and let the bones be burned up.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	24	11	Then set it empty upon the coals, that it may become hot, and its copper may burn, that its filthiness may be melted in it, its rust consumed.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	24	12	In vain I have wearied myself; its thick rust does not go out of it by fire.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	24	13	Its rust is your filthy lewdness. Because I would have cleansed you and you were not cleansed from your filthiness, you shall not be cleansed any more till I have satisfied my fury upon you.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	24	14	I the Lord have spoken; it shall come to pass, I will do it; I will not go back, I will not spare, I will not repent; according to your ways and your doings I will judge you, says the Lord GOD.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	24	15	Also the word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	24	16	“Son of man, behold, I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you at a stroke; yet you shall not mourn or weep nor shall your tears run down.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	24	17	Sigh, but not aloud; make no mourning for the dead. Bind on your turban, and put your shoes on your feet; do not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of mourners.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	24	18	So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died. And on the next morning I did as I was commanded.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	24	19	And the people said to me, “Will you not tell us what these things mean for us, that you are acting thus?”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	24	20	Then I said to them, “The word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	24	21	‘Say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the desire of your soul; and your sons and your daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	24	22	And you shall do as I have done; you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of mourners.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	24	23	Your turbans shall be on your heads and your shoes on your feet; you shall not mourn or weep, but you shall pine away in your iniquities and groan to one another.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	24	24	Thus shall Ezekiel be to you a sign; according to all that he has done you shall do. When this comes, then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.’
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	24	25	“And you, son of man, on the day when I take from them their stronghold, their joy and glory, the delight of their eyes and their heart’s desire, and also their sons and daughters,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	24	26	on that day a fugitive will come to you to report to you the news.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	24	27	On that day your mouth will be opened to the fugitive, and you shall speak and be no longer dumb. So you will be a sign to them; and they will know that I am the Lord.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	25	1	The word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	25	2	“Son of man, set your face toward the Ammonites, and prophesy against them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	25	3	Say to the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus says the Lord GOD, Because you said, ‘Aha!’ over my sanctuary when it was profaned, and over the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and over the house of Judah when it went into exile;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	25	4	therefore I am handing you over to the people of the East for a possession, and they shall set their encampments among you and make their dwellings in your midst; they shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	25	5	I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and the cities of the Ammonites a fold for flocks. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	25	6	For thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have clapped your hands and stamped your feet and rejoiced with all the malice within you against the land of Israel,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	25	7	therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand against you, and will hand you over as spoil to the nations; and I will cut you off from the peoples and will make you perish out of the countries; I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	25	8	“Thus says the Lord GOD: Because Moab said, Behold, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	25	9	therefore I will lay open the flank of Moab from the cities on its frontier, the glory of the country, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	25	10	I will give it along with the Ammonites to the people of the East as a possession, that it may be remembered no more among the nations,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	25	11	and I will execute judgments upon Moab. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	25	12	“Thus says the Lord GOD: Because Edom acted revengefully against the house of Judah and has grievously offended in taking vengeance upon them,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	25	13	therefore thus says the Lord GOD, I will stretch out my hand against Edom, and cut off from it man and beast; and I will make it desolate; from Teman even to Dedan they shall fall by the sword.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	25	14	And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel; and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath; and they shall know my vengeance, says the Lord GOD.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	25	15	“Thus says the Lord GOD: Because the Philistines acted revengefully and took vengeance with malice of heart to destroy in never-ending enmity;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	25	16	therefore thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I will stretch out my hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites, and destroy the rest of the seacoast.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	25	17	I will execute great vengeance upon them with wrathful chastisements. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I lay my vengeance upon them.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	26	1	In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	26	2	“Son of man, because Tyre said concerning Jerusalem, ‘Aha, the gate of the peoples is broken, it has swung open to me; I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste,’
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	26	3	therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	26	4	They shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers; and I will scrape her soil from her, and make her a bare rock.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	26	5	She shall be in the midst of the sea a place for the spreading of nets; for I have spoken, says the Lord GOD; and she shall become a spoil to the nations;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	26	6	and her daughters on the mainland shall be slain by the sword. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	26	7	“For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will bring upon Tyre from the north Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, and with horsemen and a host of many soldiers.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	26	8	He will slay with the sword your daughters on the mainland; he will set up a siege wall against you, and throw up a mound against you, and raise a roof of shields against you.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	26	9	He will direct the shock of his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	26	10	His horses will be so many that their dust will cover you; your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen and wagons and chariots, when he enters your gates as one enters a city which has been breached.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	26	11	With the hoofs of his horses he will trample all your streets; he will slay your people with the sword; and your mighty pillars will fall to the ground.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	26	12	They will make a spoil of your riches and a prey of your merchandise; they will break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses; your stones and timber and soil they will cast into the midst of the waters.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	26	13	And I will stop the music of your songs, and the sound of your lyres shall be heard no more.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	26	14	I will make you a bare rock; you shall be a place for the spreading of nets; you shall never be rebuilt; for I the Lord have spoken, says the Lord GOD.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	26	15	“Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre: Will not the coastlands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when slaughter is made in the midst of you?
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	26	16	Then all the princes of the sea will step down from their thrones, and remove their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments; they will clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit upon the ground and tremble every moment, and be appalled at you.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	26	17	And they will raise a lamentation over you, and say to you, ‘How you have vanished from the seas, O city renowned, that was mighty on the sea, you and your inhabitants, who imposed your terror on all the mainland!
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	26	18	Now the isles tremble on the day of your fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea are dismayed at your passing.’
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	26	19	“For thus says the Lord GOD: When I make you a city laid waste, like the cities that are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you, and the great waters cover you,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	26	20	then I will thrust you down with those who descend into the Pit, to the people of old, and I will make you to dwell in the nether world, among primeval ruins, with those who go down to the Pit, so that you will not be inhabited or have a place in the land of the living.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	26	21	I will bring you to a dreadful end, and you shall be no more; though you be sought for, you will never be found again, says the Lord GOD.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	1	The word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	2	“Now you, son of man, raise a lamentation over Tyre,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	3	and say to Tyre, who dwells at the entrance to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coastlands, thus says the Lord GOD: “O Tyre, you have said, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	4	Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders made perfect your beauty.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	5	They made all your planks of fir trees from Senir; they took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	6	Of oaks of Bashan they made your oars; they made your deck of pines from the coasts of Cyprus, inlaid with ivory.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	7	Of fine embroidered linen from Egypt was your sail, serving as your ensign; blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah was your awning.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	8	The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers; skilled men of Zemer were in you, they were your pilots.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	9	The elders of Gebal and her skilled men were in you, caulking your seams; all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you, to barter for your wares.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	10	“Persia and Lud and Put were in your army as your men of war; they hung the shield and helmet in you; they gave you splendor.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	11	The men of Arvad and Helech were upon your walls round about, and men of Gamad were in your towers; they hung their shields upon your walls round about; they made perfect your beauty.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	12	“Tarshish trafficked with you because of your great wealth of every kind; silver, iron, tin, and lead they exchanged for your wares.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	13	Javan, Tubal, and Meshech traded with you; they exchanged the persons of men and vessels of bronze for your merchandise.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	14	Beth-togarmah exchanged for your wares horses, war horses, and mules.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	15	The men of Rhodes traded with you; many coastlands were your own special markets, they brought you in payment ivory tusks and ebony.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	16	Edom trafficked with you because of your abundant goods; they exchanged for your wares emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and agate.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	17	Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged for your merchandise wheat, olives and early figs, honey, oil, and balm.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	18	Damascus trafficked with you for your abundant goods, because of your great wealth of every kind; wine of Helbon, and white wool,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	19	and wine from Uzal they exchanged for your wares; wrought iron, cassia, and calamus were bartered for your merchandise.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	20	Dedan traded with you in saddlecloths for riding.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	21	Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your favored dealers in lambs, rams, and goats; in these they trafficked with you.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	22	The traders of Sheba and Raamah traded with you; they exchanged for your wares the best of all kinds of spices, and all precious stones, and gold.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	23	Haran, Canneh, Eden, Asshur, and Chilmad traded with you.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	24	These traded with you in choice garments, in clothes of blue and embroidered work, and in carpets of colored stuff, bound with cords and made secure; in these they traded with you.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	25	The ships of Tarshish traveled for you with your merchandise. “So you were filled and heavily laden in the heart of the seas.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	26	Your rowers have brought you out into the high seas. The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	27	Your riches, your wares, your merchandise, your mariners and your pilots, your caulkers, your dealers in merchandise, and all your men of war who are in you, with all your company that is in your midst, sink into the heart of the seas on the day of your ruin.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	28	At the sound of the cry of your pilots the countryside shakes,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	29	and down from their ships come all that handle the oar. The mariners and all the pilots of the sea stand on the shore
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	30	and wail aloud over you, and cry bitterly. They cast dust on their heads and wallow in ashes;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	31	they make themselves bald for you, and gird themselves with sackcloth, and they weep over you in bitterness of soul, with bitter mourning.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	32	In their wailing they raise a lamentation for you, and lament over you: ‘Who was ever destroyed like Tyre in the midst of the sea?
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	33	When your wares came from the seas, you satisfied many peoples; with your abundant wealth and merchandise you enriched the kings of the earth.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	34	Now you are wrecked by the seas, in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and all your crew have sunk with you.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	35	All the inhabitants of the coastlands are appalled at you; and their kings are horribly afraid, their faces are convulsed.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	27	36	The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more for ever.’”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	28	1	The word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	28	2	“Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord GOD: “Because your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of the gods, in the heart of the seas,’ yet you are but a man, and no god, though you consider yourself as wise as a god—
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	28	3	you are indeed wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	28	4	by your wisdom and your understanding you have gotten wealth for yourself, and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	28	5	by your great wisdom in trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart has become proud in your wealth—
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	28	6	therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Because you consider yourself as wise as a god,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	28	7	therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon you, the most terrible of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and defile your splendor.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	28	8	They shall thrust you down into the Pit, and you shall die the death of the slain in the heart of the seas.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	28	9	Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who slay you, though you are but a man, and no god, in the hands of those who wound you?
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	28	10	You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of foreigners; for I have spoken, says the Lord GOD.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	28	11	Moreover the word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	28	12	“Son of man, raise a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord GOD: “You were the signet of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	28	13	You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, carnelian, topaz, and jasper, chrysolite, beryl, and onyx, sapphire, carbuncle, and emerald; and wrought in gold were your settings and your engravings. On the day that you were created they were prepared.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	28	14	With an anointed guardian cherub I placed you; you were on the holy mountain of God; in the midst of the stones of fire you walked.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	28	15	You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created, till iniquity was found in you.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	28	16	In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned; so I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God, and the guardian cherub drove you out from the midst of the stones of fire.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	28	17	Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	28	18	By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your trade you profaned your sanctuaries; so I brought forth fire from the midst of you; it consumed you, and I turned you to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all who saw you.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	28	19	All who know you among the peoples are appalled at you; you have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more for ever.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	28	20	The word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	28	21	“Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against her
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	28	22	and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I am against you, O Sidon, and I will manifest my glory in the midst of you. And they shall know that I am the Lord when I execute judgments in her, and manifest my holiness in her;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	28	23	for I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets; and the slain shall fall in the midst of her, by the sword that is against her on every side. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	28	24	“And for the house of Israel there shall be no more a brier to prick or a thorn to hurt them among all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	28	25	“Thus says the Lord GOD: When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and manifest my holiness in them in the sight of the nations, then they shall dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	28	26	And they shall dwell securely in it, and they shall build houses and plant vineyards. They shall dwell securely, when I execute judgments upon all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	29	1	In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	29	2	“Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	29	3	speak, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his streams, that says, ‘My Nile is my own; I made it.’
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	29	4	I will put hooks in your jaws, and make the fish of your streams stick to your scales; and I will draw you up out of the midst of your streams, with all the fish of your streams which stick to your scales.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	29	5	And I will cast you forth into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your streams; you shall fall upon the open field, and not be gathered and buried. To the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the air I have given you as food.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	29	6	“Then all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord. Because you have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	29	7	when they grasped you with the hand, you broke, and tore all their shoulders; and when they leaned upon you, you broke, and made all their loins to shake;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	29	8	therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will bring a sword upon you, and will cut off from you man and beast;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	29	9	and the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste. Then they will know that I am the Lord. “Because you said, ‘The Nile is mine, and I made it,’
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	29	10	therefore, behold, I am against you, and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Ethiopia.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	29	11	No foot of man shall pass through it, and no foot of beast shall pass through it; it shall be uninhabited forty years.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	29	12	And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated countries; and her cities shall be a desolation forty years among cities that are laid waste. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	29	13	“For thus says the Lord GOD: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	29	14	and I will restore the fortunes of Egypt, and bring them back to the land of Pathros, the land of their origin; and there they shall be a lowly kingdom.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	29	15	It shall be the most lowly of the kingdoms, and never again exalt itself above the nations; and I will make them so small that they will never again rule over the nations.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	29	16	And it shall never again be the reliance of the house of Israel, recalling their iniquity, when they turn to them for aid. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	29	17	In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	29	18	“Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre; every head was made bald and every shoulder was rubbed bare; yet neither he nor his army got anything from Tyre to pay for the labor that he had performed against it.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	29	19	Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall carry off its wealth and despoil it and plunder it; and it shall be the wages for his army.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	29	20	I have given him the land of Egypt as his recompense for which he labored, because they worked for me, says the Lord GOD.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	29	21	“On that day I will cause a horn to spring forth to the house of Israel, and I will open your lips among them. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	30	1	The word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	30	2	“Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: “Wail, ‘Alas for the day!’
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	30	3	For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near; it will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	30	4	A sword shall come upon Egypt, and anguish shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain fall in Egypt, and her wealth is carried away, and her foundations are torn down.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	30	5	Ethiopia, and Put, and Lud, and all Arabia, and Libya, and the people of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	30	6	“Thus says the Lord: Those who support Egypt shall fall, and her proud might shall come down; from Migdol to Syene they shall fall within her by the sword, says the Lord GOD.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	30	7	And she shall be desolated in the midst of desolated countries and her cities shall be in the midst of cities that are laid waste.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	30	8	Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I have set fire to Egypt, and all her helpers are broken.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	30	9	“On that day swift messengers shall go forth from me to terrify the unsuspecting Ethiopians; and anguish shall come upon them on the day of Egypt’s doom; for, lo, it comes!
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	30	10	“Thus says the Lord GOD: I will put an end to the wealth of Egypt, by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	30	11	He and his people with him, the most terrible of the nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land; and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	30	12	And I will dry up the Nile, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men; I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it, by the hand of foreigners; I, the Lord, have spoken.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	30	13	“Thus says the Lord GOD: I will destroy the idols, and put an end to the images, in Memphis; there shall no longer be a prince in the land of Egypt; so I will put fear in the land of Egypt.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	30	14	I will make Pathros a desolation, and will set fire to Zoan, and will execute acts of judgment upon Thebes.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	30	15	And I will pour my wrath upon Pelusium, the stronghold of Egypt, and cut off the multitude of Thebes.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	30	16	And I will set fire to Egypt; Pelusium shall be in great agony; Thebes shall be breached, and its walls broken down.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	30	17	The young men of On and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword; and the women shall go into captivity.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	30	18	At Tehaphnehes the day shall be dark, when I break there the dominion of Egypt, and her proud might shall come to an end; she shall be covered by a cloud, and her daughters shall go into captivity.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	30	19	Thus I will execute acts of judgment upon Egypt. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	30	20	In the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	30	21	“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and lo, it has not been bound up, to heal it by binding it with a bandage, so that it may become strong to wield the sword.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	30	22	Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, both the strong arm and the one that was broken; and I will make the sword fall from his hand.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	30	23	I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them throughout the lands.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	30	24	And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand; but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before him like a man mortally wounded.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	30	25	I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh shall fall; and they shall know that I am the Lord. When I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, he shall stretch it out against the land of Egypt;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	30	26	and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	31	1	In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	31	2	“Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: “Whom are you like in your greatness?
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	31	3	Behold, I will liken you to a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches and forest shade, and of great height, its top among the clouds.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	31	4	The waters nourished it, the deep made it grow tall, making its rivers flow round the place of its planting, sending forth its streams to all the trees of the forest.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	31	5	So it towered high above all the trees of the forest; its boughs grew large and its branches long, from abundant water in its shoots.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	31	6	All the birds of the air made their nests in its boughs; under its branches all the beasts of the field brought forth their young; and under its shadow dwelt all great nations.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	31	7	It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its roots went down to abundant waters.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	31	8	The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it, nor the fir trees equal its boughs; the plane trees were as nothing compared with its branches; no tree in the garden of God was like it in beauty.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	31	9	I made it beautiful in the mass of its branches, and all the trees of Eden envied it, that were in the garden of God.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	31	10	“Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because it towered high and set its top among the clouds, and its heart was proud of its height,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	31	11	I will give it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with it as its wickedness deserves. I have cast it out.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	31	12	Foreigners, the most terrible of the nations, will cut it down and leave it. On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches will fall, and its boughs will lie broken in all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth will go from its shadow and leave it.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	31	13	Upon its ruin will dwell all the birds of the air, and upon its branches will be all the beasts of the field.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	31	14	All this is in order that no trees by the waters may grow to lofty height or set their tops among the clouds, and that no trees that drink water may reach up to them in height; for they are all given over to death, to the nether world among mortal men, with those who go down to the Pit.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	31	15	“Thus says the Lord GOD: When it goes down to Sheol I will make the deep mourn for it, and restrain its rivers, and many waters shall be stopped; I will clothe Lebanon in gloom for it, and all the trees of the field shall faint because of it.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	31	16	I will make the nations quake at the sound of its fall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who go down to the Pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, will be comforted in the nether world.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	31	17	They also shall go down to Sheol with it, to those who are slain by the sword; yea, those who dwelt under its shadow among the nations shall perish.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	31	18	Whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? You shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the nether world; you shall lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. “This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord GOD.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	32	1	In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	32	2	“Son of man, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him: “You consider yourself a lion among the nations, but you are like a dragon in the seas; you burst forth in your rivers, trouble the waters with your feet, and foul their rivers.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	32	3	Thus says the Lord GOD: I will throw my net over you with a host of many peoples; and I will haul you up in my dragnet.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	32	4	And I will cast you on the ground, on the open field I will fling you, and will cause all the birds of the air to settle on you, and I will gorge the beasts of the whole earth with you.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	32	5	I will strew your flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with your carcass.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	32	6	I will drench the land even to the mountains with your flowing blood; and the watercourses will be full of you.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	32	7	When I blot you out, I will cover the heavens, and make their stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	32	8	All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over you, and put darkness upon your land, says the Lord GOD.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	32	9	“I will trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I carry you captive among the nations, into the countries which you have not known.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	32	10	I will make many peoples appalled at you, and their kings shall shudder because of you, when I brandish my sword before them; they shall tremble every moment, every one for his own life, on the day of your downfall.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	32	11	For thus says the Lord GOD: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	32	12	I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of mighty ones, all of them most terrible among the nations. “They shall bring to nought the pride of Egypt, and all its multitude shall perish.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	32	13	I will destroy all its beasts from beside many waters; and no foot of man shall trouble them any more, nor shall the hoofs of beasts trouble them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	32	14	Then I will make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the Lord GOD.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	32	15	When I make the land of Egypt desolate and when the land is stripped of all that fills it, when I smite all who dwell in it, then they will know that I am the Lord.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	32	16	This is a lamentation which shall be chanted; the daughters of the nations shall chant it; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall they chant it, says the Lord GOD.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	32	17	In the twelfth year, in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	32	18	“Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt, and send them down, her and the daughters of majestic nations, to the nether world, to those who have gone down to the Pit:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	32	19	‘Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised.’
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	32	20	They shall fall amid those who are slain by the sword, and with her shall lie all her multitudes.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	32	21	The mighty chiefs shall speak of them, with their helpers, out of the midst of Sheol: ‘They have come down, they lie still, the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.’
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	32	22	“Assyria is there, and all her company, their graves round about her, all of them slain, fallen by the sword;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	32	23	whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the Pit, and her company is round about her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who spread terror in the land of the living.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	32	24	“Elam is there, and all her multitude about her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised into the nether world, who spread terror in the land of the living, and they bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	32	25	They have made her a bed among the slain with all her multitude, their graves round about her, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for terror of them was spread in the land of the living, and they bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit; they are placed among the slain.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	32	26	“Meshech and Tubal are there, and all their multitude, their graves round about them, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they spread terror in the land of the living.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	32	27	And they do not lie with the fallen mighty men of old who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, whose swords were laid under their heads, and whose shields are upon their bones; for the terror of the mighty men was in the land of the living.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	32	28	So you shall be broken and lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	32	29	“Edom is there, her kings and all her princes, who for all their might are laid with those who are slain by the sword; they lie with the uncircumcised, with those who go down to the Pit.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	32	30	“The princes of the north are there, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who have gone down in shame with the slain, for all the terror which they caused by their might; they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	32	31	“When Pharaoh sees them, he will comfort himself for all his multitude, Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, says the Lord GOD.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	32	32	For he spread terror in the land of the living; therefore he shall be laid among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord GOD.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	33	1	The word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	33	2	“Son of man, speak to your people and say to them, If I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and make him their watchman;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	33	3	and if he sees the sword coming upon the land and blows the trumpet and warns the people;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	33	4	then if any one who hears the sound of the trumpet does not take warning, and the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	33	5	He heard the sound of the trumpet, and did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But if he had taken warning, he would have saved his life.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	33	6	But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes, and takes any one of them; that man is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	33	7	“So you, son of man, I have made a watchman for the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	33	8	If I say to the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	33	9	But if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but you will have saved your life.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	33	10	“And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, Thus have you said: ‘Our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we waste away because of them; how then can we live?’
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	33	11	Say to them, As I live, says the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel?
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	33	12	And you, son of man, say to your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him when he transgresses; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it when he turns from his wickedness; and the righteous shall not be able to live by his righteousness when he sins.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	33	13	Though I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, yet if he trusts in his righteousness and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in the iniquity that he has committed he shall die.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	33	14	Again, though I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ yet if he turns from his sin and does what is lawful and right,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	33	15	if the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what he has taken by robbery, and walks in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	33	16	None of the sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him; he has done what is lawful and right, he shall surely live.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	33	17	“Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just’; when it is their own way that is not just.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	33	18	When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall die for it.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	33	19	And when the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does what is lawful and right, he shall live by it.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	33	20	Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ O house of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his ways.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	33	21	In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, a man who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me and said, “The city has fallen.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	33	22	Now the hand of the Lord had been upon me the evening before the fugitive came; and he had opened my mouth by the time the man came to me in the morning; so my mouth was opened, and I was no longer dumb.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	33	23	The word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	33	24	“Son of man, the inhabitants of these waste places in the land of Israel keep saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he got possession of the land; but we are many; the land is surely given us to possess.’
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	33	25	Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: You eat flesh with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood; shall you then possess the land?
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	33	26	You resort to the sword, you commit abominations and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife; shall you then possess the land?
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	33	27	Say this to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: As I live, surely those who are in the waste places shall fall by the sword; and him that is in the open field I will give to the beasts to be devoured; and those who are in strongholds and in caves shall die by pestilence.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	33	28	And I will make the land a desolation and a waste; and her proud might shall come to an end; and the mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that none will pass through.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	33	29	Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I have made the land a desolation and a waste because of all their abominations which they have committed.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	33	30	“As for you, son of man, your people who talk together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses, say to one another, each to his brother, ‘Come, and hear what the word is that comes forth from the Lord.’
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	33	31	And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with their lips they show much love, but their heart is set on their gain.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	33	32	And, lo, you are to them like one who sings love songs with a beautiful voice and plays well on an instrument, for they hear what you say, but they will not do it.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	33	33	When this comes—and come it will!—then they will know that a prophet has been among them.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	34	1	The word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	34	2	“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say to them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord GOD: Ho, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the sheep?
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	34	3	You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fatlings; but you do not feed the sheep.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	34	4	The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the crippled you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	34	5	So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food for all the wild beasts.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	34	6	My sheep were scattered, they wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill; my sheep were scattered over all the face of the earth, with none to search or seek for them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	34	7	“Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	34	8	As I live, says the Lord GOD, because my sheep have become a prey, and my sheep have become food for all the wild beasts, since there was no shepherd; and because my shepherds have not searched for my sheep, but the shepherds have fed themselves, and have not fed my sheep;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	34	9	therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	34	10	Thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my sheep at their hand, and put a stop to their feeding the sheep; no longer shall the shepherds feed themselves. I will rescue my sheep from their mouths, that they may not be food for them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	34	11	“For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, I myself will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	34	12	As a shepherd seeks out his flock when some of his sheep have been scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	34	13	And I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the fountains, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	34	14	I will feed them with good pasture, and upon the mountain heights of Israel shall be their pasture; there they shall lie down in good grazing land, and on fat pasture they shall feed on the mountains of Israel.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	34	15	I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will make them lie down, says the Lord GOD.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	34	16	I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the crippled, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will watch over; I will feed them in justice.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	34	17	“As for you, my flock, thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, rams and he-goats.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	34	18	Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pasture; and to drink of clear water, that you must foul the rest with your feet?
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	34	19	And must my sheep eat what you have trodden with your feet, and drink what you have fouled with your feet?
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	34	20	“Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD to them: Behold, I, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	34	21	Because you push with side and shoulder, and thrust at all the weak with your horns, till you have scattered them abroad,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	34	22	I will save my flock, they shall no longer be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	34	23	And I will set up over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he shall feed them: he shall feed them and be their shepherd.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	34	24	And I, the Lord, will be their God, and my servant David shall be prince among them; I, the Lord, have spoken.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	34	25	“I will make with them a covenant of peace and banish wild beasts from the land, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	34	26	And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	34	27	And the trees of the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I break the bars of their yoke, and deliver them from the hand of those who enslaved them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	34	28	They shall no more be a prey to the nations, nor shall the beasts of the land devour them; they shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	34	29	And I will provide for them prosperous plantations so that they shall no more be consumed with hunger in the land, and no longer suffer the reproach of the nations.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	34	30	And they shall know that I, the Lord their God, am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord GOD.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	34	31	And you are my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, and I am your God, says the Lord GOD.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	35	1	The word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	35	2	“Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	35	3	and say to it, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and a waste.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	35	4	I will lay your cities waste, and you shall become a desolation; and you shall know that I am the Lord.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	35	5	Because you cherished perpetual enmity, and gave over the people of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	35	6	therefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; because you are guilty of blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	35	7	I will make Mount Seir a waste and a desolation; and I will cut off from it all who come and go.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	35	8	And I will fill your mountains with the slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those slain with the sword shall fall.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	35	9	I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	35	10	“Because you said, ‘These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will take possession of them,’—although the Lord was there—
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	35	11	therefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD, I will deal with you according to the anger and envy which you showed because of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among you, when I judge you.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	35	12	And you shall know that I, the Lord, have heard all the revilings which you uttered against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They are laid desolate, they are given us to devour.’
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	35	13	And you magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and multiplied your words against me; I heard it.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	35	14	Thus says the Lord GOD: For the rejoicing of the whole earth I will make you desolate.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	35	15	As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so I will deal with you; you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	1	“And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	2	Thus says the Lord GOD: Because the enemy said of you, ‘Aha!’ and, ‘The ancient heights have become our possession,’
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	3	therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Because, yea, because they made you desolate, and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you became the talk and evil gossip of the people;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	4	therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and the hills, the ravines and the valleys, the desolate wastes and the deserted cities, which have become a prey and derision to the rest of the nations round about;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	5	therefore thus says the Lord GOD: I speak in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might possess it and plunder it.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	6	Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I speak in my jealous wrath, because you have suffered the reproach of the nations;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	7	therefore thus says the Lord GOD: I swear that the nations that are round about you shall themselves suffer reproach.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	8	“But you, O mountains of Israel, shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they will soon come home.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	9	For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	10	and I will multiply men upon you, the whole house of Israel, all of it; the cities shall be inhabited and the waste places rebuilt;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	11	and I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited as in your former times, and will do more good to you than ever before. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	12	Yea, I will let men walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no longer bereave them of children.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	13	Thus says the Lord GOD: Because men say to you, ‘You devour men, and you bereave your nation of children,’
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	14	therefore you shall no longer devour men and no longer bereave your nation of children, says the Lord GOD;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	15	and I will not let you hear any more the reproach of the nations, and you shall no longer bear the disgrace of the peoples and no longer cause your nation to stumble, says the Lord GOD.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	16	The word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	17	“Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their doings; their conduct before me was like the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	18	So I poured out my wrath upon them for the blood which they had shed in the land, for the idols with which they had defiled it.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	19	I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries; in accordance with their conduct and their deeds I judged them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	20	But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that men said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, and yet they had to go out of his land.’
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	21	But I had concern for my holy name, which the house of Israel caused to be profaned among the nations to which they came.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	22	“Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	23	And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them; and the nations will know that I am the Lord, says the Lord GOD, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	24	For I will take you from the nations, and gather you from all the countries, and bring you into your own land.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	25	I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	26	A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will take out of your flesh the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	27	And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	28	You shall dwell in the land which I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	29	And I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses; and I will summon the grain and make it abundant and lay no famine upon you.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	30	I will make the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field abundant, that you may never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	31	Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good; and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominable deeds.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	32	It is not for your sake that I will act, says the Lord GOD; let that be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	33	“Thus says the Lord GOD: On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be rebuilt.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	34	And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, instead of being the desolation that it was in the sight of all who passed by.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	35	And they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are now inhabited and fortified.’
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	36	Then the nations that are left round about you shall know that I, the Lord, have rebuilt the ruined places, and replanted that which was desolate; I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	37	“Thus says the Lord GOD: This also I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: to increase their men like a flock.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	36	38	Like the flock for sacrifices, like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	37	1	The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley; it was full of bones.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	37	2	And he led me round among them; and behold, there were very many upon the valley; and lo, they were very dry.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	37	3	And he said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord GOD, thou knowest.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	37	4	Again he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	37	5	Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	37	6	And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the Lord.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	37	7	So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to its bone.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	37	8	And as I looked, there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them; but there was no breath in them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	37	9	Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says the Lord GOD: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	37	10	So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, an exceedingly great host.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	37	11	Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.’
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	37	12	Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people; and I will bring you home into the land of Israel.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	37	13	And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	37	14	And I will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land; then you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken, and I have done it, says the Lord.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	37	15	The word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	37	16	“Son of man, take a stick and write on it, ‘For Judah, and the children of Israel associated with him’; then take another stick and write upon it, ‘For Joseph (the stick of Ephraim) and all the house of Israel associated with him’;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	37	17	and join them together into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	37	18	And when your people say to you, ‘Will you not show us what you mean by these?’
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	37	19	say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am about to take the stick of Joseph (which is in the hand of Ephraim) and the tribes of Israel associated with him; and I will join with it the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, that they may be one in my hand.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	37	20	When the sticks on which you write are in your hand before their eyes,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	37	21	then say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all sides, and bring them to their own land;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	37	22	and I will make them one nation in the land, upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king over them all; and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	37	23	They shall not defile themselves any more with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but I will save them from all the backslidings in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	37	24	“My servant David shall be king over them; and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall follow my ordinances and be careful to observe my statutes.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	37	25	They shall dwell in the land where your fathers dwelt that I gave to my servant Jacob; they and their children and their children’s children shall dwell there for ever; and David my servant shall be their prince for ever.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	37	26	I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will bless them and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	37	27	My dwelling place shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	37	28	Then the nations will know that I the Lord sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary is in the midst of them for evermore.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	38	1	The word of the Lord came to me:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	38	2	“Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	38	3	and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	38	4	and I will turn you about, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you forth, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company, all of them with buckler and shield, wielding swords;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	38	5	Persia, Cush, and Put are with them, all of them with shield and helmet;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	38	6	Gomer and all his hordes; Beth-togarmah from the uttermost parts of the north with all his hordes—many peoples are with you.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	38	7	“Be ready and keep ready, you and all the hosts that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	38	8	After many days you will be mustered; in the latter years you will go against the land that is restored from war, the land where people were gathered from many nations upon the mountains of Israel, which had been a continual waste; its people were brought out from the nations and now dwell securely, all of them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	38	9	You will advance, coming on like a storm, you will be like a cloud covering the land you and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	38	10	“Thus says the Lord GOD: On that day thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil scheme
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	38	11	and say, ‘I will go up against the land of unwalled villages; I will fall upon the quiet people who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having no bars or gates’;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	38	12	to seize spoil and carry off plunder; to assail the waste places which are now inhabited, and the people who were gathered from the nations, who have gotten cattle and goods, who dwell at the center of the earth.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	38	13	Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all its villages will say to you, ‘Have you come to seize spoil? Have you assembled your hosts to carry off plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to seize great spoil?’
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	38	14	“Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and say to Gog, Thus says the Lord GOD: On that day when my people Israel are dwelling securely, you will bestir yourself
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	38	15	and come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great host, a mighty army;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	38	16	you will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land. In the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	38	17	“Thus says the Lord GOD: Are you he of whom I spoke in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel, who in those days prophesied for years that I would bring you against them?
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	38	18	But on that day, when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, says the Lord GOD, my wrath will be roused.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	38	19	For in my jealousy and in my blazing wrath I declare, On that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	38	20	the fish of the sea, and the birds of the air, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep on the ground, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall quake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the cliffs shall fall, and every wall shall tumble to the ground.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	38	21	I will summon every kind of terror against Gog, says the Lord GOD; every man’s sword will be against his brother.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	38	22	With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him; and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples that are with him, torrential rains and hailstones, fire and brimstone.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	38	23	So I will show my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	39	1	“And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	39	2	and I will turn you about and drive you forward, and bring you up from the uttermost parts of the north, and lead you against the mountains of Israel;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	39	3	then I will strike your bow from your left hand, and will make your arrows drop out of your right hand.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	39	4	You shall fall upon the mountains of Israel, you and all your hordes and the peoples that are with you; I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the wild beasts to be devoured.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	39	5	You shall fall in the open field; for I have spoken, says the Lord GOD.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	39	6	I will send fire on Magog and on those who dwell securely in the coastlands; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	39	7	“And my holy name I will make known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let my holy name be profaned any more; and the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	39	8	Behold, it is coming and it will be brought about, says the Lord GOD. That is the day of which I have spoken.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	39	9	“Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go forth and make fires of the weapons and burn them, shields and bucklers, bows and arrows, handpikes and spears, and they will make fires of them for seven years;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	39	10	so that they will not need to take wood out of the field or cut down any out of the forests, for they will make their fires of the weapons; they will despoil those who despoiled them, and plunder those who plundered them, says the Lord GOD.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	39	11	“On that day I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the Valley of the Travelers east of the sea; it will block the travelers, for there Gog and all his multitude will be buried; it will be called the Valley of Hamon-gog.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	39	12	For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, in order to cleanse the land.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	39	13	All the people of the land will bury them; and it will redound to their honor on the day that I show my glory, says the Lord GOD.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	39	14	They will set apart men to pass through the land continually and bury those remaining upon the face of the land, so as to cleanse it; at the end of seven months they will make their search.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	39	15	And when these pass through the land and any one sees a man’s bone, then he shall set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-gog.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	39	16	(A city Hamonah is there also.) Thus shall they cleanse the land.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	39	17	“As for you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD: Speak to the birds of every sort and to all beasts of the field, ‘Assemble and come, gather from all sides to the sacrificial feast which I am preparing for you, a great sacrificial feast upon the mountains of Israel, and you shall eat flesh and drink blood.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	39	18	You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth—of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	39	19	And you shall eat fat till you are filled, and drink blood till you are drunk, at the sacrificial feast which I am preparing for you.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	39	20	And you shall be filled at my table with horses and riders, with mighty men and all kinds of warriors,’ says the Lord GOD.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	39	21	“And I will set my glory among the nations; and all the nations shall see my judgment which I have executed, and my hand which I have laid on them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	39	22	The house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God, from that day forward.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	39	23	And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they dealt so treacherously with me that I hid my face from them and gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	39	24	I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their transgressions, and hid my face from them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	39	25	“Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for my holy name.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	39	26	They shall forget their shame, and all the treachery they have practiced against me, when they dwell securely in their land with none to make them afraid,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	39	27	when I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them from their enemies’ lands, and through them have vindicated my holiness in the sight of many nations.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	39	28	Then they shall know that I am the Lord their God because I sent them into exile among the nations, and then gathered them into their own land. I will leave none of them remaining among the nations any more;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	39	29	and I will not hide my face any more from them, when I pour out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, says the Lord GOD.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	1	In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was conquered, on that very day, the hand of the Lord was upon me,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	2	and brought me in the visions of God into the land of Israel, and set me down upon a very high mountain, on which was a structure like a city opposite me.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	3	When he brought me there, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like bronze, with a line of flax and a measuring reed in his hand; and he was standing in the gateway.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	4	And the man said to me, “Son of man, look with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your mind upon all that I shall show you, for you were brought here in order that I might show it to you; declare all that you see to the house of Israel.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	5	And behold, there was a wall all around the outside of the temple area, and the length of the measuring reed in the man’s hand was six long cubits, each being a cubit and a handbreadth in length; so he measured the thickness of the wall, one reed; and the height, one reed.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	6	Then he went into the gateway facing east, going up its steps, and measured the threshold of the gate, one reed deep;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	7	and the side rooms, one reed long, and one reed broad; and the space between the side rooms, five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the vestibule of the gate at the inner end, one reed.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	8	Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, eight cubits;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	9	and its jambs, two cubits; and the vestibule of the gate was at the inner end.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	10	And there were three side rooms on either side of the east gate; the three were of the same size; and the jambs on either side were of the same size.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	11	Then he measured the breadth of the opening of the gateway, ten cubits; and the breadth of the gateway, thirteen cubits.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	12	There was a barrier before the side rooms, one cubit on either side; and the side rooms were six cubits on either side.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	13	Then he measured the gate from the back of the one side room to the back of the other, a breadth of five and twenty cubits, from door to door.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	14	He measured also the vestibule, twenty cubits; and round about the vestibule of the gateway was the court.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	15	From the front of the gate at the entrance to the end of the inner vestibule of the gate was fifty cubits.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	16	And the gateway had windows round about, narrowing inwards into their jambs in the side rooms, and likewise the vestibule had windows round about inside, and on the jambs were palm trees.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	17	Then he brought me into the outer court; and behold, there were chambers and a pavement, round about the court; thirty chambers fronted on the pavement.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	18	And the pavement ran along the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates; this was the lower pavement.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	19	Then he measured the distance from the inner front of the lower gate to the outer front of the inner court, a hundred cubits. Then he went before me to the north,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	20	and behold, there was a gate which faced toward the north, belonging to the outer court. He measured its length and its breadth.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	21	Its side rooms, three on either side, and its jambs and its vestibule were of the same size as those of the first gate; its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	22	And its windows, its vestibule, and its palm trees were of the same size as those of the gate which faced toward the east; and seven steps led up to it; and its vestibule was on the inside.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	23	And opposite the gate on the north, as on the east, was a gate to the inner court; and he measured from gate to gate, a hundred cubits.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	24	And he led me toward the south, and behold, there was a gate on the south; and he measured its jambs and its vestibule; they had the same size as the others.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	25	And there were windows round about in it and in its vestibule, like the windows of the others; its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	26	And there were seven steps leading up to it, and its vestibule was on the inside; and it had palm trees on its jambs, one on either side.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	27	And there was a gate on the south of the inner court; and he measured from gate to gate toward the south, a hundred cubits.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	28	Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate, and he measured the south gate; it was of the same size as the others;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	29	Its side rooms, its jambs, and its vestibule were of the same size as the others; and there were windows round about in it and in its vestibule; its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	30	And there were vestibules round about, twenty-five cubits long and five cubits broad.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	31	Its vestibule faced the outer court, and palm trees were on its jambs, and its stairway had eight steps.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	32	Then he brought me to the inner court on the east side, and he measured the gate; it was of the same size as the others.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	33	Its side rooms, its jambs, and its vestibule were of the same size as the others; and there were windows round about in it and in its vestibule; its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	34	Its vestibule faced the outer court, and it had palm trees on its jambs, one on either side; and its stairway had eight steps.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	35	Then he brought me to the north gate, and he measured it; it had the same size as the others.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	36	Its side rooms, its jambs, and its vestibule were of the same size as the others; and it had windows round about; its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	37	Its vestibule faced the outer court, and it had palm trees on its jambs, one on either side; and its stairway had eight steps.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	38	There was a chamber with its door in the vestibule of the gate, where the burnt offering was to be washed.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	39	And in the vestibule of the gate were two tables on either side, on which the burnt offering and the sin offering and the guilt offering were to be slaughtered.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	40	And on the outside of the vestibule at the entrance of the north gate were two tables; and on the other side of the vestibule of the gate were two tables.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	41	Four tables were on the inside, and four tables on the outside of the side of the gate, eight tables, on which the sacrifices were to be slaughtered.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	42	And there were also four tables of hewn stone for the burnt offering, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high, on which the instruments were to be laid with which the burnt offerings and the sacrifices were slaughtered.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	43	And hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened round about within. And on the tables the flesh of the offering was to be laid.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	44	Then he brought me from without into the inner court, and behold, there were two chambers in the inner court, one at the side of the north gate facing south, the other at the side of the south gate facing north.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	45	And he said to me, This chamber which faces south is for the priests who have charge of the temple,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	46	and the chamber which faces north is for the priests who have charge of the altar; these are the sons of Zadok, who alone among the sons of Levi may come near to the Lord to minister to him.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	47	And he measured the court, a hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar was in front of the temple.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	48	Then he brought me to the vestibule of the temple and measured the jambs of the vestibule, five cubits on either side; and the breadth of the gate was fourteen cubits; and the sidewalls of the gate were three cubits on either side.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	40	49	The length of the vestibule was twenty cubits, and the breadth twelve cubits; and ten steps led up to it; and there were pillars beside the jambs on either side.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	41	1	Then he brought me to the nave, and measured the jambs; on each side six cubits was the breadth of the jambs.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	41	2	And the breadth of the entrance was ten cubits; and the sidewalls of the entrance were five cubits on either side; and he measured the length of the nave forty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	41	3	Then he went into the inner room and measured the jambs of the entrance, two cubits; and the breadth of the entrance, six cubits; and the sidewalls of the entrance, seven cubits.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	41	4	And he measured the length of the room, twenty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits, beyond the nave. And he said to me, This is the most holy place.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	41	5	Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits thick; and the breadth of the side chambers, four cubits, round about the temple.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	41	6	And the side chambers were in three stories, one over another, thirty in each story. There were offsets all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers, so that they should not be supported by the wall of the temple.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	41	7	And the side chambers became broader as they rose from story to story, corresponding to the enlargement of the offset from story to story round about the temple; on the side of the temple a stairway led upward, and thus one went up from the lowest story to the top story through the middle story.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	41	8	I saw also that the temple had a raised platform round about; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full reed of six long cubits.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	41	9	The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits; and the part of the platform which was left free was five cubits. Between the platform of the temple and the
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	41	10	chambers of the court was a breadth of twenty cubits round about the temple on every side.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	41	11	And the doors of the side chambers opened on the part of the platform that was left free, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south; and the breadth of the part that was left free was five cubits round about.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	41	12	The building that was facing the temple yard on the west side was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and its length ninety cubits.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	41	13	Then he measured the temple, a hundred cubits long; and the yard and the building with its walls, a hundred cubits long;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	41	14	also the breadth of the east front of the temple and the yard, a hundred cubits.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	41	15	Then he measured the length of the building facing the yard which was at the west and its walls on either side, a hundred cubits. The nave of the temple and the inner room and the outer vestibule
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	41	16	were paneled and round about all three had windows with recessed frames. Over against the threshold the temple was paneled with wood round about, from the floor up to the windows (now the windows were covered),
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	41	17	to the space above the door, even to the inner room, and on the outside. And on all the walls round about in the inner room and the nave were carved likenesses
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	41	18	of cherubim and palm trees, a palm tree between cherub and cherub. Every cherub had two faces:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	41	19	the face of a man toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved on the whole temple round about;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	41	20	from the floor to above the door cherubim and palm trees were carved on the wall.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	41	21	The doorposts of the nave were squared; and in front of the holy place was something resembling
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	41	22	an altar of wood, three cubits high, two cubits long, and two cubits broad; its corners, its base, and its walls were of wood. He said to me, “This is the table which is before the Lord.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	41	23	The nave and the holy place had each a double door.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	41	24	The doors had two leaves apiece, two swinging leaves for each door.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	41	25	And on the doors of the nave were carved cherubim and palm trees, such as were carved on the walls; and there was a canopy of wood in front of the vestibule outside.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	41	26	And there were recessed windows and palm trees on either side, on the sidewalls of the vestibule.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	42	1	Then he led me out into the inner court, toward the north, and he brought me to the chambers which were opposite the temple yard and opposite the building on the north.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	42	2	The length of the building which was on the north side was a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty cubits.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	42	3	Adjoining the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and facing the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	42	4	And before the chambers was a passage inward, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long, and their doors were on the north.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	42	5	Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries took more away from them than from the lower and middle chambers in the building.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	42	6	For they were in three stories, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the outer court; hence the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and the middle ones.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	42	7	And there was a wall outside parallel to the chambers, toward the outer court, opposite the chambers, fifty cubits long.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	42	8	For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those opposite the temple were a hundred cubits long.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	42	9	Below these chambers was an entrance on the east side, as one enters them from the outer court,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	42	10	where the outside wall begins. On the south also, opposite the yard and opposite the building, there were chambers
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	42	11	with a passage in front of them; they were similar to the chambers on the north, of the same length and breadth, with the same exits and arrangements and doors.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	42	12	And below the south chambers was an entrance on the east side, where one enters the passage, and opposite them was a dividing wall.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	42	13	Then he said to me, “The north chambers and the south chambers opposite the yard are the holy chambers, where the priests who approach the Lord shall eat the most holy offerings; there they shall put the most holy offerings—the cereal offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, for the place is holy.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	42	14	When the priests enter the holy place, they shall not go out of it into the outer court without laying there the garments in which they minister, for these are holy; they shall put on other garments before they go near to that which is for the people.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	42	15	Now when he had finished measuring the interior of the temple area, he led me out by the gate which faced east, and measured the temple area round about.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	42	16	He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred cubits by the measuring reed.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	42	17	Then he turned and measured the north side, five hundred cubits by the measuring reed.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	42	18	Then he turned and measured the south side, five hundred cubits by the measuring reed.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	42	19	Then he turned to the west side and measured, five hundred cubits by the measuring reed.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	42	20	He measured it on the four sides. It had a wall around it, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits broad, to make a separation between the holy and the common.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	43	1	Afterward he brought me to the gate, the gate facing east.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	43	2	And behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the east; and the sound of his coming was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shone with his glory.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	43	3	And the vision I saw was like the vision which I had seen when he came to destroy the city, and like the vision which I had seen by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	43	4	As the glory of the Lord entered the temple by the gate facing east,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	43	5	the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of the Lord filled the temple.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	43	6	While the man was standing beside me, I heard one speaking to me out of the temple;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	43	7	and he said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the people of Israel for ever. And the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their harlotry, and by the dead bodies of their kings,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	43	8	by setting their threshold by my threshold and their doorposts beside my doorposts, with only a wall between me and them. They have defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed, so I have consumed them in my anger.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	43	9	Now let them put away their idolatry and the dead bodies of their kings far from me, and I will dwell in their midst for ever.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	43	10	“And you, son of man, describe to the house of Israel the temple and its appearance and plan, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	43	11	And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, portray the temple, its arrangement, its exits and its entrances, and its whole form; and make known to them all its ordinances and all its laws; and write it down in their sight, so that they may observe and perform all its laws and all its ordinances.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	43	12	This is the law of the temple: the whole territory round about upon the top of the mountain shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the temple.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	43	13	“These are the dimensions of the altar by cubits (the cubit being a cubit and a handbreadth): its base shall be one cubit high, and one cubit broad, with a rim of one span around its edge. And this shall be the height of the altar:
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	43	14	from the base on the ground to the lower ledge, two cubits, with a breadth of one cubit; and from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge, four cubits, with a breadth of one cubit;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	43	15	and the altar hearth, four cubits; and from the altar hearth projecting upward, four horns, one cubit high.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	43	16	The altar hearth shall be square, twelve cubits long by twelve broad.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	43	17	The ledge also shall be square, fourteen cubits long by fourteen broad, with a rim around it half a cubit broad, and its base one cubit round about. The steps of the altar shall face east.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	43	18	And he said to me, “Son of man, thus says the Lord GOD: These are the ordinances for the altar: On the day when it is erected for offering burnt offerings upon it and for throwing blood against it,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	43	19	you shall give to the Levitical priests of the family of Zadok, who draw near to me to minister to me, says the Lord GOD, a bull for a sin offering.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	43	20	And you shall take some of its blood, and put it on the four horns of the altar, and on the four corners of the ledge, and upon the rim round about; thus you shall cleanse the altar and make atonement for it.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	43	21	You shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and it shall be burnt in the appointed place belonging to the temple, outside the sacred area.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	43	22	And on the second day you shall offer a he-goat without blemish for a sin offering; and the altar shall be cleansed, as it was cleansed with the bull.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	43	23	When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a bull without blemish and a ram from the flock without blemish.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	43	24	You shall present them before the Lord, and the priests shall sprinkle salt upon them and offer them up as a burnt offering to the Lord.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	43	25	For seven days you shall provide daily a goat for a sin offering; also a bull and a ram from the flock, without blemish, shall be provided.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	43	26	Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it, and so consecrate it.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	43	27	And when they have completed these days, then from the eighth day onward the priests shall offer upon the altar your burnt offerings and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, says the Lord GOD.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	44	1	Then he brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary, which faces east; and it was shut.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	44	2	And he said to me, “This gate shall remain shut; it shall not be opened, and no one shall enter by it; for the Lord, the God of Israel, has entered by it; therefore it shall remain shut.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	44	3	Only the prince may sit in it to eat bread before the Lord; he shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gate, and shall go out by the same way.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	44	4	Then he brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the temple; and I looked, and behold, the glory of the Lord filled the temple of the Lord; and I fell upon my face.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	44	5	And the Lord said to me, “Son of man, mark well, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I shall tell you concerning all the ordinances of the temple of the Lord and all its laws; and mark well those who may be admitted to the temple and all those who are to be excluded from the sanctuary.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	44	6	And say to the rebellious house, to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: O house of Israel, let there be an end to all your abominations,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	44	7	in admitting foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, to be in my sanctuary, profaning it, when you offer to me my food, the fat and the blood. You have broken my covenant, in addition to all your abominations.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	44	8	And you have not kept charge of my holy things; but you have set foreigners to keep my charge in my sanctuary.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	44	9	“Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, shall enter my sanctuary.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	44	10	But the Levites who went far from me, going astray from me after their idols when Israel went astray, shall bear their punishment.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	44	11	They shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the temple, and serving in the temple; they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall attend on the people, to serve them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	44	12	Because they ministered to them before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have sworn concerning them, says the Lord GOD, that they shall bear their punishment.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	44	13	They shall not come near to me, to serve me as priest, nor come near any of my sacred things and the things that are most sacred; but they shall bear their shame, because of the abominations which they have committed.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	44	14	Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of the temple, to do all its service and all that is to be done in it.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	44	15	“But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the people of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me to minister to me; and they shall attend on me to offer me the fat and the blood, says the Lord GOD;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	44	16	they shall enter my sanctuary, and they shall approach my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	44	17	When they enter the gates of the inner court, they shall wear linen garments; they shall have nothing of wool on them, while they minister at the gates of the inner court, and within.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	44	18	They shall have linen turbans upon their heads, and linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with anything that causes sweat.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	44	19	And when they go out into the outer court to the people, they shall put off the garments in which they have been ministering, and lay them in the holy chambers; and they shall put on other garments, lest they communicate holiness to the people with their garments.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	44	20	They shall not shave their heads or let their locks grow long; they shall only trim the hair of their heads.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	44	21	No priest shall drink wine, when he enters the inner court.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	44	22	They shall not marry a widow, or a divorced woman, but only a virgin of the stock of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	44	23	They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	44	24	In a controversy they shall act as judges, and they shall judge it according to my judgments. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts, and they shall keep my sabbaths holy.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	44	25	They shall not defile themselves by going near to a dead person; however, for father or mother, for son or daughter, for brother or unmarried sister they may defile themselves.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	44	26	After he is defiled, he shall count for himself seven days, and then he shall be clean.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	44	27	And on the day that he goes into the holy place, into the inner court, to minister in the holy place, he shall offer his sin offering, says the Lord GOD.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	44	28	“They shall have no inheritance; I am their inheritance: and you shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	44	29	They shall eat the cereal offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	44	30	And the first of all the first fruits of all kinds, and every offering of all kinds from all your offerings, shall belong to the priests; you shall also give to the priests the first of your coarse meal, that a blessing may rest on your house.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	44	31	The priests shall not eat of anything, whether bird or beast, that has died of itself or is torn.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	45	1	“When you allot the land as a possession, you shall set apart for the Lord a portion of the land as a holy district, twenty-five thousand cubits long and twenty thousand cubits broad; it shall be holy throughout its whole extent.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	45	2	Of this a square plot of five hundred by five hundred cubits shall be for the sanctuary, with fifty cubits for an open space around it.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	45	3	And in the holy district you shall measure off a section twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand broad, in which shall be the sanctuary, the most holy place.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	45	4	It shall be the holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, who minister in the sanctuary and approach the Lord to minister to him; and it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	45	5	Another section, twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand cubits broad, shall be for the Levites who minister at the temple, as their possession for cities to live in.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	45	6	“Alongside the portion set apart as the holy district you shall assign for the possession of the city an area five thousand cubits broad, and twenty-five thousand cubits long; it shall belong to the whole house of Israel.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	45	7	“And to the prince shall belong the land on both sides of the holy district and the property of the city, alongside the holy district and the property of the city, on the west and on the east, corresponding in length to one of the tribal portions, and extending from the western to the eastern boundary of the land.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	45	8	It is to be his property in Israel. And my princes shall no more oppress my people; but they shall let the house of Israel have the land according to their tribes.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	45	9	“Thus says the Lord GOD: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness; cease your evictions of my people, says the Lord GOD.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	45	10	“You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	45	11	The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, the bath containing one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer; the homer shall be the standard measure.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	45	12	The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; five shekels shall be five shekels, and ten shekels shall be ten shekels, and your mina shall be fifty shekels.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	45	13	“This is the offering which you shall make: one sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and one sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	45	14	and as the fixed portion of oil, one tenth of a bath from each cor (the cor, like the homer, contains ten baths);
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	45	15	and one sheep from every flock of two hundred, from the families of Israel. This is the offering for cereal offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement for them, says the Lord GOD.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	45	16	All the people of the land shall give this offering to the prince in Israel.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	45	17	It shall be the prince’s duty to furnish the burnt offerings, cereal offerings, and drink offerings, at the feasts, the new moons, and the sabbaths, all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel: he shall provide the sin offerings, cereal offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	45	18	“Thus says the Lord GOD: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you shall take a young bull without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	45	19	The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and the posts of the gate of the inner court.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	45	20	You shall do the same on the seventh day of the month for any one who has sinned through error or ignorance; so you shall make atonement for the temple.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	45	21	“In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall celebrate the feast of the passover, and for seven days unleavened bread shall be eaten.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	45	22	On that day the prince shall provide for himself and all the people of the land a young bull for a sin offering.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	45	23	And on the seven days of the festival he shall provide as a burnt offering to the Lord seven young bulls and seven rams without blemish, on each of the seven days; and a he-goat daily for a sin offering.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	45	24	And he shall provide as a cereal offering an ephah for each bull, an ephah for each ram, and a hin of oil to each ephah.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	45	25	In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month and for the seven days of the feast, he shall make the same provision for sin offerings, burnt offerings, and cereal offerings, and for the oil.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	46	1	“Thus says the Lord GOD: The gate of the inner court that faces east shall be shut on the six working days; but on the sabbath day it shall be opened and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	46	2	The prince shall enter by the vestibule of the gate from without, and shall take his stand by the post of the gate. The priests shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until evening.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	46	3	The people of the land shall worship at the entrance of that gate before the Lord on the sabbaths and on the new moons.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	46	4	The burnt offering that the prince offers to the Lord on the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	46	5	and the cereal offering with the ram shall be an ephah, and the cereal offering with the lambs shall be as much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	46	6	On the day of the new moon he shall offer a young bull without blemish, and six lambs and a ram, which shall be without blemish;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	46	7	as a cereal offering he shall provide an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	46	8	When the prince enters, he shall go in by the vestibule of the gate, and he shall go out by the same way.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	46	9	“When the people of the land come before the Lord at the appointed feasts, he who enters by the north gate to worship shall go out by the south gate; and he who enters by the south gate shall go out by the north gate: no one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered, but each shall go out straight ahead.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	46	10	When they go in, the prince shall go in with them; and when they go out, he shall go out.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	46	11	“At the feasts and the appointed seasons the cereal offering with a young bull shall be an ephah, and with a ram an ephah, and with the lambs as much as one is able to give, together with a hin of oil to an ephah.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	46	12	When the prince provides a freewill offering, either a burnt offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering to the Lord, the gate facing east shall be opened for him; and he shall offer his burnt offering or his peace offerings as he does on the sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he has gone out the gate shall be shut.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	46	13	“He shall provide a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to the Lord daily; morning by morning he shall provide it.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	46	14	And he shall provide a cereal offering with it morning by morning, one sixth of an ephah, and one third of a hin of oil to moisten the flour, as a cereal offering to the Lord; this is the ordinance for the continual burnt offering.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	46	15	Thus the lamb and the meal offering and the oil shall be provided, morning by morning, for a continual burnt offering.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	46	16	“Thus says the Lord GOD: If the prince makes a gift to any of his sons out of his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons, it is their property by inheritance.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	46	17	But if he makes a gift out of his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty; then it shall revert to the prince; only his sons may keep a gift from his inheritance.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	46	18	The prince shall not take any of the inheritance of the people, thrusting them out of their property; he shall give his sons their inheritance out of his own property, so that none of my people shall be dispossessed of his property.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	46	19	Then he brought me through the entrance, which was at the side of the gate, to the north row of the holy chambers for the priests; and there I saw a place at the extreme western end of them.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	46	20	And he said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the cereal offering, in order not to bring them out into the outer court and so communicate holiness to the people.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	46	21	Then he brought me forth to the outer court, and led me to the four corners of the court; and in each corner of the court there was a court—
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	46	22	in the four corners of the court were small courts, forty cubits long and thirty broad; the four were of the same size.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	46	23	On the inside, around each of the four courts was a row of masonry, with hearths made at the bottom of the rows round about.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	46	24	Then he said to me, “These are the kitchens where those who minister at the temple shall boil the sacrifices of the people.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	47	1	Then he brought me back to the door of the temple; and behold, water was issuing from below the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east); and the water was flowing down from below the south end of the threshold of the temple, south of the altar.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	47	2	Then he brought me out by way of the north gate, and led me round on the outside to the outer gate, that faces toward the east; and the water was coming out on the south side.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	47	3	Going on eastward with a line in his hand, the man measured a thousand cubits, and then led me through the water; and it was ankle-deep.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	47	4	Again he measured a thousand, and led me through the water; and it was knee-deep. Again he measured a thousand, and led me through the water; and it was up to the loins.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	47	5	Again he measured a thousand, and it was a river that I could not pass through, for the water had risen; it was deep enough to swim in, a river that could not be passed through.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	47	6	And he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen this?” Then he led me back along the bank of the river.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	47	7	As I went back, I saw upon the bank of the river very many trees on the one side and on the other.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	47	8	And he said to me, “This water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah; and when it enters the stagnant waters of the sea, the water will become fresh.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	47	9	And wherever the river goes every living creature which swarms will live, and there will be very many fish; for this water goes there, that the waters of the sea may become fresh; so everything will live where the river goes.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	47	10	Fishermen will stand beside the sea; from En-gedi to En-eglaim it will be a place for the spreading of nets; its fish will be of very many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	47	11	But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they are to be left for salt.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	47	12	And on the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for healing.”
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	47	13	Thus says the Lord GOD: “These are the boundaries by which you shall divide the land for inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel. Joseph shall have two portions.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	47	14	And you shall divide it equally; I swore to give it to your fathers, and this land shall fall to you as your inheritance.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	47	15	“This shall be the boundary of the land: On the north side, from the Great Sea by way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, and on to Zedad,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	47	16	Berothah, Sibraim (which lies on the border between Damascus and Hamath), as far as Hazer-hatticon, which is on the border of Hauran.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	47	17	So the boundary shall run from the sea to Hazar-enon, which is on the northern border of Damascus, with the border of Hamath to the north. This shall be the north side.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	47	18	“On the east side, the boundary shall run from Hazar-enon between Hauran and Damascus; along the Jordan between Gilead and the land of Israel; to the eastern sea and as far as Tamar. This shall be the east side.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	47	19	“On the south side, it shall run from Tamar as far as the waters of Meribath-kadesh, thence along the Brook of Egypt to the Great Sea. This shall be the south side.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	47	20	“On the west side, the Great Sea shall be the boundary to a point opposite the entrance of Hamath. This shall be the west side.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	47	21	“So you shall divide this land among you according to the tribes of Israel.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	47	22	You shall allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the aliens who reside among you and have begotten children among you. They shall be to you as native-born sons of Israel; with you they shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	47	23	In whatever tribe the alien resides, there you shall assign him his inheritance, says the Lord GOD.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	1	“These are the names of the tribes: Beginning at the northern border, from the sea by way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, as far as Hazar-enon (which is on the northern border of Damascus over against Hamath), and extending from the east side to the west, Dan, one portion.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	2	Adjoining the territory of Dan, from the east side to the west, Asher, one portion.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	3	Adjoining the territory of Asher, from the east side to the west, Naphtali, one portion.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	4	Adjoining the territory of Naphtali, from the east side to the west, Manasseh, one portion.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	5	Adjoining the territory of Manasseh, from the east side to the west, Ephraim, one portion.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	6	Adjoining the territory of Ephraim, from the east side to the west, Reuben, one portion.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	7	Adjoining the territory of Reuben, from the east side to the west, Judah, one portion.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	8	“Adjoining the territory of Judah, from the east side to the west, shall be the portion which you shall set apart, twenty-five thousand cubits in breadth, and in length equal to one of the tribal portions, from the east side to the west, with the sanctuary in the midst of it.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	9	The portion which you shall set apart for the Lord shall be twenty-five thousand cubits in length, and twenty thousand in breadth.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	10	These shall be the allotments of the holy portion: the priests shall have an allotment measuring twenty-five thousand cubits on the northern side, ten thousand cubits in breadth on the western side, ten thousand in breadth on the eastern side, and twenty-five thousand in length on the southern side, with the sanctuary of the Lord in the midst of it.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	11	This shall be for the consecrated priests, the sons of Zadok, who kept my charge, who did not go astray when the people of Israel went astray, as the Levites did.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	12	And it shall belong to them as a special portion from the holy portion of the land, a most holy place, adjoining the territory of the Levites.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	13	And alongside the territory of the priests, the Levites shall have an allotment twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand in breadth. The whole length shall be twenty-five thousand cubits and the breadth twenty thousand.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	14	They shall not sell or exchange any of it; they shall not alienate this choice portion of the land, for it is holy to the Lord.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	15	“The remainder, five thousand cubits in breadth and twenty-five thousand in length, shall be for ordinary use for the city, for dwellings and for open country. In the midst of it shall be the city;
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	16	and these shall be its dimensions: the north side four thousand five hundred cubits, the south side four thousand five hundred, the east side four thousand five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	17	And the city shall have open land: on the north two hundred and fifty cubits, on the south two hundred and fifty, on the east two hundred and fifty, and on the west two hundred and fifty.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	18	The remainder of the length alongside the holy portion shall be ten thousand cubits to the east, and ten thousand to the west, and it shall be alongside the holy portion. Its produce shall be food for the workers of the city.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	19	And the workers of the city, from all the tribes of Israel, shall till it.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	20	The whole portion which you shall set apart shall be twenty-five thousand cubits square, that is, the holy portion together with the property of the city.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	21	“What remains on both sides of the holy portion and of the property of the city shall belong to the prince. Extending from the twenty-five thousand cubits of the holy portion to the east border, and westward from the twenty-five thousand cubits to the west border, parallel to the tribal portions, it shall belong to the prince. The holy portion with the sanctuary of the temple in its midst,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	22	and the property of the Levites and the property of the city, shall be in the midst of that which belongs to the prince. The portion of the prince shall lie between the territory of Judah and the territory of Benjamin.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	23	“As for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west, Benjamin, one portion.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	24	Adjoining the territory of Benjamin, from the east side to the west, Simeon, one portion.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	25	Adjoining the territory of Simeon, from the east side to the west, Issachar, one portion.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	26	Adjoining the territory of Issachar, from the east side to the west, Zebulun, one portion.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	27	Adjoining the territory of Zebulun, from the east side to the west, Gad, one portion.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	28	And adjoining the territory of Gad to the south, the boundary shall run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, thence along the Brook of Egypt to the Great Sea.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	29	This is the land which you shall allot as an inheritance among the tribes of Israel, and these are their several portions, says the Lord GOD.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	30	“These shall be the exits of the city: On the north side, which is to be four thousand five hundred cubits by measure,
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	31	three gates, the gate of Reuben, the gate of Judah, and the gate of Levi, the gates of the city being named after the tribes of Israel.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	32	On the east side, which is to be four thousand five hundred cubits, three gates, the gate of Joseph, the gate of Benjamin, and the gate of Dan.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	33	On the south side, which is to be four thousand five hundred cubits by measure, three gates, the gate of Simeon, the gate of Issachar, and the gate of Zebulun.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	34	On the west side, which is to be four thousand five hundred cubits, three gates, the gate of Gad, the gate of Asher, and the gate of Naphtali.
 Ezekiel	Ezek	31	48	35	The circumference of the city shall be eighteen thousand cubits. And the name of the city henceforth shall be, The Lord is there.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	1	1	In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.
 Daniel	Dan	32	1	2	And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the vessels of the house of God; and he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and placed the vessels in the treasury of his god.
 Daniel	Dan	32	1	3	Then the king commanded Ashpenaz, his chief eunuch, to bring some of the people of Israel, both of the royal family and of the nobility,
 Daniel	Dan	32	1	4	youths without blemish, handsome and skilful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding learning, and competent to serve in the king’s palace, and to teach them the letters and language of the Chaldeans.
 Daniel	Dan	32	1	5	The king assigned them a daily portion of the rich food which the king ate, and of the wine which he drank. They were to be educated for three years, and at the end of that time they were to stand before the king.
 Daniel	Dan	32	1	6	Among these were Daniel, Hananiah, Misha-el, and Azariah of the tribe of Judah.
 Daniel	Dan	32	1	7	And the chief of the eunuchs gave them names: Daniel he called Belteshazzar, Hananiah he called Shadrach, Misha-el he called Meshach, and Azariah he called Abednego.
 Daniel	Dan	32	1	8	But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king’s rich food, or with the wine which he drank; therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself.
 Daniel	Dan	32	1	9	And God gave Daniel favor and compassion in the sight of the chief of the eunuchs;
 Daniel	Dan	32	1	10	and the chief of the eunuchs said to Daniel, “I fear lest my lord the king, who appointed your food and your drink, should see that you were in poorer condition than the youths who are of your own age. So you would endanger my head with the king.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	1	11	Then Daniel said to the steward whom the chief of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Misha-el, and Azariah;
 Daniel	Dan	32	1	12	“Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.
 Daniel	Dan	32	1	13	Then let our appearance and the appearance of the youths who eat the king’s rich food be observed by you, and according to what you see deal with your servants.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	1	14	So he hearkened to them in this matter, and tested them for ten days.
 Daniel	Dan	32	1	15	At the end of ten days it was seen that they were better in appearance and fatter in flesh than all the youths who ate the king’s rich food.
 Daniel	Dan	32	1	16	So the steward took away their rich food and the wine they were to drink, and gave them vegetables.
 Daniel	Dan	32	1	17	As for these four youths, God gave them learning and skill in all letters and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
 Daniel	Dan	32	1	18	At the end of the time, when the king had commanded that they should be brought in, the chief of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.
 Daniel	Dan	32	1	19	And the king spoke with them, and among them all none was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Misha-el, and Azariah; therefore they stood before the king.
 Daniel	Dan	32	1	20	And in every matter of wisdom and understanding concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his kingdom.
 Daniel	Dan	32	1	21	And Daniel continued until the first year of King Cyrus.
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	1	In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep left him.
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	2	Then the king commanded that the magicians, the enchanters, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans be summoned, to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king.
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	3	And the king said to them, “I had a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	4	Then the Chaldeans said to the king, “O king, live for ever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	5	The king answered the Chaldeans, “The word from me is sure: if you do not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you shall be torn limb from limb, and your houses shall be laid in ruins.
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	6	But if you show the dream and its interpretation, you shall receive from me gifts and rewards and great honor. Therefore show me the dream and its interpretation.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	7	They answered a second time, “Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show its interpretation.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	8	The king answered, “I know with certainty that you are trying to gain time, because you see that the word from me is sure
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	9	that if you do not make the dream known to me, there is but one sentence for you. You have agreed to speak lying and corrupt words before me till the times change. Therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that you can show me its interpretation.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	10	The Chaldeans answered the king, “There is not a man on earth who can meet the king’s demand; for no great and powerful king has asked such a thing of any magician or enchanter or Chaldean.
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	11	The thing that the king asks is difficult, and none can show it to the king except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	12	Because of this the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	13	So the decree went forth that the wise men were to be slain, and they sought Daniel and his companions, to slay them.
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	14	Then Daniel replied with prudence and discretion to Ari-och, the captain of the king’s guard, who had gone out to slay the wise men of Babylon;
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	15	he said to Ari-och, the king’s captain, “Why is the decree of the king so severe?” Then Ari-och made the matter known to Daniel.
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	16	And Daniel went in and besought the king to appoint him a time, that he might show to the king the interpretation.
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	17	Then Daniel went to his house and made the matter known to Hananiah, Misha-el, and Azariah, his companions,
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	18	and told them to seek mercy of the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his companions might not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	19	Then the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	20	Daniel said: “Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever. to whom belong wisdom and might.
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	21	He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding;
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	22	he reveals deep and mysterious things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	23	To thee, O God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise, for thou hast given me wisdom and strength, and hast now made known to me what we asked of thee, for thou hast made known to us the king’s matter.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	24	Therefore Daniel went in to Ari-och, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon; he went and said thus to him, “Do not destroy the wise men of Babylon; bring me in before the king, and I will show the king the interpretation.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	25	Then Ari-och brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus to him: “I have found among the exiles from Judah a man who can make known to the king the interpretation.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	26	The king said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Are you able to make known to me the dream that I have seen and its interpretation?”
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	27	Daniel answered the king, “No wise men, enchanters, magicians, or astrologers can show to the king the mystery which the king has asked,
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	28	but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream and the visions of your head as you lay in bed are these:
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	29	To you, O king, as you lay in bed came thoughts of what would be hereafter, and he who reveals mysteries made known to you what is to be.
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	30	But as for me, not because of any wisdom that I have more than all the living has this mystery been revealed to me, but in order that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your mind.
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	31	“You saw, O king, and behold, a great image. This image, mighty and of exceeding brightness, stood before you, and its appearance was frightening.
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	32	The head of this image was of fine gold, its breast and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze,
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	33	its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay.
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	34	As you looked, a stone was cut out by no human hand, and it smote the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces;
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	35	then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, all together were broken in pieces, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	36	“This was the dream; now we will tell the king its interpretation.
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	37	You, O king, the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the might, and the glory,
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	38	and into whose hand he has given, wherever they dwell, the sons of men, the beasts of the field, and the birds of the air, making you rule over them all—you are the head of gold.
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	39	After you shall arise another kingdom inferior to you, and yet a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over all the earth.
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	40	And there shall be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron, because iron breaks to pieces and shatters all things; and like iron which crushes, it shall break and crush all these.
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	41	And as you saw the feet and toes partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom; but some of the firmness of iron shall be in it, just as you saw iron mixed with the miry clay.
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	42	And as the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly brittle.
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	43	As you saw the iron mixed with miry clay, so they will mix with one another in marriage, but they will not hold together, just as iron does not mix with clay.
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	44	And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall its sovereignty be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand for ever;
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	45	just as you saw that a stone was cut from a mountain by no human hand, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold. A great God has made known to the king what shall be hereafter. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	46	Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and did homage to Daniel, and commanded that an offering and incense be offered up to him.
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	47	The king said to Daniel, “Truly, your God is God of gods and Lord of kings, and a revealer of mysteries, for you have been able to reveal this mystery.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	48	Then the king gave Daniel high honors and many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief prefect over all the wise men of Babylon.
 Daniel	Dan	32	2	49	Daniel made request of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the affairs of the province of Babylon; but Daniel remained at the king’s court.
 Daniel	Dan	32	3	1	King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits and its breadth six cubits. He set it up on the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
 Daniel	Dan	32	3	2	Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent to assemble the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the justices, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces to come to the dedication of the image which King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
 Daniel	Dan	32	3	3	Then the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the justices, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces, were assembled for the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
 Daniel	Dan	32	3	4	And the herald proclaimed aloud, “You are commanded, O peoples, nations, and languages,
 Daniel	Dan	32	3	5	that when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, you are to fall down and worship the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up;
 Daniel	Dan	32	3	6	and whoever does not fall down and worship shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	3	7	Therefore, as soon as all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, all the peoples, nations, and languages fell down and worshiped the golden image which King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
 Daniel	Dan	32	3	8	Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came forward and maliciously accused the Jews.
 Daniel	Dan	32	3	9	They said to King Nebuchadnezzar, “O king, live for ever!
 Daniel	Dan	32	3	10	You, O king, have made a decree, that every man who hears the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image;
 Daniel	Dan	32	3	11	and whoever does not fall down and worship shall be cast into a burning fiery furnace.
 Daniel	Dan	32	3	12	There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men, O king, pay no heed to you; they do not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	3	13	Then Nebuchadnezzar in furious rage commanded that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought. Then they brought these men before the king.
 Daniel	Dan	32	3	14	Nebuchadnezzar said to them, “Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden image which I have set up?
 Daniel	Dan	32	3	15	Now if you are ready when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the image which I have made, well and good; but if you do not worship, you shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace; and who is the god that will deliver you out of my hands?”
 Daniel	Dan	32	3	16	Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.
 Daniel	Dan	32	3	17	If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.
 Daniel	Dan	32	3	18	But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	3	19	Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the expression of his face was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He ordered the furnace heated seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
 Daniel	Dan	32	3	20	And he ordered certain mighty men of his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.
 Daniel	Dan	32	3	21	Then these men were bound in their mantles, their tunics, their hats, and their other garments, and they were cast into the burning fiery furnace.
 Daniel	Dan	32	3	22	Because the king’s order was strict and the furnace very hot, the flame of the fire slew those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
 Daniel	Dan	32	3	23	And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell bound into the burning fiery furnace.
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	1	King Nebuchadnezzar to all peoples, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you!
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	2	It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has wrought toward me.
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	3	How great are his signs, how mighty his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	4	I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at ease in my house and prospering in my palace.
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	5	I had a dream which made me afraid; as I lay in bed the fancies and the visions of my head alarmed me.
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	6	Therefore I made a decree that all the wise men of Babylon should be brought before me, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	7	Then the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers came in; and I told them the dream, but they could not make known to me its interpretation.
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	8	At last Daniel came in before me—he who was named Belteshazzar after the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods—and I told him the dream, saying,
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	9	“O Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you and that no mystery is difficult for you, here is the dream which I saw; tell me its interpretation.
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	10	The visions of my head as I lay in bed were these: I saw, and behold, a tree in the midst of the earth; and its height was great.
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	11	The tree grew and became strong, and its top reached to heaven, and it was visible to the end of the whole earth.
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	12	Its leaves were fair and its fruit abundant, and in it was food for all. The beasts of the field found shade under it, and the birds of the air dwelt in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it.
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	13	“I saw in the visions of my head as I lay in bed, and behold, a watcher, a holy one, came down from heaven.
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	14	He cried aloud and said thus, ‘Hew down the tree and cut off its branches, strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit; let the beasts flee from under it and the birds from its branches.
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	15	But leave the stump of its roots in the earth, bound with a band of iron and bronze, amid the tender grass of the field. Let him be wet with the dew of heaven; let his lot be with the beasts in the grass of the earth;
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	16	let his mind be changed from a man’s, and let a beast’s mind be given to him; and let seven times pass over him.
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	17	The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, the decision by the word of the holy ones, to the end that the living may know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men, and gives it to whom he will, and sets over it the lowliest of men.’
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	18	This dream I, King Nebuchadnezzar, saw. And you, O Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation, because all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation, but you are able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in you.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	19	Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was dismayed for a moment, and his thoughts alarmed him. The king said, “Belteshazzar, let not the dream or the interpretation alarm you.” Belteshazzar answered, “My lord, may the dream be for those who hate you and its interpretation for your enemies!
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	20	The tree you saw, which grew and became strong, so that its top reached to heaven, and it was visible to the end of the whole earth;
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	21	whose leaves were fair and its fruit abundant, and in which was food for all; under which beasts of the field found shade, and in whose branches the birds of the air dwelt—
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	22	it is you, O king, who have grown and become strong. Your greatness has grown and reaches to heaven, and your dominion to the ends of the earth.
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	23	And whereas the king saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying, ‘Hew down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump of its roots in the earth, bound with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field; and let him be wet with the dew of heaven; and let his lot be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him’;
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	24	this is the interpretation, O king: It is a decree of the Most High, which has come upon my lord the king,
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	25	that you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; you shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and you shall be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over you, till you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men, and gives it to whom he will.
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	26	And as it was commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree, your kingdom shall be sure for you from the time that you know that Heaven rules.
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	27	Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you; break off your sins by practicing righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed, that there may perhaps be a lengthening of your tranquillity.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	28	All this came upon King Nebuchadnezzar.
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	29	At the end of twelve months he was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon,
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	30	and the king said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by my mighty power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	31	While the words were still in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, “O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: The kingdom has departed from you,
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	32	and you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; and you shall be made to eat grass like an ox; and seven times shall pass over you, until you have learned that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	33	Immediately the word was fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from among men, and ate grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven till his hair grew as long as eagles’ feathers, and his nails were like birds’ claws.
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	34	At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored him who lives for ever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation;
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	35	all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing; and he does according to his will in the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, “What doest thou?”
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	36	At the same time my reason returned to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and splendor returned to me. My counselors and my lords sought me, and I was established in my kingdom, and still more greatness was added to me.
 Daniel	Dan	32	4	37	Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
 Daniel	Dan	32	5	1	King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine in front of the thousand.
 Daniel	Dan	32	5	2	Belshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that the vessels of gold and of silver which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.
 Daniel	Dan	32	5	3	Then they brought in the golden and silver vessels which had been taken out of the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.
 Daniel	Dan	32	5	4	They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
 Daniel	Dan	32	5	5	Immediately the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, opposite the lampstand; and the king saw the hand as it wrote.
 Daniel	Dan	32	5	6	Then the king’s color changed, and his thoughts alarmed him; his limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together.
 Daniel	Dan	32	5	7	The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers. The king said to the wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this writing, and shows me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	5	8	Then all the king’s wise men came in, but they could not read the writing or make known to the king the interpretation.
 Daniel	Dan	32	5	9	Then King Belshazzar was greatly alarmed, and his color changed; and his lords were perplexed.
 Daniel	Dan	32	5	10	The queen, because of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banqueting hall; and the queen said, “O king, live for ever! Let not your thoughts alarm you or your color change.
 Daniel	Dan	32	5	11	There is in your kingdom a man in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. In the days of your father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him, and King Nebuchadnezzar, your father, made him chief of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and astrologers,
 Daniel	Dan	32	5	12	because an excellent spirit, knowledge, and understanding to interpret dreams, explain riddles, and solve problems were found in this Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	5	13	Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king said to Daniel, “You are that Daniel, one of the exiles of Judah, whom the king my father brought from Judah.
 Daniel	Dan	32	5	14	I have heard of you that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you.
 Daniel	Dan	32	5	15	Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me to read this writing and make known to me its interpretation; but they could not show the interpretation of the matter.
 Daniel	Dan	32	5	16	But I have heard that you can give interpretations and solve problems. Now if you can read the writing and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
 Daniel	Dan	32	5	17	Then Daniel answered before the king, “Let your gifts be for yourself, and give your rewards to another; nevertheless I will read the writing to the king and make known to him the interpretation.
 Daniel	Dan	32	5	18	O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father kingship and greatness and glory and majesty;
 Daniel	Dan	32	5	19	and because of the greatness that he gave him, all peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him; whom he would he slew, and whom he would he kept alive; whom he would he raised up, and whom he would he put down.
 Daniel	Dan	32	5	20	But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and his glory was taken from him;
 Daniel	Dan	32	5	21	he was driven from among men, and his mind was made like that of a beast, and his dwelling was with the wild asses; he was fed grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, until he knew that the Most High God rules the kingdom of men, and sets over it whom he will.
 Daniel	Dan	32	5	22	And you his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,
 Daniel	Dan	32	5	23	but you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not honored.
 Daniel	Dan	32	5	24	“Then from his presence the hand was sent, and this writing was inscribed.
 Daniel	Dan	32	5	25	And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, and PARSIN.
 Daniel	Dan	32	5	26	This is the interpretation of the matter: MENE, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end;
 Daniel	Dan	32	5	27	TEKEL, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting;
 Daniel	Dan	32	5	28	PERES, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	5	29	Then Belshazzar commanded, and Daniel was clothed with purple, a chain of gold was put about his neck, and proclamation was made concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
 Daniel	Dan	32	5	30	That very night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain.
 Daniel	Dan	32	5	31	And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.
 Daniel	Dan	32	6	1	It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, to be throughout the whole kingdom;
 Daniel	Dan	32	6	2	and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one, to whom these satraps should give account, so that the king might suffer no loss.
 Daniel	Dan	32	6	3	Then this Daniel became distinguished above all the other presidents and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom.
 Daniel	Dan	32	6	4	Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find a ground for complaint against Daniel with regard to the kingdom; but they could find no ground for complaint or any fault, because he was faithful, and no error or fault was found in him.
 Daniel	Dan	32	6	5	Then these men said, “We shall not find any ground for complaint against this Daniel unless we find it in connection with the law of his God.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	6	6	Then these presidents and satraps came by agreement to the king and said to him, “O King Darius, live for ever!
 Daniel	Dan	32	6	7	All the presidents of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the counselors and the governors are agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce an interdict, that whoever makes petition to any god or man for thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions.
 Daniel	Dan	32	6	8	Now, O king, establish the interdict and sign the document, so that it cannot be changed, according to the law of the Medes and the Persians, which cannot be revoked.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	6	9	Therefore King Darius signed the document and interdict.
 Daniel	Dan	32	6	10	When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where he had windows in his upper chamber open toward Jerusalem; and he got down upon his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously.
 Daniel	Dan	32	6	11	Then these men came by agreement and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.
 Daniel	Dan	32	6	12	Then they came near and said before the king, concerning the interdict, “O king! Did you not sign an interdict, that any man who makes petition to any god or man within thirty days except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?” The king answered, “The thing stands fast, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be revoked.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	6	13	Then they answered before the king, “That Daniel, who is one of the exiles from Judah, pays no heed to you, O king, or the interdict you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	6	14	Then the king, when he heard these words, was much distressed, and set his mind to deliver Daniel; and he labored till the sun went down to rescue him.
 Daniel	Dan	32	6	15	Then these men came by agreement to the king, and said to the king, “Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no interdict or ordinance which the king establishes can be changed.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	6	16	Then the king commanded, and Daniel was brought and cast into the den of lions. The king said to Daniel, “May your God, whom you serve continually, deliver you!”
 Daniel	Dan	32	6	17	And a stone was brought and laid upon the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet and with the signet of his lords, that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.
 Daniel	Dan	32	6	18	Then the king went to his palace, and spent the night fasting; no diversions were brought to him, and sleep fled from him.
 Daniel	Dan	32	6	19	Then, at break of day, the king arose and went in haste to the den of lions.
 Daniel	Dan	32	6	20	When he came near to the den where Daniel was, he cried out in a tone of anguish and said to Daniel, “O Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?”
 Daniel	Dan	32	6	21	Then Daniel said to the king, “O king, live for ever!
 Daniel	Dan	32	6	22	My God sent his angel and shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me, because I was found blameless before him; and also before you, O king, I have done no wrong.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	6	23	Then the king was exceedingly glad, and commanded that Daniel be taken up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of hurt was found upon him, because he had trusted in his God.
 Daniel	Dan	32	6	24	And the king commanded, and those men who had accused Daniel were brought and cast into the den of lions—they, their children, and their wives; and before they reached the bottom of the den the lions overpowered them and broke all their bones in pieces.
 Daniel	Dan	32	6	25	Then King Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and languages that dwell in all the earth: “Peace be multiplied to you.
 Daniel	Dan	32	6	26	I make a decree, that in all my royal dominion men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel, for he is the living God, enduring for ever; his kingdom shall never be destroyed, and his dominion shall be to the end.
 Daniel	Dan	32	6	27	He delivers and rescues, he works signs and wonders in heaven and on earth, he who has saved Daniel from the power of the lions.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	6	28	So this Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
 Daniel	Dan	32	7	1	In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head as he lay in his bed. Then he wrote down the dream, and told the sum of the matter.
 Daniel	Dan	32	7	2	Daniel said, “I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea.
 Daniel	Dan	32	7	3	And four great beasts came up out of the sea, different from one another.
 Daniel	Dan	32	7	4	The first was like a lion and had eagles’ wings. Then as I looked its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand upon two feet like a man; and the mind of a man was given to it.
 Daniel	Dan	32	7	5	And behold, another beast, a second one, like a bear. It was raised up on one side; it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth; and it was told, ‘Arise, devour much flesh.’
 Daniel	Dan	32	7	6	After this I looked, and lo, another, like a leopard, with four wings of a bird on its back; and the beast had four heads; and dominion was given to it.
 Daniel	Dan	32	7	7	After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, terrible and dreadful and exceedingly strong; and it had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
 Daniel	Dan	32	7	8	I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots; and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.
 Daniel	Dan	32	7	9	As I looked, thrones were placed and one that was ancient of days took his seat; his raiment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames, its wheels were burning fire.
 Daniel	Dan	32	7	10	A stream of fire issued and came forth from before him; a thousand thousands served him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him; the court sat in judgment, and the books were opened.
 Daniel	Dan	32	7	11	I looked then because of the sound of the great words which the horn was speaking. And as I looked, the beast was slain, and its body destroyed and given over to be burned with fire.
 Daniel	Dan	32	7	12	As for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away, but their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.
 Daniel	Dan	32	7	13	I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him.
 Daniel	Dan	32	7	14	And to him was given dominion and glory and kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed.
 Daniel	Dan	32	7	15	“As for me, Daniel, my spirit within me was anxious and the visions of my head alarmed me.
 Daniel	Dan	32	7	16	I approached one of those who stood there and asked him the truth concerning all this. So he told me, and made known to me the interpretation of the things.
 Daniel	Dan	32	7	17	‘These four great beasts are four kings who shall arise out of the earth.
 Daniel	Dan	32	7	18	But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, for ever and ever.’
 Daniel	Dan	32	7	19	“Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth beast, which was different from all the rest, exceedingly terrible, with its teeth of iron and claws of bronze; and which devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet;
 Daniel	Dan	32	7	20	and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn which came up and before which three of them fell, the horn which had eyes and a mouth that spoke great things, and which seemed greater than its fellows.
 Daniel	Dan	32	7	21	As I looked, this horn made war with the saints, and prevailed over them,
 Daniel	Dan	32	7	22	until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given for the saints of the Most High, and the time came when the saints received the kingdom.
 Daniel	Dan	32	7	23	“Thus he said: ‘As for the fourth beast, there shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be different from all the kingdoms, and it shall devour the whole earth, and trample it down, and break it to pieces.
 Daniel	Dan	32	7	24	As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings shall arise, and another shall arise after them; he shall be different from the former ones, and shall put down three kings.
 Daniel	Dan	32	7	25	He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand for a time, two times, and half a time.
 Daniel	Dan	32	7	26	But the court shall sit in judgment, and his dominion shall be taken away, to be consumed and destroyed to the end.
 Daniel	Dan	32	7	27	And the kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High; their kingdom shall be an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey them.’
 Daniel	Dan	32	7	28	“Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts greatly alarmed me, and my color changed; but I kept the matter in my mind.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	8	1	In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first.
 Daniel	Dan	32	8	2	And I saw in the vision; and when I saw, I was in Susa the capital, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in the vision, and I was at the river Ulai.
 Daniel	Dan	32	8	3	I raised my eyes and saw, and behold, a ram standing on the bank of the river. It had two horns; and both horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher one came up last.
 Daniel	Dan	32	8	4	I saw the ram charging westward and northward and southward; no beast could stand before him, and there was no one who could rescue from his power; he did as he pleased and magnified himself.
 Daniel	Dan	32	8	5	As I was considering, behold, a he-goat came from the west across the face of the whole earth, without touching the ground; and the goat had a conspicuous horn between his eyes.
 Daniel	Dan	32	8	6	He came to the ram with the two horns, which I had seen standing on the bank of the river, and he ran at him in his mighty wrath.
 Daniel	Dan	32	8	7	I saw him come close to the ram, and he was enraged against him and struck the ram and broke his two horns; and the ram had no power to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground and trampled upon him; and there was no one who could rescue the ram from his power.
 Daniel	Dan	32	8	8	Then the he-goat magnified himself exceedingly; but when he was strong, the great horn was broken, and instead of it there came up four conspicuous horns toward the four winds of heaven.
 Daniel	Dan	32	8	9	Out of one of them came forth a little horn, which grew exceedingly great toward the south, toward the east, and toward the glorious land.
 Daniel	Dan	32	8	10	It grew great, even to the host of heaven; and some of the host of the stars it cast down to the ground, and trampled upon them.
 Daniel	Dan	32	8	11	It magnified itself, even up to the Prince of the host; and the continual burnt offering was taken away from him, and the place of his sanctuary was overthrown.
 Daniel	Dan	32	8	12	And the host was given over to it together with the continual burnt offering through transgression; and truth was cast down to the ground, and the horn acted and prospered.
 Daniel	Dan	32	8	13	Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to the one that spoke, “For how long is the vision concerning the continual burnt offering, the transgression that makes desolate, and the giving over of the sanctuary and host to be trampled under foot?”
 Daniel	Dan	32	8	14	And he said to him, “For two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary shall be restored to its rightful state.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	8	15	When I, Daniel, had seen the vision, I sought to understand it; and behold, there stood before me one having the appearance of a man.
 Daniel	Dan	32	8	16	And I heard a man’s voice between the banks of the Ulai, and it called, “Gabriel, make this man understand the vision.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	8	17	So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was frightened and fell upon my face. But he said to me, “Understand, O son of man, that the vision is for the time of the end.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	8	18	As he was speaking to me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face to the ground; but he touched me and set me on my feet.
 Daniel	Dan	32	8	19	He said, “Behold, I will make known to you what shall be at the latter end of the indignation; for it pertains to the appointed time of the end.
 Daniel	Dan	32	8	20	As for the ram which you saw with the two horns, these are the kings of Media and Persia.
 Daniel	Dan	32	8	21	And the he-goat is the king of Greece; and the great horn between his eyes is the first king.
 Daniel	Dan	32	8	22	As for the horn that was broken, in place of which four others arose, four kingdoms shall arise from his nation, but not with his power.
 Daniel	Dan	32	8	23	And at the latter end of their rule, when the transgressors have reached their full measure, a king of bold countenance, one who understands riddles, shall arise.
 Daniel	Dan	32	8	24	His power shall be great, and he shall cause fearful destruction, and shall succeed in what he does, and destroy mighty men and the people of the saints.
 Daniel	Dan	32	8	25	By his cunning he shall make deceit prosper under his hand, and in his own mind he shall magnify himself. Without warning he shall destroy many; and he shall even rise up against the Prince of princes; but, by no human hand, he shall be broken.
 Daniel	Dan	32	8	26	The vision of the evenings and the mornings which has been told is true; but seal up the vision, for it pertains to many days hence.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	8	27	And I, Daniel, was overcome and lay sick for some days; then I rose and went about the king’s business; but I was appalled by the vision and did not understand it.
 Daniel	Dan	32	9	1	In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasu-erus, by birth a Mede, who became king over the realm of the Chaldeans—
 Daniel	Dan	32	9	2	in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years which, according to the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass before the end of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.
 Daniel	Dan	32	9	3	Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and supplications with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
 Daniel	Dan	32	9	4	I prayed to the Lord my God and made confession, saying, “O Lord, the great and terrible God, who keepest covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments,
 Daniel	Dan	32	9	5	we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from thy commandments and ordinances;
 Daniel	Dan	32	9	6	we have not listened to thy servants the prophets, who spoke in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
 Daniel	Dan	32	9	7	To thee, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us confusion of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those that are near and those that are far away, in all the lands to which thou hast driven them, because of the treachery which they have committed against thee.
 Daniel	Dan	32	9	8	To us, O Lord, belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
 Daniel	Dan	32	9	9	To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness; because we have rebelled against him,
 Daniel	Dan	32	9	10	and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by following his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
 Daniel	Dan	32	9	11	All Israel has transgressed thy law and turned aside, refusing to obey thy voice. And the curse and oath which are written in the law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because we have sinned against him.
 Daniel	Dan	32	9	12	He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us, by bringing upon us a great calamity; for under the whole heaven there has not been done the like of what has been done against Jerusalem.
 Daniel	Dan	32	9	13	As it is written in the law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us, yet we have not entreated the favor of the Lord our God, turning from our iniquities and giving heed to thy truth.
 Daniel	Dan	32	9	14	Therefore the Lord has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us; for the Lord our God is righteous in all the works which he has done, and we have not obeyed his voice.
 Daniel	Dan	32	9	15	And now, O Lord our God, who didst bring thy people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast made thee a name, as at this day, we have sinned, we have done wickedly.
 Daniel	Dan	32	9	16	O Lord, according to all thy righteous acts, let thy anger and thy wrath turn away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy hill; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people have become a byword among all who are round about us.
 Daniel	Dan	32	9	17	Now therefore, O our God, hearken to the prayer of thy servant and to his supplications, and for thy own sake, O Lord, cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary, which is desolate.
 Daniel	Dan	32	9	18	O my God, incline thy ear and hear; open thy eyes and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name; for we do not present our supplications before thee on the ground of our righteousness, but on the ground of thy great mercy.
 Daniel	Dan	32	9	19	O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, give heed and act; delay not, for thy own sake, O my God, because thy city and thy people are called by thy name.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	9	20	While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the holy hill of my God;
 Daniel	Dan	32	9	21	while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the first, came to me in swift flight at the time of the evening sacrifice.
 Daniel	Dan	32	9	22	He came and he said to me, “O Daniel, I have now come out to give you wisdom and understanding.
 Daniel	Dan	32	9	23	At the beginning of your supplications a word went forth, and I have come to tell it to you, for you are greatly beloved; therefore consider the word and understand the vision.
 Daniel	Dan	32	9	24	“Seventy weeks of years are decreed concerning your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.
 Daniel	Dan	32	9	25	Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time.
 Daniel	Dan	32	9	26	And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off, and shall have nothing; and the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war; desolations are decreed.
 Daniel	Dan	32	9	27	And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week; and for half of the week he shall cause sacrifice and offering to cease; and upon the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	10	1	In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a word was revealed to Daniel, who was named Belteshazzar. And the word was true, and it was a great conflict. And he understood the word and had understanding of the vision.
 Daniel	Dan	32	10	2	In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three weeks.
 Daniel	Dan	32	10	3	I ate no delicacies, no meat or wine entered my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, for the full three weeks.
 Daniel	Dan	32	10	4	On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing on the bank of the great river, that is, the Tigris,
 Daniel	Dan	32	10	5	I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, a man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with gold of Uphaz.
 Daniel	Dan	32	10	6	His body was like beryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and the sound of his words like the noise of a multitude.
 Daniel	Dan	32	10	7	And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision, for the men who were with me did not see the vision, but a great trembling fell upon them, and they fled to hide themselves.
 Daniel	Dan	32	10	8	So I was left alone and saw this great vision, and no strength was left in me; my radiant appearance was fearfully changed, and I retained no strength.
 Daniel	Dan	32	10	9	Then I heard the sound of his words; and when I heard the sound of his words, I fell on my face in a deep sleep with my face to the ground.
 Daniel	Dan	32	10	10	And behold, a hand touched me and set me trembling on my hands and knees.
 Daniel	Dan	32	10	11	And he said to me, “O Daniel, man greatly beloved, give heed to the words that I speak to you, and stand upright, for now I have been sent to you.” While he was speaking this word to me, I stood up trembling.
 Daniel	Dan	32	10	12	Then he said to me, “Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your mind to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words.
 Daniel	Dan	32	10	13	The prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; but Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, so I left him there with the prince of the kingdom of Persia
 Daniel	Dan	32	10	14	and came to make you understand what is to befall your people in the latter days. For the vision is for days yet to come.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	10	15	When he had spoken to me according to these words, I turned my face toward the ground and was dumb.
 Daniel	Dan	32	10	16	And behold, one in the likeness of the sons of men touched my lips; then I opened my mouth and spoke. I said to him who stood before me, “O my lord, by reason of the vision pains have come upon me, and I retain no strength.
 Daniel	Dan	32	10	17	How can my lord’s servant talk with my lord? For now no strength remains in me, and no breath is left in me.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	10	18	Again one having the appearance of a man touched me and strengthened me.
 Daniel	Dan	32	10	19	And he said, “O man greatly beloved, fear not, peace be with you; be strong and of good courage.” And when he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said, “Let my lord speak, for you have strengthened me.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	10	20	Then he said, “Do you know why I have come to you? But now I will return to fight against the prince of Persia; and when I am through with him, lo, the prince of Greece will come.
 Daniel	Dan	32	10	21	But I will tell you what is inscribed in the book of truth: there is none who contends by my side against these except Michael, your prince.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	1	And as for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to confirm and strengthen him.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	2	“And now I will show you the truth. Behold, three more kings shall arise in Persia; and a fourth shall be far richer than all of them; and when he has become strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the kingdom of Greece.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	3	Then a mighty king shall arise, who shall rule with great dominion and do according to his will.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	4	And when he has arisen, his kingdom shall be broken and divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not to his posterity, nor according to the dominion with which he ruled; for his kingdom shall be plucked up and go to others besides these.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	5	“Then the king of the south shall be strong, but one of his princes shall be stronger than he and his dominion shall be a great dominion.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	6	After some years they shall make an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the north to make peace; but she shall not retain the strength of her arm, and he and his offspring shall not endure; but she shall be given up, and her attendants, her child, and he who got possession of her.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	7	“In those times a branch from her roots shall arise in his place; he shall come against the army and enter the fortress of the king of the north, and he shall deal with them and shall prevail.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	8	He shall also carry off to Egypt their gods with their molten images and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and for some years he shall refrain from attacking the king of the north.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	9	Then the latter shall come into the realm of the king of the south but shall return into his own land.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	10	“His sons shall wage war and assemble a multitude of great forces, which shall come on and overflow and pass through, and again shall carry the war as far as his fortress.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	11	Then the king of the south, moved with anger, shall come out and fight with the king of the north; and he shall raise a great multitude, but it shall be given into his hand.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	12	And when the multitude is taken, his heart shall be exalted, and he shall cast down tens of thousands, but he shall not prevail.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	13	For the king of the north shall again raise a multitude, greater than the former; and after some years he shall come on with a great army and abundant supplies.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	14	“In those times many shall rise against the king of the south; and the men of violence among your own people shall lift themselves up in order to fulfil the vision; but they shall fail.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	15	Then the king of the north shall come and throw up siegeworks, and take a well-fortified city. And the forces of the south shall not stand, or even his picked troops, for there shall be no strength to stand.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	16	But he who comes against him shall do according to his own will, and none shall stand before him; and he shall stand in the glorious land, and all of it shall be in his power.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	17	He shall set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and he shall bring terms of peace and perform them. He shall give him the daughter of women to destroy the kingdom; but it shall not stand or be to his advantage.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	18	Afterward he shall turn his face to the coastlands, and shall take many of them; but a commander shall put an end to his insolence; indeed he shall turn his insolence back upon him.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	19	Then he shall turn his face back toward the fortresses of his own land; but he shall stumble and fall, and shall not be found.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	20	“Then shall arise in his place one who shall send an exactor of tribute through the glory of the kingdom; but within a few days he shall be broken, neither in anger nor in battle.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	21	In his place shall arise a contemptible person to whom royal majesty has not been given; he shall come in without warning and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	22	Armies shall be utterly swept away before him and broken, and the prince of the covenant also.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	23	And from the time that an alliance is made with him he shall act deceitfully; and he shall become strong with a small people.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	24	Without warning he shall come into the richest parts of the province; and he shall do what neither his fathers nor his fathers’ fathers have done, scattering among them plunder, spoil, and goods. He shall devise plans against strongholds, but only for a time.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	25	And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall wage war with an exceedingly great and mighty army; but he shall not stand, for plots shall be devised against him.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	26	Even those who eat his rich food shall be his undoing; his army shall be swept away, and many shall fall down slain.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	27	And as for the two kings, their minds shall be bent on mischief; they shall speak lies at the same table, but to no avail; for the end is yet to be at the time appointed.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	28	And he shall return to his land with great substance, but his heart shall be set against the holy covenant. And he shall work his will, and return to his own land.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	29	“At the time appointed he shall return and come into the south; but it shall not be this time as it was before.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	30	For ships of Kittim shall come against him, and he shall be afraid and withdraw, and shall turn back and be enraged and take action against the holy covenant. He shall turn back and give heed to those who forsake the holy covenant.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	31	Forces from him shall appear and profane the temple and fortress, and shall take away the continual burnt offering. And they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	32	He shall seduce with flattery those who violate the covenant; but the people who know their God shall stand firm and take action.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	33	And those among the people who are wise shall make many understand, though they shall fall by sword and flame, by captivity and plunder, for some days.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	34	When they fall, they shall receive a little help. And many shall join themselves to them with flattery;
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	35	and some of those who are wise shall fall, to refine and to cleanse them and to make them white, until the time of the end, for it is yet for the time appointed.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	36	“And the king shall do according to his will; he shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak astonishing things against the God of gods. He shall prosper till the indignation is accomplished; for what is determined shall be done.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	37	He shall give no heed to the gods of his fathers, or to the one beloved by women; he shall not give heed to any other god, for he shall magnify himself above all.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	38	He shall honor the god of fortresses instead of these; a god whom his fathers did not know he shall honor with gold and silver, with precious stones and costly gifts.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	39	He shall deal with the strongest fortresses by the help of a foreign god; those who acknowledge him he shall magnify with honor. He shall make them rulers over many and shall divide the land for a price.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	40	“At the time of the end the king of the south shall attack him; but the king of the north shall rush upon him like a whirlwind, with chariots and horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall come into countries and shall overflow and pass through.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	41	He shall come into the glorious land. And tens of thousands shall fall, but these shall be delivered out of his hand: Edom and Moab and the main part of the Ammonites.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	42	He shall stretch out his hand against the countries, and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	43	He shall become ruler of the treasures of gold and of silver, and all the precious things of Egypt; and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall follow in his train.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	44	But tidings from the east and the north shall alarm him, and he shall go forth with great fury to exterminate and utterly destroy many.
 Daniel	Dan	32	11	45	And he shall pitch his palatial tents between the sea and the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, with none to help him.
 Daniel	Dan	32	12	1	“At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time; but at that time your people shall be delivered, every one whose name shall be found written in the book.
 Daniel	Dan	32	12	2	And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
 Daniel	Dan	32	12	3	And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.
 Daniel	Dan	32	12	4	But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	12	5	Then I Daniel looked, and behold, two others stood, one on this bank of the stream and one on that bank of the stream.
 Daniel	Dan	32	12	6	And I said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream, “How long shall it be till the end of these wonders?”
 Daniel	Dan	32	12	7	The man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream, raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven; and I heard him swear by him who lives for ever that it would be for a time, two times, and half a time; and that when the shattering of the power of the holy people comes to an end all these things would be accomplished.
 Daniel	Dan	32	12	8	I heard, but I did not understand. Then I said, “O my lord, what shall be the issue of these things?”
 Daniel	Dan	32	12	9	He said, “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.
 Daniel	Dan	32	12	10	Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but those who are wise shall understand.
 Daniel	Dan	32	12	11	And from the time that the continual burnt offering is taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate is set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
 Daniel	Dan	32	12	12	Blessed is he who waits and comes to the thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.
 Daniel	Dan	32	12	13	But go your way till the end; and you shall rest, and shall stand in your allotted place at the end of the days.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	1	There was a man living in Babylon whose name was Joakim.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	2	And he took a wife named Susanna, the daughter of Hilkiah, a very beautiful woman and one who feared the Lord.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	3	Her parents were righteous, and had taught their daughter according to the law of Moses.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	4	Joakim was very rich, and had a spacious garden adjoining his house; and the Jews used to come to him because he was the most honored of them all.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	5	In that year two elders from the people were appointed as judges. Concerning them the Lord had said: “Iniquity came forth from Babylon, from elders who were judges, who were supposed to govern the people.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	6	These men were frequently at Joakim’s house, and all who had suits at law came to them.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	7	When the people departed at noon, Susanna would go into her husband’s garden to walk.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	8	The two elders used to see her every day, going in and walking about, and they began to desire her.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	9	And they perverted their minds and turned away their eyes from looking to Heaven or remembering righteous judgments.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	10	Both were overwhelmed with passion for her, but they did not tell each other of their distress,
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	11	for they were ashamed to disclose their lustful desire to possess her.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	12	And they watched eagerly, day after day, to see her.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	13	They said to each other, “Let us go home, for it is mealtime.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	14	And when they went out, they parted from each other. But turning back, they met again; and when each pressed the other for the reason, they confessed their lust. And then together they arranged for a time when they could find her alone.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	15	Once, while they were watching for an opportune day, she went in as before with only two maids, and wished to bathe in the garden, for it was very hot.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	16	And no one was there except the two elders, who had hid themselves and were watching her.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	17	She said to her maids, “Bring me oil and ointments, and shut the garden doors so that I may bathe.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	18	They did as she said, shut the garden doors, and went out by the side doors to bring what they had been commanded; and they did not see the elders, because they were hidden.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	19	When the maids had gone out, the two elders rose and ran to her, and said:
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	20	“Look, the garden doors are shut, no one sees us, and we are in love with you; so give your consent, and lie with us.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	21	If you refuse, we will testify against you that a young man was with you, and this was why you sent your maids away.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	22	Susanna sighed deeply, and said, “I am hemmed in on every side. For if I do this thing, it is death for me; and if I do not, I shall not escape your hands.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	23	I choose not to do it and to fall into your hands, rather than to sin in the sight of the Lord.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	24	Then Susanna cried out with a loud voice, and the two elders shouted against her.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	25	And one of them ran and opened the garden doors.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	26	When the household servants heard the shouting in the garden, they rushed in at the side door to see what had happened to her.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	27	And when the elders told their tale, the servants were greatly ashamed, for nothing like this had ever been said about Susanna.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	28	The next day, when the people gathered at the house of her husband Joakim, the two elders came, full of their wicked plot to have Susanna put to death.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	29	They said before the people, “Send for Susanna, the daughter of Hilkiah, who is the wife of Joakim.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	30	So they sent for her. And she came, with her parents, her children, and all her kindred.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	31	Now Susanna was a woman of great refinement, and beautiful in appearance.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	32	As she was veiled, the wicked men ordered her to be unveiled, that they might feed upon her beauty.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	33	But her family and friends and all who saw her wept.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	34	Then the two elders stood up in the midst of the people, and laid their hands upon her head.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	35	And she, weeping, looked up toward heaven, for her heart trusted in the Lord.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	36	The elders said, “As we were walking in the garden alone, this woman came in with two maids, shut the garden doors, and dismissed the maids.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	37	Then a young man, who had been hidden, came to her and lay with her.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	38	We were in a corner of the garden, and when we saw this wickedness we ran to them.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	39	We saw them embracing, but we could not hold the man, for he was too strong for us, and he opened the doors and dashed out.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	40	So we seized this woman and asked her who the young man was, but she would not tell us. These things we testify.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	41	The assembly believed them, because they were elders of the people and judges; and they condemned her to death.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	42	Then Susanna cried out with a loud voice, and said, “O eternal God, who dost discern what is secret, who art aware of all things before they come to be,
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	43	thou knowest that these men have borne false witness against me. And now I am to die! Yet I have done none of the things that they have wickedly invented against me!”
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	44	The Lord heard her cry.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	45	And as she was being led away to be put to death, God aroused the holy spirit of a young lad named Daniel;
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	46	and he cried with a loud voice, “I am innocent of the blood of this woman.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	47	All the people turned to him, and said, “What is this that you have said?”
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	48	Taking his stand in the midst of them, he said, “Are you such fools, you sons of Israel? Have you condemned a daughter of Israel without examination and without learning the facts?
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	49	Return to the place of judgment. For these men have borne false witness against her.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	50	Then all the people returned in haste. And the elders said to him, “Come, sit among us and inform us, for God has given you that right.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	51	And Daniel said to them, “Separate them far from each other, and I will examine them.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	52	When they were separated from each other, he summoned one of them and said to him, “You old relic of wicked days, your sins have now come home, which you have committed in the past,
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	53	pronouncing unjust judgments, condemning the innocent and letting the guilty go free, though the Lord said, ‘Do not put to death an innocent and righteous person.’
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	54	Now then, if you really saw her, tell me this: Under what tree did you see them being intimate with each other?” He answered, “Under a mastic tree.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	55	And Daniel said, “Very well! You have lied against your own head, for the angel of God has received the sentence from God and will immediately cut you in two.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	56	Then he put him aside, and commanded them to bring the other. And he said to him, “You offspring of Canaan and not of Judah, beauty has deceived you and lust has perverted your heart.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	57	This is how you both have been dealing with the daughters of Israel, and they were intimate with you through fear; but a daughter of Judah would not endure your wickedness.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	58	Now then, tell me: Under what tree did you catch them being intimate with each other?” He answered, “Under an evergreen oak.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	59	And Daniel said to him, “Very well! You also have lied against your own head, for the angel of God is waiting with his sword to saw you in two, that he may destroy you both.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	60	Then all the assembly shouted loudly and blessed God, who saves those who hope in him.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	61	And they rose against the two elders, for out of their own mouths Daniel had convicted them of bearing false witness;
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	62	and they did to them as they had wickedly planned to do to their neighbor; acting in accordance with the law of Moses, they put them to death. Thus innocent blood was saved that day.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	63	And Hilkiah and his wife praised God for their daughter Susanna, and so did Joakim her husband and all her kindred, because nothing shameful was found in her.
 Daniel	Dan	32	13	64	And from that day onward Daniel had a great reputation among the people.
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	1	When King Astyages was laid with his fathers, Cyrus the Persian received his kingdom.
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	2	And Daniel was a companion of the king, and was the most honored of his friends.
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	3	Now the Babylonians had an idol called Bel, and every day they spent on it twelve bushels of fine flour and forty sheep and fifty gallons of wine.
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	4	The king revered it and went every day to worship it. But Daniel worshiped his own God.
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	5	And the king said to him, “Why do you not worship Bel?” He answered, “Because I do not revere man-made idols, but the living God, who created heaven and earth and has dominion over all flesh.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	6	The king said to him, “Do you not think that Bel is a living God? Do you not see how much he eats and drinks every day?”
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	7	Then Daniel laughed, and said, “Do not be deceived, O king; for this is but clay inside and brass outside, and it never ate or drank anything.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	8	Then the king was angry, and he called his priests and said to them, “If you do not tell me who is eating these provisions, you shall die.
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	9	But if you prove that Bel is eating them, Daniel shall die, because he blasphemed against Bel.” And Daniel said to the king, “Let it be done as you have said.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	10	Now there were seventy priests of Bel, besides their wives and children. And the king went with Daniel into the temple of Bel.
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	11	And the priests of Bel said, “Behold, we are going outside; you yourself, O king, shall set forth the food and mix and place the wine, and shut the door and seal it with your signet.
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	12	And when you return in the morning, if you do not find that Bel has eaten it all, we will die; or else Daniel will, who is telling lies about us.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	13	They were unconcerned, for beneath the table they had made a hidden entrance, through which they used to go in regularly and consume the provisions.
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	14	When they had gone out, the king set forth the food for Bel. Then Daniel ordered his servants to bring ashes and they sifted them throughout the whole temple in the presence of the king alone. Then they went out, shut the door and sealed it with the king’s signet, and departed.
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	15	In the night the priests came with their wives and children, as they were accustomed to do, and ate and drank everything.
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	16	Early in the morning the king rose and came, and Daniel with him.
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	17	And the king said, “Are the seals unbroken, Daniel?” He answered, “They are unbroken, O king.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	18	As soon as the doors were opened, the king looked at the table, and shouted in a loud voice, “You are great, O Bel; and with you there is no deceit, none at all.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	19	Then Daniel laughed, and restrained the king from going in, and said, “Look at the floor, and notice whose footsteps these are.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	20	The king said, “I see the footsteps of men and women and children.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	21	Then the king was enraged, and he seized the priests and their wives and children; and they showed him the secret doors through which they were accustomed to enter and devour what was on the table.
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	22	Therefore the king put them to death, and gave Bel over to Daniel, who destroyed it and its temple.
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	23	There was also a great dragon, which the Babylonians revered.
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	24	And the king said to Daniel, “You cannot deny that this is a living god; so worship him.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	25	Daniel said, “I will worship the Lord my God, for he is the living God.
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	26	But if you, O king, will give me permission, I will slay the dragon without sword or club.” The king said, “I give you permission.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	27	Then Daniel took pitch, fat, and hair, and boiled them together and made cakes, which he fed to the dragon. The dragon ate them, and burst open. And Daniel said, “See what you have been worshiping!”
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	28	When the Babylonians heard it, they were very indignant and conspired against the king, saying, “The king has become a Jew; he has destroyed Bel, and slain the dragon, and slaughtered the priests.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	29	Going to the king, they said, “Hand Daniel over to us, or else we will kill you and your household.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	30	The king saw that they were pressing him hard, and under compulsion he handed Daniel over to them.
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	31	They threw Daniel into the lions’ den, and he was there for six days.
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	32	There were seven lions in the den, and every day they had been given two human bodies and two sheep; but these were not given to them now, so that they might devour Daniel.
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	33	Now the prophet Habakkuk was in Judea. He had boiled pottage and had broken bread into a bowl, and was going into the field to take it to the reapers.
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	34	But the angel of the Lord said to Habakkuk, “Take the dinner which you have to Babylon, to Daniel, in the lions’ den.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	35	Habakkuk said, “Sir, I have never seen Babylon, and I know nothing about the den.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	36	Then the angel of the Lord took him by the crown of his head, and lifted him by his hair and set him down in Babylon, right over the den, with the rushing sound of the wind itself.
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	37	Then Habakkuk shouted, “Daniel, Daniel! Take the dinner which God has sent you.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	38	And Daniel said, “Thou hast remembered me, O God, and hast not forsaken those who love thee.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	39	So Daniel arose and ate. And the angel of God immediately returned Habakkuk to his own place.
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	40	On the seventh day the king came to mourn for Daniel. When he came to the den he looked in, and there sat Daniel.
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	41	And the king shouted with a loud voice, “Thou art great, O Lord God of Daniel, and there is no other besides thee.”
 Daniel	Dan	32	14	42	And he pulled Daniel out, and threw into the den the men who had attempted his destruction, and they were devoured immediately before his eyes.
 Hosea	Hos	33	1	1	The word of the Lord that came to Hosea the son of Be-eri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
 Hosea	Hos	33	1	2	When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry, for the land commits great harlotry by forsaking the Lord.”
 Hosea	Hos	33	1	3	So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
 Hosea	Hos	33	1	4	And the Lord said to him, “Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.
 Hosea	Hos	33	1	5	And on that day, I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.”
 Hosea	Hos	33	1	6	She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the Lord said to him, “Call her name Not pitied, for I will no more have pity on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all.
 Hosea	Hos	33	1	7	But I will have pity on the house of Judah, and I will deliver them by the Lord their God; I will not deliver them by bow, nor by sword, nor by war, nor by horses, nor by horsemen.”
 Hosea	Hos	33	1	8	When she had weaned Not pitied, she conceived and bore a son.
 Hosea	Hos	33	1	9	And the Lord said, “Call his name Not my people, for you are not my people and I am not your God.”
 Hosea	Hos	33	1	10	Yet the number of the people of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which can be neither measured nor numbered; and in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Sons of the living God.”
 Hosea	Hos	33	1	11	And the people of Judah and the people of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint for themselves one head; and they shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
 Hosea	Hos	33	2	1	Say to your brother, “My people,” and to your sister, “She has obtained pity.”
 Hosea	Hos	33	2	2	“Plead with your mother, plead— for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband— that she put away her harlotry from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts;
 Hosea	Hos	33	2	3	lest I strip her naked and make her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a parched land, and slay her with thirst.
 Hosea	Hos	33	2	4	Upon her children also I will have no pity, because they are children of harlotry.
 Hosea	Hos	33	2	5	For their mother has played the harlot; she that conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’
 Hosea	Hos	33	2	6	Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns; and I will build a wall against her, so that she cannot find her paths.
 Hosea	Hos	33	2	7	She shall pursue her lovers, but not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them. Then she shall say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better with me then than now.’
 Hosea	Hos	33	2	8	And she did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, and the oil, and who lavished upon her silver and gold which they used for Baal.
 Hosea	Hos	33	2	9	Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my wine in its season; and I will take away my wool and my flax, which were to cover her nakedness.
 Hosea	Hos	33	2	10	Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.
 Hosea	Hos	33	2	11	And I will put an end to all her mirth, her feasts, her new moons, her sabbaths, and all her appointed feasts.
 Hosea	Hos	33	2	12	And I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, ‘These are my hire, which my lovers have given me.’ I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall devour them.
 Hosea	Hos	33	2	13	And I will punish her for the feast days of the Baals when she burned incense to them and decked herself with her ring and jewelry, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, says the Lord.
 Hosea	Hos	33	2	14	“Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.
 Hosea	Hos	33	2	15	And there I will give her her vineyards, and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.
 Hosea	Hos	33	2	16	“And in that day, says the Lord, you will call me, ‘My husband,’ and no longer will you call me, ‘My Baal.’
 Hosea	Hos	33	2	17	For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be mentioned by name no more.
 Hosea	Hos	33	2	18	And I will make for you a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the creeping things of the ground; and I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land; and I will make you lie down in safety.
 Hosea	Hos	33	2	19	And I will betroth you to me for ever; I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love, and in mercy.
 Hosea	Hos	33	2	20	I will betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know the Lord.
 Hosea	Hos	33	2	21	“And in that day, says the Lord, I will answer the heavens and they shall answer the earth;
 Hosea	Hos	33	2	22	and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil, and they shall answer Jezreel;
 Hosea	Hos	33	2	23	and I will sow him for myself in the land. And I will have pity on Not pitied, and I will say to Not my people, ‘You are my people’; and he shall say ‘Thou art my God.’”
 Hosea	Hos	33	3	1	And the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is beloved of a paramour and is an adulteress; even as the Lord loves the people of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.”
 Hosea	Hos	33	3	2	So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.
 Hosea	Hos	33	3	3	And I said to her, “You must dwell as mine for many days; you shall not play the harlot, or belong to another man; so will I also be to you.”
 Hosea	Hos	33	3	4	For the children of Israel shall dwell many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or teraphim.
 Hosea	Hos	33	3	5	Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and they shall come in fear to the Lord and to his goodness in the latter days.
 Hosea	Hos	33	4	1	Hear the word of the Lord, O people of Israel; for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or kindness, and no knowledge of God in the land;
 Hosea	Hos	33	4	2	there is swearing, lying, killing, stealing, and committing adultery; they break all bounds and murder follows murder.
 Hosea	Hos	33	4	3	Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it languish, and also the beasts of the field, and the birds of the air; and even the fish of the sea are taken away.
 Hosea	Hos	33	4	4	Yet let no one contend, and let none accuse, for with you is my contention, O priest.
 Hosea	Hos	33	4	5	You shall stumble by day, the prophet also shall stumble with you by night; and I will destroy your mother.
 Hosea	Hos	33	4	6	My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
 Hosea	Hos	33	4	7	The more they increased, the more they sinned against me; I will change their glory into shame.
 Hosea	Hos	33	4	8	They feed on the sin of my people; they are greedy for their iniquity.
 Hosea	Hos	33	4	9	And it shall be like people, like priest; I will punish them for their ways, and requite them for their deeds.
 Hosea	Hos	33	4	10	They shall eat, but not be satisfied; they shall play the harlot, but not multiply; because they have forsaken the Lord to cherish harlotry.
 Hosea	Hos	33	4	11	Wine and new wine take away the understanding.
 Hosea	Hos	33	4	12	My people inquire of a thing of wood, and their staff gives them oracles. For a spirit of harlotry has led them astray, and they have left their God to play the harlot.
 Hosea	Hos	33	4	13	They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and make offerings upon the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the harlot, and your brides commit adultery.
 Hosea	Hos	33	4	14	I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for the men themselves go aside with harlots, and sacrifice with cult prostitutes, and a people without understanding shall come to ruin.
 Hosea	Hos	33	4	15	Though you play the harlot, O Israel, let not Judah become guilty. Enter not into Gilgal, nor go up to Beth-aven, and swear not, “As the Lord lives.”
 Hosea	Hos	33	4	16	Like a stubborn heifer, Israel is stubborn; can the Lord now feed them like a lamb in a broad pasture?
 Hosea	Hos	33	4	17	Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone.
 Hosea	Hos	33	4	18	A band of drunkards, they give themselves to harlotry; they love shame more than their glory.
 Hosea	Hos	33	4	19	A wind has wrapped them in its wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their altars.
 Hosea	Hos	33	5	1	Hear this, O priests! Give heed, O house of Israel! Hearken, O house of the king! For the judgment pertains to you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
 Hosea	Hos	33	5	2	And they have made deep the pit of Shittim; but I will chastise all of them.
 Hosea	Hos	33	5	3	I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have played the harlot, Israel is defiled.
 Hosea	Hos	33	5	4	Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. For the spirit of harlotry is within them, and they know not the Lord.
 Hosea	Hos	33	5	5	The pride of Israel testifies to his face; Ephraim shall stumble in his guilt; Judah also shall stumble with them.
 Hosea	Hos	33	5	6	With their flocks and herds they shall go to seek the Lord, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.
 Hosea	Hos	33	5	7	They have dealt faithlessly with the Lord; for they have borne alien children. Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.
 Hosea	Hos	33	5	8	Blow the horn in Gibe-ah, the trumpet in Ramah. Sound the alarm at Beth-aven; tremble, O Benjamin!
 Hosea	Hos	33	5	9	Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of punishment; among the tribes of Israel I declare what is sure.
 Hosea	Hos	33	5	10	The princes of Judah have become like those who remove the landmark; upon them I will pour out my wrath like water.
 Hosea	Hos	33	5	11	Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was determined to go after vanity.
 Hosea	Hos	33	5	12	Therefore I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like dry rot to the house of Judah.
 Hosea	Hos	33	5	13	When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to the great king. But he is not able to cure you or heal your wound.
 Hosea	Hos	33	5	14	For I will be like a lion to Ephraim, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will rend and go away, I will carry off, and none shall rescue.
 Hosea	Hos	33	5	15	I will return again to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress they seek me, saying,
 Hosea	Hos	33	6	1	“Come, let us return to the Lord; for he has torn, that he may heal us; he has stricken, and he will bind us up.
 Hosea	Hos	33	6	2	After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him.
 Hosea	Hos	33	6	3	Let us know, let us press on to know the Lord; his going forth is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.”
 Hosea	Hos	33	6	4	What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.
 Hosea	Hos	33	6	5	Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of my mouth, and my judgment goes forth as the light.
 Hosea	Hos	33	6	6	For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God, rather than burnt offerings.
 Hosea	Hos	33	6	7	But at Adam they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me.
 Hosea	Hos	33	6	8	Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with blood.
 Hosea	Hos	33	6	9	As robbers lie in wait for a man, so the priests are banded together; they murder on the way to Shechem, yea, they commit villainy.
 Hosea	Hos	33	6	10	In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim’s harlotry is there, Israel is defiled.
 Hosea	Hos	33	6	11	For you also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed. When I would restore the fortunes of my people,
 Hosea	Hos	33	7	1	when I would heal Israel, the corruption of Ephraim is revealed, and the wicked deeds of Samaria; for they deal falsely, the thief breaks in, and the bandits raid without.
 Hosea	Hos	33	7	2	But they do not consider that I remember all their evil works. Now their deeds encompass them, they are before my face.
 Hosea	Hos	33	7	3	By their wickedness they make the king glad, and the princes by their treachery.
 Hosea	Hos	33	7	4	They are all adulterers; they are like a heated oven, whose baker ceases to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
 Hosea	Hos	33	7	5	On the day of our king the princes became sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers.
 Hosea	Hos	33	7	6	For like an oven their hearts burn with intrigue; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
 Hosea	Hos	33	7	7	All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings have fallen; and none of them calls upon me.
 Hosea	Hos	33	7	8	Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
 Hosea	Hos	33	7	9	Aliens devour his strength, and he knows it not; gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, and he knows it not.
 Hosea	Hos	33	7	10	The pride of Israel witnesses against him; yet they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him, for all this.
 Hosea	Hos	33	7	11	Ephraim is like a dove, silly and without sense, calling to Egypt, going to Assyria.
 Hosea	Hos	33	7	12	As they go, I will spread over them my net; I will bring them down like birds of the air; I will chastise them for their wicked deeds.
 Hosea	Hos	33	7	13	Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me! I would redeem them, but they speak lies against me.
 Hosea	Hos	33	7	14	They do not cry to me from the heart, but they wail upon their beds; for grain and wine they gash themselves, they rebel against me.
 Hosea	Hos	33	7	15	Although I trained and strengthened their arms, yet they devise evil against me.
 Hosea	Hos	33	7	16	They turn to Baal; they are like a treacherous bow, their princes shall fall by the sword because of the insolence of their tongue. This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.
 Hosea	Hos	33	8	1	Set the trumpet to your lips, for a vulture is over the house of the Lord, because they have broken my covenant, and transgressed my law.
 Hosea	Hos	33	8	2	To me they cry, My God, we Israel know thee.
 Hosea	Hos	33	8	3	Israel has spurned the good; the enemy shall pursue him.
 Hosea	Hos	33	8	4	They made kings, but not through me. They set up princes, but without my knowledge. With their silver and gold they made idols for their own destruction.
 Hosea	Hos	33	8	5	I have spurned your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will it be till they are pure
 Hosea	Hos	33	8	6	in Israel? A workman made it; it is not God. The calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces.
 Hosea	Hos	33	8	7	For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads, it shall yield no meal; if it were to yield, aliens would devour it.
 Hosea	Hos	33	8	8	Israel is swallowed up; already they are among the nations as a useless vessel.
 Hosea	Hos	33	8	9	For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild ass wandering alone; Ephraim has hired lovers.
 Hosea	Hos	33	8	10	Though they hire allies among the nations, I will soon gather them up. And they shall cease for a little while from anointing king and princes.
 Hosea	Hos	33	8	11	Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they have become to him altars for sinning.
 Hosea	Hos	33	8	12	Were I to write for him my laws by ten thousands, they would be regarded as a strange thing.
 Hosea	Hos	33	8	13	They love sacrifice; they sacrifice flesh and eat it; but the Lord has no delight in them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt.
 Hosea	Hos	33	8	14	For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour his strongholds.
 Hosea	Hos	33	9	1	Rejoice not, O Israel! Exult not like the peoples; for you have played the harlot, forsaking your God. You have loved a harlot’s hire upon all threshing floors.
 Hosea	Hos	33	9	2	Threshing floor and winevat shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail them.
 Hosea	Hos	33	9	3	They shall not remain in the land of the Lord; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.
 Hosea	Hos	33	9	4	They shall not pour libations of wine to the Lord; and they shall not please him with their sacrifices. Their bread shall be like mourners’ bread; all who eat of it shall be defiled; for their bread shall be for their hunger only; it shall not come to the house of the Lord.
 Hosea	Hos	33	9	5	What will you do on the day of appointed festival, and on the day of the feast of the Lord?
 Hosea	Hos	33	9	6	For behold, they are going to Assyria; Egypt shall gather them, Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess their precious things of silver; thorns shall be in their tents.
 Hosea	Hos	33	9	7	The days of punishment have come, the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool, the man of the spirit is mad, because of your great iniquity and great hatred.
 Hosea	Hos	33	9	8	The prophet is the watchman of Ephraim, the people of my God, yet a fowler’s snare is on all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.
 Hosea	Hos	33	9	9	They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibe-ah: he will remember their iniquity, he will punish their sins.
 Hosea	Hos	33	9	10	Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree, in its first season, I saw your fathers. But they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Baal, and became detestable like the thing they loved.
 Hosea	Hos	33	9	11	Ephraim’s glory shall fly away like a bird— no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
 Hosea	Hos	33	9	12	Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them till none is left. Woe to them when I depart from them!
 Hosea	Hos	33	9	13	Ephraim’s sons, as I have seen, are destined for a prey; Ephraim must lead forth his sons to slaughter.
 Hosea	Hos	33	9	14	Give them, O Lord— what wilt thou give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
 Hosea	Hos	33	9	15	Every evil of theirs is in Gilgal; there I began to hate them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels.
 Hosea	Hos	33	9	16	Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit. Even though they bring forth, I will slay their beloved children.
 Hosea	Hos	33	9	17	My God will cast them off, because they have not hearkened to him; they shall be wanderers among the nations.
 Hosea	Hos	33	10	1	Israel is a luxuriant vine that yields its fruit. The more his fruit increased the more altars he built; as his country improved he improved his pillars.
 Hosea	Hos	33	10	2	Their heart is false; now they must bear their guilt. The Lord will break down their altars, and destroy their pillars.
 Hosea	Hos	33	10	3	For now they will say: “We have no king, for we fear not the Lord, and a king, what could he do for us?”
 Hosea	Hos	33	10	4	They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
 Hosea	Hos	33	10	5	The inhabitants of Samaria tremble for the calf of Beth-aven. Its people shall mourn for it, and its idolatrous priests shall wail over it, over its glory which has departed from it.
 Hosea	Hos	33	10	6	Yea, the thing itself shall be carried to Assyria, as tribute to the great king. Ephraim shall be put to shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his idol.
 Hosea	Hos	33	10	7	Samaria’s king shall perish, like a chip on the face of the waters.
 Hosea	Hos	33	10	8	The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed. Thorn and thistle shall grow up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us, and to the hills, Fall upon us.
 Hosea	Hos	33	10	9	From the days of Gibe-ah, you have sinned, O Israel; there they have continued. Shall not war overtake them in Gibe-ah?
 Hosea	Hos	33	10	10	I will come against the wayward people to chastise them; and nations shall be gathered against them when they are chastised for their double iniquity.
 Hosea	Hos	33	10	11	Ephraim was a trained heifer that loved to thresh, and I spared her fair neck; but I will put Ephraim to the yoke, Judah must plow, Jacob must harrow for himself.
 Hosea	Hos	33	10	12	Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap the fruit of steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the Lord, that he may come and rain salvation upon you.
 Hosea	Hos	33	10	13	You have plowed iniquity, you have reaped injustice, you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your chariots and in the multitude of your warriors,
 Hosea	Hos	33	10	14	therefore the tumult of war shall arise among your people, and all your fortresses shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle; mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.
 Hosea	Hos	33	10	15	Thus it shall be done to you, O house of Israel, because of your great wickedness. In the storm the king of Israel shall be utterly cut off.
 Hosea	Hos	33	11	1	When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.
 Hosea	Hos	33	11	2	The more I called them, the more they went from me; they kept sacrificing to the Baals, and burning incense to idols.
 Hosea	Hos	33	11	3	Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk, I took them up in my arms; but they did not know that I healed them.
 Hosea	Hos	33	11	4	I led them with cords of compassion, with the bands of love, and I became to them as one, who eases the yoke on their jaws, and I bent down to them and fed them.
 Hosea	Hos	33	11	5	They shall return to the land of Egypt, and Assyria shall be their king, because they have refused to return to me.
 Hosea	Hos	33	11	6	The sword shall rage against their cities, consume the bars of their gates, and devour them in their fortresses.
 Hosea	Hos	33	11	7	My people are bent on turning away from me; so they are appointed to the yoke, and none shall remove it.
 Hosea	Hos	33	11	8	How can I give you up, O Ephraim! How can I hand you over, O Israel! How can I make you like Admah! How can I treat you like Zeboiim! My heart recoils within me, my compassion grows warm and tender.
 Hosea	Hos	33	11	9	I will not execute my fierce anger, I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come to destroy.
 Hosea	Hos	33	11	10	They shall go after the Lord, he will roar like a lion; yea, he will roar, and his sons shall come trembling from the west;
 Hosea	Hos	33	11	11	they shall come trembling like birds from Egypt, and like doves from the land of Assyria; and I will return them to their homes, says the Lord.
 Hosea	Hos	33	11	12	Ephraim has encompassed me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah is still known by God, and is faithful to the Holy One.
 Hosea	Hos	33	12	1	Ephraim herds the wind, and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a bargain with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.
 Hosea	Hos	33	12	2	The Lord has an indictment against Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways, and requite him according to his deeds.
 Hosea	Hos	33	12	3	In the womb he took his brother by the heel, and in his manhood he strove with God.
 Hosea	Hos	33	12	4	He strove with the angel and prevailed, he wept and sought his favor. He met God at Bethel, and there God spoke with him—
 Hosea	Hos	33	12	5	the Lord the God of hosts, the Lord is his name:
 Hosea	Hos	33	12	6	“So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God.”
 Hosea	Hos	33	12	7	A trader, in whose hands are false balances, he loves to oppress.
 Hosea	Hos	33	12	8	Ephraim has said, “Ah, but I am rich, I have gained wealth for myself”: but all his riches can never offset the guilt he has incurred.
 Hosea	Hos	33	12	9	I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; I will again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the appointed feast.
 Hosea	Hos	33	12	10	I spoke to the prophets; it was I who multiplied visions, and through the prophets gave parables.
 Hosea	Hos	33	12	11	If there is iniquity in Gilead they shall surely come to nought; if in Gilgal they sacrifice bulls, their altars also shall be like stone heaps on the furrows of the field.
 Hosea	Hos	33	12	12	(Jacob fled to the land of Aram, there Israel did service for a wife, and for a wife he herded sheep.)
 Hosea	Hos	33	12	13	By a prophet the Lord brought Israel up from Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.
 Hosea	Hos	33	12	14	Ephraim has given bitter provocation; so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt upon him, and will turn back upon him his reproaches.
 Hosea	Hos	33	13	1	When Ephraim spoke, men trembled; he was exalted in Israel; but he incurred guilt through Baal and died.
 Hosea	Hos	33	13	2	And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves molten images, idols skilfully made of their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. Sacrifice to these, they say. Men kiss calves!
 Hosea	Hos	33	13	3	Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes early away, like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window.
 Hosea	Hos	33	13	4	I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior.
 Hosea	Hos	33	13	5	It was I who knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought;
 Hosea	Hos	33	13	6	but when they had fed to the full, they were filled, and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me.
 Hosea	Hos	33	13	7	So I will be to them like a lion, like a leopard I will lurk beside the way.
 Hosea	Hos	33	13	8	I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs, I will tear open their breast, and there I will devour them like a lion, as a wild beast would rend them.
 Hosea	Hos	33	13	9	I will destroy you, O Israel; who can help you?
 Hosea	Hos	33	13	10	Where now is your king, to save you; where are all your princes, to defend you— those of whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?
 Hosea	Hos	33	13	11	I have given you kings in my anger, and I have taken them away in my wrath.
 Hosea	Hos	33	13	12	The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up, his sin is kept in store.
 Hosea	Hos	33	13	13	The pangs of childbirth come for him, but he is an unwise son; for now he does not present himself at the mouth of the womb.
 Hosea	Hos	33	13	14	Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death? O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your destruction? Compassion is hid from my eyes.
 Hosea	Hos	33	13	15	Though he may flourish as the reed plant, the east wind, the wind of the Lord, shall come, rising from the wilderness; and his fountain shall dry up, his spring shall be parched; it shall strip his treasury of every precious thing.
 Hosea	Hos	33	13	16	Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword, their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
 Hosea	Hos	33	14	1	Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
 Hosea	Hos	33	14	2	Take with you words and return to the Lord; say to him, “Take away all iniquity; accept that which is good and we will render the fruit of our lips.
 Hosea	Hos	33	14	3	Assyria shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses; and we will say no more, ‘Our God,’ to the work of our hands. In thee the orphan finds mercy.”
 Hosea	Hos	33	14	4	I will heal their faithlessness; I will love them freely, for my anger has turned from them.
 Hosea	Hos	33	14	5	I will be as the dew to Israel; he shall blossom as the lily, he shall strike root as the poplar;
 Hosea	Hos	33	14	6	his shoots shall spread out; his beauty shall be like the olive, and his fragrance like Lebanon.
 Hosea	Hos	33	14	7	They shall return and dwell beneath my shadow, they shall flourish as a garden; they shall blossom as the vine, their fragrance shall be like the wine of Lebanon.
 Hosea	Hos	33	14	8	O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after you. I am like an evergreen cypress, from me comes your fruit.
 Hosea	Hos	33	14	9	Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; for the ways of the Lord are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.
 Joel	Joel	34	1	1	The word of the Lord that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel:
 Joel	Joel	34	1	2	Hear this, you aged men, give ear, all inhabitants of the land! Has such a thing happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?
 Joel	Joel	34	1	3	Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
 Joel	Joel	34	1	4	What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.
 Joel	Joel	34	1	5	Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.
 Joel	Joel	34	1	6	For a nation has come up against my land, powerful and without number; its teeth are lions’ teeth, and it has the fangs of a lioness.
 Joel	Joel	34	1	7	It has laid waste my vines, and splintered my fig trees; it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down; their branches are made white.
 Joel	Joel	34	1	8	Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the bridegroom of her youth.
 Joel	Joel	34	1	9	The cereal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the Lord. The priests mourn, the ministers of the Lord.
 Joel	Joel	34	1	10	The fields are laid waste, the ground mourns; because the grain is destroyed, the wine fails, the oil languishes.
 Joel	Joel	34	1	11	Be confounded, O tillers of the soil, wail, O vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley; because the harvest of the field has perished.
 Joel	Joel	34	1	12	The vine withers, the fig tree languishes. Pomegranate, palm, and apple, all the trees of the field are withered; and gladness fails from the sons of men.
 Joel	Joel	34	1	13	Gird on sackcloth and lament, O priests, wail, O ministers of the altar. Go in, pass the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! Because cereal offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.
 Joel	Joel	34	1	14	Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the Lord your God; and cry to the Lord.
 Joel	Joel	34	1	15	Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.
 Joel	Joel	34	1	16	Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
 Joel	Joel	34	1	17	The seed shrivels under the clods, the storehouses are desolate; the granaries are ruined because the grain has failed.
 Joel	Joel	34	1	18	How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed because there is no pasture for them; even the flocks of sheep are dismayed.
 Joel	Joel	34	1	19	Unto thee, O Lord, I cry. For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flame has burned all the trees of the field.
 Joel	Joel	34	1	20	Even the wild beasts cry to thee because the water brooks are dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
 Joel	Joel	34	2	1	Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming, it is near,
 Joel	Joel	34	2	2	a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been from of old, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations.
 Joel	Joel	34	2	3	Fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns. The land is like the garden of Eden before them, but after them a desolate wilderness, and nothing escapes them.
 Joel	Joel	34	2	4	Their appearance is like the appearance of horses, and like war horses they run.
 Joel	Joel	34	2	5	As with the rumbling of chariots, they leap on the tops of the mountains, like the crackling of a flame of fire devouring the stubble, like a powerful army drawn up for battle.
 Joel	Joel	34	2	6	Before them peoples are in anguish, all faces grow pale.
 Joel	Joel	34	2	7	Like warriors they charge, like soldiers they scale the wall. They march each on his way, they do not swerve from their paths.
 Joel	Joel	34	2	8	They do not jostle one another, each marches in his path; they burst through the weapons and are not halted.
 Joel	Joel	34	2	9	They leap upon the city, they run upon the walls; they climb up into the houses, they enter through the windows like a thief.
 Joel	Joel	34	2	10	The earth quakes before them, the heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
 Joel	Joel	34	2	11	The Lord utters his voice before his army, for his host is exceedingly great; he that executes his word is powerful. For the day of the Lord is great and very terrible; who can endure it?
 Joel	Joel	34	2	12	“Yet even now,” says the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
 Joel	Joel	34	2	13	and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord, your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and repents of evil.
 Joel	Joel	34	2	14	Who knows whether he will not turn and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, a cereal offering and a drink offering for the Lord, your God?
 Joel	Joel	34	2	15	Blow the trumpet in Zion; sanctify a fast; call a solemn assembly;
 Joel	Joel	34	2	16	gather the people. Sanctify the congregation; assemble the elders; gather the children, even nursing infants. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.
 Joel	Joel	34	2	17	Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep and say, “Spare thy people, O Lord, and make not thy heritage a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
 Joel	Joel	34	2	18	Then the Lord became jealous for his land, and had pity on his people.
 Joel	Joel	34	2	19	The Lord answered and said to his people, “Behold, I am sending to you grain, wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.
 Joel	Joel	34	2	20	“I will remove the northerner far from you, and drive him into a parched and desolate land, his front into the eastern sea, and his rear into the western sea; the stench and foul smell of him will rise, for he has done great things.
 Joel	Joel	34	2	21	“Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice, for the Lord has done great things!
 Joel	Joel	34	2	22	Fear not, you beasts of the field, for the pastures of the wilderness are green; the tree bears its fruit, the fig tree and vine give their full yield.
 Joel	Joel	34	2	23	“Be glad, O sons of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord, your God; for he has given the early rain for your vindication, he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the latter rain, as before.
 Joel	Joel	34	2	24	“The threshing floors shall be full of grain, the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.
 Joel	Joel	34	2	25	I will restore to you the years which the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent among you.
 Joel	Joel	34	2	26	“You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. And my people shall never again be put to shame.
 Joel	Joel	34	2	27	You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I, the Lord, am your God and there is none else. And my people shall never again be put to shame.
 Joel	Joel	34	2	28	“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.
 Joel	Joel	34	2	29	Even upon the menservants and maidservants in those days, I will pour out my spirit.
 Joel	Joel	34	2	30	“And I will give portents in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.
 Joel	Joel	34	2	31	The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.
 Joel	Joel	34	2	32	And it shall come to pass that all who call upon the name of the Lord shall be delivered; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls.
 Joel	Joel	34	3	1	“For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
 Joel	Joel	34	3	2	I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat, and I will enter into judgment with them there, on account of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations, and have divided up my land,
 Joel	Joel	34	3	3	and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and have sold a girl for wine, and have drunk it.
 Joel	Joel	34	3	4	“What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will requite your deed upon your own head swiftly and speedily.
 Joel	Joel	34	3	5	For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.
 Joel	Joel	34	3	6	You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, removing them far from their own border.
 Joel	Joel	34	3	7	But now I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and I will requite your deed upon your own head.
 Joel	Joel	34	3	8	I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far off; for the Lord has spoken.”
 Joel	Joel	34	3	9	Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare war, stir up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near, let them come up.
 Joel	Joel	34	3	10	Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, “I am a warrior.”
 Joel	Joel	34	3	11	Hasten and come, all you nations round about, gather yourselves there. Bring down thy warriors, O Lord.
 Joel	Joel	34	3	12	Let the nations bestir themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the nations round about.
 Joel	Joel	34	3	13	Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Go in, tread, for the wine press is full. The vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.
 Joel	Joel	34	3	14	Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
 Joel	Joel	34	3	15	The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
 Joel	Joel	34	3	16	And the Lord roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shake. But the Lord is a refuge to his people, a stronghold to the people of Israel.
 Joel	Joel	34	3	17	“So you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who dwell in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy and strangers shall never again pass through it.
 Joel	Joel	34	3	18	“And in that day the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the stream beds of Judah shall flow with water; and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord and water the valley of Shittim.
 Joel	Joel	34	3	19	“Egypt shall become a desolation and Edom a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the people of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
 Joel	Joel	34	3	20	But Judah shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem to all generations.
 Joel	Joel	34	3	21	I will avenge their blood, and I will not clear the guilty, for the Lord dwells in Zion.”
 Amos	Amos	35	1	1	The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
 Amos	Amos	35	1	2	And he said: “The Lord roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the top of Carmel withers.”
 Amos	Amos	35	1	3	Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.
 Amos	Amos	35	1	4	So I will send a fire upon the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad.
 Amos	Amos	35	1	5	I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven, and him that holds the scepter from Beth-eden; and the people of Syria shall go into exile to Kir,” says the Lord.
 Amos	Amos	35	1	6	Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because they carried into exile a whole people to deliver them up to Edom.
 Amos	Amos	35	1	7	So I will send a fire upon the wall of Gaza, and it shall devour her strongholds.
 Amos	Amos	35	1	8	I will cut off the inhabitants from Ashdod, and him that holds the scepter from Ashkelon; I will turn my hand against Ekron; and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish,” says the Lord GOD.
 Amos	Amos	35	1	9	Thus says the Lor: “For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because they delivered up a whole people to Edom, and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.
 Amos	Amos	35	1	10	So I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour her strongholds.”
 Amos	Amos	35	1	11	Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger tore perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever.
 Amos	Amos	35	1	12	So I will send a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the strongholds of Bozrah.”
 Amos	Amos	35	1	13	Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of the Ammonites, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because they have ripped up women with child in Gilead, that they might enlarge their border.
 Amos	Amos	35	1	14	So I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour her strongholds, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;
 Amos	Amos	35	1	15	and their king shall go into exile, he and his princes together,” says the Lord.
 Amos	Amos	35	2	1	Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because he burned to lime the bones of the king of Edom.
 Amos	Amos	35	2	2	So I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the strongholds of Kerioth, and Moab shall die amid uproar, amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet;
 Amos	Amos	35	2	3	I will cut off the ruler from its midst, and will slay all its princes with him,” says the Lord.
 Amos	Amos	35	2	4	Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept his statutes, but their lies have led them astray, after which their fathers walked.
 Amos	Amos	35	2	5	So I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.”
 Amos	Amos	35	2	6	Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes—
 Amos	Amos	35	2	7	they that trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth, and turn aside the way of the afflicted; a man and his father go in to the same maiden, so that my holy name is profaned;
 Amos	Amos	35	2	8	they lay themselves down beside every altar upon garments taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.
 Amos	Amos	35	2	9	“Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and who was as strong as the oaks; I destroyed his fruit above, and his roots beneath.
 Amos	Amos	35	2	10	Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
 Amos	Amos	35	2	11	And I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel?” says the Lord.
 Amos	Amos	35	2	12	“But you made the Nazirites drink wine, and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘You shall not prophesy.’
 Amos	Amos	35	2	13	“Behold, I will press you down in your place, as a cart full of sheaves presses down.
 Amos	Amos	35	2	14	Flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not retain his strength, nor shall the mighty save his life;
 Amos	Amos	35	2	15	he who handles the bow shall not stand, and he who is swift of foot shall not save himself, nor shall he who rides the horse save his life;
 Amos	Amos	35	2	16	and he who is stout of heart among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day,” says the Lord.
 Amos	Amos	35	3	1	Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt:
 Amos	Amos	35	3	2	“You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
 Amos	Amos	35	3	3	“Do two walk together, unless they have made an appointment?
 Amos	Amos	35	3	4	Does a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out from his den, if he has taken nothing?
 Amos	Amos	35	3	5	Does a bird fall in a snare on the earth, when there is no trap for it? Does a snare spring up from the ground, when it has taken nothing?
 Amos	Amos	35	3	6	Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does evil befall a city, unless the Lord has done it?
 Amos	Amos	35	3	7	Surely the Lord GOD does nothing, without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.
 Amos	Amos	35	3	8	The lion has roared; who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken; who can but prophesy?”
 Amos	Amos	35	3	9	Proclaim to the strongholds in Assyria, and to the strongholds in the land of Egypt, and say, “Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and see the great tumults within her, and the oppressions in her midst.”
 Amos	Amos	35	3	10	“They do not know how to do right,” says the Lord, “those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.”
 Amos	Amos	35	3	11	Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “An adversary shall surround the land, and bring down your defenses from you, and your strongholds shall be plundered.”
 Amos	Amos	35	3	12	Thus says the Lord: “As the shepherd rescues from the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the people of Israel who dwell in Samaria be rescued, with the corner of a couch and part of a bed.”
 Amos	Amos	35	3	13	“Hear, and testify against the house of Jacob,” says the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,
 Amos	Amos	35	3	14	“that on the day I punish Israel for his transgressions, I will punish the altars of Bethel, and the horns of the altar shall be cut off and fall to the ground.
 Amos	Amos	35	3	15	I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall come to an end,” says the Lord.
 Amos	Amos	35	4	1	“Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!’
 Amos	Amos	35	4	2	The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness that, behold, the days are coming upon you, when they shall take you away with hooks, even the last of you with fishhooks.
 Amos	Amos	35	4	3	And you shall go out through the breaches, every one straight before her; and you shall be cast forth into Harmon,” says the Lord.
 Amos	Amos	35	4	4	“Come to Bethel, and transgress; to Gilgal, and multiply transgression; bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days;
 Amos	Amos	35	4	5	offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill offerings, publish them; for so you love to do, O people of Israel!” says the Lord GOD.
 Amos	Amos	35	4	6	“I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places, yet you did not return to me,” says the Lord.
 Amos	Amos	35	4	7	“And I also withheld the rain from you when there were yet three months to the harvest; I would send rain upon one city, and send no rain upon another city; one field would be rained upon, and the field on which it did not rain withered;
 Amos	Amos	35	4	8	so two or three cities wandered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied; yet you did not return to me,” says the Lord.
 Amos	Amos	35	4	9	“I smote you with blight and mildew; I laid waste your gardens and your vineyards; your fig trees and your olive trees the locust devoured; yet you did not return to me,” says the Lord.
 Amos	Amos	35	4	10	“I sent among you a pestilence after the manner of Egypt; I slew your young men with the sword; I carried away your horses; and I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils; yet you did not return to me,” says the Lord.
 Amos	Amos	35	4	11	“I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet you did not return to me,” says the Lord.
 Amos	Amos	35	4	12	“Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”
 Amos	Amos	35	4	13	For lo, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth— the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!
 Amos	Amos	35	5	1	Hear this word which I take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel:
 Amos	Amos	35	5	2	“Fallen, no more to rise, is the virgin Israel; forsaken on her land, with none to raise her up.”
 Amos	Amos	35	5	3	For thus says the Lord GOD: “The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth a hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel.”
 Amos	Amos	35	5	4	For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: “Seek me and live;
 Amos	Amos	35	5	5	but do not seek Bethel, and do not enter into Gilgal or cross over to Beer-sheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into exile, and Bethel shall come to nought.”
 Amos	Amos	35	5	6	Seek the Lord and live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, with none to quench it for Bethel,
 Amos	Amos	35	5	7	O you who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!
 Amos	Amos	35	5	8	He who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name,
 Amos	Amos	35	5	9	who makes destruction flash forth against the strong, so that destruction comes upon the fortress.
 Amos	Amos	35	5	10	They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks the truth.
 Amos	Amos	35	5	11	Therefore because you trample upon the poor and take from him exactions of wheat, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
 Amos	Amos	35	5	12	For I know how many are your transgressions, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate.
 Amos	Amos	35	5	13	Therefore he who is prudent will keep silent in such a time; for it is an evil time.
 Amos	Amos	35	5	14	Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said.
 Amos	Amos	35	5	15	Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
 Amos	Amos	35	5	16	Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord: “In all the squares there shall be wailing; and in all the streets they shall say, ‘Alas! alas!’ They shall call the farmers to mourning and to wailing those who are skilled in lamentation,
 Amos	Amos	35	5	17	and in all vineyards there shall be wailing, for I will pass through the midst of you,” says the Lord.
 Amos	Amos	35	5	18	Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord! Why would you have the day of the Lord? It is darkness, and not light;
 Amos	Amos	35	5	19	as if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned with his hand against the wall, and a serpent bit him.
 Amos	Amos	35	5	20	Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light, and gloom with no brightness in it?
 Amos	Amos	35	5	21	“I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
 Amos	Amos	35	5	22	Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and cereal offerings, I will not accept them, and the peace offerings of your fatted beasts I will not look upon.
 Amos	Amos	35	5	23	Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the melody of your harps I will not listen.
 Amos	Amos	35	5	24	But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
 Amos	Amos	35	5	25	“Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
 Amos	Amos	35	5	26	You shall take up Sakkuth your king, and Kaiwan your star-god, your images, which you made for yourselves;
 Amos	Amos	35	5	27	therefore I will take you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the Lord, whose name is the God of hosts.
 Amos	Amos	35	6	1	“Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who feel secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the first of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!
 Amos	Amos	35	6	2	Pass over to Calneh, and see; and thence go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are they better than these kingdoms? Or is their territory greater than your territory,
 Amos	Amos	35	6	3	O you who put far away the evil day, and bring near the seat of violence?
 Amos	Amos	35	6	4	“Woe to those who lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat lambs from the flock, and calves from the midst of the stall;
 Amos	Amos	35	6	5	who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp, and like David invent for themselves instruments of music;
 Amos	Amos	35	6	6	who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the finest oils, but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!
 Amos	Amos	35	6	7	Therefore they shall now be the first of those to go into exile, and the revelry of those who stretch themselves shall pass away.”
 Amos	Amos	35	6	8	The Lord GOD has sworn by himself (says the Lord, the God of hosts): “I abhor the pride of Jacob, and hate his strongholds; and I will deliver up the city and all that is in it.”
 Amos	Amos	35	6	9	And if ten men remain in one house, they shall die.
 Amos	Amos	35	6	10	And when a man’s kinsman, he who burns him, shall take him up to bring the bones out of the house, and shall say to him who is in the innermost parts of the house, “Is there still any one with you?” he shall say, “No”; and he shall say, “Hush! We must not mention the name of the Lord.”
 Amos	Amos	35	6	11	For behold, the Lord commands, and the great house shall be smitten into fragments, and the little house into bits.
 Amos	Amos	35	6	12	Do horses run upon rocks? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—
 Amos	Amos	35	6	13	you who rejoice in Lo-debar, who say, “Have we not by our own strength taken Karnaim for ourselves?”
 Amos	Amos	35	6	14	“For behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel,” says the Lord, the God of hosts; “and they shall oppress you from the entrance of Hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.”
 Amos	Amos	35	7	1	Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, he was forming locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.
 Amos	Amos	35	7	2	When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said, “O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!”
 Amos	Amos	35	7	3	The Lord repented concerning this; “It shall not be,” said the Lord.
 Amos	Amos	35	7	4	Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, the Lord GOD was calling for a judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land.
 Amos	Amos	35	7	5	Then I said, “O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!”
 Amos	Amos	35	7	6	The Lord repented concerning this; “This also shall not be,” said the Lord GOD.
 Amos	Amos	35	7	7	He showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
 Amos	Amos	35	7	8	And the Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “Behold, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel; I will never again pass by them;
 Amos	Amos	35	7	9	the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste, and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”
 Amos	Amos	35	7	10	Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words.
 Amos	Amos	35	7	11	For thus Amos has said, ‘Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel must go into exile away from his land.’”
 Amos	Amos	35	7	12	And Amaziah said to Amos, “O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there;
 Amos	Amos	35	7	13	but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom.”
 Amos	Amos	35	7	14	Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I am no prophet, nor a prophet’s son; but I am a herdsman, and a dresser of sycamore trees,
 Amos	Amos	35	7	15	and the Lord took me from following the flock, and the Lord said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’
 Amos	Amos	35	7	16	“Now therefore hear the word of the Lord. You say, ‘Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not preach against the house of Isaac.’
 Amos	Amos	35	7	17	Therefore thus says the Lord: ‘Your wife shall be a harlot in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be parceled out by line; you yourself shall die in an unclean land, and Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.’”
 Amos	Amos	35	8	1	Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
 Amos	Amos	35	8	2	And he said, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me, “The end has come upon my people Israel; I will never again pass by them.
 Amos	Amos	35	8	3	The songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day,” says the Lord GOD; “the dead bodies shall be many; in every place they shall be cast out in silence.”
 Amos	Amos	35	8	4	Hear this, you who trample upon the needy, and bring the poor of the land to an end,
 Amos	Amos	35	8	5	saying, “When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great, and deal deceitfully with false balances,
 Amos	Amos	35	8	6	that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the refuse of the wheat?”
 Amos	Amos	35	8	7	The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob: “Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.
 Amos	Amos	35	8	8	Shall not the land tremble on this account, and every one mourn who dwells in it, and all of it rise like the Nile, and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?”
 Amos	Amos	35	8	9	“And on that day,” says the Lord GOD, “I will make the sun go down at noon, and darken the earth in broad daylight.
 Amos	Amos	35	8	10	I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.
 Amos	Amos	35	8	11	“Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord GOD, “when I will send a famine on the land; not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord.
 Amos	Amos	35	8	12	They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the Lord, but they shall not find it.
 Amos	Amos	35	8	13	“In that day the fair virgins and the young men shall faint for thirst.
 Amos	Amos	35	8	14	Those who swear by Ashimah of Samaria, and say, ‘As thy god lives, O Dan,’ and, ‘As the way of Beer-sheba lives,’ they shall fall, and never rise again.”
 Amos	Amos	35	9	1	I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said: “Smite the capitals until the thresholds shake, and shatter them on the heads of all the people; and what are left of them I will slay with the sword; not one of them shall flee away, not one of them shall escape.
 Amos	Amos	35	9	2	“Though they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.
 Amos	Amos	35	9	3	Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, from there I will search out and take them; and though they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
 Amos	Amos	35	9	4	And though they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it shall slay them; and I will set my eyes upon them for evil and not for good.”
 Amos	Amos	35	9	5	The Lord, GOD of hosts, he who touches the earth and it melts, and all who dwell in it mourn, and all of it rises like the Nile, and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;
 Amos	Amos	35	9	6	who builds his upper chambers in the heavens, and founds his vault upon the earth; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the surface of the earth— the Lord is his name.
 Amos	Amos	35	9	7	“Are you not like the Ethiopians to me, O people of Israel?” says the Lord. “Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Syrians from Kir?
 Amos	Amos	35	9	8	Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground; except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” says the Lord.
 Amos	Amos	35	9	9	“For lo, I will command, and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve, but no pebble shall fall upon the earth.
 Amos	Amos	35	9	10	All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, ‘Evil shall not overtake or meet us.’
 Amos	Amos	35	9	11	“In that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen and repair its breaches, and raise up its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old;
 Amos	Amos	35	9	12	that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by my name,” says the Lord who does this.
 Amos	Amos	35	9	13	“Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “when the plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed; the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it.
 Amos	Amos	35	9	14	I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine, and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.
 Amos	Amos	35	9	15	I will plant them upon their land, and they shall never again be plucked up out of the land which I have given them,” says the Lord your God.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	1	1	The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard tidings from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Rise up! let us rise against her for battle!”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	1	2	Behold, I will make you small among the nations, you shall be utterly despised.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	1	3	The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	1	4	Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, thence I will bring you down, says the Lord.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	1	5	If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night— how you have been destroyed!— would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	1	6	How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures sought out!
 Obadiah	Obad	36	1	7	All your allies have deceived you, they have driven you to the border; your confederates have prevailed against you; your trusted friends have set a trap under you— there is no understanding of it.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	1	8	Will I not on that day, says the Lord, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	1	9	And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	1	10	For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off for ever.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	1	11	On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	1	12	But you should not have gloated over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; you should not have boasted in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	1	13	You should not have entered the gate of my people in the day of his calamity; you should not have gloated over his disaster in the day of his calamity; you should not have looted his goods in the day of his calamity.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	1	14	You should not have stood at the parting of the ways to cut off his fugitives; you should not have delivered up his survivors in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	1	15	For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you, your deeds shall return on your own head.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	1	16	For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, all the nations round about shall drink; they shall drink, and stagger, and shall be as though they had not been.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	1	17	But in Mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	1	18	The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor to the house of Esau; for the Lord has spoken.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	1	19	Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	1	20	The exiles in Halah who are of the people of Israel shall possess Phoenicia as far as Zarephath; and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	1	21	Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	2	1	The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard tidings from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Rise up! let us rise against her for battle!”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	2	2	Behold, I will make you small among the nations, you shall be utterly despised.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	2	3	The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	2	4	Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, thence I will bring you down, says the Lord.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	2	5	If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night— how you have been destroyed!— would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	2	6	How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures sought out!
 Obadiah	Obad	36	2	7	All your allies have deceived you, they have driven you to the border; your confederates have prevailed against you; your trusted friends have set a trap under you— there is no understanding of it.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	2	8	Will I not on that day, says the Lord, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	2	9	And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	2	10	For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off for ever.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	2	11	On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	2	12	But you should not have gloated over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; you should not have boasted in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	2	13	You should not have entered the gate of my people in the day of his calamity; you should not have gloated over his disaster in the day of his calamity; you should not have looted his goods in the day of his calamity.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	2	14	You should not have stood at the parting of the ways to cut off his fugitives; you should not have delivered up his survivors in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	2	15	For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you, your deeds shall return on your own head.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	2	16	For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, all the nations round about shall drink; they shall drink, and stagger, and shall be as though they had not been.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	2	17	But in Mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	2	18	The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor to the house of Esau; for the Lord has spoken.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	2	19	Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	2	20	The exiles in Halah who are of the people of Israel shall possess Phoenicia as far as Zarephath; and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	2	21	Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	3	1	The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard tidings from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Rise up! let us rise against her for battle!”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	3	2	Behold, I will make you small among the nations, you shall be utterly despised.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	3	3	The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	3	4	Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, thence I will bring you down, says the Lord.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	3	5	If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night— how you have been destroyed!— would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	3	6	How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures sought out!
 Obadiah	Obad	36	3	7	All your allies have deceived you, they have driven you to the border; your confederates have prevailed against you; your trusted friends have set a trap under you— there is no understanding of it.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	3	8	Will I not on that day, says the Lord, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	3	9	And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	3	10	For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off for ever.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	3	11	On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	3	12	But you should not have gloated over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; you should not have boasted in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	3	13	You should not have entered the gate of my people in the day of his calamity; you should not have gloated over his disaster in the day of his calamity; you should not have looted his goods in the day of his calamity.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	3	14	You should not have stood at the parting of the ways to cut off his fugitives; you should not have delivered up his survivors in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	3	15	For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you, your deeds shall return on your own head.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	3	16	For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, all the nations round about shall drink; they shall drink, and stagger, and shall be as though they had not been.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	3	17	But in Mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	3	18	The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor to the house of Esau; for the Lord has spoken.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	3	19	Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	3	20	The exiles in Halah who are of the people of Israel shall possess Phoenicia as far as Zarephath; and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	3	21	Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	4	1	The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard tidings from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Rise up! let us rise against her for battle!”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	4	2	Behold, I will make you small among the nations, you shall be utterly despised.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	4	3	The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	4	4	Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, thence I will bring you down, says the Lord.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	4	5	If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night— how you have been destroyed!— would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	4	6	How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures sought out!
 Obadiah	Obad	36	4	7	All your allies have deceived you, they have driven you to the border; your confederates have prevailed against you; your trusted friends have set a trap under you— there is no understanding of it.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	4	8	Will I not on that day, says the Lord, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	4	9	And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	4	10	For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off for ever.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	4	11	On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	4	12	But you should not have gloated over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; you should not have boasted in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	4	13	You should not have entered the gate of my people in the day of his calamity; you should not have gloated over his disaster in the day of his calamity; you should not have looted his goods in the day of his calamity.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	4	14	You should not have stood at the parting of the ways to cut off his fugitives; you should not have delivered up his survivors in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	4	15	For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you, your deeds shall return on your own head.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	4	16	For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, all the nations round about shall drink; they shall drink, and stagger, and shall be as though they had not been.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	4	17	But in Mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	4	18	The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor to the house of Esau; for the Lord has spoken.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	4	19	Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	4	20	The exiles in Halah who are of the people of Israel shall possess Phoenicia as far as Zarephath; and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	4	21	Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	5	1	The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard tidings from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Rise up! let us rise against her for battle!”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	5	2	Behold, I will make you small among the nations, you shall be utterly despised.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	5	3	The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	5	4	Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, thence I will bring you down, says the Lord.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	5	5	If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night— how you have been destroyed!— would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	5	6	How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures sought out!
 Obadiah	Obad	36	5	7	All your allies have deceived you, they have driven you to the border; your confederates have prevailed against you; your trusted friends have set a trap under you— there is no understanding of it.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	5	8	Will I not on that day, says the Lord, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	5	9	And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	5	10	For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off for ever.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	5	11	On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	5	12	But you should not have gloated over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; you should not have boasted in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	5	13	You should not have entered the gate of my people in the day of his calamity; you should not have gloated over his disaster in the day of his calamity; you should not have looted his goods in the day of his calamity.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	5	14	You should not have stood at the parting of the ways to cut off his fugitives; you should not have delivered up his survivors in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	5	15	For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you, your deeds shall return on your own head.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	5	16	For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, all the nations round about shall drink; they shall drink, and stagger, and shall be as though they had not been.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	5	17	But in Mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	5	18	The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor to the house of Esau; for the Lord has spoken.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	5	19	Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	5	20	The exiles in Halah who are of the people of Israel shall possess Phoenicia as far as Zarephath; and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	5	21	Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	6	1	The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard tidings from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Rise up! let us rise against her for battle!”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	6	2	Behold, I will make you small among the nations, you shall be utterly despised.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	6	3	The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	6	4	Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, thence I will bring you down, says the Lord.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	6	5	If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night— how you have been destroyed!— would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	6	6	How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures sought out!
 Obadiah	Obad	36	6	7	All your allies have deceived you, they have driven you to the border; your confederates have prevailed against you; your trusted friends have set a trap under you— there is no understanding of it.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	6	8	Will I not on that day, says the Lord, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	6	9	And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	6	10	For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off for ever.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	6	11	On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	6	12	But you should not have gloated over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; you should not have boasted in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	6	13	You should not have entered the gate of my people in the day of his calamity; you should not have gloated over his disaster in the day of his calamity; you should not have looted his goods in the day of his calamity.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	6	14	You should not have stood at the parting of the ways to cut off his fugitives; you should not have delivered up his survivors in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	6	15	For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you, your deeds shall return on your own head.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	6	16	For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, all the nations round about shall drink; they shall drink, and stagger, and shall be as though they had not been.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	6	17	But in Mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	6	18	The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor to the house of Esau; for the Lord has spoken.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	6	19	Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	6	20	The exiles in Halah who are of the people of Israel shall possess Phoenicia as far as Zarephath; and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	6	21	Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	7	1	The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard tidings from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Rise up! let us rise against her for battle!”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	7	2	Behold, I will make you small among the nations, you shall be utterly despised.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	7	3	The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	7	4	Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, thence I will bring you down, says the Lord.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	7	5	If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night— how you have been destroyed!— would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	7	6	How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures sought out!
 Obadiah	Obad	36	7	7	All your allies have deceived you, they have driven you to the border; your confederates have prevailed against you; your trusted friends have set a trap under you— there is no understanding of it.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	7	8	Will I not on that day, says the Lord, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	7	9	And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	7	10	For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off for ever.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	7	11	On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	7	12	But you should not have gloated over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; you should not have boasted in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	7	13	You should not have entered the gate of my people in the day of his calamity; you should not have gloated over his disaster in the day of his calamity; you should not have looted his goods in the day of his calamity.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	7	14	You should not have stood at the parting of the ways to cut off his fugitives; you should not have delivered up his survivors in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	7	15	For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you, your deeds shall return on your own head.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	7	16	For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, all the nations round about shall drink; they shall drink, and stagger, and shall be as though they had not been.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	7	17	But in Mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	7	18	The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor to the house of Esau; for the Lord has spoken.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	7	19	Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	7	20	The exiles in Halah who are of the people of Israel shall possess Phoenicia as far as Zarephath; and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	7	21	Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	8	1	The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard tidings from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Rise up! let us rise against her for battle!”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	8	2	Behold, I will make you small among the nations, you shall be utterly despised.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	8	3	The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	8	4	Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, thence I will bring you down, says the Lord.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	8	5	If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night— how you have been destroyed!— would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	8	6	How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures sought out!
 Obadiah	Obad	36	8	7	All your allies have deceived you, they have driven you to the border; your confederates have prevailed against you; your trusted friends have set a trap under you— there is no understanding of it.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	8	8	Will I not on that day, says the Lord, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	8	9	And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	8	10	For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off for ever.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	8	11	On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	8	12	But you should not have gloated over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; you should not have boasted in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	8	13	You should not have entered the gate of my people in the day of his calamity; you should not have gloated over his disaster in the day of his calamity; you should not have looted his goods in the day of his calamity.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	8	14	You should not have stood at the parting of the ways to cut off his fugitives; you should not have delivered up his survivors in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	8	15	For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you, your deeds shall return on your own head.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	8	16	For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, all the nations round about shall drink; they shall drink, and stagger, and shall be as though they had not been.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	8	17	But in Mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	8	18	The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor to the house of Esau; for the Lord has spoken.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	8	19	Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	8	20	The exiles in Halah who are of the people of Israel shall possess Phoenicia as far as Zarephath; and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	8	21	Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	9	1	The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard tidings from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Rise up! let us rise against her for battle!”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	9	2	Behold, I will make you small among the nations, you shall be utterly despised.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	9	3	The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	9	4	Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, thence I will bring you down, says the Lord.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	9	5	If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night— how you have been destroyed!— would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	9	6	How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures sought out!
 Obadiah	Obad	36	9	7	All your allies have deceived you, they have driven you to the border; your confederates have prevailed against you; your trusted friends have set a trap under you— there is no understanding of it.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	9	8	Will I not on that day, says the Lord, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	9	9	And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	9	10	For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off for ever.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	9	11	On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	9	12	But you should not have gloated over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; you should not have boasted in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	9	13	You should not have entered the gate of my people in the day of his calamity; you should not have gloated over his disaster in the day of his calamity; you should not have looted his goods in the day of his calamity.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	9	14	You should not have stood at the parting of the ways to cut off his fugitives; you should not have delivered up his survivors in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	9	15	For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you, your deeds shall return on your own head.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	9	16	For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, all the nations round about shall drink; they shall drink, and stagger, and shall be as though they had not been.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	9	17	But in Mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	9	18	The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor to the house of Esau; for the Lord has spoken.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	9	19	Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	9	20	The exiles in Halah who are of the people of Israel shall possess Phoenicia as far as Zarephath; and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	9	21	Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	10	1	The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard tidings from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Rise up! let us rise against her for battle!”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	10	2	Behold, I will make you small among the nations, you shall be utterly despised.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	10	3	The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	10	4	Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, thence I will bring you down, says the Lord.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	10	5	If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night— how you have been destroyed!— would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	10	6	How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures sought out!
 Obadiah	Obad	36	10	7	All your allies have deceived you, they have driven you to the border; your confederates have prevailed against you; your trusted friends have set a trap under you— there is no understanding of it.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	10	8	Will I not on that day, says the Lord, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	10	9	And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	10	10	For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off for ever.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	10	11	On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	10	12	But you should not have gloated over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; you should not have boasted in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	10	13	You should not have entered the gate of my people in the day of his calamity; you should not have gloated over his disaster in the day of his calamity; you should not have looted his goods in the day of his calamity.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	10	14	You should not have stood at the parting of the ways to cut off his fugitives; you should not have delivered up his survivors in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	10	15	For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you, your deeds shall return on your own head.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	10	16	For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, all the nations round about shall drink; they shall drink, and stagger, and shall be as though they had not been.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	10	17	But in Mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	10	18	The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor to the house of Esau; for the Lord has spoken.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	10	19	Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	10	20	The exiles in Halah who are of the people of Israel shall possess Phoenicia as far as Zarephath; and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	10	21	Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	11	1	The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard tidings from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Rise up! let us rise against her for battle!”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	11	2	Behold, I will make you small among the nations, you shall be utterly despised.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	11	3	The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	11	4	Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, thence I will bring you down, says the Lord.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	11	5	If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night— how you have been destroyed!— would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	11	6	How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures sought out!
 Obadiah	Obad	36	11	7	All your allies have deceived you, they have driven you to the border; your confederates have prevailed against you; your trusted friends have set a trap under you— there is no understanding of it.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	11	8	Will I not on that day, says the Lord, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	11	9	And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	11	10	For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off for ever.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	11	11	On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	11	12	But you should not have gloated over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; you should not have boasted in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	11	13	You should not have entered the gate of my people in the day of his calamity; you should not have gloated over his disaster in the day of his calamity; you should not have looted his goods in the day of his calamity.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	11	14	You should not have stood at the parting of the ways to cut off his fugitives; you should not have delivered up his survivors in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	11	15	For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you, your deeds shall return on your own head.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	11	16	For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, all the nations round about shall drink; they shall drink, and stagger, and shall be as though they had not been.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	11	17	But in Mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	11	18	The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor to the house of Esau; for the Lord has spoken.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	11	19	Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	11	20	The exiles in Halah who are of the people of Israel shall possess Phoenicia as far as Zarephath; and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	11	21	Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	12	1	The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard tidings from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Rise up! let us rise against her for battle!”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	12	2	Behold, I will make you small among the nations, you shall be utterly despised.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	12	3	The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	12	4	Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, thence I will bring you down, says the Lord.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	12	5	If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night— how you have been destroyed!— would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	12	6	How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures sought out!
 Obadiah	Obad	36	12	7	All your allies have deceived you, they have driven you to the border; your confederates have prevailed against you; your trusted friends have set a trap under you— there is no understanding of it.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	12	8	Will I not on that day, says the Lord, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	12	9	And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	12	10	For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off for ever.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	12	11	On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	12	12	But you should not have gloated over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; you should not have boasted in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	12	13	You should not have entered the gate of my people in the day of his calamity; you should not have gloated over his disaster in the day of his calamity; you should not have looted his goods in the day of his calamity.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	12	14	You should not have stood at the parting of the ways to cut off his fugitives; you should not have delivered up his survivors in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	12	15	For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you, your deeds shall return on your own head.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	12	16	For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, all the nations round about shall drink; they shall drink, and stagger, and shall be as though they had not been.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	12	17	But in Mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	12	18	The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor to the house of Esau; for the Lord has spoken.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	12	19	Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	12	20	The exiles in Halah who are of the people of Israel shall possess Phoenicia as far as Zarephath; and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	12	21	Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	13	1	The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard tidings from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Rise up! let us rise against her for battle!”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	13	2	Behold, I will make you small among the nations, you shall be utterly despised.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	13	3	The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	13	4	Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, thence I will bring you down, says the Lord.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	13	5	If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night— how you have been destroyed!— would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	13	6	How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures sought out!
 Obadiah	Obad	36	13	7	All your allies have deceived you, they have driven you to the border; your confederates have prevailed against you; your trusted friends have set a trap under you— there is no understanding of it.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	13	8	Will I not on that day, says the Lord, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	13	9	And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	13	10	For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off for ever.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	13	11	On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	13	12	But you should not have gloated over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; you should not have boasted in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	13	13	You should not have entered the gate of my people in the day of his calamity; you should not have gloated over his disaster in the day of his calamity; you should not have looted his goods in the day of his calamity.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	13	14	You should not have stood at the parting of the ways to cut off his fugitives; you should not have delivered up his survivors in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	13	15	For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you, your deeds shall return on your own head.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	13	16	For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, all the nations round about shall drink; they shall drink, and stagger, and shall be as though they had not been.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	13	17	But in Mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	13	18	The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor to the house of Esau; for the Lord has spoken.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	13	19	Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	13	20	The exiles in Halah who are of the people of Israel shall possess Phoenicia as far as Zarephath; and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	13	21	Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	14	1	The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard tidings from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Rise up! let us rise against her for battle!”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	14	2	Behold, I will make you small among the nations, you shall be utterly despised.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	14	3	The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	14	4	Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, thence I will bring you down, says the Lord.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	14	5	If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night— how you have been destroyed!— would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	14	6	How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures sought out!
 Obadiah	Obad	36	14	7	All your allies have deceived you, they have driven you to the border; your confederates have prevailed against you; your trusted friends have set a trap under you— there is no understanding of it.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	14	8	Will I not on that day, says the Lord, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	14	9	And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	14	10	For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off for ever.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	14	11	On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	14	12	But you should not have gloated over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; you should not have boasted in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	14	13	You should not have entered the gate of my people in the day of his calamity; you should not have gloated over his disaster in the day of his calamity; you should not have looted his goods in the day of his calamity.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	14	14	You should not have stood at the parting of the ways to cut off his fugitives; you should not have delivered up his survivors in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	14	15	For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you, your deeds shall return on your own head.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	14	16	For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, all the nations round about shall drink; they shall drink, and stagger, and shall be as though they had not been.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	14	17	But in Mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	14	18	The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor to the house of Esau; for the Lord has spoken.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	14	19	Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	14	20	The exiles in Halah who are of the people of Israel shall possess Phoenicia as far as Zarephath; and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	14	21	Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	15	1	The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard tidings from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Rise up! let us rise against her for battle!”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	15	2	Behold, I will make you small among the nations, you shall be utterly despised.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	15	3	The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	15	4	Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, thence I will bring you down, says the Lord.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	15	5	If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night— how you have been destroyed!— would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	15	6	How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures sought out!
 Obadiah	Obad	36	15	7	All your allies have deceived you, they have driven you to the border; your confederates have prevailed against you; your trusted friends have set a trap under you— there is no understanding of it.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	15	8	Will I not on that day, says the Lord, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	15	9	And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	15	10	For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off for ever.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	15	11	On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	15	12	But you should not have gloated over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; you should not have boasted in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	15	13	You should not have entered the gate of my people in the day of his calamity; you should not have gloated over his disaster in the day of his calamity; you should not have looted his goods in the day of his calamity.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	15	14	You should not have stood at the parting of the ways to cut off his fugitives; you should not have delivered up his survivors in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	15	15	For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you, your deeds shall return on your own head.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	15	16	For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, all the nations round about shall drink; they shall drink, and stagger, and shall be as though they had not been.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	15	17	But in Mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	15	18	The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor to the house of Esau; for the Lord has spoken.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	15	19	Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	15	20	The exiles in Halah who are of the people of Israel shall possess Phoenicia as far as Zarephath; and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	15	21	Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	16	1	The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard tidings from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Rise up! let us rise against her for battle!”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	16	2	Behold, I will make you small among the nations, you shall be utterly despised.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	16	3	The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	16	4	Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, thence I will bring you down, says the Lord.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	16	5	If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night— how you have been destroyed!— would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	16	6	How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures sought out!
 Obadiah	Obad	36	16	7	All your allies have deceived you, they have driven you to the border; your confederates have prevailed against you; your trusted friends have set a trap under you— there is no understanding of it.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	16	8	Will I not on that day, says the Lord, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	16	9	And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	16	10	For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off for ever.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	16	11	On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	16	12	But you should not have gloated over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; you should not have boasted in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	16	13	You should not have entered the gate of my people in the day of his calamity; you should not have gloated over his disaster in the day of his calamity; you should not have looted his goods in the day of his calamity.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	16	14	You should not have stood at the parting of the ways to cut off his fugitives; you should not have delivered up his survivors in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	16	15	For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you, your deeds shall return on your own head.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	16	16	For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, all the nations round about shall drink; they shall drink, and stagger, and shall be as though they had not been.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	16	17	But in Mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	16	18	The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor to the house of Esau; for the Lord has spoken.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	16	19	Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	16	20	The exiles in Halah who are of the people of Israel shall possess Phoenicia as far as Zarephath; and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	16	21	Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	17	1	The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard tidings from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Rise up! let us rise against her for battle!”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	17	2	Behold, I will make you small among the nations, you shall be utterly despised.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	17	3	The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	17	4	Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, thence I will bring you down, says the Lord.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	17	5	If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night— how you have been destroyed!— would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	17	6	How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures sought out!
 Obadiah	Obad	36	17	7	All your allies have deceived you, they have driven you to the border; your confederates have prevailed against you; your trusted friends have set a trap under you— there is no understanding of it.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	17	8	Will I not on that day, says the Lord, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	17	9	And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	17	10	For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off for ever.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	17	11	On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	17	12	But you should not have gloated over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; you should not have boasted in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	17	13	You should not have entered the gate of my people in the day of his calamity; you should not have gloated over his disaster in the day of his calamity; you should not have looted his goods in the day of his calamity.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	17	14	You should not have stood at the parting of the ways to cut off his fugitives; you should not have delivered up his survivors in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	17	15	For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you, your deeds shall return on your own head.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	17	16	For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, all the nations round about shall drink; they shall drink, and stagger, and shall be as though they had not been.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	17	17	But in Mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	17	18	The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor to the house of Esau; for the Lord has spoken.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	17	19	Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	17	20	The exiles in Halah who are of the people of Israel shall possess Phoenicia as far as Zarephath; and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	17	21	Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	18	1	The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard tidings from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Rise up! let us rise against her for battle!”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	18	2	Behold, I will make you small among the nations, you shall be utterly despised.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	18	3	The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	18	4	Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, thence I will bring you down, says the Lord.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	18	5	If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night— how you have been destroyed!— would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	18	6	How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures sought out!
 Obadiah	Obad	36	18	7	All your allies have deceived you, they have driven you to the border; your confederates have prevailed against you; your trusted friends have set a trap under you— there is no understanding of it.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	18	8	Will I not on that day, says the Lord, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	18	9	And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	18	10	For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off for ever.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	18	11	On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	18	12	But you should not have gloated over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; you should not have boasted in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	18	13	You should not have entered the gate of my people in the day of his calamity; you should not have gloated over his disaster in the day of his calamity; you should not have looted his goods in the day of his calamity.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	18	14	You should not have stood at the parting of the ways to cut off his fugitives; you should not have delivered up his survivors in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	18	15	For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you, your deeds shall return on your own head.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	18	16	For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, all the nations round about shall drink; they shall drink, and stagger, and shall be as though they had not been.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	18	17	But in Mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	18	18	The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor to the house of Esau; for the Lord has spoken.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	18	19	Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	18	20	The exiles in Halah who are of the people of Israel shall possess Phoenicia as far as Zarephath; and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	18	21	Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	19	1	The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard tidings from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Rise up! let us rise against her for battle!”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	19	2	Behold, I will make you small among the nations, you shall be utterly despised.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	19	3	The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	19	4	Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, thence I will bring you down, says the Lord.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	19	5	If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night— how you have been destroyed!— would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	19	6	How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures sought out!
 Obadiah	Obad	36	19	7	All your allies have deceived you, they have driven you to the border; your confederates have prevailed against you; your trusted friends have set a trap under you— there is no understanding of it.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	19	8	Will I not on that day, says the Lord, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	19	9	And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	19	10	For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off for ever.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	19	11	On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	19	12	But you should not have gloated over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; you should not have boasted in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	19	13	You should not have entered the gate of my people in the day of his calamity; you should not have gloated over his disaster in the day of his calamity; you should not have looted his goods in the day of his calamity.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	19	14	You should not have stood at the parting of the ways to cut off his fugitives; you should not have delivered up his survivors in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	19	15	For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you, your deeds shall return on your own head.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	19	16	For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, all the nations round about shall drink; they shall drink, and stagger, and shall be as though they had not been.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	19	17	But in Mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	19	18	The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor to the house of Esau; for the Lord has spoken.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	19	19	Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	19	20	The exiles in Halah who are of the people of Israel shall possess Phoenicia as far as Zarephath; and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	19	21	Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	20	1	The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard tidings from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Rise up! let us rise against her for battle!”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	20	2	Behold, I will make you small among the nations, you shall be utterly despised.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	20	3	The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	20	4	Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, thence I will bring you down, says the Lord.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	20	5	If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night— how you have been destroyed!— would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	20	6	How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures sought out!
 Obadiah	Obad	36	20	7	All your allies have deceived you, they have driven you to the border; your confederates have prevailed against you; your trusted friends have set a trap under you— there is no understanding of it.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	20	8	Will I not on that day, says the Lord, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	20	9	And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	20	10	For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off for ever.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	20	11	On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	20	12	But you should not have gloated over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; you should not have boasted in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	20	13	You should not have entered the gate of my people in the day of his calamity; you should not have gloated over his disaster in the day of his calamity; you should not have looted his goods in the day of his calamity.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	20	14	You should not have stood at the parting of the ways to cut off his fugitives; you should not have delivered up his survivors in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	20	15	For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you, your deeds shall return on your own head.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	20	16	For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, all the nations round about shall drink; they shall drink, and stagger, and shall be as though they had not been.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	20	17	But in Mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	20	18	The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor to the house of Esau; for the Lord has spoken.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	20	19	Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	20	20	The exiles in Halah who are of the people of Israel shall possess Phoenicia as far as Zarephath; and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	20	21	Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	21	1	The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard tidings from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Rise up! let us rise against her for battle!”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	21	2	Behold, I will make you small among the nations, you shall be utterly despised.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	21	3	The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”
 Obadiah	Obad	36	21	4	Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, thence I will bring you down, says the Lord.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	21	5	If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night— how you have been destroyed!— would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	21	6	How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures sought out!
 Obadiah	Obad	36	21	7	All your allies have deceived you, they have driven you to the border; your confederates have prevailed against you; your trusted friends have set a trap under you— there is no understanding of it.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	21	8	Will I not on that day, says the Lord, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?
 Obadiah	Obad	36	21	9	And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	21	10	For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off for ever.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	21	11	On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	21	12	But you should not have gloated over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; you should not have boasted in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	21	13	You should not have entered the gate of my people in the day of his calamity; you should not have gloated over his disaster in the day of his calamity; you should not have looted his goods in the day of his calamity.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	21	14	You should not have stood at the parting of the ways to cut off his fugitives; you should not have delivered up his survivors in the day of distress.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	21	15	For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you, your deeds shall return on your own head.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	21	16	For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, all the nations round about shall drink; they shall drink, and stagger, and shall be as though they had not been.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	21	17	But in Mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	21	18	The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor to the house of Esau; for the Lord has spoken.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	21	19	Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	21	20	The exiles in Halah who are of the people of Israel shall possess Phoenicia as far as Zarephath; and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
 Obadiah	Obad	36	21	21	Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.
 Jonah	Jon	37	1	1	Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
 Jonah	Jon	37	1	2	“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness has come up before me.”
 Jonah	Jon	37	1	3	But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare, and went on board, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the Lord.
 Jonah	Jon	37	1	4	But the Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship threatened to break up.
 Jonah	Jon	37	1	5	Then the mariners were afraid, and each cried to his god; and they threw the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it for them. But Jonah had gone down into the inner part of the ship and had lain down, and was fast asleep.
 Jonah	Jon	37	1	6	So the captain came and said to him, “What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, call upon your god! Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we do not perish.”
 Jonah	Jon	37	1	7	And they said to one another, “Come, let us cast lots, that we may know on whose account this evil has come upon us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.
 Jonah	Jon	37	1	8	Then they said to him, “Tell us, on whose account this evil has come upon us? What is your occupation? And whence do you come? What is your country? And of what people are you?”
 Jonah	Jon	37	1	9	And he said to them, “I am a Hebrew; and I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”
 Jonah	Jon	37	1	10	Then the men were exceedingly afraid, and said to him, “What is this that you have done!” For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them.
 Jonah	Jon	37	1	11	Then they said to him, “What shall we do to you, that the sea may quiet down for us?” For the sea grew more and more tempestuous.
 Jonah	Jon	37	1	12	He said to them, “Take me up and throw me into the sea; then the sea will quiet down for you; for I know it is because of me that this great tempest has come upon you.”
 Jonah	Jon	37	1	13	Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring the ship back to land, but they could not, for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.
 Jonah	Jon	37	1	14	Therefore they cried to the Lord, “We beseech thee, O Lord, let us not perish for this man’s life, and lay not on us innocent blood; for thou, O Lord, hast done as it pleased thee.”
 Jonah	Jon	37	1	15	So they took up Jonah and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.
 Jonah	Jon	37	1	16	Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows.
 Jonah	Jon	37	1	17	And the Lord appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah; and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
 Jonah	Jon	37	2	1	Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish,
 Jonah	Jon	37	2	2	saying, “I called to the Lord, out of my distress, and he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and thou didst hear my voice.
 Jonah	Jon	37	2	3	For thou didst cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the flood was round about me; all thy waves and thy billows passed over me.
 Jonah	Jon	37	2	4	Then I said, ‘I am cast out from thy presence; how shall I again look upon thy holy temple?’
 Jonah	Jon	37	2	5	The waters closed in over me, the deep was round about me; weeds were wrapped about my head
 Jonah	Jon	37	2	6	at the roots of the mountains. I went down to the land whose bars closed upon me for ever; yet thou didst bring up my life from the Pit, O Lord my God.
 Jonah	Jon	37	2	7	When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord; and my prayer came to thee, into thy holy temple.
 Jonah	Jon	37	2	8	Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their true loyalty.
 Jonah	Jon	37	2	9	But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to thee; what I have vowed I will pay. Deliverance belongs to the Lord!”
 Jonah	Jon	37	2	10	And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
 Jonah	Jon	37	3	1	Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying,
 Jonah	Jon	37	3	2	“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.”
 Jonah	Jon	37	3	3	So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey in breadth.
 Jonah	Jon	37	3	4	Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s journey. And he cried, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”
 Jonah	Jon	37	3	5	And the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.
 Jonah	Jon	37	3	6	Then tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, removed his robe, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
 Jonah	Jon	37	3	7	And he made proclamation and published through Nineveh, “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, or drink water,
 Jonah	Jon	37	3	8	but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them cry mightily to God; yea, let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence which is in his hands.
 Jonah	Jon	37	3	9	Who knows, God may yet repent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we perish not?”
 Jonah	Jon	37	3	10	When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God repented of the evil which he had said he would do to them; and he did not do it.
 Jonah	Jon	37	4	1	But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
 Jonah	Jon	37	4	2	And he prayed to the Lord and said, “I pray thee, Lord, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and repentest of evil.
 Jonah	Jon	37	4	3	Therefore now, O Lord, take my life from me, I beseech thee, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
 Jonah	Jon	37	4	4	And the Lord said, “Do you do well to be angry?”
 Jonah	Jon	37	4	5	Then Jonah went out of the city and sat to the east of the city, and made a booth for himself there. He sat under it in the shade, till he should see what would become of the city.
 Jonah	Jon	37	4	6	And the Lord God appointed a plant, and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the plant.
 Jonah	Jon	37	4	7	But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm which attacked the plant, so that it withered.
 Jonah	Jon	37	4	8	When the sun rose, God appointed a sultry east wind, and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah so that he was faint; and he asked that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
 Jonah	Jon	37	4	9	But God said to Jonah, “Do you do well to be angry for the plant?” And he said, “I do well to be angry, angry enough to die.”
 Jonah	Jon	37	4	10	And the Lord said, “You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night, and perished in a night.
 Jonah	Jon	37	4	11	And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”
 Micah	Mic	38	1	1	The word of the Lord that came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
 Micah	Mic	38	1	2	Hear, you peoples, all of you; hearken, O earth, and all that is in it; and let the Lord GOD be a witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
 Micah	Mic	38	1	3	For behold, the Lord is coming forth out of his place, and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth.
 Micah	Mic	38	1	4	And the mountains will melt under him and the valleys will be cleft, like wax before the fire, like waters poured down a steep place.
 Micah	Mic	38	1	5	All this is for the transgression of Jacob and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the sin of the house of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?
 Micah	Mic	38	1	6	Therefore I will make Samaria a heap in the open country, a place for planting vineyards; and I will pour down her stones into the valley, and uncover her foundations.
 Micah	Mic	38	1	7	All her images shall be beaten to pieces, all her hires shall be burned with fire, and all her idols I will lay waste; for from the hire of a harlot she gathered them, and to the hire of a harlot they shall return.
 Micah	Mic	38	1	8	For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.
 Micah	Mic	38	1	9	For her wound is incurable; and it has come to Judah, it has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.
 Micah	Mic	38	1	10	Tell it not in Gath, weep not at all; in Beth-le-aphrah roll yourselves in the dust.
 Micah	Mic	38	1	11	Pass on your way, inhabitants of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame; the inhabitants of Zaanan do not come forth; the wailing of Beth-ezel shall take away from you its standing place.
 Micah	Mic	38	1	12	For the inhabitants of Maroth wait anxiously for good, because evil has come down from the Lord to the gate of Jerusalem.
 Micah	Mic	38	1	13	Harness the steeds to the chariots, inhabitants of Lachish; you were the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion, for in you were found the transgressions of Israel.
 Micah	Mic	38	1	14	Therefore you shall give parting gifts to Moresheth-gath; the houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.
 Micah	Mic	38	1	15	I will again bring a conqueror upon you, inhabitants of Mareshah; the glory of Israel shall come to Adullam.
 Micah	Mic	38	1	16	Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair, for the children of your delight; make yourselves as bald as the eagle, for they shall go from you into exile.
 Micah	Mic	38	2	1	Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil upon their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.
 Micah	Mic	38	2	2	They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.
 Micah	Mic	38	2	3	Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, against this family I am devising evil, from which you cannot remove your necks; and you shall not walk haughtily, for it will be an evil time.
 Micah	Mic	38	2	4	In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you, and wail with bitter lamentation, and say, “We are utterly ruined; he changes the portion of my people; how he removes it from me! Among our captors he divides our fields.”
 Micah	Mic	38	2	5	Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the Lord.
 Micah	Mic	38	2	6	“Do not preach”—thus they preach— “one should not preach of such things; disgrace will not overtake us.”
 Micah	Mic	38	2	7	Should this be said, O house of Jacob? Is the Spirit of the Lord impatient? Are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him who walks uprightly?
 Micah	Mic	38	2	8	But you rise against my people as an enemy; you strip the robe from the peaceful, from those who pass by trustingly with no thought of war.
 Micah	Mic	38	2	9	The women of my people you drive out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my glory for ever.
 Micah	Mic	38	2	10	Arise and go, for this is no place to rest; because of uncleanness that destroys with a grievous destruction.
 Micah	Mic	38	2	11	If a man should go about and utter wind and lies, saying, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be the preacher for this people!
 Micah	Mic	38	2	12	I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob, I will gather the remnant of Israel; I will set them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in its pasture, a noisy multitude of men.
 Micah	Mic	38	2	13	He who opens the breach will go up before them; they will break through and pass the gate, going out by it. Their king will pass on before them, the Lord at their head.
 Micah	Mic	38	3	1	And I said: Hear, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to know justice?—
 Micah	Mic	38	3	2	you who hate the good and love the evil, who tear the skin from off my people, and their flesh from off their bones;
 Micah	Mic	38	3	3	who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones in pieces, and chop them up like meat in a kettle, like flesh in a caldron.
 Micah	Mic	38	3	4	Then they will cry to the Lord, but he will not answer them; he will hide his face from them at that time, because they have made their deeds evil.
 Micah	Mic	38	3	5	Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who cry “Peace” when they have something to eat, but declare war against him who puts nothing into their mouths.
 Micah	Mic	38	3	6	Therefore it shall be night to you, without vision, and darkness to you, without divination. The sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them;
 Micah	Mic	38	3	7	the seers shall be disgraced, and the diviners put to shame; they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God.
 Micah	Mic	38	3	8	But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the Lord, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.
 Micah	Mic	38	3	9	Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice and pervert all equity,
 Micah	Mic	38	3	10	who build Zion with blood and Jerusalem with wrong.
 Micah	Mic	38	3	11	Its heads give judgment for a bribe, its priests teach for hire, its prophets divine for money; yet they lean upon the Lord and say, “Is not the Lord in the midst of us? No evil shall come upon us.”
 Micah	Mic	38	3	12	Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height.
 Micah	Mic	38	4	1	It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be raised up above the hills; and peoples shall flow to it,
 Micah	Mic	38	4	2	and many nations shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
 Micah	Mic	38	4	3	He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more;
 Micah	Mic	38	4	4	but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and none shall make them afraid; for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.
 Micah	Mic	38	4	5	For all the peoples walk each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.
 Micah	Mic	38	4	6	In that day, says the Lord, I will assemble the lame and gather those who have been driven away, and those whom I have afflicted;
 Micah	Mic	38	4	7	and the lame I will make the remnant; and those who were cast off, a strong nation; and the Lord will reign over them in Mount Zion from this time forth and for evermore.
 Micah	Mic	38	4	8	And you, O tower of the flock, hill of the daughter of Zion, to you shall it come, the former dominion shall come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.
 Micah	Mic	38	4	9	Now why do you cry aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished, that pangs have seized you like a woman in travail?
 Micah	Mic	38	4	10	Writhe and groan, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now you shall go forth from the city and dwell in the open country; you shall go to Babylon. There you shall be rescued, there the Lord will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.
 Micah	Mic	38	4	11	Now many nations are assembled against you, saying, “Let her be profaned, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.”
 Micah	Mic	38	4	12	But they do not know the thoughts of the Lord, they do not understand his plan, that he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.
 Micah	Mic	38	4	13	Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron and your hoofs bronze; you shall beat in pieces many peoples, and shall devote their gain to the Lord, their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth.
 Micah	Mic	38	5	1	Now you are walled about with a wall; siege is laid against us; with a rod they strike upon the cheek the ruler of Israel.
 Micah	Mic	38	5	2	But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose origin is from of old, from ancient days.
 Micah	Mic	38	5	3	Therefore he shall give them up until the time when she who is in travail has brought forth; then the rest of his brethren shall return to the people of Israel.
 Micah	Mic	38	5	4	And he shall stand and feed his flock in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God. And they shall dwell secure, for now he shall be great to the ends of the earth.
 Micah	Mic	38	5	5	And this shall be peace, when the Assyrian comes into our land and treads upon our soil, that we will raise against him seven shepherds and eight princes of men;
 Micah	Mic	38	5	6	they shall rule the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with the drawn sword; and they shall deliver us from the Assyrian when he comes into our land and treads within our border.
 Micah	Mic	38	5	7	Then the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the Lord, like showers upon the grass, which tarry not for men nor wait for the sons of men.
 Micah	Mic	38	5	8	And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, which, when it goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is none to deliver.
 Micah	Mic	38	5	9	Your hand shall be lifted up over your adversaries, and all your enemies shall be cut off.
 Micah	Mic	38	5	10	And in that day, says the Lord, I will cut off your horses from among you and will destroy your chariots;
 Micah	Mic	38	5	11	and I will cut off the cities of your land and throw down all your strongholds;
 Micah	Mic	38	5	12	and I will cut off sorceries from your hand, and you shall have no more soothsayers;
 Micah	Mic	38	5	13	and I will cut off your images and your pillars from among you, and you shall bow down no more to the work of your hands;
 Micah	Mic	38	5	14	and I will root out your Asherim from among you and destroy your cities.
 Micah	Mic	38	5	15	And in anger and wrath I will execute vengeance upon the nations that did not obey.
 Micah	Mic	38	6	1	Hear what the Lord says: Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.
 Micah	Mic	38	6	2	Hear, you mountains, the controversy of the Lord, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for the Lord has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.
 Micah	Mic	38	6	3	“O my people, what have I done to you? In what have I wearied you? Answer me!
 Micah	Mic	38	6	4	For I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and redeemed you from the house of bondage; and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
 Micah	Mic	38	6	5	O my people, remember what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the saving acts of the Lord.”
 Micah	Mic	38	6	6	“With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?
 Micah	Mic	38	6	7	Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?”
 Micah	Mic	38	6	8	He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
 Micah	Mic	38	6	9	The voice of the Lord cries to the city— and it is sound wisdom to fear thy name: “Hear, O tribe and assembly of the city!
 Micah	Mic	38	6	10	Can I forget the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is accursed?
 Micah	Mic	38	6	11	Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights?
 Micah	Mic	38	6	12	Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
 Micah	Mic	38	6	13	Therefore I have begun to smite you, making you desolate because of your sins.
 Micah	Mic	38	6	14	You shall eat, but not be satisfied, and there shall be hunger in your inward parts; you shall put away, but not save, and what you save I will give to the sword.
 Micah	Mic	38	6	15	You shall sow, but not reap; you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.
 Micah	Mic	38	6	16	For you have kept the statutes of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab; and you have walked in their counsels; that I may make you a desolation, and your inhabitants a hissing; so you shall bear the scorn of the peoples.”
 Micah	Mic	38	7	1	Woe is me! For I have become as when the summer fruit has been gathered, as when the vintage has been gleaned: there is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe fig which my soul desires.
 Micah	Mic	38	7	2	The godly man has perished from the earth, and there is none upright among men; they all lie in wait for blood, and each hunts his brother with a net.
 Micah	Mic	38	7	3	Their hands are upon what is evil, to do it diligently; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.
 Micah	Mic	38	7	4	The best of them is like a brier, the most upright of them a thorn hedge. The day of their watchmen, of their punishment, has come; now their confusion is at hand.
 Micah	Mic	38	7	5	Put no trust in a neighbor, have no confidence in a friend; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom;
 Micah	Mic	38	7	6	for the son treats the father with contempt, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.
 Micah	Mic	38	7	7	But as for me, I will look to the Lord, I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.
 Micah	Mic	38	7	8	Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me.
 Micah	Mic	38	7	9	I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light; I shall behold his deliverance.
 Micah	Mic	38	7	10	Then my enemy will see, and shame will cover her who said to me, “Where is the Lord your God?” My eyes will gloat over her; now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.
 Micah	Mic	38	7	11	A day for the building of your walls! In that day the boundary shall be far extended.
 Micah	Mic	38	7	12	In that day they will come to you, from Assyria to Egypt, and from Egypt to the River, from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.
 Micah	Mic	38	7	13	But the earth will be desolate because of its inhabitants, for the fruit of their doings.
 Micah	Mic	38	7	14	Shepherd thy people with thy staff, the flock of thy inheritance, who dwell alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land; let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old.
 Micah	Mic	38	7	15	As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt I will show them marvelous things.
 Micah	Mic	38	7	16	The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hands on their mouths; their ears shall be deaf;
 Micah	Mic	38	7	17	they shall lick the dust like a serpent, like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their strongholds, they shall turn in dread to the Lord our God, and they shall fear because of thee.
 Micah	Mic	38	7	18	Who is a God like thee, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger for ever because he delights in steadfast love.
 Micah	Mic	38	7	19	He will again have compassion upon us, he will tread our iniquities under foot. Thou wilt cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
 Micah	Mic	38	7	20	Thou wilt show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as thou hast sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
 Nahum	Nahum	39	1	1	An oracle concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh.
 Nahum	Nahum	39	1	2	The Lord is a jealous God and avenging, the Lord is avenging and wrathful; the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries and keeps wrath for his enemies.
 Nahum	Nahum	39	1	3	The Lord is slow to anger and of great might, and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
 Nahum	Nahum	39	1	4	He rebukes the sea and makes it dry, he dries up all the rivers; Bashan and Carmel wither, the bloom of Lebanon fades.
 Nahum	Nahum	39	1	5	The mountains quake before him, the hills melt; the earth is laid waste before him, the world and all that dwell therein.
 Nahum	Nahum	39	1	6	Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the heat of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken asunder by him.
 Nahum	Nahum	39	1	7	The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him.
 Nahum	Nahum	39	1	8	But with an overflowing flood he will make a full end of his adversaries, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
 Nahum	Nahum	39	1	9	What do you plot against the Lord? He will make a full end; he will not take vengeance twice on his foes.
 Nahum	Nahum	39	1	10	Like entangled thorns they are consumed, like dry stubble.
 Nahum	Nahum	39	1	11	Did one not come out from you, who plotted evil against the Lord, and counseled villainy?
 Nahum	Nahum	39	1	12	Thus says the Lord, “Though they be strong and many, they will be cut off and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.
 Nahum	Nahum	39	1	13	And now I will break his yoke from off you and will burst your bonds asunder.”
 Nahum	Nahum	39	1	14	The Lord has given commandment about you: “No more shall your name be perpetuated; from the house of your gods I will cut off the graven image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile.”
 Nahum	Nahum	39	1	15	Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good tidings, who proclaims peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah, fulfil your vows, for never again shall the wicked come against you, he is utterly cut off.
 Nahum	Nahum	39	2	1	The shatterer has come up against you. Man the ramparts; watch the road; gird your loins; collect all your strength.
 Nahum	Nahum	39	2	2	(For the Lord is restoring the majesty of Jacob as the majesty of Israel, for plunderers have stripped them and ruined their branches.)
 Nahum	Nahum	39	2	3	The shield of his mighty men is red, his soldiers are clothed in scarlet. The chariots flash like flame when mustered in array; the chargers prance.
 Nahum	Nahum	39	2	4	The chariots rage in the streets, they rush to and fro through the squares; they gleam like torches, they dart like lightning.
 Nahum	Nahum	39	2	5	The officers are summoned, they stumble as they go, they hasten to the wall, the mantelet is set up.
 Nahum	Nahum	39	2	6	The river gates are opened, the palace is in dismay;
 Nahum	Nahum	39	2	7	its mistress is stripped, she is carried off, her maidens lamenting, moaning like doves, and beating their breasts.
 Nahum	Nahum	39	2	8	Nineveh is like a pool whose waters run away. “Halt! Halt!” they cry; but none turns back.
 Nahum	Nahum	39	2	9	Plunder the silver, plunder the gold! There is no end of treasure, or wealth of every precious thing.
 Nahum	Nahum	39	2	10	Desolate! Desolation and ruin! Hearts faint and knees tremble, anguish is on all loins, all faces grow pale!
 Nahum	Nahum	39	2	11	Where is the lions’ den, the cave of the young lions, where the lion brought his prey, where his cubs were, with none to disturb?
 Nahum	Nahum	39	2	12	The lion tore enough for his whelps and strangled prey for his lionesses; he filled his caves with prey and his dens with torn flesh.
 Nahum	Nahum	39	2	13	Behold, I am against you, says the Lord of hosts, and I will burn your chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions; I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall no more be heard.
 Nahum	Nahum	39	3	1	Woe to the bloody city, all full of lies and booty— no end to the plunder!
 Nahum	Nahum	39	3	2	The crack of whip, and rumble of wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot!
 Nahum	Nahum	39	3	3	Horsemen charging, flashing sword and glittering spear, hosts of slain, heaps of corpses, dead bodies without end— they stumble over the bodies!
 Nahum	Nahum	39	3	4	And all for the countless harlotries of the harlot, graceful and of deadly charms, who betrays nations with her harlotries, and peoples with her charms.
 Nahum	Nahum	39	3	5	Behold, I am against you, says the Lord of hosts, and will lift up your skirts over your face; and I will let nations look on your nakedness and kingdoms on your shame.
 Nahum	Nahum	39	3	6	I will throw filth at you and treat you with contempt, and make you a gazingstock.
 Nahum	Nahum	39	3	7	And all who look on you will shrink from you and say, Wasted is Nineveh; who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for her?
 Nahum	Nahum	39	3	8	Are you better than Thebes that sat by the Nile, with water around her, her rampart a sea, and water her wall?
 Nahum	Nahum	39	3	9	Ethiopia was her strength, Egypt too, and that without limit; Put and the Libyans were her helpers.
 Nahum	Nahum	39	3	10	Yet she was carried away, she went into captivity; her little ones were dashed in pieces at the head of every street; for her honored men lots were cast, and all her great men were bound in chains.
 Nahum	Nahum	39	3	11	You also will be drunken, you will be dazed; you will seek a refuge from the enemy.
 Nahum	Nahum	39	3	12	All your fortresses are like fig trees with first-ripe figs— if shaken they fall into the mouth of the eater.
 Nahum	Nahum	39	3	13	Behold, your troops are women in your midst. The gates of your land are wide open to your foes; fire has devoured your bars.
 Nahum	Nahum	39	3	14	Draw water for the siege, strengthen your forts; go into the clay, tread the mortar, take hold of the brick mold!
 Nahum	Nahum	39	3	15	There will the fire devour you, the sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the locust. Multiply yourselves like the locust, multiply like the grasshopper!
 Nahum	Nahum	39	3	16	You increased your merchants more than the stars of the heavens. The locust spreads its wings and flies away.
 Nahum	Nahum	39	3	17	Your princes are like grasshoppers, your scribes like clouds of locusts settling on the fences in a day of cold— when the sun rises, they fly away; no one knows where they are.
 Nahum	Nahum	39	3	18	Your shepherds are asleep, O king of Assyria; your nobles slumber. Your people are scattered on the mountains with none to gather them.
 Nahum	Nahum	39	3	19	There is no assuaging your hurt, your wound is grievous. All who hear the news of you clap their hands over you. For upon whom has not come your unceasing evil?
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	1	1	The oracle of God which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	1	2	O Lord, how long shall I cry for help, and thou wilt not hear? Or cry to thee “Violence!” and thou wilt not save?
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	1	3	Why dost thou make me see wrongs and look upon trouble? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	1	4	So the law is slacked and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous, so justice goes forth perverted.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	1	5	Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	1	6	For lo, I am rousing the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth, to seize habitations not their own.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	1	7	Dread and terrible are they; their justice and dignity proceed from themselves.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	1	8	Their horses are swifter than leopards, more fierce than the evening wolves; their horsemen press proudly on. Yea, their horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle swift to devour.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	1	9	They all come for violence; terror of them goes before them. They gather captives like sand.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	1	10	At kings they scoff, and of rulers they make sport. They laugh at every fortress, for they heap up earth and take it.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	1	11	Then they sweep by like the wind and go on, guilty men, whose own might is their god!
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	1	12	Art thou not from everlasting, O Lord my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O Lord, thou hast ordained them as a judgment; and thou, O Rock, hast established them for chastisement.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	1	13	Thou who art of purer eyes than to behold evil and canst not look on wrong, why dost thou look on faithless men, and art silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	1	14	For thou makest men like the fish of the sea, like crawling things that have no ruler.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	1	15	He brings all of them up with a hook, he drags them out with his net, he gathers them in his seine; so he rejoices and exults.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	1	16	Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his seine; for by them he lives in luxury, and his food is rich.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	1	17	Is he then to keep on emptying his net, and mercilessly slaying nations for ever?
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	2	1	I will take my stand to watch, and station myself on the tower, and look forth to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	2	2	And the Lord answered me: “Write the vision; make it plain upon tablets, so he may run who reads it.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	2	3	For still the vision awaits its time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seem slow, wait for it; it will surely come, it will not delay.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	2	4	Behold, he whose soul is not upright in him shall fail, but the righteous shall live by his faith.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	2	5	Moreover, wine is treacherous; the arrogant man shall not abide. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations, and collects as his own all peoples.”
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	2	6	Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, in scoffing derision of him, and say, “Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own— for how long?— and loads himself with pledges!”
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	2	7	Will not your debtors suddenly arise, and those awake who will make you tremble? Then you will be booty for them.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	2	8	Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you, for the blood of men and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell therein.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	2	9	Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of harm!
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	2	10	You have devised shame to your house by cutting off many peoples; you have forfeited your life.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	2	11	For the stone will cry out from the wall, and the beam from the woodwork respond.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	2	12	Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and founds a city on iniquity!
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	2	13	Behold, is it not from the Lord of hosts that peoples labor only for fire, and nations weary themselves for nought?
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	2	14	For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	2	15	Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink of the cup of his wrath, and makes them drunk, to gaze on their shame!
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	2	16	You will be sated with contempt instead of glory. Drink, yourself, and stagger! The cup in the Lord’s right hand will come around to you, and shame will come upon your glory!
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	2	17	The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you; the destruction of the beasts will terrify you, for the blood of men and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell therein.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	2	18	What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For the workman trusts in his own creation when he makes dumb idols!
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	2	19	Woe to him who says to a wooden thing, Awake; to a dumb stone, Arise! Can this give revelation? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in it.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	2	20	But the Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	3	1	A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	3	2	O Lord, I have heard the report of thee, and thy work, O Lord, do I fear. In the midst of the years renew it; in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	3	3	God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. Selah
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	3	4	His brightness was like the light, rays flashed from his hand; and there he veiled his power.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	3	5	Before him went pestilence, and plague followed close behind.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	3	6	He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations; then the eternal mountains were scattered, the everlasting hills sank low. His ways were as of old.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	3	7	I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction; the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	3	8	Was thy wrath against the rivers, O Lord? Was thy anger against the rivers, or thy indignation against the sea, when thou didst ride upon thy horses, upon thy chariot of victory?
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	3	9	Thou didst strip the sheath from thy bow, and put the arrows to the string. Selah Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	3	10	The mountains saw thee, and writhed; the raging waters swept on; the deep gave forth its voice, it lifted its hands on high.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	3	11	The sun and moon stood still in their habitation at the light of thine arrows as they sped, at the flash of thy glittering spear.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	3	12	Thou didst bestride the earth in fury, thou didst trample the nations in anger.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	3	13	Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, for the salvation of thy anointed. Thou didst crush the head of the wicked, laying him bare from thigh to neck. Selah
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	3	14	Thou didst pierce with thy shafts the head of his warriors, who came like a whirlwind to scatter me, rejoicing as if to devour the poor in secret.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	3	15	Thou didst trample the sea with thy horses, the surging of mighty waters.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	3	16	I hear, and my body trembles, my lips quiver at the sound; rottenness enters into my bones, my steps totter beneath me. I will quietly wait for the day of trouble to come upon people who invade us.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	3	17	Though the fig tree do not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls,
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	3	18	yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
 Habakkuk	Hab	40	3	19	GOD, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like hinds’ feet, he makes me tread upon my high places. To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	1	1	The word of the Lord which came to Zephaniah the son of Cushi, son of Gedaliah, son of Amariah, son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	1	2	“I will utterly sweep away everything from the face of the earth,” says the Lord.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	1	3	“I will sweep away man and beast; I will sweep away the birds of the air and the fish of the sea. I will overthrow the wicked; I will cut off mankind from the face of the earth,” says the Lord.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	1	4	“I will stretch out my hand against Judah, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off from this place the remnant of Baal and the name of the idolatrous priests;
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	1	5	those who bow down on the roofs to the host of the heavens; those who bow down and swear to the Lord and yet swear by Milcom;
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	1	6	those who have turned back from following the Lord, who do not seek the Lord or inquire of him.”
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	1	7	Be silent before the Lord GOD! For the day of the Lord is at hand; the Lord has prepared a sacrifice and consecrated his guests.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	1	8	And on the day of the Lord’s sacrifice— “I will punish the officials and the king’s sons and all who array themselves in foreign attire.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	1	9	On that day I will punish every one who leaps over the threshold, and those who fill their master’s house with violence and fraud.”
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	1	10	“On that day,” says the Lord, “a cry will be heard from the Fish Gate, a wail from the Second Quarter, a loud crash from the hills.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	1	11	Wail, O inhabitants of the Mortar! For all the traders are no more; all who weigh out silver are cut off.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	1	12	At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are thickening upon their lees, those who say in their hearts, ‘The Lord will not do good, nor will he do ill.’
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	1	13	Their goods shall be plundered, and their houses laid waste. Though they build houses, they shall not inhabit them; though they plant vineyards, they shall not drink wine from them.”
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	1	14	The great day of the Lord is near, near and hastening fast; the sound of the day of the Lord is bitter, the mighty man cries aloud there.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	1	15	A day of wrath is that day, a day of distress and anguish, a day of ruin and devastation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	1	16	a day of trumpet blast and battle cry against the fortified cities and against the lofty battlements.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	1	17	I will bring distress on men, so that they shall walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the Lord; their blood shall be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	1	18	Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them on the day of the wrath of the Lord. In the fire of his jealous wrath, all the earth shall be consumed; for a full, yea, sudden end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	2	1	Come together and hold assembly, O shameless nation,
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	2	2	before you are driven away like the drifting chaff, before there comes upon you the fierce anger of the Lord, before there comes upon you the day of the wrath of the Lord.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	2	3	Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land, who do his commands; seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the wrath of the Lord.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	2	4	For Gaza shall be deserted, and Ashkelon shall become a desolation; Ashdod’s people shall be driven out at noon, and Ekron shall be uprooted.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	2	5	Woe to you inhabitants of the seacoast, you nation of the Cherethites! The word of the Lord is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines; and I will destroy you till no inhabitant is left.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	2	6	And you, O seacoast, shall be pastures, meadows for shepherds and folds for flocks.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	2	7	The seacoast shall become the possession of the remnant of the house of Judah, on which they shall pasture, and in the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down at evening. For the Lord their God will be mindful of them and restore their fortunes.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	2	8	“I have heard the taunts of Moab and the revilings of the Ammonites, how they have taunted my people and made boasts against their territory.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	2	9	Therefore, as I live,” says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a waste for ever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.”
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	2	10	This shall be their lot in return for their pride, because they scoffed and boasted against the people of the Lord of hosts.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	2	11	The Lord will be terrible against them; yea, he will famish all the gods of the earth, and to him shall bow down, each in its place, all the lands of the nations.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	2	12	You also, O Ethiopians, shall be slain by my sword.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	2	13	And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and he will make Nineveh a desolation, a dry waste like the desert.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	2	14	Herds shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the field; the vulture and the hedgehog shall lodge in her capitals; the owl shall hoot in the window, the raven croak on the threshold; for her cedar work will be laid bare.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	2	15	This is the exultant city that dwelt secure, that said to herself, “I am and there is none else.” What a desolation she has become, a lair for wild beasts! Every one who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	3	1	Woe to her that is rebellious and defiled, the oppressing city!
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	3	2	She listens to no voice, she accepts no correction. She does not trust in the Lord, she does not draw near to her God.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	3	3	Her officials within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves that leave nothing till the morning.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	3	4	Her prophets are wanton, faithless men; her priests profane what is sacred, they do violence to the law.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	3	5	The Lord within her is righteous, he does no wrong; every morning he shows forth his justice, each dawn he does not fail; but the unjust knows no shame.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	3	6	“I have cut off nations; their battlements are in ruins; I have laid waste their streets so that none walks in them; their cities have been made desolate, without a man, without an inhabitant.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	3	7	I said, ‘Surely she will fear me, she will accept correction; she will not lose sight of all that I have enjoined upon her.’ But all the more they were eager to make all their deeds corrupt.”
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	3	8	“Therefore wait for me,” says the Lord, “for the day when I arise as a witness. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all the heat of my anger; for in the fire of my jealous wrath all the earth shall be consumed.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	3	9	“Yea, at that time I will change the speech of the peoples to a pure speech, that all of them may call on the name of the Lord and serve him with one accord.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	3	10	From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, the daughter of my dispersed ones, shall bring my offering.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	3	11	“On that day you shall not be put to shame because of the deeds by which you have rebelled against me; for then I will remove from your midst your proudly exultant ones, and you shall no longer be haughty in my holy mountain.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	3	12	For I will leave in the midst of you a people humble and lowly. They shall seek refuge in the name of the Lord,
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	3	13	those who are left in Israel; they shall do no wrong and utter no lies, nor shall there be found in their mouth a deceitful tongue. For they shall pasture and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.”
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	3	14	Sing aloud, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem!
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	3	15	The Lord has taken away the judgments against you, he has cast out your enemies. The King of Israel, the Lord, is in your midst; you shall fear evil no more.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	3	16	On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem: “Do not fear, O Zion; let not your hands grow weak.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	3	17	The Lord, your God, is in your midst, a warrior who gives victory; he will rejoice over you with gladness, he will renew you in his love; he will exult over you with loud singing
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	3	18	as on a day of festival. “I will remove disaster from you, so that you will not bear reproach for it.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	3	19	Behold, at that time I will deal with all your oppressors. And I will save the lame and gather the outcast, and I will change their shame into praise and renown in all the earth.
 Zephaniah	Zeph	41	3	20	At that time I will bring you home, at the time when I gather you together; yea, I will make you renowned and praised among all the peoples of the earth, when I restore your fortunes before your eyes,” says the Lord.
 Haggai	Hag	42	1	1	In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of She-alti-el, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest,
 Haggai	Hag	42	1	2	“Thus says the Lord of hosts: This people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the Lord.”
 Haggai	Hag	42	1	3	Then the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet,
 Haggai	Hag	42	1	4	“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?
 Haggai	Hag	42	1	5	Now therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider how you have fared.
 Haggai	Hag	42	1	6	You have sown much, and harvested little; you eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes.
 Haggai	Hag	42	1	7	“Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider how you have fared.
 Haggai	Hag	42	1	8	Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may appear in my glory, says the Lord.
 Haggai	Hag	42	1	9	You have looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? says the Lord of hosts. Because of my house that lies in ruins, while you busy yourselves each with his own house.
 Haggai	Hag	42	1	10	Therefore the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce.
 Haggai	Hag	42	1	11	And I have called for a drought upon the land and the hills, upon the grain, the new wine, the oil, upon what the ground brings forth, upon men and cattle, and upon all their labors.”
 Haggai	Hag	42	1	12	Then Zerubbabel the son of She-alti-el, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the Lord their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the Lord their God had sent him; and the people feared before the Lord.
 Haggai	Hag	42	1	13	Then Haggai, the messenger of the Lord, spoke to the people with the Lord’s message, “I am with you, says the Lord.”
 Haggai	Hag	42	1	14	And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of She-alti-el, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of the Lord of hosts, their God,
 Haggai	Hag	42	1	15	on the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month. In the second year of Darius the king,
 Haggai	Hag	42	2	1	in the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet,
 Haggai	Hag	42	2	2	“Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of She-alti-el, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people, and say,
 Haggai	Hag	42	2	3	‘Who is left among you that saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Is it not in your sight as nothing?
 Haggai	Hag	42	2	4	Yet now take courage, O Zerubbabel, says the Lord; take courage, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest; take courage, all you people of the land, says the Lord; work, for I am with you, says the Lord of hosts,
 Haggai	Hag	42	2	5	according to the promise that I made you when you came out of Egypt. My Spirit abides among you; fear not.
 Haggai	Hag	42	2	6	For thus says the Lord of hosts: Once again, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land;
 Haggai	Hag	42	2	7	and I will shake all nations, so that the treasures of all nations shall come in, and I will fill this house with splendor, says the Lord of hosts.
 Haggai	Hag	42	2	8	The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says the Lord of hosts.
 Haggai	Hag	42	2	9	The latter splendor of this house shall be greater than the former, says the Lord of hosts; and in this place I will give prosperity, says the Lord of hosts.’”
 Haggai	Hag	42	2	10	On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet,
 Haggai	Hag	42	2	11	“Thus says the Lord of hosts: Ask the priests to decide this question,
 Haggai	Hag	42	2	12	‘If one carries holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and touches with his skirt bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any kind of food, does it become holy?’” The priests answered, “No.”
 Haggai	Hag	42	2	13	Then said Haggai, “If one who is unclean by contact with a dead body touches any of these, does it become unclean?” The priests answered, “It does become unclean.”
 Haggai	Hag	42	2	14	Then Haggai said, “So is it with this people, and with this nation before me, says the Lord; and so with every work of their hands; and what they offer there is unclean.
 Haggai	Hag	42	2	15	Pray now, consider what will come to pass from this day onward. Before a stone was placed upon a stone in the temple of the Lord,
 Haggai	Hag	42	2	16	how did you fare? When one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the winevat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty.
 Haggai	Hag	42	2	17	I smote you and all the products of your toil with blight and mildew and hail; yet you did not return to me, says the Lord.
 Haggai	Hag	42	2	18	Consider from this day onward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Since the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid, consider:
 Haggai	Hag	42	2	19	Is the seed yet in the barn? Do the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree still yield nothing? From this day on I will bless you.”
 Haggai	Hag	42	2	20	The word of the Lord came a second time to Haggai on the twenty-fourth day of the month,
 Haggai	Hag	42	2	21	“Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I am about to shake the heavens and the earth,
 Haggai	Hag	42	2	22	and to overthrow the throne of kingdoms; I am about to destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations, and overthrow the chariots and their riders; and the horses and their riders shall go down, every one by the sword of his fellow.
 Haggai	Hag	42	2	23	On that day, says the Lord of hosts, I will take you, O Zerubbabel my servant, the son of She-alti-el, says the Lord, and make you like a signet ring; for I have chosen you, says the Lord of hosts.”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	1	1	In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,
 Zechariah	Zech	43	1	2	“The Lord was very angry with your fathers.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	1	3	Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord of hosts: Return to me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	1	4	Be not like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But they did not hear or heed me, says the Lord.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	1	5	Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live for ever?
 Zechariah	Zech	43	1	6	But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? So they repented and said, As the Lord of hosts purposed to deal with us for our ways and deeds, so has he dealt with us.”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	1	7	On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month which is the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, son of Iddo, the prophet; and Zechariah said,
 Zechariah	Zech	43	1	8	“I saw in the night, and behold, a man riding upon a red horse! He was standing among the myrtle trees in the glen; and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	1	9	Then I said, ‘What are these, my lord?’ The angel who talked with me said to me, ‘I will show you what they are.’
 Zechariah	Zech	43	1	10	So the man who was standing among the myrtle trees answered, ‘These are they whom the Lord has sent to patrol the earth.’
 Zechariah	Zech	43	1	11	And they answered the angel of the Lord who was standing among the myrtle trees, ‘We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth remains at rest.’
 Zechariah	Zech	43	1	12	Then the angel of the Lord said, ‘O Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou have no mercy on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these seventy years?’
 Zechariah	Zech	43	1	13	And the Lord answered gracious and comforting words to the angel who talked with me.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	1	14	So the angel who talked with me said to me, ‘Cry out, Thus says the Lord of hosts: I am exceedingly jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	1	15	And I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was angry but a little they furthered the disaster.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	1	16	Therefore, thus says the Lord, I have returned to Jerusalem with compassion; my house shall be built in it, says the Lord of hosts, and the measuring line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	1	17	Cry again, Thus says the Lord of hosts: My cities shall again overflow with prosperity, and the Lord will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.’”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	1	18	And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, four horns!
 Zechariah	Zech	43	1	19	And I said to the angel who talked with me, “What are these?” And he answered me, “These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	1	20	Then the Lord showed me four smiths.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	1	21	And I said, “What are these coming to do?” He answered, “These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man raised his head; and these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations who lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it.”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	2	1	And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand!
 Zechariah	Zech	43	2	2	Then I said, “Where are you going?” And he said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its breadth and what is its length.”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	2	3	And behold, the angel who talked with me came forward, and another angel came forward to meet him,
 Zechariah	Zech	43	2	4	and said to him, “Run, say to that young man, ‘Jerusalem shall be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and cattle in it.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	2	5	For I will be to her a wall of fire round about, says the Lord, and I will be the glory within her.’”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	2	6	Ho! ho! Flee from the land of the north, says the Lord; for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heavens, says the Lord.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	2	7	Ho! Escape to Zion, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	2	8	For thus said the Lord of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye:
 Zechariah	Zech	43	2	9	“Behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they shall become plunder for those who served them. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	2	10	Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion; for lo, I come and I will dwell in the midst of you, says the Lord.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	2	11	And many nations shall join themselves to the Lord in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell in the midst of you, and you shall know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	2	12	And the Lord will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	2	13	Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord; for he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	3	1	Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	3	2	And the Lord said to Satan, “The Lord rebuke you, O Satan! The Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is not this a brand plucked from the fire?”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	3	3	Now Joshua was standing before the angel, clothed with filthy garments.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	3	4	And the angel said to those who were standing before him, “Remove the filthy garments from him.” And to him he said, “Behold, I have taken your iniquity away from you, and I will clothe you with rich apparel.”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	3	5	And I said, “Let them put a clean turban on his head.” So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him with garments; and the angel of the Lord was standing by.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	3	6	And the angel of the Lord enjoined Joshua,
 Zechariah	Zech	43	3	7	“Thus says the Lord of hosts: If you will walk in my ways and keep my charge, then you shall rule my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you the right of access among those who are standing here.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	3	8	Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you and your friends who sit before you, for they are men of good omen: behold, I will bring my servant the Branch.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	3	9	For behold, upon the stone which I have set before Joshua, upon a single stone with seven facets, I will engrave its inscription, says the Lord of hosts, and I will remove the guilt of this land in a single day.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	3	10	In that day, says the Lord of hosts, every one of you will invite his neighbor under his vine and under his fig tree.”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	4	1	And the angel who talked with me came again, and waked me, like a man that is wakened out of his sleep.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	4	2	And he said to me, “What do you see?” I said, “I see, and behold, a lampstand all of gold, with a bowl on the top of it, and seven lamps on it, with seven lips on each of the lamps which are on the top of it.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	4	3	And there are two olive trees by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left.”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	4	4	And I said to the angel who talked with me, “What are these, my lord?”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	4	5	Then the angel who talked with me answered me, “Do you not know what these are?” I said, “No, my lord.”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	4	6	Then he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	4	7	What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain; and he shall bring forward the top stone amid shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	4	8	Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
 Zechariah	Zech	43	4	9	“The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also complete it. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	4	10	For whoever has despised the day of small things shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel. “These seven are the eyes of the Lord, which range through the whole earth.”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	4	11	Then I said to him, “What are these two olive trees on the right and the left of the lampstand?”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	4	12	And a second time I said to him, “What are these two branches of the olive trees, which are beside the two golden pipes from which the oil is poured out?”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	4	13	He said to me, “Do you not know what these are?” I said, “No, my lord.”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	4	14	Then he said, “These are the two anointed who stand by the Lord of the whole earth.”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	5	1	Again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying scroll!
 Zechariah	Zech	43	5	2	And he said to me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits, and its breadth ten cubits.”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	5	3	Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land; for every one who steals shall be cut off henceforth according to it, and every one who swears falsely shall be cut off henceforth according to it.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	5	4	I will send it forth, says the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it shall abide in his house and consume it, both timber and stones.”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	5	5	Then the angel who talked with me came forward and said to me, “Lift your eyes, and see what this is that goes forth.”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	5	6	And I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is the ephah that goes forth.” And he said, “This is their iniquity in all the land.”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	5	7	And behold, the leaden cover was lifted, and there was a woman sitting in the ephah!
 Zechariah	Zech	43	5	8	And he said, “This is Wickedness.” And he thrust her back into the ephah, and thrust down the leaden weight upon its mouth.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	5	9	Then I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, two women coming forward! The wind was in their wings; they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah between earth and heaven.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	5	10	Then I said to the angel who talked with me, “Where are they taking the ephah?”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	5	11	He said to me, “To the land of Shinar, to build a house for it; and when this is prepared, they will set the ephah down there on its base.”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	6	1	And again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, four chariots came out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of bronze.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	6	2	The first chariot had red horses, the second black horses,
 Zechariah	Zech	43	6	3	the third white horses, and the fourth chariot dappled gray horses.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	6	4	Then I said to the angel who talked with me, “What are these, my lord?”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	6	5	And the angel answered me, “These are going forth to the four winds of heaven, after presenting themselves before the Lord of all the earth.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	6	6	The chariot with the black horses goes toward the north country, the white ones go toward the west country, and the dappled ones go toward the south country.”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	6	7	When the steeds came out, they were impatient to get off and patrol the earth. And he said, “Go, patrol the earth.” So they patrolled the earth.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	6	8	Then he cried to me, “Behold, those who go toward the north country have set my Spirit at rest in the north country.”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	6	9	And the word of the Lord came to me:
 Zechariah	Zech	43	6	10	“Take from the exiles Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah, who have arrived from Babylon; and go the same day to the house of Josiah, the son of Zephaniah.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	6	11	Take from them silver and gold, and make a crown, and set it upon the head of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest;
 Zechariah	Zech	43	6	12	and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: for he shall grow up in his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	6	13	It is he who shall build the temple of the Lord, and shall bear royal honor, and shall sit and rule upon his throne. And there shall be a priest by his throne, and peaceful understanding shall be between them both.”’
 Zechariah	Zech	43	6	14	And the crown shall be in the temple of the Lord as a reminder to Heldai, Tobijah, Jedaiah, and Josiah the son of Zephaniah.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	6	15	“And those who are far off shall come and help to build the temple of the Lord; and you shall know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you. And this shall come to pass, if you will diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God.”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	7	1	In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	7	2	Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech and their men, to entreat the favor of the Lord,
 Zechariah	Zech	43	7	3	and to ask the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and the prophets, “Should I mourn and fast in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	7	4	Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me;
 Zechariah	Zech	43	7	5	“Say to all the people of the land and the priests, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted?
 Zechariah	Zech	43	7	6	And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?
 Zechariah	Zech	43	7	7	When Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, with her cities round about her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited, were not these the words which the Lord proclaimed by the former prophets?”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	7	8	And the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying,
 Zechariah	Zech	43	7	9	“Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy each to his brother,
 Zechariah	Zech	43	7	10	do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	7	11	But they refused to hearken, and turned a stubborn shoulder, and stopped their ears that they might not hear.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	7	12	They made their hearts like adamant lest they should hear the law and the words which the Lord of hosts had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from the Lord of hosts.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	7	13	“As I called, and they would not hear, so they called, and I would not hear,” says the Lord of hosts,
 Zechariah	Zech	43	7	14	“and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and the pleasant land was made desolate.”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	8	1	And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying,
 Zechariah	Zech	43	8	2	“Thus says the Lord of hosts: I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	8	3	Thus says the Lord: I will return to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, the holy mountain.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	8	4	Thus says the Lor of hosts: Old men and old women shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand for very age.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	8	5	And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	8	6	Thus says the Lord of hosts: If it is marvelous in the sight of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvelous in my sight, says the Lord of hosts?
 Zechariah	Zech	43	8	7	Thus says the Lord of hosts: Behold, I will save my people from the east country and from the west country;
 Zechariah	Zech	43	8	8	and I will bring them to dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and they shall be my people and I will be their God, in faithfulness and in righteousness.”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	8	9	Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Let your hands be strong, you who in these days have been hearing these words from the mouth of the prophets, since the day that the foundation of the house of the Lord of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	8	10	For before those days there was no wage for man or any wage for beast, neither was there any safety from the foe for him who went out or came in; for I set every man against his fellow.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	8	11	But now I will not deal with the remnant of this people as in the former days, says the Lord of hosts.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	8	12	For there shall be a sowing of peace; the vine shall yield its fruit, and the ground shall give its increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	8	13	And as you have been a byword of cursing among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you and you shall be a blessing. Fear not, but let your hands be strong.”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	8	14	For thus says the Lord of hosts: “As I purposed to do evil to you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, and I did not relent, says the Lord of hosts,
 Zechariah	Zech	43	8	15	so again have I purposed in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah; fear not.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	8	16	These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another, render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace,
 Zechariah	Zech	43	8	17	do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate, says the Lord.”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	8	18	And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying,
 Zechariah	Zech	43	8	19	“Thus says the Lord of hosts: The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah seasons of joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love truth and peace.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	8	20	“Thus says the Lord of hosts: Peoples shall yet come, even the inhabitants of many cities;
 Zechariah	Zech	43	8	21	the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, ‘Let us go at once to entreat the favor of the Lord, and to seek the Lord of hosts; I am going.’
 Zechariah	Zech	43	8	22	Many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of the Lord.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	8	23	Thus says the Lord of hosts: In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	9	1	An Oracle The word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrach and will rest upon Damascus. For to the Lord belong the cities of Aram, even as all the tribes of Israel;
 Zechariah	Zech	43	9	2	Hamath also, which borders thereon, Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	9	3	Tyre has built herself a rampart, and heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	9	4	But lo, the Lord will strip her of her possessions and hurl her wealth into the sea, and she shall be devoured by fire.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	9	5	Ashkelon shall see it, and be afraid; Gaza too, and shall writhe in anguish; Ekron also, because its hopes are confounded. The king shall perish from Gaza; Ashkelon shall be uninhabited;
 Zechariah	Zech	43	9	6	a mongrel people shall dwell in Ashdod; and I will make an end of the pride of Philistia.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	9	7	I will take away its blood from its mouth, and its abominations from between its teeth; it too shall be a remnant for our God; it shall be like a clan in Judah, and Ekron shall be like the Jebusites.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	9	8	Then I will encamp at my house as a guard, so that none shall march to and fro; no oppressor shall again overrun them, for now I see with my own eyes.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	9	9	Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on an ass, on a colt the foal of an ass.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	9	10	I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall command peace to the nations; his dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	9	11	As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your captives free from the waterless pit.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	9	12	Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; today I declare that I will restore to you double.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	9	13	For I have bent Judah as my bow; I have made Ephraim its arrow. I will brandish your sons, O Zion, over your sons, O Greece, and wield you like a warrior’s sword.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	9	14	Then the Lord will appear over them, and his arrow go forth like lightning; the Lord GOD will sound the trumpet, and march forth in the whirlwinds of the south.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	9	15	The Lord of hosts will protect them, and they shall devour and tread down the slingers; and they shall drink their blood like wine, and be full like a bowl, drenched like the corners of the altar.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	9	16	On that day the Lord their God will save them for they are the flock of his people; for like the jewels of a crown they shall shine on his land.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	9	17	Yea, how good and how fair it shall be! Grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the maidens.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	10	1	Ask rain from the Lord in the season of the spring rain, from the Lord who makes the storm clouds, who gives men showers of rain, to every one the vegetation in the field.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	10	2	For the teraphim utter nonsense, and the diviners see lies; the dreamers tell false dreams, and give empty consolation. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they are afflicted for want of a shepherd.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	10	3	“My anger is hot against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders; for the Lord of hosts cares for his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them like his proud steed in battle.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	10	4	Out of them shall come the cornerstone, out of them the tent peg, out of them the battle bow, out of them every ruler.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	10	5	Together they shall be like mighty men in battle, trampling the foe in the mud of the streets; they shall fight because the Lord is with them, and they shall confound the riders on horses.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	10	6	“I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph. I will bring them back because I have compassion on them, and they shall be as though I had not rejected them; for I am the Lord their God and I will answer them.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	10	7	Then Ephraim shall become like a mighty warrior, and their hearts shall be glad as with wine. Their children shall see it and rejoice, their hearts shall exult in the Lord.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	10	8	“I will signal for them and gather them in, for I have redeemed them, and they shall be as many as of old.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	10	9	Though I scattered them among the nations, yet in far countries they shall remember me, and with their children they shall live and return.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	10	10	I will bring them home from the land of Egypt, and gather them from Assyria; and I will bring them to the land of Gilead and to Lebanon, till there is no room for them.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	10	11	They shall pass through the sea of Egypt, and the waves of the sea shall be smitten, and all the depths of the Nile dried up. The pride of Assyria shall be laid low, and the scepter of Egypt shall depart.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	10	12	I will make them strong in the Lord and they shall glory in his name,” says the Lord.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	11	1	Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars!
 Zechariah	Zech	43	11	2	Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, for the glorious trees are ruined! Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the thick forest has been felled!
 Zechariah	Zech	43	11	3	Hark, the wail of the shepherds, for their glory is despoiled! Hark, the roar of the lions, for the jungle of the Jordan is laid waste!
 Zechariah	Zech	43	11	4	Thus said the Lord my God: “Become shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	11	5	Those who buy them slay them and go unpunished; and those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, I have become rich’; and their own shepherds have no pity on them.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	11	6	For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of this land, says the Lord. Lo, I will cause men to fall each into the hand of his shepherd, and each into the hand of his king; and they shall crush the earth, and I will deliver none from their hand.”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	11	7	So I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to be slain for those who trafficked in the sheep. And I took two staffs; one I named Grace, the other I named Union. And I tended the sheep.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	11	8	In one month I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	11	9	So I said, “I will not be your shepherd. What is to die, let it die; what is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed; and let those that are left devour the flesh of one another.”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	11	10	And I took my staff Grace, and I broke it, annulling the covenant which I had made with all the peoples.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	11	11	So it was annulled on that day, and the traffickers in the sheep, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the Lord.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	11	12	Then I said to them, “If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” And they weighed out as my wages thirty shekels of silver.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	11	13	Then the Lord said to me, “Cast it into the treasury”—the lordly price at which I was paid off by them. So I took the thirty shekels of silver and cast them into the treasury in the house of the Lord.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	11	14	Then I broke my second staff Union, annulling the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	11	15	Then the Lord said to me, “Take once more the implements of a worthless shepherd.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	11	16	For lo, I am raising up in the land a shepherd who does not care for the perishing, or seek the wandering, or heal the maimed, or nourish the sound, but devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	11	17	Woe to my worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the sword smite his arm and his right eye! Let his arm be wholly withered, his right eye utterly blinded!”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	12	1	An Oracle The word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus says the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him:
 Zechariah	Zech	43	12	2	“Lo, I am about to make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the peoples round about; it will be against Judah also in the siege against Jerusalem.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	12	3	On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who lift it shall grievously hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth will come together against it.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	12	4	On that day, says the Lord, I will strike every horse with panic, and its rider with madness. But upon the house of Judah I will open my eyes, when I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	12	5	Then the clans of Judah shall say to themselves, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem have strength through the Lord of hosts, their God.’
 Zechariah	Zech	43	12	6	“On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a blazing pot in the midst of wood, like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they shall devour to the right and to the left all the peoples round about, while Jerusalem shall still be inhabited in its place, in Jerusalem.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	12	7	“And the Lord will give victory to the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not be exalted over that of Judah.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	12	8	On that day the Lord will put a shield about the inhabitants of Jerusalem so that the feeblest among them on that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the angel of the Lord, at their head.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	12	9	And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	12	10	“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of compassion and supplication, so that, when they look on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a first-born.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	12	11	On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadadrimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	12	12	The land shall mourn, each family by itself; the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves;
 Zechariah	Zech	43	12	13	the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shime-ites by itself, and their wives by themselves;
 Zechariah	Zech	43	12	14	and all the families that are left, each by itself, and their wives by themselves.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	13	1	“On that day there shall be a fountain opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to cleanse them from sin and uncleanness.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	13	2	“And on that day, says the Lord of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered no more; and also I will remove from the land the prophets and the unclean spirit.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	13	3	And if any one again appears as a prophet, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, ‘You shall not live, for you speak lies in the name of the Lord’; and his father and mother who bore him shall pierce him through when he prophesies.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	13	4	On that day every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies; he will not put on a hairy mantle in order to deceive,
 Zechariah	Zech	43	13	5	but he will say, ‘I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the soil; for the land has been my possession since my youth.’
 Zechariah	Zech	43	13	6	And if one asks him, ‘What are these wounds on your back?’ he will say, ‘The wounds I received in the house of my friends.’”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	13	7	“Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, against the man who stands next to me,” says the Lord of hosts. “Strike the shepherd, that the sheep may be scattered; I will turn my hand against the little ones.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	13	8	In the whole land, says the Lord, two thirds shall be cut off and perish, and one third shall be left alive.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	13	9	And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people’; and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”
 Zechariah	Zech	43	14	1	Behold, a day of the Lord is coming, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in the midst of you.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	14	2	For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women ravished; half of the city shall go into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	14	3	Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	14	4	On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives which lies before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley; so that one half of the Mount shall withdraw northward, and the other half southward.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	14	5	And the valley of my mountains shall be stopped up, for the valley of the mountains shall touch the side of it; and you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord your God will come, and all the holy ones with him.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	14	6	On that day there shall be neither cold nor frost.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	14	7	And there shall be continuous day (it is known to the Lord), not day and not night, for at evening time there shall be light.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	14	8	On that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea; it shall continue in summer as in winter.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	14	9	And the Lord will become king over all the earth; on that day the Lord will be one and his name one.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	14	10	The whole land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But Jerusalem shall remain aloft upon its site from the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	14	11	And it shall be inhabited, for there shall be no more curse; Jerusalem shall dwell in security.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	14	12	And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will smite all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh shall rot while they are still on their feet, their eyes shall rot in their sockets, and their tongues shall rot in their mouths.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	14	13	And on that day a great panic from the Lord shall fall on them, so that each will lay hold on the hand of his fellow, and the hand of the one will be raised against the hand of the other;
 Zechariah	Zech	43	14	14	even Judah will fight against Jerusalem. And the wealth of all the nations round about shall be collected, gold, silver, and garments in great abundance.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	14	15	And a plague like this plague shall fall on the horses, the mules, the camels, the asses, and whatever beasts may be in those camps.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	14	16	Then every one that survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of booths.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	14	17	And if any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, there will be no rain upon them.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	14	18	And if the family of Egypt do not go up and present themselves, then upon them shall come the plague with which the Lord afflicts the nations that do not go up to keep the feast of booths.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	14	19	This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up to keep the feast of booths.
 Zechariah	Zech	43	14	20	And on that day there shall be inscribed on the bells of the horses, “Holy to the Lord.” And the pots in the house of the Lord shall be as the bowls before the altar;
 Zechariah	Zech	43	14	21	and every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be sacred to the Lord of hosts, so that all who sacrifice may come and take of them and boil the flesh of the sacrifice in them. And there shall no longer be a trader in the house of the Lord of hosts on that day.
 Malachi	Mal	44	1	1	The oracle of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi.
 Malachi	Mal	44	1	2	“I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How hast thou loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob’s brother?” says the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob
 Malachi	Mal	44	1	3	but I have hated Esau; I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.”
 Malachi	Mal	44	1	4	If Edom says, “We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins,” the Lord of hosts says, “They may build, but I will tear down, till they are called the wicked country, the people with whom the Lord is angry for ever.”
 Malachi	Mal	44	1	5	Your own eyes shall see this, and you shall say, “Great is the Lord, beyond the border of Israel!”
 Malachi	Mal	44	1	6	“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised thy name?’
 Malachi	Mal	44	1	7	By offering polluted food upon my altar. And you say, ‘How have we polluted it?’ By thinking that the Lord’s table may be despised.
 Malachi	Mal	44	1	8	When you offer blind animals in sacrifice, is that no evil? And when you offer those that are lame or sick, is that no evil? Present that to your governor; will he be pleased with you or show you favor? says the Lord of hosts.
 Malachi	Mal	44	1	9	And now entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us. With such a gift from your hand, will he show favor to any of you? says the Lord of hosts.
 Malachi	Mal	44	1	10	Oh, that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire upon my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of hosts, and I will not accept an offering from your hand.
 Malachi	Mal	44	1	11	For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense is offered to my name, and a pure offering; for my name is great among the nations, says the Lord of hosts.
 Malachi	Mal	44	1	12	But you profane it when you say that the Lord’s table is polluted, and the food for it may be despised.
 Malachi	Mal	44	1	13	‘What a weariness this is,’ you say, and you sniff at me, says the Lord of hosts. You bring what has been taken by violence or is lame or sick, and this you bring as your offering! Shall I accept that from your hand? says the Lord.
 Malachi	Mal	44	1	14	Cursed be the cheat who has a male in his flock, and vows it, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished; for I am a great King, says the Lord of hosts, and my name is feared among the nations.
 Malachi	Mal	44	2	1	“And now, O priests, this command is for you.
 Malachi	Mal	44	2	2	If you will not listen, if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings; indeed I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.
 Malachi	Mal	44	2	3	Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and spread dung upon your faces, the dung of your offerings, and I will put you out of my presence.
 Malachi	Mal	44	2	4	So shall you know that I have sent this command to you, that my covenant with Levi may hold, says the Lord of hosts.
 Malachi	Mal	44	2	5	My covenant with him was a covenant of life and peace, and I gave them to him, that he might fear; and he feared me, he stood in awe of my name.
 Malachi	Mal	44	2	6	True instruction was in his mouth, and no wrong was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity.
 Malachi	Mal	44	2	7	For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and men should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.
 Malachi	Mal	44	2	8	But you have turned aside from the way; you have caused many to stumble by your instruction; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the Lord of hosts,
 Malachi	Mal	44	2	9	and so I make you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you have not kept my ways but have shown partiality in your instruction.”
 Malachi	Mal	44	2	10	Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
 Malachi	Mal	44	2	11	Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
 Malachi	Mal	44	2	12	May the Lord cut off from the tents of Jacob, for the man who does this, any to witness or answer, or to bring an offering to the Lord of hosts!
 Malachi	Mal	44	2	13	And this again you do. You cover the Lord’s altar with tears, with weeping and groaning because he no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor at your hand.
 Malachi	Mal	44	2	14	You ask, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord was witness to the covenant between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.
 Malachi	Mal	44	2	15	Has not the one God made and sustained for us the spirit of life? And what does he desire? Godly offspring. So take heed to yourselves, and let none be faithless to the wife of his youth.
 Malachi	Mal	44	2	16	“For I hate divorce, says the Lord the God of Israel, and covering one’s garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So take heed to yourselves and do not be faithless.”
 Malachi	Mal	44	2	17	You have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet you say, “How have we wearied him?” By saying, “Every one who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delights in them.” Or by asking, “Where is the God of justice?”
 Malachi	Mal	44	3	1	“Behold, I send my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.
 Malachi	Mal	44	3	2	But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? “For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap;
 Malachi	Mal	44	3	3	he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, till they present right offerings to the Lord.
 Malachi	Mal	44	3	4	Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord as in the days of old and as in former years.
 Malachi	Mal	44	3	5	“Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.
 Malachi	Mal	44	3	6	“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.
 Malachi	Mal	44	3	7	From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. But you say, ‘How shall we return?’
 Malachi	Mal	44	3	8	Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, ‘How are we robbing thee?’ In your tithes and offerings.
 Malachi	Mal	44	3	9	You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me; the whole nation of you.
 Malachi	Mal	44	3	10	Bring the full tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house; and thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you an overflowing blessing.
 Malachi	Mal	44	3	11	I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil; and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the Lord of hosts.
 Malachi	Mal	44	3	12	Then all nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight, says the Lord of hosts.
 Malachi	Mal	44	3	13	“Your words have been stout against me, says the Lord. Yet you say, ‘How have we spoken against thee?’
 Malachi	Mal	44	3	14	You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God. What is the good of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the Lord of hosts?
 Malachi	Mal	44	3	15	Henceforth we deem the arrogant blessed; evildoers not only prosper but when they put God to the test they escape.’”
 Malachi	Mal	44	3	16	Then those who feared the Lor spoke with one another; the Lord heeded and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the Lord and thought on his name.
 Malachi	Mal	44	3	17	“They shall be mine, says the Lor of hosts, my special possession on the day when I act, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.
 Malachi	Mal	44	3	18	Then once more you shall distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.
 Malachi	Mal	44	4	1	“For behold, the day comes, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
 Malachi	Mal	44	4	2	But for you who fear my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall go forth leaping like calves from the stall.
 Malachi	Mal	44	4	3	And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the Lord of hosts.
 Malachi	Mal	44	4	4	“Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.
 Malachi	Mal	44	4	5	“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.
 Malachi	Mal	44	4	6	And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the land with a curse.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	1	After Alexander son of Philip, the Macedonian, who came from the land of Kittim, had defeated Darius, king of the Persians and the Medes, he succeeded him as king. (He had previously become king of Greece.)
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	2	He fought many battles, conquered strongholds, and put to death the kings of the earth.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	3	He advanced to the ends of the earth, and plundered many nations. When the earth became quiet before him, he was exalted, and his heart was lifted up.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	4	He gathered a very strong army and ruled over countries, nations, and princes, and they became tributary to him.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	5	After this he fell sick and perceived that he was dying.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	6	So he summoned his most honored officers, who had been brought up with him from youth, and divided his kingdom among them while he was still alive.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	7	And after Alexander had reigned twelve years, he died.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	8	Then his officers began to rule, each in his own place.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	9	They all put on crowns after his death, and so did their sons after them for many years; and they caused many evils on the earth.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	10	From them came forth a sinful root, Antiochus Epiphanes, son of Antiochus the king; he had been a hostage in Rome. He began to reign in the one hundred and thirty-seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	11	In those days lawless men came forth from Israel, and misled many, saying, “Let us go and make a covenant with the Gentiles round about us, for since we separated from them many evils have come upon us.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	12	This proposal pleased them,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	13	and some of the people eagerly went to the king. He authorized them to observe the ordinances of the Gentiles.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	14	So they built a gymnasium in Jerusalem, according to Gentile custom,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	15	and removed the marks of circumcision, and abandoned the holy covenant. They joined with the Gentiles and sold themselves to do evil.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	16	When Antiochus saw that his kingdom was established, he determined to become king of the land of Egypt, that he might reign over both kingdoms.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	17	So he invaded Egypt with a strong force, with chariots and elephants and cavalry and with a large fleet.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	18	He engaged Ptolemy king of Egypt in battle, and Ptolemy turned and fled before him, and many were wounded and fell.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	19	And they captured the fortified cities in the land of Egypt, and he plundered the land of Egypt.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	20	After subduing Egypt, Antiochus returned in the one hundred and forty-third year. He went up against Israel and came to Jerusalem with a strong force.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	21	He arrogantly entered the sanctuary and took the golden altar, the lampstand for the light, and all its utensils.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	22	He took also the table for the bread of the Presence, the cups for drink offerings, the bowls, the golden censers, the curtain, the crowns, and the gold decoration on the front of the temple; he stripped it all off.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	23	He took the silver and the gold, and the costly vessels; he took also the hidden treasures which he found.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	24	Taking them all, he departed to his own land. He committed deeds of murder, and spoke with great arrogance.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	25	Israel mourned deeply in every community,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	26	rulers and elders groaned, maidens and young men became faint, the beauty of women faded.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	27	Every bridegroom took up the lament; she who sat in the bridal chamber was mourning.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	28	Even the land shook for its inhabitants, and all the house of Jacob was clothed with shame.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	29	Two years later the king sent to the cities of Judah a chief collector of tribute, and he came to Jerusalem with a large force.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	30	Deceitfully he spoke peaceable words to them, and they believed him; but he suddenly fell upon the city, dealt it a severe blow, and destroyed many people of Israel.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	31	He plundered the city, burned it with fire, and tore down its houses and its surrounding walls.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	32	And they took captive the women and children, and seized the cattle.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	33	Then they fortified the city of David with a great strong wall and strong towers, and it became their citadel.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	34	And they stationed there a sinful people, lawless men. These strengthened their position;
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	35	they stored up arms and food, and collecting the spoils of Jerusalem they stored them there, and became a great snare.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	36	It became an ambush against the sanctuary, an evil adversary of Israel continually.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	37	On every side of the sanctuary they shed innocent blood; they even defiled the sanctuary.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	38	Because of them the residents of Jerusalem fled; she became a dwelling of strangers; she became strange to her offspring, and her children forsook her.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	39	Her sanctuary became desolate as a desert; her feasts were turned into mourning, her sabbaths into a reproach, her honor into contempt.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	40	Her dishonor now grew as great as her glory; her exaltation was turned into mourning.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	41	Then the king wrote to his whole kingdom that all should be one people,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	42	and that each should give up his customs.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	43	All the Gentiles accepted the command of the king. Many even from Israel gladly adopted his religion; they sacrificed to idols and profaned the sabbath.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	44	And the king sent letters by messengers to Jerusalem and the cities of Judah; he directed them to follow customs strange to the land,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	45	to forbid burnt offerings and sacrifices and drink offerings in the sanctuary, to profane sabbaths and feasts,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	46	to defile the sanctuary and the priests,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	47	to build altars and sacred precincts and shrines for idols, to sacrifice swine and unclean animals,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	48	and to leave their sons uncircumcised. They were to make themselves abominable by everything unclean and profane,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	49	so that they should forget the law and change all the ordinances.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	50	“And whoever does not obey the command of the king shall die.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	51	In such words he wrote to his whole kingdom. And he appointed inspectors over all the people and commanded the cities of Judah to offer sacrifice, city by city.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	52	Many of the people, every one who forsook the law, joined them, and they did evil in the land;
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	53	they drove Israel into hiding in every place of refuge they had.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	54	Now on the fifteenth day of Chislev, in the one hundred and forty-fifth year, they erected a desolating sacrilege upon the altar of burnt offering. They also built altars in the surrounding cities of Judah,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	55	and burned incense at the doors of the houses and in the streets.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	56	The books of the law which they found they tore to pieces and burned with fire.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	57	Where the book of the covenant was found in the possession of any one, or if any one adhered to the law, the decree of the king condemned him to death.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	58	They kept using violence against Israel, against those found month after month in the cities.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	59	And on the twenty-fifth day of the month they offered sacrifice on the altar which was upon the altar of burnt offering.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	60	According to the decree, they put to death the women who had their children circumcised,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	61	and their families and those who circumcised them; and they hung the infants from their mothers’ necks.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	62	But many in Israel stood firm and were resolved in their hearts not to eat unclean food.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	63	They chose to die rather than to be defiled by food or to profane the holy covenant; and they did die.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	1	64	And very great wrath came upon Israel.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	1	In those days Mattathias the son of John, son of Simeon, a priest of the sons of Joarib, moved from Jerusalem and settled in Modein.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	2	He had five sons, John surnamed Gaddi,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	3	Simon called Thassi,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	4	Judas called Maccabeus,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	5	Eleazar called Avaran, and Jonathan called Apphus.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	6	He saw the blasphemies being committed in Judah and Jerusalem,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	7	and said, “Alas! Why was I born to see this, the ruin of my people, the ruin of the holy city, and to dwell there when it was given over to the enemy, the sanctuary given over to aliens?
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	8	Her temple has become like a man without honor;
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	9	her glorious vessels have been carried into captivity. Her babes have been killed in her streets, her youths by the sword of the foe.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	10	What nation has not inherited her palaces and has not seized her spoils?
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	11	All her adornment has been taken away; no longer free, she has become a slave.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	12	And behold, our holy place, our beauty, and our glory have been laid waste; the Gentiles have profaned it.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	13	Why should we live any longer?”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	14	And Mattathias and his sons rent their clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourned greatly.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	15	Then the king’s officers who were enforcing the apostasy came to the city of Modein to make them offer sacrifice.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	16	Many from Israel came to them; and Mattathias and his sons were assembled.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	17	Then the king’s officers spoke to Mattathias as follows: “You are a leader, honored and great in this city, and supported by sons and brothers.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	18	Now be the first to come and do what the king commands, as all the Gentiles and the men of Judah and those that are left in Jerusalem have done. Then you and your sons will be numbered among the friends of the king, and you and your sons will be honored with silver and gold and many gifts.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	19	But Mattathias answered and said in a loud voice: “Even if all the nations that live under the rule of the king obey him, and have chosen to do his commandments, departing each one from the religion of his fathers,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	20	yet I and my sons and my brothers will live by the covenant of our fathers.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	21	Far be it from us to desert the law and the ordinances.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	22	We will not obey the king’s words by turning aside from our religion to the right hand or to the left.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	23	When he had finished speaking these words, a Jew came forward in the sight of all to offer sacrifice upon the altar in Modein, according to the king’s command.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	24	When Mattathias saw it, be burned with zeal and his heart was stirred. He gave vent to righteous anger; he ran and killed him upon the altar.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	25	At the same time he killed the king’s officer who was forcing them to sacrifice, and he tore down the altar.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	26	Thus he burned with zeal for the law, as Phinehas did against Zimri the son of Salu.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	27	Then Mattathias cried out in the city with a loud voice, saying: “Let every one who is zealous for the law and supports the covenant come out with me!”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	28	And he and his sons fled to the hills and left all that they had in the city.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	29	Then many who were seeking righteousness and justice went down to the wilderness to dwell there,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	30	they, their sons, their wives, and their cattle, because evils pressed heavily upon them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	31	And it was reported to the king’s officers, and to the troops in Jerusalem the city of David, that men who had rejected the king’s command had gone down to the hiding places in the wilderness.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	32	Many pursued them, and overtook them; they encamped opposite them and prepared for battle against them on the sabbath day.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	33	And they said to them, “Enough of this! Come out and do what the king commands, and you will live.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	34	But they said, “We will not come out, nor will we do what the king commands and so profane the sabbath day.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	35	Then the enemy hastened to attack them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	36	But they did not answer them or hurl a stone at them or block up their hiding places,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	37	for they said, “Let us all die in our innocence; heaven and earth testify for us that you are killing us unjustly.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	38	So they attacked them on the sabbath, and they died, with their wives and children and cattle, to the number of a thousand persons.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	39	When Mattathias and his friends learned of it, they mourned for them deeply.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	40	And each said to his neighbor: “If we all do as our brethren have done and refuse to fight with the Gentiles for our lives and for our ordinances, they will quickly destroy us from the earth.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	41	So they made this decision that day: “Let us fight against every man who comes to attack us on the sabbath day; let us not all die as our brethren died in their hiding places.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	42	Then there united with them a company of Hasideans, mighty warriors of Israel, every one who offered himself willingly for the law.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	43	And all who became fugitives to escape their troubles joined them and reinforced them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	44	They organized an army, and struck down sinners in their anger and lawless men in their wrath; the survivors fled to the Gentiles for safety.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	45	And Mattathias and his friends went about and tore down the altars;
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	46	they forcibly circumcised all the uncircumcised boys that they found within the borders of Israel.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	47	They hunted down the arrogant men, and the work prospered in their hands.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	48	They rescued the law out of the hands of the Gentiles and kings, and they never let the sinner gain the upper hand.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	49	Now the days drew near for Mattathias to die, and he said to his sons: “Arrogance and reproach have now become strong; it is a time of ruin and furious anger.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	50	Now, my children, show zeal for the law, and give your lives for the covenant of our fathers.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	51	“Remember the deeds of the fathers, which they did in their generations; and receive great honor and an everlasting name.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	52	Was not Abraham found faithful when tested, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness?
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	53	Joseph in the time of his distress kept the commandment, and became lord of Egypt.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	54	Phinehas our father, because he was deeply zealous, received the covenant of everlasting priesthood.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	55	Joshua, because he fulfilled the command, became a judge in Israel.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	56	Caleb, because he testified in the assembly, received an inheritance in the land.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	57	David, because he was merciful, inherited the throne of the kingdom for ever.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	58	Elijah because of great zeal for the law was taken up into heaven.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	59	Hannaniah, Azariah, and Mishael believed and were saved from the flame.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	60	Daniel because of his innocence was delivered from the mouth of the lions.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	61	“And so observe, from generation to generation, that none who put their trust in him will lack strength.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	62	Do not fear the words of a sinner, for his splendor will turn into dung and worms.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	63	Today he will be exalted, but tomorrow he will not be found, because he has returned to the dust, and his plans will perish.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	64	My children, be courageous and grow strong in the law, for by it you will gain honor.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	65	“Now behold, I know that Simeon your brother is wise in counsel; always listen to him; he shall be your father.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	66	Judas Maccabeus has been a mighty warrior from his youth; he shall command the army for you and fight the battle against the peoples.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	67	You shall rally about you all who observe the law, and avenge the wrong done to your people.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	68	Pay back the Gentiles in full, and heed what the law commands.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	69	Then he blessed them, and was gathered to his fathers.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	2	70	He died in the one hundred and forty-sixth year and was buried in the tomb of his fathers at Modein. And all Israel mourned for him with great lamentation.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	1	Then Judas his son, who was called Maccabeus, took command in his place.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	2	All his brothers and all who had joined his father helped him; they gladly fought for Israel.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	3	He extended the glory of his people. Like a giant he put on his breastplate; he girded on his armor of war and waged battles, protecting the host by his sword.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	4	He was like a lion in his deeds, like a lion’s cub roaring for prey.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	5	He searched out and pursued the lawless; he burned those who troubled his people.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	6	Lawless men shrank back for fear of him; all the evildoers were confounded; and deliverance prospered by his hand.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	7	He embittered many kings, but he made Jacob glad by his deeds, and his memory is blessed for ever.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	8	He went through the cities of Judah; he destroyed the ungodly out of the land; thus he turned away wrath from Israel.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	9	He was renowned to the ends of the earth; he gathered in those who were perishing.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	10	But Apollonius gathered together Gentiles and a large force from Samaria to fight against Israel.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	11	When Judas learned of it, he went out to meet him, and he defeated and killed him. Many were wounded and fell, and the rest fled.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	12	Then they seized their spoils; and Judas took the sword of Apollonius, and used it in battle the rest of his life.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	13	Now when Seron, the commander of the Syrian army, heard that Judas had gathered a large company, including a body of faithful men who stayed with him and went out to battle,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	14	he said, “I will make a name for myself and win honor in the kingdom. I will make war on Judas and his companions, who scorn the king’s command.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	15	And again a strong army of ungodly men went up with him to help him, to take vengeance on the sons of Israel.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	16	When he approached the ascent of Beth-horon, Judas went out to meet him with a small company.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	17	But when they saw the army coming to meet them, they said to Judas, “How can we, few as we are, fight against so great and strong a multitude? And we are faint, for we have eaten nothing today.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	18	Judas replied, “It is easy for many to be hemmed in by few, for in the sight of Heaven there is no difference between saving by many or by few.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	19	It is not on the size of the army that victory in battle depends, but strength comes from Heaven.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	20	They come against us in great pride and lawlessness to destroy us and our wives and our children, and to despoil us;
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	21	but we fight for our lives and our laws.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	22	He himself will crush them before us; as for you, do not be afraid of them.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	23	When he finished speaking, he rushed suddenly against Seron and his army, and they were crushed before him.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	24	They pursued them down the descent of Beth-horon to the plain; eight hundred of them fell, and the rest fled into the land of the Philistines.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	25	Then Judas and his brothers began to be feared, and terror fell upon the Gentiles round about them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	26	His fame reached the king, and the Gentiles talked of the battles of Judas.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	27	When king Antiochus heard these reports, he was greatly angered; and he sent and gathered all the forces of his kingdom, a very strong army.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	28	And he opened his coffers and gave a year’s pay to his forces, and ordered them to be ready for any need.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	29	Then he saw that the money in the treasury was exhausted, and that the revenues from the country were small because of the dissension and disaster which he had caused in the land by abolishing the laws that had existed from the earliest days.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	30	He feared that he might not have such funds as he had before for his expenses and for the gifts which he used to give more lavishly than preceding kings.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	31	He was greatly perplexed in mind, and determined to go to Persia and collect the revenues from those regions and raise a large fund.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	32	He left Lysias, a distinguished man of royal lineage, in charge of the king’s affairs from the river Euphrates to the borders of Egypt.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	33	Lysias was also to take care of Antiochus his son until he returned.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	34	And he turned over to Lysias half of his troops and the elephants, and gave him orders about all that he wanted done. As for the residents of Judea and Jerusalem,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	35	Lysias was to send a force against them to wipe out and destroy the strength of Israel and the remnant of Jerusalem; he was to banish the memory of them from the place,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	36	settle aliens in all their territory, and distribute their land.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	37	Then the king took the remaining half of his troops and departed from Antioch his capital in the one hundred and forty-seventh year. He crossed the Euphrates river and went through the upper provinces.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	38	Lysias chose Ptolemy the son of Dorymenes, and Nicanor and Gorgias, mighty men among the friends of the king,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	39	and sent with them forty thousand infantry and seven thousand cavalry to go into the land of Judah and destroy it, as the king had commanded.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	40	so they departed with their entire force, and when they arrived they encamped near Emmaus in the plain.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	41	When the traders of the region heard what was said to them, they took silver and gold in immense amounts, and fetters, and went to the camp to get the sons of Israel for slaves. And forces from Syria and the land of the Philistines joined with them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	42	Now Judas and his brothers saw that misfortunes had increased and that the forces were encamped in their territory. They also learned what the king had commanded to do to the people to cause their final destruction.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	43	But they said to one another, “Let us repair the destruction of our people, and fight for our people and the sanctuary.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	44	And the congregation assembled to be ready for battle, and to pray and ask for mercy and compassion.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	45	Jerusalem was uninhabited like a wilderness; not one of her children went in or out. The sanctuary was trampled down, and the sons of aliens held the citadel; it was a lodging place for the Gentiles. Joy was taken from Jacob; the flute and the harp ceased to play.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	46	So they assembled and went to Mizpah, opposite Jerusalem, because Israel formerly had a place of prayer in Mizpah.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	47	They fasted that day, put on sackcloth and sprinkled ashes on their heads, and rent their clothes.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	48	And they opened the book of the law to inquire into those matters about which the Gentiles were consulting the images of their idols.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	49	They also brought the garments of the priesthood and the first fruits and the tithes, and they stirred up the Nazirites who had completed their days;
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	50	and they cried aloud to Heaven, saying, “What shall we do with these? Where shall we take them?
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	51	Thy sanctuary is trampled down and profaned, and thy priests mourn in humiliation.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	52	And behold, the Gentiles are assembled against us to destroy us; thou knowest what they plot against us.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	53	How will we be able to withstand them, if thou dost not help us?”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	54	Then they sounded the trumpets and gave a loud shout.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	55	After this Judas appointed leaders of the people, in charge of thousands and hundreds and fifties and tens.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	56	And he said to those who were building houses, or were betrothed, or were planting vineyards, or were fainthearted, that each should return to his home, according to the law.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	57	Then the army marched out and encamped to the south of Emmaus.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	58	And Judas said, “Gird yourselves and be valiant. Be ready early in the morning to fight with these Gentiles who have assembled against us to destroy us and our sanctuary.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	59	It is better for us to die in battle than to see the misfortunes of our nation and of the sanctuary.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	3	60	But as his will in heaven may be, so he will do.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	1	Now Gorgias took five thousand infantry and a thousand picked cavalry, and this division moved out by night
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	2	to fall upon the camp of the Jews and attack them suddenly. Men from the citadel were his guides.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	3	But Judas heard of it, and he and his mighty men moved out to attack the king’s force in Emmaus
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	4	while the division was still absent from the camp.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	5	When Gorgias entered the camp of Judas by night, he found no one there, so he looked for them in the hills, because he said, “These men are fleeing from us.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	6	At daybreak Judas appeared in the plain with three thousand men, but they did not have armor and swords such as they desired.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	7	And they saw the camp of the Gentiles, strong and fortified, with cavalry round about it; and these men were trained in war.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	8	But Judas said to the men who were with him, “Do not fear their numbers or be afraid when they charge.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	9	Remember how our fathers were saved at the Red Sea, when Pharaoh with his forces pursued them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	10	And now let us cry to Heaven, to see whether he will favor us and remember his covenant with our fathers and crush this army before us today.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	11	Then all the Gentiles will know that there is one who redeems and saves Israel.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	12	When the foreigners looked up and saw them coming against them,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	13	they went forth from their camp to battle. Then the men with Judas blew their trumpets
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	14	and engaged in battle. The Gentiles were crushed and fled into the plain,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	15	and all those in the rear fell by the sword. They pursued them to Gazara, and to the plains of Idumea, and to Azotus and Jamnia; and three thousand of them fell.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	16	Then Judas and his force turned back from pursuing them,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	17	and he said to the people, “Do not be greedy for plunder, for there is a battle before us;
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	18	Gorgias and his force are near us in the hills. But stand now against our enemies and fight them, and afterward seize the plunder boldly.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	19	Just as Judas was finishing this speech, a detachment appeared, coming out of the hills.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	20	They saw that their army had been put to flight, and that the Jews were burning the camp, for the smoke that was seen showed what had happened.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	21	When they perceived this they were greatly frightened, and when they also saw the army of Judas drawn up in the plain for battle,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	22	they all fled into the land of the Philistines.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	23	Then Judas returned to plunder the camp, and they seized much gold and silver, and cloth dyed blue and sea purple, and great riches.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	24	On their return they sang hymns and praises to Heaven, for he is good, for his mercy endures for ever.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	25	Thus Israel had a great deliverance that day.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	26	Those of the foreigners who escaped went and reported to Lysias all that had happened.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	27	When he heard it, he was perplexed and discouraged, for things had not happened to Israel as he had intended, nor had they turned out as the king had commanded him.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	28	But the next year he mustered sixty thousand picked infantrymen and five thousand cavalry to subdue them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	29	They came into Idumea and encamped at Beth-zur, and Judas met them with ten thousand men.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	30	When he saw that the army was strong, he prayed, saying, “Blessed art thou, O Savior of Israel, who didst crush the attack of the mighty warrior by the hand of thy servant David, and didst give the camp of the Philistines into the hands of Jonathan, the son of Saul, and of the man who carried his armor.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	31	So do thou hem in this army by the hand of thy people Israel, and let them be ashamed of their troops and their cavalry.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	32	Fill them with cowardice; melt the boldness of their strength; let them tremble in their destruction.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	33	Strike them down with the sword of those who love thee, and let all who know thy name praise thee with hymns.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	34	Then both sides attacked, and there fell of the army of Lysias five thousand men; they fell in action.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	35	And when Lysias saw the rout of his troops and observed the boldness which inspired those of Judas, and how ready they were either to live or to die nobly, he departed to Antioch and enlisted mercenaries, to invade Judea again with an even larger army.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	36	Then said Judas and his brothers, “Behold, our enemies are crushed; let us go up to cleanse the sanctuary and dedicate it.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	37	So all the army assembled and they went up to Mount Zion.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	38	And they saw the sanctuary desolate, the altar profaned, and the gates burned. In the courts they saw bushes sprung up as in a thicket, or as on one of the mountains. They saw also the chambers of the priests in ruins.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	39	Then they rent their clothes, and mourned with great lamentation, and sprinkled themselves with ashes.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	40	They fell face down on the ground, and sounded the signal on the trumpets, and cried out to Heaven.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	41	Then Judas detailed men to fight against those in the citadel until he had cleansed the sanctuary.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	42	He chose blameless priests devoted to the law,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	43	and they cleansed the sanctuary and removed the defiled stones to an unclean place.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	44	They deliberated what to do about the altar of burnt offering, which had been profaned.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	45	And they thought it best to tear it down, lest it bring reproach upon them, for the Gentiles had defiled it. So they tore down the altar,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	46	and stored the stones in a convenient place on the temple hill until there should come a prophet to tell what to do with them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	47	Then they took unhewn stones, as the law directs, and built a new altar like the former one.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	48	They also rebuilt the sanctuary and the interior of the temple, and consecrated the courts.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	49	They made new holy vessels, and brought the lampstand, the altar of incense, and the table into the temple.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	50	Then they burned incense on the altar and lighted the lamps on the lampstand, and these gave light in the temple.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	51	They placed the bread on the table and hung up the curtains. Thus they finished all the work they had undertaken.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	52	Early in the morning on the twenty-fifth day of the ninth month, which is the month of Chislev, in the one hundred and forty-eighth year,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	53	they rose and offered sacrifice, as the law directs, on the new altar of burnt offering which they had built.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	54	At the very season and on the very day that the Gentiles had profaned it, it was dedicated with songs and harps and lutes and cymbals.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	55	All the people fell on their faces and worshiped and blessed Heaven, who had prospered them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	56	So they celebrated the dedication of the altar for eight days, and offered burnt offerings with gladness; they offered a sacrifice of deliverance and praise.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	57	They decorated the front of the temple with golden crowns and small shields; they restored the gates and the chambers for the priests, and furnished them with doors.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	58	There was very great gladness among the people, and the reproach of the Gentiles was removed.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	59	Then Judas and his brothers and all the assembly of Israel determined that every year at that season the days of dedication of the altar should be observed with gladness and joy for eight days, beginning with the twenty-fifth day of the month of Chislev.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	60	At that time they fortified Mount Zion with high walls and strong towers round about, to keep the Gentiles from coming and trampling them down as they had done before.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	4	61	And he stationed a garrison there to hold it. He also fortified Beth-zur, so that the people might have a stronghold that faced Idumea.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	1	When the Gentiles round about heard that the altar had been built and the sanctuary dedicated as it was before, they became very angry,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	2	and they determined to destroy the descendants of Jacob who lived among them. So they began to kill and destroy among the people.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	3	But Judas made war on the sons of Esau in Idumea, at Akrabattene, because they kept lying in wait for Israel. He dealt them a heavy blow and humbled them and despoiled them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	4	He also remembered the wickedness of the sons of Baean, who were a trap and a snare to the people and ambushed them on the highways.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	5	They were shut up by him in their towers; and he encamped against them, vowed their complete destruction, and burned with fire their towers and all who were in them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	6	Then he crossed over to attack the Ammonites, where he found a strong band and many people with Timothy as their leader.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	7	He engaged in many battles with them and they were crushed before him; he struck them down.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	8	He also took Jazer and its villages; then he returned to Judea.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	9	Now the Gentiles in Gilead gathered together against the Israelites who lived in their territory, and planned to destroy them. But they fled to the stronghold of Dathema,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	10	and sent to Judas and his brothers a letter which said, “The Gentiles around us have gathered together against us to destroy us.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	11	They are preparing to come and capture the stronghold to which we have fled, and Timothy is leading their forces.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	12	Now then come and rescue us from their hands, for many of us have fallen,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	13	and all our brethren who were in the land of Tob have been killed; the enemy have captured their wives and children and goods, and have destroyed about a thousand men there.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	14	While the letter was still being read, behold, other messengers, with their garments rent, came from Galilee and made a similar report;
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	15	they said that against them had gathered together men of Ptolemais and Tyre and Sidon, and all Galilee of the Gentiles, “to annihilate us.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	16	When Judas and the people heard these messages, a great assembly was called to determine what they should do for their brethren who were in distress and were being attacked by enemies.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	17	Then Judas said to Simon his brother, “Choose your men and go and rescue your brethren in Galilee; I and Jonathan my brother will go to Gilead.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	18	But he left Joseph, the son of Zechariah, and Azariah, a leader of the people, with the rest of the forces, in Judea to guard it;
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	19	and he gave them this command, “Take charge of this people, but do not engage in battle with the Gentiles until we return.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	20	Then three thousand men were assigned to Simon to go to Galilee, and eight thousand to Judas for Gilead.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	21	so Simon went to Galilee and fought many battles against the Gentiles, and the Gentiles were crushed before him.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	22	He pursued them to the gate of Ptolemais, and as many as three thousand of the Gentiles fell, and he despoiled them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	23	Then he took the Jews of Galilee and Arbatta, with their wives and children, and all they possessed, and led them to Judea with great rejoicing.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	24	Judas Maccabeus and Jonathan his brother crossed the Jordan and went three days’ journey into the wilderness.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	25	They encountered the Nabateans, who met them peaceably and told them all that had happened to their brethren in Gilead:
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	26	“Many of them have been shut up in Bozrah and Bosor, in Alema and Chaspho, Maked and Carnaim”—all these cities were strong and large—
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	27	“and some have been shut up in the other cities of Gilead; the enemy are getting ready to attack the strongholds tomorrow and take and destroy all these men in one day.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	28	Then Judas and his army quickly turned back by the wilderness road to Bozrah; and he took the city, and killed every male by the edge of the sword; then he seized all its spoils and burned it with fire.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	29	He departed from there at night, and they went all the way to the stronghold of Dathema.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	30	At dawn they looked up, and behold, a large company, that could not be counted, carrying ladders and engines of war to capture the stronghold, and attacking the Jews within.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	31	So Judas saw that the battle had begun and that the cry of the city went up to Heaven with trumpets and loud shouts,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	32	and he said to the men of his forces, “Fight today for your brethren!”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	33	Then he came up behind them in three companies, who sounded their trumpets and cried aloud in prayer.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	34	And when the army of Timothy realized that it was Maccabeus, they fled before him, and he dealt them a heavy blow. As many as eight thousand of them fell that day.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	35	Next he turned aside to Alema, and fought against it and took it; and he killed every male in it, plundered it, and burned it with fire.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	36	From there he marched on and took Chaspho, Maked, and Bosor, and the other cities of Gilead.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	37	After these things Timothy gathered another army and encamped opposite Raphon, on the other side of the stream.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	38	Judas sent men to spy out the camp, and they reported to him, “All the Gentiles around us have gathered to him; it is a very large force.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	39	They also have hired Arabs to help them, and they are encamped across the stream, ready to come and fight against you.” And Judas went to meet them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	40	Now as Judas and his army drew near to the stream of water, Timothy said to the officers of his forces, “If he crosses over to us first, we will not be able to resist him, for he will surely defeat us.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	41	But if he shows fear and camps on the other side of the river, we will cross over to him and defeat him.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	42	When Judas approached the stream of water, he stationed the scribes of the people at the stream and gave them this command, “Permit no man to encamp, but make them all enter the battle.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	43	Then he crossed over against them first, and the whole army followed him. All the Gentiles were defeated before him, and they threw away their arms and fled into the sacred precincts at Carnaim.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	44	But he took the city and burned the sacred precincts with fire, together with all who were in them. Thus Carnaim was conquered; they could stand before Judas no longer.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	45	Then Judas gathered together all the Israelites in Gilead, the small and the great, with their wives and children and goods, a very large company, to go to the land of Judah.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	46	So they came to Ephron. This was a large and very strong city on the road, and they could not go round it to the right or to the left; they had to go through it.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	47	But the men of the city shut them out and blocked up the gates with stones.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	48	And Judas sent them this friendly message, “Let us pass through your land to get to our land. No one will do you harm; we will simply pass by on foot.” But they refused to open to him.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	49	Then Judas ordered proclamation to be made to the army that each should encamp where he was.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	50	So the men of the forces encamped, and he fought against the city all that day and all the night, and the city was delivered into his hands.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	51	He destroyed every male by the edge of the sword, and razed and plundered the city. Then he passed through the city over the slain.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	52	And they crossed the Jordan into the large plain before Beth-shan.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	53	And Judas kept rallying the laggards and encouraging the people all the way till he came to the land of Judah.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	54	So they went up to Mount Zion with gladness and joy, and offered burnt offerings, because not one of them had fallen before they returned in safety.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	55	Now while Judas and Jonathan were in Gilead and Simon his brother was in Galilee before Ptolemais,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	56	Joseph, the son of Zechariah, and Azariah, the commanders of the forces, heard of their brave deeds and of the heroic war they had fought.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	57	So they said, “Let us also make a name for ourselves; let us go and make war on the Gentiles around us.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	58	And they issued orders to the men of the forces that were with them, and they marched against Jamnia.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	59	And Gorgias and his men came out of the city to meet them in battle.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	60	Then Joseph and Azariah were routed, and were pursued to the borders of Judea; as many as two thousand of the people of Israel fell that day.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	61	Thus the people suffered a great rout because, thinking to do a brave deed, they did not listen to Judas and his brothers.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	62	But they did not belong to the family of those men through whom deliverance was given to Israel.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	63	The man Judas and his brothers were greatly honored in all Israel and among all the Gentiles, wherever their name was heard.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	64	Men gathered to them and praised them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	65	Then Judas and his brothers went forth and fought the sons of Esau in the land to the south. He struck Hebron and its villages and tore down its strongholds and burned its towers round about.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	66	Then he marched off to go into the land of the Philistines, and passed through Marisa.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	67	On that day some priests, who wished to do a brave deed, fell in battle, for they went out to battle unwisely.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	5	68	But Judas turned aside to Azotus in the land of the Philistines; he tore down their altars, and the graven images of their gods he burned with fire; he plundered the cities and returned to the land of Judah.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	1	King Antiochus was going through the upper provinces when he heard that Elymais in Persia was a city famed for its wealth in silver and gold.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	2	Its temple was very rich, containing golden shields, breastplates, and weapons left there by Alexander, the son of Philip, the Macedonian king who first reigned over the Greeks.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	3	So he came and tried to take the city and plunder it, but he could not, because his plan became known to the men of the city
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	4	and they withstood him in battle. So he fled and in great grief departed from there to return to Babylon.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	5	Then some one came to him in Persia and reported that the armies which had gone into the land of Judah had been routed;
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	6	that Lysias had gone first with a strong force, but had turned and fled before the Jews; that the Jews had grown strong from the arms, supplies, and abundant spoils which they had taken from the armies they had cut down;
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	7	that they had torn down the abomination which he had erected upon the altar in Jerusalem; and that they had surrounded the sanctuary with high walls as before, and also Beth-zur, his city.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	8	When the king heard this news, he was astounded and badly shaken. He took to his bed and became sick from grief, because things had not turned out for him as he had planned.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	9	He lay there for many days, because deep grief continually gripped him, and he concluded that he was dying.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	10	So he called all his friends and said to them, “Sleep departs from my eyes and I am downhearted with worry.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	11	I said to myself, ‘To what distress I have come! And into what a great flood I now am plunged! For I was kind and beloved in my power.’
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	12	But now I remember the evils I did in Jerusalem. I seized all her vessels of silver and gold; and I sent to destroy the inhabitants of Judah without good reason.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	13	I know that it is because of this that these evils have come upon me; and behold, I am perishing of deep grief in a strange land.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	14	Then he called for Philip, one of his friends, and made him ruler over all his kingdom.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	15	He gave him the crown and his robe and the signet, that he might guide Antiochus his son and bring him up to be king.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	16	Thus Antiochus the king died there in the one hundred and forty-ninth year.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	17	And when Lysias learned that the king was dead, he set up Antiochus the king’s son to reign. Lysias had brought him up as a boy, and he named him Eupator.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	18	Now the men in the citadel kept hemming Israel in around the sanctuary. They were trying in every way to harm them and strengthen the Gentiles.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	19	So Judas decided to destroy them, and assembled all the people to besiege them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	20	They gathered together and besieged the citadel in the one hundred and fiftieth year; and he built siege towers and other engines of war.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	21	But some of the garrison escaped from the siege and some of the ungodly Israelites joined them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	22	They went to the king and said, “How long will you fail to do justice and to avenge our brethren?
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	23	We were happy to serve your father, to live by what he said and to follow his commands.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	24	For this reason the sons of our people besieged the citadel and became hostile to us; moreover, they have put to death as many of us as they have caught, and they have seized our inheritances.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	25	And not against us alone have they stretched out their hands, but also against all the lands on their borders.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	26	And behold, today they have encamped against the citadel in Jerusalem to take it; they have fortified both the sanctuary and Beth-zur;
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	27	and unless you quickly prevent them, they will do still greater things, and you will not be able to stop them.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	28	The king was enraged when he heard this. He assembled all his friends, the commanders of his forces and those in authority.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	29	And mercenary forces came to him from other kingdoms and from islands of the seas.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	30	The number of his forces was a hundred thousand foot soldiers, twenty thousand horsemen, and thirty-two elephants accustomed to war.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	31	They came through Idumea and encamped against Beth-zur, and for many days they fought and built engines of war; but the Jews sallied out and burned these with fire, and fought manfully.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	32	Then Judas marched away from the citadel and encamped at Beth-zechariah, opposite the camp of the king.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	33	Early in the morning the king rose and took his army by a forced march along the road to Beth-zechariah, and his troops made ready for battle and sounded their trumpets.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	34	They showed the elephants the juice of grapes and mulberries, to arouse them for battle.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	35	And they distributed the beasts among the phalanxes; with each elephant they stationed a thousand men armed with coats of mail, and with brass helmets on their heads; and five hundred picked horsemen were assigned to each beast.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	36	These took their position beforehand wherever the beast was; wherever it went they went with it, and they never left it.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	37	And upon the elephants were wooden towers, strong and covered; they were fastened upon each beast by special harness, and upon each were four armed men who fought from there, and also its Indian driver.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	38	The rest of the horsemen were stationed on either side, on the two flanks of the army, to harass the enemy while being themselves protected by the phalanxes.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	39	When the sun shone upon the shields of gold and brass, the hills were ablaze with them and gleamed like flaming torches.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	40	Now a part of the king’s army was spread out on the high hills, and some troops were on the plain, and they advanced steadily and in good order.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	41	All who heard the noise made by their multitude, by the marching of the multitude and the clanking of their arms, trembled, for the army was very large and strong.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	42	But Judas and his army advanced to the battle, and six hundred men of the king’s army fell.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	43	And Eleazar, called Avaran, saw that one of the beasts was equipped with royal armor. It was taller than all the others, and he supposed that the king was upon it.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	44	So he gave his life to save his people and to win for himself an everlasting name.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	45	He courageously ran into the midst of the phalanx to reach it; he killed men right and left, and they parted before him on both sides.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	46	He got under the elephant, stabbed it from beneath, and killed it; but it fell to the ground upon him and he died.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	47	And when the Jews saw the royal might and the fierce attack of the forces, they turned away in flight.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	48	The soldiers of the king’s army went up to Jerusalem against them, and the king encamped in Judea and at Mount Zion.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	49	He made peace with the men of Beth-zur, and they evacuated the city, because they had no provisions there to withstand a siege, since it was a sabbatical year for the land.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	50	So the king took Beth-zur and stationed a guard there to hold it.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	51	Then he encamped before the sanctuary for many days. He set up siege towers, engines of war to throw fire and stones, machines to shoot arrows, and catapults.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	52	The Jews also made engines of war to match theirs, and fought for many days.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	53	But they had no food in storage, because it was the seventh year; those who found safety in Judea from the Gentiles had consumed the last of the stores.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	54	Few men were left in the sanctuary, because famine had prevailed over the rest and they had been scattered, each to his own place.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	55	Then Lysias heard that Philip, whom King Antiochus while still living had appointed to bring up Antiochus his son to be king,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	56	had returned from Persia and Media with the forces that had gone with the king, and that he was trying to seize control of the government.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	57	So he quickly gave orders to depart, and said to the king, to the commanders of the forces, and to the men, “We daily grow weaker, our food supply is scant, the place against which we are fighting is strong, and the affairs of the kingdom press urgently upon us.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	58	Now then let us come to terms with these men, and make peace with them and with all their nation,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	59	and agree to let them live by their laws as they did before; for it was on account of their laws which we abolished that they became angry and did all these things.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	60	The speech pleased the king and the commanders, and he sent to the Jews an offer of peace, and they accepted it.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	61	So the king and the commanders gave them their oath. On these conditions the Jews evacuated the stronghold.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	62	But when the king entered Mount Zion and saw what a strong fortress the place was, he broke the oath he had sworn and gave orders to tear down the wall all around.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	6	63	Then he departed with haste and returned to Antioch. He found Philip in control of the city, but he fought against him, and took the city by force.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	1	In the one hundred and fifty-first year Demetrius the son of Seleucus set forth from Rome, sailed with a few men to a city by the sea, and there began to reign.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	2	As he was entering the royal palace of his fathers, the army seized Antiochus and Lysias to bring them to him.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	3	But when this act became known to him, he said, “Do not let me see their faces!”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	4	So the army killed them, and Demetrius took his seat upon the throne of his kingdom.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	5	Then there came to him all the lawless and ungodly men of Israel; they were led by Alcimus, who wanted to be high priest.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	6	And they brought to the king this accusation against the people: “Judas and his brothers have destroyed all your friends, and have driven us out of our land.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	7	Now then send a man whom you trust; let him go and see all the ruin which Judas has brought upon us and upon the land of the king, and let him punish them and all who help them.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	8	So the king chose Bacchides, one of the king’s friends, governor of the province Beyond the River; he was a great man in the kingdom and was faithful to the king.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	9	And he sent him, and with him the ungodly Alcimus, whom he made high priest; and he commanded him to take vengeance on the sons of Israel.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	10	So they marched away and came with a large force into the land of Judah; and he sent messengers to Judas and his brothers with peaceable but treacherous words.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	11	But they paid no attention to their words, for they saw that they had come with a large force.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	12	Then a group of scribes appeared in a body before Alcimus and Bacchides to ask for just terms.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	13	The Hasideans were first among the sons of Israel to seek peace from them,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	14	for they said, “A priest of the line of Aaron has come with the army, and he will not harm us.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	15	And he spoke peaceable words to them and swore this oath to them, “We will not seek to injure you or your friends.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	16	So they trusted him; but he seized sixty of them and killed them in one day, in accordance with the word which was written,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	17	“The flesh of thy saints and their blood they poured out round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	18	Then the fear and dread of them fell upon all the people, for they said, “There is no truth or justice in them, for they have violated the agreement and the oath which they swore.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	19	Then Bacchides departed from Jerusalem and encamped in Beth-zaith. And he sent and seized many of the men who had deserted to him, and some of the people, and killed them and threw them into a great pit.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	20	He placed Alcimus in charge of the country and left with him a force to help him; then Bacchides went back to the king.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	21	Alcimus strove for the high priesthood,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	22	and all who were troubling their people joined him. They gained control of the land of Judah and did great damage in Israel.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	23	And Judas saw all the evil that Alcimus and those with him had done among the sons of Israel; it was more than the Gentiles had done.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	24	So Judas went out into all the surrounding parts of Judea, and took vengeance on the men who had deserted, and he prevented those in the city from going out into the country.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	25	When Alcimus saw that Judas and those with him had grown strong, and realized that he could not withstand them, he returned to the king and brought wicked charges against them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	26	Then the king sent Nicanor, one of his honored princes, who hated and detested Israel, and he commanded him to destroy the people.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	27	So Nicanor came to Jerusalem with a large force, and treacherously sent to Judas and his brothers this peaceable message,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	28	“Let there be no fighting between me and you; I shall come with a few men to see you face to face in peace.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	29	So he came to Judas, and they greeted one another peaceably. But the enemy were ready to seize Judas.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	30	It became known to Judas that Nicanor had come to him with treacherous intent, and he was afraid of him and would not meet him again.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	31	When Nicanor learned that his plan had been disclosed, he went out to meet Judas in battle near Caphar-salama.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	32	About five hundred men of the army of Nicanor fell, and the rest fled into the city of David.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	33	After these events Nicanor went up to Mount Zion. Some of the priests came out of the sanctuary, and some of the elders of the people, to greet him peaceably and to show him the burnt offering that was being offered for the king.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	34	But he mocked them and derided them and defiled them and spoke arrogantly,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	35	and in anger he swore this oath, “Unless Judas and his army are delivered into my hands this time, then if I return safely I will burn up this house.” And he went out in great anger.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	36	Then the priests went in and stood before the altar and the temple, and they wept and said,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	37	“Thou didst choose this house to be called by thy name, and to be for thy people a house of prayer and supplication.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	38	Take vengeance on this man and on his army, and let them fall by the sword; remember their blasphemies, and let them live no longer.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	39	Now Nicanor went out from Jerusalem and encamped in Beth-horon, and the Syrian army joined him.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	40	And Judas encamped in Adasa with three thousand men. Then Judas prayed and said,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	41	“When the messengers from the king spoke blasphemy, thy angel went forth and struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand of the Assyrians.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	42	So also crush this army before us today; let the rest learn that Nicanor has spoken wickedly against the sanctuary, and judge him according to this wickedness.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	43	So the armies met in battle on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar. The army of Nicanor was crushed, and he himself was the first to fall in the battle.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	44	When his army saw that Nicanor had fallen, they threw down their arms and fled.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	45	The Jews pursued them a day’s journey, from Adasa as far as Gazara, and as they followed kept sounding the battle call on the trumpets.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	46	And men came out of all the villages of Judea round about, and they out-flanked the enemy and drove them back to their pursuers, so that they all fell by the sword; not even one of them was left.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	47	Then the Jews seized the spoils and the plunder, and they cut off Nicanor’s head and the right hand which he so arrogantly stretched out, and brought them and displayed them just outside Jerusalem.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	48	The people rejoiced greatly and celebrated that day as a day of great gladness.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	49	And they decreed that this day should be celebrated each year on the thirteenth day of Adar.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	7	50	So the land of Judah had rest for a few days.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	8	1	Now Judas heard of the fame of the Romans, that they were very strong and were well-disposed toward all who made an alliance with them, that they pledged friendship to those who came to them,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	8	2	and that they were very strong. Men told him of their wars and of the brave deeds which they were doing among the Gauls, how they had defeated them and forced them to pay tribute,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	8	3	and what they had done in the land of Spain to get control of the silver and gold mines there,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	8	4	and how they had gained control of the whole region by their planning and patience, even though the place was far distant from them. They also subdued the kings who came against them from the ends of the earth, until they crushed them and inflicted great disaster upon them; the rest paid them tribute every year.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	8	5	Philip, and Perseus king of the Macedonians, and the others who rose up against them, they crushed in battle and conquered.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	8	6	They also defeated Antiochus the Great, king of Asia, who went to fight against them with a hundred and twenty elephants and with cavalry and chariots and a very large army. He was crushed by them;
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	8	7	they took him alive and decreed that he and those who should reign after him should pay a heavy tribute and give hostages and surrender some of their best provinces,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	8	8	the country of India and Media and Lydia. These they took from him and gave to Eumenes the king.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	8	9	The Greeks planned to come and destroy them,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	8	10	but this became known to them, and they sent a general against the Greeks and attacked them. Many of them were wounded and fell, and the Romans took captive their wives and children; they plundered them, conquered the land, tore down their strongholds, and enslaved them to this day.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	8	11	The remaining kingdoms and islands, as many as ever opposed them, they destroyed and enslaved;
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	8	12	but with their friends and those who rely on them they have kept friendship. They have subdued kings far and near, and as many as have heard of their fame have feared them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	8	13	Those whom they wish to help and to make kings, they make kings, and those whom they wish they depose; and they have been greatly exalted.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	8	14	Yet for all this not one of them has put on a crown or worn purple as a mark of pride,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	8	15	but they have built for themselves a senate chamber, and every day three hundred and twenty senators constantly deliberate concerning the people, to govern them well.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	8	16	They trust one man each year to rule over them and to control all their land; they all heed the one man, and there is no envy or jealousy among them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	8	17	So Judas chose Eupolemus the son of John, son of Accos, and Jason the son of Eleazar, and sent them to Rome to establish friendship and alliance,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	8	18	and to free themselves from the yoke; for they saw that the kingdom of the Greeks was completely enslaving Israel.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	8	19	They went to Rome, a very long journey; and they entered the senate chamber and spoke as follows:
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	8	20	“Judas, who is also called Maccabeus, and his brothers and the people of the Jews have sent us to you to establish alliance and peace with you, that we may be enrolled as your allies and friends.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	8	21	The proposal pleased them,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	8	22	and this is a copy of the letter which they wrote in reply, on bronze tablets, and sent to Jerusalem to remain with them there as a memorial of peace and alliance:
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	8	23	“May all go well with the Romans and with the nation of the Jews at sea and on land for ever, and may sword and enemy be far from them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	8	24	If war comes first to Rome or to any of their allies in all their dominion,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	8	25	the nation of the Jews shall act as their allies wholeheartedly, as the occasion may indicate to them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	8	26	And to the enemy who makes war they shall not give or supply grain, arms, money, or ships, as Rome has decided; and they shall keep their obligations without receiving any return.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	8	27	In the same way, if war comes first to the nation of the Jews, the Romans shall willingly act as their allies, as the occasion may indicate to them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	8	28	And to the enemy allies shall be given no grain, arms, money, or ships, as Rome has decided; and they shall keep these obligations and do so without deceit.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	8	29	Thus on these terms the Romans make a treaty with the Jewish people.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	8	30	If after these terms are in effect both parties shall determine to add or delete anything, they shall do so at their discretion, and any addition or deletion that they may make shall be valid.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	8	31	“And concerning the wrongs which King Demetrius is doing to them we have written to him as follows, ‘Why have you made your yoke heavy upon our friends and allies the Jews?
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	8	32	If now they appeal again for help against you, we will defend their rights and fight you on sea and on land.’”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	1	When Demetrius heard that Nicanor and his army had fallen in battle, he sent Bacchides and Alcimus into the land of Judah a second time, and with them the right wing of the army.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	2	They went by the road which leads to Gilgal and encamped against Mesaloth in Arbela, and they took it and killed many people.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	3	In the first month of the one hundred and fifty-second year they encamped against Jerusalem;
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	4	then they marched off and went to Berea with twenty thousand foot soldiers and two thousand cavalry.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	5	Now Judas was encamped in Elasa, and with him were three thousand picked men.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	6	When they saw the huge number of the enemy forces, they were greatly frightened, and many slipped away from the camp, until no more than eight hundred of them were left.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	7	When Judas saw that his army had slipped away and the battle was imminent, he was crushed in spirit, for he had no time to assemble them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	8	He became faint, but he said to those who were left, “Let us rise and go up against our enemies. We may be able to fight them.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	9	But they tried to dissuade him, saying, “We are not able. Let us rather save our own lives now, and let us come back with our brethren and fight them; we are too few.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	10	But Judas said, “Far be it from us to do such a thing as to flee from them. If our time has come, let us die bravely for our brethren, and leave no cause to question our honor.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	11	Then the army of Bacchides marched out from the camp and took its stand for the encounter. The cavalry was divided into two companies, and the slingers and the archers went ahead of the army, as did all the chief warriors.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	12	Bacchides was on the right wing. Flanked by the two companies, the phalanx advanced to the sound of the trumpets; and the men with Judas also blew their trumpets.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	13	The earth was shaken by the noise of the armies, and the battle raged from morning till evening.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	14	Judas saw that Bacchides and the strength of his army were on the right; then all the stouthearted men went with him,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	15	and they crushed the right wing, and he pursued them as far as Mount Azotus.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	16	When those on the left wing saw that the right wing was crushed, they turned and followed close behind Judas and his men.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	17	The battle became desperate, and many on both sides were wounded and fell.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	18	Judas also fell, and the rest fled.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	19	Then Jonathan and Simon took Judas their brother and buried him in the tomb of their fathers at Modein,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	20	and wept for him. And all Israel made great lamentation for him; they mourned many days and said,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	21	“How is the mighty fallen, the savior of Israel!”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	22	Now the rest of the acts of Judas, and his wars and the brave deeds that he did, and his greatness, have not been recorded, for they were very many.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	23	After the death of Judas, the lawless emerged in all parts of Israel; all the doers of injustice appeared.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	24	In those days a very great famine occurred, and the country deserted with them to the enemy.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	25	And Bacchides chose the ungodly and put them in charge of the country.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	26	They sought and searched for the friends of Judas, and brought them to Bacchides, and he took vengeance on them and made sport of them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	27	Thus there was great distress in Israel, such as had not been since the time that prophets ceased to appear among them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	28	Then all the friends of Judas assembled and said to Jonathan,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	29	“Since the death of your brother Judas there has been no one like him to go against our enemies and Bacchides, and to deal with those of our nation who hate us.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	30	So now we have chosen you today to take his place as our ruler and leader, to fight our battle.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	31	And Jonathan at that time accepted the leadership and took the place of Judas his brother.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	32	When Bacchides learned of this, he tried to kill him.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	33	But Jonathan and Simon his brother and all who were with him heard of it, and they fled into the wilderness of Tekoa and camped by the water of the pool of Asphar.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	34	Bacchides found this out on the sabbath day, and he with all his army crossed the Jordan.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	35	And Jonathan sent his brother as leader of the multitude and begged the Nabateans, who were his friends, for permission to store with them the great amount of baggage which they had.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	36	But the sons of Jambri from Medeba came out and seized John and all that he had, and departed with it.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	37	After these things it was reported to Jonathan and Simon his brother, “The sons of Jambri are celebrating a great wedding, and are conducting the bride, a daughter of one of the great nobles of Canaan, from Nadabath with a large escort.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	38	And they remembered the blood of John their brother, and went up and hid under cover of the mountain.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	39	They raised their eyes and looked, and saw a tumultuous procession with much baggage; and the bridegroom came out with his friends and his brothers to meet them with tambourines and musicians and many weapons.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	40	Then they rushed upon them from the ambush and began killing them. Many were wounded and fell, and the rest fled to the mountain; and they took all their goods.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	41	Thus the wedding was turned into mourning and the voice of their musicians into a funeral dirge.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	42	And when they had fully avenged the blood of their brother, they returned to the marshes of the Jordan.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	43	When Bacchides heard of this, he came with a large force on the sabbath day to the banks of the Jordan.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	44	And Jonathan said to those with him, “Let us rise up now and fight for our lives, for today things are not as they were before.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	45	For look! the battle is in front of us and behind us; the water of the Jordan is on this side and on that, with marsh and thicket; there is no place to turn.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	46	Cry out now to Heaven that you may be delivered from the hands of our enemies.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	47	So the battle began, and Jonathan stretched out his hand to strike Bacchides, but he eluded him and went to the rear.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	48	Then Jonathan and the men with him leaped into the Jordan and swam across to the other side, and the enemy did not cross the Jordan to attack them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	49	And about one thousand of Bacchides’ men fell that day.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	50	Bacchides then returned to Jerusalem and built strong cities in Judea: the fortress in Jericho, and Emmaus, and Beth-horon, and Bethel, and Timnath, and Pharathon, and Tephon, with high walls and gates and bars.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	51	And he placed garrisons in them to harass Israel.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	52	He also fortified the city of Beth-zur, and Gazara, and the citadel, and in them he put troops and stores of food.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	53	And he took the sons of the leading men of the land as hostages and put them under guard in the citadel at Jerusalem.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	54	In the one hundred and fifty-third year, in the second month, Alcimus gave orders to tear down the wall of the inner court of the sanctuary. He tore down the work of the prophets!
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	55	But he only began to tear it down, for at that time Alcimus was stricken and his work was hindered; his mouth was stopped and he was paralyzed, so that he could no longer say a word or give commands concerning his house.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	56	And Alcimus died at that time in great agony.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	57	When Bacchides saw that Alcimus was dead, he returned to the king, and the land of Judah had rest for two years.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	58	Then all the lawless plotted and said, “See! Jonathan and his men are living in quiet and confidence. So now let us bring Bacchides back, and he will capture them all in one night.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	59	And they went and consulted with him.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	60	He started to come with a large force, and secretly sent letters to all his allies in Judea, telling them to seize Jonathan and his men; but they were unable to do it, because their plan became known.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	61	And Jonathan’s men seized about fifty of the men of the country who were leaders in this treachery, and killed them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	62	Then Jonathan with his men, and Simon, withdrew to Bethbasi in the wilderness; he rebuilt the parts of it that had been demolished, and they fortified it.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	63	When Bacchides learned of this, he assembled all his forces, and sent orders to the men of Judea.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	64	Then he came and encamped against Bethbasi; he fought against it for many days and made machines of war.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	65	But Jonathan left Simon his brother in the city, while he went out into the country; and he went with only a few men.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	66	He struck down Odomera and his brothers and the sons of Phasiron in their tents.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	67	Then he began to attack and went into battle with his forces; and Simon and his men sallied out from the city and set fire to the machines of war.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	68	They fought with Bacchides, and he was crushed by them. They distressed him greatly, for his plan and his expedition had been in vain.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	69	So he was greatly enraged at the lawless men who had counseled him to come into the country, and he killed many of them. Then he decided to depart to his own land.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	70	When Jonathan learned of this, he sent ambassadors to him to make peace with him and obtain release of the captives.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	71	He agreed, and did as he said; and he swore to Jonathan that he would not try to harm him as long as he lived.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	72	He restored to him the captives whom he had formerly taken from the land of Judah; then he turned and departed to his own land, and came no more into their territory.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	9	73	Thus the sword ceased from Israel. And Jonathan dwelt in Michmash. And Jonathan began to judge the people, and he destroyed the ungodly out of Israel.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	1	In the one hundred and sixtieth year Alexander Epiphanes, the son of Antiochus, landed and occupied Ptolemais. They welcomed him, and there he began to reign.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	2	When Demetrius the king heard of it, he assembled a very large army and marched out to meet him in battle.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	3	And Demetrius sent Jonathan a letter in peaceable words to honor him;
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	4	for he said, “Let us act first to make peace with him before he makes peace with Alexander against us,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	5	for he will remember all the wrongs which we did to him and to his brothers and his nation.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	6	So Demetrius gave him authority to recruit troops, to equip them with arms, and to become his ally; and he commanded that the hostages in the citadel should be released to him.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	7	Then Jonathan came to Jerusalem and read the letter in the hearing of all the people and of the men in the citadel.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	8	They were greatly alarmed when they heard that the king had given him authority to recruit troops.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	9	But the men in the citadel released the hostages to Jonathan, and he returned them to their parents.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	10	And Jonathan dwelt in Jerusalem and began to rebuild and restore the city.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	11	He directed those who were doing the work to build the walls and encircle Mount Zion with squared stones, for better fortification; and they did so.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	12	Then the foreigners who were in the strongholds that Bacchides had built fled;
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	13	each left his place and departed to his own land.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	14	Only in Beth-zur did some remain who had forsaken the law and the commandments, for it served as a place of refuge.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	15	Now Alexander the king heard of all the promises which Demetrius had sent to Jonathan, and men told him of the battles that Jonathan and his brothers had fought, of the brave deeds that they had done, and of the troubles that they had endured.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	16	So he said, “Shall we find another such man? Come now, we will make him our friend and ally.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	17	And he wrote a letter and sent it to him, in the following words:
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	18	“King Alexander to his brother Jonathan, greeting.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	19	We have heard about you, that you are a mighty warrior and worthy to be our friend.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	20	And so we have appointed you today to be the high priest of your nation; you are to be called the king’s friend” (and he sent him a purple robe and a golden crown) “and you are to take our side and keep friendship with us.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	21	So Jonathan put on the holy garments in the seventh month of the one hundred and sixtieth year, at the feast of tabernacles, and he recruited troops and equipped them with arms in abundance.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	22	When Demetrius heard of these things he was grieved and said,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	23	“What is this that we have done? Alexander has gotten ahead of us in forming a friendship with the Jews to strengthen himself.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	24	I also will write them words of encouragement and promise them honor and gifts, that I may have their help.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	25	So he sent a message to them in the following words: “King Demetrius to the nation of the Jews, greeting.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	26	Since you have kept your agreement with us and have continued your friendship with us, and have not sided with our enemies, we have heard of it and rejoiced.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	27	And now continue still to keep faith with us, and we will repay you with good for what you do for us.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	28	We will grant you many immunities and give you gifts.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	29	“And now I free you and exempt all the Jews from payment of tribute and salt tax and crown levies,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	30	and instead of collecting the third of the grain and the half of the fruit of the trees that I should receive, I release them from this day and henceforth. I will not collect them from the land of Judah or from the three districts added to it from Samaria and Galilee, from this day and for all time.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	31	And let Jerusalem and her environs, her tithes and her revenues, be holy and free from tax.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	32	I release also my control of the citadel in Jerusalem and give it to the high priest, that he may station in it men of his own choice to guard it.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	33	And every one of the Jews taken as a captive from the land of Judah into any part of my kingdom, I set free without payment; and let all officials cancel also the taxes on their cattle.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	34	“And all the feasts and sabbaths and new moons and appointed days, and the three days before a feast and the three after a feast—let them all be days of immunity and release for all the Jews who are in my kingdom.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	35	No one shall have authority to exact anything from them or annoy any of them about any matter.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	36	“Let Jews be enrolled in the king’s forces to the number of thirty thousand men, and let the maintenance be given them that is due to all the forces of the king.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	37	Let some of them be stationed in the great strongholds of the king, and let some of them be put in positions of trust in the kingdom. Let their officers and leaders be of their own number, and let them live by their own laws, just as the king has commanded in the land of Judah.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	38	“As for the three districts that have been added to Judea from the country of Samaria, let them be so annexed to Judea that they are considered to be under one ruler and obey no other authority but the high priest.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	39	Ptolemais and the land adjoining it I have given as a gift to the sanctuary in Jerusalem, to meet the necessary expenses of the sanctuary.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	40	I also grant fifteen thousand shekels of silver yearly out of the king’s revenues from appropriate places.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	41	And all the additional funds which the government officials have not paid as they did in the first years, they shall give from now on for the service of the temple.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	42	Moreover, the five thousand shekels of silver which my officials have received every year from the income of the services of the temple, this too is canceled, because it belongs to the priests who minister there.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	43	And whoever takes refuge at the temple in Jerusalem, or in any of its precincts, because he owes money to the king or has any debt, let him be released and receive back all his property in my kingdom.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	44	“Let the cost of rebuilding and restoring the structures of the sanctuary be paid from the revenues of the king.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	45	And let the cost of rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem and fortifying it round about, and the cost of rebuilding the walls in Judea, also be paid from the revenues of the king.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	46	When Jonathan and the people heard these words, they did not believe or accept them, because they remembered the great wrongs which Demetrius had done in Israel and how he had greatly oppressed them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	47	They favored Alexander, because he had been the first to speak peaceable words to them, and they remained his allies all his days.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	48	Now Alexander the king assembled large forces and encamped opposite Demetrius.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	49	The two kings met in battle, and the army of Demetrius fled, and Alexander pursued him and defeated them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	50	He pressed the battle strongly until the sun set, and Demetrius fell on that day.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	51	Then Alexander sent ambassadors to Ptolemy king of Egypt with the following message:
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	52	“Since I have returned to my kingdom and have taken my seat on the throne of my fathers, and established my rule—for I crushed Demetrius and gained control of our country;
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	53	I met him in battle, and he and his army were crushed by us, and we have taken our seat on the throne of his kingdom—
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	54	now therefore let us establish friendship with one another; give me now your daughter as my wife, and I will become your son-in-law, and will make gifts to you and to her in keeping with your position.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	55	Ptolemy the king replied and said, “Happy was the day on which you returned to the land of your fathers and took your seat on the throne of their kingdom.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	56	And now I will do for you as you wrote, but meet me at Ptolemais, so that we may see one another, and I will become your father-in-law, as you have said.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	57	So Ptolemy set out from Egypt, he and Cleopatra his daughter, and came to Ptolemais in the one hundred and sixty-second year.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	58	Alexander the king met him, and Ptolemy gave him Cleopatra his daughter in marriage, and celebrated her wedding at Ptolemais with great pomp, as kings do.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	59	Then Alexander the king wrote to Jonathan to come to meet him.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	60	So he went with pomp to Ptolemais and met the two kings; he gave them and their friends silver and gold and many gifts, and found favor with them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	61	A group of pestilent men from Israel, lawless men, gathered together against him to accuse him; but the king paid no attention to them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	62	The king gave orders to take off Jonathan’s garments and to clothe him in purple, and they did so.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	63	The king also seated him at his side; and he said to his officers, “Go forth with him into the middle of the city and proclaim that no one is to bring charges against him about any matter, and let no one annoy him for any reason.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	64	And when his accusers saw the honor that was paid him, in accordance with the proclamation, and saw him clothed in purple, they all fled.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	65	Thus the king honored him and enrolled him among his chief friends, and made him general and governor of the province.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	66	And Jonathan returned to Jerusalem in peace and gladness.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	67	In the one hundred and sixty-fifth year Demetrius the son of Demetrius came from Crete to the land of his fathers.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	68	When Alexander the king heard of it, he was greatly grieved and returned to Antioch.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	69	And Demetrius appointed Apollonius the governor of Coelesyria, and he assembled a large force and encamped against Jamnia. Then he sent the following message to Jonathan the high priest:
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	70	“You are the only one to rise up against us, and I have become a laughingstock and reproach because of you. Why do you assume authority against us in the hill country?
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	71	If you now have confidence in your forces, come down to the plain to meet us, and let us match strength with each other there, for I have with me the power of the cities.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	72	Ask and learn who I am and who the others are that are helping us. Men will tell you that you cannot stand before us, for your fathers were twice put to flight in their own land.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	73	And now you will not be able to withstand my cavalry and such an army in the plain, where there is no stone or pebble, or place to flee.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	74	When Jonathan heard the words of Apollonius, his spirit was aroused. He chose ten thousand men and set out from Jerusalem, and Simon his brother met him to help him.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	75	He encamped before Joppa, but the men of the city closed its gates, for Apollonius had a garrison in Joppa.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	76	So they fought against it, and the men of the city became afraid and opened the gates, and Jonathan gained possession of Joppa.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	77	When Apollonius heard of it, he mustered three thousand cavalry and a large army, and went to Azotus as though he were going farther. At the same time he advanced into the plain, for he had a large troop of cavalry and put confidence in it.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	78	Jonathan pursued him to Azotus, and the armies engaged in battle.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	79	Now Apollonius had secretly left a thousand cavalry behind them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	80	Jonathan learned that there was an ambush behind him, for they surrounded his army and shot arrows at his men from early morning till late afternoon.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	81	But his men stood fast, as Jonathan commanded, and the enemy’s horses grew tired.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	82	Then Simon brought forward his force and engaged the phalanx in battle (for the cavalry was exhausted); they were overwhelmed by him and fled,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	83	and the cavalry was dispersed in the plain. They fled to Azotus and entered Beth-dagon, the temple of their idol, for safety.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	84	But Jonathan burned Azotus and the surrounding towns and plundered them; and the temple of Dagon, and those who had taken refuge in it he burned with fire.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	85	The number of those who fell by the sword, with those burned alive, came to eight thousand men.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	86	Then Jonathan departed from there and encamped against Askalon, and the men of the city came out to meet him with great pomp.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	87	And Jonathan and those with him returned to Jerusalem with much booty.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	88	When Alexander the king heard of these things, he honored Jonathan still more;
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	10	89	and he sent to him a golden buckle, such as it is the custom to give to the kinsmen of kings. He also gave him Ekron and all its environs as his possession.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	1	Then the king of Egypt gathered great forces, like the sand by the seashore, and many ships; and he tried to get possession of Alexander’s kingdom by trickery and add it to his own kingdom.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	2	He set out for Syria with peaceable words, and the people of the cities opened their gates to him and went to meet him, for Alexander the king had commanded them to meet him, since he was Alexander’s father-in-law.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	3	But when Ptolemy entered the cities he stationed forces as a garrison in each city.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	4	When he approached Azotus, they showed him the temple of Dagon burned down, and Azotus and its suburbs destroyed, and the corpses lying about, and the charred bodies of those whom Jonathan had burned in the war, for they had piled them in heaps along his route.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	5	They also told the king what Jonathan had done, to throw blame on him; but the king kept silent.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	6	Jonathan met the king at Joppa with pomp, and they greeted one another and spent the night there.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	7	And Jonathan went with the king as far as the river called Eleutherus; then he returned to Jerusalem.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	8	So King Ptolemy gained control of the coastal cities as far as Seleucia by the sea, and he kept devising evil designs against Alexander.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	9	He sent envoys to Demetrius the king, saying, “Come, let us make a covenant with each other, and I will give you in marriage my daughter who was Alexander’s wife, and you shall reign over your father’s kingdom.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	10	For I now regret that I gave him my daughter, for he has tried to kill me.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	11	He threw blame on Alexander because he coveted his kingdom.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	12	So he took his daughter away from him and gave her to Demetrius. He was estranged from Alexander, and their enmity became manifest.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	13	Then Ptolemy entered Antioch and put on the crown of Asia. Thus he put two crowns upon his head, the crown of Egypt and that of Asia.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	14	Now Alexander the king was in Cilicia at that time, because the people of that region were in revolt.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	15	And Alexander heard of it and came against him in battle. Ptolemy marched out and met him with a strong force, and put him to flight.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	16	So Alexander fled into Arabia to find protection there, and King Ptolemy was exalted.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	17	And Zabdiel the Arab cut off the head of Alexander and sent it to Ptolemy.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	18	But King Ptolemy died three days later, and his troops in the strongholds were killed by the inhabitants of the strongholds.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	19	So Demetrius became king in the one hundred and sixty-seventh year.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	20	In those days Jonathan assembled the men of Judea to attack the citadel in Jerusalem, and he built many engines of war to use against it.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	21	But certain lawless men who hated their nation went to the king and reported to him that Jonathan was besieging the citadel.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	22	When he heard this he was angry, and as soon as he heard it he set out and came to Ptolemais; and he wrote Jonathan not to continue the siege, but to meet him for a conference at Ptolemais as quickly as possible.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	23	When Jonathan heard this, he gave orders to continue the siege; and he chose some of the elders of Israel and some of the priests, and put himself in danger,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	24	for he went to the king at Ptolemais, taking silver and gold and clothing and numerous other gifts. And he won his favor.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	25	Although certain lawless men of his nation kept making complaints against him,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	26	the king treated him as his predecessors had treated him; he exalted him in the presence of all his friends.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	27	He confirmed him in the high priesthood and in as many other honors as he had formerly had, and made him to be regarded as one of his chief friends.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	28	Then Jonathan asked the king to free Judea and the three districts of Samaria from tribute, and promised him three hundred talents.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	29	The king consented, and wrote a letter to Jonathan about all these things; its contents were as follows:
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	30	“King Demetrius to Jonathan his brother and to the nation of the Jews, greeting.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	31	This copy of the letter which we wrote concerning you to Lasthenes our kinsman we have written to you also, so that you may know what it says.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	32	‘King Demetrius to Lasthenes his father, greeting.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	33	To the nation of the Jews, who are our friends and fulfil their obligations to us, we have determined to do good, because of the good will they show toward us.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	34	We have confirmed as their possession both the territory of Judea and the three districts of Aphairema and Lydda and Rathamin; the latter, with all the region bordering them, were added to Judea from Samaria. To all those who offer sacrifice in Jerusalem, we have granted release from the royal taxes which the king formerly received from them each year, from the crops of the land and the fruit of the trees.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	35	And the other payments henceforth due to us of the tithes, and the taxes due to us, and the salt pits and the crown taxes due to us—from all these we shall grant them release.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	36	And not one of these grants shall be canceled from this time forth for ever.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	37	Now therefore take care to make a copy of this, and let it be given to Jonathan and put up in a conspicuous place on the holy mountain.’”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	38	Now when Demetrius the king saw that the land was quiet before him and that there was no opposition to him, he dismissed all his troops, each man to his own place, except the foreign troops which he had recruited from the islands of the nations. So all the troops who had served his fathers hated him.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	39	Now Trypho had formerly been one of Alexander’s supporters. He saw that all the troops were murmuring against Demetrius. So he went to Imalkue the Arab, who was bringing up Antiochus, the young son of Alexander,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	40	and insistently urged him to hand Antiochus over to him, to become king in place of his father. He also reported to Imalkue what Demetrius had done and told of the hatred which the troops of Demetrius had for him; and he stayed there many days.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	41	Now Jonathan sent to Demetrius the king the request that he remove the troops of the citadel from Jerusalem, and the troops in the strongholds; for they kept fighting against Israel.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	42	And Demetrius sent this message to Jonathan, “Not only will I do these things for you and your nation, but I will confer great honor on you and your nation, if I find an opportunity.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	43	Now then you will do well to send me men who will help me, for all my troops have revolted.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	44	So Jonathan sent three thousand stalwart men to him at Antioch, and when they came to the king, the king rejoiced at their arrival.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	45	Then the men of the city assembled within the city, to the number of a hundred and twenty thousand, and they wanted to kill the king.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	46	But the king fled into the palace. Then the men of the city seized the main streets of the city and began to fight.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	47	So the king called the Jews to his aid, and they all rallied about him and then spread out through the city; and they killed on that day as many as a hundred thousand men.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	48	They set fire to the city and seized much spoil on that day, and they saved the king.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	49	When the men of the city saw that the Jews had gained control of the city as they pleased, their courage failed and they cried out to the king with this entreaty,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	50	“Grant us peace, and make the Jews stop fighting against us and our city.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	51	And they threw down their arms and made peace. So the Jews gained glory in the eyes of the king and of all the people in his kingdom, and they returned to Jerusalem with much spoil.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	52	So Demetrius the king sat on the throne of his kingdom, and the land was quiet before him.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	53	But he broke his word about all that he had promised; and he became estranged from Jonathan and did not repay the favors which Jonathan had done him, but oppressed him greatly.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	54	After this Trypho returned, and with him the young boy Antiochus who began to reign and put on the crown.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	55	All the troops that Demetrius had cast off gathered around him, and they fought against Demetrius, and he fled and was routed.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	56	And Trypho captured the elephants and gained control of Antioch.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	57	Then the young Antiochus wrote to Jonathan, saying, “I confirm you in the high priesthood and set you over the four districts and make you one of the friends of the king.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	58	And he sent him gold plate and a table service, and granted him the right to drink from gold cups and dress in purple and wear a gold buckle.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	59	Simon his brother he made governor from the Ladder of Tyre to the borders of Egypt.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	60	Then Jonathan set forth and traveled beyond the river and among the cities, and all the army of Syria gathered to him as allies. When he came to Askalon, the people of the city met him and paid him honor.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	61	From there he departed to Gaza, but the men of Gaza shut him out. So he beseiged it and burned its suburbs with fire and plundered them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	62	Then the people of Gaza pleaded with Jonathan, and he made peace with them, and took the sons of their rulers as hostages and sent them to Jerusalem. And he passed through the country as far as Damascus.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	63	Then Jonathan heard that the officers of Demetrius had come to Kadesh in Galilee with a large army, intending to remove him from office.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	64	He went to meet them, but left his brother Simon in the country.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	65	Simon encamped before Beth-zur and fought against it for many days and hemmed it in.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	66	Then they asked him to grant them terms of peace, and he did so. He removed them from there, took possession of the city, and set a garrison over it.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	67	Jonathan and his army encamped by the waters of Gennesaret. Early in the morning they marched to the plain of Hazor,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	68	and behold, the army of the foreigners met him in the plain; they had set an ambush against him in the mountains, but they themselves met him face to face.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	69	Then the men in ambush emerged from their places and joined battle.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	70	All the men with Jonathan fled; not one of them was left except Mattathias the son of Absalom and Judas the son of Chalphi, commanders of the forces of the army.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	71	Jonathan rent his garments and put dust on his head, and prayed.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	72	Then he turned back to the battle against the enemy and routed them, and they fled.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	73	When his men who were fleeing saw this, they returned to him and joined him in the pursuit as far as Kadesh, to their camp, and there they encamped.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	11	74	As many as three thousand of the foreigners fell that day. And Jonathan returned to Jerusalem.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	1	Now when Jonathan saw that the time was favorable for him, he chose men and sent them to Rome to confirm and renew the friendship with them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	2	He also sent letters to the same effect to the Spartans and to other places.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	3	So they went to Rome and entered the senate chamber and said, “Jonathan the high priest and the Jewish nation have sent us to renew the former friendship and alliance with them.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	4	And the Romans gave them letters to the people in every place, asking them to provide for the envoys safe conduct to the land of Judah.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	5	This is a copy of the letter which Jonathan wrote to the Spartans:
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	6	“Jonathan the high priest, the senate of the nation, the priests, and the rest of the Jewish people to their brethren the Spartans, greeting.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	7	Already in time past a letter was sent to Onias the high priest from Arius, who was king among you, stating that you are our brethren, as the appended copy shows.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	8	Onias welcomed the envoy with honor, and received the letter, which contained a clear declaration of alliance and friendship.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	9	Therefore, though we have no need of these things, since we have as encouragement the holy books which are in our hands,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	10	we have undertaken to send to renew our brotherhood and friendship with you, so that we may not become estranged from you, for considerable time has passed since you sent your letter to us.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	11	We therefore remember you constantly on every occasion, both in our feasts and on other appropriate days, at the sacrifices which we offer and in our prayers, as it is right and proper to remember brethren.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	12	And we rejoice in your glory.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	13	But as for ourselves, many afflictions and many wars have encircled us; the kings round about us have waged war against us.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	14	We were unwilling to annoy you and our other allies and friends with these wars,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	15	for we have the help which comes from Heaven for our aid; and we were delivered from our enemies and our enemies were humbled.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	16	We therefore have chosen Numenius the son of Antiochus and Antipater the son of Jason, and have sent them to Rome to renew our former friendship and alliance with them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	17	We have commanded them to go also to you and greet you and deliver to you this letter from us concerning the renewal of our brotherhood.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	18	And now please send us a reply to this.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	19	This is a copy of the letter which they sent to Onias:
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	20	“Arius, king of the Spartans, to Onias the high priest, greeting.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	21	It has been found in writing concerning the Spartans and the Jews that they are brethren and are of the family of Abraham.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	22	And now that we have learned this, please write us concerning your welfare;
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	23	we on our part write to you that your cattle and your property belong to us, and ours belong to you. We therefore command that our envoys report to you accordingly.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	24	Now Jonathan heard that the commanders of Demetrius had returned, with a larger force than before, to wage war against him.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	25	So he marched away from Jerusalem and met them in the region of Hamath, for he gave them no opportunity to invade his own country.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	26	He sent spies to their camp, and they returned and reported to him that the enemy were being drawn up in formation to fall upon the Jews by night.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	27	So when the sun set, Jonathan commanded his men to be alert and to keep their arms at hand so as to be ready all night for battle, and he stationed outposts around the camp.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	28	When the enemy heard that Jonathan and his men were prepared for battle, they were afraid and were terrified at heart; so they kindled fires in their camp and withdrew.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	29	But Jonathan and his men did not know it until morning, for they saw the fires burning.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	30	Then Jonathan pursued them, but he did not overtake them, for they had crossed the Eleutherus river.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	31	So Jonathan turned aside against the Arabs who are called Zabadeans, and he crushed them and plundered them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	32	Then he broke camp and went to Damascus, and marched through all that region.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	33	Simon also went forth and marched through the country as far as Askalon and the neighboring strongholds. He turned aside to Joppa and took it by surprise,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	34	for he had heard that they were ready to hand over the stronghold to the men whom Demetrius had sent. And he stationed a garrison there to guard it.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	35	When Jonathan returned he convened the elders of the people and planned with them to build strongholds in Judea,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	36	to build the walls of Jerusalem still higher, and to erect a high barrier between the citadel and the city to separate it from the city, in order to isolate it so that its garrison could neither buy nor sell.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	37	So they gathered together to build up the city; part of the wall on the valley to the east had fallen, and he repaired the section called Chaphenatha.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	38	And Simon built Adida in the Shephelah; he fortified it and installed gates with bolts.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	39	Then Trypho attempted to become king in Asia and put on the crown, and to raise his hand against Antiochus the king.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	40	He feared that Jonathan might not permit him to do so, but might make war on him, so he kept seeking to seize and kill him, and he marched forth and came to Beth-shan.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	41	Jonathan went out to meet him with forty thousand picked fighting men, and he came to Beth-shan.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	42	When Trypho saw that he had come with a large army, he was afraid to raise his hand against him.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	43	So he received him with honor and commended him to all his friends, and he gave him gifts and commanded his friends and his troops to obey him as they would himself.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	44	Then he said to Jonathan, “Why have you wearied all these people when we are not at war?
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	45	Dismiss them now to their homes and choose for yourself a few men to stay with you, and come with me to Ptolemais. I will hand it over to you as well as the other strongholds and the remaining troops and all the officials, and will turn round and go home. For that is why I am here.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	46	Jonathan trusted him and did as he said; he sent away the troops, and they returned to the land of Judah.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	47	He kept with himself three thousand men, two thousand of whom he left in Galilee, while a thousand accompanied him.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	48	But when Jonathan entered Ptolemais, the men of Ptolemais closed the gates and seized him, and all who had entered with him they killed with the sword.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	49	Then Trypho sent troops and cavalry into Galilee and the Great Plain to destroy all Jonathan’s soldiers.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	50	But they realized that Jonathan had been seized and had perished along with his men, and they encouraged one another and kept marching in close formation, ready for battle.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	51	When their pursuers saw that they would fight for their lives, they turned back.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	52	So they all reached the land of Judah safely, and they mourned for Jonathan and his companions and were in great fear; and all Israel mourned deeply.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	12	53	And all the nations round about them tried to destroy them, for they said, “They have no leader or helper. Now therefore let us make war on them and blot out the memory of them from among men.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	1	Simon heard that Trypho had assembled a large army to invade the land of Judah and destroy it,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	2	and he saw that the people were trembling and fearful. So he went up to Jerusalem, and gathering the people together
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	3	he encouraged them, saying to them, “You yourselves know what great things I and my brothers and the house of my father have done for the laws and the sanctuary; you know also the wars and the difficulties which we have seen.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	4	By reason of this all my brothers have perished for the sake of Israel, and I alone am left.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	5	And now, far be it from me to spare my life in any time of distress, for I am not better than my brothers.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	6	But I will avenge my nation and the sanctuary and your wives and children, for all the nations have gathered together out of hatred to destroy us.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	7	The spirit of the people was rekindled when they heard these words,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	8	and they answered in a loud voice, “You are our leader in place of Judas and Jonathan your brother.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	9	Fight our battles, and all that you say to us we will do.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	10	So he assembled all the warriors and hastened to complete the walls of Jerusalem, and he fortified it on every side.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	11	He sent Jonathan the son of Absalom to Joppa, and with him a considerable army; he drove out its occupants and remained there.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	12	Then Trypho departed from Ptolemais with a large army to invade the land of Judah, and Jonathan was with him under guard.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	13	And Simon encamped in Adida, facing the plain.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	14	Trypho learned that Simon had risen up in place of Jonathan his brother, and that he was about to join battle with him, so he sent envoys to him and said,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	15	“It is for the money that Jonathan your brother owed the royal treasury, in connection with the offices he held, that we are detaining him.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	16	Send now a hundred talents of silver and two of his sons as hostages, so that when released he will not revolt against us, and we will release him.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	17	Simon knew that they were speaking deceitfully to him, but he sent to get the money and the sons, lest he arouse great hostility among the people, who might say,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	18	“Because Simon did not send him the money and the sons, he perished.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	19	So he sent the sons and the hundred talents, but Trypho broke his word and did not release Jonathan.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	20	After this Trypho came to invade the country and destroy it, and he circled around by the way to Adora. But Simon and his army kept marching along opposite him to every place he went.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	21	Now the men in the citadel kept sending envoys to Trypho urging him to come to them by way of the wilderness and to send them food.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	22	So Trypho got all his cavalry ready to go, but that night a very heavy snow fell, and he did not go because of the snow. He marched off and went into the land of Gilead.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	23	When he approached Baskama, he killed Jonathan, and he was buried there.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	24	Then Trypho turned back and departed to his own land.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	25	And Simon sent and took the bones of Jonathan his brother, and buried him in Modein, the city of his fathers.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	26	All Israel bewailed him with great lamentation, and mourned for him many days.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	27	And Simon built a monument over the tomb of his father and his brothers; he made it high that it might be seen, with polished stone at the front and back.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	28	He also erected seven pyramids, opposite one another, for his father and mother and four brothers.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	29	And for the pyramids he devised an elaborate setting, erecting about them great columns, and upon the columns he put suits of armor for a permanent memorial, and beside the suits of armor carved ships, so that they could be seen by all who sail the sea.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	30	This is the tomb which he built in Modein; it remains to this day.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	31	Trypho dealt treacherously with the young king Antiochus; he killed him
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	32	and became king in his place, putting on the crown of Asia; and he brought great calamity upon the land.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	33	But Simon built up the strongholds of Judea and walled them all around, with high towers and great walls and gates and bolts, and he stored food in the strongholds.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	34	Simon also chose men and sent them to Demetrius the king with a request to grant relief to the country, for all that Trypho did was to plunder.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	35	Demetrius the king sent him a favorable reply to this request, and wrote him a letter as follows,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	36	“King Demetrius to Simon, the high priest and friend of kings, and to the elders and nation of the Jews, greeting.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	37	We have received the gold crown and the palm branch which you sent, and we are ready to make a general peace with you and to write to our officials to grant you release from tribute.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	38	All the grants that we have made to you remain valid, and let the strongholds that you have built be your possession.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	39	We pardon any errors and offenses committed to this day, and cancel the crown tax which you owe; and whatever other tax has been collected in Jerusalem shall be collected no longer.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	40	And if any of you are qualified to be enrolled in our bodyguard, let them be enrolled, and let there be peace between us.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	41	In the one hundred and seventieth year the yoke of the Gentiles was removed from Israel,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	42	and the people began to write in their documents and contracts, “In the first year of Simon the great high priest and commander and leader of the Jews.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	43	In those days Simon encamped against Gazara and surrounded it with troops. He made a siege engine, brought it up to the city, and battered and captured one tower.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	44	The men in the siege engine leaped out into the city, and a great tumult arose in the city.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	45	The men in the city, with their wives and children, went up on the wall with their clothes rent, and they cried out with a loud voice, asking Simon to make peace with them;
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	46	they said, “Do not treat us according to our wicked acts but according to your mercy.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	47	So Simon reached an agreement with them and stopped fighting against them. But he expelled them from the city and cleansed the houses in which the idols were, and then entered it with hymns and praise.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	48	He cast out of it all uncleanness, and settled in it men who observed the law. He also strengthened its fortifications and built in it a house for himself.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	49	The men in the citadel at Jerusalem were prevented from going out to the country and back to buy and sell. So they were very hungry, and many of them perished from famine.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	50	Then they cried to Simon to make peace with them, and he did so. But he expelled them from there and cleansed the citadel from its pollutions.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	51	On the twenty-third day of the second month, in the one hundred and seventy-first year, the Jews entered it with praise and palm branches, and with harps and cymbals and stringed instruments, and with hymns and songs, because a great enemy had been crushed and removed from Israel.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	52	And Simon decreed that every year they should celebrate this day with rejoicing. He strengthened the fortifications of the temple hill alongside the citadel, and he and his men dwelt there.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	13	53	And Simon saw that John his son had reached manhood, so he made him commander of all the forces, and he dwelt in Gazara.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	1	In the one hundred and seventy-second year Demetrius the king assembled his forces and marched into Media to secure help, so that he could make war against Trypho.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	2	When Arsaces the king of Persia and Media heard that Demetrius had invaded his territory, he sent one of his commanders to take him alive.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	3	And he went and defeated the army of Demetrius, and seized him and took him to Arsaces, who put him under guard.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	4	The land had rest all the days of Simon. He sought the good of his nation; his rule was pleasing to them, as was the honor shown him, all his days.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	5	To crown all his honors he took Joppa for a harbor, and opened a way to the isles of the sea.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	6	He extended the borders of his nation, and gained full control of the country.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	7	He gathered a host of captives; he ruled over Gazara and Beth-zur and the citadel, and he removed its uncleanness from it; and there was none to oppose him.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	8	They tilled their land in peace; the ground gave its increase, and the trees of the plains their fruit.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	9	Old men sat in the streets; they all talked together of good things; and the youths donned the glories and garments of war.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	10	He supplied the cities with food, and furnished them with the means of defense, till his renown spread to the ends of the earth.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	11	He established peace in the land, and Israel rejoiced with great joy.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	12	Each man sat under his vine and his fig tree, and there was none to make them afraid.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	13	No one was left in the land to fight them, and the kings were crushed in those days.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	14	He strengthened all the humble of his people; he sought out the law, and did away with every lawless and wicked man.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	15	He made the sanctuary glorious, and added to the vessels of the sanctuary.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	16	It was heard in Rome, and as far away as Sparta, that Jonathan had died, and they were deeply grieved.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	17	When they heard that Simon his brother had become high priest in his place, and that he was ruling over the country and the cities in it,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	18	they wrote to him on bronze tablets to renew with him the friendship and alliance which they had established with Judas and Jonathan his brothers.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	19	And these were read before the assembly in Jerusalem.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	20	This is a copy of the letter which the Spartans sent: “The rulers and the city of the Spartans to Simon the high priest and to the elders and the priests and the rest of the Jewish people, our brethren, greeting.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	21	The envoys who were sent to our people have told us about your glory and honor, and we rejoiced at their coming.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	22	And what they said we have recorded in our public decrees, as follows, ‘Numenius the son of Antiochus and Antipater the son of Jason, envoys of the Jews, have come to us to renew their friendship with us.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	23	It has pleased our people to receive these men with honor and to put a copy of their words in the public archives, so that the people of the Spartans may have a record of them. And they have sent a copy of this to Simon the high priest.’”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	24	After this Simon sent Numenius to Rome with a large gold shield weighing a thousand minas, to confirm the alliance with the Romans.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	25	When the people heard these things they said, “How shall we thank Simon and his sons?
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	26	For he and his brothers and the house of his father have stood firm; they have fought and repulsed Israel’s enemies and established its freedom.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	27	So they made a record on bronze tablets and put it upon pillars on Mount Zion. This is a copy of what they wrote: “On the eighteenth day of Elul, in the one hundred and seventy-second year, which is the third year of Simon the great high priest,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	28	in Asaramel, in the great assembly of the priests and the people and the rulers of the nation and the elders of the country, the following was proclaimed to us:
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	29	“Since wars often occurred in the country, Simon the son of Mattathias, a priest of the sons of Joarib, and his brothers, exposed themselves to danger and resisted the enemies of their nation, in order that their sanctuary and the law might be perserved; and they brought great glory to their nation.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	30	Jonathan rallied the nation, and became their high priest, and was gathered to his people.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	31	And when their enemies decided to invade their country and lay hands on their sanctuary,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	32	then Simon rose up and fought for his nation. He spent great sums of his own money; he armed the men of his nation’s forces and paid them wages.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	33	He fortified the cities of Judea, and Beth-zur on the borders of Judea, where formerly the arms of the enemy had been stored, and he placed there a garrison of Jews.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	34	He also fortified Joppa, which is by the sea, and Gazara, which is on the borders of Azotus, where the enemy formerly dwelt. He settled Jews there, and provided in those cities whatever was necessary for their restoration.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	35	“The people saw Simon’s faithfulness and the glory which he had resolved to win for his nation, and they made him their leader and high priest, because he had done all these things and because of the justice and loyalty which he had maintained toward his nation. He sought in every way to exalt his people.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	36	And in his days things prospered in his hands, so that the Gentiles were put out of the country, as were also the men in the city of David in Jerusalem, who had built themselves a citadel from which they used to sally forth and defile the environs of the sanctuary and do great damage to its purity.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	37	He settled Jews in it, and fortified it for the safety of the country and of the city, and built the walls of Jerusalem higher.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	38	“In view of these things King Demetrius confirmed him in the high priesthood,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	39	and he made him one of the king’s friends and paid him high honors.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	40	For he had heard that the Jews were addressed by the Romans as friends and allies and brethren, and that the Romans had received the envoys of Simon with honor.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	41	“And the Jews and their priests decided that Simon should be their leader and high priest for ever, until a trustworthy prophet should arise,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	42	and that he should be governor over them and that he should take charge of the sanctuary and appoint men over its tasks and over the country and the weapons and the strongholds, and that he should take charge of the sanctuary,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	43	and that he should be obeyed by all, and that all contracts in the country should be written in his name, and that he should be clothed in purple and wear gold.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	44	“And none of the people or priests shall be permitted to nullify any of these decisions or to oppose what he says, or to convene an assembly in the country without his permission, or to be clothed in purple or put on a gold buckle.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	45	Whoever acts contrary to these decisions or nullifies any of them shall be liable to punishment.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	46	And all the people agreed to grant Simon the right to act in accord with these decisions.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	47	So Simon accepted and agreed to be high priest, to be commander and ethnarch of the Jews and priests, and to be protector of them all.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	48	And they gave orders to inscribe this decree upon bronze tablets, to put them up in a conspicuous place in the precincts of the sanctuary,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	14	49	and to deposit copies of them in the treasury, so that Simon and his sons might have them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	1	Antiochus, the son of Demetrius the king, sent a letter from the islands of the sea to Simon, the priest and ethnarch of the Jews, and to all the nation;
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	2	its contents were as follows: “King Antiochus to Simon the high priest and ethnarch and to the nation of the Jews, greeting.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	3	Whereas certain pestilent men have gained control of the kingdom of our fathers, and I intend to lay claim to the kingdom so that I may restore it as it formerly was, and have recruited a host of mercenary troops and have equipped warships,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	4	and intend to make a landing in the country so that I may proceed against those who have destroyed our country and those who have devastated many cities in my kingdom,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	5	now therefore I confirm to you all the tax remissions that the kings before me have granted you, and release from all the other payments from which they have released you.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	6	I permit you to mint your own coinage as money for your country,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	7	and I grant freedom to Jerusalem and the sanctuary. All the weapons which you have prepared and the strongholds which you have built and now hold shall remain yours.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	8	Every debt you owe to the royal treasury and any such future debts shall be canceled for you from henceforth and for all time.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	9	When we gain control of our kingdom, we will bestow great honor upon you and your nation and the temple, so that your glory will become manifest in all the earth.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	10	In the one hundred and seventy-fourth year Antiochus set out and invaded the land of his fathers. All the troops rallied to him, so that there were few with Trypho.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	11	Antiochus pursued him, and he came in his flight to Dor, which is by the sea;
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	12	for he knew that troubles had converged upon him, and his troops had deserted him.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	13	So Antiochus encamped against Dor, and with him were a hundred and twenty thousand warriors and eight thousand cavalry.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	14	He surrounded the city, and the ships joined battle from the sea; he pressed the city hard from land and sea, and permitted no one to leave or enter it.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	15	Then Numenius and his companions arrived from Rome, with letters to the kings and countries, in which the following was written:
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	16	“Lucius, consul of the Romans, to King Ptolemy, greeting.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	17	The envoys of the Jews have come to us as our friends and allies to renew our ancient friendship and alliance. They had been sent by Simon the high priest and by the people of the Jews,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	18	and have brought a gold shield weighing a thousand minas.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	19	We therefore have decided to write to the kings and countries that they should not seek their harm or make war against them and their cities and their country, or make alliance with those who war against them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	20	And it has seemed good to us to accept the shield from them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	21	Therefore if any pestilent men have fled to you from their country, hand them over to Simon the high priest, that he may punish them according to their law.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	22	The consul wrote the same thing to Demetrius the king and to Attalus and Ariarathes and Arsaces,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	23	and to all the countries, and to Sampsames, and to the Spartans, and to Delos, and to Myndos, and to Sicyon, and to Caria, and to Samos, and to Pamphylia, and to Lycia, and to Halicarnassus, and to Rhodes, and to Phaselis, and to Cos, and to Side, and to Aradus and Gortyna and Cnidus and Cyprus and Cyrene.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	24	They also sent a copy of these things to Simon the high priest.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	25	Antiochus the king besieged Dor anew, continually throwing his forces against it and making engines of war; and he shut Trypho up and kept him from going out or in.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	26	And Simon sent to Antiochus two thousand picked men, to fight for him, and silver and gold and much military equipment.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	27	But he refused to receive them, and he broke all the agreements he formerly had made with Simon, and became estranged from him.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	28	He sent to him Athenobius, one of his friends, to confer with him, saying, “You hold control of Joppa and Gazara and the citadel in Jerusalem; they are cities of my kingdom.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	29	You have devastated their territory, you have done great damage in the land, and you have taken possession of many places in my kingdom.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	30	Now then, hand over the cities which you have seized and the tribute money of the places which you have conquered outside the borders of Judea;
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	31	or else give me for them five hundred talents of silver, and for the destruction that you have caused and the tribute money of the cities, five hundred talents more. Otherwise we will come and conquer you.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	32	So Athenobius the friend of the king came to Jerusalem, and when he saw the splendor of Simon, and the sideboard with its gold and silver plate, and his great magnificence, he was amazed. He reported to him the words of the king,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	33	but Simon gave him this reply: “We have neither taken foreign land nor seized foreign property, but only the inheritance of our fathers, which at one time had been unjustly taken by our enemies.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	34	Now that we have the opportunity, we are firmly holding the inheritance of our fathers.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	35	As for Joppa and Gazara, which you demand, they were causing great damage among the people and to our land; for them we will give you a hundred talents.” Athenobius did not answer him a word,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	36	but returned in wrath to the king and reported to him these words and the splendor of Simon and all that he had seen. And the king was greatly angered.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	37	Now Trypho embarked on a ship and escaped to Orthosia.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	38	Then the king made Cendebeus commander-in-chief of the coastal country, and gave him troops of infantry and cavalry.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	39	He commanded him to encamp against Judea, and commanded him to build up Kedron and fortify its gates, and to make war on the people; but the king pursued Trypho.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	40	So Cendebeus came to Jamnia and began to provoke the people and invade Judea and take the people captive and kill them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	15	41	He built up Kedron and stationed there horsemen and troops, so that they might go out and make raids along the highways of Judea, as the king had ordered him.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	16	1	John went up from Gazara and reported to Simon his father what Cendebeus had done.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	16	2	And Simon called in his two older sons Judas and John, and said to them: “I and my brothers and the house of my father have fought the wars of Israel from our youth until this day, and things have prospered in our hands so that we have delivered Israel many times.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	16	3	But now I have grown old, and you by His mercy are mature in years. Take my place and my brother’s, and go out and fight for our nation, and may the help which comes from Heaven be with you.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	16	4	So John chose out of the country twenty thousand warriors and horsemen, and they marched against Cendebeus and camped for the night in Modein.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	16	5	Early in the morning they arose and marched into the plain, and behold, a large force of infantry and horsemen was coming to meet them; and a stream lay between them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	16	6	Then he and his army lined up against them. And he saw that the soldiers were afraid to cross the stream, so he crossed over first; and when his men saw him, they crossed over after him.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	16	7	Then he divided the army and placed the horsemen in the midst of the infantry, for the cavalry of the enemy were very numerous.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	16	8	And they sounded the trumpets, and Cendebeus and his army were put to flight, and many of them were wounded and fell; the rest fled into the stronghold.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	16	9	At that time Judas the brother of John was wounded, but John pursued them until Cendebeus reached Kedron, which he had built.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	16	10	They also fled into the towers that were in the fields of Azotus, and John burned it with fire, and about two thousand of them fell. And he returned to Judea safely.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	16	11	Now Ptolemy the son of Abubus had been appointed governor over the plain of Jericho, and he had much silver and gold,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	16	12	for he was son-in-law of the high priest.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	16	13	His heart was lifted up; he determined to get control of the country, and made treacherous plans against Simon and his sons, to do away with them.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	16	14	Now Simon was visiting the cities of the country and attending to their needs, and he went down to Jericho with Mattathias and Judas his sons, in the one hundred and seventy-seventh year, in the eleventh month, which is the month of Shebat.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	16	15	The son of Abubus received them treacherously in the little stronghold called Dok, which he had built; he gave them a great banquet, and hid men there.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	16	16	When Simon and his sons were drunk, Ptolemy and his men rose up, took their weapons, and rushed in against Simon in the banquet hall, and they killed him and his two sons and some of his servants.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	16	17	So he committed an act of great treachery and returned evil for good.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	16	18	Then Ptolemy wrote a report about these things and sent it to the king, asking him to send troops to aid him and to turn over to him the cities and the country.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	16	19	He sent other men to Gazara to do away with John; he sent letters to the captains asking them to come to him so that he might give them silver and gold and gifts;
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	16	20	and he sent other men to take possession of Jerusalem and the temple hill.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	16	21	But some one ran ahead and reported to John at Gazara that his father and brothers had perished, and that “he has sent men to kill you also.”
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	16	22	When he heard this, he was greatly shocked; and he seized the men who came to destroy him and killed them, for he had found out that they were seeking to destroy him.
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	16	23	The rest of the acts of John and his wars and the brave deeds which he did, and the building of the walls which he built, and his achievements,
 1 Maccabees	1Mac	45	16	24	behold, they are written in the chronicles of his high priesthood, from the time that he became high priest after his father.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	1	The Jewish brethren in Jerusalem and those in the land of Judea, To their Jewish brethren in Egypt, Greeting, and good peace.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	2	May God do good to you, and may he remember his covenant with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, his faithful servants.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	3	May he give you all a heart to worship him and to do his will with a strong heart and a willing spirit.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	4	May he open your heart to his law and his commandments, and may he bring peace.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	5	May he hear your prayers and be reconciled to you, and may he not forsake you in time of evil.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	6	We are now praying for you here.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	7	In the reign of Demetrius, in the one hundred and sixty-ninth year, we Jews wrote to you, in the critical distress which came upon us in those years after Jason and his company revolted from the holy land and the kingdom
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	8	and burned the gate and shed innocent blood. We besought the Lord and we were heard, and we offered sacrifice and cereal offering, and we lighted the lamps and we set out the loaves.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	9	And now see that you keep the feast of booths in the month of Chislev, in the one hundred and eighty-eighth year.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	10	Those in Jerusalem and those in Judea and the senate and Judas, To Aristobulus, who is of the family of the anointed priests, teacher of Ptolemy the king, and to the Jews in Egypt, Greeting, and good health.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	11	Having been saved by God out of grave dangers we thank him greatly for taking our side against the king.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	12	For he drove out those who fought against the holy city.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	13	For when the leader reached Persia with a force that seemed irresistible, they were cut to pieces in the temple of Nanea by a deception employed by the priests of Nanea.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	14	For under pretext of intending to marry her, Antiochus came to the place together with his friends, to secure most of its treasures as a dowry.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	15	When the priests of the temple of Nanea had set out the treasures and Antiochus had come with a few men inside the wall of the sacred precinct, they closed the temple as soon as he entered it.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	16	Opening the secret door in the ceiling, they threw stones and struck down the leader and his men, and dismembered them and cut off their heads and threw them to the people outside.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	17	Blessed in every way be our God, who has brought judgment upon those who have behaved impiously.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	18	Since on the twenty-fifth day of Chislev we shall celebrate the purification of the temple, we thought it necessary to notify you, in order that you also may celebrate the feast of booths and the feast of the fire given when Nehemiah, who built the temple and the altar, offered sacrifices.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	19	For when our fathers were being led captive to Persia, the pious priests of that time took some of the fire of the altar and secretly hid it in the hollow of a dry cistern, where they took such precautions that the place was unknown to any one.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	20	But after many years had passed, when it pleased God, Nehemiah, having been commissioned by the king of Persia, sent the descendants of the priests who had hidden the fire to get it. And when they reported to us that they had not found fire but thick liquid, he ordered them to dip it out and bring it.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	21	And when the materials for the sacrifices were presented, Nehemiah ordered the priests to sprinkle the liquid on the wood and what was laid upon it.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	22	When this was done and some time had passed and the sun, which had been clouded over, shone out, a great fire blazed up, so that all marveled.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	23	And while the sacrifice was being consumed, the priests offered prayer—the priests and every one. Jonathan led, and the rest responded, as did Nehemiah.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	24	The prayer was to this effect: “O Lord, Lord God, Creator of all things, who art awe-inspiring and strong and just and merciful, who alone art King and art kind,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	25	who alone art bountiful, who alone art just and almighty and eternal, who dost rescue Israel from every evil, who didst choose the fathers and consecrate them,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	26	accept this sacrifice on behalf of all thy people Israel and preserve thy portion and make it holy.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	27	Gather together our scattered people, set free those who are slaves among the Gentiles, look upon those who are rejected and despised, and let the Gentiles know that thou art our God.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	28	Afflict those who oppress and are insolent with pride.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	29	Plant thy people in thy holy place, as Moses said.”
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	30	Then the priests sang the hymns.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	31	And when the materials of the sacrifice were consumed, Nehemiah ordered that the liquid that was left should be poured upon large stones.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	32	When this was done, a flame blazed up; but when the light from the altar shone back, it went out.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	33	When this matter became known, and it was reported to the king of the Persians that, in the place where the exiled priests had hidden the fire, the liquid had appeared with which Nehemiah and his associates had burned the materials of the sacrifice,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	34	the king investigated the matter, and enclosed the place and made it sacred.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	35	And with those persons whom the king favored he exchanged many excellent gifts.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	1	36	Nehemiah and his associates called this “nephthar,” which means purification, but by most people it is called naphtha.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	2	1	One finds in the records that Jeremiah the prophet ordered those who were being deported to take some of the fire, as has been told,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	2	2	and that the prophet after giving them the law instructed those who were being deported not to forget the commandments of the Lord, nor to be led astray in their thoughts upon seeing the gold and silver statues and their adornment.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	2	3	And with other similar words he exhorted them that the law should not depart from their hearts.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	2	4	It was also in the writing that the prophet, having received an oracle, ordered that the tent and the ark should follow with him, and that he went out to the mountain where Moses had gone up and had seen the inheritance of God.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	2	5	And Jeremiah came and found a cave, and he brought there the tent and the ark and the altar of incense, and he sealed up the entrance.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	2	6	Some of those who followed him came up to mark the way, but could not find it.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	2	7	When Jeremiah learned of it, he rebuked them and declared: “The place shall be unknown until God gathers his people together again and shows his mercy.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	2	8	And then the Lord will disclose these things, and the glory of the Lord and the cloud will appear, as they were shown in the case of Moses, and as Solomon asked that the place should be specially consecrated.”
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	2	9	It was also made clear that being possessed of wisdom Solomon offered sacrifice for the dedication and completion of the temple.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	2	10	Just as Moses prayed to the Lord, and fire came down from heaven and devoured the sacrifices, so also Solomon prayed, and the fire came down and consumed the whole burnt offerings.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	2	11	And Moses said, “They were consumed because the sin offering had not been eaten.”
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	2	12	Likewise Solomon also kept the eight days.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	2	13	The same things are reported in the records and in the memoirs of Nehemiah, and also that he founded a library and collected the books about the kings and prophets, and the writings of David, and letters of kings about votive offerings.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	2	14	In the same way Judas also collected all the books that had been lost on account of the war which had come upon us, and they are in our possession.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	2	15	So if you have need of them, send people to get them for you.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	2	16	Since, therefore, we are about to celebrate the purification, we write to you. Will you therefore please keep the days?
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	2	17	It is God who has saved all his people, and has returned the inheritance to all, and the kingship and priesthood and consecration,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	2	18	as he promised through the law. For we have hope in God that he will soon have mercy upon us and will gather us from everywhere under heaven into his holy place, for he has rescued us from great evils and has purified the place.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	2	19	The story of Judas Maccabeus and his brothers, and the purification of the great temple, and the dedication of the altar,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	2	20	and further the wars against Antiochus Epiphanes and his son Eupator,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	2	21	and the appearances which came from heaven to those who strove zealously on behalf of Judaism, so that though few in number they seized the whole land and pursued the barbarian hordes,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	2	22	and recovered the temple famous throughout the world and freed the city and restored the laws that were about to be abolished, while the Lord with great kindness became gracious to them—
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	2	23	all this, which has been set forth by Jason of Cyrene in five volumes, we shall attempt to condense into a single book.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	2	24	For considering the flood of numbers involved and the difficulty there is for those who wish to enter upon the narratives of history because of the mass of material,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	2	25	we have aimed to please those who wish to read, to make it easy for those who are inclined to memorize, and to profit all readers.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	2	26	For us who have undertaken the toil of abbreviating, it is no light matter but calls for sweat and loss of sleep,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	2	27	just as it is not easy for one who prepares a banquet and seeks the benefit of others. However, to secure the gratitude of many we will gladly endure the uncomfortable toil,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	2	28	leaving the responsibility for exact details to the compiler, while devoting our effort to arriving at the outlines of the condensation.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	2	29	For as the master builder of a new house must be concerned with the whole construction, while the one who undertakes its painting and decoration has to consider only what is suitable for its adornment, such in my judgment is the case with us.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	2	30	It is the duty of the original historian to occupy the ground and to discuss matters from every side and to take trouble with details,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	2	31	but the one who recasts the narrative should be allowed to strive for brevity of expression and to forego exhaustive treatment.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	2	32	At this point therefore let us begin our narrative, adding only so much to what has already been said; for it is foolish to lengthen the preface while cutting short the history itself.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	1	While the holy city was inhabited in unbroken peace and the laws were very well observed because of the piety of the high priest Onias and his hatred of wickedness,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	2	it came about that the kings themselves honored the place and glorified the temple with the finest presents,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	3	so that even Seleucus, the king of Asia, defrayed from his own revenues all the expenses connected with the service of the sacrifices.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	4	But a man named Simon, of the tribe of Benjamin, who had been made captain of the temple, had a disagreement with the high priest about the administration of the city market;
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	5	and when he could not prevail over Onias he went to Apollonius of Tarsus, who at that time was governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	6	He reported to him that the treasury in Jerusalem was full of untold sums of money, so that the amount of the funds could not be reckoned, and that they did not belong to the account of the sacrifices, but that it was possible for them to fall under the control of the king.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	7	When Apollonius met the king, he told him of the money about which he had been informed. The king chose Heliodorus, who was in charge of his affairs, and sent him with commands to effect the removal of the aforesaid money.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	8	Heliodorus at once set out on his journey, ostensibly to make a tour of inspection of the cities of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, but in fact to carry out the king’s purpose.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	9	When he had arrived at Jerusalem and had been kindly welcomed by the high priest of the city, he told about the disclosure that had been made and stated why he had come, and he inquired whether this really was the situation.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	10	The high priest explained that there were some deposits belonging to widows and orphans,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	11	and also some money of Hyrcanus, son of Tobias, a man of very prominent position, and that it totaled in all four hundred talents of silver and two hundred of gold. To such an extent the impious Simon had misrepresented the facts.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	12	And he said that it was utterly impossible that wrong should be done to those people who had trusted in the holiness of the place and in the sanctity and inviolability of the temple which is honored throughout the whole world.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	13	But Heliodorus, because of the king’s commands which he had, said that this money must in any case be confiscated for the king’s treasury.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	14	So he set a day and went in to direct the inspection of these funds. There was no little distress throughout the whole city.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	15	The priests prostrated themselves before the altar in their priestly garments and called toward heaven upon him who had given the law about deposits, that he should keep them safe for those who had deposited them.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	16	To see the appearance of the high priest was to be wounded at heart, for his face and the change in his color disclosed the anguish of his soul.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	17	For terror and bodily trembling had come over the man, which plainly showed to those who looked at him the pain lodged in his heart.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	18	People also hurried out of their houses in crowds to make a general supplication because the holy place was about to be brought into contempt.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	19	Women, girded with sackcloth under their breasts, thronged the streets. Some of the maidens who were kept indoors ran together to the gates, and some to the walls, while others peered out of the windows.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	20	And holding up their hands to heaven, they all made entreaty.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	21	There was something pitiable in the prostration of the whole populace and the anxiety of the high priest in his great anguish.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	22	While they were calling upon the Almighty Lord that he would keep what had been entrusted safe and secure for those who had entrusted it,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	23	Heliodorus went on with what had been decided.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	24	But when he arrived at the treasury with his bodyguard, then and there the Sovereign of spirits and of all authority caused so great a manifestation that all who had been so bold as to accompany him were astounded by the power of God, and became faint with terror.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	25	For there appeared to them a magnificently caparisoned horse, with a rider of frightening mien, and it rushed furiously at Heliodorus and struck at him with its front hoofs. Its rider was seen to have armor and weapons of gold.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	26	Two young men also appeared to him, remarkably strong, gloriously beautiful and splendidly dressed, who stood on each side of him and scourged him continuously, inflicting many blows on him.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	27	When he suddenly fell to the ground and deep darkness came over him, his men took him up and put him on a stretcher
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	28	and carried him away, this man who had just entered the aforesaid treasury with a great retinue and all his bodyguard but was now unable to help himself; and they recognized clearly the sovereign power of God.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	29	While he lay prostrate, speechless because of the divine intervention and deprived of any hope of recovery,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	30	they praised the Lord who had acted marvelously for his own place. And the temple, which a little while before was full of fear and disturbance, was filled with joy and gladness, now that the Almighty Lord had appeared.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	31	Quickly some of Heliodorus’ friends asked Onias to call upon the Most High and to grant life to one who was lying quite at his last breath.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	32	And the high priest, fearing that the king might get the notion that some foul play had been perpetrated by the Jews with regard to Heliodorus, offered sacrifice for the man’s recovery.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	33	While the high priest was making the offering of atonement, the same young men appeared again to Heliodorus dressed in the same clothing, and they stood and said, “Be very grateful to Onias the high priest, since for his sake the Lord has granted you your life.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	34	And see that you, who have been scourged by heaven, report to all men the majestic power of God.” Having said this they vanished.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	35	Then Heliodorus offered sacrifice to the Lord and made very great vows to the Savior of his life, and having bidden Onias farewell, he marched off with his forces to the king.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	36	And he bore testimony to all men of the deeds of the supreme God, which he had seen with his own eyes.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	37	When the king asked Heliodorus what sort of person would be suitable to send on another mission to Jerusalem, he replied,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	38	“If you have any enemy or plotter against your government, send him there, for you will get him back thoroughly scourged, if he escapes at all, for there certainly is about the place some power of God.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	39	For he who has his dwelling in heaven watches over that place himself and brings it aid, and he strikes and destroys those who come to do it injury.”
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	3	40	This was the outcome of the episode of Heliodorus and the protection of the treasury.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	1	The previously mentioned Simon, who had informed about the money against his own country, slandered Onias, saying that it was he who had incited Heliodorus and had been the real cause of the misfortune.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	2	He dared to designate as a plotter against the government the man who was the benefactor of the city, the protector of his fellow countrymen, and a zealot for the laws.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	3	When his hatred progressed to such a degree that even murders were committed by one of Simon’s approved agents,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	4	Onias recognized that the rivalry was serious and that Apollonius, the son of Menestheus and governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, was intensifying the malice of Simon.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	5	So he betook himself to the king, not accusing his fellow citizens but having in view the welfare, both public and private, of all the people.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	6	For he saw that without the king’s attention public affairs could not again reach a peaceful settlement, and that Simon would not stop his folly.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	7	When Seleucus died and Antiochus who was called Epiphanes succeeded to the kingdom, Jason the brother of Onias obtained the high priesthood by corruption,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	8	promising the king at an interview three hundred and sixty talents of silver and, from another source of revenue, eighty talents.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	9	In addition to this he promised to pay one hundred and fifty more if permission were given to establish by his authority a gymnasium and a body of youth for it, and to enrol the men of Jerusalem as citizens of Antioch.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	10	When the king assented and Jason came to office, he at once shifted his countrymen over to the Greek way of life.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	11	He set aside the existing royal concessions to the Jews, secured through John the father of Eupolemus, who went on the mission to establish friendship and alliance with the Romans; and he destroyed the lawful ways of living and introduced new customs contrary to the law.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	12	For with alacrity he founded a gymnasium right under the citadel, and he induced the noblest of the young men to wear the Greek hat.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	13	There was such an extreme of Hellenization and increase in the adoption of foreign ways because of the surpassing wickedness of Jason, who was ungodly and no high priest,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	14	that the priests were no longer intent upon their service at the altar. Despising the sanctuary and neglecting the sacrifices, they hastened to take part in the unlawful proceedings in the wrestling arena after the call to the discus,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	15	disdaining the honors prized by their fathers and putting the highest value upon Greek forms of prestige.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	16	For this reason heavy disaster overtook them, and those whose ways of living they admired and wished to imitate completely became their enemies and punished them.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	17	For it is no light thing to show irreverence to the divine laws—a fact which later events will make clear.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	18	When the quadrennial games were being held at Tyre and the king was present,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	19	the vile Jason sent envoys, chosen as being Antiochian citizens from Jerusalem, to carry three hundred silver drachmas for the sacrifice to Hercules. Those who carried the money, however, thought best not to use it for sacrifice, because that was inappropriate, but to expend it for another purpose.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	20	So this money was intended by the sender for the sacrifice to Hercules, but by the decision of its carriers it was applied to the construction of triremes.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	21	When Apollonius the son of Menestheus was sent to Egypt for the coronation of Philometor as king, Antiochus learned that Philometor had become hostile to his government, and he took measures for his own security. Therefore upon arriving at Joppa he proceeded to Jerusalem.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	22	He was welcomed magnificently by Jason and the city, and ushered in with a blaze of torches and with shouts. Then he marched into Phoenicia.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	23	After a period of three years Jason sent Menelaus, the brother of the previously mentioned Simon, to carry the money to the king and to complete the records of essential business.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	24	But he, when presented to the king, extolled him with an air of authority, and secured the high priesthood for himself, outbidding Jason by three hundred talents of silver.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	25	After receiving the king’s orders he returned, possessing no qualification for the high priesthood, but having the hot temper of a cruel tyrant and the rage of a savage wild beast.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	26	So Jason, who after supplanting his own brother was supplanted by another man, was driven as a fugitive into the land of Ammon.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	27	And Menelaus held the office, but he did not pay regularly any of the money promised to the king.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	28	When Sostratus the captain of the citadel kept requesting payment, for the collection of the revenue was his responsibility, the two of them were summoned by the king on account of this issue.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	29	Menelaus left his own brother Lysimachus as deputy in the high priesthood, while Sostratus left Crates, the commander of the Cyprian troops.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	30	While such was the state of affairs, it happened that the people of Tarsus and of Mallus revolted because their cities had been given as a present to Antiochis, the king’s concubine.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	31	So the king went hastily to settle the trouble, leaving Andronicus, a man of high rank, to act as his deputy.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	32	But Menelaus, thinking he had obtained a suitable opportunity, stole some of the gold vessels of the temple and gave them to Andronicus; other vessels, as it happened, he had sold to Tyre and the neighboring cities.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	33	When Onias became fully aware of these acts he publicly exposed them, having first withdrawn to a place of sanctuary at Daphne near Antioch.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	34	Therefore Menelaus, taking Andronicus aside, urged him to kill Onias. Andronicus came to Onias, and resorting to treachery offered him sworn pledges and gave him his right hand, and in spite of his suspicion persuaded Onias to come out from the place of sanctuary; then, with no regard for justice, he immediately put him out of the way.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	35	For this reason not only Jews, but many also of other nations, were grieved and displeased at the unjust murder of the man.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	36	When the king returned from the region of Cilicia, the Jews in the city appealed to him with regard to the unreasonable murder of Onias, and the Greeks shared their hatred of the crime.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	37	Therefore Antiochus was grieved at heart and filled with pity, and wept because of the moderation and good conduct of the deceased;
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	38	and inflamed with anger, he immediately stripped off the purple robe from Andronicus, tore off his garments, and led him about the whole city to that very place where he had committed the outrage against Onias, and there he dispatched the bloodthirsty fellow. The Lord thus repaid him with the punishment he deserved.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	39	When many acts of sacrilege had been committed in the city by Lysimachus with the connivance of Menelaus, and when report of them had spread abroad, the populace gathered against Lysimachus, because many of the gold vessels had already been stolen.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	40	And since the crowds were becoming aroused and filled with anger, Lysimachus armed about three thousand men and launched an unjust attack, under the leadership of a certain Auranus, a man advanced in years and no less advanced in folly.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	41	But when the Jews became aware of Lysimachus’ attack, some picked up stones, some blocks of wood, and others took handfuls of the ashes that were lying about, and threw them in wild confusion at Lysimachus and his men.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	42	As a result, they wounded many of them, and killed some, and put them all to flight; and the temple robber himself they killed close by the treasury.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	43	Charges were brought against Menelaus about this incident.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	44	When the king came to Tyre, three men sent by the senate presented the case before him.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	45	But Menelaus, already as good as beaten, promised a substantial bribe to Ptolemy son of Dorymenes to win over the king.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	46	Therefore Ptolemy, taking the king aside into a colonnade as if for refreshment, induced the king to change his mind.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	47	Menelaus, the cause of all the evil, he acquitted of the charges against him, while he sentenced to death those unfortunate men, who would have been freed uncondemned if they had pleaded even before Scythians.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	48	And so those who had spoken for the city and the villages and the holy vessels quickly suffered the unjust penalty.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	49	Therefore even the Tyrians, showing their hatred of the crime, provided magnificently for their funeral.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	4	50	But Menelaus, because of the cupidity of those in power, remained in office, growing in wickedness, having become the chief plotter against his fellow citizens.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	5	1	About this time Antiochus made his second invasion of Egypt.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	5	2	And it happened that over all the city, for almost forty days, there appeared golden-clad horsemen charging through the air, in companies fully armed with lances and drawn swords—
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	5	3	troops of horsemen drawn up, attacks and counterattacks made on this side and on that, brandishing of shields, massing of spears, hurling of missiles, the flash of golden trappings, and armor of all sorts.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	5	4	Therefore all men prayed that the apparition might prove to have been a good omen.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	5	5	When a false rumor arose that Antiochus was dead, Jason took no less than a thousand men and suddenly made an assault upon the city. When the troops upon the wall had been forced back and at last the city was being taken, Menelaus took refuge in the citadel.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	5	6	But Jason kept relentlessly slaughtering his fellow citizens, not realizing that success at the cost of one’s kindred is the greatest misfortune, but imagining that he was setting up trophies of victory over enemies and not over fellow countrymen.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	5	7	He did not gain control of the government, however; and in the end got only disgrace from his conspiracy, and fled again into the country of the Ammonites.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	5	8	Finally he met a miserable end. Accused before Aretas the ruler of the Arabs, fleeing from city to city, pursued by all men, hated as a rebel against the laws, and abhorred as the executioner of his country and his fellow citizens, he was cast ashore in Egypt;
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	5	9	and he who had driven many from their own country into exile died in exile, having embarked to go to the Lacedaemonians in hope of finding protection because of their kinship.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	5	10	He who had cast out many to lie unburied had no one to mourn for him; he had no funeral of any sort and no place in the tomb of his fathers.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	5	11	When news of what had happened reached the king, he took it to mean that Judea was in revolt. So, raging inwardly, he left Egypt and took the city by storm.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	5	12	And he commanded his soldiers to cut down relentlessly every one they met and to slay those who went into the houses.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	5	13	Then there was killing of young and old, destruction of boys, women, and children, and slaughter of virgins and infants.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	5	14	Within the total of three days eighty thousand were destroyed, forty thousand in hand-to-hand fighting; and as many were sold into slavery as were slain.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	5	15	Not content with this, Antiochus dared to enter the most holy temple in all the world, guided by Menelaus, who had become a traitor both to the laws and to his country.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	5	16	He took the holy vessels with his polluted hands, and swept away with profane hands the votive offerings which other kings had made to enhance the glory and honor of the place.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	5	17	Antiochus was elated in spirit, and did not perceive that the Lord was angered for a little while because of the sins of those who dwelt in the city, and that therefore he was disregarding the holy place.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	5	18	But if it had not happened that they were involved in many sins, this man would have been scourged and turned back from his rash act as soon as he came forward, just as Heliodorus was, whom Seleucus the king sent to inspect the treasury.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	5	19	But the Lord did not choose the nation for the sake of the holy place, but the place for the sake of the nation.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	5	20	Therefore the place itself shared in the misfortunes that befell the nation and afterward participated in its benefits; and what was forsaken in the wrath of the Almighty was restored again in all its glory when the great Lord became reconciled.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	5	21	So Antiochus carried off eighteen hundred talents from the temple, and hurried away to Antioch, thinking in his arrogance that he could sail on the land and walk on the sea, because his mind was elated.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	5	22	And he left governors to afflict the people: at Jerusalem, Philip, by birth a Phrygian and in character more barbarous than the man who appointed him;
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	5	23	and at Gerizim, Andronicus; and besides these Menelaus, who lorded it over his fellow citizens worse than the others did. In his malice toward the Jewish citizens,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	5	24	Antiochus sent Apollonius, the captain of the Mysians, with an army of twenty-two thousand, and commanded him to slay all the grown men and to sell the women and boys as slaves.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	5	25	When this man arrived in Jerusalem, he pretended to be peaceably disposed and waited until the holy sabbath day; then, finding the Jews not at work, he ordered his men to parade under arms.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	5	26	He put to the sword all those who came out to see them, then rushed into the city with his armed men and killed great numbers of people.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	5	27	But Judas Maccabeus, with about nine others, got away to the wilderness, and kept himself and his companions alive in the mountains as wild animals do; they continued to live on what grew wild, so that they might not share in the defilement.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	6	1	Not long after this, the king sent an Athenian senator to compel the Jews to forsake the laws of their fathers and cease to live by the laws of God,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	6	2	and also to pollute the temple in Jerusalem and call it the temple of Olympian Zeus, and to call the one in Gerizim the temple of Zeus the Friend of Strangers, as did the people who dwelt in that place.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	6	3	Harsh and utterly grievous was the onslaught of evil.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	6	4	For the temple was filled with debauchery and reveling by the Gentiles, who dallied with harlots and had intercourse with women within the sacred precincts, and besides brought in things for sacrifice that were unfit.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	6	5	The altar was covered with abominable offerings which were forbidden by the laws.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	6	6	A man could neither keep the sabbath, nor observe the feasts of his fathers, nor so much as confess himself to be a Jew.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	6	7	On the monthly celebration of the king’s birthday, the Jews were taken, under bitter constraint, to partake of the sacrifices; and when the feast of Dionysus came, they were compelled to walk in the procession in honor of Dionysus, wearing wreaths of ivy.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	6	8	At the suggestion of Ptolemy a decree was issued to the neighboring Greek cities, that they should adopt the same policy toward the Jews and make them partake of the sacrifices,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	6	9	and should slay those who did not choose to change over to Greek customs. One could see, therefore, the misery that had come upon them.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	6	10	For example, two women were brought in for having circumcised their children. These women they publicly paraded about the city, with their babies hung at their breasts, then hurled them down headlong from the wall.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	6	11	Others who had assembled in the caves near by, to observe the seventh day secretly, were betrayed to Philip and were all burned together, because their piety kept them from defending themselves, in view of their regard for that most holy day.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	6	12	Now I urge those who read this book not to be depressed by such calamities, but to recognize that these punishments were designed not to destroy but to discipline our people.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	6	13	In fact, not to let the impious alone for long, but to punish them immediately, is a sign of great kindness.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	6	14	For in the case of the other nations the Lord waits patiently to punish them until they have reached the full measure of their sins; but he does not deal in this way with us,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	6	15	in order that he may not take vengeance on us afterward when our sins have reached their height.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	6	16	Therefore he never withdraws his mercy from us. Though he disciplines us with calamities, he does not forsake his own people.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	6	17	Let what we have said serve as a reminder; we must go on briefly with the story.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	6	18	Eleazar, one of the scribes in high position, a man now advanced in age and of noble presence, was being forced to open his mouth to eat swine’s flesh.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	6	19	But he, welcoming death with honor rather than life with pollution, went up to the rack of his own accord, spitting out the flesh,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	6	20	as men ought to go who have the courage to refuse things that it is not right to taste, even for the natural love of life.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	6	21	Those who were in charge of that unlawful sacrifice took the man aside, because of their long acquaintance with him, and privately urged him to bring meat of his own providing, proper for him to use, and pretend that he was eating the flesh of the sacrificial meal which had been commanded by the king,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	6	22	so that by doing this he might be saved from death, and be treated kindly on account of his old friendship with them.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	6	23	But making a high resolve, worthy of his years and the dignity of his old age and the gray hairs which he had reached with distinction and his excellent life even from childhood, and moreover according to the holy God-given law, he declared himself quickly, telling them to send him to Hades.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	6	24	“Such pretense is not worthy of our time of life,” he said, “lest many of the young should suppose that Eleazar in his ninetieth year has gone over to an alien religion,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	6	25	and through my pretense, for the sake of living a brief moment longer, they should be led astray because of me, while I defile and disgrace my old age.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	6	26	For even if for the present I should avoid the punishment of men, yet whether I live or die I shall not escape the hands of the Almighty.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	6	27	Therefore, by manfully giving up my life now, I will show myself worthy of my old age
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	6	28	and leave to the young a noble example of how to die a good death willingly and nobly for the revered and holy laws.” When he had said this, he went at once to the rack.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	6	29	And those who a little before had acted toward him with good will now changed to ill will, because the words he had uttered were in their opinion sheer madness.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	6	30	When he was about to die under the blows, he groaned aloud and said: “It is clear to the Lord in his holy knowledge that, though I might have been saved from death, I am enduring terrible sufferings in my body under this beating, but in my soul I am glad to suffer these things because I fear him.”
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	6	31	So in this way he died, leaving in his death an example of nobility and a memorial of courage, not only to the young but to the great body of his nation.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	1	It happened also that seven brothers and their mother were arrested and were being compelled by the king, under torture with whips and cords, to partake of unlawful swine’s flesh.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	2	One of them, acting as their spokesman, said, “What do you intend to ask and learn from us? For we are ready to die rather than transgress the laws of our fathers.”
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	3	The king fell into a rage, and gave orders that pans and caldrons be heated.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	4	These were heated immediately, and he commanded that the tongue of their spokesman be cut out and that they scalp him and cut off his hands and feet, while the rest of the brothers and the mother looked on.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	5	When he was utterly helpless, the king ordered them to take him to the fire, still breathing, and to fry him in a pan. The smoke from the pan spread widely, but the brothers and their mother encouraged one another to die nobly, saying,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	6	“The Lord God is watching over us and in truth has compassion on us, as Moses declared in his song which bore witness against the people to their faces, when he said, ‘And he will have compassion on his servants.’”
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	7	After the first brother had died in this way, they brought forward the second for their sport. They tore off the skin of his head with the hair, and asked him, “Will you eat rather than have your body punished limb by limb?”
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	8	He replied in the language of his fathers, and said to them, “No.” Therefore he in turn underwent tortures as the first brother had done.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	9	And when he was at his last breath, he said, “You accursed wretch, you dismiss us from this present life, but the King of the universe will raise us up to an everlasting renewal of life, because we have died for his laws.”
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	10	After him, the third was the victim of their sport. When it was demanded, he quickly put out his tongue and courageously stretched forth his hands,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	11	and said nobly, “I got these from Heaven, and because of his laws I disdain them, and from him I hope to get them back again.”
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	12	As a result the king himself and those with him were astonished at the young man’s spirit, for he regarded his sufferings as nothing.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	13	When he too had died, they maltreated and tortured the fourth in the same way.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	14	And when he was near death, he said, “One cannot but choose to die at the hands of men and to cherish the hope that God gives of being raised again by him. But for you there will be no resurrection to life!”
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	15	Next they brought forward the fifth and maltreated him.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	16	But he looked at the king, and said, “Because you have authority among men, mortal though you are, you do what you please. But do not think that God has forsaken our people.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	17	Keep on, and see how his mighty power will torture you and your descendants!”
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	18	After him they brought forward the sixth. And when he was about to die, he said, “Do not deceive yourself in vain. For we are suffering these things on our own account, because of our sins against our own God. Therefore astounding things have happened.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	19	But do not think that you will go unpunished for having tried to fight against God!”
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	20	The mother was especially admirable and worthy of honorable memory. Though she saw her seven sons perish within a single day, she bore it with good courage because of her hope in the Lord.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	21	She encouraged each of them in the language of their fathers. Filled with a noble spirit, she fired her woman’s reasoning with a man’s courage, and said to them,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	22	“I do not know how you came into being in my womb. It was not I who gave you life and breath, nor I who set in order the elements within each of you.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	23	Therefore the Creator of the world, who shaped the beginning of man and devised the origin of all things, will in his mercy give life and breath back to you again, since you now forget yourselves for the sake of his laws.”
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	24	Antiochus felt that he was being treated with contempt, and he was suspicious of her reproachful tone. The youngest brother being still alive, Antiochus not only appealed to him in words, but promised with oaths that he would make him rich and enviable if he would turn from the ways of his fathers, and that he would take him for his friend and entrust him with public affairs.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	25	Since the young man would not listen to him at all, the king called the mother to him and urged her to advise the youth to save himself.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	26	After much urging on his part, she undertook to persuade her son.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	27	But, leaning close to him, she spoke in their native tongue as follows, deriding the cruel tyrant: “My son, have pity on me. I carried you nine months in my womb, and nursed you for three years, and have reared you and brought you up to this point in your life, and have taken care of you.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	28	I beseech you, my child, to look at the heaven and the earth and see everything that is in them, and recognize that God did not make them out of things that existed. Thus also mankind comes into being.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	29	Do not fear this butcher, but prove worthy of your brothers. Accept death, so that in God’s mercy I may get you back again with your brothers.”
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	30	While she was still speaking, the young man said, “What are you waiting for? I will not obey the king’s command, but I obey the command of the law that was given to our fathers through Moses.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	31	But you, who have contrived all sorts of evil against the Hebrews, will certainly not escape the hands of God.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	32	For we are suffering because of our own sins.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	33	And if our living Lord is angry for a little while, to rebuke and discipline us, he will again be reconciled with his own servants.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	34	But you, unholy wretch, you most defiled of all men, do not be elated in vain and puffed up by uncertain hopes, when you raise your hand against the children of heaven.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	35	You have not yet escaped the judgment of the almighty, all-seeing God.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	36	For our brothers after enduring a brief suffering have drunk of everflowing life under God’s covenant; but you, by the judgment of God, will receive just punishment for your arrogance.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	37	I, like my brothers, give up body and life for the laws of our fathers, appealing to God to show mercy soon to our nation and by afflictions and plagues to make you confess that he alone is God,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	38	and through me and my brothers to bring to an end the wrath of the Almighty which has justly fallen on our whole nation.”
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	39	The king fell into a rage, and handled him worse than the others, being exasperated at his scorn.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	40	So he died in his integrity, putting his whole trust in the Lord.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	41	Last of all, the mother died, after her sons.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	7	42	Let this be enough, then, about the eating of sacrifices and the extreme tortures.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	1	But Judas, who was also called Maccabeus, and his companions secretly entered the villages and summoned their kinsmen and enlisted those who had continued in the Jewish faith, and so they gathered about six thousand men.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	2	They besought the Lord to look upon the people who were oppressed by all, and to have pity on the temple which had been profaned by ungodly men,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	3	and to have mercy on the city which was being destroyed and about to be leveled to the ground, and to hearken to the blood that cried out to him,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	4	and to remember also the lawless destruction of the innocent babies and the blasphemies committed against his name, and to show his hatred of evil.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	5	As soon as Maccabeus got his army organized, the Gentiles could not withstand him, for the wrath of the Lord had turned to mercy.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	6	Coming without warning, he would set fire to towns and villages. He captured strategic positions and put to flight not a few of the enemy.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	7	He found the nights most advantageous for such attacks. And talk of his valor spread everywhere.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	8	When Philip saw that the man was gaining ground little by little, and that he was pushing ahead with more frequent successes, he wrote to Ptolemy, the governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, for aid to the king’s government.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	9	And Ptolemy promptly appointed Nicanor the son of Patroclus, one of the king’s chief friends, and sent him, in command of no fewer than twenty thousand Gentiles of all nations, to wipe out the whole race of Judea. He associated with him Gorgias, a general and a man of experience in military service.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	10	Nicanor determined to make up for the king the tribute due to the Romans, two thousand talents, by selling the captured Jews into slavery.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	11	And he immediately sent to the cities on the seacoast, inviting them to buy Jewish slaves and promising to hand over ninety slaves for a talent, not expecting the judgment from the Almighty that was about to overtake him.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	12	Word came to Judas concerning Nicanor’s invasion; and when he told his companions of the arrival of the army,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	13	those who were cowardly and distrustful of God’s justice ran off and got away.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	14	Others sold all their remaining property, and at the same time besought the Lord to rescue those who had been sold by the ungodly Nicanor before he ever met them,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	15	if not for their own sake, yet for the sake of the covenants made with their fathers, and because he had called them by his holy and glorious name.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	16	But Maccabeus gathered his men together, to the number six thousand, and exhorted them not to be frightened by the enemy and not to fear the great multitude of Gentiles who were wickedly coming against them, but to fight nobly,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	17	keeping before their eyes the lawless outrage which the Gentiles had committed against the holy place, and the torture of the derided city, and besides, the overthrow of their ancestral way of life.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	18	“For they trust to arms and acts of daring,” he said, “but we trust in the Almighty God, who is able with a single nod to strike down those who are coming against us and even the whole world.”
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	19	Moreover, he told them of the times when help came to their ancestors; both the time of Sennacherib, when one hundred and eighty-five thousand perished,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	20	and the time of the battle with the Galatians that took place in Babylonia, when eight thousand in all went into the affair, with four thousand Macedonians; and when the Macedonians were hard pressed, the eight thousand, by the help that came to them from heaven, destroyed one hundred and twenty thousand and took much booty.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	21	With these words he filled them with good courage and made them ready to die for their laws and their country; then he divided his army into four parts.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	22	He appointed his brothers also, Simon and Joseph and Jonathan, each to command a division, putting fifteen hundred men under each.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	23	Besides, he appointed Eleazar to read aloud from the holy book, and gave the watchword, “God’s help”; then, leading the first division himself, he joined battle with Nicanor.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	24	With the Almighty as their ally, they slew more than nine thousand of the enemy, and wounded and disabled most of Nicanor’s army, and forced them all to flee.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	25	They captured the money of those who had come to buy them as slaves. After pursuing them for some distance, they were obliged to return because the hour was late.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	26	For it was the day before the sabbath, and for that reason they did not continue their pursuit.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	27	And when they had collected the arms of the enemy and stripped them of their spoils, they kept the sabbath, giving great praise and thanks to the Lord, who had preserved them for that day and allotted it to them as the beginning of mercy.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	28	After the sabbath they gave some of the spoils to those who had been tortured and to the widows and orphans, and distributed the rest among themselves and their children.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	29	When they had done this, they made common supplication and besought the merciful Lord to be wholly reconciled with his servants.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	30	In encounters with the forces of Timothy and Bacchides they killed more than twenty thousand of them and got possession of some exceedingly high strongholds, and they divided very much plunder, giving to those who had been tortured and to the orphans and widows, and also to the aged, shares equal to their own.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	31	Collecting the arms of the enemy, they stored them all carefully in strategic places, and carried the rest of the spoils to Jerusalem.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	32	They killed the commander of Timothy’s forces, a most unholy man, and one who had greatly troubled the Jews.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	33	While they were celebrating the victory in the city of their fathers, they burned those who had set fire to the sacred gates, Callisthenes and some others, who had fled into one little house; so these received the proper recompense for their impiety.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	34	The thrice-accursed Nicanor, who had brought the thousand merchants to buy the Jews,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	35	having been humbled with the help of the Lord by opponents whom he regarded as of the least account, took off his splendid uniform and made his way alone like a runaway slave across the country till he reached Antioch, having succeeded chiefly in the destruction of his own army!
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	8	36	Thus he who had undertaken to secure tribute for the Romans by the capture of the people of Jerusalem proclaimed that the Jews had a Defender, and that therefore the Jews were invulnerable, because they followed the laws ordained by him.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	9	1	About that time, as it happened, Antiochus had retreated in disorder from the region of Persia.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	9	2	For he had entered the city called Persepolis, and attempted to rob the temples and control the city. Therefore the people rushed to the rescue with arms, and Antiochus and his men were defeated, with the result that Antiochus was put to flight by the inhabitants and beat a shameful retreat.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	9	3	While he was in Ecbatana, news came to him of what had happened to Nicanor and the forces of Timothy.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	9	4	Transported with rage, he conceived the idea of turning upon the Jews the injury done by those who had put him to flight; so he ordered his charioteer to drive without stopping until he completed the journey. But the judgment of heaven rode with him! For in his arrogance he said, “When I get there I will make Jerusalem a cemetery of Jews.”
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	9	5	But the all-seeing Lord, the God of Israel, struck him an incurable and unseen blow. As soon as he ceased speaking he was seized with a pain in his bowels for which there was no relief and with sharp internal tortures—
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	9	6	and that very justly, for he had tortured the bowels of others with many and strange inflictions.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	9	7	Yet he did not in any way stop his insolence, but was even more filled with arrogance, breathing fire in his rage against the Jews, and giving orders to hasten the journey. And so it came about that he fell out of his chariot as it was rushing along, and the fall was so hard as to torture every limb of his body.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	9	8	Thus he who had just been thinking that he could command the waves of the sea, in his superhuman arrogance, and imagining that he could weigh the high mountains in a balance, was brought down to earth and carried in a litter, making the power of God manifest to all.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	9	9	And so the ungodly man’s body swarmed with worms, and while he was still living in anguish and pain, his flesh rotted away, and because of his stench the whole army felt revulsion at his decay.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	9	10	Because of his intolerable stench no one was able to carry the man who a little while before had thought that he could touch the stars of heaven.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	9	11	Then it was that, broken in spirit, he began to lose much of his arrogance and to come to his senses under the scourge of God, for he was tortured with pain every moment.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	9	12	And when he could not endure his own stench, he uttered these words: “It is right to be subject to God, and no mortal should think that he is equal to God.”
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	9	13	Then the abominable fellow made a vow to the Lord, who would no longer have mercy on him, stating
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	9	14	that the holy city, which he was hastening to level to the ground and to make a cemetery, he was now declaring to be free;
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	9	15	and the Jews, whom he had not considered worth burying but had planned to throw out with their children to the beasts, for the birds to pick, he would make, all of them, equal to citizens of Athens;
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	9	16	and the holy sanctuary, which he had formerly plundered, he would adorn with the finest offerings; and the holy vessels he would give back, all of them, many times over; and the expenses incurred for the sacrifices he would provide from his own revenues;
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	9	17	and in addition to all this he also would become a Jew and would visit every inhabited place to proclaim the power of God.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	9	18	But when his sufferings did not in any way abate, for the judgment of God had justly come upon him, he gave up all hope for himself and wrote to the Jews the following letter, in the form of a supplication. This was its content:
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	9	19	“To his worthy Jewish citizens, Antiochus their king and general sends hearty greetings and good wishes for their health and prosperity.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	9	20	If you and your children are well and your affairs are as you wish, I am glad. As my hope is in heaven,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	9	21	I remember with affection your esteem and good will. On my way back from the region of Persia I suffered an annoying illness, and I have deemed it necessary to take thought for the general security of all.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	9	22	I do not despair of my condition, for I have good hope of recovering from my illness,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	9	23	but I observed that my father, on the occasions when he made expeditions into the upper country, appointed his successor,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	9	24	so that, if anything unexpected happened or any unwelcome news came, the people throughout the realm would not be troubled, for they would know to whom the government was left.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	9	25	Moreover, I understand how the princes along the borders and the neighbors to my kingdom keep watching for opportunities and waiting to see what will happen. So I have appointed my son Antiochus to be king, whom I have often entrusted and commended to most of you when I hastened off to the upper provinces; and I have written to him what is written here.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	9	26	I therefore urge and beseech you to remember the public and private services rendered to you and to maintain your present good will, each of you, toward me and my son.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	9	27	For I am sure that he will follow my policy and will treat you with moderation and kindness.”
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	9	28	So the murderer and blasphemer, having endured the more intense suffering, such as he had inflicted on others, came to the end of his life by a most pitiable fate, among the mountains in a strange land.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	9	29	And Philip, one of his courtiers, took his body home; then, fearing the son of Antiochus, he betook himself to Ptolemy Philometor in Egypt.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	1	Now Maccabeus and his followers, the Lord leading them on, recovered the temple and the city;
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	2	and they tore down the altars which had been built in the public square by the foreigners, and also destroyed the sacred precincts.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	3	They purified the sanctuary, and made another altar of sacrifice; then, striking fire out of flint, they offered sacrifices, after a lapse of two years, and they burned incense and lighted lamps and set out the bread of the Presence.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	4	And when they had done this, they fell prostrate and besought the Lord that they might never again fall into such misfortunes, but that, if they should ever sin, they might be disciplined by him with forbearance and not be handed over to blasphemous and barbarous nations.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	5	It happened that on the same day on which the sanctuary had been profaned by the foreigners, the purification of the sanctuary took place, that is, on the twenty-fifth day of the same month, which was Chislev.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	6	And they celebrated it for eight days with rejoicing, in the manner of the feast of booths, remembering how not long before, during the feast of booths, they had been wandering in the mountains and caves like wild animals.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	7	Therefore bearing ivy-wreathed wands and beautiful branches and also fronds of palm, they offered hymns of thanksgiving to him who had given success to the purifying of his own holy place.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	8	They decreed by public ordinance and vote that the whole nation of the Jews should observe these days every year.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	9	Such then was the end of Antiochus, who was called Epiphanes.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	10	Now we will tell what took place under Antiochus Eupator, who was the son of that ungodly man, and will give a brief summary of the principal calamities of the wars.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	11	This man, when he succeeded to the kingdom, appointed one Lysias to have charge of the government and to be chief governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	12	Ptolemy, who was called Macron, took the lead in showing justice to the Jews because of the wrong that had been done to them, and attempted to maintain peaceful relations with them.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	13	As a result he was accused before Eupator by the king’s friends. He heard himself called a traitor at every turn, because he had abandoned Cyprus, which Philometor had entrusted to him, and had gone over to Antiochus Epiphanes. Unable to command the respect due his office, he took poison and ended his life.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	14	When Gorgias became governor of the region, he maintained a force of mercenaries, and at every turn kept on warring against the Jews.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	15	Besides this, the Idumeans, who had control of important strongholds, were harassing the Jews; they received those who were banished from Jerusalem, and endeavored to keep up the war.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	16	But Maccabeus and his men, after making solemn supplication and beseeching God to fight on their side, rushed to the strongholds of the Idumeans.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	17	Attacking them vigorously, they gained possession of the places, and beat off all who fought upon the wall, and slew those whom they encountered, killing no fewer than twenty thousand.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	18	When no less than nine thousand took refuge in two very strong towers well equipped to withstand a siege,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	19	Maccabeus left Simon and Joseph, and also Zacchaeus and his men, a force sufficient to besiege them; and he himself set off for places where he was more urgently needed.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	20	But the men with Simon, who were money-hungry, were bribed by some of those who were in the towers, and on receiving seventy thousand drachmas let some of them slip away.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	21	When word of what had happened came to Maccabeus, he gathered the leaders of the people, and accused these men of having sold their brethren for money by setting their enemies free to fight against them.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	22	Then he slew these men who had turned traitor, and immediately captured the two towers.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	23	Having success at arms in everything he undertook, he destroyed more than twenty thousand in the two strongholds.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	24	Now Timothy, who had been defeated by the Jews before, gathered a tremendous force of mercenaries and collected the cavalry from Asia in no small number. He came on, intending to take Judea by storm.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	25	As he drew near, Maccabeus and his men sprinkled dust upon their heads and girded their loins with sackcloth, in supplication to God.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	26	Falling upon the steps before the altar, they besought him to be gracious to them and to be an enemy to their enemies and an adversary to their adversaries, as the law declares.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	27	And rising from their prayer they took up their arms and advanced a considerable distance from the city; and when they came near to the enemy they halted.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	28	Just as dawn was breaking, the two armies joined battle, the one having as pledge of success and victory not only their valor but their reliance upon the Lord, while the other made rage their leader in the fight.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	29	When the battle became fierce, there appeared to the enemy from heaven five resplendent men on horses with golden bridles, and they were leading the Jews.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	30	Surrounding Maccabeus and protecting him with their own armor and weapons, they kept him from being wounded. And they showered arrows and thunderbolts upon the enemy, so that, confused and blinded, they were thrown into disorder and cut to pieces.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	31	Twenty thousand five hundred were slaughtered, besides six hundred horsemen.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	32	Timothy himself fled to a stronghold called Gazara, especially well garrisoned, where Chaereas was commander.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	33	Then Maccabeus and his men were glad, and they besieged the fort for four days.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	34	The men within, relying on the strength of the place, blasphemed terribly and hurled out wicked words.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	35	But at dawn of the fifth day, twenty young men in the army of Maccabeus, fired with anger because of the blasphemies, bravely stormed the wall and with savage fury cut down every one they met.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	36	Others who came up in the same way wheeled around against the defenders and set fire to the towers; they kindled fires and burned the blasphemers alive. Others broke open the gates and let in the rest of the force, and they occupied the city.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	37	They killed Timothy, who was hidden in a cistern, and his brother Chaereas, and Apollophanes.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	10	38	When they had accomplished these things, with hymns and thanksgivings they blessed the Lord who shows great kindness to Israel and gives them the victory.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	1	Very soon after this, Lysias, the king’s guardian and kinsman, who was in charge of the government, being vexed at what had happened,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	2	gathered about eighty thousand men and all his cavalry and came against the Jews. He intended to make the city a home for Greeks,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	3	and to levy tribute on the temple as he did on the sacred places of the other nations, and to put up the high priesthood for sale every year.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	4	He took no account whatever of the power of God, but was elated with his ten thousands of infantry, and his thousands of cavalry, and his eighty elephants.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	5	Invading Judea, he approached Beth-zur, which was a fortified place about five leagues from Jerusalem, and pressed it hard.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	6	When Maccabeus and his men got word that Lysias was besieging the strongholds, they and all the people, with lamentations and tears, besought the Lord to send a good angel to save Israel.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	7	Maccabeus himself was the first to take up arms, and he urged the others to risk their lives with him to aid their brethren. Then they eagerly rushed off together.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	8	And there, while they were still near Jerusalem, a horseman appeared at their head, clothed in white and brandishing weapons of gold.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	9	And they all together praised the merciful God, and were strengthened in heart, ready to assail not only men but the wildest beasts or walls of iron.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	10	They advanced in battle order, having their heavenly ally, for the Lord had mercy on them.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	11	They hurled themselves like lions against the enemy, and slew eleven thousand of them and sixteen hundred horsemen, and forced all the rest to flee.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	12	Most of them got away stripped and wounded, and Lysias himself escaped by disgraceful flight.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	13	And as he was not without intelligence, he pondered over the defeat which had befallen him, and realized that the Hebrews were invincible because the mighty God fought on their side. So he sent to them
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	14	and persuaded them to settle everything on just terms, promising that he would persuade the king, constraining him to be their friend.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	15	Maccabeus, having regard for the common good, agreed to all that Lysias urged. For the king granted every request in behalf of the Jews which Maccabeus delivered to Lysias in writing.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	16	The letter written to the Jews by Lysias was to this effect: “Lysias to the people of the Jews, greeting.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	17	John and Absalom, who were sent by you, have delivered your signed communication and have asked about the matters indicated therein.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	18	I have informed the king of everything that needed to be brought before him, and he has agreed to what was possible.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	19	If you will maintain your good will toward the government, I will endeavor for the future to help promote your welfare.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	20	And concerning these matters and their details, I have ordered these men and my representatives to confer with you.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	21	Farewell. The one hundred and forty-eighth year, Dioscorinthius twenty-fourth.”
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	22	The king’s letter ran thus: “King Antiochus to his brother Lysias, greeting.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	23	Now that our father has gone on to the gods, we desire that the subjects of the kingdom be undisturbed in caring for their own affairs.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	24	We have heard that the Jews do not consent to our father’s change to Greek customs but prefer their own way of living and ask that their own customs be allowed them.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	25	Accordingly, since we choose that this nation also be free from disturbance, our decision is that their temple be restored to them and that they live according to the customs of their ancestors.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	26	You will do well, therefore, to send word to them and give them pledges of friendship, so that they may know our policy and be of good cheer and go on happily in the conduct of their own affairs.”
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	27	To the nation the king’s letter was as follows: “King Antiochus to the senate of the Jews and to the other Jews, greeting.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	28	If you are well, it is as we desire. We also are in good health.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	29	Menelaus has informed us that you wish to return home and look after your own affairs.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	30	Therefore those who go home by the thirtieth day of Xanthicus will have our pledge of friendship and full permission
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	31	for the Jews to enjoy their own food and laws, just as formerly, and none of them shall be molested in any way for what he may have done in ignorance.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	32	And I have also sent Menelaus to encourage you.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	33	Farewell. The one hundred and forty-eighth year, Xanthicus fifteenth.”
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	34	The Romans also sent them a letter, which read thus: “Quintus Memmius and Titus Manius, envoys of the Romans, to the people of the Jews, greeting.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	35	With regard to what Lysias the kinsman of the king has granted you, we also give consent.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	36	But as to the matters which he decided are to be referred to the king, as soon as you have considered them, send some one promptly, so that we may make proposals appropriate for you. For we are on our way to Antioch.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	37	Therefore make haste and send some men, so that we may have your judgment.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	11	38	Farewell. The one hundred and forty-eighth year, Xanthicus fifteenth.”
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	1	When this agreement had been reached, Lysias returned to the king, and the Jews went about their farming.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	2	But some of the governors in various places, Timothy and Apollonius the son of Gennaeus, as well as Hieronymus and Demophon, and in addition to these Nicanor the governor of Cyprus, would not let them live quietly and in peace.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	3	And some men of Joppa did so ungodly a deed as this: they invited the Jews who lived among them to embark, with their wives and children, on boats which they had provided, as though there were no ill will to the Jews;
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	4	and this was done by public vote of the city. And when they accepted, because they wished to live peaceably and suspected nothing, the men of Joppa took them out to sea and drowned them, not less than two hundred.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	5	When Judas heard of the cruelty visited on his countrymen, he gave orders to his men
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	6	and, calling upon God the righteous Judge, attacked the murderers of his brethren. He set fire to the harbor by night, and burned the boats, and massacred those who had taken refuge there.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	7	Then, because the city’s gates were closed, he withdrew, intending to come again and root out the whole community of Joppa.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	8	But learning that the men in Jamnia meant in the same way to wipe out the Jews who were living among them,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	9	he attacked the people of Jamnia by night and set fire to the harbor and the fleet, so that the glow of the light was seen in Jerusalem, thirty miles distant.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	10	When they had gone more than a mile from there, on their march against Timothy, not less than five thousand Arabs with five hundred horsemen attacked them.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	11	After a hard fight Judas and his men won the victory, by the help of God. The defeated nomads besought Judas to grant them pledges of friendship, promising to give him cattle and to help his people in all other ways.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	12	Judas, thinking that they might really be useful in many ways, agreed to make peace with them; and after receiving his pledges they departed to their tents.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	13	He also attacked a certain city which was strongly fortified with earthworks and walls, and inhabited by all sorts of Gentiles. Its name was Caspin.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	14	And those who were within, relying on the strength of the walls and on their supply of provisions, behaved most insolently toward Judas and his men, railing at them and even blaspheming and saying unholy things.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	15	But Judas and his men, calling upon the great Sovereign of the world, who without battering-rams or engines of war overthrew Jericho in the days of Joshua, rushed furiously upon the walls.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	16	They took the city by the will of God, and slaughtered untold numbers, so that the adjoining lake, a quarter of a mile wide, appeared to be running over with blood.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	17	When they had gone ninety-five miles from there, they came to Charax, to the Jews who are called Toubiani.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	18	They did not find Timothy in that region, for he had by then departed from the region without accomplishing anything, though in one place he had left a very strong garrison.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	19	Dositheus and Sosipater, who were captains under Maccabeus, marched out and destroyed those whom Timothy had left in the stronghold, more than ten thousand men.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	20	But Maccabeus arranged his army in divisions, set men in command of the divisions, and hastened after Timothy, who had with him a hundred and twenty thousand infantry and two thousand five hundred cavalry.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	21	When Timothy learned of the approach of Judas, he sent off the women and the children and also the baggage to a place called Carnaim; for that place was hard to besiege and difficult of access because of the narrowness of all the approaches.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	22	But when Judas’ first division appeared, terror and fear came over the enemy at the manifestation to them of him who sees all things; and they rushed off in flight and were swept on, this way and that, so that often they were injured by their own men and pierced by the points of their swords.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	23	And Judas pressed the pursuit with the utmost vigor, putting the sinners to the sword, and destroyed as many as thirty thousand men.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	24	Timothy himself fell into the hands of Dositheus and Sosipater and their men. With great guile he besought them to let him go in safety, because he held the parents of most of them and the brothers of some and no consideration would be shown them.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	25	And when with many words he had confirmed his solemn promise to restore them unharmed, they let him go, for the sake of saving their brethren.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	26	Then Judas marched against Carnaim and the temple of Atargatis, and slaughtered twenty-five thousand people.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	27	After the rout and destruction of these, he marched also against Ephron, a fortified city where Lysias dwelt with multitudes of people of all nationalities. Stalwart young men took their stand before the walls and made a vigorous defense; and great stores of war engines and missiles were there.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	28	But the Jews called upon the Sovereign who with power shatters the might of his enemies, and they got the city into their hands, and killed as many as twenty-five thousand of those who were within it.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	29	Setting out from there, they hastened to Scythopolis, which is seventy-five miles from Jerusalem.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	30	But when the Jews who dwelt there bore witness to the good will which the people of Scythopolis had shown them and their kind treatment of them in times of misfortune,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	31	they thanked them and exhorted them to be well disposed to their race in the future also. Then they went up to Jerusalem, as the feast of weeks was close at hand.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	32	After the feast called Pentecost, they hastened against Gorgias, the governor of Idumea.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	33	And he came out with three thousand infantry and four hundred cavalry.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	34	When they joined battle, it happened that a few of the Jews fell.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	35	But a certain Dositheus, one of Bacenor’s men, who was on horseback and was a strong man, caught hold of Gorgias, and grasping his cloak was dragging him off by main strength, wishing to take the accursed man alive, when one of the Thracian horsemen bore down upon him and cut off his arm; so Gorgias escaped and reached Marisa.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	36	As Esdris and his men had been fighting for a long time and were weary, Judas called upon the Lord to show himself their ally and leader in the battle.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	37	In the language of their fathers he raised the battle cry, with hymns; then he charged against Gorgias’ men when they were not expecting it, and put them to flight.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	38	Then Judas assembled his army and went to the city of Adullam. As the seventh day was coming on, they purified themselves according to the custom, and they kept the sabbath there.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	39	On the next day, as by that time it had become necessary, Judas and his men went to take up the bodies of the fallen and to bring them back to lie with their kinsmen in the sepulchres of their fathers.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	40	Then under the tunic of every one of the dead they found sacred tokens of the idols of Jamnia, which the law forbids the Jews to wear. And it became clear to all that this was why these men had fallen.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	41	So they all blessed the ways of the Lord, the righteous Judge, who reveals the things that are hidden;
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	42	and they turned to prayer, beseeching that the sin which had been committed might be wholly blotted out. And the noble Judas exhorted the people to keep themselves free from sin, for they had seen with their own eyes what had happened because of the sin of those who had fallen.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	43	He also took up a collection, man by man, to the amount of two thousand drachmas of silver, and sent it to Jerusalem to provide for a sin offering. In doing this he acted very well and honorably, taking account of the resurrection.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	44	For if he were not expecting that those who had fallen would rise again, it would have been superfluous and foolish to pray for the dead.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	12	45	But if he was looking to the splendid reward that is laid up for those who fall asleep in godliness, it was a holy and pious thought. Therefore he made atonement for the dead, that they might be delivered from their sin.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	13	1	In the one hundred and forty-ninth year word came to Judas and his men that Antiochus Eupator was coming with a great army against Judea,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	13	2	and with him Lysias, his guardian, who had charge of the government. Each of them had a Greek force of one hundred and ten thousand infantry, five thousand three hundred cavalry, twenty-two elephants, and three hundred chariots armed with scythes.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	13	3	Menelaus also joined them and with utter hypocrisy urged Antiochus on, not for the sake of his country’s welfare, but because he thought that he would be established in office.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	13	4	But the King of kings aroused the anger of Antiochus against the scoundrel; and when Lysias informed him that this man was to blame for all the trouble, he ordered them to take him to Beroea and to put him to death by the method which is the custom in that place.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	13	5	For there is a tower in that place, fifty cubits high, full of ashes, and it has a rim running around it which on all sides inclines precipitously into the ashes.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	13	6	There they all push to destruction any man guilty of sacrilege or notorious for other crimes.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	13	7	By such a fate it came about that Menelaus the lawbreaker died, without even burial in the earth.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	13	8	And this was eminently just; because he had committed many sins against the altar whose fire and ashes were holy, he met his death in ashes.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	13	9	The king with barbarous arrogance was coming to show the Jews things far worse than those that had been done in his father’s time.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	13	10	But when Judas heard of this, he ordered the people to call upon the Lord day and night, now if ever to help those who were on the point of being deprived of the law and their country and the holy temple,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	13	11	and not to let the people who had just begun to revive fall into the hands of the blasphemous Gentiles.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	13	12	When they had all joined in the same petition and had besought the merciful Lord with weeping and fasting and lying prostrate for three days without ceasing, Judas exhorted them and ordered them to stand ready.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	13	13	After consulting privately with the elders, he determined to march out and decide the matter by the help of God before the king’s army could enter Judea and get possession of the city.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	13	14	So, committing the decision to the Creator of the world and exhorting his men to fight nobly to the death for the laws, temple, city, country, and commonwealth, he pitched his camp near Modein.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	13	15	He gave his men the watchword, “God’s victory,” and with a picked force of the bravest young men, he attacked the king’s pavilion at night and slew as many as two thousand men in the camp. He stabbed the leading elephant and its rider.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	13	16	In the end they filled the camp with terror and confusion and withdrew in triumph.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	13	17	This happened, just as day was dawning, because the Lord’s help protected him.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	13	18	The king, having had a taste of the daring of the Jews, tried strategy in attacking their positions.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	13	19	He advanced against Beth-zur, a strong fortress of the Jews, was turned back, attacked again, and was defeated.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	13	20	Judas sent in to the garrison whatever was necessary.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	13	21	But Rhodocus, a man from the ranks of the Jews, gave secret information to the enemy; he was sought for, caught, and put in prison.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	13	22	The king negotiated a second time with the people in Beth-zur, gave pledges, received theirs, withdrew, attacked Judas and his men, was defeated;
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	13	23	he got word that Philip, who had been left in charge of the government, had revolted in Antioch; he was dismayed, called in the Jews, yielded and swore to observe all their rights, settled with them and offered sacrifice, honored the sanctuary and showed generosity to the holy place.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	13	24	He received Maccabeus, left Hegemonides as governor from Ptolemais to Gerar,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	13	25	and went to Ptolemais. The people of Ptolemais were indignant over the treaty; in fact they were so angry that they wanted to annul its terms.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	13	26	Lysias took the public platform, made the best possible defense, convinced them, appeased them, gained their good will, and set out for Antioch. This is how the king’s attack and withdrawal turned out.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	1	Three years later, word came to Judas and his men that Demetrius, the son of Seleucus, had sailed into the harbor of Tripolis with a strong army and a fleet,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	2	and had taken possession of the country, having made away with Antiochus and his guardian Lysias.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	3	Now a certain Alcimus, who had formerly been high priest but had wilfully defiled himself in the times of separation, realized that there was no way for him to be safe or to have access again to the holy altar,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	4	and went to King Demetrius in about the one hundred and fifty-first year, presenting to him a crown of gold and a palm, and besides these some of the customary olive branches from the temple. During that day he kept quiet.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	5	But he found an opportunity that furthered his mad purpose when he was invited by Demetrius to a meeting of the council and was asked about the disposition and intentions of the Jews. He answered:
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	6	“Those of the Jews who are called Hasideans, whose leader is Judas Maccabeus, are keeping up war and stirring up sedition, and will not let the kingdom attain tranquillity.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	7	Therefore I have laid aside my ancestral glory—I mean the high priesthood—and have now come here,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	8	first because I am genuinely concerned for the interests of the king, and second because I have regard also for my fellow citizens. For through the folly of those whom I have mentioned our whole nation is now in no small misfortune.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	9	Since you are acquainted, O king, with the details of this matter, deign to take thought for our country and our hard-pressed nation with the gracious kindness which you show to all.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	10	For as long as Judas lives, it is impossible for the government to find peace.”
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	11	When he had said this, the rest of the king’s friends, who were hostile to Judas, quickly inflamed Demetrius still more.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	12	And he immediately chose Nicanor, who had been in command of the elephants, appointed him governor of Judea, and sent him off
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	13	with orders to kill Judas and scatter his men, and to set up Alcimus as high priest of the greatest temple.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	14	And the Gentiles throughout Judea, who had fled before Judas, flocked to join Nicanor, thinking that the misfortunes and calamities of the Jews would mean prosperity for themselves.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	15	When the Jews heard of Nicanor’s coming and the gathering of the Gentiles, they sprinkled dust upon their heads and prayed to him who established his own people for ever and always upholds his own heritage by manifesting himself.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	16	At the command of the leader, they set out from there immediately and engaged them in battle at a village called Dessau.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	17	Simon, the brother of Judas, had encountered Nicanor, but had been temporarily checked because of the sudden consternation created by the enemy.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	18	Nevertheless Nicanor, hearing of the valor of Judas and his men and their courage in battle for their country, shrank from deciding the issue by bloodshed.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	19	Therefore he sent Posidonius and Theodotus and Mattathias to give and receive pledges of friendship.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	20	When the terms had been fully considered, and the leader had informed the people, and it had appeared that they were of one mind, they agreed to the covenant.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	21	And the leaders set a day on which to meet by themselves. A chariot came forward from each army; seats of honor were set in place;
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	22	Judas posted armed men in readiness at key places to prevent sudden treachery on the part of the enemy; they held the proper conference.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	23	Nicanor stayed on in Jerusalem and did nothing out of the way, but dismissed the flocks of people that had gathered.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	24	And he kept Judas always in his presence; he was warmly attached to the man.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	25	And he urged him to marry and have children; so he married, settled down, and shared the common life.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	26	But when Alcimus noticed their good will for one another, he took the covenant that had been made and went to Demetrius. He told him that Nicanor was disloyal to the government, for he had appointed that conspirator against the kingdom, Judas, to be his successor.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	27	The king became excited and, provoked by the false accusations of that depraved man, wrote to Nicanor, stating that he was displeased with the covenant and commanding him to send Maccabeus to Antioch as a prisoner without delay.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	28	When this message came to Nicanor, he was troubled and grieved that he had to annul their agreement when the man had done no wrong.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	29	Since it was not possible to oppose the king, he watched for an opportunity to accomplish this by a stratagem.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	30	But Maccabeus, noticing that Nicanor was more austere in his dealings with him and was meeting him more rudely than had been his custom, concluded that this austerity did not spring from the best motives. So he gathered not a few of his men, and went into hiding from Nicanor.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	31	When the latter became aware that he had been cleverly outwitted by the man, he went to the great and holy temple while the priests were offering the customary sacrifices, and commanded them to hand the man over.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	32	And when they declared on oath that they did not know where the man was whom he sought,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	33	he stretched out his right hand toward the sanctuary, and swore this oath: “If you do not hand Judas over to me as a prisoner, I will level this precinct of God to the ground and tear down the altar, and I will build here a splendid temple to Dionysus.”
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	34	Having said this, he went away. Then the priests stretched forth their hands toward heaven and called upon the constant Defender of our nation, in these words:
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	35	“O Lord of all, who hast need of nothing, thou wast pleased that there be a temple for thy habitation among us;
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	36	so now, O holy One, Lord of all holiness, keep undefiled for ever this house that has been so recently purified.”
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	37	A certain Razis, one of the elders of Jerusalem, was denounced to Nicanor as a man who loved his fellow citizens and was very well thought of and for his good will was called father of the Jews.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	38	For in former times, when there was no mingling with the Gentiles, he had been accused of Judaism, and for Judaism he had with all zeal risked body and life.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	39	Nicanor, wishing to exhibit the enmity which he had for the Jews, sent more than five hundred soldiers to arrest him;
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	40	for he thought that by arresting him he would do them an injury.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	41	When the troops were about to capture the tower and were forcing the door of the courtyard, they ordered that fire be brought and the doors burned. Being surrounded, Razis fell upon his own sword,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	42	preferring to die nobly rather than to fall into the hands of sinners and suffer outrages unworthy of his noble birth.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	43	But in the heat of the struggle he did not hit exactly, and the crowd was now rushing in through the doors. He bravely ran up on the wall, and manfully threw himself down into the crowd.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	44	But as they quickly drew back, a space opened and he fell in the middle of the empty space.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	45	Still alive and aflame with anger, he rose, and though his blood gushed forth and his wounds were severe he ran through the crowd; and standing upon a steep rock,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	14	46	with his blood now completely drained from him, he tore out his entrails, took them with both hands and hurled them at the crowd, calling upon the Lord of life and spirit to give them back to him again. This was the manner of his death.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	1	When Nicanor heard that Judas and his men were in the region of Samaria, he made plans to attack them with complete safety on the day of rest.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	2	And when the Jews who were compelled to follow him said, “Do not destroy so savagely and barbarously, but show respect for the day which he who sees all things has honored and hallowed above other days,”
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	3	the thrice-accursed wretch asked if there were a sovereign in heaven who had commanded the keeping of the sabbath day.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	4	And when they declared, “It is the living Lord himself, the Sovereign in heaven, who ordered us to observe the seventh day,”
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	5	he replied, “And I am a sovereign also, on earth, and I command you to take up arms and finish the king’s business.” Nevertheless, he did not succeed in carrying out his abominable design.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	6	This Nicanor in his utter boastfulness and arrogance had determined to erect a public monument of victory over Judas and his men.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	7	But Maccabeus did not cease to trust with all confidence that he would get help from the Lord.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	8	And he exhorted his men not to fear the attack of the Gentiles, but to keep in mind the former times when help had come to them from heaven, and now to look for the victory which the Almighty would give them.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	9	Encouraging them from the law and the prophets, and reminding them also of the struggles they had won, he made them the more eager.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	10	And when he had aroused their courage, he gave his orders, at the same time pointing out the perfidy of the Gentiles and their violation of oaths.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	11	He armed each of them not so much with confidence in shields and spears as with the inspiration of brave words, and he cheered them all by relating a dream, a sort of vision, which was worthy of belief.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	12	What he saw was this: Onias, who had been high priest, a noble and good man, of modest bearing and gentle manner, one who spoke fittingly and had been trained from childhood in all that belongs to excellence, was praying with outstretched hands for the whole body of the Jews.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	13	Then likewise a man appeared, distinguished by his gray hair and dignity, and of marvelous majesty and authority.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	14	And Onias spoke, saying, “This is a man who loves the brethren and prays much for the people and the holy city, Jeremiah, the prophet of God.”
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	15	Jeremiah stretched out his right hand and gave to Judas a golden sword, and as he gave it he addressed him thus:
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	16	“Take this holy sword, a gift from God, with which you will strike down your adversaries.”
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	17	Encouraged by the words of Judas, so noble and so effective in arousing valor and awaking manliness in the souls of the young, they determined not to carry on a campaign but to attack bravely, and to decide the matter, by fighting hand to hand with all courage, because the city and the sanctuary and the temple were in danger.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	18	Their concern for wives and children, and also for brethren and relatives, lay upon them less heavily; their greatest and first fear was for the consecrated sanctuary.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	19	And those who had to remain in the city were in no little distress, being anxious over the encounter in the open country.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	20	When all were now looking forward to the coming decision, and the enemy was already close at hand with their army drawn up for battle, the elephants strategically stationed and the cavalry deployed on the flanks,
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	21	Maccabeus, perceiving the hosts that were before him and the varied supply of arms and the savagery of the elephants, stretched out his hands toward heaven and called upon the Lord who works wonders; for he knew that it is not by arms, but as the Lord decides, that he gains the victory for those who deserve it.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	22	And he called upon him in these words: “O Lord, thou didst send thy angel in the time of Hezekiah king of Judea, and he slew fully a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of Sennacherib.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	23	So now, O Sovereign of the heavens, send a good angel to carry terror and trembling before us.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	24	By the might of thy arm may these blasphemers who come against thy holy people be struck down.” With these words he ended his prayer.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	25	Nicanor and his men advanced with trumpets and battle songs;
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	26	and Judas and his men met the enemy in battle with invocation to God and prayers.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	27	So, fighting with their hands and praying to God in their hearts, they laid low no less than thirty-five thousand men, and were greatly gladdened by God’s manifestation.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	28	When the action was over and they were returning with joy, they recognized Nicanor, lying dead, in full armor.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	29	Then there was shouting and tumult, and they blessed the Sovereign Lord in the language of their fathers.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	30	And the man who was ever in body and soul the defender of his fellow citizens, the man who maintained his youthful good will toward his countrymen, ordered them to cut off Nicanor’s head and arm and carry them to Jerusalem.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	31	And when he arrived there and had called his countrymen together and stationed the priests before the altar, he sent for those who were in the citadel.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	32	He showed them the vile Nicanor’s head and that profane man’s arm, which had been boastfully stretched out against the holy house of the Almighty;
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	33	and he cut out the tongue of the ungodly Nicanor and said that he would give it piecemeal to the birds and hang up these rewards of his folly opposite the sanctuary.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	34	And they all, looking to heaven, blessed the Lord who had manifested himself, saying, “Blessed is he who has kept his own place undefiled.”
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	35	And he hung Nicanor’s head from the citadel, a clear and conspicuous sign to every one of the help of the Lord.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	36	And they all decreed by public vote never to let this day go unobserved, but to celebrate the thirteenth day of the twelfth month—which is called Adar in the Syrian language—the day before Mordecai’s day.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	37	This, then, is how matters turned out with Nicanor. And from that time the city has been in the possession of the Hebrews. So I too will here end my story.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	38	If it is well told and to the point, that is what I myself desired; if it is poorly done and mediocre, that was the best I could do.
 2 Maccabees	2Mac	46	15	39	For just as it is harmful to drink wine alone, or, again, to drink water alone, while wine mixed with water is sweet and delicious and enhances one’s enjoyment, so also the style of the story delights the ears of those who read the work. And here will be the end.
 Matthew	Mt	47	1	1	The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
 Matthew	Mt	47	1	2	Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,
 Matthew	Mt	47	1	3	and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram,
 Matthew	Mt	47	1	4	and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon,
 Matthew	Mt	47	1	5	and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse,
 Matthew	Mt	47	1	6	and Jesse the father of David the king. And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah,
 Matthew	Mt	47	1	7	and Solomon the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asa,
 Matthew	Mt	47	1	8	and Asa the father of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah,
 Matthew	Mt	47	1	9	and Uzziah the father of Jotham, and Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah,
 Matthew	Mt	47	1	10	and Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, and Manasseh the father of Amos, and Amos the father of Josiah,
 Matthew	Mt	47	1	11	and Josiah the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.
 Matthew	Mt	47	1	12	And after the deportation to Babylon: Jechoniah was the father of She-alti-el, and She-alti-el the father of Zerubbabel,
 Matthew	Mt	47	1	13	and Zerubbabel the father of Abiud, and Abiud the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim the father of Azor,
 Matthew	Mt	47	1	14	and Azor the father of Zadok, and Zadok the father of Achim, and Achim the father of Eliud,
 Matthew	Mt	47	1	15	and Eliud the father of Eleazar, and Eleazar the father of Matthan, and Matthan the father of Jacob,
 Matthew	Mt	47	1	16	and Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.
 Matthew	Mt	47	1	17	So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen generations.
 Matthew	Mt	47	1	18	Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child of the Holy Spirit;
 Matthew	Mt	47	1	19	and her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to send her away quietly.
 Matthew	Mt	47	1	20	But as he considered this, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit;
 Matthew	Mt	47	1	21	she will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	1	22	All this took place to fulfil what the Lord had spoken by the prophet:
 Matthew	Mt	47	1	23	“Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and his name shall be called Emmanuel” (which means, God with us).
 Matthew	Mt	47	1	24	When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him; he took his wife,
 Matthew	Mt	47	1	25	but knew her not until she had borne a son; and he called his name Jesus.
 Matthew	Mt	47	2	1	Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, saying,
 Matthew	Mt	47	2	2	“Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the East, and have come to worship him.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	2	3	When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him;
 Matthew	Mt	47	2	4	and assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born.
 Matthew	Mt	47	2	5	They told him, “In Bethlehem of Judea; for so it is written by the prophet:
 Matthew	Mt	47	2	6	‘And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for from you shall come a ruler who will govern my people Israel.’”
 Matthew	Mt	47	2	7	Then Herod summoned the wise men secretly and ascertained from them what time the star appeared;
 Matthew	Mt	47	2	8	and he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, “Go and search diligently for the child, and when you have found him bring me word, that I too may come and worship him.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	2	9	When they had heard the king they went their way; and lo, the star which they had seen in the East went before them, till it came to rest over the place where the child was.
 Matthew	Mt	47	2	10	When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy;
 Matthew	Mt	47	2	11	and going into the house they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.
 Matthew	Mt	47	2	12	And being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed to their own country by another way.
 Matthew	Mt	47	2	13	Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there till I tell you; for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	2	14	And he rose and took the child and his mother by night, and departed to Egypt,
 Matthew	Mt	47	2	15	and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfil what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, “Out of Egypt have I called my son.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	2	16	Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, was in a furious rage, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time which he had ascertained from the wise men.
 Matthew	Mt	47	2	17	Then was fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah:
 Matthew	Mt	47	2	18	“A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be consoled, because they were no more.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	2	19	But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,
 Matthew	Mt	47	2	20	“Rise, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child’s life are dead.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	2	21	And he rose and took the child and his mother, and went to the land of Israel.
 Matthew	Mt	47	2	22	But when he heard that Archelaus reigned over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there, and being warned in a dream he withdrew to the district of Galilee.
 Matthew	Mt	47	2	23	And he went and dwelt in a city called Nazareth, that what was spoken by the prophets might be fulfilled, “He shall be called a Nazarene.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	3	1	In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea,
 Matthew	Mt	47	3	2	“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	3	3	For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	3	4	Now John wore a garment of camel’s hair, and a leather girdle around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
 Matthew	Mt	47	3	5	Then went out to him Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region about the Jordan,
 Matthew	Mt	47	3	6	and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.
 Matthew	Mt	47	3	7	But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
 Matthew	Mt	47	3	8	Bear fruit that befits repentance,
 Matthew	Mt	47	3	9	and do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father’; for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
 Matthew	Mt	47	3	10	Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees; every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
 Matthew	Mt	47	3	11	“I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry; he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
 Matthew	Mt	47	3	12	His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the granary, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	3	13	Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.
 Matthew	Mt	47	3	14	John would have prevented him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	3	15	But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now; for thus it is fitting for us to fulfil all righteousness.” Then he consented.
 Matthew	Mt	47	3	16	And when Jesus was baptized, he went up immediately from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and alighting on him;
 Matthew	Mt	47	3	17	and lo, a voice from heaven, saying, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	4	1	Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
 Matthew	Mt	47	4	2	And he fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterward he was hungry.
 Matthew	Mt	47	4	3	And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	4	4	But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’”
 Matthew	Mt	47	4	5	Then the devil took him to the holy city, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple,
 Matthew	Mt	47	4	6	and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down; for it is written, ‘He will give his angels charge of you,’ and ‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.’”
 Matthew	Mt	47	4	7	Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’”
 Matthew	Mt	47	4	8	Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them;
 Matthew	Mt	47	4	9	and he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	4	10	Then Jesus said to him, “Begone, Satan! for it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’”
 Matthew	Mt	47	4	11	Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and ministered to him.
 Matthew	Mt	47	4	12	Now when he heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee;
 Matthew	Mt	47	4	13	and leaving Nazareth he went and dwelt in Caperna-um by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali,
 Matthew	Mt	47	4	14	that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled:
 Matthew	Mt	47	4	15	“The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, toward the sea, across the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles—
 Matthew	Mt	47	4	16	the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and for those who sat in the region and shadow of death light has dawned.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	4	17	From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	4	18	As he walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.
 Matthew	Mt	47	4	19	And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	4	20	Immediately they left their nets and followed him.
 Matthew	Mt	47	4	21	And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them.
 Matthew	Mt	47	4	22	Immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed him.
 Matthew	Mt	47	4	23	And he went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every infirmity among the people.
 Matthew	Mt	47	4	24	So his fame spread throughout all Syria, and they brought him all the sick, those afflicted with various diseases and pains, demoniacs, epileptics, and paralytics, and he healed them.
 Matthew	Mt	47	4	25	And great crowds followed him from Galilee and the Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and from beyond the Jordan.
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	1	Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down his disciples came to him.
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	2	And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	3	“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	4	“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	5	“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	6	“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	7	“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	8	“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	9	“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	10	“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	11	“Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	12	Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so men persecuted the prophets who were before you.
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	13	“You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trodden under foot by men.
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	14	“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid.
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	15	Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house.
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	16	Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	17	“Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfil them.
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	18	For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the law until all is accomplished.
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	19	Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	20	For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	21	“You have heard that it was said to the men of old, ‘You shall not kill; and whoever kills shall be liable to judgment.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	22	But I say to you that every one who is angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother shall be liable to the council, and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be liable to the hell of fire.
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	23	So if you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you,
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	24	leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	25	Make friends quickly with your accuser, while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison;
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	26	truly, I say to you, you will never get out till you have paid the last penny.
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	27	“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	28	But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	29	If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away; it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	30	And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away; it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	31	“It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	32	But I say to you that every one who divorces his wife, except on the ground of unchastity, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	33	“Again you have heard that it was said to the men of old, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	34	But I say to you, Do not swear at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God,
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	35	or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	36	And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black.
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	37	Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	38	“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	39	But I say to you, Do not resist one who is evil. But if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also;
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	40	and if any one would sue you and take your coat, let him have your cloak as well;
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	41	and if any one forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	42	Give to him who begs from you, and do not refuse him who would borrow from you.
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	43	“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	44	But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	45	so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	46	For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	47	And if you salute only your brethren, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?
 Matthew	Mt	47	5	48	You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
 Matthew	Mt	47	6	1	“Beware of practicing your piety before men in order to be seen by them; for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
 Matthew	Mt	47	6	2	“Thus, when you give alms, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by men. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
 Matthew	Mt	47	6	3	But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,
 Matthew	Mt	47	6	4	so that your alms may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
 Matthew	Mt	47	6	5	“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
 Matthew	Mt	47	6	6	But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
 Matthew	Mt	47	6	7	“And in praying do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their many words.
 Matthew	Mt	47	6	8	Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
 Matthew	Mt	47	6	9	Pray then like this: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
 Matthew	Mt	47	6	10	Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, On earth as it is in heaven.
 Matthew	Mt	47	6	11	Give us this day our daily bread;
 Matthew	Mt	47	6	12	And forgive us our debts, As we also have forgiven our debtors;
 Matthew	Mt	47	6	13	And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil.
 Matthew	Mt	47	6	14	For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father also will forgive you;
 Matthew	Mt	47	6	15	but if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
 Matthew	Mt	47	6	16	“And when you fast, do not look dismal, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
 Matthew	Mt	47	6	17	But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,
 Matthew	Mt	47	6	18	that your fasting may not be seen by men but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
 Matthew	Mt	47	6	19	“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal,
 Matthew	Mt	47	6	20	but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal.
 Matthew	Mt	47	6	21	For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
 Matthew	Mt	47	6	22	“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light;
 Matthew	Mt	47	6	23	but if your eye is not sound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
 Matthew	Mt	47	6	24	“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
 Matthew	Mt	47	6	25	“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
 Matthew	Mt	47	6	26	Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
 Matthew	Mt	47	6	27	And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his span of life?
 Matthew	Mt	47	6	28	And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin;
 Matthew	Mt	47	6	29	yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
 Matthew	Mt	47	6	30	But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O men of little faith?
 Matthew	Mt	47	6	31	Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
 Matthew	Mt	47	6	32	For the Gentiles seek all these things; and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
 Matthew	Mt	47	6	33	But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well.
 Matthew	Mt	47	6	34	“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.
 Matthew	Mt	47	7	1	“Judge not, that you be not judged.
 Matthew	Mt	47	7	2	For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get.
 Matthew	Mt	47	7	3	Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?
 Matthew	Mt	47	7	4	Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye?
 Matthew	Mt	47	7	5	You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.
 Matthew	Mt	47	7	6	“Do not give dogs what is holy; and do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under foot and turn to attack you.
 Matthew	Mt	47	7	7	“Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
 Matthew	Mt	47	7	8	For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
 Matthew	Mt	47	7	9	Or what man of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
 Matthew	Mt	47	7	10	Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent?
 Matthew	Mt	47	7	11	If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
 Matthew	Mt	47	7	12	So whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
 Matthew	Mt	47	7	13	“Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is easy, that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.
 Matthew	Mt	47	7	14	For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
 Matthew	Mt	47	7	15	“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
 Matthew	Mt	47	7	16	You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles?
 Matthew	Mt	47	7	17	So, every sound tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears evil fruit.
 Matthew	Mt	47	7	18	A sound tree cannot bear evil fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.
 Matthew	Mt	47	7	19	Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
 Matthew	Mt	47	7	20	Thus you will know them by their fruits.
 Matthew	Mt	47	7	21	“Not every one who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
 Matthew	Mt	47	7	22	On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’
 Matthew	Mt	47	7	23	And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you evildoers.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	7	24	“Every one then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house upon the rock;
 Matthew	Mt	47	7	25	and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.
 Matthew	Mt	47	7	26	And every one who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand;
 Matthew	Mt	47	7	27	and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell; and great was the fall of it.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	7	28	And when Jesus finished these sayings, the crowds were astonished at his teaching,
 Matthew	Mt	47	7	29	for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.
 Matthew	Mt	47	8	1	When he came down from the mountain, great crowds followed him;
 Matthew	Mt	47	8	2	and behold, a leper came to him and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	8	3	And he stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
 Matthew	Mt	47	8	4	And Jesus said to him, “See that you say nothing to any one; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a proof to the people.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	8	5	As he entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, beseeching him
 Matthew	Mt	47	8	6	and saying, “Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, in terrible distress.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	8	7	And he said to him, “I will come and heal him.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	8	8	But the centurion answered him, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof; but only say the word, and my servant will be healed.
 Matthew	Mt	47	8	9	For I am a man under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	8	10	When Jesus heard him, he marveled, and said to those who followed him, “Truly, I say to you, not even in Israel have I found such faith.
 Matthew	Mt	47	8	11	I tell you, many will come from east and west and sit at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven,
 Matthew	Mt	47	8	12	while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	8	13	And to the centurion Jesus said, “Go; be it done for you as you have believed.” And the servant was healed at that very moment.
 Matthew	Mt	47	8	14	And when Jesus entered Peter’s house, he saw his mother-in-law lying sick with a fever;
 Matthew	Mt	47	8	15	he touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she rose and served him.
 Matthew	Mt	47	8	16	That evening they brought to him many who were possessed with demons; and he cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick.
 Matthew	Mt	47	8	17	This was to fulfil what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah, “He took our infirmities and bore our diseases.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	8	18	Now when Jesus saw great crowds around him, he gave orders to go over to the other side.
 Matthew	Mt	47	8	19	And a scribe came up and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	8	20	And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	8	21	Another of the disciples said to him, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	8	22	But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	8	23	And when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him.
 Matthew	Mt	47	8	24	And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep.
 Matthew	Mt	47	8	25	And they went and woke him, saying, “Save us, Lord; we are perishing.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	8	26	And he said to them, “Why are you afraid, O men of little faith?” Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
 Matthew	Mt	47	8	27	And the men marveled, saying, “What sort of man is this, that even winds and sea obey him?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	8	28	And when he came to the other side, to the country of the Gadarenes, two demoniacs met him, coming out of the tombs, so fierce that no one could pass that way.
 Matthew	Mt	47	8	29	And behold, they cried out, “What have you to do with us, O Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	8	30	Now a herd of many swine was feeding at some distance from them.
 Matthew	Mt	47	8	31	And the demons begged him, “If you cast us out, send us away into the herd of swine.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	8	32	And he said to them, “Go.” So they came out and went into the swine; and behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and perished in the waters.
 Matthew	Mt	47	8	33	The herdsmen fled, and going into the city they told everything, and what had happened to the demoniacs.
 Matthew	Mt	47	8	34	And behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus; and when they saw him, they begged him to leave their neighborhood.
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	1	And getting into a boat he crossed over and came to his own city.
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	2	And behold, they brought to him a paralytic, lying on his bed; and when Jesus saw their faith he said to the paralytic, “Take heart, my son; your sins are forgiven.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	3	And behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man is blaspheming.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	4	But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	5	For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk’?
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	6	But that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he then said to the paralytic—“Rise, take up your bed and go home.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	7	And he rose and went home.
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	8	When the crowds saw it, they were afraid, and they glorified God, who had given such authority to men.
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	9	As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax office; and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him.
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	10	And as he sat at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	11	And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	12	But when he heard it, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	13	Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	14	Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	15	And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come, when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	16	And no one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch tears away from the garment, and a worse tear is made.
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	17	Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; if it is, the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are destroyed; but new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	18	While he was thus speaking to them, behold, a ruler came in and knelt before him, saying, “My daughter has just died; but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	19	And Jesus rose and followed him, with his disciples.
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	20	And behold, a woman who had suffered from a hemorrhage for twelve years came up behind him and touched the fringe of his garment;
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	21	for she said to herself, “If I only touch his garment, I shall be made well.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	22	Jesus turned, and seeing her he said, “Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well.” And instantly the woman was made well.
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	23	And when Jesus came to the ruler’s house, and saw the flute players, and the crowd making a tumult,
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	24	he said, “Depart; for the girl is not dead but sleeping.” And they laughed at him.
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	25	But when the crowd had been put outside, he went in and took her by the hand, and the girl arose.
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	26	And the report of this went through all that district.
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	27	And as Jesus passed on from there, two blind men followed him, crying aloud, “Have mercy on us, Son of David.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	28	When he entered the house, the blind men came to him; and Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They said to him, “Yes, Lord.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	29	Then he touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith be it done to you.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	30	And their eyes were opened. And Jesus sternly charged them, “See that no one knows it.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	31	But they went away and spread his fame through all that district.
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	32	As they were going away, behold, a dumb demoniac was brought to him.
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	33	And when the demon had been cast out, the dumb man spoke; and the crowds marveled, saying, “Never was anything like this seen in Israel.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	34	But the Pharisees said, “He casts out demons by the prince of demons.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	35	And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every infirmity.
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	36	When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	37	Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few;
 Matthew	Mt	47	9	38	pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	1	And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every infirmity.
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	2	The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	3	Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	4	Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	5	These twelve Jesus sent out, charging them, “Go nowhere among the Gentiles, and enter no town of the Samaritans,
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	6	but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	7	And preach as you go, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	8	Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying, give without pay.
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	9	Take no gold, nor silver, nor copper in your belts,
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	10	no bag for your journey, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor a staff; for the laborer deserves his food.
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	11	And whatever town or village you enter, find out who is worthy in it, and stay with him until you depart.
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	12	As you enter the house, salute it.
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	13	And if the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it; but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	14	And if any one will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet as you leave that house or town.
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	15	Truly, I say to you, it shall be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	16	“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	17	Beware of men; for they will deliver you up to councils, and flog you in their synagogues,
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	18	and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear testimony before them and the Gentiles.
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	19	When they deliver you up, do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say; for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour;
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	20	for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	21	Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death;
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	22	and you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	23	When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next; for truly, I say to you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel, before the Son of man comes.
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	24	“A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master;
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	25	it is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Be-elzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household.
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	26	“So have no fear of them; for nothing is covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	27	What I tell you in the dark, utter in the light; and what you hear whispered, proclaim upon the housetops.
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	28	And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	29	Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father’s will.
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	30	But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	31	Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	32	So every one who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven;
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	33	but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	34	“Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	35	For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	36	and a man’s foes will be those of his own household.
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	37	He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	38	and he who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	39	He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	40	“He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	41	He who receives a prophet because he is a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward, and he who receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward.
 Matthew	Mt	47	10	42	And whoever gives to one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	11	1	And when Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and preach in their cities.
 Matthew	Mt	47	11	2	Now when John heard in prison about the deeds of the Christ, he sent word by his disciples
 Matthew	Mt	47	11	3	and said to him, “Are you he who is to come, or shall we look for another?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	11	4	And Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John what you hear and see:
 Matthew	Mt	47	11	5	the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
 Matthew	Mt	47	11	6	And blessed is he who takes no offense at me.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	11	7	As they went away, Jesus began to speak to the crowds concerning John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to behold? A reed shaken by the wind?
 Matthew	Mt	47	11	8	Why then did you go out? To see a man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, those who wear soft raiment are in kings’ houses.
 Matthew	Mt	47	11	9	Why then did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.
 Matthew	Mt	47	11	10	This is he of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	11	11	Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist; yet he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
 Matthew	Mt	47	11	12	From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and men of violence take it by force.
 Matthew	Mt	47	11	13	For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John;
 Matthew	Mt	47	11	14	and if you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah who is to come.
 Matthew	Mt	47	11	15	He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
 Matthew	Mt	47	11	16	“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market places and calling to their playmates,
 Matthew	Mt	47	11	17	‘We piped to you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	11	18	For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon’;
 Matthew	Mt	47	11	19	the Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	11	20	Then he began to upbraid the cities where most of his mighty works had been done, because they did not repent.
 Matthew	Mt	47	11	21	“Woe to you, Chorazin! woe to you, Beth-saida! for if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
 Matthew	Mt	47	11	22	But I tell you, it shall be more tolerable on the day of judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you.
 Matthew	Mt	47	11	23	And you, Caperna-um, will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
 Matthew	Mt	47	11	24	But I tell you that it shall be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom than for you.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	11	25	At that time Jesus declared, “I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes;
 Matthew	Mt	47	11	26	yea, Father, for such was thy gracious will.
 Matthew	Mt	47	11	27	All things have been delivered to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
 Matthew	Mt	47	11	28	Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
 Matthew	Mt	47	11	29	Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
 Matthew	Mt	47	11	30	For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	1	At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the sabbath; his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	2	But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the sabbath.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	3	He said to them, “Have you not read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him:
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	4	how he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	5	Or have you not read in the law how on the sabbath the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are guiltless?
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	6	I tell you, something greater than the temple is here.
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	7	And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless.
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	8	For the Son of man is lord of the sabbath.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	9	And he went on from there, and entered their synagogue.
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	10	And behold, there was a man with a withered hand. And they asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath?” so that they might accuse him.
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	11	He said to them, “What man of you, if he has one sheep and it falls into a pit on the sabbath, will not lay hold of it and lift it out?
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	12	Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the sabbath.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	13	Then he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And the man stretched it out, and it was restored, whole like the other.
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	14	But the Pharisees went out and took counsel against him, how to destroy him.
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	15	Jesus, aware of this, withdrew from there. And many followed him, and he healed them all,
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	16	and ordered them not to make him known.
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	17	This was to fulfil what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah:
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	18	“Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he shall proclaim justice to the Gentiles.
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	19	He will not wrangle or cry aloud, nor will any one hear his voice in the streets;
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	20	he will not break a bruised reed or quench a smoldering wick, till he brings justice to victory;
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	21	and in his name will the Gentiles hope.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	22	Then a blind and dumb demoniac was brought to him, and he healed him, so that the dumb man spoke and saw.
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	23	And all the people were amazed, and said, “Can this be the Son of David?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	24	But when the Pharisees heard it they said, “It is only by Be-elzebul, the prince of demons, that this man casts out demons.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	25	Knowing their thoughts, he said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand;
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	26	and if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then will his kingdom stand?
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	27	And if I cast out demons by Be-elzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges.
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	28	But if it is by the Spirit of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	29	Or how can one enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? Then indeed he may plunder his house.
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	30	He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	31	Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	32	And whoever says a word against the Son of man will be forgiven; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	33	“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for the tree is known by its fruit.
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	34	You brood of vipers! how can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	35	The good man out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	36	I tell you, on the day of judgment men will render account for every careless word they utter;
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	37	for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	38	Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to him, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	39	But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign; but no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	40	For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	41	The men of Nineveh will arise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	42	The queen of the South will arise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	43	“When the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through waterless places seeking rest, but he finds none.
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	44	Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes he finds it empty, swept, and put in order.
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	45	Then he goes and brings with him seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. So shall it be also with this evil generation.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	46	While he was still speaking to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood outside, asking to speak to him.
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	48	But he replied to the man who told him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brethren?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	49	And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brethren!
 Matthew	Mt	47	12	50	For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother, and sister, and mother.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	1	That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea.
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	2	And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat there; and the whole crowd stood on the beach.
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	3	And he told them many things in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow.
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	4	And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them.
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	5	Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they had not much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil,
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	6	but when the sun rose they were scorched; and since they had no root they withered away.
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	7	Other seeds fell upon thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them.
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	8	Other seeds fell on good soil and brought forth grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	9	He who has ears, let him hear.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	10	Then the disciples came and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	11	And he answered them, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	12	For to him who has will more be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	13	This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	14	With them indeed is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah which says: ‘You shall indeed hear but never understand, and you shall indeed see but never perceive.
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	15	For this people’s heart has grown dull, and their ears are heavy of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should perceive with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn for me to heal them.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	16	But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear.
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	17	Truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	18	“Hear then the parable of the sower.
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	19	When any one hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what is sown in his heart; this is what was sown along the path.
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	20	As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy;
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	21	yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately he falls away.
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	22	As for what was sown among thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the delight in riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	23	As for what was sown on good soil, this is he who hears the word and understands it; he indeed bears fruit, and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	24	Another parable he put before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field;
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	25	but while men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away.
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	26	So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also.
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	27	And the servants of the householder came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then has it weeds?’
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	28	He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Then do you want us to go and gather them?’
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	29	But he said, ‘No; lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them.
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	30	Let both grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.’”
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	31	Another parable he put before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field;
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	32	it is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	33	He told them another parable. “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	34	All this Jesus said to the crowds in parables; indeed he said nothing to them without a parable.
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	35	This was to fulfil what was spoken by the prophet: “I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter what has been hidden since the foundation of the world.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	36	Then he left the crowds and went into the house. And his disciples came to him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds of the field.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	37	He answered, “He who sows the good seed is the Son of man;
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	38	the field is the world, and the good seed means the sons of the kingdom; the weeds are the sons of the evil one,
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	39	and the enemy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the close of the age, and the reapers are angels.
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	40	Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at the close of the age.
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	41	The Son of man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all evildoers,
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	42	and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	43	Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	44	“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	45	“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls,
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	46	who, on finding one pearl of great value, went and sold all that he had and bought it.
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	47	“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net which was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind;
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	48	when it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into vessels but threw away the bad.
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	49	So it will be at the close of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous,
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	50	and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	51	“Have you understood all this?” They said to him, “Yes.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	52	And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	53	And when Jesus had finished these parables, he went away from there,
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	54	and coming to his own country he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom and these mighty works?
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	55	Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brethren James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	56	And are not all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all this?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	57	And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	13	58	And he did not do many mighty works there, because of their unbelief.
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	1	At that time Herod the tetrarch heard about the fame of Jesus;
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	2	and he said to his servants, “This is John the Baptist, he has been raised from the dead; that is why these powers are at work in him.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	3	For Herod had seized John and bound him and put him in prison, for the sake of Herodi-as, his brother Philip’s wife;
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	4	because John said to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	5	And though he wanted to put him to death, he feared the people, because they held him to be a prophet.
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	6	But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced before the company, and pleased Herod,
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	7	so that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she might ask.
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	8	Prompted by her mother, she said, “Give me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	9	And the king was sorry; but because of his oaths and his guests he commanded it to be given;
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	10	he sent and had John beheaded in the prison,
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	11	and his head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother.
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	12	And his disciples came and took the body and buried it; and they went and told Jesus.
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	13	Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a lonely place apart. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns.
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	14	As he went ashore he saw a great throng; and he had compassion on them, and healed their sick.
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	15	When it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a lonely place, and the day is now over; send the crowds away to go into the villages and buy food for themselves.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	16	Jesus said, “They need not go away; you give them something to eat.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	17	They said to him, “We have only five loaves here and two fish.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	18	And he said, “Bring them here to me.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	19	Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass; and taking the five loaves and the two fish he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	20	And they all ate and were satisfied. And they took up twelve baskets full of the broken pieces left over.
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	21	And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	22	Then he made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds.
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	23	And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone,
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	24	but the boat by this time was many furlongs distant from the land, beaten by the waves; for the wind was against them.
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	25	And in the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea.
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	26	But when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified, saying, “It is a ghost!” And they cried out for fear.
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	27	But immediately he spoke to them, saying, “Take heart, it is I; have no fear.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	28	And Peter answered him, “Lord, if it is you, bid me come to you on the water.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	29	He said, “Come.” So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus;
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	30	but when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, “Lord, save me.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	31	Jesus immediately reached out his hand and caught him, saying to him, “O man of little faith, why did you doubt?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	32	And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased.
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	33	And those in the boat worshiped him, saying, “Truly you are the Son of God.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	34	And when they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret.
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	35	And when the men of that place recognized him, they sent round to all that region and brought to him all that were sick,
 Matthew	Mt	47	14	36	and besought him that they might only touch the fringe of his garment; and as many as touched it were made well.
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	1	Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said,
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	2	“Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	3	He answered them, “And why do you transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	4	For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	5	But you say, ‘If any one tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is given to God, he need not honor his father.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	6	So, for the sake of your tradition, you have made void the word of God.
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	7	You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said:
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	8	‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	9	in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.’”
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	10	And he called the people to him and said to them, “Hear and understand:
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	11	not what goes into the mouth defiles a man, but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	12	Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	13	He answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up.
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	14	Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	15	But Peter said to him, “Explain the parable to us.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	16	And he said, “Are you also still without understanding?
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	17	Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and so passes on?
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	18	But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a man.
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	19	For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander.
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	20	These are what defile a man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	21	And Jesus went away from there and withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon.
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	22	And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and cried, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely possessed by a demon.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	23	But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away, for she is crying after us.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	24	He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	25	But she came and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, help me.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	26	And he answered, “It is not fair to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	27	She said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	28	Then Jesus answered her, “O woman, great is your faith! Be it done for you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed instantly.
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	29	And Jesus went on from there and passed along the Sea of Galilee. And he went up on the mountain, and sat down there.
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	30	And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the maimed, the blind, the dumb, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them,
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	31	so that the throng wondered, when they saw the dumb speaking, the maimed whole, the lame walking, and the blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel.
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	32	Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now three days, and have nothing to eat; and I am unwilling to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	33	And the disciples said to him, “Where are we to get bread enough in the desert to feed so great a crowd?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	34	And Jesus said to them, “How many loaves have you?” They said, “Seven, and a few small fish.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	35	And commanding the crowd to sit down on the ground,
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	36	he took the seven loaves and the fish, and having given thanks he broke them and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	37	And they all ate and were satisfied; and they took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces left over.
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	38	Those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.
 Matthew	Mt	47	15	39	And sending away the crowds, he got into the boat and went to the region of Magadan.
 Matthew	Mt	47	16	1	And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to test him they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.
 Matthew	Mt	47	16	2	He answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather; for the sky is red.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	16	3	And in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.
 Matthew	Mt	47	16	4	An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign shall be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” So he left them and departed.
 Matthew	Mt	47	16	5	When the disciples reached the other side, they had forgotten to bring any bread.
 Matthew	Mt	47	16	6	Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	16	7	And they discussed it among themselves, saying, “We brought no bread.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	16	8	But Jesus, aware of this, said, “O men of little faith, why do you discuss among yourselves the fact that you have no bread?
 Matthew	Mt	47	16	9	Do you not yet perceive? Do you not remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets you gathered?
 Matthew	Mt	47	16	10	Or the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets you gathered?
 Matthew	Mt	47	16	11	How is it that you fail to perceive that I did not speak about bread? Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	16	12	Then they understood that he did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
 Matthew	Mt	47	16	13	Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do men say that the Son of man is?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	16	14	And they said, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	16	15	He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	16	16	Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	16	17	And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jona! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
 Matthew	Mt	47	16	18	And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it.
 Matthew	Mt	47	16	19	I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	16	20	Then he strictly charged the disciples to tell no one that he was the Christ.
 Matthew	Mt	47	16	21	From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.
 Matthew	Mt	47	16	22	And Peter took him and began to rebuke him, saying, “God forbid, Lord! This shall never happen to you.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	16	23	But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me; for you are not on the side of God, but of men.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	16	24	Then Jesus told his disciples, “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
 Matthew	Mt	47	16	25	For whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
 Matthew	Mt	47	16	26	For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give in return for his life?
 Matthew	Mt	47	16	27	For the Son of man is to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay every man for what he has done.
 Matthew	Mt	47	16	28	Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	17	1	And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain apart.
 Matthew	Mt	47	17	2	And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his garments became white as light.
 Matthew	Mt	47	17	3	And behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, talking with him.
 Matthew	Mt	47	17	4	And Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is well that we are here; if you wish, I will make three booths here, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	17	5	He was still speaking, when lo, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	17	6	When the disciples heard this, they fell on their faces, and were filled with awe.
 Matthew	Mt	47	17	7	But Jesus came and touched them, saying, “Rise, and have no fear.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	17	8	And when they lifted up their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus only.
 Matthew	Mt	47	17	9	And as they were coming down the mountain, Jesus commanded them, “Tell no one the vision, until the Son of man is raised from the dead.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	17	10	And the disciples asked him, “Then why do the scribes say that first Elijah must come?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	17	11	He replied, “Elijah does come, and he is to restore all things;
 Matthew	Mt	47	17	12	but I tell you that Elijah has already come, and they did not know him, but did to him whatever they pleased. So also the Son of man will suffer at their hands.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	17	13	Then the disciples understood that he was speaking to them of John the Baptist.
 Matthew	Mt	47	17	14	And when they came to the crowd, a man came up to him and kneeling before him said,
 Matthew	Mt	47	17	15	“Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and he suffers terribly; for often he falls into the fire, and often into the water.
 Matthew	Mt	47	17	16	And I brought him to your disciples, and they could not heal him.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	17	17	And Jesus answered, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	17	18	And Jesus rebuked him, and the demon came out of him, and the boy was cured instantly.
 Matthew	Mt	47	17	19	Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	17	20	He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	17	22	As they were gathering in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of man is to be delivered into the hands of men,
 Matthew	Mt	47	17	23	and they will kill him, and he will be raised on the third day.” And they were greatly distressed.
 Matthew	Mt	47	17	24	When they came to Caperna-um, the collectors of the half-shekel tax went up to Peter and said, “Does not your teacher pay the tax?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	17	25	He said, “Yes.” And when he came home, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do kings of the earth take toll or tribute? From their sons or from others?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	17	26	And when he said, “From others,” Jesus said to him, “Then the sons are free.
 Matthew	Mt	47	17	27	However, not to give offense to them, go to the sea and cast a hook, and take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth you will find a shekel; take that and give it to them for me and for yourself.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	18	1	At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	18	2	And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them,
 Matthew	Mt	47	18	3	and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
 Matthew	Mt	47	18	4	Whoever humbles himself like this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
 Matthew	Mt	47	18	5	“Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me;
 Matthew	Mt	47	18	6	but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened round his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.
 Matthew	Mt	47	18	7	“Woe to the world for temptations to sin! For it is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the man by whom the temptation comes!
 Matthew	Mt	47	18	8	And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away; it is better for you to enter life maimed or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire.
 Matthew	Mt	47	18	9	And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away; it is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire.
 Matthew	Mt	47	18	10	“See that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I tell you that in heaven their angels always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven.
 Matthew	Mt	47	18	12	What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray?
 Matthew	Mt	47	18	13	And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray.
 Matthew	Mt	47	18	14	So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
 Matthew	Mt	47	18	15	“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.
 Matthew	Mt	47	18	16	But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every word may be confirmed by the evidence of two or three witnesses.
 Matthew	Mt	47	18	17	If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
 Matthew	Mt	47	18	18	Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
 Matthew	Mt	47	18	19	Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.
 Matthew	Mt	47	18	20	For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	18	21	Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	18	22	Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven.
 Matthew	Mt	47	18	23	“Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants.
 Matthew	Mt	47	18	24	When he began the reckoning, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents;
 Matthew	Mt	47	18	25	and as he could not pay, his lord ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.
 Matthew	Mt	47	18	26	So the servant fell on his knees, imploring him, ‘Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay you everything.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	18	27	And out of pity for him the lord of that servant released him and forgave him the debt.
 Matthew	Mt	47	18	28	But that same servant, as he went out, came upon one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii; and seizing him by the throat he said, ‘Pay what you owe.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	18	29	So his fellow servant fell down and besought him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	18	30	He refused and went and put him in prison till he should pay the debt.
 Matthew	Mt	47	18	31	When his fellow servants saw what had taken place, they were greatly distressed, and they went and reported to their lord all that had taken place.
 Matthew	Mt	47	18	32	Then his lord summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you besought me;
 Matthew	Mt	47	18	33	and should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you?’
 Matthew	Mt	47	18	34	And in anger his lord delivered him to the jailers, till he should pay all his debt.
 Matthew	Mt	47	18	35	So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	19	1	Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan;
 Matthew	Mt	47	19	2	and large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.
 Matthew	Mt	47	19	3	And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	19	4	He answered, “Have you not read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
 Matthew	Mt	47	19	5	and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?
 Matthew	Mt	47	19	6	So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	19	7	They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	19	8	He said to them, “For your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
 Matthew	Mt	47	19	9	And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for unchastity, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries a divorced woman, commits adultery.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	19	10	The disciples said to him, “If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	19	11	But he said to them, “Not all men can receive this saying, but only those to whom it is given.
 Matthew	Mt	47	19	12	For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to receive this, let him receive it.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	19	13	Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked the people;
 Matthew	Mt	47	19	14	but Jesus said, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them; for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	19	15	And he laid his hands on them and went away.
 Matthew	Mt	47	19	16	And behold, one came up to him, saying, “Teacher, what good deed must I do, to have eternal life?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	19	17	And he said to him, “Why do you ask me about what is good? One there is who is good. If you would enter life, keep the commandments.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	19	18	He said to him, “Which?” And Jesus said, “You shall not kill, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness,
 Matthew	Mt	47	19	19	Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	19	20	The young man said to him, “All these I have observed; what do I still lack?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	19	21	Jesus said to him, “If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	19	22	When the young man heard this he went away sorrowful; for he had great possessions.
 Matthew	Mt	47	19	23	And Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly, I say to you, it will be hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
 Matthew	Mt	47	19	24	Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	19	25	When the disciples heard this they were greatly astonished, saying, “Who then can be saved?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	19	26	But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	19	27	Then Peter said in reply, “Lo, we have left everything and followed you. What then shall we have?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	19	28	Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, in the new world, when the Son of man shall sit on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
 Matthew	Mt	47	19	29	And every one who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.
 Matthew	Mt	47	19	30	But many that are first will be last, and the last first.
 Matthew	Mt	47	20	1	“For the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
 Matthew	Mt	47	20	2	After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
 Matthew	Mt	47	20	3	And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the market place;
 Matthew	Mt	47	20	4	and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went.
 Matthew	Mt	47	20	5	Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same.
 Matthew	Mt	47	20	6	And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing; and he said to them, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’
 Matthew	Mt	47	20	7	They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	20	8	And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his steward, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	20	9	And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius.
 Matthew	Mt	47	20	10	Now when the first came, they thought they would receive more; but each of them also received a denarius.
 Matthew	Mt	47	20	11	And on receiving it they grumbled at the householder,
 Matthew	Mt	47	20	12	saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	20	13	But he replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for a denarius?
 Matthew	Mt	47	20	14	Take what belongs to you, and go; I choose to give to this last as I give to you.
 Matthew	Mt	47	20	15	Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’
 Matthew	Mt	47	20	16	So the last will be first, and the first last.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	20	17	And as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them,
 Matthew	Mt	47	20	18	“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death,
 Matthew	Mt	47	20	19	and deliver him to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged and crucified, and he will be raised on the third day.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	20	20	Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came up to him, with her sons, and kneeling before him she asked him for something.
 Matthew	Mt	47	20	21	And he said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Command that these two sons of mine may sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your kingdom.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	20	22	But Jesus answered, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?” They said to him, “We are able.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	20	23	He said to them, “You will drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	20	24	And when the ten heard it, they were indignant at the two brothers.
 Matthew	Mt	47	20	25	But Jesus called them to him and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them.
 Matthew	Mt	47	20	26	It shall not be so among you; but whoever would be great among you must be your servant,
 Matthew	Mt	47	20	27	and whoever would be first among you must be your slave;
 Matthew	Mt	47	20	28	even as the Son of man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	20	29	And as they went out of Jericho, a great crowd followed him.
 Matthew	Mt	47	20	30	And behold, two blind men sitting by the roadside, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!”
 Matthew	Mt	47	20	31	The crowd rebuked them, telling them to be silent; but they cried out the more, “Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!”
 Matthew	Mt	47	20	32	And Jesus stopped and called them, saying, “What do you want me to do for you?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	20	33	They said to him, “Lord, let our eyes be opened.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	20	34	And Jesus in pity touched their eyes, and immediately they received their sight and followed him.
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	1	And when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	2	saying to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find an ass tied, and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to me.
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	3	If any one says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord has need of them,’ and he will send them immediately.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	4	This took place to fulfil what was spoken by the prophet, saying,
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	5	“Tell the daughter of Zion, Behold, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted on an ass, and on a colt, the foal of an ass.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	6	The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them;
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	7	they brought the ass and the colt, and put their garments on them, and he sat thereon.
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	8	Most of the crowd spread their garments on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	9	And the crowds that went before him and that followed him shouted, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	10	And when he entered Jerusalem, all the city was stirred, saying, “Who is this?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	11	And the crowds said, “This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth of Galilee.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	12	And Jesus entered the temple of God and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons.
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	13	He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer’; but you make it a den of robbers.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	14	And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	15	But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant;
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	16	and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast brought perfect praise’?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	17	And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany and lodged there.
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	18	In the morning, as he was returning to the city, he was hungry.
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	19	And seeing a fig tree by the wayside he went to it, and found nothing on it but leaves only. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And the fig tree withered at once.
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	20	When the disciples saw it they marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree wither at once?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	21	And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and never doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it will be done.
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	22	And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	23	And when he entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching, and said, “By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	24	Jesus answered them, “I also will ask you a question; and if you tell me the answer, then I also will tell you by what authority I do these things.
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	25	The baptism of John, whence was it? From heaven or from men?” And they argued with one another, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say to us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	26	But if we say, ‘From men,’ we are afraid of the multitude; for all hold that John was a prophet.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	27	So they answered Jesus, “We do not know.” And he said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	28	“What do you think? A man had two sons; and he went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	29	And he answered, ‘I will not’; but afterward he repented and went.
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	30	And he went to the second and said the same; and he answered, ‘I go, sir,’ but did not go.
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	31	Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, the tax collectors and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	32	For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the harlots believed him; and even when you saw it, you did not afterward repent and believe him.
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	33	“Hear another parable. There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants, and went into another country.
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	34	When the season of fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants, to get his fruit;
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	35	and the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	36	Again he sent other servants, more than the first; and they did the same to them.
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	37	Afterward he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	38	But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	39	And they took him and cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	40	When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	41	They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death, and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	42	Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the scriptures: ‘The very stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	43	Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a nation producing the fruits of it.
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	44	And he who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; but when it falls on any one, it will crush him.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	45	When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he was speaking about them.
 Matthew	Mt	47	21	46	But when they tried to arrest him, they feared the multitudes, because they held him to be a prophet.
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	1	And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying,
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	2	“The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a marriage feast for his son,
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	3	and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast; but they would not come.
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	4	Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, Behold, I have made ready my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves are killed, and everything is ready; come to the marriage feast.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	5	But they made light of it and went off, one to his farm, another to his business,
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	6	while the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them.
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	7	The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	8	Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those invited were not worthy.
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	9	Go therefore to the thoroughfares, and invite to the marriage feast as many as you find.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	10	And those servants went out into the streets and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good; so the wedding hall was filled with guests.
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	11	“But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment;
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	12	and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless.
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	13	Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, and cast him into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	14	For many are called, but few are chosen.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	15	Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how to entangle him in his talk.
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	16	And they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodi-ans, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are true, and teach the way of God truthfully, and care for no man; for you do not regard the position of men.
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	17	Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	18	But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, “Why put me to the test, you hypocrites?
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	19	Show me the money for the tax.” And they brought him a coin.
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	20	And Jesus said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	21	They said, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	22	When they heard it, they marveled; and they left him and went away.
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	23	The same day Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection; and they asked him a question,
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	24	saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies, having no children, his brother must marry the widow, and raise up children for his brother.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	25	Now there were seven brothers among us; the first married, and died, and having no children left his wife to his brother.
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	26	So too the second and third, down to the seventh.
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	27	After them all, the woman died.
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	28	In the resurrection, therefore, to which of the seven will she be wife? For they all had her.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	29	But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God.
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	30	For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	31	And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God,
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	32	‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	33	And when the crowd heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	34	But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they came together.
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	35	And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, to test him.
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	36	“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	37	And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	38	This is the great and first commandment.
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	39	And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	40	On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	41	Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question,
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	42	saying, “What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “The son of David.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	43	He said to them, “How is it then that David, inspired by the Spirit, calls him Lord, saying,
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	44	‘The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, till I put thy enemies under thy feet’?
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	45	If David thus calls him Lord, how is he his son?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	22	46	And no one was able to answer him a word, nor from that day did any one dare to ask him any more questions.
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	1	Then said Jesus to the crowds and to his disciples,
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	2	“The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat;
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	3	so practice and observe whatever they tell you, but not what they do; for they preach, but do not practice.
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	4	They bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger.
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	5	They do all their deeds to be seen by men; for they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long,
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	6	and they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues,
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	7	and salutations in the market places, and being called rabbi by men.
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	8	But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brethren.
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	9	And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	10	Neither be called masters, for you have one master, the Christ.
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	11	He who is greatest among you shall be your servant;
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	12	whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	13	“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who would enter to go in.
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	15	Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you traverse sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	16	“Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘If any one swears by the temple, it is nothing; but if any one swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	17	You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that has made the gold sacred?
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	18	And you say, ‘If any one swears by the altar, it is nothing; but if any one swears by the gift that is on the altar, he is bound by his oath.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	19	You blind men! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	20	So he who swears by the altar, swears by it and by everything on it;
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	21	and he who swears by the temple, swears by it and by him who dwells in it;
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	22	and he who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God and by him who sits upon it.
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	23	“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faith; these you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	24	You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	25	“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you cleanse the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of extortion and rapacity.
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	26	You blind Pharisee! first cleanse the inside of the cup and of the plate, that the outside also may be clean.
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	27	“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	28	So you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	29	“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous,
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	30	saying, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	31	Thus you witness against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	32	Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	33	You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	34	Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from town to town,
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	35	that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of innocent Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	36	Truly, I say to you, all this will come upon this generation.
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	37	“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not!
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	38	Behold, your house is forsaken and desolate.
 Matthew	Mt	47	23	39	For I tell you, you will not see me again, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’”
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	1	Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	2	But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another, that will not be thrown down.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	3	As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will this be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	4	And Jesus answered them, “Take heed that no one leads you astray.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	5	For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	6	And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not alarmed; for this must take place, but the end is not yet.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	7	For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places:
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	8	all this is but the beginning of the birth-pangs.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	9	“Then they will deliver you up to tribulation, and put you to death; and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	10	And then many will fall away, and betray one another, and hate one another.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	11	And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	12	And because wickedness is multiplied, most men’s love will grow cold.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	13	But he who endures to the end will be saved.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	14	And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world, as a testimony to all nations; and then the end will come.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	15	“So when you see the desolating sacrilege spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	16	then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains;
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	17	let him who is on the housetop not go down to take what is in his house;
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	18	and let him who is in the field not turn back to take his mantle.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	19	And alas for those who are with child and for those who give suck in those days!
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	20	Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a sabbath.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	21	For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	22	And if those days had not been shortened, no human being would be saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	23	Then if any one says to you, ‘Lo, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There he is!’ do not believe it.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	24	For false Christs and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	25	Lo, I have told you beforehand.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	26	So, if they say to you, ‘Lo, he is in the wilderness,’ do not go out; if they say, ‘Lo, he is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	27	For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of man.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	28	Wherever the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	29	“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	30	then will appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory;
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	31	and he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	32	“From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	33	So also, when you see all these things, you know that he is near, at the very gates.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	34	Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away till all these things take place.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	35	Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	36	“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	37	As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of man.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	38	For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark,
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	39	and they did not know until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of man.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	40	Then two men will be in the field; one is taken and one is left.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	41	Two women will be grinding at the mill; one is taken and one is left.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	42	Watch therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	43	But know this, that if the householder had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched and would not have let his house be broken into.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	44	Therefore you also must be ready; for the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	45	“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time?
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	46	Blessed is that servant whom his master when he comes will find so doing.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	47	Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions.
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	48	But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed,’
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	49	and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eats and drinks with the drunken,
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	50	the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know,
 Matthew	Mt	47	24	51	and will punish him, and put him with the hypocrites; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	1	“Then the kingdom of heaven shall be compared to ten maidens who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom.
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	2	Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	3	For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them;
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	4	but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps.
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	5	As the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept.
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	6	But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	7	Then all those maidens rose and trimmed their lamps.
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	8	And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	9	But the wise replied, ‘Perhaps there will not be enough for us and for you; go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	10	And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast; and the door was shut.
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	11	Afterward the other maidens came also, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open to us.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	12	But he replied, ‘Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	13	Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	14	“For it will be as when a man going on a journey called his servants and entrusted to them his property;
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	15	to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away.
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	16	He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them; and he made five talents more.
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	17	So also, he who had the two talents made two talents more.
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	18	But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master’s money.
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	19	Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them.
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	20	And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here I have made five talents more.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	21	His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a little, I will set you over much; enter into the joy of your master.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	22	And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here I have made two talents more.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	23	His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a little, I will set you over much; enter into the joy of your master.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	24	He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not winnow;
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	25	so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	26	But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sowed, and gather where I have not winnowed?
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	27	Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest.
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	28	So take the talent from him, and give it to him who has the ten talents.
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	29	For to every one who has will more be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	30	And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	31	“When the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	32	Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate them one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats,
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	33	and he will place the sheep at his right hand, but the goats at the left.
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	34	Then the King will say to those at his right hand, ‘Come, O blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	35	for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	36	I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	37	Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see thee hungry and feed thee, or thirsty and give thee drink?
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	38	And when did we see thee a stranger and welcome thee, or naked and clothe thee?
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	39	And when did we see thee sick or in prison and visit thee?’
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	40	And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	41	Then he will say to those at his left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels;
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	42	for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink,
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	43	I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	44	Then they also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see thee hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to thee?’
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	45	Then he will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	25	46	And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	1	When Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples,
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	2	“You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of man will be delivered up to be crucified.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	3	Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	4	and took counsel together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	5	But they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be a tumult among the people.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	6	Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	7	a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head, as he sat at table.
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	8	But when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste?
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	9	For this ointment might have been sold for a large sum, and given to the poor.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	10	But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me.
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	11	For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	12	In pouring this ointment on my body she has done it to prepare me for burial.
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	13	Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	14	Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	15	and said, “What will you give me if I deliver him to you?” And they paid him thirty pieces of silver.
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	16	And from that moment he sought an opportunity to betray him.
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	17	Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Where will you have us prepare for you to eat the passover?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	18	He said, “Go into the city to a certain one, and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at your house with my disciples.’”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	19	And the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the passover.
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	20	When it was evening, he sat at table with the twelve disciples;
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	21	and as they were eating, he said, “Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	22	And they were very sorrowful, and began to say to him one after another, “Is it I, Lord?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	23	He answered, “He who has dipped his hand in the dish with me, will betray me.
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	24	The Son of man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	25	Judas, who betrayed him, said, “Is it I, Master?” He said to him, “You have said so.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	26	Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	27	And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you;
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	28	for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	29	I tell you I shall not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	30	And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	31	Then Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away because of me this night; for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	32	But after I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	33	Peter declared to him, “Though they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	34	Jesus said to him, “Truly, I say to you, this very night, before the cock crows, you will deny me three times.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	35	Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you.” And so said all the disciples.
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	36	Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I go yonder and pray.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	37	And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled.
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	38	Then he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	39	And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	40	And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping; and he said to Peter, “So, could you not watch with me one hour?
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	41	Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	42	Again, for the second time, he went away and prayed, “My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, thy will be done.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	43	And again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	44	So, leaving them again, he went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same words.
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	45	Then he came to the disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	46	Rise, let us be going; see, my betrayer is at hand.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	47	While he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a great crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the elders of the people.
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	48	Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I shall kiss is the man; seize him.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	49	And he came up to Jesus at once and said, “Hail, Master!” And he kissed him.
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	50	Jesus said to him, “Friend, why are you here?” Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and seized him.
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	51	And behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword, and struck the slave of the high priest, and cut off his ear.
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	52	Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place; for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	53	Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	54	But how then should the scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	55	At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to capture me? Day after day I sat in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me.
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	56	But all this has taken place, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples forsook him and fled.
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	57	Then those who had seized Jesus led him to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had gathered.
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	58	But Peter followed him at a distance, as far as the courtyard of the high priest, and going inside he sat with the guards to see the end.
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	59	Now the chief priests and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death,
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	60	but they found none, though many false witnesses came forward. At last two came forward
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	61	and said, “This fellow said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.’”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	62	And the high priest stood up and said, “Have you no answer to make? What is it that these men testify against you?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	63	But Jesus was silent. And the high priest said to him, “I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	64	Jesus said to him, “You have said so. But I tell you, hereafter you will see the Son of man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	65	Then the high priest tore his robes, and said, “He has uttered blasphemy. Why do we still need witnesses? You have now heard his blasphemy.
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	66	What is your judgment?” They answered, “He deserves death.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	67	Then they spat in his face, and struck him; and some slapped him,
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	68	saying, “Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who is it that struck you?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	69	Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. And a maid came up to him, and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	70	But he denied it before them all, saying, “I do not know what you mean.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	71	And when he went out to the porch, another maid saw him, and she said to the bystanders, “This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	72	And again he denied it with an oath, “I do not know the man.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	73	After a little while the bystanders came up and said to Peter, “Certainly you are also one of them, for your accent betrays you.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	74	Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, “I do not know the man.” And immediately the cock crowed.
 Matthew	Mt	47	26	75	And Peter remembered the saying of Jesus, “Before the cock crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went out and wept bitterly.
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	1	When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death;
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	2	and they bound him and led him away and delivered him to Pilate the governor.
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	3	When Judas, his betrayer, saw that he was condemned, he repented and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders,
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	4	saying, “I have sinned in betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us? See to it yourself.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	5	And throwing down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed; and he went and hanged himself.
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	6	But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, “It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since they are blood money.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	7	So they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in.
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	8	Therefore that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	9	Then was fulfilled what had been spoken by the prophet Jeremiah, saying, “And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him on whom a price had been set by some of the sons of Israel,
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	10	and they gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord directed me.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	11	Now Jesus stood before the governor; and the governor asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus said, “You have said so.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	12	But when he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he made no answer.
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	13	Then Pilate said to him, “Do you not hear how many things they testify against you?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	14	But he gave him no answer, not even to a single charge; so that the governor wondered greatly.
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	15	Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release for the crowd any one prisoner whom they wanted.
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	16	And they had then a notorious prisoner, called Barabbas.
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	17	So when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release for you, Barabbas or Jesus who is called Christ?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	18	For he knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered him up.
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	19	Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much over him today in a dream.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	20	Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the people to ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus.
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	21	The governor again said to them, “Which of the two do you want me to release for you?” And they said, “Barabbas.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	22	Pilate said to them, “Then what shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?” They all said, “Let him be crucified.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	23	And he said, “Why, what evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Let him be crucified.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	24	So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this righteous man’s blood; see to it yourselves.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	25	And all the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	26	Then he released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, delivered him to be crucified.
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	27	Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the praetorium, and they gathered the whole battalion before him.
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	28	And they stripped him and put a scarlet robe upon him,
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	29	and plaiting a crown of thorns they put it on his head, and put a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him they mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	30	And they spat upon him, and took the reed and struck him on the head.
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	31	And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe, and put his own clothes on him, and led him away to crucify him.
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	32	As they went out, they came upon a man of Cyrene, Simon by name; this man they compelled to carry his cross.
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	33	And when they came to a place called Golgotha (which means the place of a skull),
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	34	they offered him wine to drink, mingled with gall; but when he tasted it, he would not drink it.
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	35	And when they had crucified him, they divided his garments among them by casting lots;
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	36	then they sat down and kept watch over him there.
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	37	And over his head they put the charge against him, which read, “This is Jesus the King of the Jews.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	38	Then two robbers were crucified with him, one on the right and one on the left.
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	39	And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	40	and saying, “You who would destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	41	So also the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked him, saying,
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	42	“He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him.
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	43	He trusts in God; let God deliver him now, if he desires him; for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	44	And the robbers who were crucified with him also reviled him in the same way.
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	45	Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	46	And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lama sabach-thani?” that is, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	47	And some of the bystanders hearing it said, “This man is calling Elijah.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	48	And one of them at once ran and took a sponge, filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink.
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	49	But the others said, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to save him.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	50	And Jesus cried again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit.
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	51	And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom; and the earth shook, and the rocks were split;
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	52	the tombs also were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised,
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	53	and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many.
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	54	When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe, and said, “Truly this was the Son of God!”
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	55	There were also many women there, looking on from afar, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him;
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	56	among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	57	When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Jesus.
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	58	He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him.
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	59	And Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud,
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	60	and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn in the rock; and he rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, and departed.
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	61	Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there, sitting opposite the sepulchre.
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	62	Next day, that is, after the day of Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	63	and said, “Sir, we remember how that impostor said, while he was still alive, ‘After three days I will rise again.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	64	Therefore order the sepulchre to be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples go and steal him away, and tell the people, ‘He has risen from the dead,’ and the last fraud will be worse than the first.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	65	Pilate said to them, “You have a guard of soldiers; go, make it as secure as you can.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	27	66	So they went and made the sepulchre secure by sealing the stone and setting a guard.
 Matthew	Mt	47	28	1	Now after the sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the sepulchre.
 Matthew	Mt	47	28	2	And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone, and sat upon it.
 Matthew	Mt	47	28	3	His appearance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow.
 Matthew	Mt	47	28	4	And for fear of him the guards trembled and became like dead men.
 Matthew	Mt	47	28	5	But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid; for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified.
 Matthew	Mt	47	28	6	He is not here; for he has risen, as he said. Come, see the place where he lay.
 Matthew	Mt	47	28	7	Then go quickly and tell his disciples that he has risen from the dead, and behold, he is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him. Lo, I have told you.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	28	8	So they departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to tell his disciples.
 Matthew	Mt	47	28	9	And behold, Jesus met them and said, “Hail!” And they came up and took hold of his feet and worshiped him.
 Matthew	Mt	47	28	10	Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid; go and tell my brethren to go to Galilee, and there they will see me.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	28	11	While they were going, behold, some of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests all that had taken place.
 Matthew	Mt	47	28	12	And when they had assembled with the elders and taken counsel, they gave a sum of money to the soldiers
 Matthew	Mt	47	28	13	and said, “Tell people, ‘His disciples came by night and stole him away while we were asleep.’
 Matthew	Mt	47	28	14	And if this comes to the governor’s ears, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.”
 Matthew	Mt	47	28	15	So they took the money and did as they were directed; and this story has been spread among the Jews to this day.
 Matthew	Mt	47	28	16	Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them.
 Matthew	Mt	47	28	17	And when they saw him they worshiped him; but some doubted.
 Matthew	Mt	47	28	18	And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
 Matthew	Mt	47	28	19	Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
 Matthew	Mt	47	28	20	teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age.”
 Mark	Mk	48	1	1	The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
 Mark	Mk	48	1	2	As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way;
 Mark	Mk	48	1	3	the voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight—”
 Mark	Mk	48	1	4	John the baptizer appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
 Mark	Mk	48	1	5	And there went out to him all the country of Judea, and all the people of Jerusalem; and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.
 Mark	Mk	48	1	6	Now John was clothed with camel’s hair, and had a leather girdle around his waist, and ate locusts and wild honey.
 Mark	Mk	48	1	7	And he preached, saying, “After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie.
 Mark	Mk	48	1	8	I have baptized you with water; but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”
 Mark	Mk	48	1	9	In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.
 Mark	Mk	48	1	10	And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens opened and the Spirit descending upon him like a dove;
 Mark	Mk	48	1	11	and a voice came from heaven, “Thou art my beloved Son; with thee I am well pleased.”
 Mark	Mk	48	1	12	The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness.
 Mark	Mk	48	1	13	And he was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered to him.
 Mark	Mk	48	1	14	Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God,
 Mark	Mk	48	1	15	and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and believe in the gospel.”
 Mark	Mk	48	1	16	And passing along by the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net in the sea; for they were fishermen.
 Mark	Mk	48	1	17	And Jesus said to them, “Follow me and I will make you become fishers of men.”
 Mark	Mk	48	1	18	And immediately they left their nets and followed him.
 Mark	Mk	48	1	19	And going on a little farther, he saw James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, who were in their boat mending the nets.
 Mark	Mk	48	1	20	And immediately he called them; and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants, and followed him.
 Mark	Mk	48	1	21	And they went into Capernaum; and immediately on the sabbath he entered the synagogue and taught.
 Mark	Mk	48	1	22	And they were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as the scribes.
 Mark	Mk	48	1	23	And immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit;
 Mark	Mk	48	1	24	and he cried out, “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God.”
 Mark	Mk	48	1	25	But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent, and come out of him!”
 Mark	Mk	48	1	26	And the unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying with a loud voice, came out of him.
 Mark	Mk	48	1	27	And they were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? A new teaching! With authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.”
 Mark	Mk	48	1	28	And at once his fame spread everywhere throughout all the surrounding region of Galilee.
 Mark	Mk	48	1	29	And immediately he left the synagogue, and entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.
 Mark	Mk	48	1	30	Now Simon’s mother-in-law lay sick with a fever, and immediately they told him of her.
 Mark	Mk	48	1	31	And he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and the fever left her; and she served them.
 Mark	Mk	48	1	32	That evening, at sundown, they brought to him all who were sick or possessed with demons.
 Mark	Mk	48	1	33	And the whole city was gathered together about the door.
 Mark	Mk	48	1	34	And he healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons; and he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him.
 Mark	Mk	48	1	35	And in the morning, a great while before day, he rose and went out to a lonely place, and there he prayed.
 Mark	Mk	48	1	36	And Simon and those who were with him pursued him,
 Mark	Mk	48	1	37	and they found him and said to him, “Every one is searching for you.”
 Mark	Mk	48	1	38	And he said to them, “Let us go on to the next towns, that I may preach there also; for that is why I came out.”
 Mark	Mk	48	1	39	And he went throughout all Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and casting out demons.
 Mark	Mk	48	1	40	And a leper came to him beseeching him, and kneeling said to him, “If you will, you can make me clean.”
 Mark	Mk	48	1	41	Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, “I will; be clean.”
 Mark	Mk	48	1	42	And immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean.
 Mark	Mk	48	1	43	And he sternly charged him, and sent him away at once,
 Mark	Mk	48	1	44	and said to him, “See that you say nothing to any one; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, for a proof to the people.”
 Mark	Mk	48	1	45	But he went out and began to talk freely about it, and to spread the news, so that Jesus could no longer openly enter a town, but was out in the country; and people came to him from every quarter.
 Mark	Mk	48	2	1	And when he returned to Caperna-um after some days, it was reported that he was at home.
 Mark	Mk	48	2	2	And many were gathered together, so that there was no longer room for them, not even about the door; and he was preaching the word to them.
 Mark	Mk	48	2	3	And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men.
 Mark	Mk	48	2	4	And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him; and when they had made an opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic lay.
 Mark	Mk	48	2	5	And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “My son, your sins are forgiven.”
 Mark	Mk	48	2	6	Now some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts,
 Mark	Mk	48	2	7	“Why does this man speak thus? It is blasphemy! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
 Mark	Mk	48	2	8	And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you question thus in your hearts?
 Mark	Mk	48	2	9	Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise, take up your pallet and walk’?
 Mark	Mk	48	2	10	But that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the paralytic—
 Mark	Mk	48	2	11	“I say to you, rise, take up your pallet and go home.”
 Mark	Mk	48	2	12	And he rose, and immediately took up the pallet and went out before them all; so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”
 Mark	Mk	48	2	13	He went out again beside the sea; and all the crowd gathered about him, and he taught them.
 Mark	Mk	48	2	14	And as he passed on, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him.
 Mark	Mk	48	2	15	And as he sat at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners were sitting with Jesus and his disciples; for there were many who followed him.
 Mark	Mk	48	2	16	And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
 Mark	Mk	48	2	17	And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
 Mark	Mk	48	2	18	Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting; and people came and said to him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?”
 Mark	Mk	48	2	19	And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.
 Mark	Mk	48	2	20	The days will come, when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.
 Mark	Mk	48	2	21	No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; if he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made.
 Mark	Mk	48	2	22	And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and so are the skins; but new wine is for fresh skins.”
 Mark	Mk	48	2	23	One sabbath he was going through the grainfields; and as they made their way his disciples began to pluck heads of grain.
 Mark	Mk	48	2	24	And the Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the sabbath?”
 Mark	Mk	48	2	25	And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did, when he was in need and was hungry, he and those who were with him:
 Mark	Mk	48	2	26	how he entered the house of God, when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those who were with him?”
 Mark	Mk	48	2	27	And he said to them, “The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath;
 Mark	Mk	48	2	28	so the Son of man is lord even of the sabbath.”
 Mark	Mk	48	3	1	Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there who had a withered hand.
 Mark	Mk	48	3	2	And they watched him, to see whether he would heal him on the sabbath, so that they might accuse him.
 Mark	Mk	48	3	3	And he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Come here.”
 Mark	Mk	48	3	4	And he said to them, “Is it lawful on the sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent.
 Mark	Mk	48	3	5	And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
 Mark	Mk	48	3	6	The Pharisees went out, and immediately held counsel with the Herodi-ans against him, how to destroy him.
 Mark	Mk	48	3	7	Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed; also from Judea
 Mark	Mk	48	3	8	and Jerusalem and Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from about Tyre and Sidon a great multitude, hearing all that he did, came to him.
 Mark	Mk	48	3	9	And he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they should crush him;
 Mark	Mk	48	3	10	for he had healed many, so that all who had diseases pressed upon him to touch him.
 Mark	Mk	48	3	11	And whenever the unclean spirits beheld him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.”
 Mark	Mk	48	3	12	And he strictly ordered them not to make him known.
 Mark	Mk	48	3	13	And he went up on the mountain, and called to him those whom he desired; and they came to him.
 Mark	Mk	48	3	14	And he appointed twelve, to be with him, and to be sent out to preach
 Mark	Mk	48	3	15	and have authority to cast out demons:
 Mark	Mk	48	3	16	Simon whom he surnamed Peter;
 Mark	Mk	48	3	17	James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James, whom he surnamed Bo-anerges, that is, sons of thunder;
 Mark	Mk	48	3	18	Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Cananaean,
 Mark	Mk	48	3	19	and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. Then he went home;
 Mark	Mk	48	3	20	and the crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat.
 Mark	Mk	48	3	21	And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for people were saying, “He is beside himself.”
 Mark	Mk	48	3	22	And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He is possessed by Be-elzebul, and by the prince of demons he casts out the demons.”
 Mark	Mk	48	3	23	And he called them to him, and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?
 Mark	Mk	48	3	24	If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
 Mark	Mk	48	3	25	And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.
 Mark	Mk	48	3	26	And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but is coming to an end.
 Mark	Mk	48	3	27	But no one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man; then indeed he may plunder his house.
 Mark	Mk	48	3	28	“Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they utter;
 Mark	Mk	48	3	29	but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”—
 Mark	Mk	48	3	30	for they had said, “He has an unclean spirit.”
 Mark	Mk	48	3	31	And his mother and his brethren came; and standing outside they sent to him and called him.
 Mark	Mk	48	3	32	And a crowd was sitting about him; and they said to him, “Your mother and your brethren are outside, asking for you.”
 Mark	Mk	48	3	33	And he replied, “Who are my mother and my brethren?”
 Mark	Mk	48	3	34	And looking around on those who sat about him, he said, “Here are my mother and my brethren!
 Mark	Mk	48	3	35	Whoever does the will of God is my brother, and sister, and mother.”
 Mark	Mk	48	4	1	Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea; and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land.
 Mark	Mk	48	4	2	And he taught them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them:
 Mark	Mk	48	4	3	“Listen! A sower went out to sow.
 Mark	Mk	48	4	4	And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.
 Mark	Mk	48	4	5	Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it had not much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil;
 Mark	Mk	48	4	6	and when the sun rose it was scorched, and since it had no root it withered away.
 Mark	Mk	48	4	7	Other seed fell among thorns and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain.
 Mark	Mk	48	4	8	And other seeds fell into good soil and brought forth grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”
 Mark	Mk	48	4	9	And he said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
 Mark	Mk	48	4	10	And when he was alone, those who were about him with the twelve asked him concerning the parables.
 Mark	Mk	48	4	11	And he said to them, “To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables;
 Mark	Mk	48	4	12	so that they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand; lest they should turn again, and be forgiven.”
 Mark	Mk	48	4	13	And he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?
 Mark	Mk	48	4	14	The sower sows the word.
 Mark	Mk	48	4	15	And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown; when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word which is sown in them.
 Mark	Mk	48	4	16	And these in like manner are the ones sown upon rocky ground, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy;
 Mark	Mk	48	4	17	and they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away.
 Mark	Mk	48	4	18	And others are the ones sown among thorns; they are those who hear the word,
 Mark	Mk	48	4	19	but the cares of the world, and the delight in riches, and the desire for other things, enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.
 Mark	Mk	48	4	20	But those that were sown upon the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”
 Mark	Mk	48	4	21	And he said to them, “Is a lamp brought in to be put under a bushel, or under a bed, and not on a stand?
 Mark	Mk	48	4	22	For there is nothing hid, except to be made manifest; nor is anything secret, except to come to light.
 Mark	Mk	48	4	23	If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.”
 Mark	Mk	48	4	24	And he said to them, “Take heed what you hear; the measure you give will be the measure you get, and still more will be given you.
 Mark	Mk	48	4	25	For to him who has will more be given; and from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.”
 Mark	Mk	48	4	26	And he said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed upon the ground,
 Mark	Mk	48	4	27	and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he knows not how.
 Mark	Mk	48	4	28	The earth produces of itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.
 Mark	Mk	48	4	29	But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”
 Mark	Mk	48	4	30	And he said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it?
 Mark	Mk	48	4	31	It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth;
 Mark	Mk	48	4	32	yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.”
 Mark	Mk	48	4	33	With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it;
 Mark	Mk	48	4	34	he did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.
 Mark	Mk	48	4	35	On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.”
 Mark	Mk	48	4	36	And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him.
 Mark	Mk	48	4	37	And a great storm of wind arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already filling.
 Mark	Mk	48	4	38	But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care if we perish?”
 Mark	Mk	48	4	39	And he awoke and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
 Mark	Mk	48	4	40	He said to them, “Why are you afraid? Have you no faith?”
 Mark	Mk	48	4	41	And they were filled with awe, and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even wind and sea obey him?”
 Mark	Mk	48	5	1	They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes.
 Mark	Mk	48	5	2	And when he had come out of the boat, there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
 Mark	Mk	48	5	3	who lived among the tombs; and no one could bind him any more, even with a chain;
 Mark	Mk	48	5	4	for he had often been bound with fetters and chains, but the chains he wrenched apart, and the fetters he broke in pieces; and no one had the strength to subdue him.
 Mark	Mk	48	5	5	Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out, and bruising himself with stones.
 Mark	Mk	48	5	6	And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and worshiped him;
 Mark	Mk	48	5	7	and crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me.”
 Mark	Mk	48	5	8	For he had said to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!”
 Mark	Mk	48	5	9	And Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “My name is Legion; for we are many.”
 Mark	Mk	48	5	10	And he begged him eagerly not to send them out of the country.
 Mark	Mk	48	5	11	Now a great herd of swine was feeding there on the hillside;
 Mark	Mk	48	5	12	and they begged him, “Send us to the swine, let us enter them.”
 Mark	Mk	48	5	13	So he gave them leave. And the unclean spirits came out, and entered the swine; and the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and were drowned in the sea.
 Mark	Mk	48	5	14	The herdsmen fled, and told it in the city and in the country. And people came to see what it was that had happened.
 Mark	Mk	48	5	15	And they came to Jesus, and saw the demoniac sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, the man who had had the legion; and they were afraid.
 Mark	Mk	48	5	16	And those who had seen it told what had happened to the demoniac and to the swine.
 Mark	Mk	48	5	17	And they began to beg Jesus to depart from their neighborhood.
 Mark	Mk	48	5	18	And as he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed with demons begged him that he might be with him.
 Mark	Mk	48	5	19	But he refused, and said to him, “Go home to your friends, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.”
 Mark	Mk	48	5	20	And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him; and all men marveled.
 Mark	Mk	48	5	21	And when Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him; and he was beside the sea.
 Mark	Mk	48	5	22	Then came one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and seeing him, he fell at his feet,
 Mark	Mk	48	5	23	and besought him, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well, and live.”
 Mark	Mk	48	5	24	And he went with him. And a great crowd followed him and thronged about him.
 Mark	Mk	48	5	25	And there was a woman who had had a flow of blood for twelve years,
 Mark	Mk	48	5	26	and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse.
 Mark	Mk	48	5	27	She had heard the reports about Jesus, and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment.
 Mark	Mk	48	5	28	For she said, “If I touch even his garments, I shall be made well.”
 Mark	Mk	48	5	29	And immediately the hemorrhage ceased; and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease.
 Mark	Mk	48	5	30	And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone forth from him, immediately turned about in the crowd, and said, “Who touched my garments?”
 Mark	Mk	48	5	31	And his disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, ‘Who touched me?’”
 Mark	Mk	48	5	32	And he looked around to see who had done it.
 Mark	Mk	48	5	33	But the woman, knowing what had been done to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him, and told him the whole truth.
 Mark	Mk	48	5	34	And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”
 Mark	Mk	48	5	35	While he was still speaking, there came from the ruler’s house some who said, “Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?”
 Mark	Mk	48	5	36	But ignoring what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not fear, only believe.”
 Mark	Mk	48	5	37	And he allowed no one to follow him except Peter and James and John the brother of James.
 Mark	Mk	48	5	38	When they came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, he saw a tumult, and people weeping and wailing loudly.
 Mark	Mk	48	5	39	And when he had entered, he said to them, “Why do you make a tumult and weep? The child is not dead but sleeping.”
 Mark	Mk	48	5	40	And they laughed at him. But he put them all outside, and took the child’s father and mother and those who were with him, and went in where the child was.
 Mark	Mk	48	5	41	Taking her by the hand he said to her, “Talitha cumi”; which means, “Little girl, I say to you, arise.”
 Mark	Mk	48	5	42	And immediately the girl got up and walked (she was twelve years of age), and they were immediately overcome with amazement.
 Mark	Mk	48	5	43	And he strictly charged them that no one should know this, and told them to give her something to eat.
 Mark	Mk	48	6	1	He went away from there and came to his own country; and his disciples followed him.
 Mark	Mk	48	6	2	And on the sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue; and many who heard him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get all this? What is the wisdom given to him? What mighty works are wrought by his hands!
 Mark	Mk	48	6	3	Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him.
 Mark	Mk	48	6	4	And Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.”
 Mark	Mk	48	6	5	And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands upon a few sick people and healed them.
 Mark	Mk	48	6	6	And he marveled because of their unbelief. And he went about among the villages teaching.
 Mark	Mk	48	6	7	And he called to him the twelve, and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits.
 Mark	Mk	48	6	8	He charged them to take nothing for their journey except a staff; no bread, no bag, no money in their belts;
 Mark	Mk	48	6	9	but to wear sandals and not put on two tunics.
 Mark	Mk	48	6	10	And he said to them, “Where you enter a house, stay there until you leave the place.
 Mark	Mk	48	6	11	And if any place will not receive you and they refuse to hear you, when you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet for a testimony against them.”
 Mark	Mk	48	6	12	So they went out and preached that men should repent.
 Mark	Mk	48	6	13	And they cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many that were sick and healed them.
 Mark	Mk	48	6	14	King Herod heard of it; for Jesus’ name had become known. Some said, “John the baptizer has been raised from the dead; that is why these powers are at work in him.”
 Mark	Mk	48	6	15	But others said, “It is Elijah.” And others said, “It is a prophet, like one of the prophets of old.”
 Mark	Mk	48	6	16	But when Herod heard of it he said, “John, whom I beheaded, has been raised.”
 Mark	Mk	48	6	17	For Herod had sent and seized John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodi-as, his brother Philip’s wife; because he had married her.
 Mark	Mk	48	6	18	For John said to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”
 Mark	Mk	48	6	19	And Herodi-as had a grudge against him, and wanted to kill him. But she could not,
 Mark	Mk	48	6	20	for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he was much perplexed; and yet he heard him gladly.
 Mark	Mk	48	6	21	But an opportunity came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his courtiers and officers and the leading men of Galilee.
 Mark	Mk	48	6	22	For when Herodi-as’ daughter came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests; and the king said to the girl, “Ask me for whatever you wish, and I will grant it.”
 Mark	Mk	48	6	23	And he vowed to her, “Whatever you ask me, I will give you, even half of my kingdom.”
 Mark	Mk	48	6	24	And she went out, and said to her mother, “What shall I ask?” And she said, “The head of John the baptizer.”
 Mark	Mk	48	6	25	And she came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, saying, “I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.”
 Mark	Mk	48	6	26	And the king was exceedingly sorry; but because of his oaths and his guests he did not want to break his word to her.
 Mark	Mk	48	6	27	And immediately the king sent a soldier of the guard and gave orders to bring his head. He went and beheaded him in the prison,
 Mark	Mk	48	6	28	and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the girl; and the girl gave it to her mother.
 Mark	Mk	48	6	29	When his disciples heard of it, they came and took his body, and laid it in a tomb.
 Mark	Mk	48	6	30	The apostles returned to Jesus, and told him all that they had done and taught.
 Mark	Mk	48	6	31	And he said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a lonely place, and rest a while.” For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat.
 Mark	Mk	48	6	32	And they went away in the boat to a lonely place by themselves.
 Mark	Mk	48	6	33	Now many saw them going, and knew them, and they ran there on foot from all the towns, and got there ahead of them.
 Mark	Mk	48	6	34	As he went ashore he saw a great throng, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things.
 Mark	Mk	48	6	35	And when it grew late, his disciples came to him and said, “This is a lonely place, and the hour is now late;
 Mark	Mk	48	6	36	send them away, to go into the country and villages round about and buy themselves something to eat.”
 Mark	Mk	48	6	37	But he answered them, “You give them something to eat.” And they said to him, “Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread, and give it to them to eat?”
 Mark	Mk	48	6	38	And he said to them, “How many loaves have you? Go and see.” And when they had found out, they said, “Five, and two fish.”
 Mark	Mk	48	6	39	Then he commanded them all to sit down by companies upon the green grass.
 Mark	Mk	48	6	40	So they sat down in groups, by hundreds and by fifties.
 Mark	Mk	48	6	41	And taking the five loaves and the two fish he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and broke the loaves, and gave them to the disciples to set before the people; and he divided the two fish among them all.
 Mark	Mk	48	6	42	And they all ate and were satisfied.
 Mark	Mk	48	6	43	And they took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and of the fish.
 Mark	Mk	48	6	44	And those who ate the loaves were five thousand men.
 Mark	Mk	48	6	45	Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, to Beth-saida, while he dismissed the crowd.
 Mark	Mk	48	6	46	And after he had taken leave of them, he went up on the mountain to pray.
 Mark	Mk	48	6	47	And when evening came, the boat was out on the sea, and he was alone on the land.
 Mark	Mk	48	6	48	And he saw that they were making headway painfully, for the wind was against them. And about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea. He meant to pass by them,
 Mark	Mk	48	6	49	but when they saw him walking on the sea they thought it was a ghost, and cried out;
 Mark	Mk	48	6	50	for they all saw him, and were terrified. But immediately he spoke to them and said, “Take heart, it is I; have no fear.”
 Mark	Mk	48	6	51	And he got into the boat with them and the wind ceased. And they were utterly astounded,
 Mark	Mk	48	6	52	for they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.
 Mark	Mk	48	6	53	And when they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret, and moored to the shore.
 Mark	Mk	48	6	54	And when they got out of the boat, immediately the people recognized him,
 Mark	Mk	48	6	55	and ran about the whole neighborhood and began to bring sick people on their pallets to any place where they heard he was.
 Mark	Mk	48	6	56	And wherever he came, in villages, cities, or country, they laid the sick in the market places, and besought him that they might touch even the fringe of his garment; and as many as touched it were made well.
 Mark	Mk	48	7	1	Now when the Pharisees gathered together to him, with some of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem,
 Mark	Mk	48	7	2	they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands defiled, that is, unwashed.
 Mark	Mk	48	7	3	(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they wash their hands, observing the tradition of the elders;
 Mark	Mk	48	7	4	and when they come from the market place, they do not eat unless they purify themselves; and there are many other traditions which they observe, the washing of cups and pots and vessels of bronze.)
 Mark	Mk	48	7	5	And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with hands defiled?”
 Mark	Mk	48	7	6	And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;
 Mark	Mk	48	7	7	in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.’
 Mark	Mk	48	7	8	You leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.”
 Mark	Mk	48	7	9	And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God, in order to keep your tradition!
 Mark	Mk	48	7	10	For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die’;
 Mark	Mk	48	7	11	but you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is Corban’ (that is, given to God)—
 Mark	Mk	48	7	12	then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother,
 Mark	Mk	48	7	13	thus making void the word of God through your tradition which you hand on. And many such things you do.”
 Mark	Mk	48	7	14	And he called the people to him again, and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand:
 Mark	Mk	48	7	15	there is nothing outside a man which by going into him can defile him; but the things which come out of a man are what defile him.”
 Mark	Mk	48	7	17	And when he had entered the house, and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable.
 Mark	Mk	48	7	18	And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside cannot defile him,
 Mark	Mk	48	7	19	since it enters, not his heart but his stomach, and so passes on?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)
 Mark	Mk	48	7	20	And he said, “What comes out of a man is what defiles a man.
 Mark	Mk	48	7	21	For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, fornication, theft, murder, adultery,
 Mark	Mk	48	7	22	coveting, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.
 Mark	Mk	48	7	23	All these evil things come from within, and they defile a man.”
 Mark	Mk	48	7	24	And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a house, and would not have any one know it; yet he could not be hid.
 Mark	Mk	48	7	25	But immediately a woman, whose little daughter was possessed by an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell down at his feet.
 Mark	Mk	48	7	26	Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.
 Mark	Mk	48	7	27	And he said to her, “Let the children first be fed, for it is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”
 Mark	Mk	48	7	28	But she answered him, “Yes, Lord; yet even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”
 Mark	Mk	48	7	29	And he said to her, “For this saying you may go your way; the demon has left your daughter.”
 Mark	Mk	48	7	30	And she went home, and found the child lying in bed, and the demon gone.
 Mark	Mk	48	7	31	Then he returned from the region of Tyre, and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, through the region of the Decapolis.
 Mark	Mk	48	7	32	And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech; and they besought him to lay his hand upon him.
 Mark	Mk	48	7	33	And taking him aside from the multitude privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and he spat and touched his tongue;
 Mark	Mk	48	7	34	and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, “Ephphatha,” that is, “Be opened.”
 Mark	Mk	48	7	35	And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly.
 Mark	Mk	48	7	36	And he charged them to tell no one; but the more he charged them, the more zealously they proclaimed it.
 Mark	Mk	48	7	37	And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well; he even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak.”
 Mark	Mk	48	8	1	In those days, when again a great crowd had gathered, and they had nothing to eat, he called his disciples to him, and said to them,
 Mark	Mk	48	8	2	“I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now three days, and have nothing to eat;
 Mark	Mk	48	8	3	and if I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way; and some of them have come a long way.”
 Mark	Mk	48	8	4	And his disciples answered him, “How can one feed these men with bread here in the desert?”
 Mark	Mk	48	8	5	And he asked them, “How many loaves have you?” They said, “Seven.”
 Mark	Mk	48	8	6	And he commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground; and he took the seven loaves, and having given thanks he broke them and gave them to his disciples to set before the people; and they set them before the crowd.
 Mark	Mk	48	8	7	And they had a few small fish; and having blessed them, he commanded that these also should be set before them.
 Mark	Mk	48	8	8	And they ate, and were satisfied; and they took up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full.
 Mark	Mk	48	8	9	And there were about four thousand people.
 Mark	Mk	48	8	10	And he sent them away; and immediately he got into the boat with his disciples, and went to the district of Dalmanutha.
 Mark	Mk	48	8	11	The Pharisees came and began to argue with him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, to test him.
 Mark	Mk	48	8	12	And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and said, “Why does this generation seek a sign? Truly, I say to you, no sign shall be given to this generation.”
 Mark	Mk	48	8	13	And he left them, and getting into the boat again he departed to the other side.
 Mark	Mk	48	8	14	Now they had forgotten to bring bread; and they had only one loaf with them in the boat.
 Mark	Mk	48	8	15	And he cautioned them, saying, “Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.”
 Mark	Mk	48	8	16	And they discussed it with one another, saying, “We have no bread.”
 Mark	Mk	48	8	17	And being aware of it, Jesus said to them, “Why do you discuss the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardened?
 Mark	Mk	48	8	18	Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear? And do you not remember?
 Mark	Mk	48	8	19	When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” They said to him, “Twelve.”
 Mark	Mk	48	8	20	“And the seven for the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” And they said to him, “Seven.”
 Mark	Mk	48	8	21	And he said to them, “Do you not yet understand?”
 Mark	Mk	48	8	22	And they came to Beth-saida. And some people brought to him a blind man, and begged him to touch him.
 Mark	Mk	48	8	23	And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the village; and when he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands upon him, he asked him, “Do you see anything?”
 Mark	Mk	48	8	24	And he looked up and said, “I see men; but they look like trees, walking.”
 Mark	Mk	48	8	25	Then again he laid his hands upon his eyes; and he looked intently and was restored, and saw everything clearly.
 Mark	Mk	48	8	26	And he sent him away to his home, saying, “Do not even enter the village.”
 Mark	Mk	48	8	27	And Jesus went on with his disciples, to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do men say that I am?”
 Mark	Mk	48	8	28	And they told him, “John the Baptist; and others say, Elijah; and others one of the prophets.”
 Mark	Mk	48	8	29	And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Christ.”
 Mark	Mk	48	8	30	And he charged them to tell no one about him.
 Mark	Mk	48	8	31	And he began to teach them that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
 Mark	Mk	48	8	32	And he said this plainly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.
 Mark	Mk	48	8	33	But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter, and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are not on the side of God, but of men.”
 Mark	Mk	48	8	34	And he called to him the multitude with his disciples, and said to them, “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
 Mark	Mk	48	8	35	For whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it.
 Mark	Mk	48	8	36	For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?
 Mark	Mk	48	8	37	For what can a man give in return for his life?
 Mark	Mk	48	8	38	For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of man also be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
 Mark	Mk	48	9	1	And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see that the kingdom of God has come with power.”
 Mark	Mk	48	9	2	And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves; and he was transfigured before them,
 Mark	Mk	48	9	3	and his garments became glistening, intensely white, as no fuller on earth could bleach them.
 Mark	Mk	48	9	4	And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses; and they were talking to Jesus.
 Mark	Mk	48	9	5	And Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it is well that we are here; let us make three booths, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.”
 Mark	Mk	48	9	6	For he did not know what to say, for they were exceedingly afraid.
 Mark	Mk	48	9	7	And a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my beloved Son; listen to him.”
 Mark	Mk	48	9	8	And suddenly looking around they no longer saw any one with them but Jesus only.
 Mark	Mk	48	9	9	And as they were coming down the mountain, he charged them to tell no one what they had seen, until the Son of man should have risen from the dead.
 Mark	Mk	48	9	10	So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what the rising from the dead meant.
 Mark	Mk	48	9	11	And they asked him, “Why do the scribes say that first Elijah must come?”
 Mark	Mk	48	9	12	And he said to them, “Elijah does come first to restore all things; and how is it written of the Son of man, that he should suffer many things and be treated with contempt?
 Mark	Mk	48	9	13	But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they did to him whatever they pleased, as it is written of him.”
 Mark	Mk	48	9	14	And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd about them, and scribes arguing with them.
 Mark	Mk	48	9	15	And immediately all the crowd, when they saw him, were greatly amazed, and ran up to him and greeted him.
 Mark	Mk	48	9	16	And he asked them, “What are you discussing with them?”
 Mark	Mk	48	9	17	And one of the crowd answered him, “Teacher, I brought my son to you, for he has a dumb spirit;
 Mark	Mk	48	9	18	and wherever it seizes him, it dashes him down; and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid; and I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they were not able.”
 Mark	Mk	48	9	19	And he answered them, “O faithless generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him to me.”
 Mark	Mk	48	9	20	And they brought the boy to him; and when the spirit saw him, immediately it convulsed the boy, and he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth.
 Mark	Mk	48	9	21	And Jesus asked his father, “How long has he had this?” And he said, “From childhood.
 Mark	Mk	48	9	22	And it has often cast him into the fire and into the water, to destroy him; but if you can do anything, have pity on us and help us.”
 Mark	Mk	48	9	23	And Jesus said to him, “If you can! All things are possible to him who believes.”
 Mark	Mk	48	9	24	Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”
 Mark	Mk	48	9	25	And when Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You dumb and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again.”
 Mark	Mk	48	9	26	And after crying out and convulsing him terribly, it came out, and the boy was like a corpse; so that most of them said, “He is dead.”
 Mark	Mk	48	9	27	But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose.
 Mark	Mk	48	9	28	And when he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?”
 Mark	Mk	48	9	29	And he said to them, “This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer and fasting.”
 Mark	Mk	48	9	30	They went on from there and passed through Galilee. And he would not have any one know it;
 Mark	Mk	48	9	31	for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of man will be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, after three days he will rise.”
 Mark	Mk	48	9	32	But they did not understand the saying, and they were afraid to ask him.
 Mark	Mk	48	9	33	And they came to Caperna-um; and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?”
 Mark	Mk	48	9	34	But they were silent; for on the way they had discussed with one another who was the greatest.
 Mark	Mk	48	9	35	And he sat down and called the twelve; and he said to them, “If any one would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”
 Mark	Mk	48	9	36	And he took a child, and put him in the midst of them; and taking him in his arms, he said to them,
 Mark	Mk	48	9	37	“Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.”
 Mark	Mk	48	9	38	John said to him, “Teacher, we saw a man casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him, because he was not following us.”
 Mark	Mk	48	9	39	But Jesus said, “Do not forbid him; for no one who does a mighty work in my name will be able soon after to speak evil of me.
 Mark	Mk	48	9	40	For he that is not against us is for us.
 Mark	Mk	48	9	41	For truly, I say to you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you bear the name of Christ, will by no means lose his reward.
 Mark	Mk	48	9	42	“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung round his neck and he were thrown into the sea.
 Mark	Mk	48	9	43	And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire.
 Mark	Mk	48	9	45	And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell.,
 Mark	Mk	48	9	47	And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell,
 Mark	Mk	48	9	48	where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.
 Mark	Mk	48	9	49	For every one will be salted with fire.
 Mark	Mk	48	9	50	Salt is good; but if the salt has lost its saltness, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”
 Mark	Mk	48	10	1	And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again; and again, as his custom was, he taught them.
 Mark	Mk	48	10	2	And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
 Mark	Mk	48	10	3	He answered them, “What did Moses command you?”
 Mark	Mk	48	10	4	They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce, and to put her away.”
 Mark	Mk	48	10	5	But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.
 Mark	Mk	48	10	6	But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’
 Mark	Mk	48	10	7	‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
 Mark	Mk	48	10	8	and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.
 Mark	Mk	48	10	9	What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder.”
 Mark	Mk	48	10	10	And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter.
 Mark	Mk	48	10	11	And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another, commits adultery against her;
 Mark	Mk	48	10	12	and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
 Mark	Mk	48	10	13	And they were bringing children to him, that he might touch them; and the disciples rebuked them.
 Mark	Mk	48	10	14	But when Jesus saw it he was indignant, and said to them, “Let the children come to me, do not hinder them; for to such belongs the kingdom of God.
 Mark	Mk	48	10	15	Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”
 Mark	Mk	48	10	16	And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands upon them.
 Mark	Mk	48	10	17	And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
 Mark	Mk	48	10	18	And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone.
 Mark	Mk	48	10	19	You know the commandments: ‘Do not kill, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’”
 Mark	Mk	48	10	20	And he said to him, “Teacher, all these I have observed from my youth.”
 Mark	Mk	48	10	21	And Jesus looking upon him loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing; go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
 Mark	Mk	48	10	22	At that saying his countenance fell, and he went away sorrowful; for he had great possessions.
 Mark	Mk	48	10	23	And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it will be for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God!”
 Mark	Mk	48	10	24	And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter the kingdom of God!
 Mark	Mk	48	10	25	It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
 Mark	Mk	48	10	26	And they were exceedingly astonished, and said to him, “Then who can be saved?”
 Mark	Mk	48	10	27	Jesus looked at them and said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God.”
 Mark	Mk	48	10	28	Peter began to say to him, “Lo, we have left everything and followed you.”
 Mark	Mk	48	10	29	Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel,
 Mark	Mk	48	10	30	who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.
 Mark	Mk	48	10	31	But many that are first will be last, and the last first.”
 Mark	Mk	48	10	32	And they were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them; and they were amazed, and those who followed were afraid. And taking the twelve again, he began to tell them what was to happen to him,
 Mark	Mk	48	10	33	saying, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death, and deliver him to the Gentiles;
 Mark	Mk	48	10	34	and they will mock him, and spit upon him, and scourge him, and kill him; and after three days he will rise.”
 Mark	Mk	48	10	35	And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came forward to him, and said to him, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.”
 Mark	Mk	48	10	36	And he said to them, “What do you want me to do for you?”
 Mark	Mk	48	10	37	And they said to him, “Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your glory.”
 Mark	Mk	48	10	38	But Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?”
 Mark	Mk	48	10	39	And they said to him, “We are able.” And Jesus said to them, “The cup that I drink you will drink; and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized;
 Mark	Mk	48	10	40	but to sit at my right hand or at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared.”
 Mark	Mk	48	10	41	And when the ten heard it, they began to be indignant at James and John.
 Mark	Mk	48	10	42	And Jesus called them to him and said to them, “You know that those who are supposed to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them.
 Mark	Mk	48	10	43	But it shall not be so among you; but whoever would be great among you must be your servant,
 Mark	Mk	48	10	44	and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all.
 Mark	Mk	48	10	45	For the Son of man also came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
 Mark	Mk	48	10	46	And they came to Jericho; and as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great multitude, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the roadside.
 Mark	Mk	48	10	47	And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”
 Mark	Mk	48	10	48	And many rebuked him, telling him to be silent; but he cried out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”
 Mark	Mk	48	10	49	And Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.” And they called the blind man, saying to him, “Take heart; rise, he is calling you.”
 Mark	Mk	48	10	50	And throwing off his mantle he sprang up and came to Jesus.
 Mark	Mk	48	10	51	And Jesus said to him, “What do you want me to do for you?” And the blind man said to him, “Master, let me receive my sight.”
 Mark	Mk	48	10	52	And Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your faith has made you well.” And immediately he received his sight and followed him on the way.
 Mark	Mk	48	11	1	And when they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,
 Mark	Mk	48	11	2	and said to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat; untie it and bring it.
 Mark	Mk	48	11	3	If any one says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord has need of it and will send it back here immediately.’”
 Mark	Mk	48	11	4	And they went away, and found a colt tied at the door out in the open street; and they untied it.
 Mark	Mk	48	11	5	And those who stood there said to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?”
 Mark	Mk	48	11	6	And they told them what Jesus had said; and they let them go.
 Mark	Mk	48	11	7	And they brought the colt to Jesus, and threw their garments on it; and he sat upon it.
 Mark	Mk	48	11	8	And many spread their garments on the road, and others spread leafy branches which they had cut from the fields.
 Mark	Mk	48	11	9	And those who went before and those who followed cried out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!
 Mark	Mk	48	11	10	Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that is coming! Hosanna in the highest!”
 Mark	Mk	48	11	11	And he entered Jerusalem, and went into the temple; and when he had looked round at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.
 Mark	Mk	48	11	12	On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry.
 Mark	Mk	48	11	13	And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.
 Mark	Mk	48	11	14	And he said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard it.
 Mark	Mk	48	11	15	And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons;
 Mark	Mk	48	11	16	and he would not allow any one to carry anything through the temple.
 Mark	Mk	48	11	17	And he taught, and said to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”
 Mark	Mk	48	11	18	And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and sought a way to destroy him; for they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.
 Mark	Mk	48	11	19	And when evening came they went out of the city.
 Mark	Mk	48	11	20	As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away to its roots.
 Mark	Mk	48	11	21	And Peter remembered and said to him, “Master, look! The fig tree which you cursed has withered.”
 Mark	Mk	48	11	22	And Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God.
 Mark	Mk	48	11	23	Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.
 Mark	Mk	48	11	24	Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
 Mark	Mk	48	11	25	And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against any one; so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”
 Mark	Mk	48	11	27	And they came again to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to him,
 Mark	Mk	48	11	28	and they said to him, “By what authority are you doing these things, or who gave you this authority to do them?”
 Mark	Mk	48	11	29	Jesus said to them, “I will ask you a question; answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.
 Mark	Mk	48	11	30	Was the baptism of John from heaven or from men? Answer me.”
 Mark	Mk	48	11	31	And they argued with one another, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’
 Mark	Mk	48	11	32	But shall we say, ‘From men’?”—they were afraid of the people, for all held that John was a real prophet.
 Mark	Mk	48	11	33	So they answered Jesus, “We do not know.” And Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”
 Mark	Mk	48	12	1	And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a pit for the wine press, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants, and went into another country.
 Mark	Mk	48	12	2	When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants, to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.
 Mark	Mk	48	12	3	And they took him and beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.
 Mark	Mk	48	12	4	Again he sent to them another servant, and they wounded him in the head, and treated him shamefully.
 Mark	Mk	48	12	5	And he sent another, and him they killed; and so with many others, some they beat and some they killed.
 Mark	Mk	48	12	6	He had still one other, a beloved son; finally he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
 Mark	Mk	48	12	7	But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’
 Mark	Mk	48	12	8	And they took him and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
 Mark	Mk	48	12	9	What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants, and give the vineyard to others.
 Mark	Mk	48	12	10	Have you not read this scripture: ‘The very stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner;
 Mark	Mk	48	12	11	this was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”
 Mark	Mk	48	12	12	And they tried to arrest him, but feared the multitude, for they perceived that he had told the parable against them; so they left him and went away.
 Mark	Mk	48	12	13	And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and some of the Herodi-ans, to entrap him in his talk.
 Mark	Mk	48	12	14	And they came and said to him, “Teacher, we know that you are true, and care for no man; for you do not regard the position of men, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?
 Mark	Mk	48	12	15	Should we pay them, or should we not?” But knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, “Why put me to the test? Bring me a coin, and let me look at it.”
 Mark	Mk	48	12	16	And they brought one. And he said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?” They said to him, “Caesar’s.”
 Mark	Mk	48	12	17	Jesus said to them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” And they were amazed at him.
 Mark	Mk	48	12	18	And Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection; and they asked him a question, saying,
 Mark	Mk	48	12	19	“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man must take the wife, and raise up children for his brother.
 Mark	Mk	48	12	20	There were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and when he died left no children;
 Mark	Mk	48	12	21	and the second took her, and died, leaving no children; and the third likewise;
 Mark	Mk	48	12	22	and the seven left no children. Last of all the woman also died.
 Mark	Mk	48	12	23	In the resurrection whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife.”
 Mark	Mk	48	12	24	Jesus said to them, “Is not this why you are wrong, that you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God?
 Mark	Mk	48	12	25	For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
 Mark	Mk	48	12	26	And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?
 Mark	Mk	48	12	27	He is not God of the dead, but of the living; you are quite wrong.”
 Mark	Mk	48	12	28	And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the first of all?”
 Mark	Mk	48	12	29	Jesus answered, “The first is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one;
 Mark	Mk	48	12	30	and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’
 Mark	Mk	48	12	31	The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
 Mark	Mk	48	12	32	And the scribe said to him, “You are right, Teacher; you have truly said that he is one, and there is no other but he;
 Mark	Mk	48	12	33	and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
 Mark	Mk	48	12	34	And when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And after that no one dared to ask him any question.
 Mark	Mk	48	12	35	And as Jesus taught in the temple, he said, “How can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?
 Mark	Mk	48	12	36	David himself, inspired by the Holy Spirit, declared, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, till I put thy enemies under thy feet.’
 Mark	Mk	48	12	37	David himself calls him Lord; so how is he his son?” And the great throng heard him gladly.
 Mark	Mk	48	12	38	And in his teaching he said, “Beware of the scribes, who like to go about in long robes, and to have salutations in the market places
 Mark	Mk	48	12	39	and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts,
 Mark	Mk	48	12	40	who devour widows’ houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”
 Mark	Mk	48	12	41	And he sat down opposite the treasury, and watched the multitude putting money into the treasury. Many rich people put in large sums.
 Mark	Mk	48	12	42	And a poor widow came, and put in two copper coins, which make a penny.
 Mark	Mk	48	12	43	And he called his disciples to him, and said to them, “Truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the treasury.
 Mark	Mk	48	12	44	For they all contributed out of their abundance; but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, her whole living.”
 Mark	Mk	48	13	1	And as he came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Look, Teacher, what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!”
 Mark	Mk	48	13	2	And Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone upon another, that will not be thrown down.”
 Mark	Mk	48	13	3	And as he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately,
 Mark	Mk	48	13	4	“Tell us, when will this be, and what will be the sign when these things are all to be accomplished?”
 Mark	Mk	48	13	5	And Jesus began to say to them, “Take heed that no one leads you astray.
 Mark	Mk	48	13	6	Many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he!’ and they will lead many astray.
 Mark	Mk	48	13	7	And when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed; this must take place, but the end is not yet.
 Mark	Mk	48	13	8	For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places, there will be famines; this is but the beginning of the birth-pangs.
 Mark	Mk	48	13	9	“But take heed to yourselves; for they will deliver you up to councils; and you will be beaten in synagogues; and you will stand before governors and kings for my sake, to bear testimony before them.
 Mark	Mk	48	13	10	And the gospel must first be preached to all nations.
 Mark	Mk	48	13	11	And when they bring you to trial and deliver you up, do not be anxious beforehand what you are to say; but say whatever is given you in that hour, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.
 Mark	Mk	48	13	12	And brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death;
 Mark	Mk	48	13	13	and you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.
 Mark	Mk	48	13	14	“But when you see the desolating sacrilege set up where it ought not to be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains;
 Mark	Mk	48	13	15	let him who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter his house, to take anything away;
 Mark	Mk	48	13	16	and let him who is in the field not turn back to take his mantle.
 Mark	Mk	48	13	17	And alas for those who are with child and for those who give suck in those days!
 Mark	Mk	48	13	18	Pray that it may not happen in winter.
 Mark	Mk	48	13	19	For in those days there will be such tribulation as has not been from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be.
 Mark	Mk	48	13	20	And if the Lord had not shortened the days, no human being would be saved; but for the sake of the elect, whom he chose, he shortened the days.
 Mark	Mk	48	13	21	And then if any one says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘Look, there he is!’ do not believe it.
 Mark	Mk	48	13	22	False Christs and false prophets will arise and show signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, the elect.
 Mark	Mk	48	13	23	But take heed; I have told you all things beforehand.
 Mark	Mk	48	13	24	“But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light,
 Mark	Mk	48	13	25	and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.
 Mark	Mk	48	13	26	And then they will see the Son of man coming in clouds with great power and glory.
 Mark	Mk	48	13	27	And then he will send out the angels, and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.
 Mark	Mk	48	13	28	“From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near.
 Mark	Mk	48	13	29	So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that he is near, at the very gates.
 Mark	Mk	48	13	30	Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away before all these things take place.
 Mark	Mk	48	13	31	Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
 Mark	Mk	48	13	32	“But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
 Mark	Mk	48	13	33	Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time will come.
 Mark	Mk	48	13	34	It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to be on the watch.
 Mark	Mk	48	13	35	Watch therefore—for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrow, or in the morning—
 Mark	Mk	48	13	36	lest he come suddenly and find you asleep.
 Mark	Mk	48	13	37	And what I say to you I say to all: Watch.”
 Mark	Mk	48	14	1	It was now two days before the Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth, and kill him;
 Mark	Mk	48	14	2	for they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be a tumult of the people.”
 Mark	Mk	48	14	3	And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head.
 Mark	Mk	48	14	4	But there were some who said to themselves indignantly, “Why was the ointment thus wasted?
 Mark	Mk	48	14	5	For this ointment might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor.” And they reproached her.
 Mark	Mk	48	14	6	But Jesus said, “Let her alone; why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.
 Mark	Mk	48	14	7	For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you will, you can do good to them; but you will not always have me.
 Mark	Mk	48	14	8	She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for burying.
 Mark	Mk	48	14	9	And truly, I say to you, wherever the gospel is preached in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.”
 Mark	Mk	48	14	10	Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went to the chief priests in order to betray him to them.
 Mark	Mk	48	14	11	And when they heard it they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought an opportunity to betray him.
 Mark	Mk	48	14	12	And on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the passover lamb, his disciples said to him, “Where will you have us go and prepare for you to eat the passover?”
 Mark	Mk	48	14	13	And he sent two of his disciples, and said to them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you; follow him,
 Mark	Mk	48	14	14	and wherever he enters, say to the householder, ‘The Teacher says, Where is my guest room, where I am to eat the passover with my disciples?’
 Mark	Mk	48	14	15	And he will show you a large upper room furnished and ready; there prepare for us.”
 Mark	Mk	48	14	16	And the disciples set out and went to the city, and found it as he had told them; and they prepared the passover.
 Mark	Mk	48	14	17	And when it was evening he came with the twelve.
 Mark	Mk	48	14	18	And as they were at table eating, Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me, one who is eating with me.”
 Mark	Mk	48	14	19	They began to be sorrowful, and to say to him one after another, “Is it I?”
 Mark	Mk	48	14	20	He said to them, “It is one of the twelve, one who is dipping bread into the dish with me.
 Mark	Mk	48	14	21	For the Son of man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”
 Mark	Mk	48	14	22	And as they were eating, he took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to them, and said, “Take; this is my body.”
 Mark	Mk	48	14	23	And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, and they all drank of it.
 Mark	Mk	48	14	24	And he said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.
 Mark	Mk	48	14	25	Truly, I say to you, I shall not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”
 Mark	Mk	48	14	26	And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
 Mark	Mk	48	14	27	And Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away; for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’
 Mark	Mk	48	14	28	But after I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee.”
 Mark	Mk	48	14	29	Peter said to him, “Even though they all fall away, I will not.”
 Mark	Mk	48	14	30	And Jesus said to him, “Truly, I say to you, this very night, before the cock crows twice, you will deny me three times.”
 Mark	Mk	48	14	31	But he said vehemently, “If I must die with you, I will not deny you.” And they all said the same.
 Mark	Mk	48	14	32	And they went to a place which was called Gethsemane; and he said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I pray.”
 Mark	Mk	48	14	33	And he took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly distressed and troubled.
 Mark	Mk	48	14	34	And he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch.”
 Mark	Mk	48	14	35	And going a little farther, he fell on the ground and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him.
 Mark	Mk	48	14	36	And he said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible to thee; remove this cup from me; yet not what I will, but what thou wilt.”
 Mark	Mk	48	14	37	And he came and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, “Simon, are you asleep? Could you not watch one hour?
 Mark	Mk	48	14	38	Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
 Mark	Mk	48	14	39	And again he went away and prayed, saying the same words.
 Mark	Mk	48	14	40	And again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy; and they did not know what to answer him.
 Mark	Mk	48	14	41	And he came the third time, and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? It is enough; the hour has come; the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
 Mark	Mk	48	14	42	Rise, let us be going; see, my betrayer is at hand.”
 Mark	Mk	48	14	43	And immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.
 Mark	Mk	48	14	44	Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I shall kiss is the man; seize him and lead him away under guard.”
 Mark	Mk	48	14	45	And when he came, he went up to him at once, and said, “Master!” And he kissed him.
 Mark	Mk	48	14	46	And they laid hands on him and seized him.
 Mark	Mk	48	14	47	But one of those who stood by drew his sword, and struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his ear.
 Mark	Mk	48	14	48	And Jesus said to them, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to capture me?
 Mark	Mk	48	14	49	Day after day I was with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me. But let the scriptures be fulfilled.”
 Mark	Mk	48	14	50	And they all forsook him, and fled.
 Mark	Mk	48	14	51	And a young man followed him, with nothing but a linen cloth about his body; and they seized him,
 Mark	Mk	48	14	52	but he left the linen cloth and ran away naked.
 Mark	Mk	48	14	53	And they led Jesus to the high priest; and all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes were assembled.
 Mark	Mk	48	14	54	And Peter had followed him at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest; and he was sitting with the guards, and warming himself at the fire.
 Mark	Mk	48	14	55	Now the chief priests and the whole council sought testimony against Jesus to put him to death; but they found none.
 Mark	Mk	48	14	56	For many bore false witness against him, and their witness did not agree.
 Mark	Mk	48	14	57	And some stood up and bore false witness against him, saying,
 Mark	Mk	48	14	58	“We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another, not made with hands.’”
 Mark	Mk	48	14	59	Yet not even so did their testimony agree.
 Mark	Mk	48	14	60	And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, “Have you no answer to make? What is it that these men testify against you?”
 Mark	Mk	48	14	61	But he was silent and made no answer. Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?”
 Mark	Mk	48	14	62	And Jesus said, “I am; and you will see the Son of man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.”
 Mark	Mk	48	14	63	And the high priest tore his garments, and said, “Why do we still need witnesses?
 Mark	Mk	48	14	64	You have heard his blasphemy. What is your decision?” And they all condemned him as deserving death.
 Mark	Mk	48	14	65	And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to strike him, saying to him, “Prophesy!” And the guards received him with blows.
 Mark	Mk	48	14	66	And as Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the maids of the high priest came;
 Mark	Mk	48	14	67	and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him, and said, “You also were with the Nazarene, Jesus.”
 Mark	Mk	48	14	68	But he denied it, saying, “I neither know nor understand what you mean.” And he went out into the gateway.
 Mark	Mk	48	14	69	And the maid saw him, and began again to say to the bystanders, “This man is one of them.”
 Mark	Mk	48	14	70	But again he denied it. And after a little while again the bystanders said to Peter, “Certainly you are one of them; for you are a Galilean.”
 Mark	Mk	48	14	71	But he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, “I do not know this man of whom you speak.”
 Mark	Mk	48	14	72	And immediately the cock crowed a second time. And Peter remembered how Jesus had said to him, “Before the cock crows twice, you will deny me three times.” And he broke down and wept.
 Mark	Mk	48	15	1	And as soon as it was morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council held a consultation; and they bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him to Pilate.
 Mark	Mk	48	15	2	And Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” And he answered him, “You have said so.”
 Mark	Mk	48	15	3	And the chief priests accused him of many things.
 Mark	Mk	48	15	4	And Pilate again asked him, “Have you no answer to make? See how many charges they bring against you.”
 Mark	Mk	48	15	5	But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate wondered.
 Mark	Mk	48	15	6	Now at the feast he used to release for them one prisoner for whom they asked.
 Mark	Mk	48	15	7	And among the rebels in prison, who had committed murder in the insurrection, there was a man called Barabbas.
 Mark	Mk	48	15	8	And the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do as he was wont to do for them.
 Mark	Mk	48	15	9	And he answered them, “Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?”
 Mark	Mk	48	15	10	For he perceived that it was out of envy that the chief priests had delivered him up.
 Mark	Mk	48	15	11	But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release for them Barabbas instead.
 Mark	Mk	48	15	12	And Pilate again said to them, “Then what shall I do with the man whom you call the King of the Jews?”
 Mark	Mk	48	15	13	And they cried out again, “Crucify him.”
 Mark	Mk	48	15	14	And Pilate said to them, “Why, what evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Crucify him.”
 Mark	Mk	48	15	15	So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barabbas; and having scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
 Mark	Mk	48	15	16	And the soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the praetorium); and they called together the whole battalion.
 Mark	Mk	48	15	17	And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and plaiting a crown of thorns they put it on him.
 Mark	Mk	48	15	18	And they began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
 Mark	Mk	48	15	19	And they struck his head with a reed, and spat upon him, and they knelt down in homage to him.
 Mark	Mk	48	15	20	And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak, and put his own clothes on him. And they led him out to crucify him.
 Mark	Mk	48	15	21	And they compelled a passer-by, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross.
 Mark	Mk	48	15	22	And they brought him to the place called Golgotha (which means the place of a skull).
 Mark	Mk	48	15	23	And they offered him wine mingled with myrrh; but he did not take it.
 Mark	Mk	48	15	24	And they crucified him, and divided his garments among them, casting lots for them, to decide what each should take.
 Mark	Mk	48	15	25	And it was the third hour, when they crucified him.
 Mark	Mk	48	15	26	And the inscription of the charge against him read, “The King of the Jews.”
 Mark	Mk	48	15	27	And with him they crucified two robbers, one on his right and one on his left.
 Mark	Mk	48	15	29	And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Aha! You who would destroy the temple and build it in three days,
 Mark	Mk	48	15	30	save yourself, and come down from the cross!”
 Mark	Mk	48	15	31	So also the chief priests mocked him to one another with the scribes, saying, “He saved others; he cannot save himself.
 Mark	Mk	48	15	32	Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe.” Those who were crucified with him also reviled him.
 Mark	Mk	48	15	33	And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
 Mark	Mk	48	15	34	And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Elo-i, Elo-i, lama sabach-thani?” which means, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”
 Mark	Mk	48	15	35	And some of the bystanders hearing it said, “Behold, he is calling Elijah.”
 Mark	Mk	48	15	36	And one ran and, filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down.”
 Mark	Mk	48	15	37	And Jesus uttered a loud cry, and breathed his last.
 Mark	Mk	48	15	38	And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.
 Mark	Mk	48	15	39	And when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that he thus breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”
 Mark	Mk	48	15	40	There were also women looking on from afar, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome,
 Mark	Mk	48	15	41	who, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and ministered to him; and also many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.
 Mark	Mk	48	15	42	And when evening had come, since it was the day of Preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,
 Mark	Mk	48	15	43	Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the council, who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God, took courage and went to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus.
 Mark	Mk	48	15	44	And Pilate wondered if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he was already dead.
 Mark	Mk	48	15	45	And when he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he granted the body to Joseph.
 Mark	Mk	48	15	46	And he bought a linen shroud, and taking him down, wrapped him in the linen shroud, and laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out of the rock; and he rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.
 Mark	Mk	48	15	47	Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was laid.
 Mark	Mk	48	16	1	And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him.
 Mark	Mk	48	16	2	And very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb when the sun had risen.
 Mark	Mk	48	16	3	And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the door of the tomb?”
 Mark	Mk	48	16	4	And looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back;—it was very large.
 Mark	Mk	48	16	5	And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe; and they were amazed.
 Mark	Mk	48	16	6	And he said to them, “Do not be amazed; you seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen, he is not here; see the place where they laid him.
 Mark	Mk	48	16	7	But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him, as he told you.”
 Mark	Mk	48	16	8	And they went out and fled from the tomb; for trembling and astonishment had come upon them; and they said nothing to any one, for they were afraid.
 Mark	Mk	48	16	9	Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.
 Mark	Mk	48	16	10	She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept.
 Mark	Mk	48	16	11	But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it.
 Mark	Mk	48	16	12	After this he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country.
 Mark	Mk	48	16	13	And they went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them.
 Mark	Mk	48	16	14	Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they sat at table; and he upbraided them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen.
 Mark	Mk	48	16	15	And he said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation.
 Mark	Mk	48	16	16	He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.
 Mark	Mk	48	16	17	And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
 Mark	Mk	48	16	18	they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
 Mark	Mk	48	16	19	So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.
 Mark	Mk	48	16	20	And they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that attended it. Amen.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	1	Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things which have been accomplished among us,
 Luke	Lk	49	1	2	just as they were delivered to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word,
 Luke	Lk	49	1	3	it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,
 Luke	Lk	49	1	4	that you may know the truth concerning the things of which you have been informed.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	5	In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah; and he had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	6	And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	7	But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and both were advanced in years.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	8	Now while he was serving as priest before God when his division was on duty,
 Luke	Lk	49	1	9	according to the custom of the priesthood, it fell to him by lot to enter the temple of the Lord and burn incense.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	10	And the whole multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of incense.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	11	And there appeared to him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	12	And Zechariah was troubled when he saw him, and fear fell upon him.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	13	But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer is heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	14	And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth;
 Luke	Lk	49	1	15	for he will be great before the Lord, and he shall drink no wine nor strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	16	And he will turn many of the sons of Israel to the Lord their God,
 Luke	Lk	49	1	17	and he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared.”
 Luke	Lk	49	1	18	And Zechariah said to the angel, “How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in years.”
 Luke	Lk	49	1	19	And the angel answered him, “I am Gabriel, who stand in the presence of God; and I was sent to speak to you, and to bring you this good news.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	20	And behold, you will be silent and unable to speak until the day that these things come to pass, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their time.”
 Luke	Lk	49	1	21	And the people were waiting for Zechariah, and they wondered at his delay in the temple.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	22	And when he came out, he could not speak to them, and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple; and he made signs to them and remained dumb.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	23	And when his time of service was ended, he went to his home.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	24	After these days his wife Elizabeth conceived, and for five months she hid herself, saying,
 Luke	Lk	49	1	25	“Thus the Lord has done to me in the days when he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.”
 Luke	Lk	49	1	26	In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth,
 Luke	Lk	49	1	27	to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	28	And he came to her and said, “Hail, full of grace,b
 Luke	Lk	49	1	2	the Lord is with you!”
 Luke	Lk	49	1	29	But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and considered in her mind what sort of greeting this might be.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	30	And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	31	And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	32	He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David,
 Luke	Lk	49	1	33	and he will reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there will be no end.”
 Luke	Lk	49	1	34	And Mary said to the angel, “How shall this be, since I have no husband?”
 Luke	Lk	49	1	35	And the angel said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	36	And behold, your kinswoman Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	37	For with God nothing will be impossible.”
 Luke	Lk	49	1	38	And Mary said, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	39	In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a city of Judah,
 Luke	Lk	49	1	40	and she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	41	And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit
 Luke	Lk	49	1	42	and she exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!
 Luke	Lk	49	1	43	And why is this granted me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
 Luke	Lk	49	1	44	For behold, when the voice of your greeting came to my ears, the babe in my womb leaped for joy.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	45	And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.”
 Luke	Lk	49	1	46	And Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord,
 Luke	Lk	49	1	47	and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,
 Luke	Lk	49	1	48	for he has regarded the low estate of his handmaiden. For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed;
 Luke	Lk	49	1	49	for he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	50	And his mercy is on those who fear him from generation to generation.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	51	He has shown strength with his arm, he has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts,
 Luke	Lk	49	1	52	he has put down the mighty from their thrones, and exalted those of low degree;
 Luke	Lk	49	1	53	he has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent empty away.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	54	He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy,
 Luke	Lk	49	1	55	as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his posterity for ever.”
 Luke	Lk	49	1	56	And Mary remained with her about three months, and returned to her home.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	57	Now the time came for Elizabeth to be delivered, and she gave birth to a son.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	58	And her neighbors and kinsfolk heard that the Lord had shown great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	59	And on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they would have named him Zechariah after his father,
 Luke	Lk	49	1	60	but his mother said, “Not so; he shall be called John.”
 Luke	Lk	49	1	61	And they said to her, “None of your kindred is called by this name.”
 Luke	Lk	49	1	62	And they made signs to his father, inquiring what he would have him called.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	63	And he asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, “His name is John.” And they all marveled.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	64	And immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed, and he spoke, blessing God.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	65	And fear came on all their neighbors. And all these things were talked about through all the hill country of Judea;
 Luke	Lk	49	1	66	and all who heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, “What then will this child be?” For the hand of the Lord was with him.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	67	And his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying,
 Luke	Lk	49	1	68	“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people,
 Luke	Lk	49	1	69	and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David,
 Luke	Lk	49	1	70	as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old,
 Luke	Lk	49	1	71	that we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all who hate us;
 Luke	Lk	49	1	72	to perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant,
 Luke	Lk	49	1	73	the oath which he swore to our father Abraham,
 Luke	Lk	49	1	74	to grant us that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies, might serve him without fear,
 Luke	Lk	49	1	75	in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.
 Luke	Lk	49	1	76	And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,
 Luke	Lk	49	1	77	to give knowledge of salvation to his people in the forgiveness of their sins,
 Luke	Lk	49	1	78	through the tender mercy of our God, when the day shall dawn upon us from on high
 Luke	Lk	49	1	79	to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
 Luke	Lk	49	1	80	And the child grew and became strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness till the day of his manifestation to Israel.
 Luke	Lk	49	2	1	In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled.
 Luke	Lk	49	2	2	This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria.
 Luke	Lk	49	2	3	And all went to be enrolled, each to his own city.
 Luke	Lk	49	2	4	And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David,
 Luke	Lk	49	2	5	to be enrolled with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child.
 Luke	Lk	49	2	6	And while they were there, the time came for her to be delivered.
 Luke	Lk	49	2	7	And she gave birth to her first-born son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.
 Luke	Lk	49	2	8	And in that region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
 Luke	Lk	49	2	9	And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with fear.
 Luke	Lk	49	2	10	And the angel said to them, “Be not afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of a great joy which will come to all the people;
 Luke	Lk	49	2	11	for to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
 Luke	Lk	49	2	12	And this will be a sign for you: you will find a babe wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.”
 Luke	Lk	49	2	13	And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,
 Luke	Lk	49	2	14	“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among men with whom he is pleased!”
 Luke	Lk	49	2	15	When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”
 Luke	Lk	49	2	16	And they went with haste, and found Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.
 Luke	Lk	49	2	17	And when they saw it they made known the saying which had been told them concerning this child;
 Luke	Lk	49	2	18	and all who heard it wondered at what the shepherds told them.
 Luke	Lk	49	2	19	But Mary kept all these things, pondering them in her heart.
 Luke	Lk	49	2	20	And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them.
 Luke	Lk	49	2	21	And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
 Luke	Lk	49	2	22	And when the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord
 Luke	Lk	49	2	23	(as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male that opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”)
 Luke	Lk	49	2	24	and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the law of the Lord, “a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.”
 Luke	Lk	49	2	25	Now there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
 Luke	Lk	49	2	26	And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.
 Luke	Lk	49	2	27	And inspired by the Spirit he came into the temple; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him according to the custom of the law,
 Luke	Lk	49	2	28	he took him up in his arms and blessed God and said,
 Luke	Lk	49	2	29	“Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word;
 Luke	Lk	49	2	30	for mine eyes have seen thy salvation
 Luke	Lk	49	2	31	which thou hast prepared in the presence of all peoples,
 Luke	Lk	49	2	32	a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to thy people Israel.”
 Luke	Lk	49	2	33	And his father and his mother marveled at what was said about him;
 Luke	Lk	49	2	34	and Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is spoken against
 Luke	Lk	49	2	35	(and a sword will pierce through your own soul also), that thoughts out of many hearts may be revealed.”
 Luke	Lk	49	2	36	And there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanu-el, of the tribe of Asher; she was of a great age, having lived with her husband seven years from her virginity,
 Luke	Lk	49	2	37	and as a widow till she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.
 Luke	Lk	49	2	38	And coming up at that very hour she gave thanks to God, and spoke of him to all who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem.
 Luke	Lk	49	2	39	And when they had performed everything according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth.
 Luke	Lk	49	2	40	And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom; and the favor of God was upon him.
 Luke	Lk	49	2	41	Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover.
 Luke	Lk	49	2	42	And when he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom;
 Luke	Lk	49	2	43	and when the feast was ended, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it,
 Luke	Lk	49	2	44	but supposing him to be in the company they went a day’s journey, and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintances;
 Luke	Lk	49	2	45	and when they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, seeking him.
 Luke	Lk	49	2	46	After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions;
 Luke	Lk	49	2	47	and all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers.
 Luke	Lk	49	2	48	And when they saw him they were astonished; and his mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us so? Behold, your father and I have been looking for you anxiously.”
 Luke	Lk	49	2	49	And he said to them, “How is it that you sought me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?”
 Luke	Lk	49	2	50	And they did not understand the saying which he spoke to them.
 Luke	Lk	49	2	51	And he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them; and his mother kept all these things in her heart.
 Luke	Lk	49	2	52	And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and man.
 Luke	Lk	49	3	1	In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberi-us Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysani-as tetrarch of Abilene,
 Luke	Lk	49	3	2	in the high-priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness;
 Luke	Lk	49	3	3	and he went into all the region about the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
 Luke	Lk	49	3	4	As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
 Luke	Lk	49	3	5	Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;
 Luke	Lk	49	3	6	and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.”
 Luke	Lk	49	3	7	He said therefore to the multitudes that came out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
 Luke	Lk	49	3	8	Bear fruits that befit repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father’; for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
 Luke	Lk	49	3	9	Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees; every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”
 Luke	Lk	49	3	10	And the multitudes asked him, “What then shall we do?”
 Luke	Lk	49	3	11	And he answered them, “He who has two coats, let him share with him who has none; and he who has food, let him do likewise.”
 Luke	Lk	49	3	12	Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and said to him, “Teacher, what shall we do?”
 Luke	Lk	49	3	13	And he said to them, “Collect no more than is appointed you.”
 Luke	Lk	49	3	14	Soldiers also asked him, “And we, what shall we do?” And he said to them, “Rob no one by violence or by false accusation, and be content with your wages.”
 Luke	Lk	49	3	15	As the people were in expectation, and all men questioned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he were the Christ,
 Luke	Lk	49	3	16	John answered them all, “I baptize you with water; but he who is mightier than I is coming, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie; he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
 Luke	Lk	49	3	17	His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor, and to gather the wheat into his granary, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”
 Luke	Lk	49	3	18	So, with many other exhortations, he preached good news to the people.
 Luke	Lk	49	3	19	But Herod the tetrarch, who had been reproved by him for Herodi-as, his brother’s wife, and for all the evil things that Herod had done,
 Luke	Lk	49	3	20	added this to them all, that he shut up John in prison.
 Luke	Lk	49	3	21	Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heaven was opened,
 Luke	Lk	49	3	22	and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form, as a dove, and a voice came from heaven, “Thou art my beloved Son; with thee I am well pleased.”
 Luke	Lk	49	3	23	Jesus, when he began his ministry, was about thirty years of age, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,
 Luke	Lk	49	3	24	the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Janna-i, the son of Joseph,
 Luke	Lk	49	3	25	the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Nagga-i,
 Luke	Lk	49	3	26	the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Seme-in, the son of Josech, the son of Joda,
 Luke	Lk	49	3	27	the son of Jo-anan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of She-alti-el, the son of Neri,
 Luke	Lk	49	3	28	the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmadam, the son of Er,
 Luke	Lk	49	3	29	the son of Joshua, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi,
 Luke	Lk	49	3	30	the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim,
 Luke	Lk	49	3	31	the son of Mele-a, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David,
 Luke	Lk	49	3	32	the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Sala, the son of Nahshon,
 Luke	Lk	49	3	33	the son of Amminadab, the son of Admin, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,
 Luke	Lk	49	3	34	the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,
 Luke	Lk	49	3	35	the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah,
 Luke	Lk	49	3	36	the son of Ca-inan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,
 Luke	Lk	49	3	37	the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalale-el, the son of Ca-inan,
 Luke	Lk	49	3	38	the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.
 Luke	Lk	49	4	1	And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit
 Luke	Lk	49	4	2	for forty days in the wilderness, tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days; and when they were ended, he was hungry.
 Luke	Lk	49	4	3	The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”
 Luke	Lk	49	4	4	And Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone.’”
 Luke	Lk	49	4	5	And the devil took him up, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time,
 Luke	Lk	49	4	6	and said to him, “To you I will give all this authority and their glory; for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will.
 Luke	Lk	49	4	7	If you, then, will worship me, it shall all be yours.”
 Luke	Lk	49	4	8	And Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.’”
 Luke	Lk	49	4	9	And he took him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here;
 Luke	Lk	49	4	10	for it is written, ‘He will give his angels charge of you, to guard you,’
 Luke	Lk	49	4	11	and ‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.’”
 Luke	Lk	49	4	12	And Jesus answered him, “It is said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’”
 Luke	Lk	49	4	13	And when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from him until an opportune time.
 Luke	Lk	49	4	14	And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and a report concerning him went out through all the surrounding country.
 Luke	Lk	49	4	15	And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.
 Luke	Lk	49	4	16	And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up; and he went to the synagogue, as his custom was, on the sabbath day. And he stood up to read;
 Luke	Lk	49	4	17	and there was given to him the book of the prophet Isaiah. He opened the book and found the place where it was written,
 Luke	Lk	49	4	18	“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
 Luke	Lk	49	4	19	to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
 Luke	Lk	49	4	20	And he closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant, and sat down; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him.
 Luke	Lk	49	4	21	And he began to say to them, “Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”
 Luke	Lk	49	4	22	And all spoke well of him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth; and they said, “Is not this Joseph’s son?”
 Luke	Lk	49	4	23	And he said to them, “Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, ‘Physician, heal yourself; what we have heard you did at Caperna-um, do here also in your own country.’”
 Luke	Lk	49	4	24	And he said, “Truly, I say to you, no prophet is acceptable in his own country.
 Luke	Lk	49	4	25	But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when there came a great famine over all the land;
 Luke	Lk	49	4	26	and Elijah was sent to none of them but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
 Luke	Lk	49	4	27	And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha; and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.”
 Luke	Lk	49	4	28	When they heard this, all in the synagogue were filled with wrath.
 Luke	Lk	49	4	29	And they rose up and put him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might throw him down headlong.
 Luke	Lk	49	4	30	But passing through the midst of them he went away.
 Luke	Lk	49	4	31	And he went down to Caperna-um, a city of Galilee. And he was teaching them on the sabbath;
 Luke	Lk	49	4	32	and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was with authority.
 Luke	Lk	49	4	33	And in the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon; and he cried out with a loud voice,
 Luke	Lk	49	4	34	“Ah! What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God.”
 Luke	Lk	49	4	35	But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent, and come out of him!” And when the demon had thrown him down in the midst, he came out of him, having done him no harm.
 Luke	Lk	49	4	36	And they were all amazed and said to one another, “What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out.”
 Luke	Lk	49	4	37	And reports of him went out into every place in the surrounding region.
 Luke	Lk	49	4	38	And he arose and left the synagogue, and entered Simon’s house. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was ill with a high fever, and they besought him for her.
 Luke	Lk	49	4	39	And he stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her; and immediately she rose and served them.
 Luke	Lk	49	4	40	Now when the sun was setting, all those who had any that were sick with various diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them.
 Luke	Lk	49	4	41	And demons also came out of many, crying, “You are the Son of God!” But he rebuked them, and would not allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.
 Luke	Lk	49	4	42	And when it was day he departed and went into a lonely place. And the people sought him and came to him, and would have kept him from leaving them;
 Luke	Lk	49	4	43	but he said to them, “I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to the other cities also; for I was sent for this purpose.”
 Luke	Lk	49	4	44	And he was preaching in the synagogues of Judea.
 Luke	Lk	49	5	1	While the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret.
 Luke	Lk	49	5	2	And he saw two boats by the lake; but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets.
 Luke	Lk	49	5	3	Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat.
 Luke	Lk	49	5	4	And when he had ceased speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.”
 Luke	Lk	49	5	5	And Simon answered, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.”
 Luke	Lk	49	5	6	And when they had done this, they enclosed a great shoal of fish; and as their nets were breaking,
 Luke	Lk	49	5	7	they beckoned to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink.
 Luke	Lk	49	5	8	But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.”
 Luke	Lk	49	5	9	For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the catch of fish which they had taken;
 Luke	Lk	49	5	10	and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid; henceforth you will be catching men.”
 Luke	Lk	49	5	11	And when they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed him.
 Luke	Lk	49	5	12	While he was in one of the cities, there came a man full of leprosy; and when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and besought him, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.”
 Luke	Lk	49	5	13	And he stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately the leprosy left him.
 Luke	Lk	49	5	14	And he charged him to tell no one; but “go and show yourself to the priest, and make an offering for your cleansing, as Moses commanded, for a proof to the people.”
 Luke	Lk	49	5	15	But so much the more the report went abroad concerning him; and great multitudes gathered to hear and to be healed of their infirmities.
 Luke	Lk	49	5	16	But he withdrew to the wilderness and prayed.
 Luke	Lk	49	5	17	On one of those days, as he was teaching, there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was with him to heal.
 Luke	Lk	49	5	18	And behold, men were bringing on a bed a man who was paralyzed, and they sought to bring him in and lay him before Jesus;
 Luke	Lk	49	5	19	but finding no way to bring him in, because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down with his bed through the tiles into the midst before Jesus.
 Luke	Lk	49	5	20	And when he saw their faith he said, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.”
 Luke	Lk	49	5	21	And the scribes and the Pharisees began to question, saying, “Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God only?”
 Luke	Lk	49	5	22	When Jesus perceived their questionings, he answered them, “Why do you question in your hearts?
 Luke	Lk	49	5	23	Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk’?
 Luke	Lk	49	5	24	But that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the man who was paralyzed—“I say to you, rise, take up your bed and go home.”
 Luke	Lk	49	5	25	And immediately he rose before them, and took up that on which he lay, and went home, glorifying God.
 Luke	Lk	49	5	26	And amazement seized them all, and they glorified God and were filled with awe, saying, “We have seen strange things today.”
 Luke	Lk	49	5	27	After this he went out, and saw a tax collector, named Levi, sitting at the tax office; and he said to him, “Follow me.”
 Luke	Lk	49	5	28	And he left everything, and rose and followed him.
 Luke	Lk	49	5	29	And Levi made him a great feast in his house; and there was a large company of tax collectors and others sitting at table with them.
 Luke	Lk	49	5	30	And the Pharisees and their scribes murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
 Luke	Lk	49	5	31	And Jesus answered them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick;
 Luke	Lk	49	5	32	I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
 Luke	Lk	49	5	33	And they said to him, “The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink.”
 Luke	Lk	49	5	34	And Jesus said to them, “Can you make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them?
 Luke	Lk	49	5	35	The days will come, when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.”
 Luke	Lk	49	5	36	He told them a parable also: “No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it upon an old garment; if he does, he will tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old.
 Luke	Lk	49	5	37	And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.
 Luke	Lk	49	5	38	But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.
 Luke	Lk	49	5	39	And no one after drinking old wine desires new; for he says, ‘The old is good.’”
 Luke	Lk	49	6	1	On a sabbath, while he was going through the grainfields, his disciples plucked and ate some heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands.
 Luke	Lk	49	6	2	But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is not lawful to do on the sabbath?”
 Luke	Lk	49	6	3	And Jesus answered, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him:
 Luke	Lk	49	6	4	how he entered the house of God, and took and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those with him?”
 Luke	Lk	49	6	5	And he said to them, “The Son of man is lord of the sabbath.”
 Luke	Lk	49	6	6	On another sabbath, when he entered the synagogue and taught, a man was there whose right hand was withered.
 Luke	Lk	49	6	7	And the scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the sabbath, so that they might find an accusation against him.
 Luke	Lk	49	6	8	But he knew their thoughts, and he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Come and stand here.” And he rose and stood there.
 Luke	Lk	49	6	9	And Jesus said to them, “I ask you, is it lawful on the sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to destroy it?”
 Luke	Lk	49	6	10	And he looked around on them all, and said to him, “Stretch out your hand.” And he did so, and his hand was restored.
 Luke	Lk	49	6	11	But they were filled with fury and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus.
 Luke	Lk	49	6	12	In these days he went out to the mountain to pray; and all night he continued in prayer to God.
 Luke	Lk	49	6	13	And when it was day, he called his disciples, and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles;
 Luke	Lk	49	6	14	Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew,
 Luke	Lk	49	6	15	and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot,
 Luke	Lk	49	6	16	and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.
 Luke	Lk	49	6	17	And he came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases;
 Luke	Lk	49	6	18	and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured.
 Luke	Lk	49	6	19	And all the crowd sought to touch him, for power came forth from him and healed them all.
 Luke	Lk	49	6	20	And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: “Blessed are you poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
 Luke	Lk	49	6	21	“Blessed are you that hunger now, for you shall be satisfied. “Blessed are you that weep now, for you shall laugh.
 Luke	Lk	49	6	22	“Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude you and revile you, and cast out your name as evil, on account of the Son of man!
 Luke	Lk	49	6	23	Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets.
 Luke	Lk	49	6	24	“But woe to you that are rich, for you have received your consolation.
 Luke	Lk	49	6	25	“Woe to you that are full now, for you shall hunger. “Woe to you that laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.
 Luke	Lk	49	6	26	“Woe to you, when all men speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.
 Luke	Lk	49	6	27	“But I say to you that hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
 Luke	Lk	49	6	28	bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.
 Luke	Lk	49	6	29	To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also; and from him who takes away your coat do not withhold even your shirt.
 Luke	Lk	49	6	30	Give to every one who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again.
 Luke	Lk	49	6	31	And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.
 Luke	Lk	49	6	32	“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.
 Luke	Lk	49	6	33	And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
 Luke	Lk	49	6	34	And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
 Luke	Lk	49	6	35	But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for he is kind to the ungrateful and the selfish.
 Luke	Lk	49	6	36	Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.
 Luke	Lk	49	6	37	“Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;
 Luke	Lk	49	6	38	give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For the measure you give will be the measure you get back.”
 Luke	Lk	49	6	39	He also told them a parable: “Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit?
 Luke	Lk	49	6	40	A disciple is not above his teacher, but every one when he is fully taught will be like his teacher.
 Luke	Lk	49	6	41	Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?
 Luke	Lk	49	6	42	Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother’s eye.
 Luke	Lk	49	6	43	“For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit;
 Luke	Lk	49	6	44	for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.
 Luke	Lk	49	6	45	The good man out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil man out of his evil treasure produces evil; for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.
 Luke	Lk	49	6	46	“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?
 Luke	Lk	49	6	47	Every one who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like:
 Luke	Lk	49	6	48	he is like a man building a house, who dug deep, and laid the foundation upon rock; and when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it had been well built.
 Luke	Lk	49	6	49	But he who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation; against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”
 Luke	Lk	49	7	1	After he had ended all his sayings in the hearing of the people he entered Caperna-um.
 Luke	Lk	49	7	2	Now a centurion had a slave who was dear to him, who was sick and at the point of death.
 Luke	Lk	49	7	3	When he heard of Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and heal his slave.
 Luke	Lk	49	7	4	And when they came to Jesus, they besought him earnestly, saying, “He is worthy to have you do this for him,
 Luke	Lk	49	7	5	for he loves our nation, and he built us our synagogue.”
 Luke	Lk	49	7	6	And Jesus went with them. When he was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, “Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy to have you come under my roof;
 Luke	Lk	49	7	7	therefore I did not presume to come to you. But say the word, and let my servant be healed.
 Luke	Lk	49	7	8	For I am a man set under authority, with soldiers under me: and I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and to my slave, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
 Luke	Lk	49	7	9	When Jesus heard this he marveled at him, and turned and said to the multitude that followed him, “I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith.”
 Luke	Lk	49	7	10	And when those who had been sent returned to the house, they found the slave well.
 Luke	Lk	49	7	11	Soon afterward he went to a city called Nain, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him.
 Luke	Lk	49	7	12	As he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow; and a large crowd from the city was with her.
 Luke	Lk	49	7	13	And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.”
 Luke	Lk	49	7	14	And he came and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. And he said, “Young man, I say to you, arise.”
 Luke	Lk	49	7	15	And the dead man sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to his mother.
 Luke	Lk	49	7	16	Fear seized them all; and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and “God has visited his people!”
 Luke	Lk	49	7	17	And this report concerning him spread through the whole of Judea and all the surrounding country.
 Luke	Lk	49	7	18	The disciples of John told him of all these things.
 Luke	Lk	49	7	19	And John, calling to him two of his disciples, sent them to the Lord, saying, “Are you he who is to come, or shall we look for another?”
 Luke	Lk	49	7	20	And when the men had come to him, they said, “John the Baptist has sent us to you, saying, ‘Are you he who is to come, or shall we look for another?’”
 Luke	Lk	49	7	21	In that hour he cured many of diseases and plagues and evil spirits, and on many that were blind he bestowed sight.
 Luke	Lk	49	7	22	And he answered them, “Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have good news preached to them.
 Luke	Lk	49	7	23	And blessed is he who takes no offense at me.”
 Luke	Lk	49	7	24	When the messengers of John had gone, he began to speak to the crowds concerning John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to behold? A reed shaken by the wind?
 Luke	Lk	49	7	25	What then did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are gorgeously appareled and live in luxury are in kings’ courts.
 Luke	Lk	49	7	26	What then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.
 Luke	Lk	49	7	27	This is he of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.’
 Luke	Lk	49	7	28	I tell you, among those born of women none is greater than John; yet he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”
 Luke	Lk	49	7	29	(When they heard this all the people and the tax collectors justified God, having been baptized with the baptism of John;
 Luke	Lk	49	7	30	but the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the purpose of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.)
 Luke	Lk	49	7	31	“To what then shall I compare the men of this generation, and what are they like?
 Luke	Lk	49	7	32	They are like children sitting in the market place and calling to one another, ‘We piped to you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not weep.’
 Luke	Lk	49	7	33	For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine; and you say, ‘He has a demon.’
 Luke	Lk	49	7	34	The Son of man has come eating and drinking; and you say, ‘Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’
 Luke	Lk	49	7	35	Yet wisdom is justified by all her children.”
 Luke	Lk	49	7	36	One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house, and took his place at table.
 Luke	Lk	49	7	37	And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was at table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment,
 Luke	Lk	49	7	38	and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
 Luke	Lk	49	7	39	Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, for she is a sinner.”
 Luke	Lk	49	7	40	And Jesus answering said to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” And he answered, “What is it, Teacher?”
 Luke	Lk	49	7	41	“A certain creditor had two debtors; one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
 Luke	Lk	49	7	42	When they could not pay, he forgave them both. Now which of them will love him more?”
 Luke	Lk	49	7	43	Simon answered, “The one, I suppose, to whom he forgave more.” And he said to him, “You have judged rightly.”
 Luke	Lk	49	7	44	Then turning toward the woman he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house, you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.
 Luke	Lk	49	7	45	You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in she has not ceased to kiss my feet.
 Luke	Lk	49	7	46	You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment.
 Luke	Lk	49	7	47	Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much; but he who is forgiven little, loves little.”
 Luke	Lk	49	7	48	And he said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”
 Luke	Lk	49	7	49	Then those who were at table with him began to say among themselves, “Who is this, who even forgives sins?”
 Luke	Lk	49	7	50	And he said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”
 Luke	Lk	49	8	1	Soon afterward he went on through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him,
 Luke	Lk	49	8	2	and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,
 Luke	Lk	49	8	3	and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their means.
 Luke	Lk	49	8	4	And when a great crowd came together and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable:
 Luke	Lk	49	8	5	“A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell along the path, and was trodden under foot, and the birds of the air devoured it.
 Luke	Lk	49	8	6	And some fell on the rock; and as it grew up, it withered away, because it had no moisture.
 Luke	Lk	49	8	7	And some fell among thorns; and the thorns grew with it and choked it.
 Luke	Lk	49	8	8	And some fell into good soil and grew, and yielded a hundredfold.” As he said this, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
 Luke	Lk	49	8	9	And when his disciples asked him what this parable meant,
 Luke	Lk	49	8	10	he said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God; but for others they are in parables, so that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.
 Luke	Lk	49	8	11	Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
 Luke	Lk	49	8	12	The ones along the path are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, that they may not believe and be saved.
 Luke	Lk	49	8	13	And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy; but these have no root, they believe for a while and in time of temptation fall away.
 Luke	Lk	49	8	14	And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature.
 Luke	Lk	49	8	15	And as for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bring forth fruit with patience.
 Luke	Lk	49	8	16	“No one after lighting a lamp covers it with a vessel, or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a stand, that those who enter may see the light.
 Luke	Lk	49	8	17	For nothing is hid that shall not be made manifest, nor anything secret that shall not be known and come to light.
 Luke	Lk	49	8	18	Take heed then how you hear; for to him who has will more be given, and from him who has not, even what he thinks that he has will be taken away.”
 Luke	Lk	49	8	19	Then his mother and his brethren came to him, but they could not reach him for the crowd.
 Luke	Lk	49	8	20	And he was told, “Your mother and your brethren are standing outside, desiring to see you.”
 Luke	Lk	49	8	21	But he said to them, “My mother and my brethren are those who hear the word of God and do it.”
 Luke	Lk	49	8	22	One day he got into a boat with his disciples, and he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side of the lake.” So they set out,
 Luke	Lk	49	8	23	and as they sailed he fell asleep. And a storm of wind came down on the lake, and they were filling with water, and were in danger.
 Luke	Lk	49	8	24	And they went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” And he awoke and rebuked the wind and the raging waves; and they ceased, and there was a calm.
 Luke	Lk	49	8	25	He said to them, “Where is your faith?” And they were afraid, and they marveled, saying to one another, “Who then is this, that he commands even wind and water, and they obey him?”
 Luke	Lk	49	8	26	Then they arrived at the country of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee.
 Luke	Lk	49	8	27	And as he stepped out on land, there met him a man from the city who had demons; for a long time he had worn no clothes, and he lived not in a house but among the tombs.
 Luke	Lk	49	8	28	When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before him, and said with a loud voice, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beseech you, do not torment me.”
 Luke	Lk	49	8	29	For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. (For many a time it had seized him; he was kept under guard, and bound with chains and fetters, but he broke the bonds and was driven by the demon into the desert.)
 Luke	Lk	49	8	30	Jesus then asked him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Legion”; for many demons had entered him.
 Luke	Lk	49	8	31	And they begged him not to command them to depart into the abyss.
 Luke	Lk	49	8	32	Now a large herd of swine was feeding there on the hillside; and they begged him to let them enter these. So he gave them leave.
 Luke	Lk	49	8	33	Then the demons came out of the man and entered the swine, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and were drowned.
 Luke	Lk	49	8	34	When the herdsmen saw what had happened, they fled, and told it in the city and in the country.
 Luke	Lk	49	8	35	Then people went out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had gone, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.
 Luke	Lk	49	8	36	And those who had seen it told them how he who had been possessed with demons was healed.
 Luke	Lk	49	8	37	Then all the people of the surrounding country of the Gerasenes asked him to depart from them; for they were seized with great fear; so he got into the boat and returned.
 Luke	Lk	49	8	38	The man from whom the demons had gone begged that he might be with him; but he sent him away, saying,
 Luke	Lk	49	8	39	“Return to your home, and declare how much God has done for you.” And he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole city how much Jesus had done for him.
 Luke	Lk	49	8	40	Now when Jesus returned, the crowd welcomed him, for they were all waiting for him.
 Luke	Lk	49	8	41	And there came a man named Jairus, who was a ruler of the synagogue; and falling at Jesus’ feet he besought him to come to his house,
 Luke	Lk	49	8	42	for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. As he went, the people pressed round him.
 Luke	Lk	49	8	43	And a woman who had had a flow of blood for twelve years and had spent all her living upon physicians and could not be healed by any one,
 Luke	Lk	49	8	44	came up behind him, and touched the fringe of his garment; and immediately her flow of blood ceased.
 Luke	Lk	49	8	45	And Jesus said, “Who was it that touched me?” When all denied it, Peter said, “Master, the multitudes surround you and press upon you!”
 Luke	Lk	49	8	46	But Jesus said, “Some one touched me; for I perceive that power has gone forth from me.”
 Luke	Lk	49	8	47	And when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared in the presence of all the people why she had touched him, and how she had been immediately healed.
 Luke	Lk	49	8	48	And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace.”
 Luke	Lk	49	8	49	While he was still speaking, a man from the ruler’s house came and said, “Your daughter is dead; do not trouble the Teacher any more.”
 Luke	Lk	49	8	50	But Jesus on hearing this answered him, “Do not fear; only believe, and she shall be well.”
 Luke	Lk	49	8	51	And when he came to the house, he permitted no one to enter with him, except Peter and John and James, and the father and mother of the child.
 Luke	Lk	49	8	52	And all were weeping and bewailing her; but he said, “Do not weep; for she is not dead but sleeping.”
 Luke	Lk	49	8	53	And they laughed at him, knowing that she was dead.
 Luke	Lk	49	8	54	But taking her by the hand he called, saying, “Child, arise.”
 Luke	Lk	49	8	55	And her spirit returned, and she got up at once; and he directed that something should be given her to eat.
 Luke	Lk	49	8	56	And her parents were amazed; but he charged them to tell no one what had happened.
 Luke	Lk	49	9	1	And he called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases,
 Luke	Lk	49	9	2	and he sent them out to preach the kingdom of God and to heal.
 Luke	Lk	49	9	3	And he said to them, “Take nothing for your journey, no staff, nor bag, nor bread, nor money; and do not have two tunics.
 Luke	Lk	49	9	4	And whatever house you enter, stay there, and from there depart.
 Luke	Lk	49	9	5	And wherever they do not receive you, when you leave that town shake off the dust from your feet as a testimony against them.”
 Luke	Lk	49	9	6	And they departed and went through the villages, preaching the gospel and healing everywhere.
 Luke	Lk	49	9	7	Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done, and he was perplexed, because it was said by some that John had been raised from the dead,
 Luke	Lk	49	9	8	by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the old prophets had risen.
 Luke	Lk	49	9	9	Herod said, “John I beheaded; but who is this about whom I hear such things?” And he sought to see him.
 Luke	Lk	49	9	10	On their return the apostles told him what they had done. And he took them and withdrew apart to a city called Beth-saida.
 Luke	Lk	49	9	11	When the crowds learned it, they followed him; and he welcomed them and spoke to them of the kingdom of God, and cured those who had need of healing.
 Luke	Lk	49	9	12	Now the day began to wear away; and the twelve came and said to him, “Send the crowd away, to go into the villages and country round about, to lodge and get provisions; for we are here in a lonely place.”
 Luke	Lk	49	9	13	But he said to them, “You give them something to eat.” They said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish—unless we are to go and buy food for all these people.”
 Luke	Lk	49	9	14	For there were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, “Make them sit down in companies, about fifty each.”
 Luke	Lk	49	9	15	And they did so, and made them all sit down.
 Luke	Lk	49	9	16	And taking the five loaves and the two fish he looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd.
 Luke	Lk	49	9	17	And all ate and were satisfied. And they took up what was left over, twelve baskets of broken pieces.
 Luke	Lk	49	9	18	Now it happened that as he was praying alone the disciples were with him; and he asked them, “Who do the people say that I am?”
 Luke	Lk	49	9	19	And they answered, “John the Baptist; but others say, Elijah; and others, that one of the old prophets has risen.”
 Luke	Lk	49	9	20	And he said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” And Peter answered, “The Christ of God.”
 Luke	Lk	49	9	21	But he charged and commanded them to tell this to no one,
 Luke	Lk	49	9	22	saying, “The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.”
 Luke	Lk	49	9	23	And he said to all, “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
 Luke	Lk	49	9	24	For whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake, he will save it.
 Luke	Lk	49	9	25	For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?
 Luke	Lk	49	9	26	For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
 Luke	Lk	49	9	27	But I tell you truly, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God.”
 Luke	Lk	49	9	28	Now about eight days after these sayings he took with him Peter and John and James, and went up on the mountain to pray.
 Luke	Lk	49	9	29	And as he was praying, the appearance of his countenance was altered, and his raiment became dazzling white.
 Luke	Lk	49	9	30	And behold, two men talked with him, Moses and Elijah,
 Luke	Lk	49	9	31	who appeared in glory and spoke of his departure, which he was to accomplish at Jerusalem.
 Luke	Lk	49	9	32	Now Peter and those who were with him were heavy with sleep, and when they wakened they saw his glory and the two men who stood with him.
 Luke	Lk	49	9	33	And as the men were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it is well that we are here; let us make three booths, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah”—not knowing what he said.
 Luke	Lk	49	9	34	As he said this, a cloud came and overshadowed them; and they were afraid as they entered the cloud.
 Luke	Lk	49	9	35	And a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my Son, my Chosen; listen to him!”
 Luke	Lk	49	9	36	And when the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. And they kept silence and told no one in those days anything of what they had seen.
 Luke	Lk	49	9	37	On the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a great crowd met him.
 Luke	Lk	49	9	38	And behold, a man from the crowd cried, “Teacher, I beg you to look upon my son, for he is my only child;
 Luke	Lk	49	9	39	and behold, a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly cries out; it convulses him till he foams, and shatters him, and will hardly leave him.
 Luke	Lk	49	9	40	And I begged your disciples to cast it out, but they could not.”
 Luke	Lk	49	9	41	Jesus answered, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long am I to be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.”
 Luke	Lk	49	9	42	While he was coming, the demon tore him and convulsed him. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.
 Luke	Lk	49	9	43	And all were astonished at the majesty of God. But while they were all marveling at everything he did, he said to his disciples,
 Luke	Lk	49	9	44	“Let these words sink into your ears; for the Son of man is to be delivered into the hands of men.”
 Luke	Lk	49	9	45	But they did not understand this saying, and it was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it; and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.
 Luke	Lk	49	9	46	And an argument arose among them as to which of them was the greatest.
 Luke	Lk	49	9	47	But when Jesus perceived the thought of their hearts, he took a child and put him by his side,
 Luke	Lk	49	9	48	and said to them, “Whoever receives this child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me; for he who is least among you all is the one who is great.”
 Luke	Lk	49	9	49	John answered, “Master, we saw a man casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him, because he does not follow with us.”
 Luke	Lk	49	9	50	But Jesus said to him, “Do not forbid him; for he that is not against you is for you.”
 Luke	Lk	49	9	51	When the days drew near for him to be received up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem.
 Luke	Lk	49	9	52	And he sent messengers ahead of him, who went and entered a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him;
 Luke	Lk	49	9	53	but the people would not receive him, because his face was set toward Jerusalem.
 Luke	Lk	49	9	54	And when his disciples James and John saw it, they said, “Lord, do you want us to bid fire come down from heaven and consume them?”
 Luke	Lk	49	9	55	But he turned and rebuked them.
 Luke	Lk	49	9	56	And they went on to another village.
 Luke	Lk	49	9	57	As they were going along the road, a man said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.”
 Luke	Lk	49	9	58	And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.”
 Luke	Lk	49	9	59	To another he said, “Follow me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”
 Luke	Lk	49	9	60	But he said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead; but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”
 Luke	Lk	49	9	61	Another said, “I will follow you, Lord; but let me first say farewell to those at my home.”
 Luke	Lk	49	9	62	Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
 Luke	Lk	49	10	1	After this the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to come.
 Luke	Lk	49	10	2	And he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.
 Luke	Lk	49	10	3	Go your way; behold, I send you out as lambs in the midst of wolves.
 Luke	Lk	49	10	4	Carry no purse, no bag, no sandals; and salute no one on the road.
 Luke	Lk	49	10	5	Whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house!’
 Luke	Lk	49	10	6	And if a son of peace is there, your peace shall rest upon him; but if not, it shall return to you.
 Luke	Lk	49	10	7	And remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they provide, for the laborer deserves his wages; do not go from house to house.
 Luke	Lk	49	10	8	Whenever you enter a town and they receive you, eat what is set before you;
 Luke	Lk	49	10	9	heal the sick in it and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’
 Luke	Lk	49	10	10	But whenever you enter a town and they do not receive you, go into its streets and say,
 Luke	Lk	49	10	11	‘Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet, we wipe off against you; nevertheless know this, that the kingdom of God has come near.’
 Luke	Lk	49	10	12	I tell you, it shall be more tolerable on that day for Sodom than for that town.
 Luke	Lk	49	10	13	“Woe to you, Chorazin! woe to you, Beth-saida! for if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
 Luke	Lk	49	10	14	But it shall be more tolerable in the judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you.
 Luke	Lk	49	10	15	And you, Caperna-um, will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades.
 Luke	Lk	49	10	16	“He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me.”
 Luke	Lk	49	10	17	The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!”
 Luke	Lk	49	10	18	And he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
 Luke	Lk	49	10	19	Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing shall hurt you.
 Luke	Lk	49	10	20	Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you; but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
 Luke	Lk	49	10	21	In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes; yea, Father, for such was thy gracious will.
 Luke	Lk	49	10	22	All things have been delivered to me by my Father; and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”
 Luke	Lk	49	10	23	Then turning to the disciples he said privately, “Blessed are the eyes which see what you see!
 Luke	Lk	49	10	24	For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.”
 Luke	Lk	49	10	25	And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
 Luke	Lk	49	10	26	He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read?”
 Luke	Lk	49	10	27	And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
 Luke	Lk	49	10	28	And he said to him, “You have answered right; do this, and you will live.”
 Luke	Lk	49	10	29	But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
 Luke	Lk	49	10	30	Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
 Luke	Lk	49	10	31	Now by chance a priest was going down that road; and when he saw him he passed by on the other side.
 Luke	Lk	49	10	32	So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.
 Luke	Lk	49	10	33	But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was; and when he saw him, he had compassion,
 Luke	Lk	49	10	34	and went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine; then he set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
 Luke	Lk	49	10	35	And the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, ‘Take care of him; and whatever more you spend, I will repay you when I come back.’
 Luke	Lk	49	10	36	Which of these three, do you think, proved neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?”
 Luke	Lk	49	10	37	He said, “The one who showed mercy on him.” And Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”
 Luke	Lk	49	10	38	Now as they went on their way, he entered a village; and a woman named Martha received him into her house.
 Luke	Lk	49	10	39	And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to his teaching.
 Luke	Lk	49	10	40	But Martha was distracted with much serving; and she went to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.”
 Luke	Lk	49	10	41	But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things;
 Luke	Lk	49	10	42	one thing is needful. Mary has chosen the good portion, which shall not be taken away from her.”
 Luke	Lk	49	11	1	He was praying in a certain place, and when he ceased, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.”
 Luke	Lk	49	11	2	And he said to them, “When you pray, say: “Father, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come.
 Luke	Lk	49	11	3	Give us each day our daily bread;
 Luke	Lk	49	11	4	and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive every one who is indebted to us; and lead us not into temptation.”
 Luke	Lk	49	11	5	And he said to them, “Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves;
 Luke	Lk	49	11	6	for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him’;
 Luke	Lk	49	11	7	and he will answer from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot get up and give you anything’?
 Luke	Lk	49	11	8	I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him whatever he needs.
 Luke	Lk	49	11	9	And I tell you, Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
 Luke	Lk	49	11	10	For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
 Luke	Lk	49	11	11	What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent;
 Luke	Lk	49	11	12	or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
 Luke	Lk	49	11	13	If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
 Luke	Lk	49	11	14	Now he was casting out a demon that was dumb; when the demon had gone out, the dumb man spoke, and the people marveled.
 Luke	Lk	49	11	15	But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Be-elzebul, the prince of demons”;
 Luke	Lk	49	11	16	while others, to test him, sought from him a sign from heaven.
 Luke	Lk	49	11	17	But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and a divided household falls.
 Luke	Lk	49	11	18	And if Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Be-elzebul.
 Luke	Lk	49	11	19	And if I cast out demons by Be-elzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges.
 Luke	Lk	49	11	20	But if it is by the finger of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
 Luke	Lk	49	11	21	When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his goods are in peace;
 Luke	Lk	49	11	22	but when one stronger than he assails him and overcomes him, he takes away his armor in which he trusted, and divides his spoil.
 Luke	Lk	49	11	23	He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.
 Luke	Lk	49	11	24	“When the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through waterless places seeking rest; and finding none he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’
 Luke	Lk	49	11	25	And when he comes he finds it swept and put in order.
 Luke	Lk	49	11	26	Then he goes and brings seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first.”
 Luke	Lk	49	11	27	As he said this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts that you sucked!”
 Luke	Lk	49	11	28	But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”
 Luke	Lk	49	11	29	When the crowds were increasing, he began to say, “This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign shall be given to it except the sign of Jonah.
 Luke	Lk	49	11	30	For as Jonah became a sign to the men of Nineveh, so will the Son of man be to this generation.
 Luke	Lk	49	11	31	The queen of the South will arise at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
 Luke	Lk	49	11	32	The men of Nineveh will arise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
 Luke	Lk	49	11	33	“No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a cellar or under a bushel, but on a stand, that those who enter may see the light.
 Luke	Lk	49	11	34	Your eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye is sound, your whole body is full of light; but when it is not sound, your body is full of darkness.
 Luke	Lk	49	11	35	Therefore be careful lest the light in you be darkness.
 Luke	Lk	49	11	36	If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly bright, as when a lamp with its rays gives you light.”
 Luke	Lk	49	11	37	While he was speaking, a Pharisee asked him to dine with him; so he went in and sat at table.
 Luke	Lk	49	11	38	The Pharisee was astonished to see that he did not first wash before dinner.
 Luke	Lk	49	11	39	And the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of extortion and wickedness.
 Luke	Lk	49	11	40	You fools! Did not he who made the outside make the inside also?
 Luke	Lk	49	11	41	But give for alms those things which are within; and behold, everything is clean for you.
 Luke	Lk	49	11	42	“But woe to you Pharisees! for you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God; these you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.
 Luke	Lk	49	11	43	Woe to you Pharisees! for you love the best seat in the synagogues and salutations in the market places.
 Luke	Lk	49	11	44	Woe to you! for you are like graves which are not seen, and men walk over them without knowing it.”
 Luke	Lk	49	11	45	One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you reproach us also.”
 Luke	Lk	49	11	46	And he said, “Woe to you lawyers also! for you load men with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.
 Luke	Lk	49	11	47	Woe to you! for you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed.
 Luke	Lk	49	11	48	So you are witnesses and consent to the deeds of your fathers; for they killed them, and you build their tombs.
 Luke	Lk	49	11	49	Therefore also the Wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,’
 Luke	Lk	49	11	50	that the blood of all the prophets, shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation,
 Luke	Lk	49	11	51	from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it shall be required of this generation.
 Luke	Lk	49	11	52	Woe to you lawyers! for you have taken away the key of knowledge; you did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.”
 Luke	Lk	49	11	53	As he went away from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him hard, and to provoke him to speak of many things,
 Luke	Lk	49	11	54	lying in wait for him, to catch at something he might say.
 Luke	Lk	49	12	1	In the meantime, when so many thousands of the multitude had gathered together that they trod upon one another, he began to say to his disciples first, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
 Luke	Lk	49	12	2	Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.
 Luke	Lk	49	12	3	Therefore whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.
 Luke	Lk	49	12	4	“I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
 Luke	Lk	49	12	5	But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has power to cast into hell; yes, I tell you, fear him!
 Luke	Lk	49	12	6	Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God.
 Luke	Lk	49	12	7	Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.
 Luke	Lk	49	12	8	“And I tell you, every one who acknowledges me before men, the Son of man also will acknowledge before the angels of God;
 Luke	Lk	49	12	9	but he who denies me before men will be denied before the angels of God.
 Luke	Lk	49	12	10	And every one who speaks a word against the Son of man will be forgiven; but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
 Luke	Lk	49	12	11	And when they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not be anxious how or what you are to answer or what you are to say;
 Luke	Lk	49	12	12	for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.”
 Luke	Lk	49	12	13	One of the multitude said to him, “Teacher, bid my brother divide the inheritance with me.”
 Luke	Lk	49	12	14	But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or divider over you?”
 Luke	Lk	49	12	15	And he said to them, “Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; for a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
 Luke	Lk	49	12	16	And he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man brought forth plentifully;
 Luke	Lk	49	12	17	and he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’
 Luke	Lk	49	12	18	And he said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns, and build larger ones; and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
 Luke	Lk	49	12	19	And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.’
 Luke	Lk	49	12	20	But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you; and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’
 Luke	Lk	49	12	21	So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
 Luke	Lk	49	12	22	And he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat, nor about your body, what you shall put on.
 Luke	Lk	49	12	23	For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.
 Luke	Lk	49	12	24	Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!
 Luke	Lk	49	12	25	And which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his span of life?
 Luke	Lk	49	12	26	If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest?
 Luke	Lk	49	12	27	Consider the lilies, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
 Luke	Lk	49	12	28	But if God so clothes the grass which is alive in the field today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O men of little faith!
 Luke	Lk	49	12	29	And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be of anxious mind.
 Luke	Lk	49	12	30	For all the nations of the world seek these things; and your Father knows that you need them.
 Luke	Lk	49	12	31	Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things shall be yours as well.
 Luke	Lk	49	12	32	“Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
 Luke	Lk	49	12	33	Sell your possessions, and give alms; provide yourselves with purses that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
 Luke	Lk	49	12	34	For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
 Luke	Lk	49	12	35	“Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning,
 Luke	Lk	49	12	36	and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the marriage feast, so that they may open to him at once when he comes and knocks.
 Luke	Lk	49	12	37	Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes; truly, I say to you, he will gird himself and have them sit at table, and he will come and serve them.
 Luke	Lk	49	12	38	If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them so, blessed are those servants!
 Luke	Lk	49	12	39	But know this, that if the householder had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into.
 Luke	Lk	49	12	40	You also must be ready; for the Son of man is coming at an unexpected hour.”
 Luke	Lk	49	12	41	Peter said, “Lord, are you telling this parable for us or for all?”
 Luke	Lk	49	12	42	And the Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his master will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the proper time?
 Luke	Lk	49	12	43	Blessed is that servant whom his master when he comes will find so doing.
 Luke	Lk	49	12	44	Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions.
 Luke	Lk	49	12	45	But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,
 Luke	Lk	49	12	46	the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will punish him, and put him with the unfaithful.
 Luke	Lk	49	12	47	And that servant who knew his master’s will, but did not make ready or act according to his will, shall receive a severe beating.
 Luke	Lk	49	12	48	But he who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, shall receive a light beating. Every one to whom much is given, of him will much be required; and of him to whom men commit much they will demand the more.
 Luke	Lk	49	12	49	“I came to cast fire upon the earth; and would that it were already kindled!
 Luke	Lk	49	12	50	I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how I am constrained until it is accomplished!
 Luke	Lk	49	12	51	Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division;
 Luke	Lk	49	12	52	for henceforth in one house there will be five divided, three against two and two against three;
 Luke	Lk	49	12	53	they will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against her mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”
 Luke	Lk	49	12	54	He also said to the multitudes, “When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once, ‘A shower is coming’; and so it happens.
 Luke	Lk	49	12	55	And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, ‘There will be scorching heat’; and it happens.
 Luke	Lk	49	12	56	You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky; but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?
 Luke	Lk	49	12	57	“And why do you not judge for yourselves what is right?
 Luke	Lk	49	12	58	As you go with your accuser before the magistrate, make an effort to settle with him on the way, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer put you in prison.
 Luke	Lk	49	12	59	I tell you, you will never get out till you have paid the very last copper.”
 Luke	Lk	49	13	1	There were some present at that very time who told him of the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.
 Luke	Lk	49	13	2	And he answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered thus?
 Luke	Lk	49	13	3	I tell you, No; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish.
 Luke	Lk	49	13	4	Or those eighteen upon whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who dwelt in Jerusalem?
 Luke	Lk	49	13	5	I tell you, No; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish.”
 Luke	Lk	49	13	6	And he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came seeking fruit on it and found none.
 Luke	Lk	49	13	7	And he said to the vinedresser, ‘Lo, these three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it down; why should it use up the ground?’
 Luke	Lk	49	13	8	And he answered him, ‘Let it alone, sir, this year also, till I dig about it and put on manure.
 Luke	Lk	49	13	9	And if it bears fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.’”
 Luke	Lk	49	13	10	Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.
 Luke	Lk	49	13	11	And there was a woman who had had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years; she was bent over and could not fully straighten herself.
 Luke	Lk	49	13	12	And when Jesus saw her, he called her and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your infirmity.”
 Luke	Lk	49	13	13	And he laid his hands upon her, and immediately she was made straight, and she praised God.
 Luke	Lk	49	13	14	But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the sabbath, said to the people, “There are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.”
 Luke	Lk	49	13	15	Then the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the sabbath untie his ox or his ass from the manger, and lead it away to water it?
 Luke	Lk	49	13	16	And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?”
 Luke	Lk	49	13	17	As he said this, all his adversaries were put to shame; and all the people rejoiced at all the glorious things that were done by him.
 Luke	Lk	49	13	18	He said therefore, “What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it?
 Luke	Lk	49	13	19	It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his garden; and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air made nests in its branches.”
 Luke	Lk	49	13	20	And again he said, “To what shall I compare the kingdom of God?
 Luke	Lk	49	13	21	It is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened.”
 Luke	Lk	49	13	22	He went on his way through towns and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem.
 Luke	Lk	49	13	23	And some one said to him, “Lord, will those who are saved be few?” And he said to them,
 Luke	Lk	49	13	24	“Strive to enter by the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.
 Luke	Lk	49	13	25	When once the householder has risen up and shut the door, you will begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, open to us.’ He will answer you, ‘I do not know where you come from.’
 Luke	Lk	49	13	26	Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’
 Luke	Lk	49	13	27	But he will say, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you come from; depart from me, all you workers of iniquity!’
 Luke	Lk	49	13	28	There you will weep and gnash your teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God and you yourselves thrust out.
 Luke	Lk	49	13	29	And men will come from east and west, and from north and south, and sit at table in the kingdom of God.
 Luke	Lk	49	13	30	And behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”
 Luke	Lk	49	13	31	At that very hour some Pharisees came, and said to him, “Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.”
 Luke	Lk	49	13	32	And he said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I finish my course.
 Luke	Lk	49	13	33	Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the day following; for it cannot be that a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem.’
 Luke	Lk	49	13	34	O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not!
 Luke	Lk	49	13	35	Behold, your house is forsaken. And I tell you, you will not see me until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’”
 Luke	Lk	49	14	1	One sabbath when he went to dine at the house of a ruler who belonged to the Pharisees, they were watching him.
 Luke	Lk	49	14	2	And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy.
 Luke	Lk	49	14	3	And Jesus spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath, or not?”
 Luke	Lk	49	14	4	But they were silent. Then he took him and healed him, and let him go.
 Luke	Lk	49	14	5	And he said to them, “Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well, will not immediately pull him out on a sabbath day?”
 Luke	Lk	49	14	6	And they could not reply to this.
 Luke	Lk	49	14	7	Now he told a parable to those who were invited, when he marked how they chose the places of honor, saying to them,
 Luke	Lk	49	14	8	“When you are invited by any one to a marriage feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest a more eminent man than you be invited by him;
 Luke	Lk	49	14	9	and he who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give place to this man,’ and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place.
 Luke	Lk	49	14	10	But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, ‘Friend, go up higher’; then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you.
 Luke	Lk	49	14	11	For every one who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
 Luke	Lk	49	14	12	He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your kinsmen or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return, and you be repaid.
 Luke	Lk	49	14	13	But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind,
 Luke	Lk	49	14	14	and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. You will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”
 Luke	Lk	49	14	15	When one of those who sat at table with him heard this, he said to him, “Blessed is he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God!”
 Luke	Lk	49	14	16	But he said to him, “A man once gave a great banquet, and invited many;
 Luke	Lk	49	14	17	and at the time for the banquet he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come; for all is now ready.’
 Luke	Lk	49	14	18	But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it; I pray you, have me excused.’
 Luke	Lk	49	14	19	And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them; I pray you, have me excused.’
 Luke	Lk	49	14	20	And another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’
 Luke	Lk	49	14	21	So the servant came and reported this to his master. Then the householder in anger said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor and maimed and blind and lame.’
 Luke	Lk	49	14	22	And the servant said, ‘Sir, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room.’
 Luke	Lk	49	14	23	And the master said to the servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges, and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled.
 Luke	Lk	49	14	24	For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste my banquet.’”
 Luke	Lk	49	14	25	Now great multitudes accompanied him; and he turned and said to them,
 Luke	Lk	49	14	26	“If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
 Luke	Lk	49	14	27	Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
 Luke	Lk	49	14	28	For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
 Luke	Lk	49	14	29	Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,
 Luke	Lk	49	14	30	saying, ‘This man began to build, and was not able to finish.’
 Luke	Lk	49	14	31	Or what king, going to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
 Luke	Lk	49	14	32	And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an embassy and asks terms of peace.
 Luke	Lk	49	14	33	So therefore, whoever of you does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
 Luke	Lk	49	14	34	“Salt is good; but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltness be restored?
 Luke	Lk	49	14	35	It is fit neither for the land nor for the dunghill; men throw it away. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
 Luke	Lk	49	15	1	Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him.
 Luke	Lk	49	15	2	And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.”
 Luke	Lk	49	15	3	So he told them this parable:
 Luke	Lk	49	15	4	“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost, until he finds it?
 Luke	Lk	49	15	5	And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
 Luke	Lk	49	15	6	And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost.’
 Luke	Lk	49	15	7	Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.
 Luke	Lk	49	15	8	“Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it?
 Luke	Lk	49	15	9	And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I had lost.’
 Luke	Lk	49	15	10	Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
 Luke	Lk	49	15	11	And he said, “There was a man who had two sons;
 Luke	Lk	49	15	12	and the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that falls to me.’ And he divided his living between them.
 Luke	Lk	49	15	13	Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took his journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in loose living.
 Luke	Lk	49	15	14	And when he had spent everything, a great famine arose in that country, and he began to be in want.
 Luke	Lk	49	15	15	So he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed swine.
 Luke	Lk	49	15	16	And he would gladly have fed on the pods that the swine ate; and no one gave him anything.
 Luke	Lk	49	15	17	But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, but I perish here with hunger!
 Luke	Lk	49	15	18	I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you;
 Luke	Lk	49	15	19	I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me as one of your hired servants.”’
 Luke	Lk	49	15	20	And he arose and came to his father. But while he was yet at a distance, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.
 Luke	Lk	49	15	21	And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
 Luke	Lk	49	15	22	But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet;
 Luke	Lk	49	15	23	and bring the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry;
 Luke	Lk	49	15	24	for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to make merry.
 Luke	Lk	49	15	25	“Now his elder son was in the field; and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.
 Luke	Lk	49	15	26	And he called one of the servants and asked what this meant.
 Luke	Lk	49	15	27	And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has received him safe and sound.’
 Luke	Lk	49	15	28	But he was angry and refused to go in. His father came out and entreated him,
 Luke	Lk	49	15	29	but he answered his father, ‘Lo, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command; yet you never gave me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends.
 Luke	Lk	49	15	30	But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your living with harlots, you killed for him the fatted calf!’
 Luke	Lk	49	15	31	And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.
 Luke	Lk	49	15	32	It was fitting to make merry and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.’”
 Luke	Lk	49	16	1	He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a steward, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his goods.
 Luke	Lk	49	16	2	And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your stewardship, for you can no longer be steward.’
 Luke	Lk	49	16	3	And the steward said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the stewardship away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.
 Luke	Lk	49	16	4	I have decided what to do, so that people may receive me into their houses when I am put out of the stewardship.’
 Luke	Lk	49	16	5	So, summoning his master’s debtors one by one, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’
 Luke	Lk	49	16	6	He said, ‘A hundred measures of oil.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’
 Luke	Lk	49	16	7	Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’
 Luke	Lk	49	16	8	The master commended the dishonest steward for his shrewdness; for the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.
 Luke	Lk	49	16	9	And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal habitations.
 Luke	Lk	49	16	10	“He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much; and he who is dishonest in a very little is dishonest also in much.
 Luke	Lk	49	16	11	If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust to you the true riches?
 Luke	Lk	49	16	12	And if you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?
 Luke	Lk	49	16	13	No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”
 Luke	Lk	49	16	14	The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all this, and they scoffed at him.
 Luke	Lk	49	16	15	But he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts; for what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
 Luke	Lk	49	16	16	“The law and the prophets were until John; since then the good news of the kingdom of God is preached, and every one enters it violently.
 Luke	Lk	49	16	17	But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one dot of the law to become void.
 Luke	Lk	49	16	18	“Every one who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.
 Luke	Lk	49	16	19	“There was a rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.
 Luke	Lk	49	16	20	And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, full of sores,
 Luke	Lk	49	16	21	who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table; moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
 Luke	Lk	49	16	22	The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried;
 Luke	Lk	49	16	23	and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes, and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus in his bosom.
 Luke	Lk	49	16	24	And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy upon me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in anguish in this flame.’
 Luke	Lk	49	16	25	But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.
 Luke	Lk	49	16	26	And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’
 Luke	Lk	49	16	27	And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father’s house,
 Luke	Lk	49	16	28	for I have five brothers, so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’
 Luke	Lk	49	16	29	But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’
 Luke	Lk	49	16	30	And he said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if some one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’
 Luke	Lk	49	16	31	He said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced if some one should rise from the dead.’”
 Luke	Lk	49	17	1	And he said to his disciples, “Temptations to sin are sure to come; but woe to him by whom they come!
 Luke	Lk	49	17	2	It would be better for him if a millstone were hung round his neck and he were cast into the sea, than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.
 Luke	Lk	49	17	3	Take heed to yourselves; if your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him;
 Luke	Lk	49	17	4	and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, and says, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”
 Luke	Lk	49	17	5	The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”
 Luke	Lk	49	17	6	And the Lord said, “If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this sycamine tree, ‘Be rooted up, and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.
 Luke	Lk	49	17	7	“Will any one of you, who has a servant plowing or keeping sheep, say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come at once and sit down at table’?
 Luke	Lk	49	17	8	Will he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare supper for me, and gird yourself and serve me, till I eat and drink; and afterward you shall eat and drink’?
 Luke	Lk	49	17	9	Does he thank the servant because he did what was commanded?
 Luke	Lk	49	17	10	So you also, when you have done all that is commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.’”
 Luke	Lk	49	17	11	On the way to Jerusalem he was passing along between Samaria and Galilee.
 Luke	Lk	49	17	12	And as he entered a village, he was met by ten lepers, who stood at a distance
 Luke	Lk	49	17	13	and lifted up their voices and said, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.”
 Luke	Lk	49	17	14	When he saw them he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went they were cleansed.
 Luke	Lk	49	17	15	Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice;
 Luke	Lk	49	17	16	and he fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks. Now he was a Samaritan.
 Luke	Lk	49	17	17	Then said Jesus, “Were not ten cleansed? Where are the nine?
 Luke	Lk	49	17	18	Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?”
 Luke	Lk	49	17	19	And he said to him, “Rise and go your way; your faith has made you well.”
 Luke	Lk	49	17	20	Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming, he answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed;
 Luke	Lk	49	17	21	nor will they say, ‘Lo, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.”
 Luke	Lk	49	17	22	And he said to the disciples, “The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and you will not see it.
 Luke	Lk	49	17	23	And they will say to you, ‘Lo, there!’ or ‘Lo, here!’ Do not go, do not follow them.
 Luke	Lk	49	17	24	For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of man be in his day.
 Luke	Lk	49	17	25	But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
 Luke	Lk	49	17	26	As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of man.
 Luke	Lk	49	17	27	They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
 Luke	Lk	49	17	28	Likewise as it was in the days of Lot—they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built,
 Luke	Lk	49	17	29	but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom fire and sulphur rained from heaven and destroyed them all—
 Luke	Lk	49	17	30	so will it be on the day when the Son of man is revealed.
 Luke	Lk	49	17	31	On that day, let him who is on the housetop, with his goods in the house, not come down to take them away; and likewise let him who is in the field not turn back.
 Luke	Lk	49	17	32	Remember Lot’s wife.
 Luke	Lk	49	17	33	Whoever seeks to gain his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.
 Luke	Lk	49	17	34	I tell you, in that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other left.
 Luke	Lk	49	17	35	There will be two women grinding together; one will be taken and the other left.”
 Luke	Lk	49	17	37	And they said to him, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together.”
 Luke	Lk	49	18	1	And he told them a parable, to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.
 Luke	Lk	49	18	2	He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor regarded man;
 Luke	Lk	49	18	3	and there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Vindicate me against my adversary.’
 Luke	Lk	49	18	4	For a while he refused; but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor regard man,
 Luke	Lk	49	18	5	yet because this widow bothers me, I will vindicate her, or she will wear me out by her continual coming.’”
 Luke	Lk	49	18	6	And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says.
 Luke	Lk	49	18	7	And will not God vindicate his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them?
 Luke	Lk	49	18	8	I tell you, he will vindicate them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man comes, will he find faith on earth?”
 Luke	Lk	49	18	9	He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others:
 Luke	Lk	49	18	10	“Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
 Luke	Lk	49	18	11	The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank thee that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
 Luke	Lk	49	18	12	I fast twice a week, I give tithes of all that I get.’
 Luke	Lk	49	18	13	But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’
 Luke	Lk	49	18	14	I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for every one who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
 Luke	Lk	49	18	15	Now they were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them; and when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
 Luke	Lk	49	18	16	But Jesus called them to him, saying, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them; for to such belongs the kingdom of God.
 Luke	Lk	49	18	17	Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”
 Luke	Lk	49	18	18	And a ruler asked him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
 Luke	Lk	49	18	19	And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone.
 Luke	Lk	49	18	20	You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother.’”
 Luke	Lk	49	18	21	And he said, “All these I have observed from my youth.”
 Luke	Lk	49	18	22	And when Jesus heard it, he said to him, “One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
 Luke	Lk	49	18	23	But when he heard this he became sad, for he was very rich.
 Luke	Lk	49	18	24	Jesus looking at him said, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God!
 Luke	Lk	49	18	25	For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
 Luke	Lk	49	18	26	Those who heard it said, “Then who can be saved?”
 Luke	Lk	49	18	27	But he said, “What is impossible with men is possible with God.”
 Luke	Lk	49	18	28	And Peter said, “Lo, we have left our homes and followed you.”
 Luke	Lk	49	18	29	And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there is no man who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,
 Luke	Lk	49	18	30	who will not receive manifold more in this time, and in the age to come eternal life.”
 Luke	Lk	49	18	31	And taking the twelve, he said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written of the Son of man by the prophets will be accomplished.
 Luke	Lk	49	18	32	For he will be delivered to the Gentiles, and will be mocked and shamefully treated and spit upon;
 Luke	Lk	49	18	33	they will scourge him and kill him, and on the third day he will rise.”
 Luke	Lk	49	18	34	But they understood none of these things; this saying was hid from them, and they did not grasp what was said.
 Luke	Lk	49	18	35	As he drew near to Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging;
 Luke	Lk	49	18	36	and hearing a multitude going by, he inquired what this meant.
 Luke	Lk	49	18	37	They told him, “Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.”
 Luke	Lk	49	18	38	And he cried, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”
 Luke	Lk	49	18	39	And those who were in front rebuked him, telling him to be silent; but he cried out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”
 Luke	Lk	49	18	40	And Jesus stopped, and commanded him to be brought to him; and when he came near, he asked him,
 Luke	Lk	49	18	41	“What do you want me to do for you?” He said, “Lord, let me receive my sight.”
 Luke	Lk	49	18	42	And Jesus said to him, “Receive your sight; your faith has made you well.”
 Luke	Lk	49	18	43	And immediately he received his sight and followed him, glorifying God; and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise to God.
 Luke	Lk	49	19	1	He entered Jericho and was passing through.
 Luke	Lk	49	19	2	And there was a man named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector, and rich.
 Luke	Lk	49	19	3	And he sought to see who Jesus was, but could not, on account of the crowd, because he was small of stature.
 Luke	Lk	49	19	4	So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was to pass that way.
 Luke	Lk	49	19	5	And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, make haste and come down; for I must stay at your house today.”
 Luke	Lk	49	19	6	So he made haste and came down, and received him joyfully.
 Luke	Lk	49	19	7	And when they saw it they all murmured, “He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.”
 Luke	Lk	49	19	8	And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have defrauded any one of anything, I restore it fourfold.”
 Luke	Lk	49	19	9	And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, since he also is a son of Abraham.
 Luke	Lk	49	19	10	For the Son of man came to seek and to save the lost.”
 Luke	Lk	49	19	11	As they heard these things, he proceeded to tell a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately.
 Luke	Lk	49	19	12	He said therefore, “A nobleman went into a far country to receive a kingdom and then return.
 Luke	Lk	49	19	13	Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten pounds, and said to them, ‘Trade with these till I come.’
 Luke	Lk	49	19	14	But his citizens hated him and sent an embassy after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’
 Luke	Lk	49	19	15	When he returned, having received the kingdom, he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by trading.
 Luke	Lk	49	19	16	The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your pound has made ten pounds more.’
 Luke	Lk	49	19	17	And he said to him, ‘Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.’
 Luke	Lk	49	19	18	And the second came, saying, ‘Lord, your pound has made five pounds.’
 Luke	Lk	49	19	19	And he said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’
 Luke	Lk	49	19	20	Then another came, saying, ‘Lord, here is your pound, which I kept laid away in a napkin;
 Luke	Lk	49	19	21	for I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man; you take up what you did not lay down, and reap what you did not sow.’
 Luke	Lk	49	19	22	He said to him, ‘I will condemn you out of your own mouth, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow?
 Luke	Lk	49	19	23	Why then did you not put my money into the bank, and at my coming I should have collected it with interest?’
 Luke	Lk	49	19	24	And he said to those who stood by, ‘Take the pound from him, and give it to him who has the ten pounds.’
 Luke	Lk	49	19	25	(And they said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten pounds!’)
 Luke	Lk	49	19	26	‘I tell you, that to every one who has will more be given; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
 Luke	Lk	49	19	27	But as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.’”
 Luke	Lk	49	19	28	And when he had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.
 Luke	Lk	49	19	29	When he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount that is called Olivet, he sent two of the disciples,
 Luke	Lk	49	19	30	saying, “Go into the village opposite, where on entering you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever yet sat; untie it and bring it here.
 Luke	Lk	49	19	31	If any one asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ you shall say this, ‘The Lord has need of it.’”
 Luke	Lk	49	19	32	So those who were sent went away and found it as he had told them.
 Luke	Lk	49	19	33	And as they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying the colt?”
 Luke	Lk	49	19	34	And they said, “The Lord has need of it.”
 Luke	Lk	49	19	35	And they brought it to Jesus, and throwing their garments on the colt they set Jesus upon it.
 Luke	Lk	49	19	36	And as he rode along, they spread their garments on the road.
 Luke	Lk	49	19	37	As he was now drawing near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen,
 Luke	Lk	49	19	38	saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”
 Luke	Lk	49	19	39	And some of the Pharisees in the multitude said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.”
 Luke	Lk	49	19	40	He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”
 Luke	Lk	49	19	41	And when he drew near and saw the city he wept over it,
 Luke	Lk	49	19	42	saying, “Would that even today you knew the things that make for peace! But now they are hid from your eyes.
 Luke	Lk	49	19	43	For the days shall come upon you, when your enemies will cast up a bank about you and surround you, and hem you in on every side,
 Luke	Lk	49	19	44	and dash you to the ground, you and your children within you, and they will not leave one stone upon another in you; because you did not know the time of your visitation.”
 Luke	Lk	49	19	45	And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold,
 Luke	Lk	49	19	46	saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer’; but you have made it a den of robbers.”
 Luke	Lk	49	19	47	And he was teaching daily in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people sought to destroy him;
 Luke	Lk	49	19	48	but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people hung upon his words.
 Luke	Lk	49	20	1	One day, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes with the elders came up
 Luke	Lk	49	20	2	and said to him, “Tell us by what authority you do these things, or who it is that gave you this authority.”
 Luke	Lk	49	20	3	He answered them, “I also will ask you a question; now tell me,
 Luke	Lk	49	20	4	Was the baptism of John from heaven or from men?”
 Luke	Lk	49	20	5	And they discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’
 Luke	Lk	49	20	6	But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us; for they are convinced that John was a prophet.”
 Luke	Lk	49	20	7	So they answered that they did not know whence it was.
 Luke	Lk	49	20	8	And Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”
 Luke	Lk	49	20	9	And he began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, and let it out to tenants, and went into another country for a long while.
 Luke	Lk	49	20	10	When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants, that they should give him some of the fruit of the vineyard; but the tenants beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.
 Luke	Lk	49	20	11	And he sent another servant; him also they beat and treated shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed.
 Luke	Lk	49	20	12	And he sent yet a third; this one they wounded and cast out.
 Luke	Lk	49	20	13	Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; it may be they will respect him.’
 Luke	Lk	49	20	14	But when the tenants saw him, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir; let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.’
 Luke	Lk	49	20	15	And they cast him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?
 Luke	Lk	49	20	16	He will come and destroy those tenants, and give the vineyard to others.” When they heard this, they said, “God forbid!”
 Luke	Lk	49	20	17	But he looked at them and said, “What then is this that is written: ‘The very stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner’?
 Luke	Lk	49	20	18	Every one who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces; but when it falls on any one it will crush him.”
 Luke	Lk	49	20	19	The scribes and the chief priests tried to lay hands on him at that very hour, but they feared the people; for they perceived that he had told this parable against them.
 Luke	Lk	49	20	20	So they watched him, and sent spies, who pretended to be sincere, that they might take hold of what he said, so as to deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.
 Luke	Lk	49	20	21	They asked him, “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach rightly, and show no partiality, but truly teach the way of God.
 Luke	Lk	49	20	22	Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar, or not?”
 Luke	Lk	49	20	23	But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them,
 Luke	Lk	49	20	24	“Show me a coin. Whose likeness and inscription has it?” They said, “Caesar’s.”
 Luke	Lk	49	20	25	He said to them, “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”
 Luke	Lk	49	20	26	And they were not able in the presence of the people to catch him by what he said; but marveling at his answer they were silent.
 Luke	Lk	49	20	27	There came to him some Sadducees, those who say that there is no resurrection,
 Luke	Lk	49	20	28	and they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the wife and raise up children for his brother.
 Luke	Lk	49	20	29	Now there were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and died without children;
 Luke	Lk	49	20	30	and the second
 Luke	Lk	49	20	31	and the third took her, and likewise all seven left no children and died.
 Luke	Lk	49	20	32	Afterward the woman also died.
 Luke	Lk	49	20	33	In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had her as wife.”
 Luke	Lk	49	20	34	And Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage;
 Luke	Lk	49	20	35	but those who are accounted worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage,
 Luke	Lk	49	20	36	for they cannot die any more, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.
 Luke	Lk	49	20	37	But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.
 Luke	Lk	49	20	38	Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living; for all live to him.”
 Luke	Lk	49	20	39	And some of the scribes answered, “Teacher, you have spoken well.”
 Luke	Lk	49	20	40	For they no longer dared to ask him any question.
 Luke	Lk	49	20	41	But he said to them, “How can they say that the Christ is David’s son?
 Luke	Lk	49	20	42	For David himself says in the Book of Psalms, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand,
 Luke	Lk	49	20	43	till I make thy enemies a stool for thy feet.’
 Luke	Lk	49	20	44	David thus calls him Lord; so how is he his son?”
 Luke	Lk	49	20	45	And in the hearing of all the people he said to his disciples,
 Luke	Lk	49	20	46	“Beware of the scribes, who like to go about in long robes, and love salutations in the market places and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts,
 Luke	Lk	49	20	47	who devour widows’ houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”
 Luke	Lk	49	21	1	He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury;
 Luke	Lk	49	21	2	and he saw a poor widow put in two copper coins.
 Luke	Lk	49	21	3	And he said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them;
 Luke	Lk	49	21	4	for they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all the living that she had.”
 Luke	Lk	49	21	5	And as some spoke of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, he said,
 Luke	Lk	49	21	6	“As for these things which you see, the days will come when there shall not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”
 Luke	Lk	49	21	7	And they asked him, “Teacher, when will this be, and what will be the sign when this is about to take place?”
 Luke	Lk	49	21	8	And he said, “Take heed that you are not led astray; for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he!’ and, ‘The time is at hand!’ Do not go after them.
 Luke	Lk	49	21	9	And when you hear of wars and tumults, do not be terrified; for this must first take place, but the end will not be at once.”
 Luke	Lk	49	21	10	Then he said to them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom;
 Luke	Lk	49	21	11	there will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences; and there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
 Luke	Lk	49	21	12	But before all this they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name’s sake.
 Luke	Lk	49	21	13	This will be a time for you to bear testimony.
 Luke	Lk	49	21	14	Settle it therefore in your minds, not to meditate beforehand how to answer;
 Luke	Lk	49	21	15	for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.
 Luke	Lk	49	21	16	You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends, and some of you they will put to death;
 Luke	Lk	49	21	17	you will be hated by all for my name’s sake.
 Luke	Lk	49	21	18	But not a hair of your head will perish.
 Luke	Lk	49	21	19	By your endurance you will gain your lives.
 Luke	Lk	49	21	20	“But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near.
 Luke	Lk	49	21	21	Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are inside the city depart, and let not those who are out in the country enter it;
 Luke	Lk	49	21	22	for these are days of vengeance, to fulfil all that is written.
 Luke	Lk	49	21	23	Alas for those who are with child and for those who give suck in those days! For great distress shall be upon the earth and wrath upon this people;
 Luke	Lk	49	21	24	they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led captive among all nations; and Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
 Luke	Lk	49	21	25	“And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and upon the earth distress of nations in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves,
 Luke	Lk	49	21	26	men fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
 Luke	Lk	49	21	27	And then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
 Luke	Lk	49	21	28	Now when these things begin to take place, look up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”
 Luke	Lk	49	21	29	And he told them a parable: “Look at the fig tree, and all the trees;
 Luke	Lk	49	21	30	as soon as they come out in leaf, you see for yourselves and know that the summer is already near.
 Luke	Lk	49	21	31	So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that the kingdom of God is near.
 Luke	Lk	49	21	32	Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away till all has taken place.
 Luke	Lk	49	21	33	Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
 Luke	Lk	49	21	34	“But take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a snare;
 Luke	Lk	49	21	35	for it will come upon all who dwell upon the face of the whole earth.
 Luke	Lk	49	21	36	But watch at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that will take place, and to stand before the Son of man.”
 Luke	Lk	49	21	37	And every day he was teaching in the temple, but at night he went out and lodged on the mount called Olivet.
 Luke	Lk	49	21	38	And early in the morning all the people came to him in the temple to hear him.
 Luke	Lk	49	22	1	Now the feast of Unleavened Bread drew near, which is called the Passover.
 Luke	Lk	49	22	2	And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to put him to death; for they feared the people.
 Luke	Lk	49	22	3	Then Satan entered into Judas called Iscariot, who was of the number of the twelve;
 Luke	Lk	49	22	4	he went away and conferred with the chief priests and officers how he might betray him to them.
 Luke	Lk	49	22	5	And they were glad, and engaged to give him money.
 Luke	Lk	49	22	6	So he agreed, and sought an opportunity to betray him to them in the absence of the multitude.
 Luke	Lk	49	22	7	Then came the day of Unleavened Bread, on which the passover lamb had to be sacrificed.
 Luke	Lk	49	22	8	So Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the passover for us, that we may eat it.”
 Luke	Lk	49	22	9	They said to him, “Where will you have us prepare it?”
 Luke	Lk	49	22	10	He said to them, “Behold, when you have entered the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you; follow him into the house which he enters,
 Luke	Lk	49	22	11	and tell the householder, ‘The Teacher says to you, Where is the guest room, where I am to eat the passover with my disciples?’
 Luke	Lk	49	22	12	And he will show you a large upper room furnished; there make ready.”
 Luke	Lk	49	22	13	And they went, and found it as he had told them; and they prepared the passover.
 Luke	Lk	49	22	14	And when the hour came, he sat at table, and the apostles with him.
 Luke	Lk	49	22	15	And he said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer;
 Luke	Lk	49	22	16	for I tell you I shall not eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”
 Luke	Lk	49	22	17	And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he said, “Take this, and divide it among yourselves;
 Luke	Lk	49	22	18	for I tell you that from now on I shall not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”
 Luke	Lk	49	22	19	And he took bread, and when he had given thanks he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
 Luke	Lk	49	22	20	And likewise the cup after supper, saying, “This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.
 Luke	Lk	49	22	21	But behold the hand of him who betrays me is with me on the table.
 Luke	Lk	49	22	22	For the Son of man goes as it has been determined; but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!”
 Luke	Lk	49	22	23	And they began to question one another, which of them it was that would do this.
 Luke	Lk	49	22	24	A dispute also arose among them, which of them was to be regarded as the greatest.
 Luke	Lk	49	22	25	And he said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and those in authority over them are called benefactors.
 Luke	Lk	49	22	26	But not so with you; rather let the greatest among you become as the youngest, and the leader as one who serves.
 Luke	Lk	49	22	27	For which is the greater, one who sits at table, or one who serves? Is it not the one who sits at table? But I am among you as one who serves.
 Luke	Lk	49	22	28	“You are those who have continued with me in my trials;
 Luke	Lk	49	22	29	and I assign to you, as my Father assigned to me, a kingdom,
 Luke	Lk	49	22	30	that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
 Luke	Lk	49	22	31	“Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat,
 Luke	Lk	49	22	32	but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail; and when you have turned again, strengthen your brethren.”
 Luke	Lk	49	22	33	And he said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death.”
 Luke	Lk	49	22	34	He said, “I tell you, Peter, the cock will not crow this day, until you three times deny that you know me.”
 Luke	Lk	49	22	35	And he said to them, “When I sent you out with no purse or bag or sandals, did you lack anything?” They said, “Nothing.”
 Luke	Lk	49	22	36	He said to them, “But now, let him who has a purse take it, and likewise a bag. And let him who has no sword sell his mantle and buy one.
 Luke	Lk	49	22	37	For I tell you that this scripture must be fulfilled in me, ‘And he was reckoned with transgressors’; for what is written about me has its fulfilment.”
 Luke	Lk	49	22	38	And they said, “Look, Lord, here are two swords.” And he said to them, “It is enough.”
 Luke	Lk	49	22	39	And he came out, and went, as was his custom, to the Mount of Olives; and the disciples followed him.
 Luke	Lk	49	22	40	And when he came to the place he said to them, “Pray that you may not enter into temptation.”
 Luke	Lk	49	22	41	And he withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, and knelt down and prayed,
 Luke	Lk	49	22	42	“Father, if thou art willing, remove this cup from me; nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.”
 Luke	Lk	49	22	43	And there appeared to him an angel from heaven, strengthening him.
 Luke	Lk	49	22	44	And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down upon the ground.
 Luke	Lk	49	22	45	And when he rose from prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping for sorrow,
 Luke	Lk	49	22	46	and he said to them, “Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”
 Luke	Lk	49	22	47	While he was still speaking, there came a crowd, and the man called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He drew near to Jesus to kiss him;
 Luke	Lk	49	22	48	but Jesus said to him, “Judas, would you betray the Son of man with a kiss?”
 Luke	Lk	49	22	49	And when those who were about him saw what would follow, they said, “Lord, shall we strike with the sword?”
 Luke	Lk	49	22	50	And one of them struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his right ear.
 Luke	Lk	49	22	51	But Jesus said, “No more of this!” And he touched his ear and healed him.
 Luke	Lk	49	22	52	Then Jesus said to the chief priests and officers of the temple and elders, who had come out against him, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs?
 Luke	Lk	49	22	53	When I was with you day after day in the temple, you did not lay hands on me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”
 Luke	Lk	49	22	54	Then they seized him and led him away, bringing him into the high priest’s house. Peter followed at a distance;
 Luke	Lk	49	22	55	and when they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat among them.
 Luke	Lk	49	22	56	Then a maid, seeing him as he sat in the light and gazing at him, said, “This man also was with him.”
 Luke	Lk	49	22	57	But he denied it, saying, “Woman, I do not know him.”
 Luke	Lk	49	22	58	And a little later some one else saw him and said, “You also are one of them.” But Peter said, “Man, I am not.”
 Luke	Lk	49	22	59	And after an interval of about an hour still another insisted, saying, “Certainly this man also was with him; for he is a Galilean.”
 Luke	Lk	49	22	60	But Peter said, “Man, I do not know what you are saying.” And immediately, while he was still speaking, the cock crowed.
 Luke	Lk	49	22	61	And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, “Before the cock crows today, you will deny me three times.”
 Luke	Lk	49	22	62	And he went out and wept bitterly.
 Luke	Lk	49	22	63	Now the men who were holding Jesus mocked him and beat him;
 Luke	Lk	49	22	64	they also blindfolded him and asked him, “Prophesy! Who is it that struck you?”
 Luke	Lk	49	22	65	And they spoke many other words against him, reviling him.
 Luke	Lk	49	22	66	When day came, the assembly of the elders of the people gathered together, both chief priests and scribes; and they led him away to their council, and they said,
 Luke	Lk	49	22	67	“If you are the Christ, tell us.” But he said to them, “If I tell you, you will not believe;
 Luke	Lk	49	22	68	and if I ask you, you will not answer.
 Luke	Lk	49	22	69	But from now on the Son of man shall be seated at the right hand of the power of God.”
 Luke	Lk	49	22	70	And they all said, “Are you the Son of God, then?” And he said to them, “You say that I am.”
 Luke	Lk	49	22	71	And they said, “What further testimony do we need? We have heard it ourselves from his own lips.”
 Luke	Lk	49	23	1	Then the whole company of them arose, and brought him before Pilate.
 Luke	Lk	49	23	2	And they began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting our nation, and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ a king.”
 Luke	Lk	49	23	3	And Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” And he answered him, “You have said so.”
 Luke	Lk	49	23	4	And Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, “I find no crime in this man.”
 Luke	Lk	49	23	5	But they were urgent, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, from Galilee even to this place.”
 Luke	Lk	49	23	6	When Pilate heard this, he asked whether the man was a Galilean.
 Luke	Lk	49	23	7	And when he learned that he belonged to Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him over to Herod, who was himself in Jerusalem at that time.
 Luke	Lk	49	23	8	When Herod saw Jesus, he was very glad, for he had long desired to see him, because he had heard about him, and he was hoping to see some sign done by him.
 Luke	Lk	49	23	9	So he questioned him at some length; but he made no answer.
 Luke	Lk	49	23	10	The chief priests and the scribes stood by, vehemently accusing him.
 Luke	Lk	49	23	11	And Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him; then, arraying him in gorgeous apparel, he sent him back to Pilate.
 Luke	Lk	49	23	12	And Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before this they had been at enmity with each other.
 Luke	Lk	49	23	13	Pilate then called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,
 Luke	Lk	49	23	14	and said to them, “You brought me this man as one who was perverting the people; and after examining him before you, behold, I did not find this man guilty of any of your charges against him;
 Luke	Lk	49	23	15	neither did Herod, for he sent him back to us. Behold, nothing deserving death has been done by him;
 Luke	Lk	49	23	16	I will therefore chastise him and release him.”
 Luke	Lk	49	23	18	But they all cried out together, “Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas”—
 Luke	Lk	49	23	19	a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started in the city, and for murder.
 Luke	Lk	49	23	20	Pilate addressed them once more, desiring to release Jesus;
 Luke	Lk	49	23	21	but they shouted out, “Crucify, crucify him!”
 Luke	Lk	49	23	22	A third time he said to them, “Why, what evil has he done? I have found in him no crime deserving death; I will therefore chastise him and release him.”
 Luke	Lk	49	23	23	But they were urgent, demanding with loud cries that he should be crucified. And their voices prevailed.
 Luke	Lk	49	23	24	So Pilate gave sentence that their demand should be granted.
 Luke	Lk	49	23	25	He released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, whom they asked for; but Jesus he delivered up to their will.
 Luke	Lk	49	23	26	And as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind Jesus.
 Luke	Lk	49	23	27	And there followed him a great multitude of the people, and of women who bewailed and lamented him.
 Luke	Lk	49	23	28	But Jesus turning to them said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
 Luke	Lk	49	23	29	For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never gave suck!’
 Luke	Lk	49	23	30	Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us’; and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’
 Luke	Lk	49	23	31	For if they do this when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”
 Luke	Lk	49	23	32	Two others also, who were criminals, were led away to be put to death with him.
 Luke	Lk	49	23	33	And when they came to the place which is called The Skull, there they crucified him, and the criminals, one on the right and one on the left.
 Luke	Lk	49	23	34	And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.
 Luke	Lk	49	23	35	And the people stood by, watching; but the rulers scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others; let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, his Chosen One!”
 Luke	Lk	49	23	36	The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him vinegar,
 Luke	Lk	49	23	37	and saying, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!”
 Luke	Lk	49	23	38	There was also an inscription over him, “This is the King of the Jews.”
 Luke	Lk	49	23	39	One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!”
 Luke	Lk	49	23	40	But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?
 Luke	Lk	49	23	41	And we indeed justly; for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.”
 Luke	Lk	49	23	42	And he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”
 Luke	Lk	49	23	43	And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”
 Luke	Lk	49	23	44	It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour,
 Luke	Lk	49	23	45	while the sun’s light failed; and the curtain of the temple was torn in two.
 Luke	Lk	49	23	46	Then Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.
 Luke	Lk	49	23	47	Now when the centurion saw what had taken place, he praised God, and said, “Certainly this man was innocent!”
 Luke	Lk	49	23	48	And all the multitudes who assembled to see the sight, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts.
 Luke	Lk	49	23	49	And all his acquaintances and the women who had followed him from Galilee stood at a distance and saw these things.
 Luke	Lk	49	23	50	Now there was a man named Joseph from the Jewish town of Arimathea. He was a member of the council, a good and righteous man,
 Luke	Lk	49	23	51	who had not consented to their purpose and deed, and he was looking for the kingdom of God.
 Luke	Lk	49	23	52	This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.
 Luke	Lk	49	23	53	Then he took it down and wrapped it in a linen shroud, and laid him in a rock-hewn tomb, where no one had ever yet been laid.
 Luke	Lk	49	23	54	It was the day of Preparation, and the sabbath was beginning.
 Luke	Lk	49	23	55	The women who had come with him from Galilee followed, and saw the tomb, and how his body was laid;
 Luke	Lk	49	23	56	then they returned, and prepared spices and ointments. On the sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
 Luke	Lk	49	24	1	But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices which they had prepared.
 Luke	Lk	49	24	2	And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb,
 Luke	Lk	49	24	3	but when they went in they did not find the body.
 Luke	Lk	49	24	4	While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel;
 Luke	Lk	49	24	5	and as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen.
 Luke	Lk	49	24	6	Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee,
 Luke	Lk	49	24	7	that the Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise.”
 Luke	Lk	49	24	8	And they remembered his words,
 Luke	Lk	49	24	9	and returning from the tomb they told all this to the eleven and to all the rest.
 Luke	Lk	49	24	10	Now it was Mary Magdalene and Jo-anna and Mary the mother of James and the other women with them who told this to the apostles;
 Luke	Lk	49	24	11	but these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them.
 Luke	Lk	49	24	12	But Peter rose and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; and he went home wondering at what had happened.
 Luke	Lk	49	24	13	That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem,
 Luke	Lk	49	24	14	and talking with each other about all these things that had happened.
 Luke	Lk	49	24	15	While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them.
 Luke	Lk	49	24	16	But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.
 Luke	Lk	49	24	17	And he said to them, “What is this conversation which you are holding with each other as you walk?” And they stood still, looking sad.
 Luke	Lk	49	24	18	Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?”
 Luke	Lk	49	24	19	And he said to them, “What things?” And they said to him, “Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people,
 Luke	Lk	49	24	20	and how our chief priests and rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.
 Luke	Lk	49	24	21	But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since this happened.
 Luke	Lk	49	24	22	Moreover, some women of our company amazed us. They were at the tomb early in the morning
 Luke	Lk	49	24	23	and did not find his body; and they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.
 Luke	Lk	49	24	24	Some of those who were with us went to the tomb, and found it just as the women had said; but him they did not see.”
 Luke	Lk	49	24	25	And he said to them, “O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
 Luke	Lk	49	24	26	Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?”
 Luke	Lk	49	24	27	And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
 Luke	Lk	49	24	28	So they drew near to the village to which they were going. He appeared to be going further,
 Luke	Lk	49	24	29	but they constrained him, saying, “Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is now far spent.” So he went in to stay with them.
 Luke	Lk	49	24	30	When he was at table with them, he took the bread and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to them.
 Luke	Lk	49	24	31	And their eyes were opened and they recognized him; and he vanished out of their sight.
 Luke	Lk	49	24	32	They said to each other, “Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the scriptures?”
 Luke	Lk	49	24	33	And they rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem; and they found the eleven gathered together and those who were with them,
 Luke	Lk	49	24	34	who said, “The Lord has risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!”
 Luke	Lk	49	24	35	Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he was known to them in the breaking of the bread.
 Luke	Lk	49	24	36	As they were saying this, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, “Peace to You.”
 Luke	Lk	49	24	37	But they were startled and frightened, and supposed that they saw a spirit.
 Luke	Lk	49	24	38	And he said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do questionings rise in your hearts?
 Luke	Lk	49	24	39	See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself; handle me, and see; for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see that I have.”
 Luke	Lk	49	24	40	And when he had said this he showed them his hands and his feet.
 Luke	Lk	49	24	41	And while they still disbelieved for joy, and wondered, he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?”
 Luke	Lk	49	24	42	They gave him a piece of broiled fish,
 Luke	Lk	49	24	43	and he took it and ate before them.
 Luke	Lk	49	24	44	Then he said to them, “These are my words which I spoke to you, while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled.”
 Luke	Lk	49	24	45	Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures,
 Luke	Lk	49	24	46	and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead,
 Luke	Lk	49	24	47	and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
 Luke	Lk	49	24	48	You are witnesses of these things.
 Luke	Lk	49	24	49	And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you; but stay in the city, until you are clothed with power from on high.”
 Luke	Lk	49	24	50	Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his hands he blessed them.
 Luke	Lk	49	24	51	While he blessed them, he parted from them, and was carried up into heaven.
 Luke	Lk	49	24	52	And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,
 Luke	Lk	49	24	53	and were continually in the temple blessing God.
 John	Jn	50	1	1	In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
 John	Jn	50	1	2	He was in the beginning with God;
 John	Jn	50	1	3	all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made.
 John	Jn	50	1	4	In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
 John	Jn	50	1	5	The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
 John	Jn	50	1	6	There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
 John	Jn	50	1	7	He came for testimony, to bear witness to the light, that all might believe through him.
 John	Jn	50	1	8	He was not the light, but came to bear witness to the light.
 John	Jn	50	1	9	The true light that enlightens every man was coming into the world.
 John	Jn	50	1	10	He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world knew him not.
 John	Jn	50	1	11	He came to his own home, and his own people received him not.
 John	Jn	50	1	12	But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God;
 John	Jn	50	1	13	who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
 John	Jn	50	1	14	And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father.
 John	Jn	50	1	15	(John bore witness to him, and cried, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, for he was before me.’”)
 John	Jn	50	1	16	And from his fulness have we all received, grace upon grace.
 John	Jn	50	1	17	For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
 John	Jn	50	1	18	No one has ever seen God; the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known.
 John	Jn	50	1	19	And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”
 John	Jn	50	1	20	He confessed, he did not deny, but confessed, “I am not the Christ.”
 John	Jn	50	1	21	And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the prophet?” And he answered, “No.”
 John	Jn	50	1	22	They said to him then, “Who are you? Let us have an answer for those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”
 John	Jn	50	1	23	He said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.”
 John	Jn	50	1	24	Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.
 John	Jn	50	1	25	They asked him, “Then why are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”
 John	Jn	50	1	26	John answered them, “I baptize with water; but among you stands one whom you do not know,
 John	Jn	50	1	27	even he who comes after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie.”
 John	Jn	50	1	28	This took place in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
 John	Jn	50	1	29	The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
 John	Jn	50	1	30	This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who ranks before me, for he was before me.’
 John	Jn	50	1	31	I myself did not know him; but for this I came baptizing with water, that he might be revealed to Israel.”
 John	Jn	50	1	32	And John bore witness, “I saw the Spirit descend as a dove from heaven, and it remained on him.
 John	Jn	50	1	33	I myself did not know him; but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’
 John	Jn	50	1	34	And I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God.”
 John	Jn	50	1	35	The next day again John was standing with two of his disciples;
 John	Jn	50	1	36	and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”
 John	Jn	50	1	37	The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus.
 John	Jn	50	1	38	Jesus turned, and saw them following, and said to them, “What do you seek?” And they said to him, “Rabbi” (which means Teacher), “where are you staying?”
 John	Jn	50	1	39	He said to them, “Come and see.” They came and saw where he was staying; and they stayed with him that day, for it was about the tenth hour.
 John	Jn	50	1	40	One of the two who heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.
 John	Jn	50	1	41	He first found his brother Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which means Christ).
 John	Jn	50	1	42	He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, “So you are Simon the son of John? You shall be called Cephas” (which means Peter).
 John	Jn	50	1	43	The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. And he found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.”
 John	Jn	50	1	44	Now Philip was from Beth-saida, the city of Andrew and Peter.
 John	Jn	50	1	45	Philip found Nathana-el, and said to him, “We have found him of whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
 John	Jn	50	1	46	Nathana-el said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
 John	Jn	50	1	47	Jesus saw Nathana-el coming to him, and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!”
 John	Jn	50	1	48	Nathana-el said to him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”
 John	Jn	50	1	49	Nathana-el answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!”
 John	Jn	50	1	50	Jesus answered him, “Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You shall see greater things than these.”
 John	Jn	50	1	51	And he said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.”
 John	Jn	50	2	1	On the third day there was a marriage at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there;
 John	Jn	50	2	2	Jesus also was invited to the marriage, with his disciples.
 John	Jn	50	2	3	When the wine failed, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.”
 John	Jn	50	2	4	And Jesus said to her, “O woman, what have you to do with me? My hour has not yet come.”
 John	Jn	50	2	5	His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”
 John	Jn	50	2	6	Now six stone jars were standing there, for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.
 John	Jn	50	2	7	Jesus said to them, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim.
 John	Jn	50	2	8	He said to them, “Now draw some out, and take it to the steward of the feast.” So they took it.
 John	Jn	50	2	9	When the steward of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the steward of the feast called the bridegroom
 John	Jn	50	2	10	and said to him, “Every man serves the good wine first; and when men have drunk freely, then the poor wine; but you have kept the good wine until now.”
 John	Jn	50	2	11	This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
 John	Jn	50	2	12	After this he went down to Caperna-um, with his mother and his brethren and his disciples; and there they stayed for a few days.
 John	Jn	50	2	13	The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
 John	Jn	50	2	14	In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers at their business.
 John	Jn	50	2	15	And making a whip of cords, he drove them all, with the sheep and oxen, out of the temple; and he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables.
 John	Jn	50	2	16	And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; you shall not make my Father’s house a house of trade.”
 John	Jn	50	2	17	His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for thy house will consume me.”
 John	Jn	50	2	18	The Jews then said to him, “What sign have you to show us for doing this?”
 John	Jn	50	2	19	Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
 John	Jn	50	2	20	The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?”
 John	Jn	50	2	21	But he spoke of the temple of his body.
 John	Jn	50	2	22	When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken.
 John	Jn	50	2	23	Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs which he did;
 John	Jn	50	2	24	but Jesus did not trust himself to them,
 John	Jn	50	2	25	because he knew all men and needed no one to bear witness of man; for he himself knew what was in man.
 John	Jn	50	3	1	Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
 John	Jn	50	3	2	This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”
 John	Jn	50	3	3	Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
 John	Jn	50	3	4	Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”
 John	Jn	50	3	5	Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
 John	Jn	50	3	6	That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
 John	Jn	50	3	7	Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born anew.’
 John	Jn	50	3	8	The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know whence it comes or whither it goes; so it is with every one who is born of the Spirit.”
 John	Jn	50	3	9	Nicodemus said to him, “How can this be?”
 John	Jn	50	3	10	Jesus answered him, “Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand this?
 John	Jn	50	3	11	Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen; but you do not receive our testimony.
 John	Jn	50	3	12	If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
 John	Jn	50	3	13	No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven, the Son of man.
 John	Jn	50	3	14	And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up,
 John	Jn	50	3	15	that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.”
 John	Jn	50	3	16	For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
 John	Jn	50	3	17	For God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.
 John	Jn	50	3	18	He who believes in him is not condemned; he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
 John	Jn	50	3	19	And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
 John	Jn	50	3	20	For every one who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
 John	Jn	50	3	21	But he who does what is true comes to the light, that it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been wrought in God.
 John	Jn	50	3	22	After this Jesus and his disciples went into the land of Judea; there he remained with them and baptized.
 John	Jn	50	3	23	John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there; and people came and were baptized.
 John	Jn	50	3	24	For John had not yet been put in prison.
 John	Jn	50	3	25	Now a discussion arose between John’s disciples and a Jew over purifying.
 John	Jn	50	3	26	And they came to John, and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you bore witness, here he is, baptizing, and all are going to him.”
 John	Jn	50	3	27	John answered, “No one can receive anything except what is given him from heaven.
 John	Jn	50	3	28	You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.
 John	Jn	50	3	29	He who has the bride is the bridegroom; the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice; therefore this joy of mine is now full.
 John	Jn	50	3	30	He must increase, but I must decrease.”
 John	Jn	50	3	31	He who comes from above is above all; he who is of the earth belongs to the earth, and of the earth he speaks; he who comes from heaven is above all.
 John	Jn	50	3	32	He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his testimony;
 John	Jn	50	3	33	he who receives his testimony sets his seal to this, that God is true.
 John	Jn	50	3	34	For he whom God has sent utters the words of God, for it is not by measure that he gives the Spirit;
 John	Jn	50	3	35	the Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.
 John	Jn	50	3	36	He who believes in the Son has eternal life; he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God rests upon him.
 John	Jn	50	4	1	Now when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
 John	Jn	50	4	2	(although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples),
 John	Jn	50	4	3	he left Judea and departed again to Galilee.
 John	Jn	50	4	4	He had to pass through Samaria.
 John	Jn	50	4	5	So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
 John	Jn	50	4	6	Jacob’s well was there, and so Jesus, wearied as he was with his journey, sat down beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.
 John	Jn	50	4	7	There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”
 John	Jn	50	4	8	For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
 John	Jn	50	4	9	The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.
 John	Jn	50	4	10	Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
 John	Jn	50	4	11	The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; where do you get that living water?
 John	Jn	50	4	12	Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?”
 John	Jn	50	4	13	Jesus said to her, “Every one who drinks of this water will thirst again,
 John	Jn	50	4	14	but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst; the water that I shall give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
 John	Jn	50	4	15	The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”
 John	Jn	50	4	16	Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
 John	Jn	50	4	17	The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’;
 John	Jn	50	4	18	for you have had five husbands, and he whom you now have is not your husband; this you said truly.”
 John	Jn	50	4	19	The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
 John	Jn	50	4	20	Our fathers worshiped on this mountain; and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.”
 John	Jn	50	4	21	Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.
 John	Jn	50	4	22	You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
 John	Jn	50	4	23	But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for such the Father seeks to worship him.
 John	Jn	50	4	24	God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
 John	Jn	50	4	25	The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ); when he comes, he will show us all things.”
 John	Jn	50	4	26	Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”
 John	Jn	50	4	27	Just then his disciples came. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but none said, “What do you wish?” or, “Why are you talking with her?”
 John	Jn	50	4	28	So the woman left her water jar, and went away into the city, and said to the people,
 John	Jn	50	4	29	“Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?”
 John	Jn	50	4	30	They went out of the city and were coming to him.
 John	Jn	50	4	31	Meanwhile the disciples besought him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”
 John	Jn	50	4	32	But he said to them, “I have food to eat of which you do not know.”
 John	Jn	50	4	33	So the disciples said to one another, “Has any one brought him food?”
 John	Jn	50	4	34	Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
 John	Jn	50	4	35	Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see how the fields are already white for harvest.
 John	Jn	50	4	36	He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.
 John	Jn	50	4	37	For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’
 John	Jn	50	4	38	I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor; others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
 John	Jn	50	4	39	Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.”
 John	Jn	50	4	40	So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them; and he stayed there two days.
 John	Jn	50	4	41	And many more believed because of his word.
 John	Jn	50	4	42	They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of your words that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”
 John	Jn	50	4	43	After the two days he departed to Galilee.
 John	Jn	50	4	44	For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
 John	Jn	50	4	45	So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast, for they too had gone to the feast.
 John	Jn	50	4	46	So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Caperna-um there was an official whose son was ill.
 John	Jn	50	4	47	When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.
 John	Jn	50	4	48	Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.”
 John	Jn	50	4	49	The official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”
 John	Jn	50	4	50	Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went his way.
 John	Jn	50	4	51	As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was living.
 John	Jn	50	4	52	So he asked them the hour when he began to mend, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”
 John	Jn	50	4	53	The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live”; and he himself believed, and all his household.
 John	Jn	50	4	54	This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.
 John	Jn	50	5	1	After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
 John	Jn	50	5	2	Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Hebrew called Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes.
 John	Jn	50	5	3	In these lay a multitude of invalids, blind, lame, paralyzed.
 John	Jn	50	5	5	One man was there, who had been ill for thirty-eight years.
 John	Jn	50	5	6	When Jesus saw him and knew that he had been lying there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?”
 John	Jn	50	5	7	The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is troubled, and while I am going another steps down before me.”
 John	Jn	50	5	8	Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your pallet, and walk.”
 John	Jn	50	5	9	And at once the man was healed, and he took up his pallet and walked. Now that day was the sabbath.
 John	Jn	50	5	10	So the Jews said to the man who was cured, “It is the sabbath, it is not lawful for you to carry your pallet.”
 John	Jn	50	5	11	But he answered them, “The man who healed me said to me, ‘Take up your pallet, and walk.’”
 John	Jn	50	5	12	They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your pallet, and walk’?”
 John	Jn	50	5	13	Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place.
 John	Jn	50	5	14	Afterward, Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse befall you.”
 John	Jn	50	5	15	The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.
 John	Jn	50	5	16	And this was why the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did this on the sabbath.
 John	Jn	50	5	17	But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working still, and I am working.”
 John	Jn	50	5	18	This was why the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath but also called God his Father, making himself equal with God.
 John	Jn	50	5	19	Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, that the Son does likewise.
 John	Jn	50	5	20	For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all that he himself is doing; and greater works than these will he show him, that you may marvel.
 John	Jn	50	5	21	For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.
 John	Jn	50	5	22	The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,
 John	Jn	50	5	23	that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
 John	Jn	50	5	24	Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me, has eternal life; he does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
 John	Jn	50	5	25	“Truly, truly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
 John	Jn	50	5	26	For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself,
 John	Jn	50	5	27	and has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of man.
 John	Jn	50	5	28	Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice
 John	Jn	50	5	29	and come forth, those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.
 John	Jn	50	5	30	“I can do nothing on my own authority; as I hear, I judge; and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
 John	Jn	50	5	31	If I bear witness to myself, my testimony is not true;
 John	Jn	50	5	32	there is another who bears witness to me, and I know that the testimony which he bears to me is true.
 John	Jn	50	5	33	You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth.
 John	Jn	50	5	34	Not that the testimony which I receive is from man; but I say this that you may be saved.
 John	Jn	50	5	35	He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
 John	Jn	50	5	36	But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John; for the works which the Father has granted me to accomplish, these very works which I am doing, bear me witness that the Father has sent me.
 John	Jn	50	5	37	And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness to me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen;
 John	Jn	50	5	38	and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe him whom he has sent.
 John	Jn	50	5	39	You search the scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness to me;
 John	Jn	50	5	40	yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.
 John	Jn	50	5	41	I do not receive glory from men.
 John	Jn	50	5	42	But I know that you have not the love of God within you.
 John	Jn	50	5	43	I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not receive me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive.
 John	Jn	50	5	44	How can you believe, who receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
 John	Jn	50	5	45	Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; it is Moses who accuses you, on whom you set your hope.
 John	Jn	50	5	46	If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote of me.
 John	Jn	50	5	47	But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”
 John	Jn	50	6	1	After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias.
 John	Jn	50	6	2	And a multitude followed him, because they saw the signs which he did on those who were diseased.
 John	Jn	50	6	3	Jesus went up on the mountain, and there sat down with his disciples.
 John	Jn	50	6	4	Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.
 John	Jn	50	6	5	Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a multitude was coming to him, Jesus said to Philip, “How are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?”
 John	Jn	50	6	6	This he said to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.
 John	Jn	50	6	7	Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii would not buy enough bread for each of them to get a little.”
 John	Jn	50	6	8	One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him,
 John	Jn	50	6	9	“There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what are they among so many?”
 John	Jn	50	6	10	Jesus said, “Make the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in the place; so the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
 John	Jn	50	6	11	Jesus then took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated; so also the fish, as much as they wanted.
 John	Jn	50	6	12	And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, “Gather up the fragments left over, that nothing may be lost.”
 John	Jn	50	6	13	So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves, left by those who had eaten.
 John	Jn	50	6	14	When the people saw the sign which he had done, they said, “This is indeed the prophet who is to come into the world!”
 John	Jn	50	6	15	Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
 John	Jn	50	6	16	When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea,
 John	Jn	50	6	17	got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.
 John	Jn	50	6	18	The sea rose because a strong wind was blowing.
 John	Jn	50	6	19	When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and drawing near to the boat. They were frightened,
 John	Jn	50	6	20	but he said to them, “It is I; do not be afraid.”
 John	Jn	50	6	21	Then they were glad to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going.
 John	Jn	50	6	22	On the next day the people who remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone.
 John	Jn	50	6	23	However, boats from Tiberi-as came near the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks.
 John	Jn	50	6	24	So when the people saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.
 John	Jn	50	6	25	When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?”
 John	Jn	50	6	26	Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves.
 John	Jn	50	6	27	Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you; for on him has God the Father set his seal.”
 John	Jn	50	6	28	Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?”
 John	Jn	50	6	29	Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
 John	Jn	50	6	30	So they said to him, “Then what sign do you do, that we may see, and believe you? What work do you perform?
 John	Jn	50	6	31	Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
 John	Jn	50	6	32	Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven; my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.
 John	Jn	50	6	33	For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven, and gives life to the world.”
 John	Jn	50	6	34	They said to him, “Lord, give us this bread always.”
 John	Jn	50	6	35	Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst.
 John	Jn	50	6	36	But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe.
 John	Jn	50	6	37	All that the Father gives me will come to me; and him who comes to me I will not cast out.
 John	Jn	50	6	38	For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me;
 John	Jn	50	6	39	and this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up at the last day.
 John	Jn	50	6	40	For this is the will of my Father, that every one who sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
 John	Jn	50	6	41	The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, “I am the bread which came down from heaven.”
 John	Jn	50	6	42	They said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
 John	Jn	50	6	43	Jesus answered them, “Do not murmur among yourselves.
 John	Jn	50	6	44	No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.
 John	Jn	50	6	45	It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Every one who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me.
 John	Jn	50	6	46	Not that any one has seen the Father except him who is from God; he has seen the Father.
 John	Jn	50	6	47	Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes has eternal life.
 John	Jn	50	6	48	I am the bread of life.
 John	Jn	50	6	49	Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
 John	Jn	50	6	50	This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat of it and not die.
 John	Jn	50	6	51	I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
 John	Jn	50	6	52	The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
 John	Jn	50	6	53	So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you;
 John	Jn	50	6	54	he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
 John	Jn	50	6	55	For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
 John	Jn	50	6	56	He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.
 John	Jn	50	6	57	As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me.
 John	Jn	50	6	58	This is the bread which came down from heaven, not such as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live for ever.”
 John	Jn	50	6	59	This he said in the synagogue, as he taught at Capernaum.
 John	Jn	50	6	60	Many of his disciples, when they heard it, said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?”
 John	Jn	50	6	61	But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at it, said to them, “Do you take offense at this?
 John	Jn	50	6	62	Then what if you were to see the Son of man ascending where he was before?
 John	Jn	50	6	63	It is the spirit that gives life, the flesh is of no avail; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
 John	Jn	50	6	64	But there are some of you that do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the first who those were that did not believe, and who it was that would betray him.
 John	Jn	50	6	65	And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”
 John	Jn	50	6	66	After this many of his disciples drew back and no longer went about with him.
 John	Jn	50	6	67	Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you also wish to go away?”
 John	Jn	50	6	68	Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life;
 John	Jn	50	6	69	and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”
 John	Jn	50	6	70	Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”
 John	Jn	50	6	71	He spoke of Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, one of the twelve, was to betray him.
 John	Jn	50	7	1	After this Jesus went about in Galilee; he would not go about in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
 John	Jn	50	7	2	Now the Jews’ feast of Tabernacles was at hand.
 John	Jn	50	7	3	So his brethren said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples may see the works you are doing.
 John	Jn	50	7	4	For no man works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.”
 John	Jn	50	7	5	For even his brethren did not believe in him.
 John	Jn	50	7	6	Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.
 John	Jn	50	7	7	The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify of it that its works are evil.
 John	Jn	50	7	8	Go to the feast yourselves; I am not going up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come.”
 John	Jn	50	7	9	So saying, he remained in Galilee.
 John	Jn	50	7	10	But after his brethren had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private.
 John	Jn	50	7	11	The Jews were looking for him at the feast, and saying, “Where is he?”
 John	Jn	50	7	12	And there was much muttering about him among the people. While some said, “He is a good man,” others said, “No, he is leading the people astray.”
 John	Jn	50	7	13	Yet for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him.
 John	Jn	50	7	14	About the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and taught.
 John	Jn	50	7	15	The Jews marveled at it, saying, “How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?”
 John	Jn	50	7	16	So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me;
 John	Jn	50	7	17	if any man’s will is to do his will, he shall know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority.
 John	Jn	50	7	18	He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.
 John	Jn	50	7	19	Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?”
 John	Jn	50	7	20	The people answered, “You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?”
 John	Jn	50	7	21	Jesus answered them, “I did one deed, and you all marvel at it.
 John	Jn	50	7	22	Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man upon the sabbath.
 John	Jn	50	7	23	If on the sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because on the sabbath I made a man’s whole body well?
 John	Jn	50	7	24	Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”
 John	Jn	50	7	25	Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, “Is not this the man whom they seek to kill?
 John	Jn	50	7	26	And here he is, speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Christ?
 John	Jn	50	7	27	Yet we know where this man comes from; and when the Christ appears, no one will know where he comes from.”
 John	Jn	50	7	28	So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, “You know me, and you know where I come from? But I have not come of my own accord; he who sent me is true, and him you do not know.
 John	Jn	50	7	29	I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me.”
 John	Jn	50	7	30	So they sought to arrest him; but no one laid hands on him, because his hour had not yet come.
 John	Jn	50	7	31	Yet many of the people believed in him; they said, “When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?”
 John	Jn	50	7	32	The Pharisees heard the crowd thus muttering about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
 John	Jn	50	7	33	Jesus then said, “I shall be with you a little longer, and then I go to him who sent me;
 John	Jn	50	7	34	you will seek me and you will not find me; where I am you cannot come.”
 John	Jn	50	7	35	The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we shall not find him? Does he intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?
 John	Jn	50	7	36	What does he mean by saying, ‘You will seek me and you will not find me,’ and, ‘Where I am you cannot come’?”
 John	Jn	50	7	37	On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and proclaimed, “If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink.
 John	Jn	50	7	38	He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water.’”
 John	Jn	50	7	39	Now this he said about the Spirit, which those who believed in him were to receive; for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
 John	Jn	50	7	40	When they heard these words, some of the people said, “This is really the prophet.”
 John	Jn	50	7	41	Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “Is the Christ to come from Galilee?
 John	Jn	50	7	42	Has not the scripture said that the Christ is descended from David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”
 John	Jn	50	7	43	So there was a division among the people over him.
 John	Jn	50	7	44	Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.
 John	Jn	50	7	45	The officers then went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why did you not bring him?”
 John	Jn	50	7	46	The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!”
 John	Jn	50	7	47	The Pharisees answered them, “Are you led astray, you also?
 John	Jn	50	7	48	Have any of the authorities or of the Pharisees believed in him?
 John	Jn	50	7	49	But this crowd, who do not know the law, are accursed.”
 John	Jn	50	7	50	Nicodemus, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them,
 John	Jn	50	7	51	“Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?”
 John	Jn	50	7	52	They replied, “Are you from Galilee too? Search and you will see that no prophet is to rise from Galilee.”
 John	Jn	50	7	53	They went each to his own house,
 John	Jn	50	8	1	but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
 John	Jn	50	8	2	Early in the morning he came again to the temple; all the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them.
 John	Jn	50	8	3	The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst
 John	Jn	50	8	4	they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery.
 John	Jn	50	8	5	Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such. What do you say about her?”
 John	Jn	50	8	6	This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.
 John	Jn	50	8	7	And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”
 John	Jn	50	8	8	And once more he bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.
 John	Jn	50	8	9	But when they heard it, they went away, one by one, beginning with the eldest, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.
 John	Jn	50	8	10	Jesus looked up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
 John	Jn	50	8	11	She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and do not sin again.”
 John	Jn	50	8	12	Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world; he who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
 John	Jn	50	8	13	The Pharisees then said to him, “You are bearing witness to yourself; your testimony is not true.”
 John	Jn	50	8	14	Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness to myself, my testimony is true, for I know whence I have come and whither I am going, but you do not know whence I come or whither I am going.
 John	Jn	50	8	15	You judge according to the flesh, I judge no one.
 John	Jn	50	8	16	Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone that judge, but I and he who sent me.
 John	Jn	50	8	17	In your law it is written that the testimony of two men is true;
 John	Jn	50	8	18	I bear witness to myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness to me.”
 John	Jn	50	8	19	They said to him therefore, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father; if you knew me, you would know my Father also.”
 John	Jn	50	8	20	These words he spoke in the treasury, as he taught in the temple; but no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.
 John	Jn	50	8	21	Again he said to them, “I go away, and you will seek me and die in your sin; where I am going, you cannot come.”
 John	Jn	50	8	22	Then said the Jews, “Will he kill himself, since he says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?”
 John	Jn	50	8	23	He said to them, “You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.
 John	Jn	50	8	24	I told you that you would die in your sins, for you will die in your sins unless you believe that I am he.”
 John	Jn	50	8	25	They said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Even what I have told you from the beginning.
 John	Jn	50	8	26	I have much to say about you and much to judge; but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.”
 John	Jn	50	8	27	They did not understand that he spoke to them of the Father.
 John	Jn	50	8	28	So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority but speak thus as the Father taught me.
 John	Jn	50	8	29	And he who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what is pleasing to him.”
 John	Jn	50	8	30	As he spoke thus, many believed in him.
 John	Jn	50	8	31	Jesus then said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples,
 John	Jn	50	8	32	and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
 John	Jn	50	8	33	They answered him, “We are descendants of Abraham, and have never been in bondage to any one. How is it that you say, ‘You will be made free’?”
 John	Jn	50	8	34	Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, every one who commits sin is a slave to sin.
 John	Jn	50	8	35	The slave does not continue in the house for ever; the son continues for ever.
 John	Jn	50	8	36	So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.
 John	Jn	50	8	37	I know that you are descendants of Abraham; yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.
 John	Jn	50	8	38	I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”
 John	Jn	50	8	39	They answered him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do what Abraham did,
 John	Jn	50	8	40	but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God; this is not what Abraham did.
 John	Jn	50	8	41	You do what your father did.” They said to him, “We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.”
 John	Jn	50	8	42	Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I proceeded and came forth from God; I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.
 John	Jn	50	8	43	Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.
 John	Jn	50	8	44	You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
 John	Jn	50	8	45	But, because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.
 John	Jn	50	8	46	Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
 John	Jn	50	8	47	He who is of God hears the words of God; the reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.”
 John	Jn	50	8	48	The Jews answered him, “Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?”
 John	Jn	50	8	49	Jesus answered, “I have not a demon; but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.
 John	Jn	50	8	50	Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is One who seeks it and he will be the judge.
 John	Jn	50	8	51	Truly, truly, I say to you, if any one keeps my word, he will never see death.”
 John	Jn	50	8	52	The Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, as did the prophets; and you say, ‘If any one keeps my word, he will never taste death.’
 John	Jn	50	8	53	Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died! Who do you claim to be?”
 John	Jn	50	8	54	Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing; it is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is your God.
 John	Jn	50	8	55	But you have not known him; I know him. If I said, I do not know him, I should be a liar like you; but I do know him and I keep his word.
 John	Jn	50	8	56	Your father Abraham rejoiced that he was to see my day; he saw it and was glad.”
 John	Jn	50	8	57	The Jews then said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?”
 John	Jn	50	8	58	Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”
 John	Jn	50	8	59	So they took up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple.
 John	Jn	50	9	1	As he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth.
 John	Jn	50	9	2	And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
 John	Jn	50	9	3	Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be made manifest in him.
 John	Jn	50	9	4	We must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day; night comes, when no one can work.
 John	Jn	50	9	5	As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
 John	Jn	50	9	6	As he said this, he spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle and anointed the man’s eyes with the clay,
 John	Jn	50	9	7	saying to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.
 John	Jn	50	9	8	The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar, said, “Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?”
 John	Jn	50	9	9	Some said, “It is he”; others said, “No, but he is like him.” He said, “I am the man.”
 John	Jn	50	9	10	They said to him, “Then how were your eyes opened?”
 John	Jn	50	9	11	He answered, “The man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash’; so I went and washed and received my sight.”
 John	Jn	50	9	12	They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”
 John	Jn	50	9	13	They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind.
 John	Jn	50	9	14	Now it was a sabbath day when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes.
 John	Jn	50	9	15	The Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight. And he said to them, “He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.”
 John	Jn	50	9	16	Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the sabbath.” But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” There was a division among them.
 John	Jn	50	9	17	So they again said to the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he has opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”
 John	Jn	50	9	18	The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight,
 John	Jn	50	9	19	and asked them, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”
 John	Jn	50	9	20	His parents answered, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;
 John	Jn	50	9	21	but how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age, he will speak for himself.”
 John	Jn	50	9	22	His parents said this because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if any one should confess him to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.
 John	Jn	50	9	23	Therefore his parents said, “He is of age, ask him.”
 John	Jn	50	9	24	So for the second time they called the man who had been blind, and said to him, “Give God the praise; we know that this man is a sinner.”
 John	Jn	50	9	25	He answered, “Whether he is a sinner, I do not know; one thing I know, that though I was blind, now I see.”
 John	Jn	50	9	26	They said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
 John	Jn	50	9	27	He answered them, “I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you too want to become his disciples?”
 John	Jn	50	9	28	And they reviled him, saying, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.
 John	Jn	50	9	29	We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from.”
 John	Jn	50	9	30	The man answered, “Why, this is a marvel! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes.
 John	Jn	50	9	31	We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if any one is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.
 John	Jn	50	9	32	Never since the world began has it been heard that any one opened the eyes of a man born blind.
 John	Jn	50	9	33	If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”
 John	Jn	50	9	34	They answered him, “You were born in utter sin, and would you teach us?” And they cast him out.
 John	Jn	50	9	35	Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, “Do you believe in the Son of man?”
 John	Jn	50	9	36	He answered, “And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?”
 John	Jn	50	9	37	Jesus said to him, “You have seen him, and it is he who speaks to you.”
 John	Jn	50	9	38	He said, “Lord, I believe”; and he worshiped him.
 John	Jn	50	9	39	Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may become blind.”
 John	Jn	50	9	40	Some of the Pharisees near him heard this, and they said to him, “Are we also blind?”
 John	Jn	50	9	41	Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.
 John	Jn	50	10	1	“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber;
 John	Jn	50	10	2	but he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
 John	Jn	50	10	3	To him the gatekeeper opens; the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
 John	Jn	50	10	4	When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
 John	Jn	50	10	5	A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.”
 John	Jn	50	10	6	This figure Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.
 John	Jn	50	10	7	So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
 John	Jn	50	10	8	All who came before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not heed them.
 John	Jn	50	10	9	I am the door; if any one enters by me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.
 John	Jn	50	10	10	The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.
 John	Jn	50	10	11	I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
 John	Jn	50	10	12	He who is a hireling and not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.
 John	Jn	50	10	13	He flees because he is a hireling and cares nothing for the sheep.
 John	Jn	50	10	14	I am the good shepherd; I know my own and my own know me,
 John	Jn	50	10	15	as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.
 John	Jn	50	10	16	And I have other sheep, that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will heed my voice. So there shall be one flock, one shepherd.
 John	Jn	50	10	17	For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.
 John	Jn	50	10	18	No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again; this charge I have received from my Father.”
 John	Jn	50	10	19	There was again a division among the Jews because of these words.
 John	Jn	50	10	20	Many of them said, “He has a demon, and he is mad; why listen to him?”
 John	Jn	50	10	21	Others said, “These are not the sayings of one who has a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”
 John	Jn	50	10	22	It was the feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem;
 John	Jn	50	10	23	it was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the portico of Solomon.
 John	Jn	50	10	24	So the Jews gathered round him and said to him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
 John	Jn	50	10	25	Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness to me;
 John	Jn	50	10	26	but you do not believe, because you do not belong to my sheep.
 John	Jn	50	10	27	My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me;
 John	Jn	50	10	28	and I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand.
 John	Jn	50	10	29	My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
 John	Jn	50	10	30	I and the Father are one.”
 John	Jn	50	10	31	The Jews took up stones again to stone him.
 John	Jn	50	10	32	Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of these do you stone me?”
 John	Jn	50	10	33	The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we stone you but for blasphemy; because you, being a man, make yourself God.”
 John	Jn	50	10	34	Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’?
 John	Jn	50	10	35	If he called them gods to whom the word of God came (and scripture cannot be broken),
 John	Jn	50	10	36	do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?
 John	Jn	50	10	37	If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me;
 John	Jn	50	10	38	but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”
 John	Jn	50	10	39	Again they tried to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands.
 John	Jn	50	10	40	He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John at first baptized, and there he remained.
 John	Jn	50	10	41	And many came to him; and they said, “John did no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.”
 John	Jn	50	10	42	And many believed in him there.
 John	Jn	50	11	1	Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
 John	Jn	50	11	2	It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.
 John	Jn	50	11	3	So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.”
 John	Jn	50	11	4	But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illness is not unto death; it is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by means of it.”
 John	Jn	50	11	5	Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
 John	Jn	50	11	6	So when he heard that he was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was.
 John	Jn	50	11	7	Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let us go into Judea again.”
 John	Jn	50	11	8	The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were but now seeking to stone you, and are you going there again?”
 John	Jn	50	11	9	Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any one walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
 John	Jn	50	11	10	But if any one walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”
 John	Jn	50	11	11	Thus he spoke, and then he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awake him out of sleep.”
 John	Jn	50	11	12	The disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”
 John	Jn	50	11	13	Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep.
 John	Jn	50	11	14	Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead;
 John	Jn	50	11	15	and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”
 John	Jn	50	11	16	Thomas, called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.”
 John	Jn	50	11	17	Now when Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days.
 John	Jn	50	11	18	Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles off,
 John	Jn	50	11	19	and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother.
 John	Jn	50	11	20	When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary sat in the house.
 John	Jn	50	11	21	Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
 John	Jn	50	11	22	And even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you.”
 John	Jn	50	11	23	Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”
 John	Jn	50	11	24	Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
 John	Jn	50	11	25	Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,
 John	Jn	50	11	26	and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
 John	Jn	50	11	27	She said to him, “Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, he who is coming into the world.”
 John	Jn	50	11	28	When she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary, saying quietly, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”
 John	Jn	50	11	29	And when she heard it, she rose quickly and went to him.
 John	Jn	50	11	30	Now Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met him.
 John	Jn	50	11	31	When the Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary rise quickly and go out, they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there.
 John	Jn	50	11	32	Then Mary, when she came where Jesus was and saw him, fell at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
 John	Jn	50	11	33	When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled;
 John	Jn	50	11	34	and he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.”
 John	Jn	50	11	35	Jesus wept.
 John	Jn	50	11	36	So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”
 John	Jn	50	11	37	But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?”
 John	Jn	50	11	38	Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb; it was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.
 John	Jn	50	11	39	Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days.”
 John	Jn	50	11	40	Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?”
 John	Jn	50	11	41	So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
 John	Jn	50	11	42	I knew that thou hearest me always, but I have said this on account of the people standing by, that they may believe that thou didst send me.”
 John	Jn	50	11	43	When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.”
 John	Jn	50	11	44	The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with bandages, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”
 John	Jn	50	11	45	Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him;
 John	Jn	50	11	46	but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
 John	Jn	50	11	47	So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council, and said, “What are we to do? For this man performs many signs.
 John	Jn	50	11	48	If we let him go on thus, every one will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our holy place and our nation.”
 John	Jn	50	11	49	But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all;
 John	Jn	50	11	50	you do not understand that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation should not perish.”
 John	Jn	50	11	51	He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation,
 John	Jn	50	11	52	and not for the nation only, but to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
 John	Jn	50	11	53	So from that day on they took counsel how to put him to death.
 John	Jn	50	11	54	Jesus therefore no longer went about openly among the Jews, but went from there to the country near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim; and there he stayed with the disciples.
 John	Jn	50	11	55	Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
 John	Jn	50	11	56	They were looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?”
 John	Jn	50	11	57	Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if any one knew where he was, he should let them know, so that they might arrest him.
 John	Jn	50	12	1	Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.
 John	Jn	50	12	2	There they made him a supper; Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at table with him.
 John	Jn	50	12	3	Mary took a pound of costly ointment of pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.
 John	Jn	50	12	4	But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (he who was to betray him), said,
 John	Jn	50	12	5	“Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?”
 John	Jn	50	12	6	This he said, not that he cared for the poor but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box he used to take what was put into it.
 John	Jn	50	12	7	Jesus said, “Let her alone, let her keep it for the day of my burial.
 John	Jn	50	12	8	The poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me.”
 John	Jn	50	12	9	When the great crowd of the Jews learned that he was there, they came, not only on account of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.
 John	Jn	50	12	10	So the chief priests planned to put Lazarus also to death,
 John	Jn	50	12	11	because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus.
 John	Jn	50	12	12	The next day a great crowd who had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.
 John	Jn	50	12	13	So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!”
 John	Jn	50	12	14	And Jesus found a young ass and sat upon it; as it is written,
 John	Jn	50	12	15	“Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your king is coming, sitting on an ass’s colt!”
 John	Jn	50	12	16	His disciples did not understand this at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that this had been written of him and had been done to him.
 John	Jn	50	12	17	The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead bore witness.
 John	Jn	50	12	18	The reason why the crowd went to meet him was that they heard he had done this sign.
 John	Jn	50	12	19	The Pharisees then said to one another, “You see that you can do nothing; look, the world has gone after him.”
 John	Jn	50	12	20	Now among those who went up to worship at the feast were some Greeks.
 John	Jn	50	12	21	So these came to Philip, who was from Beth-saida in Galilee, and said to him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.”
 John	Jn	50	12	22	Philip went and told Andrew; Andrew went with Philip and they told Jesus.
 John	Jn	50	12	23	And Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of man to be glorified.
 John	Jn	50	12	24	Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
 John	Jn	50	12	25	He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
 John	Jn	50	12	26	If any one serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there shall my servant be also; if any one serves me, the Father will honor him.
 John	Jn	50	12	27	“Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, for this purpose I have come to this hour.
 John	Jn	50	12	28	Father, glorify thy name.” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”
 John	Jn	50	12	29	The crowd standing by heard it and said that it had thundered. Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.”
 John	Jn	50	12	30	Jesus answered, “This voice has come for your sake, not for mine.
 John	Jn	50	12	31	Now is the judgment of this world, now shall the ruler of this world be cast out;
 John	Jn	50	12	32	and I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself.”
 John	Jn	50	12	33	He said this to show by what death he was to die.
 John	Jn	50	12	34	The crowd answered him, “We have heard from the law that the Christ remains for ever. How can you say that the Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?”
 John	Jn	50	12	35	Jesus said to them, “The light is with you for a little longer. Walk while you have the light, lest the darkness overtake you; he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes.
 John	Jn	50	12	36	While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.” When Jesus had said this, he departed and hid himself from them.
 John	Jn	50	12	37	Though he had done so many signs before them, yet they did not believe in him;
 John	Jn	50	12	38	it was that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: “Lord, who has believed our report, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
 John	Jn	50	12	39	Therefore they could not believe. For Isaiah again said,
 John	Jn	50	12	40	“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes and perceive with their heart, and turn for me to heal them.”
 John	Jn	50	12	41	Isaiah said this because he saw his glory and spoke of him.
 John	Jn	50	12	42	Nevertheless many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, lest they should be put out of the synagogue:
 John	Jn	50	12	43	for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
 John	Jn	50	12	44	And Jesus cried out and said, “He who believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me.
 John	Jn	50	12	45	And he who sees me sees him who sent me.
 John	Jn	50	12	46	I have come as light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.
 John	Jn	50	12	47	If any one hears my sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.
 John	Jn	50	12	48	He who rejects me and does not receive my sayings has a judge; the word that I have spoken will be his judge on the last day.
 John	Jn	50	12	49	For I have not spoken on my own authority; the Father who sent me has himself given me commandment what to say and what to speak.
 John	Jn	50	12	50	And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has bidden me.”
 John	Jn	50	13	1	Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
 John	Jn	50	13	2	And during supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,
 John	Jn	50	13	3	Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God,
 John	Jn	50	13	4	rose from supper, laid aside his garments, and girded himself with a towel.
 John	Jn	50	13	5	Then he poured water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded.
 John	Jn	50	13	6	He came to Simon Peter; and Peter said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?”
 John	Jn	50	13	7	Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not know now, but afterward you will understand.”
 John	Jn	50	13	8	Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part in me.”
 John	Jn	50	13	9	Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!”
 John	Jn	50	13	10	Jesus said to him, “He who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but he is clean all over; and you are clean, but not every one of you.”
 John	Jn	50	13	11	For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, “You are not all clean.”
 John	Jn	50	13	12	When he had washed their feet, and taken his garments, and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you?
 John	Jn	50	13	13	You call me Teacher and Lord; and you are right, for so I am.
 John	Jn	50	13	14	If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
 John	Jn	50	13	15	For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.
 John	Jn	50	13	16	Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him.
 John	Jn	50	13	17	If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
 John	Jn	50	13	18	I am not speaking of you all; I know whom I have chosen; it is that the scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’
 John	Jn	50	13	19	I tell you this now, before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe that I am he.
 John	Jn	50	13	20	Truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives any one whom I send receives me; and he who receives me receives him who sent me.”
 John	Jn	50	13	21	When Jesus had thus spoken, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, “Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.”
 John	Jn	50	13	22	The disciples looked at one another, uncertain of whom he spoke.
 John	Jn	50	13	23	One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was lying close to the breast of Jesus;
 John	Jn	50	13	24	so Simon Peter beckoned to him and said, “Tell us who it is of whom he speaks.”
 John	Jn	50	13	25	So lying thus, close to the breast of Jesus, he said to him, “Lord, who is it?”
 John	Jn	50	13	26	Jesus answered, “It is he to whom I shall give this morsel when I have dipped it.” So when he had dipped the morsel, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
 John	Jn	50	13	27	Then after the morsel, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, “What you are going to do, do quickly.”
 John	Jn	50	13	28	Now no one at the table knew why he said this to him.
 John	Jn	50	13	29	Some thought that, because Judas had the money box, Jesus was telling him, “Buy what we need for the feast”; or, that he should give something to the poor.
 John	Jn	50	13	30	So, after receiving the morsel, he immediately went out; and it was night.
 John	Jn	50	13	31	When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of man glorified, and in him God is glorified;
 John	Jn	50	13	32	if God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and glorify him at once.
 John	Jn	50	13	33	Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me; and as I said to the Jews so now I say to you, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’
 John	Jn	50	13	34	A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
 John	Jn	50	13	35	By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
 John	Jn	50	13	36	Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus answered, “Where I am going you cannot follow me now; but you shall follow afterward.”
 John	Jn	50	13	37	Peter said to him, “Lord, why cannot I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”
 John	Jn	50	13	38	Jesus answered, “Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, the cock will not crow, till you have denied me three times.
 John	Jn	50	14	1	“Let not your hearts be troubled; believe in God, believe also in me.
 John	Jn	50	14	2	In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?
 John	Jn	50	14	3	And when I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
 John	Jn	50	14	4	And you know the way where I am going.”
 John	Jn	50	14	5	Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?”
 John	Jn	50	14	6	Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me.
 John	Jn	50	14	7	If you had known me, you would have known my Father also; henceforth you know him and have seen him.”
 John	Jn	50	14	8	Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and we shall be satisfied.”
 John	Jn	50	14	9	Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you do not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
 John	Jn	50	14	10	Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority; but the Father who dwells in me does his works.
 John	Jn	50	14	11	Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me; or else believe me for the sake of the works themselves.
 John	Jn	50	14	12	“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I go to the Father.
 John	Jn	50	14	13	Whatever you ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son;
 John	Jn	50	14	14	if you ask anything in my name, I will do it.
 John	Jn	50	14	15	“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
 John	Jn	50	14	16	And I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, to be with you for ever,
 John	Jn	50	14	17	even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him; you know him, for he dwells with you, and will be in you.
 John	Jn	50	14	18	“I will not leave you desolate; I will come to you.
 John	Jn	50	14	19	Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more, but you will see me; because I live, you will live also.
 John	Jn	50	14	20	In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
 John	Jn	50	14	21	He who has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me; and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
 John	Jn	50	14	22	Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?”
 John	Jn	50	14	23	Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
 John	Jn	50	14	24	He who does not love me does not keep my words; and the word which you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.
 John	Jn	50	14	25	“These things I have spoken to you, while I am still with you.
 John	Jn	50	14	26	But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
 John	Jn	50	14	27	Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
 John	Jn	50	14	28	You heard me say to you, ‘I go away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I go to the Father; for the Father is greater than I.
 John	Jn	50	14	29	And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place, you may believe.
 John	Jn	50	14	30	I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me;
 John	Jn	50	14	31	but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go hence.
 John	Jn	50	15	1	“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.
 John	Jn	50	15	2	Every branch of mine that bears no fruit, he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
 John	Jn	50	15	3	You are already made clean by the word which I have spoken to you.
 John	Jn	50	15	4	Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.
 John	Jn	50	15	5	I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
 John	Jn	50	15	6	If a man does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned.
 John	Jn	50	15	7	If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.
 John	Jn	50	15	8	By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be my disciples.
 John	Jn	50	15	9	As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love.
 John	Jn	50	15	10	If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.
 John	Jn	50	15	11	These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
 John	Jn	50	15	12	“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
 John	Jn	50	15	13	Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
 John	Jn	50	15	14	You are my friends if you do what I command you.
 John	Jn	50	15	15	No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
 John	Jn	50	15	16	You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
 John	Jn	50	15	17	This I command you, to love one another.
 John	Jn	50	15	18	“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
 John	Jn	50	15	19	If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
 John	Jn	50	15	20	Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also.
 John	Jn	50	15	21	But all this they will do to you on my account, because they do not know him who sent me.
 John	Jn	50	15	22	If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
 John	Jn	50	15	23	He who hates me hates my Father also.
 John	Jn	50	15	24	If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.
 John	Jn	50	15	25	It is to fulfil the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’
 John	Jn	50	15	26	But when the Counselor comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness to me;
 John	Jn	50	15	27	and you also are witnesses, because you have been with me from the beginning.
 John	Jn	50	16	1	“I have said all this to you to keep you from falling away.
 John	Jn	50	16	2	They will put you out of the synagogues; indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.
 John	Jn	50	16	3	And they will do this because they have not known the Father, nor me.
 John	Jn	50	16	4	But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told you of them. “I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.
 John	Jn	50	16	5	But now I am going to him who sent me; yet none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’
 John	Jn	50	16	6	But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your hearts.
 John	Jn	50	16	7	Nevertheless I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.
 John	Jn	50	16	8	And when he comes, he will convince the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment:
 John	Jn	50	16	9	concerning sin, because they do not believe in me;
 John	Jn	50	16	10	concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no more;
 John	Jn	50	16	11	concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.
 John	Jn	50	16	12	“I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.
 John	Jn	50	16	13	When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
 John	Jn	50	16	14	He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
 John	Jn	50	16	15	All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
 John	Jn	50	16	16	“A little while, and you will see me no more; again a little while, and you will see me.”
 John	Jn	50	16	17	Some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’; and, ‘because I go to the Father’?”
 John	Jn	50	16	18	They said, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? We do not know what he means.”
 John	Jn	50	16	19	Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him; so he said to them, “Is this what you are asking yourselves, what I meant by saying, ‘A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’?
 John	Jn	50	16	20	Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy.
 John	Jn	50	16	21	When a woman is in travail she has sorrow, because her hour has come; but when she is delivered of the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a child is born into the world.
 John	Jn	50	16	22	So you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.
 John	Jn	50	16	23	In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father, he will give it to you in my name.
 John	Jn	50	16	24	Hitherto you have asked nothing in my name; ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
 John	Jn	50	16	25	“I have said this to you in figures; the hour is coming when I shall no longer speak to you in figures but tell you plainly of the Father.
 John	Jn	50	16	26	In that day you will ask in my name; and I do not say to you that I shall pray the Father for you;
 John	Jn	50	16	27	for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from the Father.
 John	Jn	50	16	28	I came from the Father and have come into the world; again, I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”
 John	Jn	50	16	29	His disciples said, “Ah, now you are speaking plainly, not in any figure!
 John	Jn	50	16	30	Now we know that you know all things, and need none to question you; by this we believe that you came from God.”
 John	Jn	50	16	31	Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe?
 John	Jn	50	16	32	The hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, every man to his home, and will leave me alone; yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.
 John	Jn	50	16	33	I have said this to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”
 John	Jn	50	17	1	When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify thy Son that the Son may glorify thee,
 John	Jn	50	17	2	since thou hast given him power over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him.
 John	Jn	50	17	3	And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
 John	Jn	50	17	4	I glorified thee on earth, having accomplished the work which thou gavest me to do;
 John	Jn	50	17	5	and now, Father, glorify thou me in thy own presence with the glory which I had with thee before the world was made.
 John	Jn	50	17	6	“I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou gavest me out of the world; thine they were, and thou gavest them to me, and they have kept thy word.
 John	Jn	50	17	7	Now they know that everything that thou hast given me is from thee;
 John	Jn	50	17	8	for I have given them the words which thou gavest me, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from thee; and they have believed that thou didst send me.
 John	Jn	50	17	9	I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world but for those whom thou hast given me, for they are thine;
 John	Jn	50	17	10	all mine are thine, and thine are mine, and I am glorified in them.
 John	Jn	50	17	11	And now I am no more in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name, which thou hast given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.
 John	Jn	50	17	12	While I was with them, I kept them in thy name, which thou hast given me; I have guarded them, and none of them is lost but the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.
 John	Jn	50	17	13	But now I am coming to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
 John	Jn	50	17	14	I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
 John	Jn	50	17	15	I do not pray that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil one.
 John	Jn	50	17	16	They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
 John	Jn	50	17	17	Sanctify them in the truth; thy word is truth.
 John	Jn	50	17	18	As thou didst send me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.
 John	Jn	50	17	19	And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be consecrated in truth.
 John	Jn	50	17	20	“I do not pray for these only, but also for those who believe in me through their word,
 John	Jn	50	17	21	that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
 John	Jn	50	17	22	The glory which thou hast given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,
 John	Jn	50	17	23	I in them and thou in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them even as thou hast loved me.
 John	Jn	50	17	24	Father, I desire that they also, whom thou hast given me, may be with me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me in thy love for me before the foundation of the world.
 John	Jn	50	17	25	O righteous Father, the world has not known thee, but I have known thee; and these know that thou hast sent me.
 John	Jn	50	17	26	I made known to them thy name, and I will make it known, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
 John	Jn	50	18	1	When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples across the Kidron valley, where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered.
 John	Jn	50	18	2	Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place; for Jesus often met there with his disciples.
 John	Jn	50	18	3	So Judas, procuring a band of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, went there with lanterns and torches and weapons.
 John	Jn	50	18	4	Then Jesus, knowing all that was to befall him, came forward and said to them, “Whom do you seek?”
 John	Jn	50	18	5	They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus said to them, “I am he.” Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them.
 John	Jn	50	18	6	When he said to them, “I am he,” they drew back and fell to the ground.
 John	Jn	50	18	7	Again he asked them, “Whom do you seek?” And they said, “Jesus of Nazareth.”
 John	Jn	50	18	8	Jesus answered, “I told you that I am he; so, if you seek me, let these men go.”
 John	Jn	50	18	9	This was to fulfil the word which he had spoken, “Of those whom thou gavest me I lost not one.”
 John	Jn	50	18	10	Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s slave and cut off his right ear. The slave’s name was Malchus.
 John	Jn	50	18	11	Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword into its sheath; shall I not drink the cup which the Father has given me?”
 John	Jn	50	18	12	So the band of soldiers and their captain and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him.
 John	Jn	50	18	13	First they led him to Annas; for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.
 John	Jn	50	18	14	It was Caiaphas who had given counsel to the Jews that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.
 John	Jn	50	18	15	Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple. As this disciple was known to the high priest, he entered the court of the high priest along with Jesus,
 John	Jn	50	18	16	while Peter stood outside at the door. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the maid who kept the door, and brought Peter in.
 John	Jn	50	18	17	The maid who kept the door said to Peter, “Are not you also one of this man’s disciples?” He said, “I am not.”
 John	Jn	50	18	18	Now the servants and officers had made a charcoal fire, because it was cold, and they were standing and warming themselves; Peter also was with them, standing and warming himself.
 John	Jn	50	18	19	The high priest then questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching.
 John	Jn	50	18	20	Jesus answered him, “I have spoken openly to the world; I have always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all Jews come together; I have said nothing secretly.
 John	Jn	50	18	21	Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me, what I said to them; they know what I said.”
 John	Jn	50	18	22	When he had said this, one of the officers standing by struck Jesus with his hand, saying, “Is that how you answer the high priest?”
 John	Jn	50	18	23	Jesus answered him, “If I have spoken wrongly, bear witness to the wrong; but if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me?”
 John	Jn	50	18	24	Annas then sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.
 John	Jn	50	18	25	Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said to him, “Are not you also one of his disciples?” He denied it and said, “I am not.”
 John	Jn	50	18	26	One of the servants of the high priest, a kinsman of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, “Did I not see you in the garden with him?”
 John	Jn	50	18	27	Peter again denied it; and at once the cock crowed.
 John	Jn	50	18	28	Then they led Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the praetorium. It was early. They themselves did not enter the praetorium, so that they might not be defiled, but might eat the passover.
 John	Jn	50	18	29	So Pilate went out to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?”
 John	Jn	50	18	30	They answered him, “If this man were not an evildoer, we would not have handed him over.”
 John	Jn	50	18	31	Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law.” The Jews said to him, “It is not lawful for us to put any man to death.”
 John	Jn	50	18	32	This was to fulfil the word which Jesus had spoken to show by what death he was to die.
 John	Jn	50	18	33	Pilate entered the praetorium again and called Jesus, and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”
 John	Jn	50	18	34	Jesus answered, “Do you say this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?”
 John	Jn	50	18	35	Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have handed you over to me; what have you done?”
 John	Jn	50	18	36	Jesus answered, “My kingship is not of this world; if my kingship were of this world, my servants would fight, that I might not be handed over to the Jews; but my kingship is not from the world.”
 John	Jn	50	18	37	Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Every one who is of the truth hears my voice.”
 John	Jn	50	18	38	Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” After he had said this, he went out to the Jews again, and told them, “I find no crime in him.
 John	Jn	50	18	39	But you have a custom that I should release one man for you at the Passover; will you have me release for you the King of the Jews?”
 John	Jn	50	18	40	They cried out again, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.
 John	Jn	50	19	1	Then Pilate took Jesus and scourged him.
 John	Jn	50	19	2	And the soldiers plaited a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and arrayed him in a purple robe;
 John	Jn	50	19	3	they came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands.
 John	Jn	50	19	4	Pilate went out again, and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you, that you may know that I find no crime in him.”
 John	Jn	50	19	5	So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold the man!”
 John	Jn	50	19	6	When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no crime in him.”
 John	Jn	50	19	7	The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by that law he ought to die, because he has made himself the Son of God.”
 John	Jn	50	19	8	When Pilate heard these words, he was the more afraid;
 John	Jn	50	19	9	he entered the praetorium again and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave no answer.
 John	Jn	50	19	10	Pilate therefore said to him, “You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have power to release you, and power to crucify you?”
 John	Jn	50	19	11	Jesus answered him, “You would have no power over me unless it had been given you from above; therefore he who delivered me to you has the greater sin.”
 John	Jn	50	19	12	Upon this Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend; every one who makes himself a king sets himself against Caesar.”
 John	Jn	50	19	13	When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Pavement, and in Hebrew, Gabbatha.
 John	Jn	50	19	14	Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold your King!”
 John	Jn	50	19	15	They cried out, “Away with him, away with him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.”
 John	Jn	50	19	16	Then he handed him over to them to be crucified.
 John	Jn	50	19	17	So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called the place of a skull, which is called in Hebrew Golgotha.
 John	Jn	50	19	18	There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them.
 John	Jn	50	19	19	Pilate also wrote a title and put it on the cross; it read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.”
 John	Jn	50	19	20	Many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.
 John	Jn	50	19	21	The chief priests of the Jews then said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but, ‘This man said, I am King of the Jews.’”
 John	Jn	50	19	22	Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.”
 John	Jn	50	19	23	When the soldiers had crucified Jesus they took his garments and made four parts, one for each soldier; also his tunic. But the tunic was without seam, woven from top to bottom;
 John	Jn	50	19	24	so they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be.” This was to fulfil the scripture, “They parted my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.”
 John	Jn	50	19	25	So the soldiers did this. But standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
 John	Jn	50	19	26	When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!”
 John	Jn	50	19	27	Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.
 John	Jn	50	19	28	After this Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfil the scripture), “I thirst.”
 John	Jn	50	19	29	A bowl full of vinegar stood there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop and held it to his mouth.
 John	Jn	50	19	30	When Jesus had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished”; and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
 John	Jn	50	19	31	Since it was the day of Preparation, in order to prevent the bodies from remaining on the cross on the sabbath (for that sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
 John	Jn	50	19	32	So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with him;
 John	Jn	50	19	33	but when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.
 John	Jn	50	19	34	But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water.
 John	Jn	50	19	35	He who saw it has borne witness—his testimony is true, and he knows that he tells the truth—that you also may believe.
 John	Jn	50	19	36	For these things took place that the scripture might be fulfilled, “Not a bone of him shall be broken.”
 John	Jn	50	19	37	And again another scripture says, “They shall look on him whom they have pierced.”
 John	Jn	50	19	38	After this Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly, for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him leave. So he came and took away his body.
 John	Jn	50	19	39	Nicodemus also, who had at first come to him by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds’ weight.
 John	Jn	50	19	40	They took the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.
 John	Jn	50	19	41	Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb where no one had ever been laid.
 John	Jn	50	19	42	So because of the Jewish day of Preparation, as the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.
 John	Jn	50	20	1	Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.
 John	Jn	50	20	2	So she ran, and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.”
 John	Jn	50	20	3	Peter then came out with the other disciple, and they went toward the tomb.
 John	Jn	50	20	4	They both ran, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first;
 John	Jn	50	20	5	and stooping to look in, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in.
 John	Jn	50	20	6	Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb; he saw the linen cloths lying,
 John	Jn	50	20	7	and the napkin, which had been on his head, not lying with the linen cloths but rolled up in a place by itself.
 John	Jn	50	20	8	Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed;
 John	Jn	50	20	9	for as yet they did not know the scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
 John	Jn	50	20	10	Then the disciples went back to their homes.
 John	Jn	50	20	11	But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb;
 John	Jn	50	20	12	and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet.
 John	Jn	50	20	13	They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.”
 John	Jn	50	20	14	Saying this, she turned round and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus.
 John	Jn	50	20	15	Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom do you seek?” Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.”
 John	Jn	50	20	16	Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rab-boni!” (which means Teacher).
 John	Jn	50	20	17	Jesus said to her, “Do not hold me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brethren and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.”
 John	Jn	50	20	18	Mary Magdalene went and said to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord”; and she told them that he had said these things to her.
 John	Jn	50	20	19	On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
 John	Jn	50	20	20	When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.
 John	Jn	50	20	21	Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”
 John	Jn	50	20	22	And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.
 John	Jn	50	20	23	If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”
 John	Jn	50	20	24	Now Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came.
 John	Jn	50	20	25	So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, and place my finger in the mark of the nails, and place my hand in his side, I will not believe.”
 John	Jn	50	20	26	Eight days later, his disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. The doors were shut, but Jesus came and stood among them, and said, “Peace be with you.”
 John	Jn	50	20	27	Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side; do not be faithless, but believing.”
 John	Jn	50	20	28	Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”
 John	Jn	50	20	29	Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe.”
 John	Jn	50	20	30	Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book;
 John	Jn	50	20	31	but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
 John	Jn	50	21	1	After this Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberi-as; and he revealed himself in this way.
 John	Jn	50	21	2	Simon Peter, Thomas called the Twin, Nathana-el of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together.
 John	Jn	50	21	3	Simon Peter said to them, “I am going fishing.” They said to him, “We will go with you.” They went out and got into the boat; but that night they caught nothing.
 John	Jn	50	21	4	Just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the beach; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.
 John	Jn	50	21	5	Jesus said to them, “Children, have you any fish?” They answered him, “No.”
 John	Jn	50	21	6	He said to them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” So they cast it, and now they were not able to haul it in, for the quantity of fish.
 John	Jn	50	21	7	That disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his clothes, for he was stripped for work, and sprang into the sea.
 John	Jn	50	21	8	But the other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net full of fish, for they were not far from the land, but about a hundred yards off.
 John	Jn	50	21	9	When they got out on land, they saw a charcoal fire there, with fish lying on it, and bread.
 John	Jn	50	21	10	Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish that you have just caught.”
 John	Jn	50	21	11	So Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, a hundred and fifty-three of them; and although there were so many, the net was not torn.
 John	Jn	50	21	12	Jesus said to them, “Come and have breakfast.” Now none of the disciples dared ask him, “Who are you?” They knew it was the Lord.
 John	Jn	50	21	13	Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and so with the fish.
 John	Jn	50	21	14	This was now the third time that Jesus was revealed to the disciples after he was raised from the dead.
 John	Jn	50	21	15	When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”
 John	Jn	50	21	16	A second time he said to him, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”
 John	Jn	50	21	17	He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” And he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.
 John	Jn	50	21	18	Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young, you girded yourself and walked where you would; but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will gird you and carry you where you do not wish to go.”
 John	Jn	50	21	19	(This he said to show by what death he was to glorify God.) And after this he said to him, “Follow me.”
 John	Jn	50	21	20	Peter turned and saw following them the disciple whom Jesus loved, who had lain close to his breast at the supper and had said, “Lord, who is it that is going to betray you?”
 John	Jn	50	21	21	When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, “Lord, what about this man?”
 John	Jn	50	21	22	Jesus said to him, “If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you? Follow me!”
 John	Jn	50	21	23	The saying spread abroad among the brethren that this disciple was not to die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he was not to die, but, “If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you?”
 John	Jn	50	21	24	This is the disciple who is bearing witness to these things, and who has written these things; and we know that his testimony is true.
 John	Jn	50	21	25	But there are also many other things which Jesus did; were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.
 Acts	Acts	51	1	1	In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach,
 Acts	Acts	51	1	2	until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.
 Acts	Acts	51	1	3	To them he presented himself alive after his passion by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days, and speaking of the kingdom of God.
 Acts	Acts	51	1	4	And while staying with them he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard from me,
 Acts	Acts	51	1	5	for John baptized with water, but before many days you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”
 Acts	Acts	51	1	6	So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?”
 Acts	Acts	51	1	7	He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has fixed by his own authority.
 Acts	Acts	51	1	8	But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth.”
 Acts	Acts	51	1	9	And when he had said this, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.
 Acts	Acts	51	1	10	And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes,
 Acts	Acts	51	1	11	and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”
 Acts	Acts	51	1	12	Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath day’s journey away;
 Acts	Acts	51	1	13	and when they had entered, they went up to the upper room, where they were staying, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas the son of James.
 Acts	Acts	51	1	14	All these with one accord devoted themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
 Acts	Acts	51	1	15	In those days Peter stood up among the brethren (the company of persons was in all about a hundred and twenty), and said,
 Acts	Acts	51	1	16	“Brethren, the scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand by the mouth of David, concerning Judas who was guide to those who arrested Jesus.
 Acts	Acts	51	1	17	For he was numbered among us, and was allotted his share in this ministry.
 Acts	Acts	51	1	18	(Now this man bought a field with the reward of his wickedness; and falling headlong he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out.
 Acts	Acts	51	1	19	And it became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the field was called in their language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.)
 Acts	Acts	51	1	20	For it is written in the book of Psalms, ‘Let his habitation become desolate, and let there be no one to live in it’; and ‘His office let another take.’
 Acts	Acts	51	1	21	So one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
 Acts	Acts	51	1	22	beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us—one of these men must become with us a witness to his resurrection.”
 Acts	Acts	51	1	23	And they put forward two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.
 Acts	Acts	51	1	24	And they prayed and said, “Lord, who knowest the hearts of all men, show which one of these two thou hast chosen
 Acts	Acts	51	1	25	to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside, to go to his own place.”
 Acts	Acts	51	1	26	And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias; and he was enrolled with the eleven apostles.
 Acts	Acts	51	2	1	When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.
 Acts	Acts	51	2	2	And suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
 Acts	Acts	51	2	3	And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them.
 Acts	Acts	51	2	4	And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
 Acts	Acts	51	2	5	Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven.
 Acts	Acts	51	2	6	And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.
 Acts	Acts	51	2	7	And they were amazed and wondered, saying, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans?
 Acts	Acts	51	2	8	And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language?
 Acts	Acts	51	2	9	Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,
 Acts	Acts	51	2	10	Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,
 Acts	Acts	51	2	11	Cretans and Arabians, we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.”
 Acts	Acts	51	2	12	And all were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?”
 Acts	Acts	51	2	13	But others mocking said, “They are filled with new wine.”
 Acts	Acts	51	2	14	But Peter, standing with the eleven, lifted up his voice and addressed them, “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and give ear to my words.
 Acts	Acts	51	2	15	For these men are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day;
 Acts	Acts	51	2	16	but this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
 Acts	Acts	51	2	17	‘And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;
 Acts	Acts	51	2	18	yea, and on my menservants and my maidservants in those days I will pour out my Spirit; and they shall prophesy.
 Acts	Acts	51	2	19	And I will show wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth beneath, blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke;
 Acts	Acts	51	2	20	the sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the day of the Lord comes, the great and manifest day.
 Acts	Acts	51	2	21	And it shall be that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.’
 Acts	Acts	51	2	22	“Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs which God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know—
 Acts	Acts	51	2	23	this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.
 Acts	Acts	51	2	24	But God raised him up, having loosed the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
 Acts	Acts	51	2	25	For David says concerning him, ‘I saw the Lord always before me, for he is at my right hand that I may not be shaken;
 Acts	Acts	51	2	26	therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced; moreover my flesh will dwell in hope.
 Acts	Acts	51	2	27	For thou wilt not abandon my soul to Hades, nor let thy Holy One see corruption.
 Acts	Acts	51	2	28	Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou wilt make me full of gladness with thy presence.’
 Acts	Acts	51	2	29	“Brethren, I may say to you confidently of the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
 Acts	Acts	51	2	30	Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants upon his throne,
 Acts	Acts	51	2	31	he foresaw and spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.
 Acts	Acts	51	2	32	This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses.
 Acts	Acts	51	2	33	Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which you see and hear.
 Acts	Acts	51	2	34	For David did not ascend into the heavens; but he himself says, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand,
 Acts	Acts	51	2	35	till I make thy enemies a stool for thy feet.’
 Acts	Acts	51	2	36	Let all the house of Israel therefore know assuredly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”
 Acts	Acts	51	2	37	Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brethren, what shall we do?”
 Acts	Acts	51	2	38	And Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
 Acts	Acts	51	2	39	For the promise is to you and to your children and to all that are far off, every one whom the Lord our God calls to him.”
 Acts	Acts	51	2	40	And he testified with many other words and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation.”
 Acts	Acts	51	2	41	So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.
 Acts	Acts	51	2	42	And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
 Acts	Acts	51	2	43	And fear came upon every soul; and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles.
 Acts	Acts	51	2	44	And all who believed were together and had all things in common;
 Acts	Acts	51	2	45	and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all, as any had need.
 Acts	Acts	51	2	46	And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they partook of food with glad and generous hearts,
 Acts	Acts	51	2	47	praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.
 Acts	Acts	51	3	1	Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
 Acts	Acts	51	3	2	And a man lame from birth was being carried, whom they laid daily at that gate of the temple which is called Beautiful to ask alms of those who entered the temple.
 Acts	Acts	51	3	3	Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked for alms.
 Acts	Acts	51	3	4	And Peter directed his gaze at him, with John, and said, “Look at us.”
 Acts	Acts	51	3	5	And he fixed his attention upon them, expecting to receive something from them.
 Acts	Acts	51	3	6	But Peter said, “I have no silver and gold, but I give you what I have; in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.”
 Acts	Acts	51	3	7	And he took him by the right hand and raised him up; and immediately his feet and ankles were made strong.
 Acts	Acts	51	3	8	And leaping up he stood and walked and entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God.
 Acts	Acts	51	3	9	And all the people saw him walking and praising God,
 Acts	Acts	51	3	10	and recognized him as the one who sat for alms at the Beautiful Gate of the temple; and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
 Acts	Acts	51	3	11	While he clung to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the portico called Solomon’s, astounded.
 Acts	Acts	51	3	12	And when Peter saw it he addressed the people, “Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we had made him walk?
 Acts	Acts	51	3	13	The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him.
 Acts	Acts	51	3	14	But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
 Acts	Acts	51	3	15	and killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.
 Acts	Acts	51	3	16	And his name, by faith in his name, has made this man strong whom you see and know; and the faith which is through Jesus has given the man this perfect health in the presence of you all.
 Acts	Acts	51	3	17	“And now, brethren, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers.
 Acts	Acts	51	3	18	But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.
 Acts	Acts	51	3	19	Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,
 Acts	Acts	51	3	20	and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus,
 Acts	Acts	51	3	21	whom heaven must receive until the time for establishing all that God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old.
 Acts	Acts	51	3	22	Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet from your brethren as he raised me up. You shall listen to him in whatever he tells you.
 Acts	Acts	51	3	23	And it shall be that every soul that does not listen to that prophet shall be destroyed from the people.’
 Acts	Acts	51	3	24	And all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came afterwards, also proclaimed these days.
 Acts	Acts	51	3	25	You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God gave to your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your posterity shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’
 Acts	Acts	51	3	26	God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you in turning every one of you from your wickedness.”
 Acts	Acts	51	4	1	And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them,
 Acts	Acts	51	4	2	annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
 Acts	Acts	51	4	3	And they arrested them and put them in custody until the morrow, for it was already evening.
 Acts	Acts	51	4	4	But many of those who heard the word believed; and the number of the men came to about five thousand.
 Acts	Acts	51	4	5	On the morrow their rulers and elders and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem,
 Acts	Acts	51	4	6	with Annas the high priest and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family.
 Acts	Acts	51	4	7	And when they had set them in the midst, they inquired, “By what power or by what name did you do this?”
 Acts	Acts	51	4	8	Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders,
 Acts	Acts	51	4	9	if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a cripple, by what means this man has been healed,
 Acts	Acts	51	4	10	be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by him this man is standing before you well.
 Acts	Acts	51	4	11	This is the stone which was rejected by you builders, but which has become the head of the corner.
 Acts	Acts	51	4	12	And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
 Acts	Acts	51	4	13	Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they wondered; and they recognized that they had been with Jesus.
 Acts	Acts	51	4	14	But seeing the man that had been healed standing beside them, they had nothing to say in opposition.
 Acts	Acts	51	4	15	But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred with one another,
 Acts	Acts	51	4	16	saying, “What shall we do with these men? For that a notable sign has been performed through them is manifest to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.
 Acts	Acts	51	4	17	But in order that it may spread no further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more to any one in this name.”
 Acts	Acts	51	4	18	So they called them and charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.
 Acts	Acts	51	4	19	But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge;
 Acts	Acts	51	4	20	for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.”
 Acts	Acts	51	4	21	And when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people; for all men praised God for what had happened.
 Acts	Acts	51	4	22	For the man on whom this sign of healing was performed was more than forty years old.
 Acts	Acts	51	4	23	When they were released they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
 Acts	Acts	51	4	24	And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, “Sovereign Lord, who didst make the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them,
 Acts	Acts	51	4	25	who by the mouth of our father David, thy servant, didst say by the Holy Spirit, ‘Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples imagine vain things?
 Acts	Acts	51	4	26	The kings of the earth set themselves in array, and the rulers were gathered together, against the Lord and against his Anointed’—
 Acts	Acts	51	4	27	for truly in this city there were gathered together against thy holy servant Jesus, whom thou didst anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel,
 Acts	Acts	51	4	28	to do whatever thy hand and thy plan had predestined to take place.
 Acts	Acts	51	4	29	And now, Lord, look upon their threats, and grant to thy servants to speak thy word with all boldness,
 Acts	Acts	51	4	30	while thou stretchest out thy hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of thy holy servant Jesus.”
 Acts	Acts	51	4	31	And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God with boldness.
 Acts	Acts	51	4	32	Now the company of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had everything in common.
 Acts	Acts	51	4	33	And with great power the apostles gave their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.
 Acts	Acts	51	4	34	There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of what was sold
 Acts	Acts	51	4	35	and laid it at the apostles’ feet; and distribution was made to each as any had need.
 Acts	Acts	51	4	36	Thus Joseph who was surnamed by the apostles Barnabas (which means, Son of encouragement), a Levite, a native of Cyprus,
 Acts	Acts	51	4	37	sold a field which belonged to him, and brought the money and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
 Acts	Acts	51	5	1	But a man named Ananias with his wife Sapphira sold a piece of property,
 Acts	Acts	51	5	2	and with his wife’s knowledge he kept back some of the proceeds, and brought only a part and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
 Acts	Acts	51	5	3	But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the proceeds of the land?
 Acts	Acts	51	5	4	While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? How is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.”
 Acts	Acts	51	5	5	When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and died. And great fear came upon all who heard of it.
 Acts	Acts	51	5	6	The young men rose and wrapped him up and carried him out and buried him.
 Acts	Acts	51	5	7	After an interval of about three hours his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.
 Acts	Acts	51	5	8	And Peter said to her, “Tell me whether you sold the land for so much.” And she said, “Yes, for so much.”
 Acts	Acts	51	5	9	But Peter said to her, “How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Hark, the feet of those that have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”
 Acts	Acts	51	5	10	Immediately she fell down at his feet and died. When the young men came in they found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.
 Acts	Acts	51	5	11	And great fear came upon the whole church, and upon all who heard of these things.
 Acts	Acts	51	5	12	Now many signs and wonders were done among the people by the hands of the apostles. And they were all together in Solomon’s Portico.
 Acts	Acts	51	5	13	None of the rest dared join them, but the people held them in high honor.
 Acts	Acts	51	5	14	And more than ever believers were added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women,
 Acts	Acts	51	5	15	so that they even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and pallets, that as Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on some of them.
 Acts	Acts	51	5	16	The people also gathered from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those afflicted with unclean spirits, and they were all healed.
 Acts	Acts	51	5	17	But the high priest rose up and all who were with him, that is, the party of the Sadducees, and filled with jealousy
 Acts	Acts	51	5	18	they arrested the apostles and put them in the common prison.
 Acts	Acts	51	5	19	But at night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out and said,
 Acts	Acts	51	5	20	“Go and stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this Life.”
 Acts	Acts	51	5	21	And when they heard this, they entered the temple at daybreak and taught. Now the high priest came and those who were with him and called together the council and all the senate of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.
 Acts	Acts	51	5	22	But when the officers came, they did not find them in the prison, and they returned and reported,
 Acts	Acts	51	5	23	“We found the prison securely locked and the sentries standing at the doors, but when we opened it we found no one inside.”
 Acts	Acts	51	5	24	Now when the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were much perplexed about them, wondering what this would come to.
 Acts	Acts	51	5	25	And some one came and told them, “The men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people.”
 Acts	Acts	51	5	26	Then the captain with the officers went and brought them, but without violence, for they were afraid of being stoned by the people.
 Acts	Acts	51	5	27	And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest questioned them,
 Acts	Acts	51	5	28	saying, “We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and you intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.”
 Acts	Acts	51	5	29	But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
 Acts	Acts	51	5	30	The God of our fathers raised Jesus whom you killed by hanging him on a tree.
 Acts	Acts	51	5	31	God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.
 Acts	Acts	51	5	32	And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him.”
 Acts	Acts	51	5	33	When they heard this they were enraged and wanted to kill them.
 Acts	Acts	51	5	34	But a Pharisee in the council named Gamali-el, a teacher of the law, held in honor by all the people, stood up and ordered the men to be put outside for a while.
 Acts	Acts	51	5	35	And he said to them, “Men of Israel, take care what you do with these men.
 Acts	Acts	51	5	36	For before these days Theudas arose, giving himself out to be somebody, and a number of men, about four hundred, joined him; but he was slain and all who followed him were dispersed and came to nothing.
 Acts	Acts	51	5	37	After him Judas the Galilean arose in the days of the census and drew away some of the people after him; he also perished, and all who followed him were scattered.
 Acts	Acts	51	5	38	So in the present case I tell you, keep away from these men and let them alone; for if this plan or this undertaking is of men, it will fail;
 Acts	Acts	51	5	39	but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them. You might even be found opposing God!”
 Acts	Acts	51	5	40	So they took his advice, and when they had called in the apostles, they beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
 Acts	Acts	51	5	41	Then they left the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name.
 Acts	Acts	51	5	42	And every day in the temple and at home they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.
 Acts	Acts	51	6	1	Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, the Hellenists murmured against the Hebrews because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution.
 Acts	Acts	51	6	2	And the twelve summoned the body of the disciples and said, “It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables.
 Acts	Acts	51	6	3	Therefore, brethren, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint to this duty.
 Acts	Acts	51	6	4	But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
 Acts	Acts	51	6	5	And what they said pleased the whole multitude, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch.
 Acts	Acts	51	6	6	These they set before the apostles, and they prayed and laid their hands upon them.
 Acts	Acts	51	6	7	And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were obedient to the faith.
 Acts	Acts	51	6	8	And Stephen, full of grace and power, did great wonders and signs among the people.
 Acts	Acts	51	6	9	Then some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, arose and disputed with Stephen.
 Acts	Acts	51	6	10	But they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke.
 Acts	Acts	51	6	11	Then they secretly instigated men, who said, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”
 Acts	Acts	51	6	12	And they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes, and they came upon him and seized him and brought him before the council,
 Acts	Acts	51	6	13	and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never ceases to speak words against this holy place and the law;
 Acts	Acts	51	6	14	for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us.”
 Acts	Acts	51	6	15	And gazing at him, all who sat in the council saw that his face was like the face of an angel.
 Acts	Acts	51	7	1	And the high priest said, “Is this so?”
 Acts	Acts	51	7	2	And Stephen said: “Brethren and fathers, hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
 Acts	Acts	51	7	3	and said to him, ‘Depart from your land and from your kindred and go into the land which I will show you.’
 Acts	Acts	51	7	4	Then he departed from the land of the Chaldeans, and lived in Haran. And after his father died, God removed him from there into this land in which you are now living;
 Acts	Acts	51	7	5	yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot’s length, but promised to give it to him in possession and to his posterity after him, though he had no child.
 Acts	Acts	51	7	6	And God spoke to this effect, that his posterity would be aliens in a land belonging to others, who would enslave them and ill-treat them four hundred years.
 Acts	Acts	51	7	7	‘But I will judge the nation which they serve,’ said God, ‘and after that they shall come out and worship me in this place.’
 Acts	Acts	51	7	8	And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
 Acts	Acts	51	7	9	“And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him,
 Acts	Acts	51	7	10	and rescued him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him governor over Egypt and over all his household.
 Acts	Acts	51	7	11	Now there came a famine throughout all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers could find no food.
 Acts	Acts	51	7	12	But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent forth our fathers the first time.
 Acts	Acts	51	7	13	And at the second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph’s family became known to Pharaoh.
 Acts	Acts	51	7	14	And Joseph sent and called to him Jacob his father and all his kindred, seventy-five souls;
 Acts	Acts	51	7	15	and Jacob went down into Egypt. And he died, himself and our fathers,
 Acts	Acts	51	7	16	and they were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
 Acts	Acts	51	7	17	“But as the time of the promise drew near, which God had granted to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt
 Acts	Acts	51	7	18	till there arose over Egypt another king who had not known Joseph.
 Acts	Acts	51	7	19	He dealt craftily with our race and forced our fathers to expose their infants, that they might not be kept alive.
 Acts	Acts	51	7	20	At this time Moses was born, and was beautiful before God. And he was brought up for three months in his father’s house;
 Acts	Acts	51	7	21	and when he was exposed, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.
 Acts	Acts	51	7	22	And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.
 Acts	Acts	51	7	23	“When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the sons of Israel.
 Acts	Acts	51	7	24	And seeing one of them being wronged, he defended the oppressed man and avenged him by striking the Egyptian.
 Acts	Acts	51	7	25	He supposed that his brethren understood that God was giving them deliverance by his hand, but they did not understand.
 Acts	Acts	51	7	26	And on the following day he appeared to them as they were quarreling and would have reconciled them, saying, ‘Men, you are brethren, why do you wrong each other?’
 Acts	Acts	51	7	27	But the man who was wronging his neighbor thrust him aside, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
 Acts	Acts	51	7	28	Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’
 Acts	Acts	51	7	29	At this retort Moses fled, and became an exile in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
 Acts	Acts	51	7	30	“Now when forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.
 Acts	Acts	51	7	31	When Moses saw it he wondered at the sight; and as he drew near to look, the voice of the Lord came,
 Acts	Acts	51	7	32	‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob.’ And Moses trembled and did not dare to look.
 Acts	Acts	51	7	33	And the Lord said to him, ‘Take off the shoes from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.
 Acts	Acts	51	7	34	I have surely seen the ill-treatment of my people that are in Egypt and heard their groaning, and I have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt.’
 Acts	Acts	51	7	35	“This Moses whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ God sent as both ruler and deliverer by the hand of the angel that appeared to him in the bush.
 Acts	Acts	51	7	36	He led them out, having performed wonders and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.
 Acts	Acts	51	7	37	This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet from your brethren as he raised me up.’
 Acts	Acts	51	7	38	This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers; and he received living oracles to give to us.
 Acts	Acts	51	7	39	Our fathers refused to obey him, but thrust him aside, and in their hearts they turned to Egypt,
 Acts	Acts	51	7	40	saying to Aaron, ‘Make for us gods to go before us; as for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’
 Acts	Acts	51	7	41	And they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to the idol and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
 Acts	Acts	51	7	42	But God turned and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you offer to me slain beasts and sacrifices, forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
 Acts	Acts	51	7	43	And you took up the tent of Moloch, and the star of the god Rephan, the figures which you made to worship; and I will remove you beyond Babylon.’
 Acts	Acts	51	7	44	“Our fathers had the tent of witness in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses directed him to make it, according to the pattern that he had seen.
 Acts	Acts	51	7	45	Our fathers in turn brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations which God thrust out before our fathers. So it was until the days of David,
 Acts	Acts	51	7	46	who found favor in the sight of God and asked leave to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.
 Acts	Acts	51	7	47	But it was Solomon who built a house for him.
 Acts	Acts	51	7	48	Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made with hands; as the prophet says,
 Acts	Acts	51	7	49	‘Heaven is my throne, and earth my footstool. What house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is the place of my rest?
 Acts	Acts	51	7	50	Did not my hand make all these things?’
 Acts	Acts	51	7	51	“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.
 Acts	Acts	51	7	52	Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered,
 Acts	Acts	51	7	53	you who received the law as delivered by angels and did not keep it.”
 Acts	Acts	51	7	54	Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth against him.
 Acts	Acts	51	7	55	But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God;
 Acts	Acts	51	7	56	and he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God.”
 Acts	Acts	51	7	57	But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together upon him.
 Acts	Acts	51	7	58	Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him; and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
 Acts	Acts	51	7	59	And as they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
 Acts	Acts	51	7	60	And he knelt down and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
 Acts	Acts	51	8	1	And Saul was consenting to his death. And on that day a great persecution arose against the church in Jerusalem; and they were all scattered throughout the region of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.
 Acts	Acts	51	8	2	Devout men buried Stephen, and made great lamentation over him.
 Acts	Acts	51	8	3	But Saul was ravaging the church, and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison.
 Acts	Acts	51	8	4	Now those who were scattered went about preaching the word.
 Acts	Acts	51	8	5	Philip went down to a city of Samaria, and proclaimed to them the Christ.
 Acts	Acts	51	8	6	And the multitudes with one accord gave heed to what was said by Philip, when they heard him and saw the signs which he did.
 Acts	Acts	51	8	7	For unclean spirits came out of many who were possessed, crying with a loud voice; and many who were paralyzed or lame were healed.
 Acts	Acts	51	8	8	So there was much joy in that city.
 Acts	Acts	51	8	9	But there was a man named Simon who had previously practiced magic in the city and amazed the nation of Samaria, saying that he himself was somebody great.
 Acts	Acts	51	8	10	They all gave heed to him, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is that power of God which is called Great.”
 Acts	Acts	51	8	11	And they gave heed to him, because for a long time he had amazed them with his magic.
 Acts	Acts	51	8	12	But when they believed Philip as he preached good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
 Acts	Acts	51	8	13	Even Simon himself believed, and after being baptized he continued with Philip. And seeing signs and great miracles performed, he was amazed.
 Acts	Acts	51	8	14	Now when the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent to them Peter and John,
 Acts	Acts	51	8	15	who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit;
 Acts	Acts	51	8	16	for it had not yet fallen on any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
 Acts	Acts	51	8	17	Then they laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit.
 Acts	Acts	51	8	18	Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money,
 Acts	Acts	51	8	19	saying, “Give me also this power, that any one on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”
 Acts	Acts	51	8	20	But Peter said to him, “Your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!
 Acts	Acts	51	8	21	You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart is not right before God.
 Acts	Acts	51	8	22	Repent therefore of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you.
 Acts	Acts	51	8	23	For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.”
 Acts	Acts	51	8	24	And Simon answered, “Pray for me to the Lord, that nothing of what you have said may come upon me.”
 Acts	Acts	51	8	25	Now when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel to many villages of the Samaritans.
 Acts	Acts	51	8	26	But an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert road.
 Acts	Acts	51	8	27	And he rose and went. And behold, an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a minister of the Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of all her treasure, had come to Jerusalem to worship
 Acts	Acts	51	8	28	and was returning; seated in his chariot, he was reading the prophet Isaiah.
 Acts	Acts	51	8	29	And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go up and join this chariot.”
 Acts	Acts	51	8	30	So Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?”
 Acts	Acts	51	8	31	And he said, “How can I, unless some one guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.
 Acts	Acts	51	8	32	Now the passage of the scripture which he was reading was this: “As a sheep led to the slaughter or a lamb before its shearer is dumb, so he opens not his mouth.
 Acts	Acts	51	8	33	In his humiliation justice was denied him. Who can describe his generation? For his life is taken up from the earth.”
 Acts	Acts	51	8	34	And the eunuch said to Philip, “About whom, pray, does the prophet say this, about himself or about some one else?”
 Acts	Acts	51	8	35	Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this scripture he told him the good news of Jesus.
 Acts	Acts	51	8	36	And as they went along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What is to prevent my being baptized?”
 Acts	Acts	51	8	38	And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.
 Acts	Acts	51	8	39	And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught up Philip; and the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing.
 Acts	Acts	51	8	40	But Philip was found at Azotus, and passing on he preached the gospel to all the towns till he came to Caesarea.
 Acts	Acts	51	9	1	But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest
 Acts	Acts	51	9	2	and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
 Acts	Acts	51	9	3	Now as he journeyed he approached Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed about him.
 Acts	Acts	51	9	4	And he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”
 Acts	Acts	51	9	5	And he said, “Who are you, Lord?” And he said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting;
 Acts	Acts	51	9	6	but rise and enter the city, and you will be told what you are to do.”
 Acts	Acts	51	9	7	The men who were traveling with him stood speechless, hearing the voice but seeing no one.
 Acts	Acts	51	9	8	Saul arose from the ground; and when his eyes were opened, he could see nothing; so they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus.
 Acts	Acts	51	9	9	And for three days he was without sight, and neither ate nor drank.
 Acts	Acts	51	9	10	Now there was a disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, “Ananias.” And he said, “Here I am, Lord.”
 Acts	Acts	51	9	11	And the Lord said to him, “Rise and go to the street called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas for a man of Tarsus named Saul; for behold, he is praying,
 Acts	Acts	51	9	12	and he has seen a man named Ananias come in and lay his hands on him so that he might regain his sight.”
 Acts	Acts	51	9	13	But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he has done to thy saints at Jerusalem;
 Acts	Acts	51	9	14	and here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call upon thy name.”
 Acts	Acts	51	9	15	But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel;
 Acts	Acts	51	9	16	for I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.”
 Acts	Acts	51	9	17	So Ananias departed and entered the house. And laying his hands on him he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”
 Acts	Acts	51	9	18	And immediately something like scales fell from his eyes and he regained his sight. Then he rose and was baptized,
 Acts	Acts	51	9	19	and took food and was strengthened. For several days he was with the disciples at Damascus.
 Acts	Acts	51	9	20	And in the synagogues immediately he proclaimed Jesus, saying, “He is the Son of God.”
 Acts	Acts	51	9	21	And all who heard him were amazed, and said, “Is not this the man who made havoc in Jerusalem of those who called on this name? And he has come here for this purpose, to bring them bound before the chief priests.”
 Acts	Acts	51	9	22	But Saul increased all the more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that Jesus was the Christ.
 Acts	Acts	51	9	23	When many days had passed, the Jews plotted to kill him,
 Acts	Acts	51	9	24	but their plot became known to Saul. They were watching the gates day and night, to kill him;
 Acts	Acts	51	9	25	but his disciples took him by night and let him down over the wall, lowering him in a basket.
 Acts	Acts	51	9	26	And when he had come to Jerusalem he attempted to join the disciples; and they were all afraid of him, for they did not believe that he was a disciple.
 Acts	Acts	51	9	27	But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared to them how on the road he had seen the Lord, who spoke to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.
 Acts	Acts	51	9	28	So he went in and out among them at Jerusalem,
 Acts	Acts	51	9	29	preaching boldly in the name of the Lord. And he spoke and disputed against the Hellenists; but they were seeking to kill him.
 Acts	Acts	51	9	30	And when the brethren knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him off to Tarsus.
 Acts	Acts	51	9	31	So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was built up; and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit it was multiplied.
 Acts	Acts	51	9	32	Now as Peter went here and there among them all, he came down also to the saints that lived at Lydda.
 Acts	Acts	51	9	33	There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years and was paralyzed.
 Acts	Acts	51	9	34	And Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; rise and make your bed.” And immediately he rose.
 Acts	Acts	51	9	35	And all the residents of Lydda and Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord.
 Acts	Acts	51	9	36	Now there was at Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which means Dorcas. She was full of good works and acts of charity.
 Acts	Acts	51	9	37	In those days she fell sick and died; and when they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room.
 Acts	Acts	51	9	38	Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him entreating him, “Please come to us without delay.”
 Acts	Acts	51	9	39	So Peter rose and went with them. And when he had come, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood beside him weeping, and showing tunics and other garments which Dorcas made while she was with them.
 Acts	Acts	51	9	40	But Peter put them all outside and knelt down and prayed; then turning to the body he said, “Tabitha, rise.” And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter she sat up.
 Acts	Acts	51	9	41	And he gave her his hand and lifted her up. Then calling the saints and widows he presented her alive.
 Acts	Acts	51	9	42	And it became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.
 Acts	Acts	51	9	43	And he stayed in Joppa for many days with one Simon, a tanner.
 Acts	Acts	51	10	1	At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort,
 Acts	Acts	51	10	2	a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms liberally to the people, and prayed constantly to God.
 Acts	Acts	51	10	3	About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God coming in and saying to him, “Cornelius.”
 Acts	Acts	51	10	4	And he stared at him in terror, and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God.
 Acts	Acts	51	10	5	And now send men to Joppa, and bring one Simon who is called Peter;
 Acts	Acts	51	10	6	he is lodging with Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the seaside.”
 Acts	Acts	51	10	7	When the angel who spoke to him had departed, he called two of his servants and a devout soldier from among those that waited on him,
 Acts	Acts	51	10	8	and having related everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.
 Acts	Acts	51	10	9	The next day, as they were on their journey and coming near the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray, about the sixth hour.
 Acts	Acts	51	10	10	And he became hungry and desired something to eat; but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance
 Acts	Acts	51	10	11	and saw the heaven opened, and something descending, like a great sheet, let down by four corners upon the earth.
 Acts	Acts	51	10	12	In it were all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds of the air.
 Acts	Acts	51	10	13	And there came a voice to him, “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.”
 Acts	Acts	51	10	14	But Peter said, “No, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.”
 Acts	Acts	51	10	15	And the voice came to him again a second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call common.”
 Acts	Acts	51	10	16	This happened three times, and the thing was taken up at once to heaven.
 Acts	Acts	51	10	17	Now while Peter was inwardly perplexed as to what the vision which he had seen might mean, behold, the men that were sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon’s house, stood before the gate
 Acts	Acts	51	10	18	and called out to ask whether Simon who was called Peter was lodging there.
 Acts	Acts	51	10	19	And while Peter was pondering the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Behold, three men are looking for you.
 Acts	Acts	51	10	20	Rise and go down, and accompany them without hesitation; for I have sent them.”
 Acts	Acts	51	10	21	And Peter went down to the men and said, “I am the one you are looking for; what is the reason for your coming?”
 Acts	Acts	51	10	22	And they said, “Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, who is well spoken of by the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house, and to hear what you have to say.”
 Acts	Acts	51	10	23	So he called them in to be his guests. The next day he rose and went off with them, and some of the brethren from Joppa accompanied him.
 Acts	Acts	51	10	24	And on the following day they entered Caesarea. Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his kinsmen and close friends.
 Acts	Acts	51	10	25	When Peter entered, Cornelius met him and fell down at his feet and worshiped him.
 Acts	Acts	51	10	26	But Peter lifted him up, saying, “Stand up; I too am a man.”
 Acts	Acts	51	10	27	And as he talked with him, he went in and found many persons gathered;
 Acts	Acts	51	10	28	and he said to them, “You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with or to visit any one of another nation; but God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean.
 Acts	Acts	51	10	29	So when I was sent for, I came without objection. I ask then why you sent for me.”
 Acts	Acts	51	10	30	And Cornelius said, “Four days ago, about this hour, I was keeping the ninth hour of prayer in my house; and behold, a man stood before me in bright apparel,
 Acts	Acts	51	10	31	saying, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your alms have been remembered before God.
 Acts	Acts	51	10	32	Send therefore to Joppa and ask for Simon who is called Peter; he is lodging in the house of Simon, a tanner, by the seaside.’
 Acts	Acts	51	10	33	So I sent to you at once, and you have been kind enough to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God, to hear all that you have been commanded by the Lord.”
 Acts	Acts	51	10	34	And Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I perceive that God shows no partiality,
 Acts	Acts	51	10	35	but in every nation any one who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.
 Acts	Acts	51	10	36	You know the word which he sent to Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ (he is Lord of all),
 Acts	Acts	51	10	37	the word which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism which John preached:
 Acts	Acts	51	10	38	how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how he went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
 Acts	Acts	51	10	39	And we are witnesses to all that he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree;
 Acts	Acts	51	10	40	but God raised him on the third day and made him manifest;
 Acts	Acts	51	10	41	not to all the people but to us who were chosen by God as witnesses, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
 Acts	Acts	51	10	42	And he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that he is the one ordained by God to be judge of the living and the dead.
 Acts	Acts	51	10	43	To him all the prophets bear witness that every one who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”
 Acts	Acts	51	10	44	While Peter was still saying this, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word.
 Acts	Acts	51	10	45	And the believers from among the circumcised who came with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles.
 Acts	Acts	51	10	46	For they heard them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter declared,
 Acts	Acts	51	10	47	“Can any one forbid water for baptizing these people who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?”
 Acts	Acts	51	10	48	And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to remain for some days.
 Acts	Acts	51	11	1	Now the apostles and the brethren who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
 Acts	Acts	51	11	2	So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party criticized him,
 Acts	Acts	51	11	3	saying, “Why did you go to uncircumcised men and eat with them?”
 Acts	Acts	51	11	4	But Peter began and explained to them in order:
 Acts	Acts	51	11	5	“I was in the city of Joppa praying; and in a trance I saw a vision, something descending, like a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came down to me.
 Acts	Acts	51	11	6	Looking at it closely I observed animals and beasts of prey and reptiles and birds of the air.
 Acts	Acts	51	11	7	And I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Rise, Peter; kill and eat.’
 Acts	Acts	51	11	8	But I said, ‘No, Lord; for nothing common or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’
 Acts	Acts	51	11	9	But the voice answered a second time from heaven, ‘What God has cleansed you must not call common.’
 Acts	Acts	51	11	10	This happened three times, and all was drawn up again into heaven.
 Acts	Acts	51	11	11	At that very moment three men arrived at the house in which we were, sent to me from Caesarea.
 Acts	Acts	51	11	12	And the Spirit told me to go with them, making no distinction. These six brethren also accompanied me, and we entered the man’s house.
 Acts	Acts	51	11	13	And he told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Joppa and bring Simon called Peter;
 Acts	Acts	51	11	14	he will declare to you a message by which you will be saved, you and all your household.’
 Acts	Acts	51	11	15	As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as on us at the beginning.
 Acts	Acts	51	11	16	And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, ‘John baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’
 Acts	Acts	51	11	17	If then God gave the same gift to them as he gave to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could withstand God?”
 Acts	Acts	51	11	18	When they heard this they were silenced. And they glorified God, saying, “Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance unto life.”
 Acts	Acts	51	11	19	Now those who were scattered because of the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to none except Jews.
 Acts	Acts	51	11	20	But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who on coming to Antioch spoke to the Greeks also, preaching the Lord Jesus.
 Acts	Acts	51	11	21	And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number that believed turned to the Lord.
 Acts	Acts	51	11	22	News of this came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.
 Acts	Acts	51	11	23	When he came and saw the grace of God, he was glad; and he exhorted them all to remain faithful to the Lord with steadfast purpose;
 Acts	Acts	51	11	24	for he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a large company was added to the Lord.
 Acts	Acts	51	11	25	So Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul;
 Acts	Acts	51	11	26	and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church, and taught a large company of people; and in Antioch the disciples were for the first time called Christians.
 Acts	Acts	51	11	27	Now in these days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.
 Acts	Acts	51	11	28	And one of them named Agabus stood up and foretold by the Spirit that there would be a great famine over all the world; and this took place in the days of Claudius.
 Acts	Acts	51	11	29	And the disciples determined, every one according to his ability, to send relief to the brethren who lived in Judea;
 Acts	Acts	51	11	30	and they did so, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.
 Acts	Acts	51	12	1	About that time Herod the king laid violent hands upon some who belonged to the church.
 Acts	Acts	51	12	2	He killed James the brother of John with the sword;
 Acts	Acts	51	12	3	and when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. This was during the days of Unleavened Bread.
 Acts	Acts	51	12	4	And when he had seized him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him out to the people.
 Acts	Acts	51	12	5	So Peter was kept in prison; but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.
 Acts	Acts	51	12	6	The very night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries before the door were guarding the prison;
 Acts	Acts	51	12	7	and behold, an angel of the Lord appeared, and a light shone in the cell; and he struck Peter on the side and woke him, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his hands.
 Acts	Acts	51	12	8	And the angel said to him, “Dress yourself and put on your sandals.” And he did so. And he said to him, “Wrap your mantle around you and follow me.”
 Acts	Acts	51	12	9	And he went out and followed him; he did not know that what was done by the angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision.
 Acts	Acts	51	12	10	When they had passed the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate leading into the city. It opened to them of its own accord, and they went out and passed on through one street; and immediately the angel left him.
 Acts	Acts	51	12	11	And Peter came to himself, and said, “Now I am sure that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting.”
 Acts	Acts	51	12	12	When he realized this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John whose other name was Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.
 Acts	Acts	51	12	13	And when he knocked at the door of the gateway, a maid named Rhoda came to answer.
 Acts	Acts	51	12	14	Recognizing Peter’s voice, in her joy she did not open the gate but ran in and told that Peter was standing at the gate.
 Acts	Acts	51	12	15	They said to her, “You are mad.” But she insisted that it was so. They said, “It is his angel!”
 Acts	Acts	51	12	16	But Peter continued knocking; and when they opened, they saw him and were amazed.
 Acts	Acts	51	12	17	But motioning to them with his hand to be silent, he described to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, “Tell this to James and to the brethren.” Then he departed and went to another place.
 Acts	Acts	51	12	18	Now when day came, there was no small stir among the soldiers over what had become of Peter.
 Acts	Acts	51	12	19	And when Herod had sought for him and could not find him, he examined the sentries and ordered that they should be put to death. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea, and remained there.
 Acts	Acts	51	12	20	Now Herod was angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon; and they came to him in a body, and having persuaded Blastus, the king’s chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king’s country for food.
 Acts	Acts	51	12	21	On an appointed day Herod put on his royal robes, took his seat upon the throne, and made an oration to them.
 Acts	Acts	51	12	22	And the people shouted, “The voice of a god, and not of man!”
 Acts	Acts	51	12	23	Immediately an angel of the Lord smote him, because he did not give God the glory; and he was eaten by worms and died.
 Acts	Acts	51	12	24	But the word of God grew and multiplied.
 Acts	Acts	51	12	25	And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem when they had fulfilled their mission, bringing with them John whose other name was Mark.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	1	Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Mana-en a member of the court of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	2	While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
 Acts	Acts	51	13	3	Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	4	So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia; and from there they sailed to Cyprus.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	5	When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they had John to assist them.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	6	When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they came upon a certain magician, a Jewish false prophet, named Bar-Jesus.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	7	He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of intelligence, who summoned Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	8	But Elymas the magician (for that is the meaning of his name) withstood them, seeking to turn away the proconsul from the faith.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	9	But Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked intently at him
 Acts	Acts	51	13	10	and said, “You son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and villainy, will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?
 Acts	Acts	51	13	11	And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you shall be blind and unable to see the sun for a time.” Immediately mist and darkness fell upon him and he went about seeking people to lead him by the hand.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	12	Then the proconsul believed, when he saw what had occurred, for he was astonished at the teaching of the Lord.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	13	Now Paul and his company set sail from Paphos, and came to Perga in Pamphylia. And John left them and returned to Jerusalem;
 Acts	Acts	51	13	14	but they passed on from Perga and came to Antioch of Pisidia. And on the sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	15	After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, “Brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, say it.”
 Acts	Acts	51	13	16	So Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand said: “Men of Israel, and you that fear God, listen.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	17	The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	18	And for about forty years he bore with them in the wilderness.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	19	And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance, for about four hundred and fifty years.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	20	And after that he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	21	Then they asked for a king; and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	22	And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king; of whom he testified and said, ‘I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’
 Acts	Acts	51	13	23	Of this man’s posterity God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, as he promised.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	24	Before his coming John had preached a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	25	And as John was finishing his course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. No, but after me one is coming, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’
 Acts	Acts	51	13	26	“Brethren, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you that fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	27	For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize him nor understand the utterances of the prophets which are read every sabbath, fulfilled these by condemning him.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	28	Though they could charge him with nothing deserving death, yet they asked Pilate to have him killed.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	29	And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	30	But God raised him from the dead;
 Acts	Acts	51	13	31	and for many days he appeared to those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	32	And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers,
 Acts	Acts	51	13	33	this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus; as also it is written in the second psalm, ‘Thou art my Son, today I have begotten thee.’
 Acts	Acts	51	13	34	And as for the fact that he raised him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he spoke in this way, ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’
 Acts	Acts	51	13	35	Therefore he says also in another psalm, ‘Thou wilt not let thy Holy One see corruption.’
 Acts	Acts	51	13	36	For David, after he had served the counsel of God in his own generation, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw corruption;
 Acts	Acts	51	13	37	but he whom God raised up saw no corruption.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	38	Let it be known to you therefore, brethren, that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you,
 Acts	Acts	51	13	39	and by him every one that believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	40	Beware, therefore, lest there come upon you what is said in the prophets:
 Acts	Acts	51	13	41	‘Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish; for I do a deed in your days, a deed you will never believe, if one declares it to you.’”
 Acts	Acts	51	13	42	As they went out, the people begged that these things might be told them the next sabbath.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	43	And when the meeting of the synagogue broke up, many Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who spoke to them and urged them to continue in the grace of God.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	44	The next sabbath almost the whole city gathered together to hear the word of God.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	45	But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted what was spoken by Paul, and reviled him.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	46	And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, “It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	47	For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you to be a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’”
 Acts	Acts	51	13	48	And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of God; and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	49	And the word of the Lord spread throughout all the region.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	50	But the Jews incited the devout women of high standing and the leading men of the city, and stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	51	But they shook off the dust from their feet against them, and went to Iconium.
 Acts	Acts	51	13	52	And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.
 Acts	Acts	51	14	1	Now at Iconium they entered together into the Jewish synagogue, and so spoke that a great company believed, both of Jews and of Greeks.
 Acts	Acts	51	14	2	But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brethren.
 Acts	Acts	51	14	3	So they remained for a long time, speaking boldly for the Lord, who bore witness to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
 Acts	Acts	51	14	4	But the people of the city were divided; some sided with the Jews, and some with the apostles.
 Acts	Acts	51	14	5	When an attempt was made by both Gentiles and Jews, with their rulers, to molest them and to stone them,
 Acts	Acts	51	14	6	they learned of it and fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the surrounding country;
 Acts	Acts	51	14	7	and there they preached the gospel.
 Acts	Acts	51	14	8	Now at Lystra there was a man sitting, who could not use his feet; he was a cripple from birth, who had never walked.
 Acts	Acts	51	14	9	He listened to Paul speaking; and Paul, looking intently at him and seeing that he had faith to be made well,
 Acts	Acts	51	14	10	said in a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet.” And he sprang up and walked.
 Acts	Acts	51	14	11	And when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in Lycaonian, “The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!”
 Acts	Acts	51	14	12	Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul, because he was the chief speaker, they called Hermes.
 Acts	Acts	51	14	13	And the priest of Zeus, whose temple was in front of the city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates and wanted to offer sacrifice with the people.
 Acts	Acts	51	14	14	But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of it, they tore their garments and rushed out among the multitude, crying,
 Acts	Acts	51	14	15	“Men, why are you doing this? We also are men, of like nature with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to a living God who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.
 Acts	Acts	51	14	16	In past generations he allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways;
 Acts	Acts	51	14	17	yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good and gave you from heaven rains and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness.”
 Acts	Acts	51	14	18	With these words they scarcely restrained the people from offering sacrifice to them.
 Acts	Acts	51	14	19	But Jews came there from Antioch and Iconium; and having persuaded the people, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.
 Acts	Acts	51	14	20	But when the disciples gathered about him, he rose up and entered the city; and on the next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe.
 Acts	Acts	51	14	21	When they had preached the gospel to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch,
 Acts	Acts	51	14	22	strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.
 Acts	Acts	51	14	23	And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they believed.
 Acts	Acts	51	14	24	Then they passed through Pisidia, and came to Pamphylia.
 Acts	Acts	51	14	25	And when they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia;
 Acts	Acts	51	14	26	and from there they sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.
 Acts	Acts	51	14	27	And when they arrived, they gathered the church together and declared all that God had done with them, and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.
 Acts	Acts	51	14	28	And they remained no little time with the disciples.
 Acts	Acts	51	15	1	But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brethren, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”
 Acts	Acts	51	15	2	And when Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders about this question.
 Acts	Acts	51	15	3	So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, reporting the conversion of the Gentiles, and they gave great joy to all the brethren.
 Acts	Acts	51	15	4	When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they declared all that God had done with them.
 Acts	Acts	51	15	5	But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up, and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to charge them to keep the law of Moses.”
 Acts	Acts	51	15	6	The apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider this matter.
 Acts	Acts	51	15	7	And after there had been much debate, Peter rose and said to them, “Brethren, you know that in the early days God made choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.
 Acts	Acts	51	15	8	And God who knows the heart bore witness to them, giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us;
 Acts	Acts	51	15	9	and he made no distinction between us and them, but cleansed their hearts by faith.
 Acts	Acts	51	15	10	Now therefore why do you make trial of God by putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?
 Acts	Acts	51	15	11	But we believe that we shall be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will.”
 Acts	Acts	51	15	12	And all the assembly kept silence; and they listened to Barnabas and Paul as they related what signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles.
 Acts	Acts	51	15	13	After they finished speaking, James replied, “Brethren, listen to me.
 Acts	Acts	51	15	14	Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
 Acts	Acts	51	15	15	And with this the words of the prophets agree, as it is written,
 Acts	Acts	51	15	16	‘After this I will return, and I will rebuild the dwelling of David, which has fallen; I will rebuild its ruins, and I will set it up,
 Acts	Acts	51	15	17	that the rest of men may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by my name,
 Acts	Acts	51	15	18	says the Lord, who has made these things known from of old.’
 Acts	Acts	51	15	19	Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God,
 Acts	Acts	51	15	20	but should write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols and from unchastity and from what is strangled and from blood.
 Acts	Acts	51	15	21	For from early generations Moses has had in every city those who preach him, for he is read every sabbath in the synagogues.”
 Acts	Acts	51	15	22	Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren,
 Acts	Acts	51	15	23	with the following letter: “The brethren, both the apostles and the elders, to the brethren who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greeting.
 Acts	Acts	51	15	24	Since we have heard that some persons from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your minds, although we gave them no instructions,
 Acts	Acts	51	15	25	it has seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
 Acts	Acts	51	15	26	men who have risked their lives for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ.
 Acts	Acts	51	15	27	We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who themselves will tell you the same things by word of mouth.
 Acts	Acts	51	15	28	For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things:
 Acts	Acts	51	15	29	that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from unchastity. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”
 Acts	Acts	51	15	30	So when they were sent off, they went down to Antioch; and having gathered the congregation together, they delivered the letter.
 Acts	Acts	51	15	31	And when they read it, they rejoiced at the exhortation.
 Acts	Acts	51	15	32	And Judas and Silas, who were themselves prophets, exhorted the brethren with many words and strengthened them.
 Acts	Acts	51	15	33	And after they had spent some time, they were sent off in peace by the brethren to those who had sent them.
 Acts	Acts	51	15	34	Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still
 Acts	Acts	51	15	35	But Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.
 Acts	Acts	51	15	36	And after some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Come, let us return and visit the brethren in every city where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are.”
 Acts	Acts	51	15	37	And Barnabas wanted to take with them John called Mark.
 Acts	Acts	51	15	38	But Paul thought best not to take with them one who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, and had not gone with them to the work.
 Acts	Acts	51	15	39	And there arose a sharp contention, so that they separated from each other; Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus,
 Acts	Acts	51	15	40	but Paul chose Silas and departed, being commended by the brethren to the grace of the Lord.
 Acts	Acts	51	15	41	And he went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.
 Acts	Acts	51	16	1	And he came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer; but his father was a Greek.
 Acts	Acts	51	16	2	He was well spoken of by the brethren at Lystra and Iconium.
 Acts	Acts	51	16	3	Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him; and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews that were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.
 Acts	Acts	51	16	4	As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions which had been reached by the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem.
 Acts	Acts	51	16	5	So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and they increased in numbers daily.
 Acts	Acts	51	16	6	And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.
 Acts	Acts	51	16	7	And when they had come opposite Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them;
 Acts	Acts	51	16	8	so, passing by Mysia, they went down to Troas.
 Acts	Acts	51	16	9	And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of Macedonia was standing beseeching him and saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”
 Acts	Acts	51	16	10	And when he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go on into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.
 Acts	Acts	51	16	11	Setting sail therefore from Troas, we made a direct voyage to Samothrace, and the following day to Ne-apolis,
 Acts	Acts	51	16	12	and from there to Philippi, which is the leading city of the district of Macedonia, and a Roman colony. We remained in this city some days;
 Acts	Acts	51	16	13	and on the sabbath day we went outside the gate to the riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer; and we sat down and spoke to the women who had come together.
 Acts	Acts	51	16	14	One who heard us was a woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple goods, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to give heed to what was said by Paul.
 Acts	Acts	51	16	15	And when she was baptized, with her household, she besought us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay.” And she prevailed upon us.
 Acts	Acts	51	16	16	As we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain by soothsaying.
 Acts	Acts	51	16	17	She followed Paul and us, crying, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to you the way of salvation.”
 Acts	Acts	51	16	18	And this she did for many days. But Paul was annoyed, and turned and said to the spirit, “I charge you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And it came out that very hour.
 Acts	Acts	51	16	19	But when her owners saw that their hope of gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the market place before the rulers;
 Acts	Acts	51	16	20	and when they had brought them to the magistrates they said, “These men are Jews and they are disturbing our city.
 Acts	Acts	51	16	21	They advocate customs which it is not lawful for us Romans to accept or practice.”
 Acts	Acts	51	16	22	The crowd joined in attacking them; and the magistrates tore the garments off them and gave orders to beat them with rods.
 Acts	Acts	51	16	23	And when they had inflicted many blows upon them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely.
 Acts	Acts	51	16	24	Having received this charge, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.
 Acts	Acts	51	16	25	But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,
 Acts	Acts	51	16	26	and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and every one’s fetters were unfastened.
 Acts	Acts	51	16	27	When the jailer woke and saw that the prison doors were open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.
 Acts	Acts	51	16	28	But Paul cried with a loud voice, “Do not harm yourself, for we are all here.”
 Acts	Acts	51	16	29	And he called for lights and rushed in, and trembling with fear he fell down before Paul and Silas,
 Acts	Acts	51	16	30	and brought them out and said, “Men, what must I do to be saved?”
 Acts	Acts	51	16	31	And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
 Acts	Acts	51	16	32	And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all that were in his house.
 Acts	Acts	51	16	33	And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their wounds, and he was baptized at once, with all his family.
 Acts	Acts	51	16	34	Then he brought them up into his house, and set food before them; and he rejoiced with all his household that he had believed in God.
 Acts	Acts	51	16	35	But when it was day, the magistrates sent the police, saying, “Let those men go.”
 Acts	Acts	51	16	36	And the jailer reported the words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore come out and go in peace.”
 Acts	Acts	51	16	37	But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us publicly, uncondemned, men who are Roman citizens, and have thrown us into prison; and do they now cast us out secretly? No! let them come themselves and take us out.”
 Acts	Acts	51	16	38	The police reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Roman citizens;
 Acts	Acts	51	16	39	so they came and apologized to them. And they took them out and asked them to leave the city.
 Acts	Acts	51	16	40	So they went out of the prison, and visited Lydia; and when they had seen the brethren, they exhorted them and departed.
 Acts	Acts	51	17	1	Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.
 Acts	Acts	51	17	2	And Paul went in, as was his custom, and for three weeks he argued with them from the scriptures,
 Acts	Acts	51	17	3	explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”
 Acts	Acts	51	17	4	And some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas; as did a great many of the devout Greeks and not a few of the leading women.
 Acts	Acts	51	17	5	But the Jews were jealous, and taking some wicked fellows of the rabble, they gathered a crowd, set the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out to the people.
 Acts	Acts	51	17	6	And when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brethren before the city authorities, crying, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also,
 Acts	Acts	51	17	7	and Jason has received them; and they are all acting against the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.”
 Acts	Acts	51	17	8	And the people and the city authorities were disturbed when they heard this.
 Acts	Acts	51	17	9	And when they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
 Acts	Acts	51	17	10	The brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea; and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue.
 Acts	Acts	51	17	11	Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with all eagerness, examining the scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
 Acts	Acts	51	17	12	Many of them therefore believed, with not a few Greek women of high standing as well as men.
 Acts	Acts	51	17	13	But when the Jews of Thessalonica learned that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there too, stirring up and inciting the crowds.
 Acts	Acts	51	17	14	Then the brethren immediately sent Paul off on his way to the sea, but Silas and Timothy remained there.
 Acts	Acts	51	17	15	Those who conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens; and receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they departed.
 Acts	Acts	51	17	16	Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols.
 Acts	Acts	51	17	17	So he argued in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the market place every day with those who chanced to be there.
 Acts	Acts	51	17	18	Some also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers met him. And some said, “What would this babbler say?” Others said, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities”—because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
 Acts	Acts	51	17	19	And they took hold of him and brought him to the Are-opagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is which you present?
 Acts	Acts	51	17	20	For you bring some strange things to our ears; we wish to know therefore what these things mean.”
 Acts	Acts	51	17	21	Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.
 Acts	Acts	51	17	22	So Paul, standing in the middle of the Are-opagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious.
 Acts	Acts	51	17	23	For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, ‘To an unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.
 Acts	Acts	51	17	24	The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by man,
 Acts	Acts	51	17	25	nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all men life and breath and everything.
 Acts	Acts	51	17	26	And he made from one every nation of men to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their habitation,
 Acts	Acts	51	17	27	that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel after him and find him. Yet he is not far from each one of us,
 Acts	Acts	51	17	28	for ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your poets have said, ‘For we are indeed his offspring.’
 Acts	Acts	51	17	29	Being then God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the Deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, a representation by the art and imagination of man.
 Acts	Acts	51	17	30	The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all men everywhere to repent,
 Acts	Acts	51	17	31	because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this he has given assurance to all men by raising him from the dead.”
 Acts	Acts	51	17	32	Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We will hear you again about this.”
 Acts	Acts	51	17	33	So Paul went out from among them.
 Acts	Acts	51	17	34	But some men joined him and believed, among them Dionysius the Are-opagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.
 Acts	Acts	51	18	1	After this he left Athens and went to Corinth.
 Acts	Acts	51	18	2	And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, lately come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. And he went to see them;
 Acts	Acts	51	18	3	and because he was of the same trade he stayed with them, and they worked, for by trade they were tentmakers.
 Acts	Acts	51	18	4	And he argued in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.
 Acts	Acts	51	18	5	When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with preaching, testifying to the Jews that the Christ was Jesus.
 Acts	Acts	51	18	6	And when they opposed and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, “Your blood be upon your heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”
 Acts	Acts	51	18	7	And he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God; his house was next door to the synagogue.
 Acts	Acts	51	18	8	Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with all his household; and many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized.
 Acts	Acts	51	18	9	And the Lord said to Paul one night in a vision, “Do not be afraid, but speak and do not be silent;
 Acts	Acts	51	18	10	for I am with you, and no man shall attack you to harm you; for I have many people in this city.”
 Acts	Acts	51	18	11	And he stayed a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
 Acts	Acts	51	18	12	But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack upon Paul and brought him before the tribunal,
 Acts	Acts	51	18	13	saying, “This man is persuading men to worship God contrary to the law.”
 Acts	Acts	51	18	14	But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of wrongdoing or vicious crime, I should have reason to bear with you, O Jews;
 Acts	Acts	51	18	15	but since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves; I refuse to be a judge of these things.”
 Acts	Acts	51	18	16	And he drove them from the tribunal.
 Acts	Acts	51	18	17	And they all seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the tribunal. But Gallio paid no attention to this.
 Acts	Acts	51	18	18	After this Paul stayed many days longer, and then took leave of the brethren and sailed for Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila. At Cenchre-ae he cut his hair, for he had a vow.
 Acts	Acts	51	18	19	And they came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself went into the synagogue and argued with the Jews.
 Acts	Acts	51	18	20	When they asked him to stay for a longer period, he declined;
 Acts	Acts	51	18	21	but on taking leave of them he said, “I will return to you if God wills,” and he set sail from Ephesus.
 Acts	Acts	51	18	22	When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church, and then went down to Antioch.
 Acts	Acts	51	18	23	After spending some time there he departed and went from place to place through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.
 Acts	Acts	51	18	24	Now a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, well versed in the scriptures.
 Acts	Acts	51	18	25	He had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John.
 Acts	Acts	51	18	26	He began to speak boldly in the synagogue; but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him and expounded to him the way of God more accurately.
 Acts	Acts	51	18	27	And when he wished to cross to Achaia, the brethren encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he arrived, he greatly helped those who through grace had believed,
 Acts	Acts	51	18	28	for he powerfully confuted the Jews in public, showing by the scriptures that the Christ was Jesus.
 Acts	Acts	51	19	1	While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the upper country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples.
 Acts	Acts	51	19	2	And he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said, “No, we have never even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”
 Acts	Acts	51	19	3	And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John’s baptism.”
 Acts	Acts	51	19	4	And Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, Jesus.”
 Acts	Acts	51	19	5	On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
 Acts	Acts	51	19	6	And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them; and they spoke with tongues and prophesied.
 Acts	Acts	51	19	7	There were about twelve of them in all.
 Acts	Acts	51	19	8	And he entered the synagogue and for three months spoke boldly, arguing and pleading about the kingdom of God;
 Acts	Acts	51	19	9	but when some were stubborn and disbelieved, speaking evil of the Way before the congregation, he withdrew from them, taking the disciples with him, and argued daily in the hall of Tyrannus.
 Acts	Acts	51	19	10	This continued for two years, so that all the residents of Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.
 Acts	Acts	51	19	11	And God did extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul,
 Acts	Acts	51	19	12	so that handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them.
 Acts	Acts	51	19	13	Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to pronounce the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches.”
 Acts	Acts	51	19	14	Seven sons of a Jewish high priest named Sceva were doing this.
 Acts	Acts	51	19	15	But the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?”
 Acts	Acts	51	19	16	And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, mastered all of them, and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
 Acts	Acts	51	19	17	And this became known to all residents of Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks; and fear fell upon them all; and the name of the Lord Jesus was extolled.
 Acts	Acts	51	19	18	Many also of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices.
 Acts	Acts	51	19	19	And a number of those who practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all; and they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver.
 Acts	Acts	51	19	20	So the word of the Lord grew and prevailed mightily.
 Acts	Acts	51	19	21	Now after these events Paul resolved in the Spirit to pass through Macedonia and Achaia and go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”
 Acts	Acts	51	19	22	And having sent into Macedonia two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.
 Acts	Acts	51	19	23	About that time there arose no little stir concerning the Way.
 Acts	Acts	51	19	24	For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen.
 Acts	Acts	51	19	25	These he gathered together, with the workmen of like occupation, and said, “Men, you know that from this business we have our wealth.
 Acts	Acts	51	19	26	And you see and hear that not only at Ephesus but almost throughout all Asia this Paul has persuaded and turned away a considerable company of people, saying that gods made with hands are not gods.
 Acts	Acts	51	19	27	And there is danger not only that this trade of ours may come into disrepute but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis may count for nothing, and that she may even be deposed from her magnificence, she whom all Asia and the world worship.”
 Acts	Acts	51	19	28	When they heard this they were enraged, and cried out, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
 Acts	Acts	51	19	29	So the city was filled with the confusion; and they rushed together into the theater, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians who were Paul’s companions in travel.
 Acts	Acts	51	19	30	Paul wished to go in among the crowd, but the disciples would not let him;
 Acts	Acts	51	19	31	some of the Asi-archs also, who were friends of his, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater.
 Acts	Acts	51	19	32	Now some cried one thing, some another; for the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had come together.
 Acts	Acts	51	19	33	Some of the crowd prompted Alexander, whom the Jews had put forward. And Alexander motioned with his hand, wishing to make a defense to the people.
 Acts	Acts	51	19	34	But when they recognized that he was a Jew, for about two hours they all with one voice cried out, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
 Acts	Acts	51	19	35	And when the town clerk had quieted the crowd, he said, “Men of Ephesus, what man is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great Artemis, and of the sacred stone that fell from the sky?
 Acts	Acts	51	19	36	Seeing then that these things cannot be contradicted, you ought to be quiet and do nothing rash.
 Acts	Acts	51	19	37	For you have brought these men here who are neither sacrilegious nor blasphemers of our goddess.
 Acts	Acts	51	19	38	If therefore Demetrius and the craftsmen with him have a complaint against any one, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls; let them bring charges against one another.
 Acts	Acts	51	19	39	But if you seek anything further, it shall be settled in the regular assembly.
 Acts	Acts	51	19	40	For we are in danger of being charged with rioting today, there being no cause that we can give to justify this commotion.”
 Acts	Acts	51	19	41	And when he had said this, he dismissed the assembly.
 Acts	Acts	51	20	1	After the uproar ceased, Paul sent for the disciples and having exhorted them took leave of them and departed for Macedonia.
 Acts	Acts	51	20	2	When he had gone through these parts and had given them much encouragement, he came to Greece.
 Acts	Acts	51	20	3	There he spent three months, and when a plot was made against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.
 Acts	Acts	51	20	4	Sopater of Beroea, the son of Pyrrhus, accompanied him; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and the Asians, Tychicus and Trophimus.
 Acts	Acts	51	20	5	These went on and were waiting for us at Troas,
 Acts	Acts	51	20	6	but we sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and in five days we came to them at Troas, where we stayed for seven days.
 Acts	Acts	51	20	7	On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the morrow; and he prolonged his speech until midnight.
 Acts	Acts	51	20	8	There were many lights in the upper chamber where we were gathered.
 Acts	Acts	51	20	9	And a young man named Eutychus was sitting in the window. He sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer; and being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead.
 Acts	Acts	51	20	10	But Paul went down and bent over him, and embracing him said, “Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him.”
 Acts	Acts	51	20	11	And when Paul had gone up and had broken bread and eaten, he conversed with them a long while, until daybreak, and so departed.
 Acts	Acts	51	20	12	And they took the lad away alive, and were not a little comforted.
 Acts	Acts	51	20	13	But going ahead to the ship, we set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there; for so he had arranged, intending himself to go by land.
 Acts	Acts	51	20	14	And when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and came to Mitylene.
 Acts	Acts	51	20	15	And sailing from there we came the following day opposite Chios; the next day we touched at Samos; and the day after that we came to Miletus.
 Acts	Acts	51	20	16	For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening to be at Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost.
 Acts	Acts	51	20	17	And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called to him the elders of the church.
 Acts	Acts	51	20	18	And when they came to him, he said to them: “You yourselves know how I lived among you all the time from the first day that I set foot in Asia,
 Acts	Acts	51	20	19	serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials which befell me through the plots of the Jews;
 Acts	Acts	51	20	20	how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house,
 Acts	Acts	51	20	21	testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance to God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
 Acts	Acts	51	20	22	And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, bound in the Spirit, not knowing what shall befall me there;
 Acts	Acts	51	20	23	except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me.
 Acts	Acts	51	20	24	But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may accomplish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.
 Acts	Acts	51	20	25	And now, behold, I know that all you among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom will see my face no more.
 Acts	Acts	51	20	26	Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all of you,
 Acts	Acts	51	20	27	for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
 Acts	Acts	51	20	28	Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you guardians, to feed the church of the Lord which he obtained with his own blood.
 Acts	Acts	51	20	29	I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock;
 Acts	Acts	51	20	30	and from among your own selves will arise men speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
 Acts	Acts	51	20	31	Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to admonish every one with tears.
 Acts	Acts	51	20	32	And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
 Acts	Acts	51	20	33	I coveted no one’s silver or gold or apparel.
 Acts	Acts	51	20	34	You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities, and to those who were with me.
 Acts	Acts	51	20	35	In all things I have shown you that by so toiling one must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
 Acts	Acts	51	20	36	And when he had spoken thus, he knelt down and prayed with them all.
 Acts	Acts	51	20	37	And they all wept and embraced Paul and kissed him,
 Acts	Acts	51	20	38	sorrowing most of all because of the word he had spoken, that they should see his face no more. And they brought him to the ship.
 Acts	Acts	51	21	1	And when we had parted from them and set sail, we came by a straight course to Cos, and the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.
 Acts	Acts	51	21	2	And having found a ship crossing to Phoenicia, we went aboard, and set sail.
 Acts	Acts	51	21	3	When we had come in sight of Cyprus, leaving it on the left we sailed to Syria, and landed at Tyre; for there the ship was to unload its cargo.
 Acts	Acts	51	21	4	And having sought out the disciples, we stayed there for seven days. Through the Spirit they told Paul not to go on to Jerusalem.
 Acts	Acts	51	21	5	And when our days there were ended, we departed and went on our journey; and they all, with wives and children, brought us on our way till we were outside the city; and kneeling down on the beach we prayed and bade one another farewell.
 Acts	Acts	51	21	6	Then we went on board the ship, and they returned home.
 Acts	Acts	51	21	7	When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais; and we greeted the brethren and stayed with them for one day.
 Acts	Acts	51	21	8	On the morrow we departed and came to Caesarea; and we entered the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.
 Acts	Acts	51	21	9	And he had four unmarried daughters, who prophesied.
 Acts	Acts	51	21	10	While we were staying for some days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.
 Acts	Acts	51	21	11	And coming to us he took Paul’s girdle and bound his own feet and hands, and said, “Thus says the Holy Spirit, ‘So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this girdle and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’”
 Acts	Acts	51	21	12	When we heard this, we and the people there begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.
 Acts	Acts	51	21	13	Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be imprisoned but even to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”
 Acts	Acts	51	21	14	And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased and said, “The will of the Lord be done.”
 Acts	Acts	51	21	15	After these days we made ready and went up to Jerusalem.
 Acts	Acts	51	21	16	And some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us, bringing us to the house of Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we should lodge.
 Acts	Acts	51	21	17	When we had come to Jerusalem, the brethren received us gladly.
 Acts	Acts	51	21	18	On the following day Paul went in with us to James; and all the elders were present.
 Acts	Acts	51	21	19	After greeting them, he related one by one the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.
 Acts	Acts	51	21	20	And when they heard it, they glorified God. And they said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed; they are all zealous for the law,
 Acts	Acts	51	21	21	and they have been told about you that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or observe the customs.
 Acts	Acts	51	21	22	What then is to be done? They will certainly hear that you have come.
 Acts	Acts	51	21	23	Do therefore what we tell you. We have four men who are under a vow;
 Acts	Acts	51	21	24	take these men and purify yourself along with them and pay their expenses, so that they may shave their heads. Thus all will know that there is nothing in what they have been told about you but that you yourself live in observance of the law.
 Acts	Acts	51	21	25	But as for the Gentiles who have believed, we have sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from unchastity.”
 Acts	Acts	51	21	26	Then Paul took the men, and the next day he purified himself with them and went into the temple, to give notice when the days of purification would be fulfilled and the offering presented for every one of them.
 Acts	Acts	51	21	27	When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, who had seen him in the temple, stirred up all the crowd, and laid hands on him,
 Acts	Acts	51	21	28	crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who is teaching men everywhere against the people and the law and this place; moreover he also brought Greeks into the temple, and he has defiled this holy place.”
 Acts	Acts	51	21	29	For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.
 Acts	Acts	51	21	30	Then all the city was aroused, and the people ran together; they seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple, and at once the gates were shut.
 Acts	Acts	51	21	31	And as they were trying to kill him, word came to the tribune of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.
 Acts	Acts	51	21	32	He at once took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them; and when they saw the tribune and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.
 Acts	Acts	51	21	33	Then the tribune came up and arrested him, and ordered him to be bound with two chains. He inquired who he was and what he had done.
 Acts	Acts	51	21	34	Some in the crowd shouted one thing, some another; and as he could not learn the facts because of the uproar, he ordered him to be brought into the barracks.
 Acts	Acts	51	21	35	And when he came to the steps, he was actually carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd;
 Acts	Acts	51	21	36	for the mob of the people followed, crying, “Away with him!”
 Acts	Acts	51	21	37	As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he said to the tribune, “May I say something to you?” And he said, “Do you know Greek?
 Acts	Acts	51	21	38	Are you not the Egyptian, then, who recently stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand men of the Assassins out into the wilderness?”
 Acts	Acts	51	21	39	Paul replied, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city; I beg you, let me speak to the people.”
 Acts	Acts	51	21	40	And when he had given him leave, Paul, standing on the steps, motioned with his hand to the people; and when there was a great hush, he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, saying:
 Acts	Acts	51	22	1	“Brethren and fathers, hear the defense which I now make before you.”
 Acts	Acts	51	22	2	And when they heard that he addressed them in the Hebrew language, they were the more quiet. And he said:
 Acts	Acts	51	22	3	“I am a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamali-el, educated according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God as you all are this day.
 Acts	Acts	51	22	4	I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering to prison both men and women,
 Acts	Acts	51	22	5	as the high priest and the whole council of elders bear me witness. From them I received letters to the brethren, and I journeyed to Damascus to take those also who were there and bring them in bonds to Jerusalem to be punished.
 Acts	Acts	51	22	6	“As I made my journey and drew near to Damascus, about noon a great light from heaven suddenly shone about me.
 Acts	Acts	51	22	7	And I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?’
 Acts	Acts	51	22	8	And I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ And he said to me, ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth whom you are persecuting.’
 Acts	Acts	51	22	9	Now those who were with me saw the light but did not hear the voice of the one who was speaking to me.
 Acts	Acts	51	22	10	And I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ And the Lord said to me, ‘Rise, and go into Damascus, and there you will be told all that is appointed for you to do.’
 Acts	Acts	51	22	11	And when I could not see because of the brightness of that light, I was led by the hand by those who were with me, and came into Damascus.
 Acts	Acts	51	22	12	“And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well spoken of by all the Jews who lived there,
 Acts	Acts	51	22	13	came to me, and standing by me said to me, ‘Brother Saul, receive your sight.’ And in that very hour I received my sight and saw him.
 Acts	Acts	51	22	14	And he said, ‘The God of our fathers appointed you to know his will, to see the Just One and to hear a voice from his mouth;
 Acts	Acts	51	22	15	for you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard.
 Acts	Acts	51	22	16	And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on his name.’
 Acts	Acts	51	22	17	“When I had returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, I fell into a trance
 Acts	Acts	51	22	18	and saw him saying to me, ‘Make haste and get quickly out of Jerusalem, because they will not accept your testimony about me.’
 Acts	Acts	51	22	19	And I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that in every synagogue I imprisoned and beat those who believed in thee.
 Acts	Acts	51	22	20	And when the blood of Stephen thy witness was shed, I also was standing by and approving, and keeping the garments of those who killed him.’
 Acts	Acts	51	22	21	And he said to me, ‘Depart; for I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”
 Acts	Acts	51	22	22	Up to this word they listened to him; then they lifted up their voices and said, “Away with such a fellow from the earth! For he ought not to live.”
 Acts	Acts	51	22	23	And as they cried out and waved their garments and threw dust into the air,
 Acts	Acts	51	22	24	the tribune commanded him to be brought into the barracks, and ordered him to be examined by scourging, to find out why they shouted thus against him.
 Acts	Acts	51	22	25	But when they had tied him up with the thongs, Paul said to the centurion who was standing by, “Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman citizen, and uncondemned?”
 Acts	Acts	51	22	26	When the centurion heard that, he went to the tribune and said to him, “What are you about to do? For this man is a Roman citizen.”
 Acts	Acts	51	22	27	So the tribune came and said to him, “Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?” And he said, “Yes.”
 Acts	Acts	51	22	28	The tribune answered, “I bought this citizenship for a large sum.” Paul said, “But I was born a citizen.”
 Acts	Acts	51	22	29	So those who were about to examine him withdrew from him instantly; and the tribune also was afraid, for he realized that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had bound him.
 Acts	Acts	51	22	30	But on the morrow, desiring to know the real reason why the Jews accused him, he unbound him, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to meet, and he brought Paul down and set him before them.
 Acts	Acts	51	23	1	And Paul, looking intently at the council, said, “Brethren, I have lived before God in all good conscience up to this day.”
 Acts	Acts	51	23	2	And the high priest Ananias commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.
 Acts	Acts	51	23	3	Then Paul said to him, “God shall strike you, you whitewashed wall! Are you sitting to judge me according to the law, and yet contrary to the law you order me to be struck?”
 Acts	Acts	51	23	4	Those who stood by said, “Would you revile God’s high priest?”
 Acts	Acts	51	23	5	And Paul said, “I did not know, brethren, that he was the high priest; for it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’”
 Acts	Acts	51	23	6	But when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees; with respect to the hope and the resurrection of the dead I am on trial.”
 Acts	Acts	51	23	7	And when he had said this, a dissension arose between the Pharisees and the Sadducees; and the assembly was divided.
 Acts	Acts	51	23	8	For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.
 Acts	Acts	51	23	9	Then a great clamor arose; and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ party stood up and contended, “We find nothing wrong in this man. What if a spirit or an angel spoke to him?”
 Acts	Acts	51	23	10	And when the dissension became violent, the tribune, afraid that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them and bring him into the barracks.
 Acts	Acts	51	23	11	The following night the Lord stood by him and said, “Take courage, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must bear witness also at Rome.”
 Acts	Acts	51	23	12	When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
 Acts	Acts	51	23	13	There were more than forty who made this conspiracy.
 Acts	Acts	51	23	14	And they went to the chief priests and elders, and said, “We have strictly bound ourselves by an oath to taste no food till we have killed Paul.
 Acts	Acts	51	23	15	You therefore, along with the council, give notice now to the tribune to bring him down to you, as though you were going to determine his case more exactly. And we are ready to kill him before he comes near.”
 Acts	Acts	51	23	16	Now the son of Paul’s sister heard of their ambush; so he went and entered the barracks and told Paul.
 Acts	Acts	51	23	17	And Paul called one of the centurions and said, “Take this young man to the tribune; for he has something to tell him.”
 Acts	Acts	51	23	18	So he took him and brought him to the tribune and said, “Paul the prisoner called me and asked me to bring this young man to you, as he has something to say to you.”
 Acts	Acts	51	23	19	The tribune took him by the hand, and going aside asked him privately, “What is it that you have to tell me?”
 Acts	Acts	51	23	20	And he said, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though they were going to inquire somewhat more closely about him.
 Acts	Acts	51	23	21	But do not yield to them; for more than forty of their men lie in ambush for him, having bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him; and now they are ready, waiting for the promise from you.”
 Acts	Acts	51	23	22	So the tribune dismissed the young man, charging him, “Tell no one that you have informed me of this.”
 Acts	Acts	51	23	23	Then he called two of the centurions and said, “At the third hour of the night get ready two hundred soldiers with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen to go as far as Caesarea.
 Acts	Acts	51	23	24	Also provide mounts for Paul to ride, and bring him safely to Felix the governor.”
 Acts	Acts	51	23	25	And he wrote a letter to this effect:
 Acts	Acts	51	23	26	“Claudius Lysias to his Excellency the governor Felix, greeting.
 Acts	Acts	51	23	27	This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to be killed by them, when I came upon them with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman citizen.
 Acts	Acts	51	23	28	And desiring to know the charge on which they accused him, I brought him down to their council.
 Acts	Acts	51	23	29	I found that he was accused about questions of their law, but charged with nothing deserving death or imprisonment.
 Acts	Acts	51	23	30	And when it was disclosed to me that there would be a plot against the man, I sent him to you at once, ordering his accusers also to state before you what they have against him.”
 Acts	Acts	51	23	31	So the soldiers, according to their instructions, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.
 Acts	Acts	51	23	32	And on the morrow they returned to the barracks, leaving the horsemen to go on with him.
 Acts	Acts	51	23	33	When they came to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they presented Paul also before him.
 Acts	Acts	51	23	34	On reading the letter, he asked to what province he belonged. When he learned that he was from Cilicia
 Acts	Acts	51	23	35	he said, “I will hear you when your accusers arrive.” And he commanded him to be guarded in Herod’s praetorium.
 Acts	Acts	51	24	1	And after five days the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a spokesman, one Tertullus. They laid before the governor their case against Paul;
 Acts	Acts	51	24	2	and when he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying: “Since through you we enjoy much peace, and since by your provision, most excellent Felix, reforms are introduced on behalf of this nation,
 Acts	Acts	51	24	3	in every way and everywhere we accept this with all gratitude.
 Acts	Acts	51	24	4	But, to detain you no further, I beg you in your kindness to hear us briefly.
 Acts	Acts	51	24	5	For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, an agitator among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
 Acts	Acts	51	24	6	He even tried to profane the temple, but we seized him.
 Acts	Acts	51	24	8	By examining him yourself you will be able to learn from him about everything of which we accuse him.”
 Acts	Acts	51	24	9	The Jews also joined in the charge, affirming that all this was so.
 Acts	Acts	51	24	10	And when the governor had motioned to him to speak, Paul replied: “Realizing that for many years you have been judge over this nation, I cheerfully make my defense.
 Acts	Acts	51	24	11	As you may ascertain, it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem;
 Acts	Acts	51	24	12	and they did not find me disputing with any one or stirring up a crowd, either in the temple or in the synagogues, or in the city.
 Acts	Acts	51	24	13	Neither can they prove to you what they now bring up against me.
 Acts	Acts	51	24	14	But this I admit to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything laid down by the law or written in the prophets,
 Acts	Acts	51	24	15	having a hope in God which these themselves accept, that there will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust.
 Acts	Acts	51	24	16	So I always take pains to have a clear conscience toward God and toward men.
 Acts	Acts	51	24	17	Now after some years I came to bring to my nation alms and offerings.
 Acts	Acts	51	24	18	As I was doing this, they found me purified in the temple, without any crowd or tumult. But some Jews from Asia—
 Acts	Acts	51	24	19	they ought to be here before you and to make an accusation, if they have anything against me.
 Acts	Acts	51	24	20	Or else let these men themselves say what wrongdoing they found when I stood before the council,
 Acts	Acts	51	24	21	except this one thing which I cried out while standing among them, ‘With respect to the resurrection of the dead I am on trial before you this day.’”
 Acts	Acts	51	24	22	But Felix, having a rather accurate knowledge of the Way, put them off, saying, “When Lysias the tribune comes down, I will decide your case.”
 Acts	Acts	51	24	23	Then he gave orders to the centurion that he should be kept in custody but should have some liberty, and that none of his friends should be prevented from attending to his needs.
 Acts	Acts	51	24	24	After some days Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was a Jewess; and he sent for Paul and heard him speak upon faith in Christ Jesus.
 Acts	Acts	51	24	25	And as he argued about justice and self-control and future judgment, Felix was alarmed and said, “Go away for the present; when I have an opportunity I will summon you.”
 Acts	Acts	51	24	26	At the same time he hoped that money would be given him by Paul. So he sent for him often and conversed with him.
 Acts	Acts	51	24	27	But when two years had elapsed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus; and desiring to do the Jews a favor, Felix left Paul in prison.
 Acts	Acts	51	25	1	Now when Festus had come into his province, after three days he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.
 Acts	Acts	51	25	2	And the chief priests and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul; and they urged him,
 Acts	Acts	51	25	3	asking as a favor to have the man sent to Jerusalem, planning an ambush to kill him on the way.
 Acts	Acts	51	25	4	Festus replied that Paul was being kept at Caesarea, and that he himself intended to go there shortly.
 Acts	Acts	51	25	5	“So,” said he, “let the men of authority among you go down with me, and if there is anything wrong about the man, let them accuse him.”
 Acts	Acts	51	25	6	When he had stayed among them not more than eight or ten days, he went down to Caesarea; and the next day he took his seat on the tribunal and ordered Paul to be brought.
 Acts	Acts	51	25	7	And when he had come, the Jews who had gone down from Jerusalem stood about him, bringing against him many serious charges which they could not prove.
 Acts	Acts	51	25	8	Paul said in his defense, “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I offended at all.”
 Acts	Acts	51	25	9	But Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor, said to Paul, “Do you wish to go up to Jerusalem, and there be tried on these charges before me?”
 Acts	Acts	51	25	10	But Paul said, “I am standing before Caesar’s tribunal, where I ought to be tried; to the Jews I have done no wrong, as you know very well.
 Acts	Acts	51	25	11	If then I am a wrongdoer, and have committed anything for which I deserve to die, I do not seek to escape death; but if there is nothing in their charges against me, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar.”
 Acts	Acts	51	25	12	Then Festus, when he had conferred with his council, answered, “You have appealed to Caesar; to Caesar you shall go.”
 Acts	Acts	51	25	13	Now when some days had passed, Agrippa the king and Bernice arrived at Caesarea to welcome Festus.
 Acts	Acts	51	25	14	And as they stayed there many days, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king, saying, “There is a man left prisoner by Felix;
 Acts	Acts	51	25	15	and when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews gave information about him, asking for sentence against him.
 Acts	Acts	51	25	16	I answered them that it was not the custom of the Romans to give up any one before the accused met the accusers face to face, and had opportunity to make his defense concerning the charge laid against him.
 Acts	Acts	51	25	17	When therefore they came together here, I made no delay, but on the next day took my seat on the tribunal and ordered the man to be brought in.
 Acts	Acts	51	25	18	When the accusers stood up, they brought no charge in his case of such evils as I supposed;
 Acts	Acts	51	25	19	but they had certain points of dispute with him about their own superstition and about one Jesus, who was dead, but whom Paul asserted to be alive.
 Acts	Acts	51	25	20	Being at a loss how to investigate these questions, I asked whether he wished to go to Jerusalem and be tried there regarding them.
 Acts	Acts	51	25	21	But when Paul had appealed to be kept in custody for the decision of the emperor, I commanded him to be held until I could send him to Caesar.”
 Acts	Acts	51	25	22	And Agrippa said to Festus, “I should like to hear the man myself.” “Tomorrow,” said he, “you shall hear him.”
 Acts	Acts	51	25	23	So on the morrow Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp, and they entered the audience hall with the military tribunes and the prominent men of the city. Then by command of Festus Paul was brought in.
 Acts	Acts	51	25	24	And Festus said, “King Agrippa and all who are present with us, you see this man about whom the whole Jewish people petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, shouting that he ought not to live any longer.
 Acts	Acts	51	25	25	But I found that he had done nothing deserving death; and as he himself appealed to the emperor, I decided to send him.
 Acts	Acts	51	25	26	But I have nothing definite to write to my lord about him. Therefore I have brought him before you, and, especially before you, King Agrippa, that, after we have examined him, I may have something to write.
 Acts	Acts	51	25	27	For it seems to me unreasonable, in sending a prisoner, not to indicate the charges against him.”
 Acts	Acts	51	26	1	Agrippa said to Paul, “You have permission to speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand and made his defense:
 Acts	Acts	51	26	2	“I think myself fortunate that it is before you, King Agrippa, I am to make my defense today against all the accusations of the Jews,
 Acts	Acts	51	26	3	because you are especially familiar with all customs and controversies of the Jews; therefore I beg you to listen to me patiently.
 Acts	Acts	51	26	4	“My manner of life from my youth, spent from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem, is known by all the Jews.
 Acts	Acts	51	26	5	They have known for a long time, if they are willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion I have lived as a Pharisee.
 Acts	Acts	51	26	6	And now I stand here on trial for hope in the promise made by God to our fathers,
 Acts	Acts	51	26	7	to which our twelve tribes hope to attain, as they earnestly worship night and day. And for this hope I am accused by Jews, O king!
 Acts	Acts	51	26	8	Why is it thought incredible by any of you that God raises the dead?
 Acts	Acts	51	26	9	“I myself was convinced that I ought to do many things in opposing the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
 Acts	Acts	51	26	10	And I did so in Jerusalem; I not only shut up many of the saints in prison, by authority from the chief priests, but when they were put to death I cast my vote against them.
 Acts	Acts	51	26	11	And I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to make them blaspheme; and in raging fury against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
 Acts	Acts	51	26	12	“Thus I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests.
 Acts	Acts	51	26	13	At midday, O king, I saw on the way a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining round me and those who journeyed with me.
 Acts	Acts	51	26	14	And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It hurts you to kick against the goads.’
 Acts	Acts	51	26	15	And I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ And the Lord said, ‘I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.
 Acts	Acts	51	26	16	But rise and stand upon your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you to serve and bear witness to the things in which you have seen me and to those in which I will appear to you,
 Acts	Acts	51	26	17	delivering you from the people and from the Gentiles—to whom I send you
 Acts	Acts	51	26	18	to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
 Acts	Acts	51	26	19	“Wherefore, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,
 Acts	Acts	51	26	20	but declared first to those at Damascus, then at Jerusalem and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God and perform deeds worthy of their repentance.
 Acts	Acts	51	26	21	For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me.
 Acts	Acts	51	26	22	To this day I have had the help that comes from God, and so I stand here testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would come to pass:
 Acts	Acts	51	26	23	that the Christ must suffer, and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to the people and to the Gentiles.”
 Acts	Acts	51	26	24	And as he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are mad; your great learning is turning you mad.”
 Acts	Acts	51	26	25	But Paul said, “I am not mad, most excellent Festus, but I am speaking the sober truth.
 Acts	Acts	51	26	26	For the king knows about these things, and to him I speak freely; for I am persuaded that none of these things has escaped his notice, for this was not done in a corner.
 Acts	Acts	51	26	27	King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe.”
 Acts	Acts	51	26	28	And Agrippa said to Paul, “In a short time you think to make me a Christian!”
 Acts	Acts	51	26	29	And Paul said, “Whether short or long, I would to God that not only you but also all who hear me this day might become such as I am—except for these chains.”
 Acts	Acts	51	26	30	Then the king rose, and the governor and Bernice and those who were sitting with them;
 Acts	Acts	51	26	31	and when they had withdrawn, they said to one another, “This man is doing nothing to deserve death or imprisonment.”
 Acts	Acts	51	26	32	And Agrippa said to Festus, “This man could have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”
 Acts	Acts	51	27	1	And when it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan Cohort, named Julius.
 Acts	Acts	51	27	2	And embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to the ports along the coast of Asia, we put to sea, accompanied by Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica.
 Acts	Acts	51	27	3	The next day we put in at Sidon; and Julius treated Paul kindly, and gave him leave to go to his friends and be cared for.
 Acts	Acts	51	27	4	And putting to sea from there we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were against us.
 Acts	Acts	51	27	5	And when we had sailed across the sea which is off Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra in Lycia.
 Acts	Acts	51	27	6	There the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing for Italy, and put us on board.
 Acts	Acts	51	27	7	We sailed slowly for a number of days, and arrived with difficulty off Cnidus, and as the wind did not allow us to go on, we sailed under the lee of Crete off Salmone.
 Acts	Acts	51	27	8	Coasting along it with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near which was the city of Lasea.
 Acts	Acts	51	27	9	As much time had been lost, and the voyage was already dangerous because the fast had already gone by, Paul advised them,
 Acts	Acts	51	27	10	saying, “Sirs, I perceive that the voyage will be with injury and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.”
 Acts	Acts	51	27	11	But the centurion paid more attention to the captain and to the owner of the ship than to what Paul said.
 Acts	Acts	51	27	12	And because the harbor was not suitable to winter in, the majority advised to put to sea from there, on the chance that somehow they could reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete, looking northeast and southeast, and winter there.
 Acts	Acts	51	27	13	And when the south wind blew gently, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, close inshore.
 Acts	Acts	51	27	14	But soon a tempestuous wind, called the northeaster, struck down from the land;
 Acts	Acts	51	27	15	and when the ship was caught and could not face the wind, we gave way to it and were driven.
 Acts	Acts	51	27	16	And running under the lee of a small island called Cauda, we managed with difficulty to secure the boat;
 Acts	Acts	51	27	17	after hoisting it up, they took measures to undergird the ship; then, fearing that they should run on the Syrtis, they lowered the gear, and so were driven.
 Acts	Acts	51	27	18	As we were violently storm-tossed, they began next day to throw the cargo overboard;
 Acts	Acts	51	27	19	and the third day they cast out with their own hands the tackle of the ship.
 Acts	Acts	51	27	20	And when neither sun nor stars appeared for many a day, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned.
 Acts	Acts	51	27	21	As they had been long without food, Paul then came forward among them and said, “Men, you should have listened to me, and should not have set sail from Crete and incurred this injury and loss.
 Acts	Acts	51	27	22	I now bid you take heart; for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.
 Acts	Acts	51	27	23	For this very night there stood by me an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I worship,
 Acts	Acts	51	27	24	and he said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar; and lo, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’
 Acts	Acts	51	27	25	So take heart, men, for I have faith in God that it will be exactly as I have been told.
 Acts	Acts	51	27	26	But we shall have to run on some island.”
 Acts	Acts	51	27	27	When the fourteenth night had come, as we were drifting across the sea of Adria, about midnight the sailors suspected that they were nearing land.
 Acts	Acts	51	27	28	So they sounded and found twenty fathoms; a little farther on they sounded again and found fifteen fathoms.
 Acts	Acts	51	27	29	And fearing that we might run on the rocks, they let out four anchors from the stern, and prayed for day to come.
 Acts	Acts	51	27	30	And as the sailors were seeking to escape from the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, under pretense of laying out anchors from the bow,
 Acts	Acts	51	27	31	Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay in the ship, you cannot be saved.”
 Acts	Acts	51	27	32	Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let it go.
 Acts	Acts	51	27	33	As day was about to dawn, Paul urged them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have continued in suspense and without food, having taken nothing.
 Acts	Acts	51	27	34	Therefore I urge you to take some food; it will give you strength, since not a hair is to perish from the head of any of you.”
 Acts	Acts	51	27	35	And when he had said this, he took bread, and giving thanks to God in the presence of all he broke it and began to eat.
 Acts	Acts	51	27	36	Then they all were encouraged and ate some food themselves.
 Acts	Acts	51	27	37	(We were in all two hundred and seventy-six persons in the ship.)
 Acts	Acts	51	27	38	And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.
 Acts	Acts	51	27	39	Now when it was day, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a bay with a beach, on which they planned if possible to bring the ship ashore.
 Acts	Acts	51	27	40	So they cast off the anchors and left them in the sea, at the same time loosening the ropes that tied the rudders; then hoisting the foresail to the wind they made for the beach.
 Acts	Acts	51	27	41	But striking a shoal they ran the vessel aground; the bow stuck and remained immovable, and the stern was broken up by the surf.
 Acts	Acts	51	27	42	The soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners, lest any should swim away and escape;
 Acts	Acts	51	27	43	but the centurion, wishing to save Paul, kept them from carrying out their purpose. He ordered those who could swim to throw themselves overboard first and make for the land,
 Acts	Acts	51	27	44	and the rest on planks or on pieces of the ship. And so it was that all escaped to land.
 Acts	Acts	51	28	1	After we had escaped, we then learned that the island was called Malta.
 Acts	Acts	51	28	2	And the natives showed us unusual kindness, for they kindled a fire and welcomed us all, because it had begun to rain and was cold.
 Acts	Acts	51	28	3	Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and put them on the fire, when a viper came out because of the heat and fastened on his hand.
 Acts	Acts	51	28	4	When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer. Though he has escaped from the sea, justice has not allowed him to live.”
 Acts	Acts	51	28	5	He, however, shook off the creature into the fire and suffered no harm.
 Acts	Acts	51	28	6	They waited, expecting him to swell up or suddenly fall down dead; but when they had waited a long time and saw no misfortune come to him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god.
 Acts	Acts	51	28	7	Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who received us and entertained us hospitably for three days.
 Acts	Acts	51	28	8	It happened that the father of Publius lay sick with fever and dysentery; and Paul visited him and prayed, and putting his hands on him healed him.
 Acts	Acts	51	28	9	And when this had taken place, the rest of the people on the island who had diseases also came and were cured.
 Acts	Acts	51	28	10	They presented many gifts to us; and when we sailed, they put on board whatever we needed.
 Acts	Acts	51	28	11	After three months we set sail in a ship which had wintered in the island, a ship of Alexandria, with the Twin Brothers as figurehead.
 Acts	Acts	51	28	12	Putting in at Syracuse, we stayed there for three days.
 Acts	Acts	51	28	13	And from there we made a circuit and arrived at Rhegium; and after one day a south wind sprang up, and on the second day we came to Puteoli.
 Acts	Acts	51	28	14	There we found brethren, and were invited to stay with them for seven days. And so we came to Rome.
 Acts	Acts	51	28	15	And the brethren there, when they heard of us, came as far as the Forum of Appius and Three Taverns to meet us. On seeing them Paul thanked God and took courage.
 Acts	Acts	51	28	16	And when we came into Rome, Paul was allowed to stay by himself, with the soldier that guarded him.
 Acts	Acts	51	28	17	After three days he called together the local leaders of the Jews; and when they had gathered, he said to them, “Brethren, though I had done nothing against the people or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.
 Acts	Acts	51	28	18	When they had examined me, they wished to set me at liberty, because there was no reason for the death penalty in my case.
 Acts	Acts	51	28	19	But when the Jews objected, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar—though I had no charge to bring against my nation.
 Acts	Acts	51	28	20	For this reason therefore I have asked to see you and speak with you, since it is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.”
 Acts	Acts	51	28	21	And they said to him, “We have received no letters from Judea about you, and none of the brethren coming here has reported or spoken any evil about you.
 Acts	Acts	51	28	22	But we desire to hear from you what your views are; for with regard to this sect we know that everywhere it is spoken against.”
 Acts	Acts	51	28	23	When they had appointed a day for him, they came to him at his lodging in great numbers. And he expounded the matter to them from morning till evening, testifying to the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus both from the law of Moses and from the prophets.
 Acts	Acts	51	28	24	And some were convinced by what he said, while others disbelieved.
 Acts	Acts	51	28	25	So, as they disagreed among themselves, they departed, after Paul had made one statement: “The Holy Spirit was right in saying to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet:
 Acts	Acts	51	28	26	‘Go to this people, and say, You shall indeed hear but never understand, and you shall indeed see but never perceive.
 Acts	Acts	51	28	27	For this people’s heart has grown dull, and their ears are heavy of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest they should perceive with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn for me to heal them.’
 Acts	Acts	51	28	28	Let it be known to you then that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen.”
 Acts	Acts	51	28	30	And he lived there two whole years at his own expense, and welcomed all who came to him,
 Acts	Acts	51	28	31	preaching the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ quite openly and unhindered.
 Romans	Rom	52	1	1	Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God
 Romans	Rom	52	1	2	which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures,
 Romans	Rom	52	1	3	the gospel concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh
 Romans	Rom	52	1	4	and designated Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,
 Romans	Rom	52	1	5	through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,
 Romans	Rom	52	1	6	including yourselves who are called to belong to Jesus Christ;
 Romans	Rom	52	1	7	To all God’s beloved in Rome, who are called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 Romans	Rom	52	1	8	First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.
 Romans	Rom	52	1	9	For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you always in my prayers,
 Romans	Rom	52	1	10	asking that somehow by God’s will I may now at last succeed in coming to you.
 Romans	Rom	52	1	11	For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you,
 Romans	Rom	52	1	12	that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine.
 Romans	Rom	52	1	13	I want you to know, brethren, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles.
 Romans	Rom	52	1	14	I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish:
 Romans	Rom	52	1	15	so I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.
 Romans	Rom	52	1	16	For I am not ashamed of the gospel: it is the power of God for salvation to every one who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
 Romans	Rom	52	1	17	For in it the righteousness of God is revealed through faith for faith; as it is written, “He who through faith is righteous shall live.”
 Romans	Rom	52	1	18	For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and wickedness of men who by their wickedness suppress the truth.
 Romans	Rom	52	1	19	For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
 Romans	Rom	52	1	20	Ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, namely, his eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse;
 Romans	Rom	52	1	21	for although they knew God they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking and their senseless minds were darkened.
 Romans	Rom	52	1	22	Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
 Romans	Rom	52	1	23	and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man or birds or animals or reptiles.
 Romans	Rom	52	1	24	Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
 Romans	Rom	52	1	25	because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever! Amen.
 Romans	Rom	52	1	26	For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural,
 Romans	Rom	52	1	27	and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error.
 Romans	Rom	52	1	28	And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct.
 Romans	Rom	52	1	29	They were filled with all manner of wickedness, evil, covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity, they are gossips,
 Romans	Rom	52	1	30	slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
 Romans	Rom	52	1	31	foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
 Romans	Rom	52	1	32	Though they know God’s decree that those who do such things deserve to die, they not only do them but approve those who practice them.
 Romans	Rom	52	2	1	Therefore you have no excuse, O man, whoever you are, when you judge another; for in passing judgment upon him you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, are doing the very same things.
 Romans	Rom	52	2	2	We know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon those who do such things.
 Romans	Rom	52	2	3	Do you suppose, O man, that when you judge those who do such things and yet do them yourself, you will escape the judgment of God?
 Romans	Rom	52	2	4	Or do you presume upon the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience? Do you not know that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
 Romans	Rom	52	2	5	But by your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
 Romans	Rom	52	2	6	For he will render to every man according to his works:
 Romans	Rom	52	2	7	to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;
 Romans	Rom	52	2	8	but for those who are factious and do not obey the truth, but obey wickedness, there will be wrath and fury.
 Romans	Rom	52	2	9	There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,
 Romans	Rom	52	2	10	but glory and honor and peace for every one who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek.
 Romans	Rom	52	2	11	For God shows no partiality.
 Romans	Rom	52	2	12	All who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
 Romans	Rom	52	2	13	For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.
 Romans	Rom	52	2	14	When Gentiles who have not the law do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.
 Romans	Rom	52	2	15	They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or perhaps excuse them
 Romans	Rom	52	2	16	on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
 Romans	Rom	52	2	17	But if you call yourself a Jew and rely upon the law and boast of your relation to God
 Romans	Rom	52	2	18	and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed in the law,
 Romans	Rom	52	2	19	and if you are sure that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
 Romans	Rom	52	2	20	a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—
 Romans	Rom	52	2	21	you then who teach others, will you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal?
 Romans	Rom	52	2	22	You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
 Romans	Rom	52	2	23	You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
 Romans	Rom	52	2	24	For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”
 Romans	Rom	52	2	25	Circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law; but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.
 Romans	Rom	52	2	26	So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
 Romans	Rom	52	2	27	Then those who are physically uncircumcised but keep the law will condemn you who have the written code and circumcision but break the law.
 Romans	Rom	52	2	28	For he is not a real Jew who is one outwardly, nor is true circumcision something external and physical.
 Romans	Rom	52	2	29	He is a Jew who is one inwardly, and real circumcision is a matter of the heart, spiritual and not literal. His praise is not from men but from God.
 Romans	Rom	52	3	1	Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?
 Romans	Rom	52	3	2	Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews are entrusted with the oracles of God.
 Romans	Rom	52	3	3	What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God?
 Romans	Rom	52	3	4	By no means! Let God be true though every man be false, as it is written, “That thou mayest be justified in thy words, and prevail when thou art judged.”
 Romans	Rom	52	3	5	But if our wickedness serves to show the justice of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)
 Romans	Rom	52	3	6	By no means! For then how could God judge the world?
 Romans	Rom	52	3	7	But if through my falsehood God’s truthfulness abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?
 Romans	Rom	52	3	8	And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.
 Romans	Rom	52	3	9	What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all; for I have already charged that all men, both Jews and Greeks, are under the power of sin,
 Romans	Rom	52	3	10	as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;
 Romans	Rom	52	3	11	no one understands, no one seeks for God.
 Romans	Rom	52	3	12	All have turned aside, together they have gone wrong; no one does good, not even one.”
 Romans	Rom	52	3	13	“Their throat is an open grave, they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of asps is under their lips.”
 Romans	Rom	52	3	14	“Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”
 Romans	Rom	52	3	15	“Their feet are swift to shed blood,
 Romans	Rom	52	3	16	in their paths are ruin and misery,
 Romans	Rom	52	3	17	and the way of peace they do not know.”
 Romans	Rom	52	3	18	“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
 Romans	Rom	52	3	19	Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.
 Romans	Rom	52	3	20	For no human being will be justified in his sight by works of the law, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
 Romans	Rom	52	3	21	But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from law, although the law and the prophets bear witness to it,
 Romans	Rom	52	3	22	the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction;
 Romans	Rom	52	3	23	since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
 Romans	Rom	52	3	24	they are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus,
 Romans	Rom	52	3	25	whom God put forward as an expiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins;
 Romans	Rom	52	3	26	it was to prove at the present time that he himself is righteous and that he justifies him who has faith in Jesus.
 Romans	Rom	52	3	27	Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On the principle of works? No, but on the principle of faith.
 Romans	Rom	52	3	28	For we hold that a man is justified by faith apart from works of law.
 Romans	Rom	52	3	29	Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
 Romans	Rom	52	3	30	since God is one; and he will justify the circumcised on the ground of their faith and the uncircumcised through their faith.
 Romans	Rom	52	3	31	Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.
 Romans	Rom	52	4	1	What then shall we say about Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh?
 Romans	Rom	52	4	2	For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.
 Romans	Rom	52	4	3	For what does the scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.”
 Romans	Rom	52	4	4	Now to one who works, his wages are not reckoned as a gift but as his due.
 Romans	Rom	52	4	5	And to one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness.
 Romans	Rom	52	4	6	So also David pronounces a blessing upon the man to whom God reckons righteousness apart from works:
 Romans	Rom	52	4	7	“Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;
 Romans	Rom	52	4	8	blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not reckon his sin.”
 Romans	Rom	52	4	9	Is this blessing pronounced only upon the circumcised, or also upon the uncircumcised? We say that faith was reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.
 Romans	Rom	52	4	10	How then was it reckoned to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after, but before he was circumcised.
 Romans	Rom	52	4	11	He received circumcision as a sign or seal of the righteousness which he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised and who thus have righteousness reckoned to them,
 Romans	Rom	52	4	12	and likewise the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but also follow the example of the faith which our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.
 Romans	Rom	52	4	13	The promise to Abraham and his descendants, that they should inherit the world, did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
 Romans	Rom	52	4	14	If it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void.
 Romans	Rom	52	4	15	For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression.
 Romans	Rom	52	4	16	That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his descendants—not only to the adherents of the law but also to those who share the faith of Abraham, for he is the father of us all,
 Romans	Rom	52	4	17	as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
 Romans	Rom	52	4	18	In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations; as he had been told, “So shall your descendants be.”
 Romans	Rom	52	4	19	He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead because he was about a hundred years old, or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah’s womb.
 Romans	Rom	52	4	20	No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,
 Romans	Rom	52	4	21	fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.
 Romans	Rom	52	4	22	That is why his faith was “reckoned to him as righteousness.”
 Romans	Rom	52	4	23	But the words, “it was reckoned to him,” were written not for his sake alone,
 Romans	Rom	52	4	24	but for ours also. It will be reckoned to us who believe in him that raised from the dead Jesus our Lord,
 Romans	Rom	52	4	25	who was put to death for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
 Romans	Rom	52	5	1	Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
 Romans	Rom	52	5	2	Through him we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God.
 Romans	Rom	52	5	3	More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,
 Romans	Rom	52	5	4	and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,
 Romans	Rom	52	5	5	and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
 Romans	Rom	52	5	6	While we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
 Romans	Rom	52	5	7	Why, one will hardly die for a righteous man—though perhaps for a good man one will dare even to die.
 Romans	Rom	52	5	8	But God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.
 Romans	Rom	52	5	9	Since, therefore, we are now justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
 Romans	Rom	52	5	10	For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
 Romans	Rom	52	5	11	Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received our reconciliation.
 Romans	Rom	52	5	12	Therefore as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all men sinned—
 Romans	Rom	52	5	13	sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.
 Romans	Rom	52	5	14	Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sins were not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
 Romans	Rom	52	5	15	But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man’s trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift in the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many.
 Romans	Rom	52	5	16	And the free gift is not like the effect of that one man’s sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brings justification.
 Romans	Rom	52	5	17	If, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.
 Romans	Rom	52	5	18	Then as one man’s trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one man’s act of righteousness leads to acquittal and life for all men.
 Romans	Rom	52	5	19	For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by one man’s obedience many will be made righteous.
 Romans	Rom	52	5	20	Law came in, to increase the trespass; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,
 Romans	Rom	52	5	21	so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
 Romans	Rom	52	6	1	What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?
 Romans	Rom	52	6	2	By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
 Romans	Rom	52	6	3	Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
 Romans	Rom	52	6	4	We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
 Romans	Rom	52	6	5	For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
 Romans	Rom	52	6	6	We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the sinful body might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin.
 Romans	Rom	52	6	7	For he who has died is freed from sin.
 Romans	Rom	52	6	8	But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him.
 Romans	Rom	52	6	9	For we know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.
 Romans	Rom	52	6	10	The death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God.
 Romans	Rom	52	6	11	So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
 Romans	Rom	52	6	12	Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions.
 Romans	Rom	52	6	13	Do not yield your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but yield yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.
 Romans	Rom	52	6	14	For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
 Romans	Rom	52	6	15	What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
 Romans	Rom	52	6	16	Do you not know that if you yield yourselves to any one as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
 Romans	Rom	52	6	17	But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,
 Romans	Rom	52	6	18	and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
 Romans	Rom	52	6	19	I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once yielded your members to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now yield your members to righteousness for sanctification.
 Romans	Rom	52	6	20	When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
 Romans	Rom	52	6	21	But then what return did you get from the things of which you are now ashamed? The end of those things is death.
 Romans	Rom	52	6	22	But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the return you get is sanctification and its end, eternal life.
 Romans	Rom	52	6	23	For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
 Romans	Rom	52	7	1	Do you not know, brethren—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only during his life?
 Romans	Rom	52	7	2	Thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives; but if her husband dies she is discharged from the law concerning the husband.
 Romans	Rom	52	7	3	Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.
 Romans	Rom	52	7	4	Likewise, my brethren, you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.
 Romans	Rom	52	7	5	While we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.
 Romans	Rom	52	7	6	But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we serve not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit.
 Romans	Rom	52	7	7	What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet, if it had not been for the law, I should not have known sin. I should not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”
 Romans	Rom	52	7	8	But sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, wrought in me all kinds of covetousness. Apart from the law sin lies dead.
 Romans	Rom	52	7	9	I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died;
 Romans	Rom	52	7	10	the very commandment which promised life proved to be death to me.
 Romans	Rom	52	7	11	For sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and by it killed me.
 Romans	Rom	52	7	12	So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.
 Romans	Rom	52	7	13	Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, working death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.
 Romans	Rom	52	7	14	We know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin.
 Romans	Rom	52	7	15	I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
 Romans	Rom	52	7	16	Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good.
 Romans	Rom	52	7	17	So then it is no longer I that do it, but sin which dwells within me.
 Romans	Rom	52	7	18	For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it.
 Romans	Rom	52	7	19	For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do.
 Romans	Rom	52	7	20	Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it, but sin which dwells within me.
 Romans	Rom	52	7	21	So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.
 Romans	Rom	52	7	22	For I delight in the law of God, in my inmost self,
 Romans	Rom	52	7	23	but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members.
 Romans	Rom	52	7	24	Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
 Romans	Rom	52	7	25	Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I of myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
 Romans	Rom	52	8	1	There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
 Romans	Rom	52	8	2	For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.
 Romans	Rom	52	8	3	For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
 Romans	Rom	52	8	4	in order that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
 Romans	Rom	52	8	5	For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
 Romans	Rom	52	8	6	To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
 Romans	Rom	52	8	7	For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, indeed it cannot;
 Romans	Rom	52	8	8	and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
 Romans	Rom	52	8	9	But you are not in the flesh, you are in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Any one who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
 Romans	Rom	52	8	10	But if Christ is in you, although your bodies are dead because of sin, your spirits are alive because of righteousness.
 Romans	Rom	52	8	11	If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit who dwells in you.
 Romans	Rom	52	8	12	So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh—
 Romans	Rom	52	8	13	for if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.
 Romans	Rom	52	8	14	For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
 Romans	Rom	52	8	15	For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the spirit of sonship. When we cry, “Abba! Father!”
 Romans	Rom	52	8	16	it is the Spirit himself bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
 Romans	Rom	52	8	17	and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
 Romans	Rom	52	8	18	I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
 Romans	Rom	52	8	19	For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God;
 Romans	Rom	52	8	20	for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of him who subjected it in hope;
 Romans	Rom	52	8	21	because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God.
 Romans	Rom	52	8	22	We know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now;
 Romans	Rom	52	8	23	and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
 Romans	Rom	52	8	24	For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees?
 Romans	Rom	52	8	25	But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
 Romans	Rom	52	8	26	Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words.
 Romans	Rom	52	8	27	And he who searches the hearts of men knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
 Romans	Rom	52	8	28	We know that in everything God works for good with those who love him, who are called according to his purpose.
 Romans	Rom	52	8	29	For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the first-born among many brethren.
 Romans	Rom	52	8	30	And those whom he predestined he also called; and those whom he called he also justified; and those whom he justified he also glorified.
 Romans	Rom	52	8	31	What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who is against us?
 Romans	Rom	52	8	32	He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, will he not also give us all things with him?
 Romans	Rom	52	8	33	Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies;
 Romans	Rom	52	8	34	who is to condemn? Is it Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us?
 Romans	Rom	52	8	35	Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
 Romans	Rom	52	8	36	As it is written, “For thy sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
 Romans	Rom	52	8	37	No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
 Romans	Rom	52	8	38	For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
 Romans	Rom	52	8	39	nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
 Romans	Rom	52	9	1	I am speaking the truth in Christ, I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit,
 Romans	Rom	52	9	2	that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
 Romans	Rom	52	9	3	For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen by race.
 Romans	Rom	52	9	4	They are Israelites, and to them belong the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises;
 Romans	Rom	52	9	5	to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, be blessed for ever. Amen.
 Romans	Rom	52	9	6	But it is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel,
 Romans	Rom	52	9	7	and not all are children of Abraham because they are his descendants; but “Through Isaac shall your descendants be named.”
 Romans	Rom	52	9	8	This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are reckoned as descendants.
 Romans	Rom	52	9	9	For this is what the promise said, “About this time I will return and Sarah shall have a son.”
 Romans	Rom	52	9	10	And not only so, but also when Rebecca had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac,
 Romans	Rom	52	9	11	though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad, in order that God’s purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of his call,
 Romans	Rom	52	9	12	she was told, “The elder will serve the younger.”
 Romans	Rom	52	9	13	As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
 Romans	Rom	52	9	14	What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God’s part? By no means!
 Romans	Rom	52	9	15	For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
 Romans	Rom	52	9	16	So it depends not upon man’s will or exertion, but upon God’s mercy.
 Romans	Rom	52	9	17	For the scripture says to Pharaoh, “I have raised you up for the very purpose of showing my power in you, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.”
 Romans	Rom	52	9	18	So then he has mercy upon whomever he wills, and he hardens the heart of whomever he wills.
 Romans	Rom	52	9	19	You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?”
 Romans	Rom	52	9	20	But who are you, a man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me thus?”
 Romans	Rom	52	9	21	Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for beauty and another for menial use?
 Romans	Rom	52	9	22	What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the vessels of wrath made for destruction,
 Romans	Rom	52	9	23	in order to make known the riches of his glory for the vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory,
 Romans	Rom	52	9	24	even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?
 Romans	Rom	52	9	25	As indeed he says in Hosea, “Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’ and her who was not beloved I will call ‘my beloved.’”
 Romans	Rom	52	9	26	“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”
 Romans	Rom	52	9	27	And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved;
 Romans	Rom	52	9	28	for the Lord will execute his sentence upon the earth with rigor and dispatch.”
 Romans	Rom	52	9	29	And as Isaiah predicted, “If the Lord of hosts had not left us children, we would have fared like Sodom and been made like Gomorrah.”
 Romans	Rom	52	9	30	What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, righteousness through faith;
 Romans	Rom	52	9	31	but that Israel who pursued the righteousness which is based on law did not succeed in fulfilling that law.
 Romans	Rom	52	9	32	Why? Because they did not pursue it through faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone,
 Romans	Rom	52	9	33	as it is written, “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone that will make men stumble, a rock that will make them fall; and he who believes in him will not be put to shame.”
 Romans	Rom	52	10	1	Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.
 Romans	Rom	52	10	2	I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but it is not enlightened.
 Romans	Rom	52	10	3	For, being ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
 Romans	Rom	52	10	4	For Christ is the end of the law, that every one who has faith may be justified.
 Romans	Rom	52	10	5	Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on the law shall live by it.
 Romans	Rom	52	10	6	But the righteousness based on faith says, Do not say in your heart, “Who will ascend into heaven?” (that is, to bring Christ down)
 Romans	Rom	52	10	7	or “Who will descend into the abyss?” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).
 Romans	Rom	52	10	8	But what does it say? The word is near you, on your lips and in your heart (that is, the word of faith which we preach);
 Romans	Rom	52	10	9	because, if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
 Romans	Rom	52	10	10	For man believes with his heart and so is justified, and he confesses with his lips and so is saved.
 Romans	Rom	52	10	11	The scripture says, “No one who believes in him will be put to shame.”
 Romans	Rom	52	10	12	For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; the same Lord is Lord of all and bestows his riches upon all who call upon him.
 Romans	Rom	52	10	13	For, “every one who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved.”
 Romans	Rom	52	10	14	But how are men to call upon him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without a preacher?
 Romans	Rom	52	10	15	And how can men preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach good news!”
 Romans	Rom	52	10	16	But they have not all obeyed the gospel; for Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?”
 Romans	Rom	52	10	17	So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes by the preaching of Christ.
 Romans	Rom	52	10	18	But I ask, have they not heard? Indeed they have; for “Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.”
 Romans	Rom	52	10	19	Again I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says, “I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; with a foolish nation I will make you angry.”
 Romans	Rom	52	10	20	Then Isaiah is so bold as to say, “I have been found by those who did not seek me; I have shown myself to those who did not ask for me.”
 Romans	Rom	52	10	21	But of Israel he says, “All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”
 Romans	Rom	52	11	1	I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.
 Romans	Rom	52	11	2	God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?
 Romans	Rom	52	11	3	“Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have demolished thy altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.”
 Romans	Rom	52	11	4	But what is God’s reply to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
 Romans	Rom	52	11	5	So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.
 Romans	Rom	52	11	6	But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
 Romans	Rom	52	11	7	What then? Israel failed to obtain what it sought. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened,
 Romans	Rom	52	11	8	as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that should not see and ears that should not hear, down to this very day.”
 Romans	Rom	52	11	9	And David says, “Let their table become a snare and a trap, a pitfall and a retribution for them;
 Romans	Rom	52	11	10	let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and bend their backs for ever.”
 Romans	Rom	52	11	11	So I ask, have they stumbled so as to fall? By no means! But through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous.
 Romans	Rom	52	11	12	Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean!
 Romans	Rom	52	11	13	Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry
 Romans	Rom	52	11	14	in order to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them.
 Romans	Rom	52	11	15	For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?
 Romans	Rom	52	11	16	If the dough offered as first fruits is holy, so is the whole lump; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
 Romans	Rom	52	11	17	But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in their place to share the richness of the olive tree,
 Romans	Rom	52	11	18	do not boast over the branches. If you do boast, remember it is not you that support the root, but the root that supports you.
 Romans	Rom	52	11	19	You will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”
 Romans	Rom	52	11	20	That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast only through faith. So do not become proud, but stand in awe.
 Romans	Rom	52	11	21	For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
 Romans	Rom	52	11	22	Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off.
 Romans	Rom	52	11	23	And even the others, if they do not persist in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.
 Romans	Rom	52	11	24	For if you have been cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree.
 Romans	Rom	52	11	25	Lest you be wise in your own conceits, I want you to understand this mystery, brethren: a hardening has come upon part of Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles come in,
 Romans	Rom	52	11	26	and so all Israel will be saved; as it is written, “The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will banish ungodliness from Jacob”;
 Romans	Rom	52	11	27	“and this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins.”
 Romans	Rom	52	11	28	As regards the gospel they are enemies of God, for your sake; but as regards election they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers.
 Romans	Rom	52	11	29	For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.
 Romans	Rom	52	11	30	Just as you were once disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience,
 Romans	Rom	52	11	31	so they have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to you they also may receive mercy.
 Romans	Rom	52	11	32	For God has consigned all men to disobedience, that he may have mercy upon all.
 Romans	Rom	52	11	33	O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
 Romans	Rom	52	11	34	“For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?”
 Romans	Rom	52	11	35	“Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?”
 Romans	Rom	52	11	36	For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory for ever. Amen.
 Romans	Rom	52	12	1	I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
 Romans	Rom	52	12	2	Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
 Romans	Rom	52	12	3	For by the grace given to me I bid every one among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith which God has assigned him.
 Romans	Rom	52	12	4	For as in one body we have many members, and all the members do not have the same function,
 Romans	Rom	52	12	5	so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
 Romans	Rom	52	12	6	Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith;
 Romans	Rom	52	12	7	if service, in our serving; he who teaches, in his teaching;
 Romans	Rom	52	12	8	he who exhorts, in his exhortation; he who contributes, in liberality; he who gives aid, with zeal; he who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.
 Romans	Rom	52	12	9	Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good;
 Romans	Rom	52	12	10	love one another with brotherly affection; outdo one another in showing honor.
 Romans	Rom	52	12	11	Never flag in zeal, be aglow with the Spirit, serve the Lord.
 Romans	Rom	52	12	12	Rejoice in your hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
 Romans	Rom	52	12	13	Contribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality.
 Romans	Rom	52	12	14	Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.
 Romans	Rom	52	12	15	Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.
 Romans	Rom	52	12	16	Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly; never be conceited.
 Romans	Rom	52	12	17	Repay no one evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all.
 Romans	Rom	52	12	18	If possible, so far as it depends upon you, live peaceably with all.
 Romans	Rom	52	12	19	Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God; for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”
 Romans	Rom	52	12	20	No, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals upon his head.”
 Romans	Rom	52	12	21	Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
 Romans	Rom	52	13	1	Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.
 Romans	Rom	52	13	2	Therefore he who resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.
 Romans	Rom	52	13	3	For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of him who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval,
 Romans	Rom	52	13	4	for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain; he is the servant of God to execute his wrath on the wrongdoer.
 Romans	Rom	52	13	5	Therefore one must be subject, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of conscience.
 Romans	Rom	52	13	6	For the same reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing.
 Romans	Rom	52	13	7	Pay all of them their dues, taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.
 Romans	Rom	52	13	8	Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
 Romans	Rom	52	13	9	The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this sentence, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
 Romans	Rom	52	13	10	Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
 Romans	Rom	52	13	11	Besides this you know what hour it is, how it is full time now for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed;
 Romans	Rom	52	13	12	the night is far gone, the day is at hand. Let us then cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light;
 Romans	Rom	52	13	13	let us conduct ourselves becomingly as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.
 Romans	Rom	52	13	14	But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
 Romans	Rom	52	14	1	As for the man who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not for disputes over opinions.
 Romans	Rom	52	14	2	One believes he may eat anything, while the weak man eats only vegetables.
 Romans	Rom	52	14	3	Let not him who eats despise him who abstains, and let not him who abstains pass judgment on him who eats; for God has welcomed him.
 Romans	Rom	52	14	4	Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Master is able to make him stand.
 Romans	Rom	52	14	5	One man esteems one day as better than another, while another man esteems all days alike. Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
 Romans	Rom	52	14	6	He who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. He also who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; while he who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God.
 Romans	Rom	52	14	7	None of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.
 Romans	Rom	52	14	8	If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.
 Romans	Rom	52	14	9	For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
 Romans	Rom	52	14	10	Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God;
 Romans	Rom	52	14	11	for it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall give praise to God.”
 Romans	Rom	52	14	12	So each of us shall give account of himself to God.
 Romans	Rom	52	14	13	Then let us no more pass judgment on one another, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.
 Romans	Rom	52	14	14	I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but it is unclean for any one who thinks it unclean.
 Romans	Rom	52	14	15	If your brother is being injured by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not let what you eat cause the ruin of one for whom Christ died.
 Romans	Rom	52	14	16	So do not let your good be spoken of as evil.
 Romans	Rom	52	14	17	For the kingdom of God is not food and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit;
 Romans	Rom	52	14	18	he who thus serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men.
 Romans	Rom	52	14	19	Let us then pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.
 Romans	Rom	52	14	20	Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for any one to make others fall by what he eats;
 Romans	Rom	52	14	21	it is right not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that makes your brother stumble.
 Romans	Rom	52	14	22	The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God; happy is he who has no reason to judge himself for what he approves.
 Romans	Rom	52	14	23	But he who has doubts is condemned, if he eats, because he does not act from faith; for whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.
 Romans	Rom	52	15	1	We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves;
 Romans	Rom	52	15	2	let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to edify him.
 Romans	Rom	52	15	3	For Christ did not please himself; but, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached thee fell on me.”
 Romans	Rom	52	15	4	For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that by steadfastness and by the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.
 Romans	Rom	52	15	5	May the God of steadfastness and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,
 Romans	Rom	52	15	6	that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
 Romans	Rom	52	15	7	Welcome one another, therefore, as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.
 Romans	Rom	52	15	8	For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God’s truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs,
 Romans	Rom	52	15	9	and in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, “Therefore I will praise thee among the Gentiles, and sing to thy name”;
 Romans	Rom	52	15	10	and again it is said, “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people”;
 Romans	Rom	52	15	11	and again, “Praise the Lord, all Gentiles, and let all the peoples praise him”;
 Romans	Rom	52	15	12	and further Isaiah says, “The root of Jesse shall come, he who rises to rule the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles hope.”
 Romans	Rom	52	15	13	May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
 Romans	Rom	52	15	14	I myself am satisfied about you, my brethren, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.
 Romans	Rom	52	15	15	But on some points I have written to you very boldly by way of reminder, because of the grace given me by God
 Romans	Rom	52	15	16	to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
 Romans	Rom	52	15	17	In Christ Jesus, then, I have reason to be proud of my work for God.
 Romans	Rom	52	15	18	For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has wrought through me to win obedience from the Gentiles, by word and deed,
 Romans	Rom	52	15	19	by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Holy Spirit, so that from Jerusalem and as far round as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ,
 Romans	Rom	52	15	20	thus making it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on another man’s foundation,
 Romans	Rom	52	15	21	but as it is written, “They shall see who have never been told of him, and they shall understand who have never heard of him.”
 Romans	Rom	52	15	22	This is the reason why I have so often been hindered from coming to you.
 Romans	Rom	52	15	23	But now, since I no longer have any room for work in these regions, and since I have longed for many years to come to you,
 Romans	Rom	52	15	24	I hope to see you in passing as I go to Spain, and to be sped on my journey there by you, once I have enjoyed your company for a little.
 Romans	Rom	52	15	25	At present, however, I am going to Jerusalem with aid for the saints.
 Romans	Rom	52	15	26	For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem;
 Romans	Rom	52	15	27	they were pleased to do it, and indeed they are in debt to them, for if the Gentiles have come to share in their spiritual blessings, they ought also to be of service to them in material blessings.
 Romans	Rom	52	15	28	When therefore I have completed this, and have delivered to them what has been raised, I shall go on by way of you to Spain;
 Romans	Rom	52	15	29	and I know that when I come to you I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of Christ.
 Romans	Rom	52	15	30	I appeal to you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf,
 Romans	Rom	52	15	31	that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,
 Romans	Rom	52	15	32	so that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.
 Romans	Rom	52	15	33	The God of peace be with you all. Amen.
 Romans	Rom	52	16	1	I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deaconess of the church at Cenchre-ae,
 Romans	Rom	52	16	2	that you may receive her in the Lord as befits the saints, and help her in whatever she may require from you, for she has been a helper of many and of myself as well.
 Romans	Rom	52	16	3	Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
 Romans	Rom	52	16	4	who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I but also all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks;
 Romans	Rom	52	16	5	greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the first convert in Asia for Christ.
 Romans	Rom	52	16	6	Greet Mary, who has worked hard among you.
 Romans	Rom	52	16	7	Greet Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners; they are men of note among the apostles, and they were in Christ before me.
 Romans	Rom	52	16	8	Greet Ampliatus, my beloved in the Lord.
 Romans	Rom	52	16	9	Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and my beloved Stachys.
 Romans	Rom	52	16	10	Greet Apelles, who is approved in Christ. Greet those who belong to the family of Aristobulus.
 Romans	Rom	52	16	11	Greet my kinsman Herodion. Greet those in the Lord who belong to the family of Narcissus.
 Romans	Rom	52	16	12	Greet those workers in the Lord, Tryphaena and Tryphosa. Greet the beloved Persis, who has worked hard in the Lord.
 Romans	Rom	52	16	13	Greet Rufus, eminent in the Lord, also his mother and mine.
 Romans	Rom	52	16	14	Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brethren who are with them.
 Romans	Rom	52	16	15	Greet Philologus, Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.
 Romans	Rom	52	16	16	Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.
 Romans	Rom	52	16	17	I appeal to you, brethren, to take note of those who create dissensions and difficulties, in opposition to the doctrine which you have been taught; avoid them.
 Romans	Rom	52	16	18	For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by fair and flattering words they deceive the hearts of the simple-minded.
 Romans	Rom	52	16	19	For while your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, I would have you wise as to what is good and guileless as to what is evil;
 Romans	Rom	52	16	20	then the God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
 Romans	Rom	52	16	21	Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you; so do Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen.
 Romans	Rom	52	16	22	I Tertius, the writer of this letter, greet you in the Lord.
 Romans	Rom	52	16	23	Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer, and our brother Quartus, greet you.
 Romans	Rom	52	16	25	Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which was kept secret for long ages
 Romans	Rom	52	16	26	but is now disclosed and through the prophetic writings is made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith—
 Romans	Rom	52	16	27	to the only wise God be glory for evermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	1	1	Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	1	2	To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	1	3	Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	1	4	I give thanks to God always for you because of the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	1	5	that in every way you were enriched in him with all speech and all knowledge—
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	1	6	even as the testimony to Christ was confirmed among you—
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	1	7	so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ;
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	1	8	who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	1	9	God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	1	10	I appeal to you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree and that there be no dissensions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	1	11	For it has been reported to me by Chloe’s people that there is quarreling among you, my brethren.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	1	12	What I mean is that each one of you says, “I belong to Paul,” or “I belong to Apollos,” or “I belong to Cephas,” or “I belong to Christ.”
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	1	13	Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	1	14	I am thankful that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius;
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	1	15	lest any one should say that you were baptized in my name.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	1	16	(I did baptize also the household of Stephanas. Beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized any one else.)
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	1	17	For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	1	18	For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	1	19	For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the cleverness of the clever I will thwart.”
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	1	20	Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	1	21	For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	1	22	For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	1	23	but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	1	24	but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	1	25	For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	1	26	For consider your call, brethren; not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth;
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	1	27	but God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	1	28	God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	1	29	so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	1	30	He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, whom God made our wisdom, our righteousness and sanctification and redemption;
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	1	31	therefore, as it is written, “Let him who boasts, boast of the Lord.”
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	2	1	When I came to you, brethren, I did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God in lofty words or wisdom.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	2	2	For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	2	3	And I was with you in weakness and in much fear and trembling;
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	2	4	and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	2	5	that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	2	6	Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	2	7	But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glorification.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	2	8	None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	2	9	But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him,”
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	2	10	God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	2	11	For what person knows a man’s thoughts except the spirit of the man which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	2	12	Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might understand the gifts bestowed on us by God.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	2	13	And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who possess the Spirit.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	2	14	The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	2	15	The spiritual man judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	2	16	“For who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	3	1	But I, brethren, could not address you as spiritual men, but as men of the flesh, as babes in Christ.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	3	2	I fed you with milk, not solid food; for you were not ready for it; and even yet you are not ready,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	3	3	for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh, and behaving like ordinary men?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	3	4	For when one says, “I belong to Paul,” and another, “I belong to Apollos,” are you not merely men?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	3	5	What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	3	6	I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	3	7	So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	3	8	He who plants and he who waters are equal, and each shall receive his wages according to his labor.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	3	9	For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	3	10	According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and another man is building upon it. Let each man take care how he builds upon it.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	3	11	For no other foundation can any one lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	3	12	Now if any one builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw—
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	3	13	each man’s work will become manifest; for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	3	14	If the work which any man has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	3	15	If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	3	16	Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	3	17	If any one destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and that temple you are.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	3	18	Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	3	19	For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	3	20	and again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	3	21	So let no one boast of men. For all things are yours,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	3	22	whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future, all are yours;
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	3	23	and you are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	4	1	This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	4	2	Moreover it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	4	3	But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. I do not even judge myself.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	4	4	I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	4	5	Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then every man will receive his commendation from God.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	4	6	I have applied all this to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brethren, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	4	7	For who sees anything different in you? What have you that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if it were not a gift?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	4	8	Already you are filled! Already you have become rich! Without us you have become kings! And would that you did reign, so that we might share the rule with you!
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	4	9	For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	4	10	We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	4	11	To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are ill-clad and buffeted and homeless,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	4	12	and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	4	13	when slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become, and are now, as the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all things.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	4	14	I do not write this to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	4	15	For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	4	16	I urge you, then, be imitators of me.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	4	17	Therefore I sent to you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	4	18	Some are arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	4	19	But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will find out not the talk of these arrogant people but their power.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	4	20	For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	4	21	What do you wish? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love in a spirit of gentleness?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	5	1	It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and of a kind that is not found even among pagans; for a man is living with his father’s wife.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	5	2	And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	5	3	For though absent in body I am present in spirit, and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	5	4	in the name of the Lord Jesus on the man who has done such a thing. When you are assembled, and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	5	5	you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	5	6	Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	5	7	Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our paschal lamb, has been sacrificed.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	5	8	Let us, therefore, celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	5	9	I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with immoral men;
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	5	10	not at all meaning the immoral of this world, or the greedy and robbers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	5	11	But rather I wrote to you not to associate with any one who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or robber—not even to eat with such a one.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	5	12	For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	5	13	God judges those outside. “Drive out the wicked person from among you.”
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	6	1	When one of you has a grievance against a brother, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	6	2	Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	6	3	Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, matters pertaining to this life!
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	6	4	If then you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who are least esteemed by the church?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	6	5	I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no man among you wise enough to decide between members of the brotherhood,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	6	6	but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	6	7	To have lawsuits at all with one another is defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	6	8	But you yourselves wrong and defraud, and that even your own brethren.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	6	9	Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor sexual perverts,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	6	10	nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	6	11	And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	6	12	“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be enslaved by anything.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	6	13	“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	6	14	And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	6	15	Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I therefore take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	6	16	Do you not know that he who joins himself to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two shall become one flesh.”
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	6	17	But he who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	6	18	Shun immorality. Every other sin which a man commits is outside the body; but the immoral man sins against his own body.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	6	19	Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God? You are not your own;
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	6	20	you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	1	Now concerning the matters about which you wrote. It is well for a man not to touch a woman.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	2	But because of the temptation to immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	3	The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	4	For the wife does not rule over her own body, but the husband does; likewise the husband does not rule over his own body, but the wife does.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	5	Do not refuse one another except perhaps by agreement for a season, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, lest Satan tempt you through lack of self-control.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	6	I say this by way of concession, not of command.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	7	I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own special gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	8	To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is well for them to remain single as I do.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	9	But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame with passion.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	10	To the married I give charge, not I but the Lord, that the wife should not separate from her husband
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	11	(but if she does, let her remain single or else be reconciled to her husband)—and that the husband should not divorce his wife.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	12	To the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	13	If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	14	For the unbelieving husband is consecrated through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is consecrated through her husband. Otherwise, your children would be unclean, but as it is they are holy.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	15	But if the unbelieving partner desires to separate, let it be so; in such a case the brother or sister is not bound. For God has called us to peace.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	16	Wife, how do you know whether you will save your husband? Husband, how do you know whether you will save your wife?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	17	Only, let every one lead the life which the Lord has assigned to him, and in which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	18	Was any one at the time of his call already circumcised? Let him not seek to remove the marks of circumcision. Was any one at the time of his call uncircumcised? Let him not seek circumcision.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	19	For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but keeping the commandments of God.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	20	Every one should remain in the state in which he was called.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	21	Were you a slave when called? Never mind. But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	22	For he who was called in the Lord as a slave is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a slave of Christ.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	23	You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	24	So, brethren, in whatever state each was called, there let him remain with God.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	25	Now concerning the unmarried,x
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	2	I have no command of the Lord, but I give my opinion as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	26	I think that in view of the present distress it is well for a person to remain as he is.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	27	Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek marriage.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	28	But if you marry, you do not sin, and if a girl marries she does not sin. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	29	I mean, brethren, the appointed time has grown very short; from now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	30	and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had no goods,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	31	and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the form of this world is passing away.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	32	I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the affairs of the Lord, how to please the Lord;
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	33	but the married man is anxious about worldly affairs, how to please his wife,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	34	and his interests are divided. And the unmarried woman or girl is anxious about the affairs of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit; but the married woman is anxious about worldly affairs, how to please her husband.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	35	I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	36	If any one thinks that he is not behaving properly toward his betrothed, if his passions are strong, and it has to be, let him do as he wishes: let them marry—it is no sin.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	37	But whoever is firmly established in his heart, being under no necessity but having his desire under control, and has determined this in his heart, to keep her as his betrothed, he will do well.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	38	So that he who marries his betrothed does well; and he who refrains from marriage will do better.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	39	A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. If the husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	7	40	But in my judgment she is happier if she remains as she is. And I think that I have the Spirit of God.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	8	1	Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” “Knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	8	2	If any one imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	8	3	But if one loves God, one is known by him.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	8	4	Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.”
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	8	5	For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”—
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	8	6	yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	8	7	However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through being hitherto accustomed to idols, eat food as really offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	8	8	Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	8	9	Only take care lest this liberty of yours somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	8	10	For if any one sees you, a man of knowledge, at table in an idol’s temple, might he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	8	11	And so by your knowledge this weak man is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	8	12	Thus, sinning against your brethren and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	8	13	Therefore, if food is a cause of my brother’s falling, I will never eat meat, lest I cause my brother to fall.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	9	1	Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	9	2	If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	9	3	This is my defense to those who would examine me.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	9	4	Do we not have the right to our food and drink?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	9	5	Do we not have the right to be accompanied by a wife, as the other apostles and the brethren of the Lord and Cephas?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	9	6	Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	9	7	Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	9	8	Do I say this on human authority? Does not the law say the same?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	9	9	For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.” Is it for oxen that God is concerned?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	9	10	Does he not speak entirely for our sake? It was written for our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of a share in the crop.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	9	11	If we have sown spiritual good among you, is it too much if we reap your material benefits?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	9	12	If others share this rightful claim upon you, do not we still more? Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	9	13	Do you not know that those who are employed in the temple service get their food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the sacrificial offerings?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	9	14	In the same way, the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	9	15	But I have made no use of any of these rights, nor am I writing this to secure any such provision. For I would rather die than have any one deprive me of my ground for boasting.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	9	16	For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	9	17	For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with a commission.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	9	18	What then is my reward? Just this: that in my preaching I may make the gospel free of charge, not making full use of my right in the gospel.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	9	19	For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, that I might win the more.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	9	20	To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews; to those under the law I became as one under the law—though not being myself under the law—that I might win those under the law.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	9	21	To those outside the law I became as one outside the law—not being without law toward God but under the law of Christ—that I might win those outside the law.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	9	22	To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	9	23	I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	9	24	Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	9	25	Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	9	26	Well, I do not run aimlessly, I do not box as one beating the air;
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	9	27	but I pommel my body and subdue it, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	10	1	I want you to know, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	10	2	and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	10	3	and all ate the same supernatural food
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	10	4	and all drank the same supernatural drink. For they drank from the supernatural Rock which followed them, and the Rock was Christ.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	10	5	Nevertheless with most of them God was not pleased; for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	10	6	Now these things are warnings for us, not to desire evil as they did.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	10	7	Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to dance.”
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	10	8	We must not indulge in immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	10	9	We must not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents;
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	10	10	nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	10	11	Now these things happened to them as a warning, but they were written down for our instruction, upon whom the end of the ages has come.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	10	12	Therefore let any one who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	10	13	No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your strength, but with the temptation will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	10	14	Therefore, my beloved, shun the worship of idols.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	10	15	I speak as to sensible men; judge for yourselves what I say.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	10	16	The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	10	17	Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	10	18	Consider the people of Israel; are not those who eat the sacrifices partners in the altar?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	10	19	What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	10	20	No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	10	21	You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	10	22	Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	10	23	“All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	10	24	Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	10	25	Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	10	26	For “the earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.”
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	10	27	If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	10	28	(But if some one says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then out of consideration for the man who informed you, and for conscience’ sake—
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	10	29	I mean his conscience, not yours—do not eat it.) For why should my liberty be determined by another man’s scruples?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	10	30	If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	10	31	So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	10	32	Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	10	33	just as I try to please all men in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	11	1	Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	11	2	I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I have delivered them to you.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	11	3	But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a woman is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	11	4	Any man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	11	5	but any woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled dishonors her head—it is the same as if her head were shaven.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	11	6	For if a woman will not veil herself, then she should cut off her hair; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her wear a veil.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	11	7	For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	11	8	(For man was not made from woman, but woman from man.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	11	9	Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.)
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	11	10	That is why a woman ought to have a veil on her head, because of the angels.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	11	11	(Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman;
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	11	12	for as woman was made from man, so man is now born of woman. And all things are from God.)
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	11	13	Judge for yourselves; is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	11	14	Does not nature itself teach you that for a man to wear long hair is degrading to him,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	11	15	but if a woman has long hair, it is her pride? For her hair is given to her for a covering.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	11	16	If any one is disposed to be contentious, we recognize no other practice, nor do the churches of God.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	11	17	But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	11	18	For, in the first place, when you assemble as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you; and I partly believe it,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	11	19	for there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	11	20	When you meet together, it is not the Lord’s supper that you eat.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	11	21	For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal, and one is hungry and another is drunk.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	11	22	What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you in this? No, I will not.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	11	23	For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	11	24	and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	11	25	In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	11	26	For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	11	27	Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	11	28	Let a man examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	11	29	For any one who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment upon himself.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	11	30	That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	11	31	But if we judged ourselves truly, we should not be judged.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	11	32	But when we are judged by the Lord, we are chastened so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	11	33	So then, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for one another—
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	11	34	if any one is hungry, let him eat at home—lest you come together to be condemned. About the other things I will give directions when I come.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	12	1	Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be uninformed.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	12	2	You know that when you were heathen, you were led astray to dumb idols, however you may have been moved.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	12	3	Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus be cursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except by the Holy Spirit.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	12	4	Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	12	5	and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord;
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	12	6	and there are varieties of working, but it is the same God who inspires them all in every one.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	12	7	To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	12	8	To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	12	9	to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	12	10	to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	12	11	All these are inspired by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	12	12	For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	12	13	For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	12	14	For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	12	15	If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	12	16	And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	12	17	If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	12	18	But as it is, God arranged the organs in the body, each one of them, as he chose.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	12	19	If all were a single organ, where would the body be?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	12	20	As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	12	21	The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	12	22	On the contrary, the parts of the body which seem to be weaker are indispensable,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	12	23	and those parts of the body which we think less honorable we invest with the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	12	24	which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving the greater honor to the inferior part,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	12	25	that there may be no discord in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	12	26	If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	12	27	Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	12	28	And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, then healers, helpers, administrators, speakers in various kinds of tongues.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	12	29	Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	12	30	Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	12	31	But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	13	1	If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	13	2	And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	13	3	If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	13	4	Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful;
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	13	5	it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	13	6	it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	13	7	Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	13	8	Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	13	9	For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect;
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	13	10	but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	13	11	When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	13	12	For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	13	13	So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	1	Make love your aim, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	2	For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	3	On the other hand, he who prophesies speaks to men for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	4	He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	5	Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. He who prophesies is greater than he who speaks in tongues, unless some one interprets, so that the church may be edified.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	6	Now, brethren, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how shall I benefit you unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	7	If even lifeless instruments, such as the flute or the harp, do not give distinct notes, how will any one know what is played?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	8	And if the bugle gives an indistinct sound, who will get ready for battle?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	9	So with yourselves; if you in a tongue utter speech that is not intelligible, how will any one know what is said? For you will be speaking into the air.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	10	There are doubtless many different languages in the world, and none is without meaning;
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	11	but if I do not know the meaning of the language, I shall be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker a foreigner to me.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	12	So with yourselves; since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	13	Therefore, he who speaks in a tongue should pray for the power to interpret.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	14	For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	15	What am I to do? I will pray with the spirit and I will pray with the mind also; I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with the mind also.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	16	Otherwise, if you bless with the spirit, how can any one in the position of an outsider say the “Amen” to your thanksgiving when he does not know what you are saying?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	17	For you may give thanks well enough, but the other man is not edified.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	18	I thank God that I speak in tongues more than you all;
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	19	nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind, in order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	20	Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; be babes in evil, but in thinking be mature.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	21	In the law it is written, “By men of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.”
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	22	Thus, tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is not for unbelievers but for believers.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	23	If, therefore, the whole church assembles and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are mad?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	24	But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	25	the secrets of his heart are disclosed; and so, falling on his face, he will worship God and declare that God is really among you.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	26	What then, brethren? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	27	If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn; and let one interpret.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	28	But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them keep silence in church and speak to himself and to God.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	29	Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others weigh what is said.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	30	If a revelation is made to another sitting by, let the first be silent.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	31	For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all be encouraged;
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	32	and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	33	For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	34	the women should keep silence in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as even the law says.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	35	If there is anything they desire to know, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	36	What! Did the word of God originate with you, or are you the only ones it has reached?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	37	If any one thinks that he is a prophet, or spiritual, he should acknowledge that what I am writing to you is a command of the Lord.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	38	If any one does not recognize this, he is not recognized.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	39	So, my brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues;
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	14	40	but all things should be done decently and in order.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	1	Now I would remind you, brethren, in what terms I preached to you the gospel, which you received, in which you stand,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	2	by which you are saved, if you hold it fast—unless you believed in vain.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	3	For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	4	that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	5	and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	6	Then he appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	7	Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	8	Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	9	For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	10	But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God which is with me.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	11	Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	12	Now if Christ is preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	13	But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised;
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	14	if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	15	We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified of God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	16	For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	17	If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	18	Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	19	If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men most to be pitied.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	20	But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	21	For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	22	For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	23	But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	24	Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	25	For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	26	The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	27	“For God has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “All things are put in subjection under him,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things under him.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	28	When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things under him, that God may be everything to every one.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	29	Otherwise, what do people mean by being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized on their behalf?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	30	Why am I in peril every hour?
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	31	I protest, brethren, by my pride in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day!
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	32	What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	33	Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	34	Come to your right mind, and sin no more. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	35	But some one will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?”
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	36	You foolish man! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	37	And what you sow is not the body which is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	38	But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	39	For not all flesh is alike, but there is one kind for men, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	40	There are celestial bodies and there are terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	41	There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	42	So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	43	It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	44	It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	45	Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	46	But it is not the spiritual which is first but the physical, and then the spiritual.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	47	The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	48	As was the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; and as is the man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	49	Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	50	I tell you this, brethren: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	51	Lo! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	52	in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	53	For this perishable nature must put on the imperishable, and this mortal nature must put on immortality.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	54	When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	55	“O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?”
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	56	The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	57	But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	15	58	Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	16	1	Now concerning the contribution for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	16	2	On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that contributions need not be made when I come.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	16	3	And when I arrive, I will send those whom you accredit by letter to carry your gift to Jerusalem.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	16	4	If it seems advisable that I should go also, they will accompany me.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	16	5	I will visit you after passing through Macedonia, for I intend to pass through Macedonia,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	16	6	and perhaps I will stay with you or even spend the winter, so that you may speed me on my journey, wherever I go.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	16	7	For I do not want to see you now just in passing; I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	16	8	But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost,
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	16	9	for a wide door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	16	10	When Timothy comes, see that you put him at ease among you, for he is doing the work of the Lord, as I am.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	16	11	So let no one despise him. Speed him on his way in peace, that he may return to me; for I am expecting him with the brethren.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	16	12	As for our brother Apollos, I strongly urged him to visit you with the other brethren, but it was not at all his will to come now. He will come when he has opportunity.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	16	13	Be watchful, stand firm in your faith, be courageous, be strong.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	16	14	Let all that you do be done in love.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	16	15	Now, brethren, you know that the household of Stephanas were the first converts in Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to the service of the saints;
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	16	16	I urge you to be subject to such men and to every fellow worker and laborer.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	16	17	I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, because they have made up for your absence;
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	16	18	for they refreshed my spirit as well as yours. Give recognition to such men.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	16	19	The churches of Asia send greetings. Aquila and Prisca, together with the church in their house, send you hearty greetings in the Lord.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	16	20	All the brethren send greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	16	21	I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	16	22	If any one has no love for the Lord, let him be accursed. Our Lord, come!
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	16	23	The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you.
 1 Corinthians	1Cor	53	16	24	My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	1	1	Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother. To the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	1	2	Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	1	3	Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	1	4	who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	1	5	For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	1	6	If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	1	7	Our hope for you is unshaken; for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	1	8	For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, of the affliction we experienced in Asia; for we were so utterly, unbearably crushed that we despaired of life itself.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	1	9	Why, we felt that we had received the sentence of death; but that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead;
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	1	10	he delivered us from so deadly a peril, and he will deliver us; on him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	1	11	You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us in answer to many prayers.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	1	12	For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience that we have behaved in the world, and still more toward you, with holiness and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	1	13	For we write you nothing but what you can read and understand; I hope you will understand fully,
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	1	14	as you have understood in part, that you can be proud of us as we can be of you, on the day of the Lord Jesus.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	1	15	Because I was sure of this, I wanted to come to you first, so that you might have a double pleasure;
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	1	16	I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and to come back to you from Macedonia and have you send me on my way to Judea.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	1	17	Was I vacillating when I wanted to do this? Do I make my plans like a worldly man, ready to say Yes and No at once?
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	1	18	As surely as God is faithful, our word to you has not been Yes and No.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	1	19	For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we preached among you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not Yes and No; but in him it is always Yes.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	1	20	For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why we utter the Amen through him, to the glory of God.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	1	21	But it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has commissioned us;
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	1	22	he has put his seal upon us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	1	23	But I call God to witness against me—it was to spare you that I refrained from coming to Corinth.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	1	24	Not that we lord it over your faith; we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	2	1	For I made up my mind not to make you another painful visit.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	2	2	For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained?
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	2	3	And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	2	4	For I wrote you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	2	5	But if any one has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure—not to put it too severely—to you all.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	2	6	For such a one this punishment by the majority is enough;
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	2	7	so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	2	8	So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	2	9	For this is why I wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in everything.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	2	10	Any one whom you forgive, I also forgive. What I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ,
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	2	11	to keep Satan from gaining the advantage over us; for we are not ignorant of his designs.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	2	12	When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, a door was opened for me in the Lord;
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	2	13	but my mind could not rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedonia.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	2	14	But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumph, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	2	15	For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing,
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	2	16	to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	2	17	For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God’s word; but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	3	1	Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you?
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	3	2	You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on your hearts, to be known and read by all men;
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	3	3	and you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	3	4	Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	3	5	Not that we are competent of ourselves to claim anything as coming from us; our competence is from God,
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	3	6	who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not in a written code but in the Spirit; for the written code kills, but the Spirit gives life.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	3	7	Now if the dispensation of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such splendor that the Israelites could not look at Moses’ face because of its brightness, fading as this was,
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	3	8	will not the dispensation of the Spirit be attended with greater splendor?
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	3	9	For if there was splendor in the dispensation of condemnation, the dispensation of righteousness must far exceed it in splendor.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	3	10	Indeed, in this case, what once had splendor has come to have no splendor at all, because of the splendor that surpasses it.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	3	11	For if what faded away came with splendor, what is permanent must have much more splendor.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	3	12	Since we have such a hope, we are very bold,
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	3	13	not like Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not see the end of the fading splendor.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	3	14	But their minds were hardened; for to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	3	15	Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their minds;
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	3	16	but when a man turns to the Lord the veil is removed.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	3	17	Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	3	18	And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being changed into his likeness from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	4	1	Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	4	2	We have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways; we refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	4	3	And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	4	4	In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	4	5	For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	4	6	For it is the God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	4	7	But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that the transcendent power belongs to God and not to us.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	4	8	We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair;
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	4	9	persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	4	10	always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	4	11	For while we live we are always being given up to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	4	12	So death is at work in us, but life in you.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	4	13	Since we have the same spirit of faith as he had who wrote, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we too believe, and so we speak,
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	4	14	knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	4	15	For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	4	16	So we do not lose heart. Though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed every day.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	4	17	For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	4	18	because we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	5	1	For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	5	2	Here indeed we groan, and long to put on our heavenly dwelling,
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	5	3	so that by putting it on we may not be found naked.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	5	4	For while we are still in this tent, we sigh with anxiety; not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	5	5	He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	5	6	So we are always of good courage; we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord,
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	5	7	for we walk by faith, not by sight.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	5	8	We are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	5	9	So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	5	10	For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive good or evil, according to what he has done in the body.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	5	11	Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; but what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	5	12	We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you cause to be proud of us, so that you may be able to answer those who pride themselves on a man’s position and not on his heart.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	5	13	For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	5	14	For the love of Christ controls us, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	5	15	And he died for all, that those who live might live no longer for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	5	16	From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once regarded Christ from a human point of view, we regard him thus no longer.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	5	17	Therefore, if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, behold, the new has come.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	5	18	All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	5	19	that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	5	20	So we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We beseech you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	5	21	For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	6	1	Working together with him, then, we entreat you not to accept the grace of God in vain.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	6	2	For he says, “At the acceptable time I have listened to you, and helped you on the day of salvation.” Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	6	3	We put no obstacle in any one’s way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry,
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	6	4	but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities,
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	6	5	beatings, imprisonments, tumults, labors, watching, hunger;
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	6	6	by purity, knowledge, forbearance, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love,
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	6	7	truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left;
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	6	8	in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true;
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	6	9	as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as punished, and yet not killed;
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	6	10	as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	6	11	Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians; our heart is wide.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	6	12	You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted in your own affections.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	6	13	In return—I speak as to children—widen your hearts also.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	6	14	Do not be mismated with unbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	6	15	What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever?
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	6	16	What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will live in them and move among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	6	17	Therefore come out from them, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch nothing unclean; then I will welcome you,
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	6	18	and I will be a father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	7	1	Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, and make holiness perfect in the fear of God.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	7	2	Open your hearts to us; we have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have taken advantage of no one.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	7	3	I do not say this to condemn you, for I said before that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	7	4	I have great confidence in you; I have great pride in you; I am filled with comfort. With all our affliction, I am overjoyed.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	7	5	For even when we came into Macedonia, our bodies had no rest but we were afflicted at every turn—fighting without and fear within.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	7	6	But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus,
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	7	7	and not only by his coming but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you, as he told us of your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	7	8	For even if I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it (though I did regret it), for I see that that letter grieved you, though only for a while.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	7	9	As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting; for you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	7	10	For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation and brings no regret, but worldly grief produces death.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	7	11	For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves guiltless in the matter.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	7	12	So although I wrote to you, it was not on account of the one who did the wrong, nor on account of the one who suffered the wrong, but in order that your zeal for us might be revealed to you in the sight of God.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	7	13	Therefore we are comforted. And besides our own comfort we rejoiced still more at the joy of Titus, because his mind has been set at rest by you all.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	7	14	For if I have expressed to him some pride in you, I was not put to shame; but just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting before Titus has proved true.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	7	15	And his heart goes out all the more to you, as he remembers the obedience of you all, and the fear and trembling with which you received him.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	7	16	I rejoice, because I have perfect confidence in you.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	8	1	We want you to know, brethren, about the grace of God which has been shown in the churches of Macedonia,
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	8	2	for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of liberality on their part.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	8	3	For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own free will,
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	8	4	begging us earnestly for the favor of taking part in the relief of the saints—
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	8	5	and this, not as we expected, but first they gave themselves to the Lord and to us by the will of God.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	8	6	Accordingly we have urged Titus that as he had already made a beginning, he should also complete among you this gracious work.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	8	7	Now as you excel in everything—in faith, in utterance, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in your love for us—see that you excel in this gracious work also.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	8	8	I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	8	9	For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	8	10	And in this matter I give my advice: it is best for you now to complete what a year ago you began not only to do but to desire,
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	8	11	so that your readiness in desiring it may be matched by your completing it out of what you have.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	8	12	For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a man has, not according to what he has not.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	8	13	I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened,
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	8	14	but that as a matter of equality your abundance at the present time should supply their want, so that their abundance may supply your want, that there may be equality.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	8	15	As it is written, “He who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack.”
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	8	16	But thanks be to God who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	8	17	For he not only accepted our appeal, but being himself very earnest he is going to you of his own accord.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	8	18	With him we are sending the brother who is famous among all the churches for his preaching of the gospel;
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	8	19	and not only that, but he has been appointed by the churches to travel with us in this gracious work which we are carrying on, for the glory of the Lord and to show our good will.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	8	20	We intend that no one should blame us about this liberal gift which we are administering,
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	8	21	for we aim at what is honorable not only in the Lord’s sight but also in the sight of men.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	8	22	And with them we are sending our brother whom we have often tested and found earnest in many matters, but who is now more earnest than ever because of his great confidence in you.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	8	23	As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker in your service; and as for our brethren, they are messengers of the churches, the glory of Christ.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	8	24	So give proof, before the churches, of your love and of our boasting about you to these men.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	9	1	Now it is superfluous for me to write to you about the offering for the saints,
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	9	2	for I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the people of Macedonia, saying that Achaia has been ready since last year; and your zeal has stirred up most of them.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	9	3	But I am sending the brethren so that our boasting about you may not prove vain in this case, so that you may be ready, as I said you would be;
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	9	4	lest if some Macedonians come with me and find that you are not ready, we be humiliated—to say nothing of you—for being so confident.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	9	5	So I thought it necessary to urge the brethren to go on to you before me, and arrange in advance for this gift you have promised, so that it may be ready not as an exaction but as a willing gift.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	9	6	The point is this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	9	7	Each one must do as he has made up his mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	9	8	And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that you may always have enough of everything and may provide in abundance for every good work.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	9	9	As it is written, “He scatters abroad, he gives to the poor; his righteousness endures for ever.”
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	9	10	He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your resources and increase the harvest of your righteousness.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	9	11	You will be enriched in every way for great generosity, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God;
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	9	12	for the rendering of this service not only supplies the wants of the saints but also overflows in many thanksgivings to God.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	9	13	Under the test of this service, you will glorify God by your obedience in acknowledging the gospel of Christ, and by the generosity of your contribution for them and for all others;
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	9	14	while they long for you and pray for you, because of the surpassing grace of God in you.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	9	15	Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	10	1	I, Paul, myself entreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—I who am humble when face to face with you, but bold to you when I am away!—
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	10	2	I beg of you that when I am present I may not have to show boldness with such confidence as I count on showing against some who suspect us of acting in worldly fashion.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	10	3	For though we live in the world we are not carrying on a worldly war,
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	10	4	for the weapons of our warfare are not worldly but have divine power to destroy strongholds.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	10	5	We destroy arguments and every proud obstacle to the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	10	6	being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	10	7	Look at what is before your eyes. If any one is confident that he is Christ’s, let him remind himself that as he is Christ’s, so are we.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	10	8	For even if I boast a little too much of our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I shall not be put to shame.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	10	9	I would not seem to be frightening you with letters.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	10	10	For they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.”
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	10	11	Let such people understand that what we say by letter when absent, we do when present.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	10	12	Not that we venture to class or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another, and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	10	13	But we will not boast beyond limit, but will keep to the limits God has apportioned us, to reach even to you.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	10	14	For we are not overextending ourselves, as though we did not reach you; we were the first to come all the way to you with the gospel of Christ.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	10	15	We do not boast beyond limit, in other men’s labors; but our hope is that as your faith increases, our field among you may be greatly enlarged,
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	10	16	so that we may preach the gospel in lands beyond you, without boasting of work already done in another’s field.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	10	17	“Let him who boasts, boast of the Lord.”
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	10	18	For it is not the man who commends himself that is accepted, but the man whom the Lord commends.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	11	1	I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me!
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	11	2	I feel a divine jealousy for you, for I betrothed you to Christ to present you as a pure bride to her one husband.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	11	3	But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	11	4	For if some one comes and preaches another Jesus than the one we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you submit to it readily enough.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	11	5	I think that I am not in the least inferior to these superlative apostles.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	11	6	Even if I am unskilled in speaking, I am not in knowledge; in every way we have made this plain to you in all things.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	11	7	Did I commit a sin in abasing myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached God’s gospel without cost to you?
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	11	8	I robbed other churches by accepting support from them in order to serve you.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	11	9	And when I was with you and was in want, I did not burden any one, for my needs were supplied by the brethren who came from Macedonia. So I refrained and will refrain from burdening you in any way.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	11	10	As the truth of Christ is in me, this boast of mine shall not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	11	11	And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	11	12	And what I do I will continue to do, in order to undermine the claim of those who would like to claim that in their boasted mission they work on the same terms as we do.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	11	13	For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	11	14	And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	11	15	So it is not strange if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	11	16	I repeat, let no one think me foolish; but even if you do, accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	11	17	(What I am saying I say not with the Lord’s authority but as a fool, in this boastful confidence;
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	11	18	since many boast of worldly things, I too will boast.)
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	11	19	For you gladly bear with fools, being wise yourselves!
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	11	20	For you bear it if a man makes slaves of you, or preys upon you, or takes advantage of you, or puts on airs, or strikes you in the face.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	11	21	To my shame, I must say, we were too weak for that! But whatever any one dares to boast of—I am speaking as a fool—I also dare to boast of that.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	11	22	Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	11	23	Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	11	24	Five times I have received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	11	25	Three times I have been beaten with rods; once I was stoned. Three times I have been shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been adrift at sea;
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	11	26	on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brethren;
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	11	27	in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	11	28	And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure upon me of my anxiety for all the churches.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	11	29	Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant?
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	11	30	If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	11	31	The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed for ever, knows that I do not lie.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	11	32	At Damascus, the governor under King Aretas guarded the city of Damascus in order to seize me,
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	11	33	but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and escaped his hands.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	12	1	I must boast; there is nothing to be gained by it, but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	12	2	I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	12	3	And I know that this man was caught up into Paradise—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows—
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	12	4	and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	12	5	On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	12	6	Though if I wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for I shall be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	12	7	And to keep me from being too elated by the abundance of revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to harass me, to keep me from being too elated.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	12	8	Three times I besought the Lord about this, that it should leave me;
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	12	9	but he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	12	10	For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities; for when I am weak, then I am strong.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	12	11	I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these superlative apostles, even though I am nothing.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	12	12	The signs of a true apostle were performed among you in all patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	12	13	For in what were you less favored than the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong!
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	12	14	Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you; for children ought not to lay up for their parents, but parents for their children.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	12	15	I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you the more, am I to be loved the less?
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	12	16	But granting that I myself did not burden you, I was crafty, you say, and got the better of you by guile.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	12	17	Did I take advantage of you through any of those whom I sent to you?
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	12	18	I urged Titus to go, and sent the brother with him. Did Titus take advantage of you? Did we not act in the same spirit? Did we not take the same steps?
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	12	19	Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves before you? It is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ, and all for your upbuilding, beloved.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	12	20	For I fear that perhaps I may come and find you not what I wish, and that you may find me not what you wish; that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	12	21	I fear that when I come again my God may humble me before you, and I may have to mourn over many of those who sinned before and have not repented of the impurity, immorality, and licentiousness which they have practiced.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	13	1	This is the third time I am coming to you. Any charge must be sustained by the evidence of two or three witnesses.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	13	2	I warned those who sinned before and all the others, and I warn them now while absent, as I did when present on my second visit, that if I come again I will not spare them—
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	13	3	since you desire proof that Christ is speaking in me. He is not weak in dealing with you, but is powerful in you.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	13	4	For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God. For we are weak in him, but in dealing with you we shall live with him by the power of God.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	13	5	Examine yourselves, to see whether you are holding to your faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	13	6	I hope you will find out that we have not failed.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	13	7	But we pray God that you may not do wrong—not that we may appear to have met the test, but that you may do what is right, though we may seem to have failed.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	13	8	For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	13	9	For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. What we pray for is your improvement.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	13	10	I write this while I am away from you, in order that when I come I may not have to be severe in my use of the authority which the Lord has given me for building up and not for tearing down.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	13	11	Finally, brethren, farewell. Mend your ways, heed my appeal, agree with one another, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	13	12	Greet one another with a holy kiss.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	13	13	All the saints greet you.
 2 Corinthians	2Cor	54	13	14	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
 Galatians	Gal	55	1	1	Paul an apostle—not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—
 Galatians	Gal	55	1	2	and all the brethren who are with me, To the churches of Galatia:
 Galatians	Gal	55	1	3	Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,
 Galatians	Gal	55	1	4	who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father;
 Galatians	Gal	55	1	5	to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.
 Galatians	Gal	55	1	6	I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and turning to a different gospel—
 Galatians	Gal	55	1	7	not that there is another gospel, but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ.
 Galatians	Gal	55	1	8	But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to that which we preached to you, let him be accursed.
 Galatians	Gal	55	1	9	As we have said before, so now I say again, If any one is preaching to you a gospel contrary to that which you received, let him be accursed.
 Galatians	Gal	55	1	10	Am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.
 Galatians	Gal	55	1	11	For I would have you know, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not man’s gospel.
 Galatians	Gal	55	1	12	For I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through a revelation of Jesus Christ.
 Galatians	Gal	55	1	13	For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it;
 Galatians	Gal	55	1	14	and I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers.
 Galatians	Gal	55	1	15	But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and had called me through his grace,
 Galatians	Gal	55	1	16	was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not confer with flesh and blood,
 Galatians	Gal	55	1	17	nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia; and again I returned to Damascus.
 Galatians	Gal	55	1	18	Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas, and remained with him fifteen days.
 Galatians	Gal	55	1	19	But I saw none of the other apostles except James the Lord’s brother.
 Galatians	Gal	55	1	20	(In what I am writing to you, before God, I do not lie!)
 Galatians	Gal	55	1	21	Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
 Galatians	Gal	55	1	22	And I was still not known by sight to the churches of Christ in Judea;
 Galatians	Gal	55	1	23	they only heard it said, “He who once persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.”
 Galatians	Gal	55	1	24	And they glorified God because of me.
 Galatians	Gal	55	2	1	Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me.
 Galatians	Gal	55	2	2	I went up by revelation; and I laid before them (but privately before those who were of repute) the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, lest somehow I should be running or had run in vain.
 Galatians	Gal	55	2	3	But even Titus, who was with me, was not compelled to be circumcised, though he was a Greek.
 Galatians	Gal	55	2	4	But because of false brethren secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy out our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage—
 Galatians	Gal	55	2	5	to them we did not yield submission even for a moment, that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you.
 Galatians	Gal	55	2	6	And from those who were reputed to be something (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality)—those, I say, who were of repute added nothing to me;
 Galatians	Gal	55	2	7	but on the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised
 Galatians	Gal	55	2	8	(for he who worked through Peter for the mission to the circumcised worked through me also for the Gentiles),
 Galatians	Gal	55	2	9	and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised;
 Galatians	Gal	55	2	10	only they would have us remember the poor, which very thing I was eager to do.
 Galatians	Gal	55	2	11	But when Cephas came to Antioch I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.
 Galatians	Gal	55	2	12	For before certain men came from James, he ate with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party.
 Galatians	Gal	55	2	13	And with him the rest of the Jews acted insincerely, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their insincerity.
 Galatians	Gal	55	2	14	But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
 Galatians	Gal	55	2	15	We ourselves, who are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners,
 Galatians	Gal	55	2	16	yet who know that a man is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of the law, because by works of the law shall no one be justified.
 Galatians	Gal	55	2	17	But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we ourselves were found to be sinners, is Christ then an agent of sin? Certainly not!
 Galatians	Gal	55	2	18	But if I build up again those things which I tore down, then I prove myself a transgressor.
 Galatians	Gal	55	2	19	For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God.
 Galatians	Gal	55	2	20	I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
 Galatians	Gal	55	2	21	I do not nullify the grace of God; for if justification were through the law, then Christ died to no purpose.
 Galatians	Gal	55	3	1	O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?
 Galatians	Gal	55	3	2	Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?
 Galatians	Gal	55	3	3	Are you so foolish? Having begun with the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh?
 Galatians	Gal	55	3	4	Did you experience so many things in vain?—if it really is in vain.
 Galatians	Gal	55	3	5	Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?
 Galatians	Gal	55	3	6	Thus Abraham “believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.”
 Galatians	Gal	55	3	7	So you see that it is men of faith who are the sons of Abraham.
 Galatians	Gal	55	3	8	And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.”
 Galatians	Gal	55	3	9	So then, those who are men of faith are blessed with Abraham who had faith.
 Galatians	Gal	55	3	10	For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be every one who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, and do them.”
 Galatians	Gal	55	3	11	Now it is evident that no man is justified before God by the law; for “He who through faith is righteous shall live”;
 Galatians	Gal	55	3	12	but the law does not rest on faith, for “He who does them shall live by them.”
 Galatians	Gal	55	3	13	Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed be every one who hangs on a tree”—
 Galatians	Gal	55	3	14	that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
 Galatians	Gal	55	3	15	To give a human example, brethren: no one annuls even a man’s will, or adds to it, once it has been ratified.
 Galatians	Gal	55	3	16	Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to offsprings,” referring to many; but, referring to one, “And to your offspring,” which is Christ.
 Galatians	Gal	55	3	17	This is what I mean: the law, which came four hundred and thirty years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.
 Galatians	Gal	55	3	18	For if the inheritance is by the law, it is no longer by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by a promise.
 Galatians	Gal	55	3	19	Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made; and it was ordained by angels through an intermediary.
 Galatians	Gal	55	3	20	Now an intermediary implies more than one; but God is one.
 Galatians	Gal	55	3	21	Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not; for if a law had been given which could make alive, then righteousness would indeed be by the law.
 Galatians	Gal	55	3	22	But the scripture consigned all things to sin, that what was promised to faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
 Galatians	Gal	55	3	23	Now before faith came, we were confined under the law, kept under restraint until faith should be revealed.
 Galatians	Gal	55	3	24	So that the law was our custodian until Christ came, that we might be justified by faith.
 Galatians	Gal	55	3	25	But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a custodian;
 Galatians	Gal	55	3	26	for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.
 Galatians	Gal	55	3	27	For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
 Galatians	Gal	55	3	28	There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
 Galatians	Gal	55	3	29	And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.
 Galatians	Gal	55	4	1	I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no better than a slave, though he is the owner of all the estate;
 Galatians	Gal	55	4	2	but he is under guardians and trustees until the date set by the father.
 Galatians	Gal	55	4	3	So with us; when we were children, we were slaves to the elemental spirits of the universe.
 Galatians	Gal	55	4	4	But when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,
 Galatians	Gal	55	4	5	to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
 Galatians	Gal	55	4	6	And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”
 Galatians	Gal	55	4	7	So through God you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son then an heir.
 Galatians	Gal	55	4	8	Formerly, when you did not know God, you were in bondage to beings that by nature are no gods;
 Galatians	Gal	55	4	9	but now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and beggarly elemental spirits, whose slaves you want to be once more?
 Galatians	Gal	55	4	10	You observe days, and months, and seasons, and years!
 Galatians	Gal	55	4	11	I am afraid I have labored over you in vain.
 Galatians	Gal	55	4	12	Brethren, I beseech you, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong;
 Galatians	Gal	55	4	13	you know it was because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you at first;
 Galatians	Gal	55	4	14	and though my condition was a trial to you, you did not scorn or despise me, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.
 Galatians	Gal	55	4	15	What has become of the satisfaction you felt? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.
 Galatians	Gal	55	4	16	Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?
 Galatians	Gal	55	4	17	They make much of you, but for no good purpose; they want to shut you out, that you may make much of them.
 Galatians	Gal	55	4	18	For a good purpose it is always good to be made much of, and not only when I am present with you.
 Galatians	Gal	55	4	19	My little children, with whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you!
 Galatians	Gal	55	4	20	I could wish to be present with you now and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.
 Galatians	Gal	55	4	21	Tell me, you who desire to be under law, do you not hear the law?
 Galatians	Gal	55	4	22	For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave and one by a free woman.
 Galatians	Gal	55	4	23	But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, the son of the free woman through promise.
 Galatians	Gal	55	4	24	Now this is an allegory: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar.
 Galatians	Gal	55	4	25	Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.
 Galatians	Gal	55	4	26	But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
 Galatians	Gal	55	4	27	For it is written, “Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear; break forth and shout, you who are not in travail; for the children of the desolate one are many more than the children of her that is married.”
 Galatians	Gal	55	4	28	Now we, brethren, like Isaac, are children of promise.
 Galatians	Gal	55	4	29	But as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so it is now.
 Galatians	Gal	55	4	30	But what does the scripture say? “Cast out the slave and her son; for the son of the slave shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.”
 Galatians	Gal	55	4	31	So, brethren, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman.
 Galatians	Gal	55	5	1	For freedom Christ has set us free; stand fast therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
 Galatians	Gal	55	5	2	Now I, Paul, say to you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you.
 Galatians	Gal	55	5	3	I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is bound to keep the whole law.
 Galatians	Gal	55	5	4	You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.
 Galatians	Gal	55	5	5	For through the Spirit, by faith, we wait for the hope of righteousness.
 Galatians	Gal	55	5	6	For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is of any avail, but faith working through love.
 Galatians	Gal	55	5	7	You were running well; who hindered you from obeying the truth?
 Galatians	Gal	55	5	8	This persuasion is not from him who calls you.
 Galatians	Gal	55	5	9	A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
 Galatians	Gal	55	5	10	I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view than mine; and he who is troubling you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.
 Galatians	Gal	55	5	11	But if I, brethren, still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? In that case the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.
 Galatians	Gal	55	5	12	I wish those who unsettle you would mutilate themselves!
 Galatians	Gal	55	5	13	For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants of one another.
 Galatians	Gal	55	5	14	For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
 Galatians	Gal	55	5	15	But if you bite and devour one another take heed that you are not consumed by one another.
 Galatians	Gal	55	5	16	But I say, walk by the Spirit, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh.
 Galatians	Gal	55	5	17	For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh; for these are opposed to each other, to prevent you from doing what you would.
 Galatians	Gal	55	5	18	But if you are led by the Spirit you are not under the law.
 Galatians	Gal	55	5	19	Now the works of the flesh are plain: fornication, impurity, licentiousness,
 Galatians	Gal	55	5	20	idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, party spirit,
 Galatians	Gal	55	5	21	envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
 Galatians	Gal	55	5	22	But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
 Galatians	Gal	55	5	23	gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law.
 Galatians	Gal	55	5	24	And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
 Galatians	Gal	55	5	25	If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
 Galatians	Gal	55	5	26	Let us have no self-conceit, no provoking of one another, no envy of one another.
 Galatians	Gal	55	6	1	Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Look to yourself, lest you too be tempted.
 Galatians	Gal	55	6	2	Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
 Galatians	Gal	55	6	3	For if any one thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
 Galatians	Gal	55	6	4	But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.
 Galatians	Gal	55	6	5	For each man will have to bear his own load.
 Galatians	Gal	55	6	6	Let him who is taught the word share all good things with him who teaches.
 Galatians	Gal	55	6	7	Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
 Galatians	Gal	55	6	8	For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption; but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
 Galatians	Gal	55	6	9	And let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we do not lose heart.
 Galatians	Gal	55	6	10	So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all men, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.
 Galatians	Gal	55	6	11	See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand.
 Galatians	Gal	55	6	12	It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh that would compel you to be circumcised, and only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
 Galatians	Gal	55	6	13	For even those who receive circumcision do not themselves keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may glory in your flesh.
 Galatians	Gal	55	6	14	But far be it from me to glory except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
 Galatians	Gal	55	6	15	For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
 Galatians	Gal	55	6	16	Peace and mercy be upon all who walk by this rule, upon the Israel of God.
 Galatians	Gal	55	6	17	Henceforth let no man trouble me; for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.
 Galatians	Gal	55	6	18	The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brethren. Amen.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	1	1	Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are also faithful in Christ Jesus:
 Ephesians	Eph	56	1	2	Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	1	3	Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	1	4	even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	1	5	He destined us in love to be his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	1	6	to the praise of his glorious grace which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	1	7	In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace
 Ephesians	Eph	56	1	8	which he lavished upon us.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	1	9	For he has made known to us in all wisdom and insight the mystery of his will, according to his purpose which he set forth in Christ
 Ephesians	Eph	56	1	10	as a plan for the fulness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	1	11	In him, according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	1	12	we who first hoped in Christ have been destined and appointed to live for the praise of his glory.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	1	13	In him you also, who have heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and have believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	1	14	who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	1	15	For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	1	16	I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	1	17	that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	1	18	having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	1	19	and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power in us who believe, according to the working of his great might
 Ephesians	Eph	56	1	20	which he accomplished in Christ when he raised him from the dead and made him sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	1	21	far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come;
 Ephesians	Eph	56	1	22	and he has put all things under his feet and has made him the head over all things for the church,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	1	23	which is his body, the fulness of him who fills all in all.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	2	1	And you he made alive, when you were dead through the trespasses and sins
 Ephesians	Eph	56	2	2	in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	2	3	Among these we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of body and mind, and so we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	2	4	But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	2	5	even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
 Ephesians	Eph	56	2	6	and raised us up with him, and made us sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	2	7	that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	2	8	For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God—
 Ephesians	Eph	56	2	9	not because of works, lest any man should boast.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	2	10	For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	2	11	Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called the uncircumcision by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands—
 Ephesians	Eph	56	2	12	remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	2	13	But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near in the blood of Christ.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	2	14	For he is our peace, who has made us both one, and has broken down the dividing wall of hostility,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	2	15	by abolishing in his flesh the law of commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	2	16	and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby bringing the hostility to an end.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	2	17	And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near;
 Ephesians	Eph	56	2	18	for through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	2	19	So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	2	20	built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	2	21	in whom the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord;
 Ephesians	Eph	56	2	22	in whom you also are built into it for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	3	1	For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles—
 Ephesians	Eph	56	3	2	assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for you,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	3	3	how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	3	4	When you read this you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	3	5	which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
 Ephesians	Eph	56	3	6	that is, how the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	3	7	Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God’s grace which was given me by the working of his power.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	3	8	To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	3	9	and to make all men see what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things;
 Ephesians	Eph	56	3	10	that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	3	11	This was according to the eternal purpose which he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	3	12	in whom we have boldness and confidence of access through our faith in him.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	3	13	So I ask you not to lose heart over what I am suffering for you, which is your glory.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	3	14	For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	3	15	from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	3	16	that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with might through his Spirit in the inner man,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	3	17	and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	3	18	may have power to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	3	19	and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fulness of God.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	3	20	Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	3	21	to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, for ever and ever. Amen.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	4	1	I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	4	2	with all lowliness and meekness, with patience, forbearing one another in love,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	4	3	eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	4	4	There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	4	5	one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	4	6	one God and Father of us all, who is above all and through all and in all.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	4	7	But grace was given to each of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	4	8	Therefore it is said, “When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men.”
 Ephesians	Eph	56	4	9	(In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower parts of the earth?
 Ephesians	Eph	56	4	10	He who descended is he who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)
 Ephesians	Eph	56	4	11	And his gifts were that some should be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	4	12	to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	4	13	until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ;
 Ephesians	Eph	56	4	14	so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the cunning of men, by their craftiness in deceitful wiles.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	4	15	Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	4	16	from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by every joint with which it is supplied, when each part is working properly, makes bodily growth and upbuilds itself in love.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	4	17	Now this I affirm and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds;
 Ephesians	Eph	56	4	18	they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart;
 Ephesians	Eph	56	4	19	they have become callous and have given themselves up to licentiousness, greedy to practice every kind of uncleanness.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	4	20	You did not so learn Christ!—
 Ephesians	Eph	56	4	21	assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	4	22	Put off your old nature which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful lusts,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	4	23	and be renewed in the spirit of your minds,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	4	24	and put on the new nature, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	4	25	Therefore, putting away falsehood, let every one speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	4	26	Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	4	27	and give no opportunity to the devil.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	4	28	Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his hands, so that he may be able to give to those in need.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	4	29	Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for edifying, as fits the occasion, that it may impart grace to those who hear.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	4	30	And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	4	31	Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, with all malice,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	4	32	and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	5	1	Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	5	2	And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	5	3	But fornication and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is fitting among saints.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	5	4	Let there be no filthiness, nor silly talk, nor levity, which are not fitting; but instead let there be thanksgiving.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	5	5	Be sure of this, that no fornicator or impure man, or one who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	5	6	Let no one deceive you with empty words, for it is because of these things that the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	5	7	Therefore do not associate with them,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	5	8	for once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light
 Ephesians	Eph	56	5	9	(for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true),
 Ephesians	Eph	56	5	10	and try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	5	11	Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	5	12	For it is a shame even to speak of the things that they do in secret;
 Ephesians	Eph	56	5	13	but when anything is exposed by the light it becomes visible, for anything that becomes visible is light.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	5	14	Therefore it is said, “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.”
 Ephesians	Eph	56	5	15	Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	5	16	making the most of the time, because the days are evil.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	5	17	Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	5	18	And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	5	19	addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with all your heart,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	5	20	always and for everything giving thanks in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God the Father.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	5	21	Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	5	22	Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	5	23	For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	5	24	As the church is subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject in everything to their husbands.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	5	25	Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	5	26	that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	5	27	that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	5	28	Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	5	29	For no man ever hates his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ does the church,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	5	30	because we are members of his body.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	5	31	“For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”
 Ephesians	Eph	56	5	32	This is a great mystery, and I mean in reference to Christ and the church;
 Ephesians	Eph	56	5	33	however, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	6	1	Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	6	2	“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),
 Ephesians	Eph	56	6	3	“that it may be well with you and that you may live long on the earth.”
 Ephesians	Eph	56	6	4	Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	6	5	Slaves, be obedient to those who are your earthly masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as to Christ;
 Ephesians	Eph	56	6	6	not in the way of eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	6	7	rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to men,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	6	8	knowing that whatever good any one does, he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	6	9	Masters, do the same to them, and forbear threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	6	10	Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	6	11	Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	6	12	For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	6	13	Therefore take the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	6	14	Stand therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	6	15	and having shod your feet with the equipment of the gospel of peace;
 Ephesians	Eph	56	6	16	besides all these, taking the shield of faith, with which you can quench all the flaming darts of the evil one.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	6	17	And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	6	18	Pray at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	6	19	and also for me, that utterance may be given me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel,
 Ephesians	Eph	56	6	20	for which I am an ambassador in chains; that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	6	21	Now that you also may know how I am and what I am doing, Tychicus the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord will tell you everything.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	6	22	I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are, and that he may encourage your hearts.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	6	23	Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 Ephesians	Eph	56	6	24	Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love undying.
 Philippians	Phil	57	1	1	Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:
 Philippians	Phil	57	1	2	Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 Philippians	Phil	57	1	3	I thank my God in all my remembrance of you,
 Philippians	Phil	57	1	4	always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy,
 Philippians	Phil	57	1	5	thankful for your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now.
 Philippians	Phil	57	1	6	And I am sure that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
 Philippians	Phil	57	1	7	It is right for me to feel thus about you all, because I hold you in my heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel.
 Philippians	Phil	57	1	8	For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus.
 Philippians	Phil	57	1	9	And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment,
 Philippians	Phil	57	1	10	so that you may approve what is excellent, and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,
 Philippians	Phil	57	1	11	filled with the fruits of righteousness which come through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
 Philippians	Phil	57	1	12	I want you to know, brethren, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel,
 Philippians	Phil	57	1	13	so that it has become known throughout the whole praetorian guard and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ;
 Philippians	Phil	57	1	14	and most of the brethren have been made confident in the Lord because of my imprisonment, and are much more bold to speak the word of God without fear.
 Philippians	Phil	57	1	15	Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will.
 Philippians	Phil	57	1	16	The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel;
 Philippians	Phil	57	1	17	the former proclaim Christ out of partisanship, not sincerely but thinking to afflict me in my imprisonment.
 Philippians	Phil	57	1	18	What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and in that I rejoice.
 Philippians	Phil	57	1	19	Yes, and I shall rejoice. For I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance,
 Philippians	Phil	57	1	20	as it is my eager expectation and hope that I shall not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.
 Philippians	Phil	57	1	21	For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
 Philippians	Phil	57	1	22	If it is to be life in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell.
 Philippians	Phil	57	1	23	I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.
 Philippians	Phil	57	1	24	But to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account.
 Philippians	Phil	57	1	25	Convinced of this, I know that I shall remain and continue with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith,
 Philippians	Phil	57	1	26	so that in me you may have ample cause to glory in Christ Jesus, because of my coming to you again.
 Philippians	Phil	57	1	27	Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you stand firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel,
 Philippians	Phil	57	1	28	and not frightened in anything by your opponents. This is a clear omen to them of their destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God.
 Philippians	Phil	57	1	29	For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake,
 Philippians	Phil	57	1	30	engaged in the same conflict which you saw and now hear to be mine.
 Philippians	Phil	57	2	1	So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any incentive of love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy,
 Philippians	Phil	57	2	2	complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.
 Philippians	Phil	57	2	3	Do nothing from selfishness or conceit, but in humility count others better than yourselves.
 Philippians	Phil	57	2	4	Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
 Philippians	Phil	57	2	5	Have this mind among yourselves, which was in Christ Jesus,
 Philippians	Phil	57	2	6	who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,
 Philippians	Phil	57	2	7	but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
 Philippians	Phil	57	2	8	And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross.
 Philippians	Phil	57	2	9	Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name,
 Philippians	Phil	57	2	10	that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
 Philippians	Phil	57	2	11	and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
 Philippians	Phil	57	2	12	Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;
 Philippians	Phil	57	2	13	for God is at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
 Philippians	Phil	57	2	14	Do all things without grumbling or questioning,
 Philippians	Phil	57	2	15	that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,
 Philippians	Phil	57	2	16	holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
 Philippians	Phil	57	2	17	Even if I am to be poured as a libation upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.
 Philippians	Phil	57	2	18	Likewise you also should be glad and rejoice with me.
 Philippians	Phil	57	2	19	I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I may be cheered by news of you.
 Philippians	Phil	57	2	20	I have no one like him, who will be genuinely anxious for your welfare.
 Philippians	Phil	57	2	21	They all look after their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
 Philippians	Phil	57	2	22	But Timothy’s worth you know, how as a son with a father he has served with me in the gospel.
 Philippians	Phil	57	2	23	I hope therefore to send him just as soon as I see how it will go with me;
 Philippians	Phil	57	2	24	and I trust in the Lord that shortly I myself shall come also.
 Philippians	Phil	57	2	25	I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need,
 Philippians	Phil	57	2	26	for he has been longing for you all, and has been distressed because you heard that he was ill.
 Philippians	Phil	57	2	27	Indeed he was ill, near to death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
 Philippians	Phil	57	2	28	I am the more eager to send him, therefore, that you may rejoice at seeing him again, and that I may be less anxious.
 Philippians	Phil	57	2	29	So receive him in the Lord with all joy; and honor such men,
 Philippians	Phil	57	2	30	for he nearly died for the work of Christ, risking his life to complete your service to me.
 Philippians	Phil	57	3	1	Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is not irksome to me, and is safe for you.
 Philippians	Phil	57	3	2	Look out for the dogs, look out for the evil-workers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh.
 Philippians	Phil	57	3	3	For we are the true circumcision, who worship God in spirit, and glory in Christ Jesus, and put no confidence in the flesh.
 Philippians	Phil	57	3	4	Though I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh also. If any other man thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more:
 Philippians	Phil	57	3	5	circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law a Pharisee,
 Philippians	Phil	57	3	6	as to zeal a persecutor of the church, as to righteousness under the law blameless.
 Philippians	Phil	57	3	7	But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.
 Philippians	Phil	57	3	8	Indeed I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as refuse, in order that I may gain Christ
 Philippians	Phil	57	3	9	and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, based on law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith;
 Philippians	Phil	57	3	10	that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,
 Philippians	Phil	57	3	11	that if possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.
 Philippians	Phil	57	3	12	Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.
 Philippians	Phil	57	3	13	Brethren, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but one thing I do, forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
 Philippians	Phil	57	3	14	I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
 Philippians	Phil	57	3	15	Let those of us who are mature be thus minded; and if in anything you are otherwise minded, God will reveal that also to you.
 Philippians	Phil	57	3	16	Only let us hold true to what we have attained.
 Philippians	Phil	57	3	17	Brethren, join in imitating me, and mark those who so live as you have an example in us.
 Philippians	Phil	57	3	18	For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
 Philippians	Phil	57	3	19	Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.
 Philippians	Phil	57	3	20	But our commonwealth is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
 Philippians	Phil	57	3	21	who will change our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power which enables him even to subject all things to himself.
 Philippians	Phil	57	4	1	Therefore, my brethren, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved.
 Philippians	Phil	57	4	2	I entreat Eu-odia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord.
 Philippians	Phil	57	4	3	And I ask you also, true yokefellow, help these women, for they have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.
 Philippians	Phil	57	4	4	Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice.
 Philippians	Phil	57	4	5	Let all men know your forbearance. The Lord is at hand.
 Philippians	Phil	57	4	6	Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
 Philippians	Phil	57	4	7	And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
 Philippians	Phil	57	4	8	Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
 Philippians	Phil	57	4	9	What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, do; and the God of peace will be with you.
 Philippians	Phil	57	4	10	I rejoice in the Lord greatly that now at length you have revived your concern for me; you were indeed concerned for me, but you had no opportunity.
 Philippians	Phil	57	4	11	Not that I complain of want; for I have learned, in whatever state I am, to be content.
 Philippians	Phil	57	4	12	I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound; in any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and want.
 Philippians	Phil	57	4	13	I can do all things in him who strengthens me.
 Philippians	Phil	57	4	14	Yet it was kind of you to share my trouble.
 Philippians	Phil	57	4	15	And you Philippians yourselves know that in the beginning of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church entered into partnership with me in giving and receiving except you only;
 Philippians	Phil	57	4	16	for even in Thessalonica you sent me help once and again.
 Philippians	Phil	57	4	17	Not that I seek the gift; but I seek the fruit which increases to your credit.
 Philippians	Phil	57	4	18	I have received full payment, and more; I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent, a fragrant offering, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God.
 Philippians	Phil	57	4	19	And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
 Philippians	Phil	57	4	20	To our God and Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
 Philippians	Phil	57	4	21	Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren who are with me greet you.
 Philippians	Phil	57	4	22	All the saints greet you, especially those of Caesar’s household.
 Philippians	Phil	57	4	23	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
 Colossians	Col	58	1	1	Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
 Colossians	Col	58	1	2	To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father.
 Colossians	Col	58	1	3	We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,
 Colossians	Col	58	1	4	because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have for all the saints,
 Colossians	Col	58	1	5	because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel
 Colossians	Col	58	1	6	which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and growing—so among yourselves, from the day you heard and understood the grace of God in truth,
 Colossians	Col	58	1	7	as you learned it from Epaphras our beloved fellow servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf
 Colossians	Col	58	1	8	and has made known to us your love in the Spirit.
 Colossians	Col	58	1	9	And so, from the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
 Colossians	Col	58	1	10	to lead a life worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.
 Colossians	Col	58	1	11	May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy,
 Colossians	Col	58	1	12	giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.
 Colossians	Col	58	1	13	He has delivered us from the dominion of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,
 Colossians	Col	58	1	14	in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
 Colossians	Col	58	1	15	He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation;
 Colossians	Col	58	1	16	for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.
 Colossians	Col	58	1	17	He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
 Colossians	Col	58	1	18	He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in everything he might be pre-eminent.
 Colossians	Col	58	1	19	For in him all the fulness of God was pleased to dwell,
 Colossians	Col	58	1	20	and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.
 Colossians	Col	58	1	21	And you, who once were estranged and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,
 Colossians	Col	58	1	22	he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable before him,
 Colossians	Col	58	1	23	provided that you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which has been preached to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.
 Colossians	Col	58	1	24	Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,
 Colossians	Col	58	1	25	of which I became a minister according to the divine office which was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known,
 Colossians	Col	58	1	26	the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now made manifest to his saints.
 Colossians	Col	58	1	27	To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
 Colossians	Col	58	1	28	Him we proclaim, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man mature in Christ.
 Colossians	Col	58	1	29	For this I toil, striving with all the energy which he mightily inspires within me.
 Colossians	Col	58	2	1	For I want you to know how greatly I strive for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not seen my face,
 Colossians	Col	58	2	2	that their hearts may be encouraged as they are knit together in love, to have all the riches of assured understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, of Christ,
 Colossians	Col	58	2	3	in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
 Colossians	Col	58	2	4	I say this in order that no one may delude you with beguiling speech.
 Colossians	Col	58	2	5	For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ.
 Colossians	Col	58	2	6	As therefore you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so live in him,
 Colossians	Col	58	2	7	rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
 Colossians	Col	58	2	8	See to it that no one makes a prey of you by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the universe, and not according to Christ.
 Colossians	Col	58	2	9	For in him the whole fulness of deity dwells bodily,
 Colossians	Col	58	2	10	and you have come to fulness of life in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.
 Colossians	Col	58	2	11	In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of flesh in the circumcision of Christ;
 Colossians	Col	58	2	12	and you were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
 Colossians	Col	58	2	13	And you, who were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
 Colossians	Col	58	2	14	having canceled the bond which stood against us with its legal demands; this he set aside, nailing it to the cross.
 Colossians	Col	58	2	15	He disarmed the principalities and powers and made a public example of them, triumphing over them in him.
 Colossians	Col	58	2	16	Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a sabbath.
 Colossians	Col	58	2	17	These are only a shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.
 Colossians	Col	58	2	18	Let no one disqualify you, insisting on self-abasement and worship of angels, taking his stand on visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind,
 Colossians	Col	58	2	19	and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.
 Colossians	Col	58	2	20	If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the universe, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations,
 Colossians	Col	58	2	21	“Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch”
 Colossians	Col	58	2	22	(referring to things which all perish as they are used), according to human precepts and doctrines?
 Colossians	Col	58	2	23	These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting rigor of devotion and self-abasement and severity to the body, but they are of no value in checking the indulgence of the flesh.
 Colossians	Col	58	3	1	If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
 Colossians	Col	58	3	2	Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.
 Colossians	Col	58	3	3	For you have died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
 Colossians	Col	58	3	4	When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
 Colossians	Col	58	3	5	Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
 Colossians	Col	58	3	6	On account of these the wrath of God is coming.
 Colossians	Col	58	3	7	In these you once walked, when you lived in them.
 Colossians	Col	58	3	8	But now put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and foul talk from your mouth.
 Colossians	Col	58	3	9	Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old nature with its practices
 Colossians	Col	58	3	10	and have put on the new nature, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
 Colossians	Col	58	3	11	Here there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free man, but Christ is all, and in all.
 Colossians	Col	58	3	12	Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience,
 Colossians	Col	58	3	13	forbearing one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
 Colossians	Col	58	3	14	And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
 Colossians	Col	58	3	15	And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body. And be thankful.
 Colossians	Col	58	3	16	Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
 Colossians	Col	58	3	17	And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
 Colossians	Col	58	3	18	Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
 Colossians	Col	58	3	19	Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.
 Colossians	Col	58	3	20	Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
 Colossians	Col	58	3	21	Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
 Colossians	Col	58	3	22	Slaves, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord.
 Colossians	Col	58	3	23	Whatever your task, work heartily, as serving the Lord and not men,
 Colossians	Col	58	3	24	knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward; you are serving the Lord Christ.
 Colossians	Col	58	3	25	For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.
 Colossians	Col	58	4	1	Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
 Colossians	Col	58	4	2	Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving;
 Colossians	Col	58	4	3	and pray for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison,
 Colossians	Col	58	4	4	that I may make it clear, as I ought to speak.
 Colossians	Col	58	4	5	Conduct yourselves wisely toward outsiders, making the most of the time.
 Colossians	Col	58	4	6	Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer every one.
 Colossians	Col	58	4	7	Tychicus will tell you all about my affairs; he is a beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord.
 Colossians	Col	58	4	8	I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are and that he may encourage your hearts,
 Colossians	Col	58	4	9	and with him Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of yourselves. They will tell you of everything that has taken place here.
 Colossians	Col	58	4	10	Aristarchus my fellow prisoner greets you, and Mark the cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you have received instructions—if he comes to you, receive him),
 Colossians	Col	58	4	11	and Jesus who is called Justus. These are the only men of the circumcision among my fellow workers for the kingdom of God, and they have been a comfort to me.
 Colossians	Col	58	4	12	Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always remembering you earnestly in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.
 Colossians	Col	58	4	13	For I bear him witness that he has worked hard for you and for those in Laodicea and in Hi-erapolis.
 Colossians	Col	58	4	14	Luke the beloved physician and Demas greet you.
 Colossians	Col	58	4	15	Give my greetings to the brethren at Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her house.
 Colossians	Col	58	4	16	And when this letter has been read among you, have it read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and see that you read also the letter from Laodicea.
 Colossians	Col	58	4	17	And say to Archippus, “See that you fulfil the ministry which you have received in the Lord.”
 Colossians	Col	58	4	18	I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. Remember my fetters. Grace be with you.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	1	1	Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	1	2	We give thanks to God always for you all, constantly mentioning you in our prayers,
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	1	3	remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	1	4	For we know, brethren beloved by God, that he has chosen you;
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	1	5	for our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction. You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	1	6	And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction, with joy inspired by the Holy Spirit;
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	1	7	so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	1	8	For not only has the word of the Lord sounded forth from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone forth everywhere, so that we need not say anything.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	1	9	For they themselves report concerning us what a welcome we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	1	10	and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	2	1	For you yourselves know, brethren, that our visit to you was not in vain;
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	2	2	but though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we had courage in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in the face of great opposition.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	2	3	For our appeal does not spring from error or uncleanness, nor is it made with guile;
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	2	4	but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please men, but to please God who tests our hearts.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	2	5	For we never used either words of flattery, as you know, or a cloak for greed, as God is witness;
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	2	6	nor did we seek glory from men, whether from you or from others, though we might have made demands as apostles of Christ.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	2	7	But we were gentle among you, like a nurse taking care of her children.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	2	8	So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	2	9	For you remember our labor and toil, brethren; we worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you, while we preached to you the gospel of God.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	2	10	You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our behavior to you believers;
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	2	11	for you know how, like a father with his children, we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	2	12	to lead a life worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	2	13	And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	2	14	For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus which are in Judea; for you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews,
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	2	15	who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all men
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	2	16	by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they may be saved—so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God’s wrath has come upon them at last!
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	2	17	But since we were bereft of you, brethren, for a short time, in person not in heart, we endeavored the more eagerly and with great desire to see you face to face;
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	2	18	because we wanted to come to you—I, Paul, again and again—but Satan hindered us.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	2	19	For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you?
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	2	20	For you are our glory and joy.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	3	1	Therefore when we could bear it no longer, we were willing to be left behind at Athens alone,
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	3	2	and we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the gospel of Christ, to establish you in your faith and to exhort you,
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	3	3	that no one be moved by these afflictions. You yourselves know that this is to be our lot.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	3	4	For when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we were to suffer affliction; just as it has come to pass, and as you know.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	3	5	For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent that I might know your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and that our labor would be in vain.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	3	6	But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us the good news of your faith and love and reported that you always remember us kindly and long to see us, as we long to see you—
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	3	7	for this reason, brethren, in all our distress and affliction we have been comforted about you through your faith;
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	3	8	for now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	3	9	For what thanksgiving can we render to God for you, for all the joy which we feel for your sake before our God,
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	3	10	praying earnestly night and day that we may see you face to face and supply what is lacking in your faith?
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	3	11	Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you;
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	3	12	and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all men, as we do to you,
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	3	13	so that he may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	4	1	Finally, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God, just as you are doing, you do so more and more.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	4	2	For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	4	3	For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from unchastity;
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	4	4	that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	4	5	not in the passion of lust like heathen who do not know God;
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	4	6	that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we solemnly forewarned you.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	4	7	For God has not called us for uncleanness, but in holiness.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	4	8	Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	4	9	But concerning love of the brethren you have no need to have any one write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another;
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	4	10	and indeed you do love all the brethren throughout Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, to do so more and more,
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	4	11	to aspire to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we charged you;
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	4	12	so that you may command the respect of outsiders, and be dependent on nobody.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	4	13	But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	4	14	For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	4	15	For this we declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, shall not precede those who have fallen asleep.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	4	16	For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the archangel’s call, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first;
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	4	17	then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall always be with the Lord.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	4	18	Therefore comfort one another with these words.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	5	1	But as to the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need to have anything written to you.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	5	2	For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	5	3	When people say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as travail comes upon a woman with child, and there will be no escape.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	5	4	But you are not in darkness, brethren, for that day to surprise you like a thief.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	5	5	For you are all sons of light and sons of the day; we are not of the night or of darkness.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	5	6	So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	5	7	For those who sleep sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	5	8	But, since we belong to the day, let us be sober, and put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	5	9	For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	5	10	who died for us so that whether we wake or sleep we might live with him.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	5	11	Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	5	12	But we beseech you, brethren, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you,
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	5	13	and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	5	14	And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the idlers, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	5	15	See that none of you repays evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to all.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	5	16	Rejoice always,
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	5	17	pray constantly,
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	5	18	give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	5	19	Do not quench the Spirit,
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	5	20	do not despise prophesying,
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	5	21	but test everything; hold fast what is good,
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	5	22	abstain from every form of evil.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	5	23	May the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	5	24	He who calls you is faithful, and he will do it.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	5	25	Brethren, pray for us.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	5	26	Greet all the brethren with a holy kiss.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	5	27	I adjure you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the brethren.
 1 Thessalonians	1Thess	59	5	28	The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	1	1	Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	1	2	Grace to you and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	1	3	We are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as is fitting, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	1	4	Therefore we ourselves boast of you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you are enduring.
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	1	5	This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be made worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering—
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	1	6	since indeed God deems it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you,
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	1	7	and to grant rest with us to you who are afflicted, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	1	8	inflicting vengeance upon those who do not know God and upon those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	1	9	They shall suffer the punishment of eternal destruction and exclusion from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	1	10	when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at in all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	1	11	To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his call, and may fulfil every good resolve and work of faith by his power,
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	1	12	so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	2	1	Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our assembling to meet him, we beg you, brethren,
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	2	2	not to be quickly shaken in mind or excited, either by spirit or by word, or by letter purporting to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	2	3	Let no one deceive you in any way; for that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of perdition,
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	2	4	who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	2	5	Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you this?
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	2	6	And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time.
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	2	7	For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way.
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	2	8	And then the lawless one will be revealed, and the Lord Jesus will slay him with the breath of his mouth and destroy him by his appearing and his coming.
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	2	9	The coming of the lawless one by the activity of Satan will be with all power and with pretended signs and wonders,
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	2	10	and with all wicked deception for those who are to perish, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	2	11	Therefore God sends upon them a strong delusion, to make them believe what is false,
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	2	12	so that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	2	13	But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	2	14	To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	2	15	So then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by letter.
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	2	16	Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	2	17	comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	3	1	Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed on and triumph, as it did among you,
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	3	2	and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men; for not all have faith.
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	3	3	But the Lord is faithful; he will strengthen you and guard you from evil.
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	3	4	And we have confidence in the Lord about you, that you are doing and will do the things which we command.
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	3	5	May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	3	6	Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is living in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	3	7	For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us; we were not idle when we were with you,
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	3	8	we did not eat any one’s bread without paying, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you.
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	3	9	It was not because we have not that right, but to give you in our conduct an example to imitate.
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	3	10	For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: If any one will not work, let him not eat.
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	3	11	For we hear that some of you are living in idleness, mere busybodies, not doing any work.
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	3	12	Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work in quietness and to earn their own living.
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	3	13	Brethren, do not be weary in well-doing.
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	3	14	If any one refuses to obey what we say in this letter, note that man, and have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed.
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	3	15	Do not look on him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	3	16	Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	3	17	I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. This is the mark in every letter of mine; it is the way I write.
 2 Thessalonians	2Thess	60	3	18	The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	1	1	Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	1	2	To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	1	3	As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine,
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	1	4	nor to occupy themselves with myths and endless genealogies which promote speculations rather than the divine training that is in faith;
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	1	5	whereas the aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	1	6	Certain persons by swerving from these have wandered away into vain discussion,
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	1	7	desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make assertions.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	1	8	Now we know that the law is good, if any one uses it lawfully,
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	1	9	understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	1	10	immoral persons, sodomites, kidnapers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	1	11	in accordance with the glorious gospel of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	1	12	I thank him who has given me strength for this, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful by appointing me to his service,
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	1	13	though I formerly blasphemed and persecuted and insulted him; but I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	1	14	and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	1	15	The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. And I am the foremost of sinners;
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	1	16	but I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience for an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	1	17	To the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	1	18	This charge I commit to you, Timothy, my son, in accordance with the prophetic utterances which pointed to you, that inspired by them you may wage the good warfare,
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	1	19	holding faith and a good conscience. By rejecting conscience, certain persons have made shipwreck of their faith,
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	1	20	among them Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	2	1	First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all men,
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	2	2	for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life, godly and respectful in every way.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	2	3	This is good, and it is acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	2	4	who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	2	5	For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	2	6	who gave himself as a ransom for all, the testimony to which was borne at the proper time.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	2	7	For this I was appointed a preacher and apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	2	8	I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	2	9	also that women should adorn themselves modestly and sensibly in seemly apparel, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly attire
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	2	10	but by good deeds, as befits women who profess religion.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	2	11	Let a woman learn in silence with all submissiveness.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	2	12	I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over men; she is to keep silent.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	2	13	For Adam was formed first, then Eve;
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	2	14	and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	2	15	Yet woman will be saved through bearing children, if she continues in faith and love and holiness, with modesty.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	3	1	The saying is sure: If any one aspires to the office of bishop, he desires a noble task.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	3	2	Now a bishop must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, dignified, hospitable, an apt teacher,
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	3	3	no drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, and no lover of money.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	3	4	He must manage his own household well, keeping his children submissive and respectful in every way;
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	3	5	for if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for God’s church?
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	3	6	He must not be a recent convert, or he may be puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil;
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	3	7	moreover he must be well thought of by outsiders, or he may fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	3	8	Deacons likewise must be serious, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for gain;
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	3	9	they must hold the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	3	10	And let them also be tested first; then if they prove themselves blameless let them serve as deacons.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	3	11	The women likewise must be serious, no slanderers, but temperate, faithful in all things.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	3	12	Let deacons be the husband of one wife, and let them manage their children and their households well;
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	3	13	for those who serve well as deacons gain a good standing for themselves and also great confidence in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	3	14	I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these instructions to you so that,
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	3	15	if I am delayed, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the truth.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	3	16	Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of our religion: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	4	1	Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by giving heed to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons,
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	4	2	through the pretensions of liars whose consciences are seared,
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	4	3	who forbid marriage and enjoin abstinence from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	4	4	For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving;
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	4	5	for then it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	4	6	If you put these instructions before the brethren, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished on the words of the faith and of the good doctrine which you have followed.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	4	7	Have nothing to do with godless and silly myths. Train yourself in godliness;
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	4	8	for while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	4	9	The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	4	10	For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	4	11	Command and teach these things.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	4	12	Let no one despise your youth, but set the believers an example in speech and conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	4	13	Till I come, attend to the public reading of scripture, to preaching, to teaching.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	4	14	Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophetic utterance when the council of elders laid their hands upon you.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	4	15	Practice these duties, devote yourself to them, so that all may see your progress.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	4	16	Take heed to yourself and to your teaching; hold to that, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	5	1	Do not rebuke an older man but exhort him as you would a father; treat younger men like brothers,
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	5	2	older women like mothers, younger women like sisters, in all purity.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	5	3	Honor widows who are real widows.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	5	4	If a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn their religious duty to their own family and make some return to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	5	5	She who is a real widow, and is left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day;
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	5	6	whereas she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	5	7	Command this, so that they may be without reproach.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	5	8	If any one does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his own family, he has disowned the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	5	9	Let a widow be enrolled if she is not less than sixty years of age, having been the wife of one husband;
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	5	10	and she must be well attested for her good deeds, as one who has brought up children, shown hospitality, washed the feet of the saints, relieved the afflicted, and devoted herself to doing good in every way.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	5	11	But refuse to enroll younger widows; for when they grow wanton against Christ they desire to marry,
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	5	12	and so they incur condemnation for having violated their first pledge.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	5	13	Besides that, they learn to be idlers, gadding about from house to house, and not only idlers but gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	5	14	So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, rule their households, and give the enemy no occasion to revile us.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	5	15	For some have already strayed after Satan.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	5	16	If any believing woman has relatives who are widows, let her assist them; let the church not be burdened, so that it may assist those who are real widows.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	5	17	Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching;
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	5	18	for the scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain,” and, “The laborer deserves his wages.”
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	5	19	Never admit any charge against an elder except on the evidence of two or three witnesses.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	5	20	As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so that the rest may stand in fear.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	5	21	In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the elect angels I charge you to keep these rules without favor, doing nothing from partiality.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	5	22	Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, nor participate in another man’s sins; keep yourself pure.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	5	23	No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	5	24	The sins of some men are conspicuous, pointing to judgment, but the sins of others appear later.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	5	25	So also good deeds are conspicuous; and even when they are not, they cannot remain hidden.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	6	1	Let all who are under the yoke of slavery regard their masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be defamed.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	6	2	Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brethren; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these duties.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	6	3	If any one teaches otherwise and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching which accords with godliness,
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	6	4	he is puffed up with conceit, he knows nothing; he has a morbid craving for controversy and for disputes about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, base suspicions,
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	6	5	and wrangling among men who are depraved in mind and bereft of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	6	6	There is great gain in godliness with contentment;
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	6	7	for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world;
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	6	8	but if we have food and clothing, with these we shall be content.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	6	9	But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and hurtful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	6	10	For the love of money is the root of all evils; it is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced their hearts with many pangs.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	6	11	But as for you, man of God, shun all this; aim at righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	6	12	Fight the good fight of the faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	6	13	In the presence of God who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession,
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	6	14	I charge you to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ;
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	6	15	and this will be made manifest at the proper time by the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords,
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	6	16	who alone has immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	6	17	As for the rich in this world, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on uncertain riches but on God who richly furnishes us with everything to enjoy.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	6	18	They are to do good, to be rich in good deeds, liberal and generous,
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	6	19	thus laying up for themselves a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of the life which is life indeed.
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	6	20	O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the godless chatter and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge,
 1 Timothy	1Tim	61	6	21	for by professing it some have missed the mark as regards the faith. Grace be with you.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	1	1	Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	1	2	To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	1	3	I thank God whom I serve with a clear conscience, as did my fathers, when I remember you constantly in my prayers.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	1	4	As I remember your tears, I long night and day to see you, that I may be filled with joy.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	1	5	I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	1	6	Hence I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is within you through the laying on of my hands;
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	1	7	for God did not give us a spirit of timidity but a spirit of power and love and self-control.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	1	8	Do not be ashamed then of testifying to our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel in the power of God,
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	1	9	who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not in virtue of our works but in virtue of his own purpose and the grace which he gave us in Christ Jesus ages ago,
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	1	10	and now has manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	1	11	For this gospel I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher,
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	1	12	and therefore I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am sure that he is able to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	1	13	Follow the pattern of the sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus;
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	1	14	guard the truth that has been entrusted to you by the Holy Spirit who dwells within us.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	1	15	You are aware that all who are in Asia turned away from me, and among them Phygelus and Hermogenes.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	1	16	May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me; he was not ashamed of my chains,
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	1	17	but when he arrived in Rome he searched for me eagerly and found me—
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	1	18	may the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that Day—and you well know all the service he rendered at Ephesus.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	2	1	You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus,
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	2	2	and what you have heard from me before many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	2	3	Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	2	4	No soldier on service gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to satisfy the one who enlisted him.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	2	5	An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	2	6	It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	2	7	Think over what I say, for the Lord will grant you understanding in everything.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	2	8	Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, descended from David, as preached in my gospel,
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	2	9	the gospel for which I am suffering and wearing fetters like a criminal. But the word of God is not fettered.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	2	10	Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain salvation in Christ Jesus with its eternal glory.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	2	11	The saying is sure: If we have died with him, we shall also live with him;
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	2	12	if we endure, we shall also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us;
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	2	13	if we are faithless, he remains faithful— for he cannot deny himself.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	2	14	Remind them of this, and charge them before the Lord to avoid disputing about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	2	15	Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	2	16	Avoid such godless chatter, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness,
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	2	17	and their talk will eat its way like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	2	18	who have swerved from the truth by holding that the resurrection is past already. They are upsetting the faith of some.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	2	19	But God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.”
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	2	20	In a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and earthenware, and some for noble use, some for ignoble.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	2	21	If any one purifies himself from what is ignoble, then he will be a vessel for noble use, consecrated and useful to the master of the house, ready for any good work.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	2	22	So shun youthful passions and aim at righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call upon the Lord from a pure heart.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	2	23	Have nothing to do with stupid, senseless controversies; you know that they breed quarrels.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	2	24	And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kindly to every one, an apt teacher, forbearing,
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	2	25	correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant that they will repent and come to know the truth,
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	2	26	and they may escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	3	1	But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of stress.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	3	2	For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	3	3	inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, fierce, haters of good,
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	3	4	treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	3	5	holding the form of religion but denying the power of it. Avoid such people.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	3	6	For among them are those who make their way into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and swayed by various impulses,
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	3	7	who will listen to anybody and can never arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	3	8	As Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of corrupt mind and counterfeit faith;
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	3	9	but they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	3	10	Now you have observed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness,
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	3	11	my persecutions, my sufferings, what befell me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra, what persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	3	12	Indeed all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	3	13	while evil men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceivers and deceived.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	3	14	But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	3	15	and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings which are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	3	16	All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	3	17	that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	4	1	I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	4	2	preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	4	3	For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings,
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	4	4	and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	4	5	As for you, always be steady, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	4	6	For I am already on the point of being sacrificed; the time of my departure has come.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	4	7	I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	4	8	Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	4	9	Do your best to come to me soon.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	4	10	For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	4	11	Luke alone is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you; for he is very useful in serving me.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	4	12	Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	4	13	When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, also the books, and above all the parchments.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	4	14	Alexander the coppersmith did me great harm; the Lord will requite him for his deeds.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	4	15	Beware of him yourself, for he strongly opposed our message.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	4	16	At my first defense no one took my part; all deserted me. May it not be charged against them!
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	4	17	But the Lord stood by me and gave me strength to proclaim the message fully, that all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion’s mouth.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	4	18	The Lord will rescue me from every evil and save me for his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	4	19	Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	4	20	Erastus remained at Corinth; Trophimus I left ill at Miletus.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	4	21	Do your best to come before winter. Eubulus sends greetings to you, as do Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brethren.
 2 Timothy	2Tim	62	4	22	The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you.
 Titus	Tit	63	1	1	Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to further the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth which accords with godliness,
 Titus	Tit	63	1	2	in hope of eternal life which God, who never lies, promised ages ago
 Titus	Tit	63	1	3	and at the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching with which I have been entrusted by command of God our Savior;
 Titus	Tit	63	1	4	To Titus, my true child in a common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.
 Titus	Tit	63	1	5	This is why I left you in Crete, that you might amend what was defective, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you,
 Titus	Tit	63	1	6	if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of being profligate or insubordinate.
 Titus	Tit	63	1	7	For a bishop, as God’s steward, must be blameless; he must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain,
 Titus	Tit	63	1	8	but hospitable, a lover of goodness, master of himself, upright, holy, and self-controlled;
 Titus	Tit	63	1	9	he must hold firm to the sure word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to confute those who contradict it.
 Titus	Tit	63	1	10	For there are many insubordinate men, empty talkers and deceivers, especially the circumcision party;
 Titus	Tit	63	1	11	they must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for base gain what they have no right to teach.
 Titus	Tit	63	1	12	One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”
 Titus	Tit	63	1	13	This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
 Titus	Tit	63	1	14	instead of giving heed to Jewish myths or to commands of men who reject the truth.
 Titus	Tit	63	1	15	To the pure all things are pure, but to the corrupt and unbelieving nothing is pure; their very minds and consciences are corrupted.
 Titus	Tit	63	1	16	They profess to know God, but they deny him by their deeds; they are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good deed.
 Titus	Tit	63	2	1	But as for you, teach what befits sound doctrine.
 Titus	Tit	63	2	2	Bid the older men be temperate, serious, sensible, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness.
 Titus	Tit	63	2	3	Bid the older women likewise to be reverent in behavior, not to be slanderers or slaves to drink; they are to teach what is good,
 Titus	Tit	63	2	4	and so train the young women to love their husbands and children,
 Titus	Tit	63	2	5	to be sensible, chaste, domestic, kind, and submissive to their husbands, that the word of God may not be discredited.
 Titus	Tit	63	2	6	Likewise urge the younger men to control themselves.
 Titus	Tit	63	2	7	Show yourself in all respects a model of good deeds, and in your teaching show integrity, gravity,
 Titus	Tit	63	2	8	and sound speech that cannot be censured, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say of us.
 Titus	Tit	63	2	9	Bid slaves to be submissive to their masters and to give satisfaction in every respect; they are not to be refractory,
 Titus	Tit	63	2	10	nor to pilfer, but to show entire and true fidelity, so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior.
 Titus	Tit	63	2	11	For the grace of God has appeared for the salvation of all men,
 Titus	Tit	63	2	12	training us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions, and to live sober, upright, and godly lives in this world,
 Titus	Tit	63	2	13	awaiting our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
 Titus	Tit	63	2	14	who gave himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity and to purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.
 Titus	Tit	63	2	15	Declare these things; exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one disregard you.
 Titus	Tit	63	3	1	Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for any honest work,
 Titus	Tit	63	3	2	to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all men.
 Titus	Tit	63	3	3	For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by men and hating one another;
 Titus	Tit	63	3	4	but when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared,
 Titus	Tit	63	3	5	he saved us, not because of deeds done by us in righteousness, but in virtue of his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal in the Holy Spirit,
 Titus	Tit	63	3	6	which he poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
 Titus	Tit	63	3	7	so that we might be justified by his grace and become heirs in hope of eternal life.
 Titus	Tit	63	3	8	The saying is sure. I desire you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to apply themselves to good deeds; these are excellent and profitable to men.
 Titus	Tit	63	3	9	But avoid stupid controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels over the law, for they are unprofitable and futile.
 Titus	Tit	63	3	10	As for a man who is factious, after admonishing him once or twice, have nothing more to do with him,
 Titus	Tit	63	3	11	knowing that such a person is perverted and sinful; he is self-condemned.
 Titus	Tit	63	3	12	When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.
 Titus	Tit	63	3	13	Do your best to speed Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their way; see that they lack nothing.
 Titus	Tit	63	3	14	And let our people learn to apply themselves to good deeds, so as to help cases of urgent need, and not to be unfruitful.
 Titus	Tit	63	3	15	All who are with me send greetings to you. Greet those who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all.
 Philemon	Philem	64	1	1	Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
 Philemon	Philem	64	1	2	and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
 Philemon	Philem	64	1	3	Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	1	4	I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,
 Philemon	Philem	64	1	5	because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints,
 Philemon	Philem	64	1	6	and I pray that the sharing of your faith may promote the knowledge of all the good that is ours in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	1	7	For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	1	8	Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required,
 Philemon	Philem	64	1	9	yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an ambassador and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—
 Philemon	Philem	64	1	10	I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment.
 Philemon	Philem	64	1	11	(Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)
 Philemon	Philem	64	1	12	I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.
 Philemon	Philem	64	1	13	I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel;
 Philemon	Philem	64	1	14	but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will.
 Philemon	Philem	64	1	15	Perhaps this is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever,
 Philemon	Philem	64	1	16	no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
 Philemon	Philem	64	1	17	So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.
 Philemon	Philem	64	1	18	If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account.
 Philemon	Philem	64	1	19	I, Paul, write this with my own hand, I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self.
 Philemon	Philem	64	1	20	Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	1	21	Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
 Philemon	Philem	64	1	22	At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping through your prayers to be granted to you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	1	23	Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,
 Philemon	Philem	64	1	24	and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
 Philemon	Philem	64	1	25	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
 Philemon	Philem	64	2	1	Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
 Philemon	Philem	64	2	2	and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
 Philemon	Philem	64	2	3	Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	2	4	I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,
 Philemon	Philem	64	2	5	because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints,
 Philemon	Philem	64	2	6	and I pray that the sharing of your faith may promote the knowledge of all the good that is ours in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	2	7	For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	2	8	Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required,
 Philemon	Philem	64	2	9	yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an ambassador and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—
 Philemon	Philem	64	2	10	I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment.
 Philemon	Philem	64	2	11	(Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)
 Philemon	Philem	64	2	12	I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.
 Philemon	Philem	64	2	13	I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel;
 Philemon	Philem	64	2	14	but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will.
 Philemon	Philem	64	2	15	Perhaps this is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever,
 Philemon	Philem	64	2	16	no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
 Philemon	Philem	64	2	17	So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.
 Philemon	Philem	64	2	18	If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account.
 Philemon	Philem	64	2	19	I, Paul, write this with my own hand, I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self.
 Philemon	Philem	64	2	20	Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	2	21	Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
 Philemon	Philem	64	2	22	At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping through your prayers to be granted to you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	2	23	Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,
 Philemon	Philem	64	2	24	and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
 Philemon	Philem	64	2	25	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
 Philemon	Philem	64	3	1	Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
 Philemon	Philem	64	3	2	and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
 Philemon	Philem	64	3	3	Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	3	4	I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,
 Philemon	Philem	64	3	5	because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints,
 Philemon	Philem	64	3	6	and I pray that the sharing of your faith may promote the knowledge of all the good that is ours in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	3	7	For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	3	8	Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required,
 Philemon	Philem	64	3	9	yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an ambassador and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—
 Philemon	Philem	64	3	10	I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment.
 Philemon	Philem	64	3	11	(Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)
 Philemon	Philem	64	3	12	I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.
 Philemon	Philem	64	3	13	I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel;
 Philemon	Philem	64	3	14	but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will.
 Philemon	Philem	64	3	15	Perhaps this is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever,
 Philemon	Philem	64	3	16	no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
 Philemon	Philem	64	3	17	So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.
 Philemon	Philem	64	3	18	If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account.
 Philemon	Philem	64	3	19	I, Paul, write this with my own hand, I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self.
 Philemon	Philem	64	3	20	Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	3	21	Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
 Philemon	Philem	64	3	22	At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping through your prayers to be granted to you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	3	23	Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,
 Philemon	Philem	64	3	24	and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
 Philemon	Philem	64	3	25	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
 Philemon	Philem	64	4	1	Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
 Philemon	Philem	64	4	2	and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
 Philemon	Philem	64	4	3	Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	4	4	I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,
 Philemon	Philem	64	4	5	because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints,
 Philemon	Philem	64	4	6	and I pray that the sharing of your faith may promote the knowledge of all the good that is ours in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	4	7	For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	4	8	Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required,
 Philemon	Philem	64	4	9	yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an ambassador and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—
 Philemon	Philem	64	4	10	I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment.
 Philemon	Philem	64	4	11	(Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)
 Philemon	Philem	64	4	12	I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.
 Philemon	Philem	64	4	13	I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel;
 Philemon	Philem	64	4	14	but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will.
 Philemon	Philem	64	4	15	Perhaps this is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever,
 Philemon	Philem	64	4	16	no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
 Philemon	Philem	64	4	17	So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.
 Philemon	Philem	64	4	18	If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account.
 Philemon	Philem	64	4	19	I, Paul, write this with my own hand, I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self.
 Philemon	Philem	64	4	20	Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	4	21	Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
 Philemon	Philem	64	4	22	At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping through your prayers to be granted to you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	4	23	Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,
 Philemon	Philem	64	4	24	and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
 Philemon	Philem	64	4	25	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
 Philemon	Philem	64	5	1	Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
 Philemon	Philem	64	5	2	and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
 Philemon	Philem	64	5	3	Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	5	4	I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,
 Philemon	Philem	64	5	5	because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints,
 Philemon	Philem	64	5	6	and I pray that the sharing of your faith may promote the knowledge of all the good that is ours in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	5	7	For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	5	8	Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required,
 Philemon	Philem	64	5	9	yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an ambassador and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—
 Philemon	Philem	64	5	10	I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment.
 Philemon	Philem	64	5	11	(Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)
 Philemon	Philem	64	5	12	I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.
 Philemon	Philem	64	5	13	I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel;
 Philemon	Philem	64	5	14	but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will.
 Philemon	Philem	64	5	15	Perhaps this is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever,
 Philemon	Philem	64	5	16	no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
 Philemon	Philem	64	5	17	So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.
 Philemon	Philem	64	5	18	If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account.
 Philemon	Philem	64	5	19	I, Paul, write this with my own hand, I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self.
 Philemon	Philem	64	5	20	Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	5	21	Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
 Philemon	Philem	64	5	22	At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping through your prayers to be granted to you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	5	23	Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,
 Philemon	Philem	64	5	24	and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
 Philemon	Philem	64	5	25	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
 Philemon	Philem	64	6	1	Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
 Philemon	Philem	64	6	2	and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
 Philemon	Philem	64	6	3	Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	6	4	I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,
 Philemon	Philem	64	6	5	because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints,
 Philemon	Philem	64	6	6	and I pray that the sharing of your faith may promote the knowledge of all the good that is ours in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	6	7	For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	6	8	Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required,
 Philemon	Philem	64	6	9	yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an ambassador and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—
 Philemon	Philem	64	6	10	I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment.
 Philemon	Philem	64	6	11	(Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)
 Philemon	Philem	64	6	12	I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.
 Philemon	Philem	64	6	13	I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel;
 Philemon	Philem	64	6	14	but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will.
 Philemon	Philem	64	6	15	Perhaps this is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever,
 Philemon	Philem	64	6	16	no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
 Philemon	Philem	64	6	17	So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.
 Philemon	Philem	64	6	18	If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account.
 Philemon	Philem	64	6	19	I, Paul, write this with my own hand, I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self.
 Philemon	Philem	64	6	20	Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	6	21	Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
 Philemon	Philem	64	6	22	At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping through your prayers to be granted to you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	6	23	Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,
 Philemon	Philem	64	6	24	and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
 Philemon	Philem	64	6	25	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
 Philemon	Philem	64	7	1	Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
 Philemon	Philem	64	7	2	and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
 Philemon	Philem	64	7	3	Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	7	4	I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,
 Philemon	Philem	64	7	5	because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints,
 Philemon	Philem	64	7	6	and I pray that the sharing of your faith may promote the knowledge of all the good that is ours in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	7	7	For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	7	8	Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required,
 Philemon	Philem	64	7	9	yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an ambassador and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—
 Philemon	Philem	64	7	10	I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment.
 Philemon	Philem	64	7	11	(Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)
 Philemon	Philem	64	7	12	I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.
 Philemon	Philem	64	7	13	I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel;
 Philemon	Philem	64	7	14	but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will.
 Philemon	Philem	64	7	15	Perhaps this is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever,
 Philemon	Philem	64	7	16	no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
 Philemon	Philem	64	7	17	So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.
 Philemon	Philem	64	7	18	If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account.
 Philemon	Philem	64	7	19	I, Paul, write this with my own hand, I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self.
 Philemon	Philem	64	7	20	Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	7	21	Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
 Philemon	Philem	64	7	22	At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping through your prayers to be granted to you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	7	23	Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,
 Philemon	Philem	64	7	24	and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
 Philemon	Philem	64	7	25	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
 Philemon	Philem	64	8	1	Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
 Philemon	Philem	64	8	2	and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
 Philemon	Philem	64	8	3	Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	8	4	I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,
 Philemon	Philem	64	8	5	because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints,
 Philemon	Philem	64	8	6	and I pray that the sharing of your faith may promote the knowledge of all the good that is ours in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	8	7	For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	8	8	Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required,
 Philemon	Philem	64	8	9	yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an ambassador and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—
 Philemon	Philem	64	8	10	I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment.
 Philemon	Philem	64	8	11	(Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)
 Philemon	Philem	64	8	12	I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.
 Philemon	Philem	64	8	13	I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel;
 Philemon	Philem	64	8	14	but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will.
 Philemon	Philem	64	8	15	Perhaps this is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever,
 Philemon	Philem	64	8	16	no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
 Philemon	Philem	64	8	17	So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.
 Philemon	Philem	64	8	18	If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account.
 Philemon	Philem	64	8	19	I, Paul, write this with my own hand, I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self.
 Philemon	Philem	64	8	20	Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	8	21	Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
 Philemon	Philem	64	8	22	At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping through your prayers to be granted to you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	8	23	Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,
 Philemon	Philem	64	8	24	and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
 Philemon	Philem	64	8	25	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
 Philemon	Philem	64	9	1	Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
 Philemon	Philem	64	9	2	and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
 Philemon	Philem	64	9	3	Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	9	4	I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,
 Philemon	Philem	64	9	5	because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints,
 Philemon	Philem	64	9	6	and I pray that the sharing of your faith may promote the knowledge of all the good that is ours in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	9	7	For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	9	8	Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required,
 Philemon	Philem	64	9	9	yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an ambassador and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—
 Philemon	Philem	64	9	10	I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment.
 Philemon	Philem	64	9	11	(Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)
 Philemon	Philem	64	9	12	I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.
 Philemon	Philem	64	9	13	I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel;
 Philemon	Philem	64	9	14	but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will.
 Philemon	Philem	64	9	15	Perhaps this is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever,
 Philemon	Philem	64	9	16	no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
 Philemon	Philem	64	9	17	So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.
 Philemon	Philem	64	9	18	If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account.
 Philemon	Philem	64	9	19	I, Paul, write this with my own hand, I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self.
 Philemon	Philem	64	9	20	Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	9	21	Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
 Philemon	Philem	64	9	22	At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping through your prayers to be granted to you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	9	23	Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,
 Philemon	Philem	64	9	24	and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
 Philemon	Philem	64	9	25	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
 Philemon	Philem	64	10	1	Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
 Philemon	Philem	64	10	2	and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
 Philemon	Philem	64	10	3	Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	10	4	I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,
 Philemon	Philem	64	10	5	because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints,
 Philemon	Philem	64	10	6	and I pray that the sharing of your faith may promote the knowledge of all the good that is ours in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	10	7	For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	10	8	Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required,
 Philemon	Philem	64	10	9	yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an ambassador and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—
 Philemon	Philem	64	10	10	I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment.
 Philemon	Philem	64	10	11	(Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)
 Philemon	Philem	64	10	12	I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.
 Philemon	Philem	64	10	13	I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel;
 Philemon	Philem	64	10	14	but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will.
 Philemon	Philem	64	10	15	Perhaps this is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever,
 Philemon	Philem	64	10	16	no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
 Philemon	Philem	64	10	17	So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.
 Philemon	Philem	64	10	18	If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account.
 Philemon	Philem	64	10	19	I, Paul, write this with my own hand, I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self.
 Philemon	Philem	64	10	20	Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	10	21	Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
 Philemon	Philem	64	10	22	At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping through your prayers to be granted to you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	10	23	Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,
 Philemon	Philem	64	10	24	and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
 Philemon	Philem	64	10	25	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
 Philemon	Philem	64	11	1	Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
 Philemon	Philem	64	11	2	and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
 Philemon	Philem	64	11	3	Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	11	4	I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,
 Philemon	Philem	64	11	5	because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints,
 Philemon	Philem	64	11	6	and I pray that the sharing of your faith may promote the knowledge of all the good that is ours in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	11	7	For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	11	8	Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required,
 Philemon	Philem	64	11	9	yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an ambassador and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—
 Philemon	Philem	64	11	10	I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment.
 Philemon	Philem	64	11	11	(Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)
 Philemon	Philem	64	11	12	I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.
 Philemon	Philem	64	11	13	I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel;
 Philemon	Philem	64	11	14	but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will.
 Philemon	Philem	64	11	15	Perhaps this is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever,
 Philemon	Philem	64	11	16	no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
 Philemon	Philem	64	11	17	So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.
 Philemon	Philem	64	11	18	If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account.
 Philemon	Philem	64	11	19	I, Paul, write this with my own hand, I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self.
 Philemon	Philem	64	11	20	Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	11	21	Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
 Philemon	Philem	64	11	22	At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping through your prayers to be granted to you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	11	23	Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,
 Philemon	Philem	64	11	24	and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
 Philemon	Philem	64	11	25	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
 Philemon	Philem	64	12	1	Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
 Philemon	Philem	64	12	2	and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
 Philemon	Philem	64	12	3	Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	12	4	I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,
 Philemon	Philem	64	12	5	because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints,
 Philemon	Philem	64	12	6	and I pray that the sharing of your faith may promote the knowledge of all the good that is ours in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	12	7	For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	12	8	Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required,
 Philemon	Philem	64	12	9	yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an ambassador and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—
 Philemon	Philem	64	12	10	I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment.
 Philemon	Philem	64	12	11	(Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)
 Philemon	Philem	64	12	12	I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.
 Philemon	Philem	64	12	13	I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel;
 Philemon	Philem	64	12	14	but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will.
 Philemon	Philem	64	12	15	Perhaps this is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever,
 Philemon	Philem	64	12	16	no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
 Philemon	Philem	64	12	17	So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.
 Philemon	Philem	64	12	18	If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account.
 Philemon	Philem	64	12	19	I, Paul, write this with my own hand, I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self.
 Philemon	Philem	64	12	20	Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	12	21	Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
 Philemon	Philem	64	12	22	At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping through your prayers to be granted to you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	12	23	Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,
 Philemon	Philem	64	12	24	and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
 Philemon	Philem	64	12	25	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
 Philemon	Philem	64	13	1	Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
 Philemon	Philem	64	13	2	and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
 Philemon	Philem	64	13	3	Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	13	4	I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,
 Philemon	Philem	64	13	5	because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints,
 Philemon	Philem	64	13	6	and I pray that the sharing of your faith may promote the knowledge of all the good that is ours in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	13	7	For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	13	8	Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required,
 Philemon	Philem	64	13	9	yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an ambassador and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—
 Philemon	Philem	64	13	10	I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment.
 Philemon	Philem	64	13	11	(Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)
 Philemon	Philem	64	13	12	I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.
 Philemon	Philem	64	13	13	I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel;
 Philemon	Philem	64	13	14	but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will.
 Philemon	Philem	64	13	15	Perhaps this is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever,
 Philemon	Philem	64	13	16	no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
 Philemon	Philem	64	13	17	So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.
 Philemon	Philem	64	13	18	If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account.
 Philemon	Philem	64	13	19	I, Paul, write this with my own hand, I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self.
 Philemon	Philem	64	13	20	Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	13	21	Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
 Philemon	Philem	64	13	22	At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping through your prayers to be granted to you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	13	23	Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,
 Philemon	Philem	64	13	24	and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
 Philemon	Philem	64	13	25	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
 Philemon	Philem	64	14	1	Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
 Philemon	Philem	64	14	2	and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
 Philemon	Philem	64	14	3	Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	14	4	I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,
 Philemon	Philem	64	14	5	because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints,
 Philemon	Philem	64	14	6	and I pray that the sharing of your faith may promote the knowledge of all the good that is ours in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	14	7	For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	14	8	Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required,
 Philemon	Philem	64	14	9	yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an ambassador and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—
 Philemon	Philem	64	14	10	I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment.
 Philemon	Philem	64	14	11	(Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)
 Philemon	Philem	64	14	12	I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.
 Philemon	Philem	64	14	13	I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel;
 Philemon	Philem	64	14	14	but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will.
 Philemon	Philem	64	14	15	Perhaps this is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever,
 Philemon	Philem	64	14	16	no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
 Philemon	Philem	64	14	17	So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.
 Philemon	Philem	64	14	18	If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account.
 Philemon	Philem	64	14	19	I, Paul, write this with my own hand, I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self.
 Philemon	Philem	64	14	20	Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	14	21	Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
 Philemon	Philem	64	14	22	At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping through your prayers to be granted to you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	14	23	Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,
 Philemon	Philem	64	14	24	and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
 Philemon	Philem	64	14	25	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
 Philemon	Philem	64	15	1	Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
 Philemon	Philem	64	15	2	and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
 Philemon	Philem	64	15	3	Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	15	4	I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,
 Philemon	Philem	64	15	5	because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints,
 Philemon	Philem	64	15	6	and I pray that the sharing of your faith may promote the knowledge of all the good that is ours in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	15	7	For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	15	8	Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required,
 Philemon	Philem	64	15	9	yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an ambassador and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—
 Philemon	Philem	64	15	10	I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment.
 Philemon	Philem	64	15	11	(Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)
 Philemon	Philem	64	15	12	I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.
 Philemon	Philem	64	15	13	I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel;
 Philemon	Philem	64	15	14	but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will.
 Philemon	Philem	64	15	15	Perhaps this is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever,
 Philemon	Philem	64	15	16	no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
 Philemon	Philem	64	15	17	So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.
 Philemon	Philem	64	15	18	If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account.
 Philemon	Philem	64	15	19	I, Paul, write this with my own hand, I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self.
 Philemon	Philem	64	15	20	Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	15	21	Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
 Philemon	Philem	64	15	22	At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping through your prayers to be granted to you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	15	23	Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,
 Philemon	Philem	64	15	24	and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
 Philemon	Philem	64	15	25	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
 Philemon	Philem	64	16	1	Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
 Philemon	Philem	64	16	2	and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
 Philemon	Philem	64	16	3	Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	16	4	I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,
 Philemon	Philem	64	16	5	because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints,
 Philemon	Philem	64	16	6	and I pray that the sharing of your faith may promote the knowledge of all the good that is ours in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	16	7	For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	16	8	Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required,
 Philemon	Philem	64	16	9	yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an ambassador and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—
 Philemon	Philem	64	16	10	I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment.
 Philemon	Philem	64	16	11	(Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)
 Philemon	Philem	64	16	12	I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.
 Philemon	Philem	64	16	13	I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel;
 Philemon	Philem	64	16	14	but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will.
 Philemon	Philem	64	16	15	Perhaps this is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever,
 Philemon	Philem	64	16	16	no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
 Philemon	Philem	64	16	17	So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.
 Philemon	Philem	64	16	18	If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account.
 Philemon	Philem	64	16	19	I, Paul, write this with my own hand, I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self.
 Philemon	Philem	64	16	20	Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	16	21	Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
 Philemon	Philem	64	16	22	At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping through your prayers to be granted to you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	16	23	Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,
 Philemon	Philem	64	16	24	and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
 Philemon	Philem	64	16	25	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
 Philemon	Philem	64	17	1	Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
 Philemon	Philem	64	17	2	and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
 Philemon	Philem	64	17	3	Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	17	4	I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,
 Philemon	Philem	64	17	5	because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints,
 Philemon	Philem	64	17	6	and I pray that the sharing of your faith may promote the knowledge of all the good that is ours in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	17	7	For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	17	8	Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required,
 Philemon	Philem	64	17	9	yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an ambassador and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—
 Philemon	Philem	64	17	10	I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment.
 Philemon	Philem	64	17	11	(Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)
 Philemon	Philem	64	17	12	I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.
 Philemon	Philem	64	17	13	I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel;
 Philemon	Philem	64	17	14	but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will.
 Philemon	Philem	64	17	15	Perhaps this is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever,
 Philemon	Philem	64	17	16	no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
 Philemon	Philem	64	17	17	So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.
 Philemon	Philem	64	17	18	If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account.
 Philemon	Philem	64	17	19	I, Paul, write this with my own hand, I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self.
 Philemon	Philem	64	17	20	Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	17	21	Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
 Philemon	Philem	64	17	22	At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping through your prayers to be granted to you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	17	23	Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,
 Philemon	Philem	64	17	24	and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
 Philemon	Philem	64	17	25	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
 Philemon	Philem	64	18	1	Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
 Philemon	Philem	64	18	2	and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
 Philemon	Philem	64	18	3	Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	18	4	I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,
 Philemon	Philem	64	18	5	because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints,
 Philemon	Philem	64	18	6	and I pray that the sharing of your faith may promote the knowledge of all the good that is ours in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	18	7	For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	18	8	Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required,
 Philemon	Philem	64	18	9	yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an ambassador and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—
 Philemon	Philem	64	18	10	I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment.
 Philemon	Philem	64	18	11	(Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)
 Philemon	Philem	64	18	12	I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.
 Philemon	Philem	64	18	13	I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel;
 Philemon	Philem	64	18	14	but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will.
 Philemon	Philem	64	18	15	Perhaps this is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever,
 Philemon	Philem	64	18	16	no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
 Philemon	Philem	64	18	17	So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.
 Philemon	Philem	64	18	18	If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account.
 Philemon	Philem	64	18	19	I, Paul, write this with my own hand, I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self.
 Philemon	Philem	64	18	20	Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	18	21	Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
 Philemon	Philem	64	18	22	At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping through your prayers to be granted to you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	18	23	Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,
 Philemon	Philem	64	18	24	and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
 Philemon	Philem	64	18	25	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
 Philemon	Philem	64	19	1	Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
 Philemon	Philem	64	19	2	and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
 Philemon	Philem	64	19	3	Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	19	4	I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,
 Philemon	Philem	64	19	5	because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints,
 Philemon	Philem	64	19	6	and I pray that the sharing of your faith may promote the knowledge of all the good that is ours in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	19	7	For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	19	8	Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required,
 Philemon	Philem	64	19	9	yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an ambassador and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—
 Philemon	Philem	64	19	10	I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment.
 Philemon	Philem	64	19	11	(Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)
 Philemon	Philem	64	19	12	I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.
 Philemon	Philem	64	19	13	I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel;
 Philemon	Philem	64	19	14	but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will.
 Philemon	Philem	64	19	15	Perhaps this is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever,
 Philemon	Philem	64	19	16	no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
 Philemon	Philem	64	19	17	So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.
 Philemon	Philem	64	19	18	If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account.
 Philemon	Philem	64	19	19	I, Paul, write this with my own hand, I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self.
 Philemon	Philem	64	19	20	Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	19	21	Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
 Philemon	Philem	64	19	22	At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping through your prayers to be granted to you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	19	23	Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,
 Philemon	Philem	64	19	24	and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
 Philemon	Philem	64	19	25	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
 Philemon	Philem	64	20	1	Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
 Philemon	Philem	64	20	2	and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
 Philemon	Philem	64	20	3	Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	20	4	I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,
 Philemon	Philem	64	20	5	because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints,
 Philemon	Philem	64	20	6	and I pray that the sharing of your faith may promote the knowledge of all the good that is ours in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	20	7	For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	20	8	Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required,
 Philemon	Philem	64	20	9	yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an ambassador and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—
 Philemon	Philem	64	20	10	I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment.
 Philemon	Philem	64	20	11	(Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)
 Philemon	Philem	64	20	12	I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.
 Philemon	Philem	64	20	13	I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel;
 Philemon	Philem	64	20	14	but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will.
 Philemon	Philem	64	20	15	Perhaps this is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever,
 Philemon	Philem	64	20	16	no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
 Philemon	Philem	64	20	17	So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.
 Philemon	Philem	64	20	18	If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account.
 Philemon	Philem	64	20	19	I, Paul, write this with my own hand, I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self.
 Philemon	Philem	64	20	20	Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	20	21	Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
 Philemon	Philem	64	20	22	At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping through your prayers to be granted to you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	20	23	Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,
 Philemon	Philem	64	20	24	and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
 Philemon	Philem	64	20	25	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
 Philemon	Philem	64	21	1	Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
 Philemon	Philem	64	21	2	and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
 Philemon	Philem	64	21	3	Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	21	4	I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,
 Philemon	Philem	64	21	5	because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints,
 Philemon	Philem	64	21	6	and I pray that the sharing of your faith may promote the knowledge of all the good that is ours in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	21	7	For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	21	8	Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required,
 Philemon	Philem	64	21	9	yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an ambassador and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—
 Philemon	Philem	64	21	10	I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment.
 Philemon	Philem	64	21	11	(Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)
 Philemon	Philem	64	21	12	I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.
 Philemon	Philem	64	21	13	I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel;
 Philemon	Philem	64	21	14	but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will.
 Philemon	Philem	64	21	15	Perhaps this is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever,
 Philemon	Philem	64	21	16	no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
 Philemon	Philem	64	21	17	So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.
 Philemon	Philem	64	21	18	If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account.
 Philemon	Philem	64	21	19	I, Paul, write this with my own hand, I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self.
 Philemon	Philem	64	21	20	Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	21	21	Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
 Philemon	Philem	64	21	22	At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping through your prayers to be granted to you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	21	23	Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,
 Philemon	Philem	64	21	24	and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
 Philemon	Philem	64	21	25	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
 Philemon	Philem	64	22	1	Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
 Philemon	Philem	64	22	2	and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
 Philemon	Philem	64	22	3	Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	22	4	I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,
 Philemon	Philem	64	22	5	because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints,
 Philemon	Philem	64	22	6	and I pray that the sharing of your faith may promote the knowledge of all the good that is ours in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	22	7	For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	22	8	Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required,
 Philemon	Philem	64	22	9	yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an ambassador and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—
 Philemon	Philem	64	22	10	I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment.
 Philemon	Philem	64	22	11	(Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)
 Philemon	Philem	64	22	12	I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.
 Philemon	Philem	64	22	13	I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel;
 Philemon	Philem	64	22	14	but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will.
 Philemon	Philem	64	22	15	Perhaps this is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever,
 Philemon	Philem	64	22	16	no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
 Philemon	Philem	64	22	17	So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.
 Philemon	Philem	64	22	18	If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account.
 Philemon	Philem	64	22	19	I, Paul, write this with my own hand, I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self.
 Philemon	Philem	64	22	20	Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	22	21	Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
 Philemon	Philem	64	22	22	At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping through your prayers to be granted to you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	22	23	Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,
 Philemon	Philem	64	22	24	and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
 Philemon	Philem	64	22	25	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
 Philemon	Philem	64	23	1	Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
 Philemon	Philem	64	23	2	and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
 Philemon	Philem	64	23	3	Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	23	4	I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,
 Philemon	Philem	64	23	5	because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints,
 Philemon	Philem	64	23	6	and I pray that the sharing of your faith may promote the knowledge of all the good that is ours in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	23	7	For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	23	8	Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required,
 Philemon	Philem	64	23	9	yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an ambassador and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—
 Philemon	Philem	64	23	10	I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment.
 Philemon	Philem	64	23	11	(Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)
 Philemon	Philem	64	23	12	I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.
 Philemon	Philem	64	23	13	I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel;
 Philemon	Philem	64	23	14	but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will.
 Philemon	Philem	64	23	15	Perhaps this is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever,
 Philemon	Philem	64	23	16	no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
 Philemon	Philem	64	23	17	So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.
 Philemon	Philem	64	23	18	If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account.
 Philemon	Philem	64	23	19	I, Paul, write this with my own hand, I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self.
 Philemon	Philem	64	23	20	Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	23	21	Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
 Philemon	Philem	64	23	22	At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping through your prayers to be granted to you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	23	23	Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,
 Philemon	Philem	64	23	24	and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
 Philemon	Philem	64	23	25	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
 Philemon	Philem	64	24	1	Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
 Philemon	Philem	64	24	2	and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
 Philemon	Philem	64	24	3	Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	24	4	I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,
 Philemon	Philem	64	24	5	because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints,
 Philemon	Philem	64	24	6	and I pray that the sharing of your faith may promote the knowledge of all the good that is ours in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	24	7	For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	24	8	Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required,
 Philemon	Philem	64	24	9	yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an ambassador and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—
 Philemon	Philem	64	24	10	I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment.
 Philemon	Philem	64	24	11	(Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)
 Philemon	Philem	64	24	12	I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.
 Philemon	Philem	64	24	13	I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel;
 Philemon	Philem	64	24	14	but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will.
 Philemon	Philem	64	24	15	Perhaps this is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever,
 Philemon	Philem	64	24	16	no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
 Philemon	Philem	64	24	17	So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.
 Philemon	Philem	64	24	18	If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account.
 Philemon	Philem	64	24	19	I, Paul, write this with my own hand, I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self.
 Philemon	Philem	64	24	20	Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	24	21	Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
 Philemon	Philem	64	24	22	At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping through your prayers to be granted to you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	24	23	Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,
 Philemon	Philem	64	24	24	and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
 Philemon	Philem	64	24	25	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
 Philemon	Philem	64	25	1	Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
 Philemon	Philem	64	25	2	and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
 Philemon	Philem	64	25	3	Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	25	4	I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,
 Philemon	Philem	64	25	5	because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints,
 Philemon	Philem	64	25	6	and I pray that the sharing of your faith may promote the knowledge of all the good that is ours in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	25	7	For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	25	8	Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required,
 Philemon	Philem	64	25	9	yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an ambassador and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—
 Philemon	Philem	64	25	10	I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment.
 Philemon	Philem	64	25	11	(Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)
 Philemon	Philem	64	25	12	I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.
 Philemon	Philem	64	25	13	I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel;
 Philemon	Philem	64	25	14	but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will.
 Philemon	Philem	64	25	15	Perhaps this is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever,
 Philemon	Philem	64	25	16	no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
 Philemon	Philem	64	25	17	So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.
 Philemon	Philem	64	25	18	If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account.
 Philemon	Philem	64	25	19	I, Paul, write this with my own hand, I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self.
 Philemon	Philem	64	25	20	Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
 Philemon	Philem	64	25	21	Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
 Philemon	Philem	64	25	22	At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping through your prayers to be granted to you.
 Philemon	Philem	64	25	23	Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,
 Philemon	Philem	64	25	24	and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
 Philemon	Philem	64	25	25	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	1	1	In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets;
 Hebrews	Heb	65	1	2	but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	1	3	He reflects the glory of God and bears the very stamp of his nature, upholding the universe by his word of power. When he had made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	1	4	having become as much superior to angels as the name he has obtained is more excellent than theirs.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	1	5	For to what angel did God ever say, “Thou art my Son, today I have begotten thee”? Or again, “I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son”?
 Hebrews	Heb	65	1	6	And again, when he brings the first-born into the world, he says, “Let all God’s angels worship him.”
 Hebrews	Heb	65	1	7	Of the angels he says, “Who makes his angels winds, and his servants flames of fire.”
 Hebrews	Heb	65	1	8	But of the Son he says, “Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever, the righteous scepter is the scepter of thy kingdom.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	1	9	Thou hast loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; therefore God, thy God, has anointed thee with the oil of gladness beyond thy comrades.”
 Hebrews	Heb	65	1	10	And, “Thou, Lord, didst found the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of thy hands;
 Hebrews	Heb	65	1	11	they will perish, but thou remainest; they will all grow old like a garment,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	1	12	like a mantle thou wilt roll them up, and they will be changed. But thou art the same, and thy years will never end.”
 Hebrews	Heb	65	1	13	But to what angel has he ever said, “Sit at my right hand, till I make thy enemies a stool for thy feet”?
 Hebrews	Heb	65	1	14	Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to serve, for the sake of those who are to obtain salvation?
 Hebrews	Heb	65	2	1	Therefore we must pay the closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	2	2	For if the message declared by angels was valid and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	2	3	how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard him,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	2	4	while God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his own will.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	2	5	For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	2	6	It has been testified somewhere, “What is man that thou art mindful of him, or the son of man, that thou carest for him?
 Hebrews	Heb	65	2	7	Thou didst make him for a little while lower than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honor,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	2	8	putting everything in subjection under his feet.” Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. As it is, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	2	9	But we see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for every one.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	2	10	For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through suffering.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	2	11	For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified have all one origin. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	2	12	saying, “I will proclaim thy name to my brethren, in the midst of the congregation I will praise thee.”
 Hebrews	Heb	65	2	13	And again, “I will put my trust in him.” And again, “Here am I, and the children God has given me.”
 Hebrews	Heb	65	2	14	Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same nature, that through death he might destroy him who has the power of death, that is, the devil,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	2	15	and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong bondage.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	2	16	For surely it is not with angels that he is concerned but with the descendants of Abraham.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	2	17	Therefore he had to be made like his brethren in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make expiation for the sins of the people.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	2	18	For because he himself has suffered and been tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	3	1	Therefore, holy brethren, who share in a heavenly call, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	3	2	He was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in God’s house.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	3	3	Yet Jesus has been counted worthy of as much more glory than Moses as the builder of a house has more honor than the house.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	3	4	(For every house is built by some one, but the builder of all things is God.)
 Hebrews	Heb	65	3	5	Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	3	6	but Christ was faithful over God’s house as a son. And we are his house if we hold fast our confidence and pride in our hope.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	3	7	Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, when you hear his voice,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	3	8	do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	3	9	where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	3	10	Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their hearts; they have not known my ways.’
 Hebrews	Heb	65	3	11	As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’”
 Hebrews	Heb	65	3	12	Take care, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	3	13	But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	3	14	For we share in Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	3	15	while it is said, “Today, when you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
 Hebrews	Heb	65	3	16	Who were they that heard and yet were rebellious? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?
 Hebrews	Heb	65	3	17	And with whom was he provoked forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
 Hebrews	Heb	65	3	18	And to whom did he swear that they should never enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
 Hebrews	Heb	65	3	19	So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	4	1	Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest remains, let us fear lest any of you be judged to have failed to reach it.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	4	2	For good news came to us just as to them; but the message which they heard did not benefit them, because it did not meet with faith in the hearers.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	4	3	For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall never enter my rest,’” although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	4	4	For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way, “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.”
 Hebrews	Heb	65	4	5	And again in this place he said, “They shall never enter my rest.”
 Hebrews	Heb	65	4	6	Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	4	7	again he sets a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, “Today, when you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”
 Hebrews	Heb	65	4	8	For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not speak later of another day.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	4	9	So then, there remains a sabbath rest for the people of God;
 Hebrews	Heb	65	4	10	for whoever enters God’s rest also ceases from his labors as God did from his.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	4	11	Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, that no one fall by the same sort of disobedience.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	4	12	For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	4	13	And before him no creature is hidden, but all are open and laid bare to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	4	14	Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	4	15	For we have not a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	4	16	Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	5	1	For every high priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in relation to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	5	2	He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is beset with weakness.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	5	3	Because of this he is bound to offer sacrifice for his own sins as well as for those of the people.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	5	4	And one does not take the honor upon himself, but he is called by God, just as Aaron was.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	5	5	So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him, “Thou art my Son, today I have begotten thee”;
 Hebrews	Heb	65	5	6	as he says also in another place, “Thou art a priest for ever, after the order of Melchizedek.”
 Hebrews	Heb	65	5	7	In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard for his godly fear.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	5	8	Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered;
 Hebrews	Heb	65	5	9	and being made perfect he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	5	10	being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	5	11	About this we have much to say which is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	5	12	For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need some one to teach you again the first principles of God’s word. You need milk, not solid food;
 Hebrews	Heb	65	5	13	for every one who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a child.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	5	14	But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their faculties trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	6	1	Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	6	2	with instruction about ablutions, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	6	3	And this we will do if God permits.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	6	4	For it is impossible to restore again to repentance those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	6	5	and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	6	6	if they then commit apostasy, since they crucify the Son of God on their own account and hold him up to contempt.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	6	7	For land which has drunk the rain that often falls upon it, and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	6	8	But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed; its end is to be burned.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	6	9	Though we speak thus, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things that belong to salvation.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	6	10	For God is not so unjust as to overlook your work and the love which you showed for his sake in serving the saints, as you still do.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	6	11	And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness in realizing the full assurance of hope until the end,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	6	12	so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	6	13	For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	6	14	saying, “Surely I will bless you and multiply you.”
 Hebrews	Heb	65	6	15	And thus Abraham, having patiently endured, obtained the promise.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	6	16	Men indeed swear by a greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	6	17	So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he interposed with an oath,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	6	18	so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible that God should prove false, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	6	19	We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner shrine behind the curtain,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	6	20	where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	7	1	For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him;
 Hebrews	Heb	65	7	2	and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	7	3	He is without father or mother or genealogy, and has neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest for ever.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	7	4	See how great he is! Abraham the patriarch gave him a tithe of the spoils.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	7	5	And those descendants of Levi who receive the priestly office have a commandment in the law to take tithes from the people, that is, from their brethren, though these also are descended from Abraham.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	7	6	But this man who has not their genealogy received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	7	7	It is beyond dispute that the inferior is blessed by the superior.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	7	8	Here tithes are received by mortal men; there, by one of whom it is testified that he lives.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	7	9	One might even say that Levi himself, who receives tithes, paid tithes through Abraham,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	7	10	for he was still in the loins of his ancestor when Melchizedek met him.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	7	11	Now if perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, rather than one named after the order of Aaron?
 Hebrews	Heb	65	7	12	For when there is a change in the priesthood, there is necessarily a change in the law as well.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	7	13	For the one of whom these things are spoken belonged to another tribe, from which no one has ever served at the altar.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	7	14	For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, and in connection with that tribe Moses said nothing about priests.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	7	15	This becomes even more evident when another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	7	16	who has become a priest, not according to a legal requirement concerning bodily descent but by the power of an indestructible life.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	7	17	For it is witnessed of him, “Thou art a priest for ever, after the order of Melchizedek.”
 Hebrews	Heb	65	7	18	On the one hand, a former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness
 Hebrews	Heb	65	7	19	(for the law made nothing perfect); on the other hand, a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	7	20	And it was not without an oath.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	7	21	Those who formerly became priests took their office without an oath, but this one was addressed with an oath, “The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, ‘Thou art a priest for ever.’”
 Hebrews	Heb	65	7	22	This makes Jesus the surety of a better covenant.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	7	23	The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office;
 Hebrews	Heb	65	7	24	but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues for ever.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	7	25	Consequently he is able for all time to save those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	7	26	For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, blameless, unstained, separated from sinners, exalted above the heavens.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	7	27	He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people; he did this once for all when he offered up himself.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	7	28	Indeed, the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect for ever.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	8	1	Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	8	2	a minister in the sanctuary and the true tent which is set up not by man but by the Lord.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	8	3	For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; hence it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	8	4	Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	8	5	They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary; for when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, “See that you make everything according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.”
 Hebrews	Heb	65	8	6	But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry which is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	8	7	For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion for a second.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	8	8	For he finds fault with them when he says: “The days will come, says the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
 Hebrews	Heb	65	8	9	not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they did not continue in my covenant, and so I paid no heed to them, says the Lord.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	8	10	This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	8	11	And they shall not teach every one his fellow or every one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	8	12	For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.”
 Hebrews	Heb	65	8	13	In speaking of a new covenant he treats the first as obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	9	1	Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	9	2	For a tent was prepared, the outer one, in which were the lampstand and the table and the bread of the Presence; it is called the Holy Place.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	9	3	Behind the second curtain stood a tent called the Holy of Holies,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	9	4	having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, which contained a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
 Hebrews	Heb	65	9	5	above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	9	6	These preparations having thus been made, the priests go continually into the outer tent, performing their ritual duties;
 Hebrews	Heb	65	9	7	but into the second only the high priest goes, and he but once a year, and not without taking blood which he offers for himself and for the errors of the people.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	9	8	By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the sanctuary is not yet opened as long as the outer tent is still standing
 Hebrews	Heb	65	9	9	(which is symbolic for the present age). According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	9	10	but deal only with food and drink and various ablutions, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	9	11	But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation)
 Hebrews	Heb	65	9	12	he entered once for all into the Holy Place, taking not the blood of goats and calves but his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	9	13	For if the sprinkling of defiled persons with the blood of goats and bulls and with the ashes of a heifer sanctifies for the purification of the flesh,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	9	14	how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	9	15	Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred which redeems them from the transgressions under the first covenant.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	9	16	For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	9	17	For a will takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	9	18	Hence even the first covenant was not ratified without blood.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	9	19	For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	9	20	saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded you.”
 Hebrews	Heb	65	9	21	And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tent and all the vessels used in worship.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	9	22	Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	9	23	Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	9	24	For Christ has entered, not into a sanctuary made with hands, a copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	9	25	Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the Holy Place yearly with blood not his own;
 Hebrews	Heb	65	9	26	for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the age to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	9	27	And just as it is appointed for men to die once, and after that comes judgment,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	9	28	so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	1	For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices which are continually offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	2	Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered? If the worshipers had once been cleansed, they would no longer have any consciousness of sin.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	3	But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sin year after year.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	4	For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	5	Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, “Sacrifices and offerings thou hast not desired, but a body hast thou prepared for me;
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	6	in burnt offerings and sin offerings thou hast taken no pleasure.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	7	Then I said, ‘Lo, I have come to do thy will, O God,’ as it is written of me in the roll of the book.”
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	8	When he said above, “Thou hast neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law),
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	9	then he added, “Lo, I have come to do thy will.” He abolishes the first in order to establish the second.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	10	And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	11	And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	12	But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	13	then to wait until his enemies should be made a stool for his feet.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	14	For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	15	And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	16	“This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,”
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	17	then he adds, “I will remember their sins and their misdeeds no more.”
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	18	Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	19	Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	20	by the new and living way which he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	21	and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	22	let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	23	Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful;
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	24	and let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	25	not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	26	For if we sin deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	27	but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire which will consume the adversaries.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	28	A man who has violated the law of Moses dies without mercy at the testimony of two or three witnesses.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	29	How much worse punishment do you think will be deserved by the man who has spurned the Son of God, and profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and outraged the Spirit of grace?
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	30	For we know him who said, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.”
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	31	It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	32	But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	33	sometimes being publicly exposed to abuse and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	34	For you had compassion on the prisoners, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	35	Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	36	For you have need of endurance, so that you may do the will of God and receive what is promised.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	37	“For yet a little while, and the coming one shall come and shall not tarry;
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	38	but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
 Hebrews	Heb	65	10	39	But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and keep their souls.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	1	Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	2	For by it the men of old received divine approval.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	3	By faith we understand that the world was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was made out of things which do not appear.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	4	By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he received approval as righteous, God bearing witness by accepting his gifts; he died, but through his faith he is still speaking.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	5	By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was attested as having pleased God.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	6	And without faith it is impossible to please him. For whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	7	By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, took heed and constructed an ark for the saving of his household; by this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness which comes by faith.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	8	By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place which he was to receive as an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was to go.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	9	By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	10	For he looked forward to the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	11	By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	12	Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	13	These all died in faith, not having received what was promised, but having seen it and greeted it from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	14	For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	15	If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	16	But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	17	By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was ready to offer up his only son,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	18	of whom it was said, “Through Isaac shall your descendants be named.”
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	19	He considered that God was able to raise men even from the dead; hence he did receive him back and this was a symbol.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	20	By faith Isaac invoked future blessings on Jacob and Esau.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	21	By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, bowing in worship over the head of his staff.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	22	By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, made mention of the exodus of the Israelites and gave directions concerning his burial.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	23	By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful; and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	24	By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	25	choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	26	He considered abuse suffered for the Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he looked to the reward.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	27	By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king; for he endured as seeing him who is invisible.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	28	By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the first-born might not touch them.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	29	By faith the people crossed the Red Sea as if on dry land; but the Egyptians, when they attempted to do the same, were drowned.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	30	By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	31	By faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had given friendly welcome to the spies.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	32	And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets—
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	33	who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, received promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	34	quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of the sword, won strength out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	35	Women received their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, that they might rise again to a better life.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	36	Others suffered mocking and scourging, and even chains and imprisonment.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	37	They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword; they went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, ill-treated—
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	38	of whom the world was not worthy—wandering over deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	39	And all these, though well attested by their faith, did not receive what was promised,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	11	40	since God had foreseen something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	12	1	Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	12	2	looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	12	3	Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	12	4	In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	12	5	And have you forgotten the exhortation which addresses you as sons?— “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor lose courage when you are punished by him.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	12	6	For the Lord disciplines him whom he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
 Hebrews	Heb	65	12	7	It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
 Hebrews	Heb	65	12	8	If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	12	9	Besides this, we have had earthly fathers to discipline us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?
 Hebrews	Heb	65	12	10	For they disciplined us for a short time at their pleasure, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	12	11	For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	12	12	Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	12	13	and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	12	14	Strive for peace with all men, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	12	15	See to it that no one fail to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” spring up and cause trouble, and by it the many become defiled;
 Hebrews	Heb	65	12	16	that no one be immoral or irreligious like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	12	17	For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	12	18	For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a tempest,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	12	19	and the sound of a trumpet, and a voice whose words made the hearers entreat that no further messages be spoken to them.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	12	20	For they could not endure the order that was given, “If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned.”
 Hebrews	Heb	65	12	21	Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I tremble with fear.”
 Hebrews	Heb	65	12	22	But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	12	23	and to the assembly of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to a judge who is God of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	12	24	and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks more graciously than the blood of Abel.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	12	25	See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less shall we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	12	26	His voice then shook the earth; but now he has promised, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heaven.”
 Hebrews	Heb	65	12	27	This phrase, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of what is shaken, as of what has been made, in order that what cannot be shaken may remain.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	12	28	Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe;
 Hebrews	Heb	65	12	29	for our God is a consuming fire.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	13	1	Let brotherly love continue.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	13	2	Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	13	3	Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you also are in the body.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	13	4	Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for God will judge the immoral and adulterous.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	13	5	Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have; for he has said, “I will never fail you nor forsake you.”
 Hebrews	Heb	65	13	6	Hence we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid; what can man do to me?”
 Hebrews	Heb	65	13	7	Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God; consider the outcome of their life, and imitate their faith.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	13	8	Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	13	9	Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings; for it is well that the heart be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited their adherents.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	13	10	We have an altar from which those who serve the tent have no right to eat.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	13	11	For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside the camp.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	13	12	So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	13	13	Therefore let us go forth to him outside the camp and bear the abuse he endured.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	13	14	For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city which is to come.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	13	15	Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	13	16	Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	13	17	Obey your leaders and submit to them; for they are keeping watch over your souls, as men who will have to give account. Let them do this joyfully, and not sadly, for that would be of no advantage to you.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	13	18	Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a clear conscience, desiring to act honorably in all things.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	13	19	I urge you the more earnestly to do this in order that I may be restored to you the sooner.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	13	20	Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant,
 Hebrews	Heb	65	13	21	equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in you that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	13	22	I appeal to you, brethren, bear with my word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	13	23	You should understand that our brother Timothy has been released, with whom I shall see you if he comes soon.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	13	24	Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those who come from Italy send you greetings.
 Hebrews	Heb	65	13	25	Grace be with all of you. Amen.
 James	Jas	66	1	1	James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greeting.
 James	Jas	66	1	2	Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials,
 James	Jas	66	1	3	for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.
 James	Jas	66	1	4	And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
 James	Jas	66	1	5	If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all men generously and without reproaching, and it will be given him.
 James	Jas	66	1	6	But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.
 James	Jas	66	1	7	For that person must not suppose that a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways, will receive anything from the Lord.
 James	Jas	66	1	9	Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation,
 James	Jas	66	1	10	and the rich in his humiliation, because like the flower of the grass he will pass away.
 James	Jas	66	1	11	For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.
 James	Jas	66	1	12	Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life which God has promised to those who love him.
 James	Jas	66	1	13	Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted with evil and he himself tempts no one;
 James	Jas	66	1	14	but each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.
 James	Jas	66	1	15	Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin; and sin when it is full-grown brings forth death.
 James	Jas	66	1	16	Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren.
 James	Jas	66	1	17	Every good endowment and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
 James	Jas	66	1	18	Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
 James	Jas	66	1	19	Know this, my beloved brethren. Let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,
 James	Jas	66	1	20	for the anger of man does not work the righteousness of God.
 James	Jas	66	1	21	Therefore put away all filthiness and rank growth of wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
 James	Jas	66	1	22	But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
 James	Jas	66	1	23	For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who observes his natural face in a mirror;
 James	Jas	66	1	24	for he observes himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.
 James	Jas	66	1	25	But he who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer that forgets but a doer that acts, he shall be blessed in his doing.
 James	Jas	66	1	26	If any one thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is vain.
 James	Jas	66	1	27	Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
 James	Jas	66	2	1	My brethren, show no partiality as you hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.
 James	Jas	66	2	2	For if a man with gold rings and in fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in,
 James	Jas	66	2	3	and you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “Have a seat here, please,” while you say to the poor man, “Stand there,” or, “Sit at my feet,”
 James	Jas	66	2	4	have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?
 James	Jas	66	2	5	Listen, my beloved brethren. Has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him?
 James	Jas	66	2	6	But you have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you, is it not they who drag you into court?
 James	Jas	66	2	7	Is it not they who blaspheme that honorable name which was invoked over you?
 James	Jas	66	2	8	If you really fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.
 James	Jas	66	2	9	But if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
 James	Jas	66	2	10	For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.
 James	Jas	66	2	11	For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” said also, “Do not kill.” If you do not commit adultery but do kill, you have become a transgressor of the law.
 James	Jas	66	2	12	So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty.
 James	Jas	66	2	13	For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy; yet mercy triumphs over judgment.
 James	Jas	66	2	14	What does it profit, my brethren, if a man says he has faith but has not works? Can his faith save him?
 James	Jas	66	2	15	If a brother or sister is ill-clad and in lack of daily food,
 James	Jas	66	2	16	and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what does it profit?
 James	Jas	66	2	17	So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.
 James	Jas	66	2	18	But some one will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I by my works will show you my faith.
 James	Jas	66	2	19	You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder.
 James	Jas	66	2	20	Do you want to be shown, you shallow man, that faith apart from works is barren?
 James	Jas	66	2	21	Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered his son Isaac upon the altar?
 James	Jas	66	2	22	You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by works,
 James	Jas	66	2	23	and the scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness”; and he was called the friend of God.
 James	Jas	66	2	24	You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.
 James	Jas	66	2	25	And in the same way was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way?
 James	Jas	66	2	26	For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so faith apart from works is dead.
 James	Jas	66	3	1	Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, for you know that we who teach shall be judged with greater strictness.
 James	Jas	66	3	2	For we all make many mistakes, and if any one makes no mistakes in what he says he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.
 James	Jas	66	3	3	If we put bits into the mouths of horses that they may obey us, we guide their whole bodies.
 James	Jas	66	3	4	Look at the ships also; though they are so great and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs.
 James	Jas	66	3	5	So the tongue is a little member and boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire!
 James	Jas	66	3	6	And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is an unrighteous world among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the cycle of nature, and set on fire by hell.
 James	Jas	66	3	7	For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by humankind,
 James	Jas	66	3	8	but no human being can tame the tongue—a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
 James	Jas	66	3	9	With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the likeness of God.
 James	Jas	66	3	10	From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brethren, this ought not to be so.
 James	Jas	66	3	11	Does a spring pour forth from the same opening fresh water and brackish?
 James	Jas	66	3	12	Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a grapevine figs? No more can salt water yield fresh.
 James	Jas	66	3	13	Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good life let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.
 James	Jas	66	3	14	But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.
 James	Jas	66	3	15	This wisdom is not such as comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, devilish.
 James	Jas	66	3	16	For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.
 James	Jas	66	3	17	But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, without uncertainty or insincerity.
 James	Jas	66	3	18	And the harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
 James	Jas	66	4	1	What causes wars, and what causes fightings among you? Is it not your passions that are at war in your members?
 James	Jas	66	4	2	You desire and do not have; so you kill. And you covet and cannot obtain; so you fight and wage war. You do not have, because you do not ask.
 James	Jas	66	4	3	You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
 James	Jas	66	4	4	Unfaithful creatures! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
 James	Jas	66	4	5	Or do you suppose it is in vain that the scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit which he has made to dwell in us”?
 James	Jas	66	4	6	But he gives more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
 James	Jas	66	4	7	Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
 James	Jas	66	4	8	Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you men of double mind.
 James	Jas	66	4	9	Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to dejection.
 James	Jas	66	4	10	Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.
 James	Jas	66	4	11	Do not speak evil against one another, brethren. He that speaks evil against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
 James	Jas	66	4	12	There is one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you that you judge your neighbor?
 James	Jas	66	4	13	Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and get gain”;
 James	Jas	66	4	14	whereas you do not know about tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
 James	Jas	66	4	15	Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and we shall do this or that.”
 James	Jas	66	4	16	As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
 James	Jas	66	4	17	Whoever knows what is right to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
 James	Jas	66	5	1	Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you.
 James	Jas	66	5	2	Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten.
 James	Jas	66	5	3	Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure for the last days.
 James	Jas	66	5	4	Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
 James	Jas	66	5	5	You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
 James	Jas	66	5	6	You have condemned, you have killed the righteous man; he does not resist you.
 James	Jas	66	5	7	Be patient, therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it until it receives the early and the late rain.
 James	Jas	66	5	8	You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
 James	Jas	66	5	9	Do not grumble, brethren, against one another, that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the doors.
 James	Jas	66	5	10	As an example of suffering and patience, brethren, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
 James	Jas	66	5	11	Behold, we call those happy who were steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.
 James	Jas	66	5	12	But above all, my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath, but let your yes be yes and your no be no, that you may not fall under condemnation.
 James	Jas	66	5	13	Is any one among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praise.
 James	Jas	66	5	14	Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;
 James	Jas	66	5	15	and the prayer of faith will save the sick man, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
 James	Jas	66	5	16	Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power in its effects.
 James	Jas	66	5	17	Elijah was a man of like nature with ourselves and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth.
 James	Jas	66	5	18	Then he prayed again and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth its fruit.
 James	Jas	66	5	19	My brethren, if any one among you wanders from the truth and some one brings him back,
 James	Jas	66	5	20	let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	1	1	Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	1	2	chosen and destined by God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	1	3	Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy we have been born anew to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	1	4	and to an inheritance which is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	1	5	who by God’s power are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	1	6	In this you rejoice, though now for a little while you may have to suffer various trials,
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	1	7	so that the genuineness of your faith, more precious than gold which though perishable is tested by fire, may redound to praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	1	8	Without having seen him you love him; though you do not now see him you believe in him and rejoice with unutterable and exalted joy.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	1	9	As the outcome of your faith you obtain the salvation of your souls.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	1	10	The prophets who prophesied of the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired about this salvation;
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	1	11	they inquired what person or time was indicated by the Spirit of Christ within them when predicting the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glory.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	1	12	It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things which have now been announced to you by those who preached the good news to you through the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	1	13	Therefore gird up your minds, be sober, set your hope fully upon the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	1	14	As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	1	15	but as he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in all your conduct;
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	1	16	since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	1	17	And if you invoke as Father him who judges each one impartially according to his deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	1	18	You know that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your fathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	1	19	but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	1	20	He was destined before the foundation of the world but was made manifest at the end of the times for your sake.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	1	21	Through him you have confidence in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	1	22	Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere love of the brethren, love one another earnestly from the heart.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	1	23	You have been born anew, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	1	24	for “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	1	25	but the word of the Lord abides for ever.” That word is the good news which was preached to you.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	2	1	So put away all malice and all guile and insincerity and envy and all slander.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	2	2	Like newborn babes, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up to salvation;
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	2	3	for you have tasted the kindness of the Lord.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	2	4	Come to him, to that living stone, rejected by men but in God’s sight chosen and precious;
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	2	5	and like living stones be yourselves built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	2	6	For it stands in scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and he who believes in him will not be put to shame.”
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	2	7	To you therefore who believe, he is precious, but for those who do not believe, “The very stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner,”
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	2	8	and “A stone that will make men stumble, a rock that will make them fall”; for they stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	2	9	But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	2	10	Once you were no people but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy but now you have received mercy.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	2	11	Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh that wage war against your soul.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	2	12	Maintain good conduct among the Gentiles, so that in case they speak against you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	2	13	Be subject for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme,
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	2	14	or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to praise those who do right.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	2	15	For it is God’s will that by doing right you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	2	16	Live as free men, yet without using your freedom as a pretext for evil; but live as servants of God.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	2	17	Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	2	18	Servants, be submissive to your masters with all respect, not only to the kind and gentle but also to the overbearing.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	2	19	For one is approved if, mindful of God, he endures pain while suffering unjustly.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	2	20	For what credit is it, if when you do wrong and are beaten for it you take it patiently? But if when you do right and suffer for it you take it patiently, you have God’s approval.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	2	21	For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	2	22	He committed no sin; no guile was found on his lips.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	2	23	When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten; but he trusted to him who judges justly.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	2	24	He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	2	25	For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	3	1	Likewise you wives, be submissive to your husbands, so that some, though they do not obey the word, may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives,
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	3	2	when they see your reverent and chaste behavior.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	3	3	Let not yours be the outward adorning with braiding of hair, decoration of gold, and wearing of fine clothing,
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	3	4	but let it be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable jewel of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	3	5	So once the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves and were submissive to their husbands,
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	3	6	as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are now her children if you do right and let nothing terrify you.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	3	7	Likewise you husbands, live considerately with your wives, bestowing honor on the woman as the weaker sex, since you are joint heirs of the grace of life, in order that your prayers may not be hindered.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	3	8	Finally, all of you, have unity of spirit, sympathy, love of the brethren, a tender heart and a humble mind.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	3	9	Do not return evil for evil or reviling for reviling; but on the contrary bless, for to this you have been called, that you may obtain a blessing.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	3	10	For “He that would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking guile;
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	3	11	let him turn away from evil and do right; let him seek peace and pursue it.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	3	12	For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those that do evil.”
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	3	13	Now who is there to harm you if you are zealous for what is right?
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	3	14	But even if you do suffer for righteousness’ sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled,
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	3	15	but in your hearts reverence Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to make a defense to any one who calls you to account for the hope that is in you, yet do it with gentleness and reverence;
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	3	16	and keep your conscience clear, so that, when you are abused, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	3	17	For it is better to suffer for doing right, if that should be God’s will, than for doing wrong.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	3	18	For Christ also died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit;
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	3	19	in which he went and preached to the spirits in prison,
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	3	20	who formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	3	21	Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a clear conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	3	22	who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to him.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	4	1	Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same thought, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	4	2	so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer by human passions but by the will of God.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	4	3	Let the time that is past suffice for doing what the Gentiles like to do, living in licentiousness, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	4	4	They are surprised that you do not now join them in the same wild profligacy, and they abuse you;
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	4	5	but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	4	6	For this is why the gospel was preached even to the dead, that though judged in the flesh like men, they might live in the spirit like God.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	4	7	The end of all things is at hand; therefore keep sane and sober for your prayers.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	4	8	Above all hold unfailing your love for one another, since love covers a multitude of sins.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	4	9	Practice hospitality ungrudgingly to one another.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	4	10	As each has received a gift, employ it for one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace:
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	4	11	whoever speaks, as one who utters oracles of God; whoever renders service, as one who renders it by the strength which God supplies; in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	4	12	Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal which comes upon you to prove you, as though something strange were happening to you.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	4	13	But rejoice in so far as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	4	14	If you are reproached for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	4	15	But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or a wrongdoer, or a mischief-maker;
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	4	16	yet if one suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but under that name let him glorify God.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	4	17	For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God?
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	4	18	And “If the righteous man is scarcely saved, where will the impious and sinner appear?”
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	4	19	Therefore let those who suffer according to God’s will do right and entrust their souls to a faithful Creator.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	5	1	So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ as well as a partaker in the glory that is to be revealed.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	5	2	Tend the flock of God that is your charge, not by constraint but willingly, not for shameful gain but eagerly,
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	5	3	not as domineering over those in your charge but being examples to the flock.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	5	4	And when the chief Shepherd is manifested you will obtain the unfading crown of glory.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	5	5	Likewise you that are younger be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	5	6	Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that in due time he may exalt you.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	5	7	Cast all your anxieties on him, for he cares about you.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	5	8	Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking some one to devour.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	5	9	Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same experience of suffering is required of your brotherhood throughout the world.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	5	10	And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, establish, and strengthen you.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	5	11	To him be the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	5	12	By Silvanus, a faithful brother as I regard him, I have written briefly to you, exhorting and declaring that this is the true grace of God; stand fast in it.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	5	13	She who is at Babylon, who is likewise chosen, sends you greetings; and so does my son Mark.
 1 Peter	1Pet	67	5	14	Greet one another with the kiss of love. Peace to all of you that are in Christ.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	1	1	Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	1	2	May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	1	3	His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	1	4	by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, that through these you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of passion, and become partakers of the divine nature.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	1	5	For this very reason make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	1	6	and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness,
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	1	7	and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	1	8	For if these things are yours and abound, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	1	9	For whoever lacks these things is blind and shortsighted and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	1	10	Therefore, brethren, be the more zealous to confirm your call and election, for if you do this you will never fall;
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	1	11	so there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	1	12	Therefore I intend always to remind you of these things, though you know them and are established in the truth that you have.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	1	13	I think it right, as long as I am in this body, to arouse you by way of reminder,
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	1	14	since I know that the putting off of my body will be soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	1	15	And I will see to it that after my departure you may be able at any time to recall these things.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	1	16	For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	1	17	For when he received honor and glory from God the Father and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased,”
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	1	18	we heard this voice borne from heaven, for we were with him on the holy mountain.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	1	19	And we have the prophetic word made more sure. You will do well to pay attention to this as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	1	20	First of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation,
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	1	21	because no prophecy ever came by the impulse of man, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	2	1	But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	2	2	And many will follow their licentiousness, and because of them the way of truth will be reviled.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	2	3	And in their greed they will exploit you with false words; from of old their condemnation has not been idle, and their destruction has not been asleep.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	2	4	For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of nether gloom to be kept until the judgment;
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	2	5	if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven other persons, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	2	6	if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction and made them an example to those who were to be ungodly;
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	2	7	and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the licentiousness of the wicked
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	2	8	(for by what that righteous man saw and heard as he lived among them, he was vexed in his righteous soul day after day with their lawless deeds),
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	2	9	then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trial, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	2	10	and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and wilful, they are not afraid to revile the glorious ones,
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	2	11	whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a reviling judgment upon them before the Lord.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	2	12	But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and killed, reviling in matters of which they are ignorant, will be destroyed in the same destruction with them,
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	2	13	suffering wrong for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their dissipation, carousing with you.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	2	14	They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	2	15	Forsaking the right way they have gone astray; they have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing,
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	2	16	but was rebuked for his own transgression; a dumb ass spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	2	17	These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm; for them the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	2	18	For, uttering loud boasts of folly, they entice with licentious passions of the flesh men who have barely escaped from those who live in error.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	2	19	They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption; for whatever overcomes a man, to that he is enslaved.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	2	20	For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overpowered, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	2	21	For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	2	22	It has happened to them according to the true proverb, The dog turns back to his own vomit, and the sow is washed only to wallow in the mire.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	3	1	This is now the second letter that I have written to you, beloved, and in both of them I have aroused your sincere mind by way of reminder;
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	3	2	that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	3	3	First of all you must understand this, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own passions
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	3	4	and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things have continued as they were from the beginning of creation.”
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	3	5	They deliberately ignore this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago, and an earth formed out of water and by means of water,
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	3	6	through which the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	3	7	But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist have been stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	3	8	But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	3	9	The Lord is not slow about his promise as some count slowness, but is forbearing toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	3	10	But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and the works that are upon it will be burned up.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	3	11	Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of persons ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	3	12	waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be kindled and dissolved, and the elements will melt with fire!
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	3	13	But according to his promise we wait for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	3	14	Therefore, beloved, since you wait for these, be zealous to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	3	15	And count the forbearance of our Lord as salvation. So also our beloved brother Paul wrote to you according to the wisdom given him,
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	3	16	speaking of this as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	3	17	You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, beware lest you be carried away with the error of lawless men and lose your own stability.
 2 Peter	2Pet	68	3	18	But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
 1 John	1Jn	69	1	1	That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life—
 1 John	1Jn	69	1	2	the life was made manifest, and we saw it, and testify to it, and proclaim to you the eternal life which was with the Father and was made manifest to us—
 1 John	1Jn	69	1	3	that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you may have fellowship with us; and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.
 1 John	1Jn	69	1	4	And we are writing this that our joy may be complete.
 1 John	1Jn	69	1	5	This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in him is no darkness at all.
 1 John	1Jn	69	1	6	If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not live according to the truth;
 1 John	1Jn	69	1	7	but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
 1 John	1Jn	69	1	8	If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
 1 John	1Jn	69	1	9	If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
 1 John	1Jn	69	1	10	If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
 1 John	1Jn	69	2	1	My little children, I am writing this to you so that you may not sin; but if any one does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;
 1 John	1Jn	69	2	2	and he is the expiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
 1 John	1Jn	69	2	3	And by this we may be sure that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
 1 John	1Jn	69	2	4	He who says “I know him” but disobeys his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him;
 1 John	1Jn	69	2	5	but whoever keeps his word, in him truly love for God is perfected. By this we may be sure that we are in him:
 1 John	1Jn	69	2	6	he who says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.
 1 John	1Jn	69	2	7	Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard.
 1 John	1Jn	69	2	8	Yet I am writing you a new commandment, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.
 1 John	1Jn	69	2	9	He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness still.
 1 John	1Jn	69	2	10	He who loves his brother abides in the light, and in it there is no cause for stumbling.
 1 John	1Jn	69	2	11	But he who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
 1 John	1Jn	69	2	12	I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his sake.
 1 John	1Jn	69	2	13	I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, children, because you know the Father.
 1 John	1Jn	69	2	14	I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
 1 John	1Jn	69	2	15	Do not love the world or the things in the world. If any one loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.
 1 John	1Jn	69	2	16	For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father but is of the world.
 1 John	1Jn	69	2	17	And the world passes away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides for ever.
 1 John	1Jn	69	2	18	Children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come; therefore we know that it is the last hour.
 1 John	1Jn	69	2	19	They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out, that it might be plain that they all are not of us.
 1 John	1Jn	69	2	20	But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all know.
 1 John	1Jn	69	2	21	I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and know that no lie is of the truth.
 1 John	1Jn	69	2	22	Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.
 1 John	1Jn	69	2	23	No one who denies the Son has the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.
 1 John	1Jn	69	2	24	Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you will abide in the Son and in the Father.
 1 John	1Jn	69	2	25	And this is what he has promised us, eternal life.
 1 John	1Jn	69	2	26	I write this to you about those who would deceive you;
 1 John	1Jn	69	2	27	but the anointing which you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that any one should teach you; as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie, just as it has taught you, abide in him.
 1 John	1Jn	69	2	28	And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming.
 1 John	1Jn	69	2	29	If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that every one who does right is born of him.
 1 John	1Jn	69	3	1	See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
 1 John	1Jn	69	3	2	Beloved, we are God’s children now; it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
 1 John	1Jn	69	3	3	And every one who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
 1 John	1Jn	69	3	4	Every one who commits sin is guilty of lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
 1 John	1Jn	69	3	5	You know that he appeared to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.
 1 John	1Jn	69	3	6	No one who abides in him sins; no one who sins has either seen him or known him.
 1 John	1Jn	69	3	7	Little children, let no one deceive you. He who does right is righteous, as he is righteous.
 1 John	1Jn	69	3	8	He who commits sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.
 1 John	1Jn	69	3	9	No one born of God commits sin; for God’s nature abides in him, and he cannot sin because he is born of God.
 1 John	1Jn	69	3	10	By this it may be seen who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not do right is not of God, nor he who does not love his brother.
 1 John	1Jn	69	3	11	For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another,
 1 John	1Jn	69	3	12	and not be like Cain who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous.
 1 John	1Jn	69	3	13	Do not wonder, brethren, that the world hates you.
 1 John	1Jn	69	3	14	We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death.
 1 John	1Jn	69	3	15	Any one who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
 1 John	1Jn	69	3	16	By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
 1 John	1Jn	69	3	17	But if any one has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?
 1 John	1Jn	69	3	18	Little children, let us not love in word or speech but in deed and in truth.
 1 John	1Jn	69	3	19	By this we shall know that we are of the truth, and reassure our hearts before him
 1 John	1Jn	69	3	20	whenever our hearts condemn us; for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.
 1 John	1Jn	69	3	21	Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God;
 1 John	1Jn	69	3	22	and we receive from him whatever we ask, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
 1 John	1Jn	69	3	23	And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.
 1 John	1Jn	69	3	24	All who keep his commandments abide in him, and he in them. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit which he has given us.
 1 John	1Jn	69	4	1	Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
 1 John	1Jn	69	4	2	By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,
 1 John	1Jn	69	4	3	and every spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God. This is the spirit of antichrist, of which you heard that it was coming, and now it is in the world already.
 1 John	1Jn	69	4	4	Little children, you are of God, and have overcome them; for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
 1 John	1Jn	69	4	5	They are of the world, therefore what they say is of the world, and the world listens to them.
 1 John	1Jn	69	4	6	We are of God. Whoever knows God listens to us, and he who is not of God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
 1 John	1Jn	69	4	7	Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and he who loves is born of God and knows God.
 1 John	1Jn	69	4	8	He who does not love does not know God; for God is love.
 1 John	1Jn	69	4	9	In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
 1 John	1Jn	69	4	10	In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins.
 1 John	1Jn	69	4	11	Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
 1 John	1Jn	69	4	12	No man has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
 1 John	1Jn	69	4	13	By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his own Spirit.
 1 John	1Jn	69	4	14	And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son as the Savior of the world.
 1 John	1Jn	69	4	15	Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
 1 John	1Jn	69	4	16	So we know and believe the love God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
 1 John	1Jn	69	4	17	In this is love perfected with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so are we in this world.
 1 John	1Jn	69	4	18	There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and he who fears is not perfected in love.
 1 John	1Jn	69	4	19	We love, because he first loved us.
 1 John	1Jn	69	4	20	If any one says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.
 1 John	1Jn	69	4	21	And this commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should love his brother also.
 1 John	1Jn	69	5	1	Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God, and every one who loves the parent loves the child.
 1 John	1Jn	69	5	2	By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.
 1 John	1Jn	69	5	3	For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
 1 John	1Jn	69	5	4	For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith.
 1 John	1Jn	69	5	5	Who is it that overcomes the world but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
 1 John	1Jn	69	5	6	This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ, not with the water only but with the water and the blood.
 1 John	1Jn	69	5	7	And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is the truth.
 1 John	1Jn	69	5	8	There are three witnesses, the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree.
 1 John	1Jn	69	5	9	If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God that he has borne witness to his Son.
 1 John	1Jn	69	5	10	He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne to his Son.
 1 John	1Jn	69	5	11	And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
 1 John	1Jn	69	5	12	He who has the Son has life; he who has not the Son of God has not life.
 1 John	1Jn	69	5	13	I write this to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.
 1 John	1Jn	69	5	14	And this is the confidence which we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.
 1 John	1Jn	69	5	15	And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have obtained the requests made of him.
 1 John	1Jn	69	5	16	If any one sees his brother committing what is not a mortal sin, he will ask, and God will give him life for those whose sin is not mortal. There is sin which is mortal; I do not say that one is to pray for that.
 1 John	1Jn	69	5	17	All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin which is not mortal.
 1 John	1Jn	69	5	18	We know that any one born of God does not sin, but He who was born of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him.
 1 John	1Jn	69	5	19	We know that we are of God, and the whole world is in the power of the evil one.
 1 John	1Jn	69	5	20	And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, to know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
 1 John	1Jn	69	5	21	Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
 2 John	2Jn	70	1	1	The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth, and not only I but also all who know the truth,
 2 John	2Jn	70	1	2	because of the truth which abides in us and will be with us for ever:
 2 John	2Jn	70	1	3	Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father’s Son, in truth and love.
 2 John	2Jn	70	1	4	I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children following the truth, just as we have been commanded by the Father.
 2 John	2Jn	70	1	5	And now I beg you, lady, not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.
 2 John	2Jn	70	1	6	And this is love, that we follow his commandments; this is the commandment, as you have heard from the beginning, that you follow love.
 2 John	2Jn	70	1	7	For many deceivers have gone out into the world, men who will not acknowledge the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh; such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.
 2 John	2Jn	70	1	8	Look to yourselves, that you may not lose what you have worked for, but may win a full reward.
 2 John	2Jn	70	1	9	Any one who goes ahead and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God; he who abides in the doctrine has both the Father and the Son.
 2 John	2Jn	70	1	10	If any one comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into the house or give him any greeting;
 2 John	2Jn	70	1	11	for he who greets him shares his wicked work.
 2 John	2Jn	70	1	12	Though I have much to write to you, I would rather not use paper and ink, but I hope to come to see you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.
 2 John	2Jn	70	1	13	The children of your elect sister greet you.
 2 John	2Jn	70	2	1	The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth, and not only I but also all who know the truth,
 2 John	2Jn	70	2	2	because of the truth which abides in us and will be with us for ever:
 2 John	2Jn	70	2	3	Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father’s Son, in truth and love.
 2 John	2Jn	70	2	4	I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children following the truth, just as we have been commanded by the Father.
 2 John	2Jn	70	2	5	And now I beg you, lady, not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.
 2 John	2Jn	70	2	6	And this is love, that we follow his commandments; this is the commandment, as you have heard from the beginning, that you follow love.
 2 John	2Jn	70	2	7	For many deceivers have gone out into the world, men who will not acknowledge the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh; such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.
 2 John	2Jn	70	2	8	Look to yourselves, that you may not lose what you have worked for, but may win a full reward.
 2 John	2Jn	70	2	9	Any one who goes ahead and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God; he who abides in the doctrine has both the Father and the Son.
 2 John	2Jn	70	2	10	If any one comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into the house or give him any greeting;
 2 John	2Jn	70	2	11	for he who greets him shares his wicked work.
 2 John	2Jn	70	2	12	Though I have much to write to you, I would rather not use paper and ink, but I hope to come to see you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.
 2 John	2Jn	70	2	13	The children of your elect sister greet you.
 2 John	2Jn	70	3	1	The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth, and not only I but also all who know the truth,
 2 John	2Jn	70	3	2	because of the truth which abides in us and will be with us for ever:
 2 John	2Jn	70	3	3	Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father’s Son, in truth and love.
 2 John	2Jn	70	3	4	I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children following the truth, just as we have been commanded by the Father.
 2 John	2Jn	70	3	5	And now I beg you, lady, not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.
 2 John	2Jn	70	3	6	And this is love, that we follow his commandments; this is the commandment, as you have heard from the beginning, that you follow love.
 2 John	2Jn	70	3	7	For many deceivers have gone out into the world, men who will not acknowledge the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh; such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.
 2 John	2Jn	70	3	8	Look to yourselves, that you may not lose what you have worked for, but may win a full reward.
 2 John	2Jn	70	3	9	Any one who goes ahead and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God; he who abides in the doctrine has both the Father and the Son.
 2 John	2Jn	70	3	10	If any one comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into the house or give him any greeting;
 2 John	2Jn	70	3	11	for he who greets him shares his wicked work.
 2 John	2Jn	70	3	12	Though I have much to write to you, I would rather not use paper and ink, but I hope to come to see you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.
 2 John	2Jn	70	3	13	The children of your elect sister greet you.
 2 John	2Jn	70	4	1	The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth, and not only I but also all who know the truth,
 2 John	2Jn	70	4	2	because of the truth which abides in us and will be with us for ever:
 2 John	2Jn	70	4	3	Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father’s Son, in truth and love.
 2 John	2Jn	70	4	4	I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children following the truth, just as we have been commanded by the Father.
 2 John	2Jn	70	4	5	And now I beg you, lady, not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.
 2 John	2Jn	70	4	6	And this is love, that we follow his commandments; this is the commandment, as you have heard from the beginning, that you follow love.
 2 John	2Jn	70	4	7	For many deceivers have gone out into the world, men who will not acknowledge the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh; such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.
 2 John	2Jn	70	4	8	Look to yourselves, that you may not lose what you have worked for, but may win a full reward.
 2 John	2Jn	70	4	9	Any one who goes ahead and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God; he who abides in the doctrine has both the Father and the Son.
 2 John	2Jn	70	4	10	If any one comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into the house or give him any greeting;
 2 John	2Jn	70	4	11	for he who greets him shares his wicked work.
 2 John	2Jn	70	4	12	Though I have much to write to you, I would rather not use paper and ink, but I hope to come to see you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.
 2 John	2Jn	70	4	13	The children of your elect sister greet you.
 2 John	2Jn	70	5	1	The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth, and not only I but also all who know the truth,
 2 John	2Jn	70	5	2	because of the truth which abides in us and will be with us for ever:
 2 John	2Jn	70	5	3	Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father’s Son, in truth and love.
 2 John	2Jn	70	5	4	I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children following the truth, just as we have been commanded by the Father.
 2 John	2Jn	70	5	5	And now I beg you, lady, not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.
 2 John	2Jn	70	5	6	And this is love, that we follow his commandments; this is the commandment, as you have heard from the beginning, that you follow love.
 2 John	2Jn	70	5	7	For many deceivers have gone out into the world, men who will not acknowledge the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh; such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.
 2 John	2Jn	70	5	8	Look to yourselves, that you may not lose what you have worked for, but may win a full reward.
 2 John	2Jn	70	5	9	Any one who goes ahead and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God; he who abides in the doctrine has both the Father and the Son.
 2 John	2Jn	70	5	10	If any one comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into the house or give him any greeting;
 2 John	2Jn	70	5	11	for he who greets him shares his wicked work.
 2 John	2Jn	70	5	12	Though I have much to write to you, I would rather not use paper and ink, but I hope to come to see you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.
 2 John	2Jn	70	5	13	The children of your elect sister greet you.
 2 John	2Jn	70	6	1	The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth, and not only I but also all who know the truth,
 2 John	2Jn	70	6	2	because of the truth which abides in us and will be with us for ever:
 2 John	2Jn	70	6	3	Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father’s Son, in truth and love.
 2 John	2Jn	70	6	4	I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children following the truth, just as we have been commanded by the Father.
 2 John	2Jn	70	6	5	And now I beg you, lady, not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.
 2 John	2Jn	70	6	6	And this is love, that we follow his commandments; this is the commandment, as you have heard from the beginning, that you follow love.
 2 John	2Jn	70	6	7	For many deceivers have gone out into the world, men who will not acknowledge the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh; such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.
 2 John	2Jn	70	6	8	Look to yourselves, that you may not lose what you have worked for, but may win a full reward.
 2 John	2Jn	70	6	9	Any one who goes ahead and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God; he who abides in the doctrine has both the Father and the Son.
 2 John	2Jn	70	6	10	If any one comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into the house or give him any greeting;
 2 John	2Jn	70	6	11	for he who greets him shares his wicked work.
 2 John	2Jn	70	6	12	Though I have much to write to you, I would rather not use paper and ink, but I hope to come to see you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.
 2 John	2Jn	70	6	13	The children of your elect sister greet you.
 2 John	2Jn	70	7	1	The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth, and not only I but also all who know the truth,
 2 John	2Jn	70	7	2	because of the truth which abides in us and will be with us for ever:
 2 John	2Jn	70	7	3	Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father’s Son, in truth and love.
 2 John	2Jn	70	7	4	I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children following the truth, just as we have been commanded by the Father.
 2 John	2Jn	70	7	5	And now I beg you, lady, not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.
 2 John	2Jn	70	7	6	And this is love, that we follow his commandments; this is the commandment, as you have heard from the beginning, that you follow love.
 2 John	2Jn	70	7	7	For many deceivers have gone out into the world, men who will not acknowledge the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh; such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.
 2 John	2Jn	70	7	8	Look to yourselves, that you may not lose what you have worked for, but may win a full reward.
 2 John	2Jn	70	7	9	Any one who goes ahead and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God; he who abides in the doctrine has both the Father and the Son.
 2 John	2Jn	70	7	10	If any one comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into the house or give him any greeting;
 2 John	2Jn	70	7	11	for he who greets him shares his wicked work.
 2 John	2Jn	70	7	12	Though I have much to write to you, I would rather not use paper and ink, but I hope to come to see you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.
 2 John	2Jn	70	7	13	The children of your elect sister greet you.
 2 John	2Jn	70	8	1	The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth, and not only I but also all who know the truth,
 2 John	2Jn	70	8	2	because of the truth which abides in us and will be with us for ever:
 2 John	2Jn	70	8	3	Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father’s Son, in truth and love.
 2 John	2Jn	70	8	4	I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children following the truth, just as we have been commanded by the Father.
 2 John	2Jn	70	8	5	And now I beg you, lady, not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.
 2 John	2Jn	70	8	6	And this is love, that we follow his commandments; this is the commandment, as you have heard from the beginning, that you follow love.
 2 John	2Jn	70	8	7	For many deceivers have gone out into the world, men who will not acknowledge the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh; such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.
 2 John	2Jn	70	8	8	Look to yourselves, that you may not lose what you have worked for, but may win a full reward.
 2 John	2Jn	70	8	9	Any one who goes ahead and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God; he who abides in the doctrine has both the Father and the Son.
 2 John	2Jn	70	8	10	If any one comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into the house or give him any greeting;
 2 John	2Jn	70	8	11	for he who greets him shares his wicked work.
 2 John	2Jn	70	8	12	Though I have much to write to you, I would rather not use paper and ink, but I hope to come to see you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.
 2 John	2Jn	70	8	13	The children of your elect sister greet you.
 2 John	2Jn	70	9	1	The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth, and not only I but also all who know the truth,
 2 John	2Jn	70	9	2	because of the truth which abides in us and will be with us for ever:
 2 John	2Jn	70	9	3	Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father’s Son, in truth and love.
 2 John	2Jn	70	9	4	I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children following the truth, just as we have been commanded by the Father.
 2 John	2Jn	70	9	5	And now I beg you, lady, not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.
 2 John	2Jn	70	9	6	And this is love, that we follow his commandments; this is the commandment, as you have heard from the beginning, that you follow love.
 2 John	2Jn	70	9	7	For many deceivers have gone out into the world, men who will not acknowledge the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh; such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.
 2 John	2Jn	70	9	8	Look to yourselves, that you may not lose what you have worked for, but may win a full reward.
 2 John	2Jn	70	9	9	Any one who goes ahead and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God; he who abides in the doctrine has both the Father and the Son.
 2 John	2Jn	70	9	10	If any one comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into the house or give him any greeting;
 2 John	2Jn	70	9	11	for he who greets him shares his wicked work.
 2 John	2Jn	70	9	12	Though I have much to write to you, I would rather not use paper and ink, but I hope to come to see you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.
 2 John	2Jn	70	9	13	The children of your elect sister greet you.
 2 John	2Jn	70	10	1	The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth, and not only I but also all who know the truth,
 2 John	2Jn	70	10	2	because of the truth which abides in us and will be with us for ever:
 2 John	2Jn	70	10	3	Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father’s Son, in truth and love.
 2 John	2Jn	70	10	4	I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children following the truth, just as we have been commanded by the Father.
 2 John	2Jn	70	10	5	And now I beg you, lady, not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.
 2 John	2Jn	70	10	6	And this is love, that we follow his commandments; this is the commandment, as you have heard from the beginning, that you follow love.
 2 John	2Jn	70	10	7	For many deceivers have gone out into the world, men who will not acknowledge the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh; such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.
 2 John	2Jn	70	10	8	Look to yourselves, that you may not lose what you have worked for, but may win a full reward.
 2 John	2Jn	70	10	9	Any one who goes ahead and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God; he who abides in the doctrine has both the Father and the Son.
 2 John	2Jn	70	10	10	If any one comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into the house or give him any greeting;
 2 John	2Jn	70	10	11	for he who greets him shares his wicked work.
 2 John	2Jn	70	10	12	Though I have much to write to you, I would rather not use paper and ink, but I hope to come to see you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.
 2 John	2Jn	70	10	13	The children of your elect sister greet you.
 2 John	2Jn	70	11	1	The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth, and not only I but also all who know the truth,
 2 John	2Jn	70	11	2	because of the truth which abides in us and will be with us for ever:
 2 John	2Jn	70	11	3	Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father’s Son, in truth and love.
 2 John	2Jn	70	11	4	I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children following the truth, just as we have been commanded by the Father.
 2 John	2Jn	70	11	5	And now I beg you, lady, not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.
 2 John	2Jn	70	11	6	And this is love, that we follow his commandments; this is the commandment, as you have heard from the beginning, that you follow love.
 2 John	2Jn	70	11	7	For many deceivers have gone out into the world, men who will not acknowledge the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh; such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.
 2 John	2Jn	70	11	8	Look to yourselves, that you may not lose what you have worked for, but may win a full reward.
 2 John	2Jn	70	11	9	Any one who goes ahead and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God; he who abides in the doctrine has both the Father and the Son.
 2 John	2Jn	70	11	10	If any one comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into the house or give him any greeting;
 2 John	2Jn	70	11	11	for he who greets him shares his wicked work.
 2 John	2Jn	70	11	12	Though I have much to write to you, I would rather not use paper and ink, but I hope to come to see you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.
 2 John	2Jn	70	11	13	The children of your elect sister greet you.
 2 John	2Jn	70	12	1	The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth, and not only I but also all who know the truth,
 2 John	2Jn	70	12	2	because of the truth which abides in us and will be with us for ever:
 2 John	2Jn	70	12	3	Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father’s Son, in truth and love.
 2 John	2Jn	70	12	4	I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children following the truth, just as we have been commanded by the Father.
 2 John	2Jn	70	12	5	And now I beg you, lady, not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.
 2 John	2Jn	70	12	6	And this is love, that we follow his commandments; this is the commandment, as you have heard from the beginning, that you follow love.
 2 John	2Jn	70	12	7	For many deceivers have gone out into the world, men who will not acknowledge the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh; such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.
 2 John	2Jn	70	12	8	Look to yourselves, that you may not lose what you have worked for, but may win a full reward.
 2 John	2Jn	70	12	9	Any one who goes ahead and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God; he who abides in the doctrine has both the Father and the Son.
 2 John	2Jn	70	12	10	If any one comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into the house or give him any greeting;
 2 John	2Jn	70	12	11	for he who greets him shares his wicked work.
 2 John	2Jn	70	12	12	Though I have much to write to you, I would rather not use paper and ink, but I hope to come to see you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.
 2 John	2Jn	70	12	13	The children of your elect sister greet you.
 2 John	2Jn	70	13	1	The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth, and not only I but also all who know the truth,
 2 John	2Jn	70	13	2	because of the truth which abides in us and will be with us for ever:
 2 John	2Jn	70	13	3	Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father’s Son, in truth and love.
 2 John	2Jn	70	13	4	I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children following the truth, just as we have been commanded by the Father.
 2 John	2Jn	70	13	5	And now I beg you, lady, not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.
 2 John	2Jn	70	13	6	And this is love, that we follow his commandments; this is the commandment, as you have heard from the beginning, that you follow love.
 2 John	2Jn	70	13	7	For many deceivers have gone out into the world, men who will not acknowledge the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh; such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.
 2 John	2Jn	70	13	8	Look to yourselves, that you may not lose what you have worked for, but may win a full reward.
 2 John	2Jn	70	13	9	Any one who goes ahead and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God; he who abides in the doctrine has both the Father and the Son.
 2 John	2Jn	70	13	10	If any one comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into the house or give him any greeting;
 2 John	2Jn	70	13	11	for he who greets him shares his wicked work.
 2 John	2Jn	70	13	12	Though I have much to write to you, I would rather not use paper and ink, but I hope to come to see you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.
 2 John	2Jn	70	13	13	The children of your elect sister greet you.
 3 John	3Jn	71	1	1	The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	1	2	Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in health; I know that it is well with your soul.
 3 John	3Jn	71	1	3	For I greatly rejoiced when some of the brethren arrived and testified to the truth of your life, as indeed you do follow the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	1	4	No greater joy can I have than this, to hear that my children follow the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	1	5	Beloved, it is a loyal thing you do when you render any service to the brethren, especially to strangers,
 3 John	3Jn	71	1	6	who have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey as befits God’s service.
 3 John	3Jn	71	1	7	For they have set out for his sake and have accepted nothing from the heathen.
 3 John	3Jn	71	1	8	So we ought to support such men, that we may be fellow workers in the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	1	9	I have written something to the church; but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge my authority.
 3 John	3Jn	71	1	10	So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, prating against me with evil words. And not content with that, he refuses himself to welcome the brethren, and also stops those who want to welcome them and puts them out of the church.
 3 John	3Jn	71	1	11	Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. He who does good is of God; he who does evil has not seen God.
 3 John	3Jn	71	1	12	Demetrius has testimony from every one, and from the truth itself; I testify to him too, and you know my testimony is true.
 3 John	3Jn	71	1	13	I had much to write to you, but I would rather not write with pen and ink;
 3 John	3Jn	71	1	14	I hope to see you soon, and we will talk together face to face.
 3 John	3Jn	71	1	15	Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends, every one of them.
 3 John	3Jn	71	2	1	The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	2	2	Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in health; I know that it is well with your soul.
 3 John	3Jn	71	2	3	For I greatly rejoiced when some of the brethren arrived and testified to the truth of your life, as indeed you do follow the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	2	4	No greater joy can I have than this, to hear that my children follow the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	2	5	Beloved, it is a loyal thing you do when you render any service to the brethren, especially to strangers,
 3 John	3Jn	71	2	6	who have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey as befits God’s service.
 3 John	3Jn	71	2	7	For they have set out for his sake and have accepted nothing from the heathen.
 3 John	3Jn	71	2	8	So we ought to support such men, that we may be fellow workers in the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	2	9	I have written something to the church; but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge my authority.
 3 John	3Jn	71	2	10	So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, prating against me with evil words. And not content with that, he refuses himself to welcome the brethren, and also stops those who want to welcome them and puts them out of the church.
 3 John	3Jn	71	2	11	Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. He who does good is of God; he who does evil has not seen God.
 3 John	3Jn	71	2	12	Demetrius has testimony from every one, and from the truth itself; I testify to him too, and you know my testimony is true.
 3 John	3Jn	71	2	13	I had much to write to you, but I would rather not write with pen and ink;
 3 John	3Jn	71	2	14	I hope to see you soon, and we will talk together face to face.
 3 John	3Jn	71	2	15	Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends, every one of them.
 3 John	3Jn	71	3	1	The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	3	2	Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in health; I know that it is well with your soul.
 3 John	3Jn	71	3	3	For I greatly rejoiced when some of the brethren arrived and testified to the truth of your life, as indeed you do follow the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	3	4	No greater joy can I have than this, to hear that my children follow the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	3	5	Beloved, it is a loyal thing you do when you render any service to the brethren, especially to strangers,
 3 John	3Jn	71	3	6	who have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey as befits God’s service.
 3 John	3Jn	71	3	7	For they have set out for his sake and have accepted nothing from the heathen.
 3 John	3Jn	71	3	8	So we ought to support such men, that we may be fellow workers in the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	3	9	I have written something to the church; but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge my authority.
 3 John	3Jn	71	3	10	So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, prating against me with evil words. And not content with that, he refuses himself to welcome the brethren, and also stops those who want to welcome them and puts them out of the church.
 3 John	3Jn	71	3	11	Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. He who does good is of God; he who does evil has not seen God.
 3 John	3Jn	71	3	12	Demetrius has testimony from every one, and from the truth itself; I testify to him too, and you know my testimony is true.
 3 John	3Jn	71	3	13	I had much to write to you, but I would rather not write with pen and ink;
 3 John	3Jn	71	3	14	I hope to see you soon, and we will talk together face to face.
 3 John	3Jn	71	3	15	Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends, every one of them.
 3 John	3Jn	71	4	1	The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	4	2	Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in health; I know that it is well with your soul.
 3 John	3Jn	71	4	3	For I greatly rejoiced when some of the brethren arrived and testified to the truth of your life, as indeed you do follow the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	4	4	No greater joy can I have than this, to hear that my children follow the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	4	5	Beloved, it is a loyal thing you do when you render any service to the brethren, especially to strangers,
 3 John	3Jn	71	4	6	who have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey as befits God’s service.
 3 John	3Jn	71	4	7	For they have set out for his sake and have accepted nothing from the heathen.
 3 John	3Jn	71	4	8	So we ought to support such men, that we may be fellow workers in the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	4	9	I have written something to the church; but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge my authority.
 3 John	3Jn	71	4	10	So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, prating against me with evil words. And not content with that, he refuses himself to welcome the brethren, and also stops those who want to welcome them and puts them out of the church.
 3 John	3Jn	71	4	11	Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. He who does good is of God; he who does evil has not seen God.
 3 John	3Jn	71	4	12	Demetrius has testimony from every one, and from the truth itself; I testify to him too, and you know my testimony is true.
 3 John	3Jn	71	4	13	I had much to write to you, but I would rather not write with pen and ink;
 3 John	3Jn	71	4	14	I hope to see you soon, and we will talk together face to face.
 3 John	3Jn	71	4	15	Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends, every one of them.
 3 John	3Jn	71	5	1	The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	5	2	Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in health; I know that it is well with your soul.
 3 John	3Jn	71	5	3	For I greatly rejoiced when some of the brethren arrived and testified to the truth of your life, as indeed you do follow the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	5	4	No greater joy can I have than this, to hear that my children follow the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	5	5	Beloved, it is a loyal thing you do when you render any service to the brethren, especially to strangers,
 3 John	3Jn	71	5	6	who have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey as befits God’s service.
 3 John	3Jn	71	5	7	For they have set out for his sake and have accepted nothing from the heathen.
 3 John	3Jn	71	5	8	So we ought to support such men, that we may be fellow workers in the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	5	9	I have written something to the church; but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge my authority.
 3 John	3Jn	71	5	10	So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, prating against me with evil words. And not content with that, he refuses himself to welcome the brethren, and also stops those who want to welcome them and puts them out of the church.
 3 John	3Jn	71	5	11	Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. He who does good is of God; he who does evil has not seen God.
 3 John	3Jn	71	5	12	Demetrius has testimony from every one, and from the truth itself; I testify to him too, and you know my testimony is true.
 3 John	3Jn	71	5	13	I had much to write to you, but I would rather not write with pen and ink;
 3 John	3Jn	71	5	14	I hope to see you soon, and we will talk together face to face.
 3 John	3Jn	71	5	15	Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends, every one of them.
 3 John	3Jn	71	6	1	The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	6	2	Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in health; I know that it is well with your soul.
 3 John	3Jn	71	6	3	For I greatly rejoiced when some of the brethren arrived and testified to the truth of your life, as indeed you do follow the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	6	4	No greater joy can I have than this, to hear that my children follow the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	6	5	Beloved, it is a loyal thing you do when you render any service to the brethren, especially to strangers,
 3 John	3Jn	71	6	6	who have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey as befits God’s service.
 3 John	3Jn	71	6	7	For they have set out for his sake and have accepted nothing from the heathen.
 3 John	3Jn	71	6	8	So we ought to support such men, that we may be fellow workers in the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	6	9	I have written something to the church; but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge my authority.
 3 John	3Jn	71	6	10	So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, prating against me with evil words. And not content with that, he refuses himself to welcome the brethren, and also stops those who want to welcome them and puts them out of the church.
 3 John	3Jn	71	6	11	Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. He who does good is of God; he who does evil has not seen God.
 3 John	3Jn	71	6	12	Demetrius has testimony from every one, and from the truth itself; I testify to him too, and you know my testimony is true.
 3 John	3Jn	71	6	13	I had much to write to you, but I would rather not write with pen and ink;
 3 John	3Jn	71	6	14	I hope to see you soon, and we will talk together face to face.
 3 John	3Jn	71	6	15	Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends, every one of them.
 3 John	3Jn	71	7	1	The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	7	2	Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in health; I know that it is well with your soul.
 3 John	3Jn	71	7	3	For I greatly rejoiced when some of the brethren arrived and testified to the truth of your life, as indeed you do follow the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	7	4	No greater joy can I have than this, to hear that my children follow the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	7	5	Beloved, it is a loyal thing you do when you render any service to the brethren, especially to strangers,
 3 John	3Jn	71	7	6	who have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey as befits God’s service.
 3 John	3Jn	71	7	7	For they have set out for his sake and have accepted nothing from the heathen.
 3 John	3Jn	71	7	8	So we ought to support such men, that we may be fellow workers in the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	7	9	I have written something to the church; but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge my authority.
 3 John	3Jn	71	7	10	So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, prating against me with evil words. And not content with that, he refuses himself to welcome the brethren, and also stops those who want to welcome them and puts them out of the church.
 3 John	3Jn	71	7	11	Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. He who does good is of God; he who does evil has not seen God.
 3 John	3Jn	71	7	12	Demetrius has testimony from every one, and from the truth itself; I testify to him too, and you know my testimony is true.
 3 John	3Jn	71	7	13	I had much to write to you, but I would rather not write with pen and ink;
 3 John	3Jn	71	7	14	I hope to see you soon, and we will talk together face to face.
 3 John	3Jn	71	7	15	Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends, every one of them.
 3 John	3Jn	71	8	1	The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	8	2	Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in health; I know that it is well with your soul.
 3 John	3Jn	71	8	3	For I greatly rejoiced when some of the brethren arrived and testified to the truth of your life, as indeed you do follow the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	8	4	No greater joy can I have than this, to hear that my children follow the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	8	5	Beloved, it is a loyal thing you do when you render any service to the brethren, especially to strangers,
 3 John	3Jn	71	8	6	who have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey as befits God’s service.
 3 John	3Jn	71	8	7	For they have set out for his sake and have accepted nothing from the heathen.
 3 John	3Jn	71	8	8	So we ought to support such men, that we may be fellow workers in the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	8	9	I have written something to the church; but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge my authority.
 3 John	3Jn	71	8	10	So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, prating against me with evil words. And not content with that, he refuses himself to welcome the brethren, and also stops those who want to welcome them and puts them out of the church.
 3 John	3Jn	71	8	11	Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. He who does good is of God; he who does evil has not seen God.
 3 John	3Jn	71	8	12	Demetrius has testimony from every one, and from the truth itself; I testify to him too, and you know my testimony is true.
 3 John	3Jn	71	8	13	I had much to write to you, but I would rather not write with pen and ink;
 3 John	3Jn	71	8	14	I hope to see you soon, and we will talk together face to face.
 3 John	3Jn	71	8	15	Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends, every one of them.
 3 John	3Jn	71	9	1	The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	9	2	Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in health; I know that it is well with your soul.
 3 John	3Jn	71	9	3	For I greatly rejoiced when some of the brethren arrived and testified to the truth of your life, as indeed you do follow the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	9	4	No greater joy can I have than this, to hear that my children follow the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	9	5	Beloved, it is a loyal thing you do when you render any service to the brethren, especially to strangers,
 3 John	3Jn	71	9	6	who have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey as befits God’s service.
 3 John	3Jn	71	9	7	For they have set out for his sake and have accepted nothing from the heathen.
 3 John	3Jn	71	9	8	So we ought to support such men, that we may be fellow workers in the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	9	9	I have written something to the church; but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge my authority.
 3 John	3Jn	71	9	10	So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, prating against me with evil words. And not content with that, he refuses himself to welcome the brethren, and also stops those who want to welcome them and puts them out of the church.
 3 John	3Jn	71	9	11	Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. He who does good is of God; he who does evil has not seen God.
 3 John	3Jn	71	9	12	Demetrius has testimony from every one, and from the truth itself; I testify to him too, and you know my testimony is true.
 3 John	3Jn	71	9	13	I had much to write to you, but I would rather not write with pen and ink;
 3 John	3Jn	71	9	14	I hope to see you soon, and we will talk together face to face.
 3 John	3Jn	71	9	15	Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends, every one of them.
 3 John	3Jn	71	10	1	The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	10	2	Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in health; I know that it is well with your soul.
 3 John	3Jn	71	10	3	For I greatly rejoiced when some of the brethren arrived and testified to the truth of your life, as indeed you do follow the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	10	4	No greater joy can I have than this, to hear that my children follow the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	10	5	Beloved, it is a loyal thing you do when you render any service to the brethren, especially to strangers,
 3 John	3Jn	71	10	6	who have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey as befits God’s service.
 3 John	3Jn	71	10	7	For they have set out for his sake and have accepted nothing from the heathen.
 3 John	3Jn	71	10	8	So we ought to support such men, that we may be fellow workers in the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	10	9	I have written something to the church; but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge my authority.
 3 John	3Jn	71	10	10	So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, prating against me with evil words. And not content with that, he refuses himself to welcome the brethren, and also stops those who want to welcome them and puts them out of the church.
 3 John	3Jn	71	10	11	Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. He who does good is of God; he who does evil has not seen God.
 3 John	3Jn	71	10	12	Demetrius has testimony from every one, and from the truth itself; I testify to him too, and you know my testimony is true.
 3 John	3Jn	71	10	13	I had much to write to you, but I would rather not write with pen and ink;
 3 John	3Jn	71	10	14	I hope to see you soon, and we will talk together face to face.
 3 John	3Jn	71	10	15	Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends, every one of them.
 3 John	3Jn	71	11	1	The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	11	2	Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in health; I know that it is well with your soul.
 3 John	3Jn	71	11	3	For I greatly rejoiced when some of the brethren arrived and testified to the truth of your life, as indeed you do follow the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	11	4	No greater joy can I have than this, to hear that my children follow the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	11	5	Beloved, it is a loyal thing you do when you render any service to the brethren, especially to strangers,
 3 John	3Jn	71	11	6	who have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey as befits God’s service.
 3 John	3Jn	71	11	7	For they have set out for his sake and have accepted nothing from the heathen.
 3 John	3Jn	71	11	8	So we ought to support such men, that we may be fellow workers in the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	11	9	I have written something to the church; but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge my authority.
 3 John	3Jn	71	11	10	So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, prating against me with evil words. And not content with that, he refuses himself to welcome the brethren, and also stops those who want to welcome them and puts them out of the church.
 3 John	3Jn	71	11	11	Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. He who does good is of God; he who does evil has not seen God.
 3 John	3Jn	71	11	12	Demetrius has testimony from every one, and from the truth itself; I testify to him too, and you know my testimony is true.
 3 John	3Jn	71	11	13	I had much to write to you, but I would rather not write with pen and ink;
 3 John	3Jn	71	11	14	I hope to see you soon, and we will talk together face to face.
 3 John	3Jn	71	11	15	Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends, every one of them.
 3 John	3Jn	71	12	1	The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	12	2	Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in health; I know that it is well with your soul.
 3 John	3Jn	71	12	3	For I greatly rejoiced when some of the brethren arrived and testified to the truth of your life, as indeed you do follow the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	12	4	No greater joy can I have than this, to hear that my children follow the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	12	5	Beloved, it is a loyal thing you do when you render any service to the brethren, especially to strangers,
 3 John	3Jn	71	12	6	who have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey as befits God’s service.
 3 John	3Jn	71	12	7	For they have set out for his sake and have accepted nothing from the heathen.
 3 John	3Jn	71	12	8	So we ought to support such men, that we may be fellow workers in the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	12	9	I have written something to the church; but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge my authority.
 3 John	3Jn	71	12	10	So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, prating against me with evil words. And not content with that, he refuses himself to welcome the brethren, and also stops those who want to welcome them and puts them out of the church.
 3 John	3Jn	71	12	11	Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. He who does good is of God; he who does evil has not seen God.
 3 John	3Jn	71	12	12	Demetrius has testimony from every one, and from the truth itself; I testify to him too, and you know my testimony is true.
 3 John	3Jn	71	12	13	I had much to write to you, but I would rather not write with pen and ink;
 3 John	3Jn	71	12	14	I hope to see you soon, and we will talk together face to face.
 3 John	3Jn	71	12	15	Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends, every one of them.
 3 John	3Jn	71	13	1	The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	13	2	Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in health; I know that it is well with your soul.
 3 John	3Jn	71	13	3	For I greatly rejoiced when some of the brethren arrived and testified to the truth of your life, as indeed you do follow the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	13	4	No greater joy can I have than this, to hear that my children follow the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	13	5	Beloved, it is a loyal thing you do when you render any service to the brethren, especially to strangers,
 3 John	3Jn	71	13	6	who have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey as befits God’s service.
 3 John	3Jn	71	13	7	For they have set out for his sake and have accepted nothing from the heathen.
 3 John	3Jn	71	13	8	So we ought to support such men, that we may be fellow workers in the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	13	9	I have written something to the church; but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge my authority.
 3 John	3Jn	71	13	10	So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, prating against me with evil words. And not content with that, he refuses himself to welcome the brethren, and also stops those who want to welcome them and puts them out of the church.
 3 John	3Jn	71	13	11	Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. He who does good is of God; he who does evil has not seen God.
 3 John	3Jn	71	13	12	Demetrius has testimony from every one, and from the truth itself; I testify to him too, and you know my testimony is true.
 3 John	3Jn	71	13	13	I had much to write to you, but I would rather not write with pen and ink;
 3 John	3Jn	71	13	14	I hope to see you soon, and we will talk together face to face.
 3 John	3Jn	71	13	15	Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends, every one of them.
 3 John	3Jn	71	14	1	The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	14	2	Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in health; I know that it is well with your soul.
 3 John	3Jn	71	14	3	For I greatly rejoiced when some of the brethren arrived and testified to the truth of your life, as indeed you do follow the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	14	4	No greater joy can I have than this, to hear that my children follow the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	14	5	Beloved, it is a loyal thing you do when you render any service to the brethren, especially to strangers,
 3 John	3Jn	71	14	6	who have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey as befits God’s service.
 3 John	3Jn	71	14	7	For they have set out for his sake and have accepted nothing from the heathen.
 3 John	3Jn	71	14	8	So we ought to support such men, that we may be fellow workers in the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	14	9	I have written something to the church; but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge my authority.
 3 John	3Jn	71	14	10	So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, prating against me with evil words. And not content with that, he refuses himself to welcome the brethren, and also stops those who want to welcome them and puts them out of the church.
 3 John	3Jn	71	14	11	Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. He who does good is of God; he who does evil has not seen God.
 3 John	3Jn	71	14	12	Demetrius has testimony from every one, and from the truth itself; I testify to him too, and you know my testimony is true.
 3 John	3Jn	71	14	13	I had much to write to you, but I would rather not write with pen and ink;
 3 John	3Jn	71	14	14	I hope to see you soon, and we will talk together face to face.
 3 John	3Jn	71	14	15	Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends, every one of them.
 3 John	3Jn	71	15	1	The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	15	2	Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in health; I know that it is well with your soul.
 3 John	3Jn	71	15	3	For I greatly rejoiced when some of the brethren arrived and testified to the truth of your life, as indeed you do follow the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	15	4	No greater joy can I have than this, to hear that my children follow the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	15	5	Beloved, it is a loyal thing you do when you render any service to the brethren, especially to strangers,
 3 John	3Jn	71	15	6	who have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey as befits God’s service.
 3 John	3Jn	71	15	7	For they have set out for his sake and have accepted nothing from the heathen.
 3 John	3Jn	71	15	8	So we ought to support such men, that we may be fellow workers in the truth.
 3 John	3Jn	71	15	9	I have written something to the church; but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge my authority.
 3 John	3Jn	71	15	10	So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, prating against me with evil words. And not content with that, he refuses himself to welcome the brethren, and also stops those who want to welcome them and puts them out of the church.
 3 John	3Jn	71	15	11	Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. He who does good is of God; he who does evil has not seen God.
 3 John	3Jn	71	15	12	Demetrius has testimony from every one, and from the truth itself; I testify to him too, and you know my testimony is true.
 3 John	3Jn	71	15	13	I had much to write to you, but I would rather not write with pen and ink;
 3 John	3Jn	71	15	14	I hope to see you soon, and we will talk together face to face.
 3 John	3Jn	71	15	15	Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends, every one of them.
 Jude	Jude	72	1	1	Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
 Jude	Jude	72	1	2	May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
 Jude	Jude	72	1	3	Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
 Jude	Jude	72	1	4	For admission has been secretly gained by some who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly persons who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
 Jude	Jude	72	1	5	Now I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that he who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
 Jude	Jude	72	1	6	And the angels that did not keep their own position but left their proper dwelling have been kept by him in eternal chains in the nether gloom until the judgment of the great day;
 Jude	Jude	72	1	7	just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
 Jude	Jude	72	1	8	Yet in like manner these men in their dreamings defile the flesh, reject authority, and revile the glorious ones.
 Jude	Jude	72	1	9	But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, disputed about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”
 Jude	Jude	72	1	10	But these men revile whatever they do not understand, and by those things that they know by instinct as irrational animals do, they are destroyed.
 Jude	Jude	72	1	11	Woe to them! For they walk in the way of Cain, and abandon themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error, and perish in Korah’s rebellion.
 Jude	Jude	72	1	12	These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they boldly carouse together, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
 Jude	Jude	72	1	13	wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved for ever.
 Jude	Jude	72	1	14	It was of these also that Enoch in the seventh generation from Adam prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads,
 Jude	Jude	72	1	15	to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness which they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
 Jude	Jude	72	1	16	These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own passions, loud-mouthed boasters, flattering people to gain advantage.
 Jude	Jude	72	1	17	But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
 Jude	Jude	72	1	18	they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
 Jude	Jude	72	1	19	It is these who set up divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
 Jude	Jude	72	1	20	But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;
 Jude	Jude	72	1	21	keep yourselves in the love of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
 Jude	Jude	72	1	22	And convince some, who doubt;
 Jude	Jude	72	1	23	save some, by snatching them out of the fire; on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
 Jude	Jude	72	1	24	Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you without blemish before the presence of his glory with rejoicing,
 Jude	Jude	72	1	25	to the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and for ever. Amen.
 Jude	Jude	72	2	1	Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
 Jude	Jude	72	2	2	May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
 Jude	Jude	72	2	3	Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
 Jude	Jude	72	2	4	For admission has been secretly gained by some who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly persons who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
 Jude	Jude	72	2	5	Now I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that he who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
 Jude	Jude	72	2	6	And the angels that did not keep their own position but left their proper dwelling have been kept by him in eternal chains in the nether gloom until the judgment of the great day;
 Jude	Jude	72	2	7	just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
 Jude	Jude	72	2	8	Yet in like manner these men in their dreamings defile the flesh, reject authority, and revile the glorious ones.
 Jude	Jude	72	2	9	But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, disputed about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”
 Jude	Jude	72	2	10	But these men revile whatever they do not understand, and by those things that they know by instinct as irrational animals do, they are destroyed.
 Jude	Jude	72	2	11	Woe to them! For they walk in the way of Cain, and abandon themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error, and perish in Korah’s rebellion.
 Jude	Jude	72	2	12	These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they boldly carouse together, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
 Jude	Jude	72	2	13	wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved for ever.
 Jude	Jude	72	2	14	It was of these also that Enoch in the seventh generation from Adam prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads,
 Jude	Jude	72	2	15	to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness which they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
 Jude	Jude	72	2	16	These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own passions, loud-mouthed boasters, flattering people to gain advantage.
 Jude	Jude	72	2	17	But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
 Jude	Jude	72	2	18	they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
 Jude	Jude	72	2	19	It is these who set up divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
 Jude	Jude	72	2	20	But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;
 Jude	Jude	72	2	21	keep yourselves in the love of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
 Jude	Jude	72	2	22	And convince some, who doubt;
 Jude	Jude	72	2	23	save some, by snatching them out of the fire; on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
 Jude	Jude	72	2	24	Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you without blemish before the presence of his glory with rejoicing,
 Jude	Jude	72	2	25	to the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and for ever. Amen.
 Jude	Jude	72	3	1	Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
 Jude	Jude	72	3	2	May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
 Jude	Jude	72	3	3	Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
 Jude	Jude	72	3	4	For admission has been secretly gained by some who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly persons who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
 Jude	Jude	72	3	5	Now I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that he who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
 Jude	Jude	72	3	6	And the angels that did not keep their own position but left their proper dwelling have been kept by him in eternal chains in the nether gloom until the judgment of the great day;
 Jude	Jude	72	3	7	just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
 Jude	Jude	72	3	8	Yet in like manner these men in their dreamings defile the flesh, reject authority, and revile the glorious ones.
 Jude	Jude	72	3	9	But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, disputed about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”
 Jude	Jude	72	3	10	But these men revile whatever they do not understand, and by those things that they know by instinct as irrational animals do, they are destroyed.
 Jude	Jude	72	3	11	Woe to them! For they walk in the way of Cain, and abandon themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error, and perish in Korah’s rebellion.
 Jude	Jude	72	3	12	These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they boldly carouse together, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
 Jude	Jude	72	3	13	wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved for ever.
 Jude	Jude	72	3	14	It was of these also that Enoch in the seventh generation from Adam prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads,
 Jude	Jude	72	3	15	to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness which they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
 Jude	Jude	72	3	16	These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own passions, loud-mouthed boasters, flattering people to gain advantage.
 Jude	Jude	72	3	17	But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
 Jude	Jude	72	3	18	they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
 Jude	Jude	72	3	19	It is these who set up divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
 Jude	Jude	72	3	20	But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;
 Jude	Jude	72	3	21	keep yourselves in the love of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
 Jude	Jude	72	3	22	And convince some, who doubt;
 Jude	Jude	72	3	23	save some, by snatching them out of the fire; on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
 Jude	Jude	72	3	24	Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you without blemish before the presence of his glory with rejoicing,
 Jude	Jude	72	3	25	to the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and for ever. Amen.
 Jude	Jude	72	4	1	Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
 Jude	Jude	72	4	2	May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
 Jude	Jude	72	4	3	Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
 Jude	Jude	72	4	4	For admission has been secretly gained by some who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly persons who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
 Jude	Jude	72	4	5	Now I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that he who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
 Jude	Jude	72	4	6	And the angels that did not keep their own position but left their proper dwelling have been kept by him in eternal chains in the nether gloom until the judgment of the great day;
 Jude	Jude	72	4	7	just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
 Jude	Jude	72	4	8	Yet in like manner these men in their dreamings defile the flesh, reject authority, and revile the glorious ones.
 Jude	Jude	72	4	9	But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, disputed about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”
 Jude	Jude	72	4	10	But these men revile whatever they do not understand, and by those things that they know by instinct as irrational animals do, they are destroyed.
 Jude	Jude	72	4	11	Woe to them! For they walk in the way of Cain, and abandon themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error, and perish in Korah’s rebellion.
 Jude	Jude	72	4	12	These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they boldly carouse together, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
 Jude	Jude	72	4	13	wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved for ever.
 Jude	Jude	72	4	14	It was of these also that Enoch in the seventh generation from Adam prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads,
 Jude	Jude	72	4	15	to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness which they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
 Jude	Jude	72	4	16	These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own passions, loud-mouthed boasters, flattering people to gain advantage.
 Jude	Jude	72	4	17	But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
 Jude	Jude	72	4	18	they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
 Jude	Jude	72	4	19	It is these who set up divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
 Jude	Jude	72	4	20	But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;
 Jude	Jude	72	4	21	keep yourselves in the love of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
 Jude	Jude	72	4	22	And convince some, who doubt;
 Jude	Jude	72	4	23	save some, by snatching them out of the fire; on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
 Jude	Jude	72	4	24	Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you without blemish before the presence of his glory with rejoicing,
 Jude	Jude	72	4	25	to the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and for ever. Amen.
 Jude	Jude	72	5	1	Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
 Jude	Jude	72	5	2	May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
 Jude	Jude	72	5	3	Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
 Jude	Jude	72	5	4	For admission has been secretly gained by some who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly persons who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
 Jude	Jude	72	5	5	Now I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that he who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
 Jude	Jude	72	5	6	And the angels that did not keep their own position but left their proper dwelling have been kept by him in eternal chains in the nether gloom until the judgment of the great day;
 Jude	Jude	72	5	7	just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
 Jude	Jude	72	5	8	Yet in like manner these men in their dreamings defile the flesh, reject authority, and revile the glorious ones.
 Jude	Jude	72	5	9	But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, disputed about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”
 Jude	Jude	72	5	10	But these men revile whatever they do not understand, and by those things that they know by instinct as irrational animals do, they are destroyed.
 Jude	Jude	72	5	11	Woe to them! For they walk in the way of Cain, and abandon themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error, and perish in Korah’s rebellion.
 Jude	Jude	72	5	12	These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they boldly carouse together, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
 Jude	Jude	72	5	13	wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved for ever.
 Jude	Jude	72	5	14	It was of these also that Enoch in the seventh generation from Adam prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads,
 Jude	Jude	72	5	15	to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness which they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
 Jude	Jude	72	5	16	These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own passions, loud-mouthed boasters, flattering people to gain advantage.
 Jude	Jude	72	5	17	But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
 Jude	Jude	72	5	18	they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
 Jude	Jude	72	5	19	It is these who set up divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
 Jude	Jude	72	5	20	But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;
 Jude	Jude	72	5	21	keep yourselves in the love of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
 Jude	Jude	72	5	22	And convince some, who doubt;
 Jude	Jude	72	5	23	save some, by snatching them out of the fire; on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
 Jude	Jude	72	5	24	Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you without blemish before the presence of his glory with rejoicing,
 Jude	Jude	72	5	25	to the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and for ever. Amen.
 Jude	Jude	72	6	1	Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
 Jude	Jude	72	6	2	May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
 Jude	Jude	72	6	3	Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
 Jude	Jude	72	6	4	For admission has been secretly gained by some who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly persons who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
 Jude	Jude	72	6	5	Now I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that he who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
 Jude	Jude	72	6	6	And the angels that did not keep their own position but left their proper dwelling have been kept by him in eternal chains in the nether gloom until the judgment of the great day;
 Jude	Jude	72	6	7	just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
 Jude	Jude	72	6	8	Yet in like manner these men in their dreamings defile the flesh, reject authority, and revile the glorious ones.
 Jude	Jude	72	6	9	But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, disputed about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”
 Jude	Jude	72	6	10	But these men revile whatever they do not understand, and by those things that they know by instinct as irrational animals do, they are destroyed.
 Jude	Jude	72	6	11	Woe to them! For they walk in the way of Cain, and abandon themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error, and perish in Korah’s rebellion.
 Jude	Jude	72	6	12	These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they boldly carouse together, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
 Jude	Jude	72	6	13	wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved for ever.
 Jude	Jude	72	6	14	It was of these also that Enoch in the seventh generation from Adam prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads,
 Jude	Jude	72	6	15	to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness which they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
 Jude	Jude	72	6	16	These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own passions, loud-mouthed boasters, flattering people to gain advantage.
 Jude	Jude	72	6	17	But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
 Jude	Jude	72	6	18	they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
 Jude	Jude	72	6	19	It is these who set up divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
 Jude	Jude	72	6	20	But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;
 Jude	Jude	72	6	21	keep yourselves in the love of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
 Jude	Jude	72	6	22	And convince some, who doubt;
 Jude	Jude	72	6	23	save some, by snatching them out of the fire; on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
 Jude	Jude	72	6	24	Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you without blemish before the presence of his glory with rejoicing,
 Jude	Jude	72	6	25	to the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and for ever. Amen.
 Jude	Jude	72	7	1	Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
 Jude	Jude	72	7	2	May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
 Jude	Jude	72	7	3	Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
 Jude	Jude	72	7	4	For admission has been secretly gained by some who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly persons who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
 Jude	Jude	72	7	5	Now I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that he who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
 Jude	Jude	72	7	6	And the angels that did not keep their own position but left their proper dwelling have been kept by him in eternal chains in the nether gloom until the judgment of the great day;
 Jude	Jude	72	7	7	just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
 Jude	Jude	72	7	8	Yet in like manner these men in their dreamings defile the flesh, reject authority, and revile the glorious ones.
 Jude	Jude	72	7	9	But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, disputed about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”
 Jude	Jude	72	7	10	But these men revile whatever they do not understand, and by those things that they know by instinct as irrational animals do, they are destroyed.
 Jude	Jude	72	7	11	Woe to them! For they walk in the way of Cain, and abandon themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error, and perish in Korah’s rebellion.
 Jude	Jude	72	7	12	These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they boldly carouse together, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
 Jude	Jude	72	7	13	wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved for ever.
 Jude	Jude	72	7	14	It was of these also that Enoch in the seventh generation from Adam prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads,
 Jude	Jude	72	7	15	to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness which they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
 Jude	Jude	72	7	16	These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own passions, loud-mouthed boasters, flattering people to gain advantage.
 Jude	Jude	72	7	17	But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
 Jude	Jude	72	7	18	they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
 Jude	Jude	72	7	19	It is these who set up divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
 Jude	Jude	72	7	20	But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;
 Jude	Jude	72	7	21	keep yourselves in the love of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
 Jude	Jude	72	7	22	And convince some, who doubt;
 Jude	Jude	72	7	23	save some, by snatching them out of the fire; on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
 Jude	Jude	72	7	24	Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you without blemish before the presence of his glory with rejoicing,
 Jude	Jude	72	7	25	to the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and for ever. Amen.
 Jude	Jude	72	8	1	Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
 Jude	Jude	72	8	2	May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
 Jude	Jude	72	8	3	Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
 Jude	Jude	72	8	4	For admission has been secretly gained by some who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly persons who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
 Jude	Jude	72	8	5	Now I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that he who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
 Jude	Jude	72	8	6	And the angels that did not keep their own position but left their proper dwelling have been kept by him in eternal chains in the nether gloom until the judgment of the great day;
 Jude	Jude	72	8	7	just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
 Jude	Jude	72	8	8	Yet in like manner these men in their dreamings defile the flesh, reject authority, and revile the glorious ones.
 Jude	Jude	72	8	9	But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, disputed about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”
 Jude	Jude	72	8	10	But these men revile whatever they do not understand, and by those things that they know by instinct as irrational animals do, they are destroyed.
 Jude	Jude	72	8	11	Woe to them! For they walk in the way of Cain, and abandon themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error, and perish in Korah’s rebellion.
 Jude	Jude	72	8	12	These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they boldly carouse together, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
 Jude	Jude	72	8	13	wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved for ever.
 Jude	Jude	72	8	14	It was of these also that Enoch in the seventh generation from Adam prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads,
 Jude	Jude	72	8	15	to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness which they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
 Jude	Jude	72	8	16	These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own passions, loud-mouthed boasters, flattering people to gain advantage.
 Jude	Jude	72	8	17	But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
 Jude	Jude	72	8	18	they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
 Jude	Jude	72	8	19	It is these who set up divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
 Jude	Jude	72	8	20	But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;
 Jude	Jude	72	8	21	keep yourselves in the love of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
 Jude	Jude	72	8	22	And convince some, who doubt;
 Jude	Jude	72	8	23	save some, by snatching them out of the fire; on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
 Jude	Jude	72	8	24	Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you without blemish before the presence of his glory with rejoicing,
 Jude	Jude	72	8	25	to the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and for ever. Amen.
 Jude	Jude	72	9	1	Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
 Jude	Jude	72	9	2	May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
 Jude	Jude	72	9	3	Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
 Jude	Jude	72	9	4	For admission has been secretly gained by some who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly persons who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
 Jude	Jude	72	9	5	Now I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that he who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
 Jude	Jude	72	9	6	And the angels that did not keep their own position but left their proper dwelling have been kept by him in eternal chains in the nether gloom until the judgment of the great day;
 Jude	Jude	72	9	7	just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
 Jude	Jude	72	9	8	Yet in like manner these men in their dreamings defile the flesh, reject authority, and revile the glorious ones.
 Jude	Jude	72	9	9	But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, disputed about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”
 Jude	Jude	72	9	10	But these men revile whatever they do not understand, and by those things that they know by instinct as irrational animals do, they are destroyed.
 Jude	Jude	72	9	11	Woe to them! For they walk in the way of Cain, and abandon themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error, and perish in Korah’s rebellion.
 Jude	Jude	72	9	12	These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they boldly carouse together, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
 Jude	Jude	72	9	13	wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved for ever.
 Jude	Jude	72	9	14	It was of these also that Enoch in the seventh generation from Adam prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads,
 Jude	Jude	72	9	15	to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness which they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
 Jude	Jude	72	9	16	These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own passions, loud-mouthed boasters, flattering people to gain advantage.
 Jude	Jude	72	9	17	But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
 Jude	Jude	72	9	18	they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
 Jude	Jude	72	9	19	It is these who set up divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
 Jude	Jude	72	9	20	But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;
 Jude	Jude	72	9	21	keep yourselves in the love of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
 Jude	Jude	72	9	22	And convince some, who doubt;
 Jude	Jude	72	9	23	save some, by snatching them out of the fire; on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
 Jude	Jude	72	9	24	Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you without blemish before the presence of his glory with rejoicing,
 Jude	Jude	72	9	25	to the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and for ever. Amen.
 Jude	Jude	72	10	1	Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
 Jude	Jude	72	10	2	May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
 Jude	Jude	72	10	3	Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
 Jude	Jude	72	10	4	For admission has been secretly gained by some who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly persons who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
 Jude	Jude	72	10	5	Now I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that he who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
 Jude	Jude	72	10	6	And the angels that did not keep their own position but left their proper dwelling have been kept by him in eternal chains in the nether gloom until the judgment of the great day;
 Jude	Jude	72	10	7	just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
 Jude	Jude	72	10	8	Yet in like manner these men in their dreamings defile the flesh, reject authority, and revile the glorious ones.
 Jude	Jude	72	10	9	But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, disputed about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”
 Jude	Jude	72	10	10	But these men revile whatever they do not understand, and by those things that they know by instinct as irrational animals do, they are destroyed.
 Jude	Jude	72	10	11	Woe to them! For they walk in the way of Cain, and abandon themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error, and perish in Korah’s rebellion.
 Jude	Jude	72	10	12	These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they boldly carouse together, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
 Jude	Jude	72	10	13	wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved for ever.
 Jude	Jude	72	10	14	It was of these also that Enoch in the seventh generation from Adam prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads,
 Jude	Jude	72	10	15	to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness which they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
 Jude	Jude	72	10	16	These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own passions, loud-mouthed boasters, flattering people to gain advantage.
 Jude	Jude	72	10	17	But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
 Jude	Jude	72	10	18	they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
 Jude	Jude	72	10	19	It is these who set up divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
 Jude	Jude	72	10	20	But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;
 Jude	Jude	72	10	21	keep yourselves in the love of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
 Jude	Jude	72	10	22	And convince some, who doubt;
 Jude	Jude	72	10	23	save some, by snatching them out of the fire; on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
 Jude	Jude	72	10	24	Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you without blemish before the presence of his glory with rejoicing,
 Jude	Jude	72	10	25	to the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and for ever. Amen.
 Jude	Jude	72	11	1	Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
 Jude	Jude	72	11	2	May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
 Jude	Jude	72	11	3	Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
 Jude	Jude	72	11	4	For admission has been secretly gained by some who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly persons who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
 Jude	Jude	72	11	5	Now I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that he who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
 Jude	Jude	72	11	6	And the angels that did not keep their own position but left their proper dwelling have been kept by him in eternal chains in the nether gloom until the judgment of the great day;
 Jude	Jude	72	11	7	just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
 Jude	Jude	72	11	8	Yet in like manner these men in their dreamings defile the flesh, reject authority, and revile the glorious ones.
 Jude	Jude	72	11	9	But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, disputed about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”
 Jude	Jude	72	11	10	But these men revile whatever they do not understand, and by those things that they know by instinct as irrational animals do, they are destroyed.
 Jude	Jude	72	11	11	Woe to them! For they walk in the way of Cain, and abandon themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error, and perish in Korah’s rebellion.
 Jude	Jude	72	11	12	These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they boldly carouse together, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
 Jude	Jude	72	11	13	wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved for ever.
 Jude	Jude	72	11	14	It was of these also that Enoch in the seventh generation from Adam prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads,
 Jude	Jude	72	11	15	to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness which they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
 Jude	Jude	72	11	16	These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own passions, loud-mouthed boasters, flattering people to gain advantage.
 Jude	Jude	72	11	17	But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
 Jude	Jude	72	11	18	they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
 Jude	Jude	72	11	19	It is these who set up divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
 Jude	Jude	72	11	20	But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;
 Jude	Jude	72	11	21	keep yourselves in the love of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
 Jude	Jude	72	11	22	And convince some, who doubt;
 Jude	Jude	72	11	23	save some, by snatching them out of the fire; on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
 Jude	Jude	72	11	24	Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you without blemish before the presence of his glory with rejoicing,
 Jude	Jude	72	11	25	to the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and for ever. Amen.
 Jude	Jude	72	12	1	Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
 Jude	Jude	72	12	2	May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
 Jude	Jude	72	12	3	Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
 Jude	Jude	72	12	4	For admission has been secretly gained by some who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly persons who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
 Jude	Jude	72	12	5	Now I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that he who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
 Jude	Jude	72	12	6	And the angels that did not keep their own position but left their proper dwelling have been kept by him in eternal chains in the nether gloom until the judgment of the great day;
 Jude	Jude	72	12	7	just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
 Jude	Jude	72	12	8	Yet in like manner these men in their dreamings defile the flesh, reject authority, and revile the glorious ones.
 Jude	Jude	72	12	9	But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, disputed about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”
 Jude	Jude	72	12	10	But these men revile whatever they do not understand, and by those things that they know by instinct as irrational animals do, they are destroyed.
 Jude	Jude	72	12	11	Woe to them! For they walk in the way of Cain, and abandon themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error, and perish in Korah’s rebellion.
 Jude	Jude	72	12	12	These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they boldly carouse together, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
 Jude	Jude	72	12	13	wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved for ever.
 Jude	Jude	72	12	14	It was of these also that Enoch in the seventh generation from Adam prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads,
 Jude	Jude	72	12	15	to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness which they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
 Jude	Jude	72	12	16	These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own passions, loud-mouthed boasters, flattering people to gain advantage.
 Jude	Jude	72	12	17	But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
 Jude	Jude	72	12	18	they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
 Jude	Jude	72	12	19	It is these who set up divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
 Jude	Jude	72	12	20	But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;
 Jude	Jude	72	12	21	keep yourselves in the love of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
 Jude	Jude	72	12	22	And convince some, who doubt;
 Jude	Jude	72	12	23	save some, by snatching them out of the fire; on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
 Jude	Jude	72	12	24	Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you without blemish before the presence of his glory with rejoicing,
 Jude	Jude	72	12	25	to the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and for ever. Amen.
 Jude	Jude	72	13	1	Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
 Jude	Jude	72	13	2	May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
 Jude	Jude	72	13	3	Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
 Jude	Jude	72	13	4	For admission has been secretly gained by some who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly persons who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
 Jude	Jude	72	13	5	Now I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that he who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
 Jude	Jude	72	13	6	And the angels that did not keep their own position but left their proper dwelling have been kept by him in eternal chains in the nether gloom until the judgment of the great day;
 Jude	Jude	72	13	7	just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
 Jude	Jude	72	13	8	Yet in like manner these men in their dreamings defile the flesh, reject authority, and revile the glorious ones.
 Jude	Jude	72	13	9	But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, disputed about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”
 Jude	Jude	72	13	10	But these men revile whatever they do not understand, and by those things that they know by instinct as irrational animals do, they are destroyed.
 Jude	Jude	72	13	11	Woe to them! For they walk in the way of Cain, and abandon themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error, and perish in Korah’s rebellion.
 Jude	Jude	72	13	12	These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they boldly carouse together, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
 Jude	Jude	72	13	13	wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved for ever.
 Jude	Jude	72	13	14	It was of these also that Enoch in the seventh generation from Adam prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads,
 Jude	Jude	72	13	15	to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness which they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
 Jude	Jude	72	13	16	These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own passions, loud-mouthed boasters, flattering people to gain advantage.
 Jude	Jude	72	13	17	But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
 Jude	Jude	72	13	18	they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
 Jude	Jude	72	13	19	It is these who set up divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
 Jude	Jude	72	13	20	But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;
 Jude	Jude	72	13	21	keep yourselves in the love of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
 Jude	Jude	72	13	22	And convince some, who doubt;
 Jude	Jude	72	13	23	save some, by snatching them out of the fire; on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
 Jude	Jude	72	13	24	Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you without blemish before the presence of his glory with rejoicing,
 Jude	Jude	72	13	25	to the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and for ever. Amen.
 Jude	Jude	72	14	1	Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
 Jude	Jude	72	14	2	May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
 Jude	Jude	72	14	3	Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
 Jude	Jude	72	14	4	For admission has been secretly gained by some who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly persons who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
 Jude	Jude	72	14	5	Now I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that he who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
 Jude	Jude	72	14	6	And the angels that did not keep their own position but left their proper dwelling have been kept by him in eternal chains in the nether gloom until the judgment of the great day;
 Jude	Jude	72	14	7	just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
 Jude	Jude	72	14	8	Yet in like manner these men in their dreamings defile the flesh, reject authority, and revile the glorious ones.
 Jude	Jude	72	14	9	But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, disputed about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”
 Jude	Jude	72	14	10	But these men revile whatever they do not understand, and by those things that they know by instinct as irrational animals do, they are destroyed.
 Jude	Jude	72	14	11	Woe to them! For they walk in the way of Cain, and abandon themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error, and perish in Korah’s rebellion.
 Jude	Jude	72	14	12	These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they boldly carouse together, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
 Jude	Jude	72	14	13	wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved for ever.
 Jude	Jude	72	14	14	It was of these also that Enoch in the seventh generation from Adam prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads,
 Jude	Jude	72	14	15	to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness which they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
 Jude	Jude	72	14	16	These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own passions, loud-mouthed boasters, flattering people to gain advantage.
 Jude	Jude	72	14	17	But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
 Jude	Jude	72	14	18	they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
 Jude	Jude	72	14	19	It is these who set up divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
 Jude	Jude	72	14	20	But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;
 Jude	Jude	72	14	21	keep yourselves in the love of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
 Jude	Jude	72	14	22	And convince some, who doubt;
 Jude	Jude	72	14	23	save some, by snatching them out of the fire; on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
 Jude	Jude	72	14	24	Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you without blemish before the presence of his glory with rejoicing,
 Jude	Jude	72	14	25	to the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and for ever. Amen.
 Jude	Jude	72	15	1	Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
 Jude	Jude	72	15	2	May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
 Jude	Jude	72	15	3	Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
 Jude	Jude	72	15	4	For admission has been secretly gained by some who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly persons who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
 Jude	Jude	72	15	5	Now I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that he who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
 Jude	Jude	72	15	6	And the angels that did not keep their own position but left their proper dwelling have been kept by him in eternal chains in the nether gloom until the judgment of the great day;
 Jude	Jude	72	15	7	just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
 Jude	Jude	72	15	8	Yet in like manner these men in their dreamings defile the flesh, reject authority, and revile the glorious ones.
 Jude	Jude	72	15	9	But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, disputed about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”
 Jude	Jude	72	15	10	But these men revile whatever they do not understand, and by those things that they know by instinct as irrational animals do, they are destroyed.
 Jude	Jude	72	15	11	Woe to them! For they walk in the way of Cain, and abandon themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error, and perish in Korah’s rebellion.
 Jude	Jude	72	15	12	These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they boldly carouse together, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
 Jude	Jude	72	15	13	wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved for ever.
 Jude	Jude	72	15	14	It was of these also that Enoch in the seventh generation from Adam prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads,
 Jude	Jude	72	15	15	to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness which they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
 Jude	Jude	72	15	16	These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own passions, loud-mouthed boasters, flattering people to gain advantage.
 Jude	Jude	72	15	17	But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
 Jude	Jude	72	15	18	they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
 Jude	Jude	72	15	19	It is these who set up divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
 Jude	Jude	72	15	20	But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;
 Jude	Jude	72	15	21	keep yourselves in the love of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
 Jude	Jude	72	15	22	And convince some, who doubt;
 Jude	Jude	72	15	23	save some, by snatching them out of the fire; on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
 Jude	Jude	72	15	24	Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you without blemish before the presence of his glory with rejoicing,
 Jude	Jude	72	15	25	to the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and for ever. Amen.
 Jude	Jude	72	16	1	Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
 Jude	Jude	72	16	2	May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
 Jude	Jude	72	16	3	Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
 Jude	Jude	72	16	4	For admission has been secretly gained by some who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly persons who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
 Jude	Jude	72	16	5	Now I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that he who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
 Jude	Jude	72	16	6	And the angels that did not keep their own position but left their proper dwelling have been kept by him in eternal chains in the nether gloom until the judgment of the great day;
 Jude	Jude	72	16	7	just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
 Jude	Jude	72	16	8	Yet in like manner these men in their dreamings defile the flesh, reject authority, and revile the glorious ones.
 Jude	Jude	72	16	9	But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, disputed about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”
 Jude	Jude	72	16	10	But these men revile whatever they do not understand, and by those things that they know by instinct as irrational animals do, they are destroyed.
 Jude	Jude	72	16	11	Woe to them! For they walk in the way of Cain, and abandon themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error, and perish in Korah’s rebellion.
 Jude	Jude	72	16	12	These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they boldly carouse together, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
 Jude	Jude	72	16	13	wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved for ever.
 Jude	Jude	72	16	14	It was of these also that Enoch in the seventh generation from Adam prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads,
 Jude	Jude	72	16	15	to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness which they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
 Jude	Jude	72	16	16	These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own passions, loud-mouthed boasters, flattering people to gain advantage.
 Jude	Jude	72	16	17	But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
 Jude	Jude	72	16	18	they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
 Jude	Jude	72	16	19	It is these who set up divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
 Jude	Jude	72	16	20	But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;
 Jude	Jude	72	16	21	keep yourselves in the love of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
 Jude	Jude	72	16	22	And convince some, who doubt;
 Jude	Jude	72	16	23	save some, by snatching them out of the fire; on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
 Jude	Jude	72	16	24	Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you without blemish before the presence of his glory with rejoicing,
 Jude	Jude	72	16	25	to the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and for ever. Amen.
 Jude	Jude	72	17	1	Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
 Jude	Jude	72	17	2	May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
 Jude	Jude	72	17	3	Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
 Jude	Jude	72	17	4	For admission has been secretly gained by some who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly persons who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
 Jude	Jude	72	17	5	Now I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that he who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
 Jude	Jude	72	17	6	And the angels that did not keep their own position but left their proper dwelling have been kept by him in eternal chains in the nether gloom until the judgment of the great day;
 Jude	Jude	72	17	7	just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
 Jude	Jude	72	17	8	Yet in like manner these men in their dreamings defile the flesh, reject authority, and revile the glorious ones.
 Jude	Jude	72	17	9	But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, disputed about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”
 Jude	Jude	72	17	10	But these men revile whatever they do not understand, and by those things that they know by instinct as irrational animals do, they are destroyed.
 Jude	Jude	72	17	11	Woe to them! For they walk in the way of Cain, and abandon themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error, and perish in Korah’s rebellion.
 Jude	Jude	72	17	12	These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they boldly carouse together, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
 Jude	Jude	72	17	13	wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved for ever.
 Jude	Jude	72	17	14	It was of these also that Enoch in the seventh generation from Adam prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads,
 Jude	Jude	72	17	15	to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness which they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
 Jude	Jude	72	17	16	These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own passions, loud-mouthed boasters, flattering people to gain advantage.
 Jude	Jude	72	17	17	But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
 Jude	Jude	72	17	18	they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
 Jude	Jude	72	17	19	It is these who set up divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
 Jude	Jude	72	17	20	But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;
 Jude	Jude	72	17	21	keep yourselves in the love of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
 Jude	Jude	72	17	22	And convince some, who doubt;
 Jude	Jude	72	17	23	save some, by snatching them out of the fire; on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
 Jude	Jude	72	17	24	Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you without blemish before the presence of his glory with rejoicing,
 Jude	Jude	72	17	25	to the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and for ever. Amen.
 Jude	Jude	72	18	1	Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
 Jude	Jude	72	18	2	May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
 Jude	Jude	72	18	3	Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
 Jude	Jude	72	18	4	For admission has been secretly gained by some who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly persons who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
 Jude	Jude	72	18	5	Now I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that he who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
 Jude	Jude	72	18	6	And the angels that did not keep their own position but left their proper dwelling have been kept by him in eternal chains in the nether gloom until the judgment of the great day;
 Jude	Jude	72	18	7	just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
 Jude	Jude	72	18	8	Yet in like manner these men in their dreamings defile the flesh, reject authority, and revile the glorious ones.
 Jude	Jude	72	18	9	But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, disputed about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”
 Jude	Jude	72	18	10	But these men revile whatever they do not understand, and by those things that they know by instinct as irrational animals do, they are destroyed.
 Jude	Jude	72	18	11	Woe to them! For they walk in the way of Cain, and abandon themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error, and perish in Korah’s rebellion.
 Jude	Jude	72	18	12	These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they boldly carouse together, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
 Jude	Jude	72	18	13	wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved for ever.
 Jude	Jude	72	18	14	It was of these also that Enoch in the seventh generation from Adam prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads,
 Jude	Jude	72	18	15	to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness which they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
 Jude	Jude	72	18	16	These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own passions, loud-mouthed boasters, flattering people to gain advantage.
 Jude	Jude	72	18	17	But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
 Jude	Jude	72	18	18	they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
 Jude	Jude	72	18	19	It is these who set up divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
 Jude	Jude	72	18	20	But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;
 Jude	Jude	72	18	21	keep yourselves in the love of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
 Jude	Jude	72	18	22	And convince some, who doubt;
 Jude	Jude	72	18	23	save some, by snatching them out of the fire; on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
 Jude	Jude	72	18	24	Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you without blemish before the presence of his glory with rejoicing,
 Jude	Jude	72	18	25	to the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and for ever. Amen.
 Jude	Jude	72	19	1	Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
 Jude	Jude	72	19	2	May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
 Jude	Jude	72	19	3	Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
 Jude	Jude	72	19	4	For admission has been secretly gained by some who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly persons who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
 Jude	Jude	72	19	5	Now I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that he who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
 Jude	Jude	72	19	6	And the angels that did not keep their own position but left their proper dwelling have been kept by him in eternal chains in the nether gloom until the judgment of the great day;
 Jude	Jude	72	19	7	just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
 Jude	Jude	72	19	8	Yet in like manner these men in their dreamings defile the flesh, reject authority, and revile the glorious ones.
 Jude	Jude	72	19	9	But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, disputed about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”
 Jude	Jude	72	19	10	But these men revile whatever they do not understand, and by those things that they know by instinct as irrational animals do, they are destroyed.
 Jude	Jude	72	19	11	Woe to them! For they walk in the way of Cain, and abandon themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error, and perish in Korah’s rebellion.
 Jude	Jude	72	19	12	These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they boldly carouse together, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
 Jude	Jude	72	19	13	wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved for ever.
 Jude	Jude	72	19	14	It was of these also that Enoch in the seventh generation from Adam prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads,
 Jude	Jude	72	19	15	to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness which they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
 Jude	Jude	72	19	16	These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own passions, loud-mouthed boasters, flattering people to gain advantage.
 Jude	Jude	72	19	17	But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
 Jude	Jude	72	19	18	they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
 Jude	Jude	72	19	19	It is these who set up divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
 Jude	Jude	72	19	20	But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;
 Jude	Jude	72	19	21	keep yourselves in the love of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
 Jude	Jude	72	19	22	And convince some, who doubt;
 Jude	Jude	72	19	23	save some, by snatching them out of the fire; on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
 Jude	Jude	72	19	24	Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you without blemish before the presence of his glory with rejoicing,
 Jude	Jude	72	19	25	to the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and for ever. Amen.
 Jude	Jude	72	20	1	Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
 Jude	Jude	72	20	2	May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
 Jude	Jude	72	20	3	Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
 Jude	Jude	72	20	4	For admission has been secretly gained by some who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly persons who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
 Jude	Jude	72	20	5	Now I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that he who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
 Jude	Jude	72	20	6	And the angels that did not keep their own position but left their proper dwelling have been kept by him in eternal chains in the nether gloom until the judgment of the great day;
 Jude	Jude	72	20	7	just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
 Jude	Jude	72	20	8	Yet in like manner these men in their dreamings defile the flesh, reject authority, and revile the glorious ones.
 Jude	Jude	72	20	9	But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, disputed about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”
 Jude	Jude	72	20	10	But these men revile whatever they do not understand, and by those things that they know by instinct as irrational animals do, they are destroyed.
 Jude	Jude	72	20	11	Woe to them! For they walk in the way of Cain, and abandon themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error, and perish in Korah’s rebellion.
 Jude	Jude	72	20	12	These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they boldly carouse together, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
 Jude	Jude	72	20	13	wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved for ever.
 Jude	Jude	72	20	14	It was of these also that Enoch in the seventh generation from Adam prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads,
 Jude	Jude	72	20	15	to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness which they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
 Jude	Jude	72	20	16	These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own passions, loud-mouthed boasters, flattering people to gain advantage.
 Jude	Jude	72	20	17	But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
 Jude	Jude	72	20	18	they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
 Jude	Jude	72	20	19	It is these who set up divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
 Jude	Jude	72	20	20	But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;
 Jude	Jude	72	20	21	keep yourselves in the love of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
 Jude	Jude	72	20	22	And convince some, who doubt;
 Jude	Jude	72	20	23	save some, by snatching them out of the fire; on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
 Jude	Jude	72	20	24	Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you without blemish before the presence of his glory with rejoicing,
 Jude	Jude	72	20	25	to the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and for ever. Amen.
 Jude	Jude	72	21	1	Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
 Jude	Jude	72	21	2	May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
 Jude	Jude	72	21	3	Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
 Jude	Jude	72	21	4	For admission has been secretly gained by some who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly persons who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
 Jude	Jude	72	21	5	Now I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that he who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
 Jude	Jude	72	21	6	And the angels that did not keep their own position but left their proper dwelling have been kept by him in eternal chains in the nether gloom until the judgment of the great day;
 Jude	Jude	72	21	7	just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
 Jude	Jude	72	21	8	Yet in like manner these men in their dreamings defile the flesh, reject authority, and revile the glorious ones.
 Jude	Jude	72	21	9	But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, disputed about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”
 Jude	Jude	72	21	10	But these men revile whatever they do not understand, and by those things that they know by instinct as irrational animals do, they are destroyed.
 Jude	Jude	72	21	11	Woe to them! For they walk in the way of Cain, and abandon themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error, and perish in Korah’s rebellion.
 Jude	Jude	72	21	12	These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they boldly carouse together, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
 Jude	Jude	72	21	13	wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved for ever.
 Jude	Jude	72	21	14	It was of these also that Enoch in the seventh generation from Adam prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads,
 Jude	Jude	72	21	15	to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness which they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
 Jude	Jude	72	21	16	These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own passions, loud-mouthed boasters, flattering people to gain advantage.
 Jude	Jude	72	21	17	But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
 Jude	Jude	72	21	18	they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
 Jude	Jude	72	21	19	It is these who set up divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
 Jude	Jude	72	21	20	But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;
 Jude	Jude	72	21	21	keep yourselves in the love of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
 Jude	Jude	72	21	22	And convince some, who doubt;
 Jude	Jude	72	21	23	save some, by snatching them out of the fire; on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
 Jude	Jude	72	21	24	Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you without blemish before the presence of his glory with rejoicing,
 Jude	Jude	72	21	25	to the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and for ever. Amen.
 Jude	Jude	72	22	1	Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
 Jude	Jude	72	22	2	May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
 Jude	Jude	72	22	3	Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
 Jude	Jude	72	22	4	For admission has been secretly gained by some who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly persons who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
 Jude	Jude	72	22	5	Now I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that he who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
 Jude	Jude	72	22	6	And the angels that did not keep their own position but left their proper dwelling have been kept by him in eternal chains in the nether gloom until the judgment of the great day;
 Jude	Jude	72	22	7	just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
 Jude	Jude	72	22	8	Yet in like manner these men in their dreamings defile the flesh, reject authority, and revile the glorious ones.
 Jude	Jude	72	22	9	But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, disputed about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”
 Jude	Jude	72	22	10	But these men revile whatever they do not understand, and by those things that they know by instinct as irrational animals do, they are destroyed.
 Jude	Jude	72	22	11	Woe to them! For they walk in the way of Cain, and abandon themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error, and perish in Korah’s rebellion.
 Jude	Jude	72	22	12	These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they boldly carouse together, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
 Jude	Jude	72	22	13	wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved for ever.
 Jude	Jude	72	22	14	It was of these also that Enoch in the seventh generation from Adam prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads,
 Jude	Jude	72	22	15	to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness which they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
 Jude	Jude	72	22	16	These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own passions, loud-mouthed boasters, flattering people to gain advantage.
 Jude	Jude	72	22	17	But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
 Jude	Jude	72	22	18	they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
 Jude	Jude	72	22	19	It is these who set up divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
 Jude	Jude	72	22	20	But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;
 Jude	Jude	72	22	21	keep yourselves in the love of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
 Jude	Jude	72	22	22	And convince some, who doubt;
 Jude	Jude	72	22	23	save some, by snatching them out of the fire; on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
 Jude	Jude	72	22	24	Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you without blemish before the presence of his glory with rejoicing,
 Jude	Jude	72	22	25	to the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and for ever. Amen.
 Jude	Jude	72	23	1	Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
 Jude	Jude	72	23	2	May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
 Jude	Jude	72	23	3	Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
 Jude	Jude	72	23	4	For admission has been secretly gained by some who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly persons who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
 Jude	Jude	72	23	5	Now I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that he who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
 Jude	Jude	72	23	6	And the angels that did not keep their own position but left their proper dwelling have been kept by him in eternal chains in the nether gloom until the judgment of the great day;
 Jude	Jude	72	23	7	just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
 Jude	Jude	72	23	8	Yet in like manner these men in their dreamings defile the flesh, reject authority, and revile the glorious ones.
 Jude	Jude	72	23	9	But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, disputed about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”
 Jude	Jude	72	23	10	But these men revile whatever they do not understand, and by those things that they know by instinct as irrational animals do, they are destroyed.
 Jude	Jude	72	23	11	Woe to them! For they walk in the way of Cain, and abandon themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error, and perish in Korah’s rebellion.
 Jude	Jude	72	23	12	These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they boldly carouse together, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
 Jude	Jude	72	23	13	wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved for ever.
 Jude	Jude	72	23	14	It was of these also that Enoch in the seventh generation from Adam prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads,
 Jude	Jude	72	23	15	to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness which they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
 Jude	Jude	72	23	16	These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own passions, loud-mouthed boasters, flattering people to gain advantage.
 Jude	Jude	72	23	17	But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
 Jude	Jude	72	23	18	they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
 Jude	Jude	72	23	19	It is these who set up divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
 Jude	Jude	72	23	20	But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;
 Jude	Jude	72	23	21	keep yourselves in the love of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
 Jude	Jude	72	23	22	And convince some, who doubt;
 Jude	Jude	72	23	23	save some, by snatching them out of the fire; on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
 Jude	Jude	72	23	24	Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you without blemish before the presence of his glory with rejoicing,
 Jude	Jude	72	23	25	to the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and for ever. Amen.
 Jude	Jude	72	24	1	Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
 Jude	Jude	72	24	2	May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
 Jude	Jude	72	24	3	Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
 Jude	Jude	72	24	4	For admission has been secretly gained by some who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly persons who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
 Jude	Jude	72	24	5	Now I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that he who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
 Jude	Jude	72	24	6	And the angels that did not keep their own position but left their proper dwelling have been kept by him in eternal chains in the nether gloom until the judgment of the great day;
 Jude	Jude	72	24	7	just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
 Jude	Jude	72	24	8	Yet in like manner these men in their dreamings defile the flesh, reject authority, and revile the glorious ones.
 Jude	Jude	72	24	9	But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, disputed about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”
 Jude	Jude	72	24	10	But these men revile whatever they do not understand, and by those things that they know by instinct as irrational animals do, they are destroyed.
 Jude	Jude	72	24	11	Woe to them! For they walk in the way of Cain, and abandon themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error, and perish in Korah’s rebellion.
 Jude	Jude	72	24	12	These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they boldly carouse together, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
 Jude	Jude	72	24	13	wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved for ever.
 Jude	Jude	72	24	14	It was of these also that Enoch in the seventh generation from Adam prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads,
 Jude	Jude	72	24	15	to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness which they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
 Jude	Jude	72	24	16	These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own passions, loud-mouthed boasters, flattering people to gain advantage.
 Jude	Jude	72	24	17	But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
 Jude	Jude	72	24	18	they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
 Jude	Jude	72	24	19	It is these who set up divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
 Jude	Jude	72	24	20	But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;
 Jude	Jude	72	24	21	keep yourselves in the love of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
 Jude	Jude	72	24	22	And convince some, who doubt;
 Jude	Jude	72	24	23	save some, by snatching them out of the fire; on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
 Jude	Jude	72	24	24	Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you without blemish before the presence of his glory with rejoicing,
 Jude	Jude	72	24	25	to the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and for ever. Amen.
 Jude	Jude	72	25	1	Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
 Jude	Jude	72	25	2	May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
 Jude	Jude	72	25	3	Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
 Jude	Jude	72	25	4	For admission has been secretly gained by some who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly persons who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
 Jude	Jude	72	25	5	Now I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that he who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
 Jude	Jude	72	25	6	And the angels that did not keep their own position but left their proper dwelling have been kept by him in eternal chains in the nether gloom until the judgment of the great day;
 Jude	Jude	72	25	7	just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
 Jude	Jude	72	25	8	Yet in like manner these men in their dreamings defile the flesh, reject authority, and revile the glorious ones.
 Jude	Jude	72	25	9	But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, disputed about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”
 Jude	Jude	72	25	10	But these men revile whatever they do not understand, and by those things that they know by instinct as irrational animals do, they are destroyed.
 Jude	Jude	72	25	11	Woe to them! For they walk in the way of Cain, and abandon themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error, and perish in Korah’s rebellion.
 Jude	Jude	72	25	12	These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they boldly carouse together, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
 Jude	Jude	72	25	13	wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved for ever.
 Jude	Jude	72	25	14	It was of these also that Enoch in the seventh generation from Adam prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads,
 Jude	Jude	72	25	15	to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness which they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
 Jude	Jude	72	25	16	These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own passions, loud-mouthed boasters, flattering people to gain advantage.
 Jude	Jude	72	25	17	But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
 Jude	Jude	72	25	18	they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
 Jude	Jude	72	25	19	It is these who set up divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
 Jude	Jude	72	25	20	But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;
 Jude	Jude	72	25	21	keep yourselves in the love of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
 Jude	Jude	72	25	22	And convince some, who doubt;
 Jude	Jude	72	25	23	save some, by snatching them out of the fire; on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
 Jude	Jude	72	25	24	Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you without blemish before the presence of his glory with rejoicing,
 Jude	Jude	72	25	25	to the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and for ever. Amen.
 Revelation	Rev	73	1	1	The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants what must soon take place; and he made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
 Revelation	Rev	73	1	2	who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw.
 Revelation	Rev	73	1	3	Blessed is he who reads aloud the words of the prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written therein; for the time is near.
 Revelation	Rev	73	1	4	John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne,
 Revelation	Rev	73	1	5	and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood
 Revelation	Rev	73	1	6	and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
 Revelation	Rev	73	1	7	Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, every one who pierced him; and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.
 Revelation	Rev	73	1	8	“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.
 Revelation	Rev	73	1	9	I John, your brother, who share with you in Jesus the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
 Revelation	Rev	73	1	10	I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet
 Revelation	Rev	73	1	11	saying, “Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	1	12	Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands,
 Revelation	Rev	73	1	13	and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden girdle round his breast;
 Revelation	Rev	73	1	14	his head and his hair were white as white wool, white as snow; his eyes were like a flame of fire,
 Revelation	Rev	73	1	15	his feet were like burnished bronze, refined as in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of many waters;
 Revelation	Rev	73	1	16	in his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth issued a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength.
 Revelation	Rev	73	1	17	When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand upon me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last,
 Revelation	Rev	73	1	18	and the living one; I died, and behold I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.
 Revelation	Rev	73	1	19	Now write what you see, what is and what is to take place hereafter.
 Revelation	Rev	73	1	20	As for the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.
 Revelation	Rev	73	2	1	“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands.
 Revelation	Rev	73	2	2	“‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear evil men but have tested those who call themselves apostles but are not, and found them to be false;
 Revelation	Rev	73	2	3	I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name’s sake, and you have not grown weary.
 Revelation	Rev	73	2	4	But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.
 Revelation	Rev	73	2	5	Remember then from what you have fallen, repent and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.
 Revelation	Rev	73	2	6	Yet this you have, you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
 Revelation	Rev	73	2	7	He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.’
 Revelation	Rev	73	2	8	“And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: ‘The words of the first and the last, who died and came to life.
 Revelation	Rev	73	2	9	“‘I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
 Revelation	Rev	73	2	10	Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.
 Revelation	Rev	73	2	11	He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who conquers shall not be hurt by the second death.’
 Revelation	Rev	73	2	12	“And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: ‘The words of him who has the sharp two-edged sword.
 Revelation	Rev	73	2	13	“‘I know where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is; you hold fast my name and you did not deny my faith even in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.
 Revelation	Rev	73	2	14	But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice immorality.
 Revelation	Rev	73	2	15	So you also have some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans.
 Revelation	Rev	73	2	16	Repent then. If not, I will come to you soon and war against them with the sword of my mouth.
 Revelation	Rev	73	2	17	He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone which no one knows except him who receives it.’
 Revelation	Rev	73	2	18	“And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: ‘The words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze.
 Revelation	Rev	73	2	19	“‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.
 Revelation	Rev	73	2	20	But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and beguiling my servants to practice immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
 Revelation	Rev	73	2	21	I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her immorality.
 Revelation	Rev	73	2	22	Behold, I will throw her on a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her doings;
 Revelation	Rev	73	2	23	and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches shall know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you as your works deserve.
 Revelation	Rev	73	2	24	But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call the deep things of Satan, to you I say, I do not lay upon you any other burden;
 Revelation	Rev	73	2	25	only hold fast what you have, until I come.
 Revelation	Rev	73	2	26	He who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, I will give him power over the nations,
 Revelation	Rev	73	2	27	and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received power from my Father;
 Revelation	Rev	73	2	28	and I will give him the morning star.
 Revelation	Rev	73	2	29	He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’
 Revelation	Rev	73	3	1	“And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: ‘The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. “‘I know your works; you have the name of being alive, and you are dead.
 Revelation	Rev	73	3	2	Awake, and strengthen what remains and is on the point of death, for I have not found your works perfect in the sight of my God.
 Revelation	Rev	73	3	3	Remember then what you received and heard; keep that, and repent. If you will not awake, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come upon you.
 Revelation	Rev	73	3	4	Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy.
 Revelation	Rev	73	3	5	He who conquers shall be clad thus in white garments, and I will not blot his name out of the book of life; I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.
 Revelation	Rev	73	3	6	He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’
 Revelation	Rev	73	3	7	“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one shall shut, who shuts and no one opens.
 Revelation	Rev	73	3	8	“‘I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut; I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.
 Revelation	Rev	73	3	9	Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie—behold, I will make them come and bow down before your feet, and learn that I have loved you.
 Revelation	Rev	73	3	10	Because you have kept my word of patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial which is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell upon the earth.
 Revelation	Rev	73	3	11	I am coming soon; hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown.
 Revelation	Rev	73	3	12	He who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God; never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.
 Revelation	Rev	73	3	13	He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’
 Revelation	Rev	73	3	14	“And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: ‘The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God’s creation.
 Revelation	Rev	73	3	15	“‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot!
 Revelation	Rev	73	3	16	So, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth.
 Revelation	Rev	73	3	17	For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing; not knowing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.
 Revelation	Rev	73	3	18	Therefore I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may be rich, and white garments to clothe you and to keep the shame of your nakedness from being seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.
 Revelation	Rev	73	3	19	Those whom I love, I reprove and chasten; so be zealous and repent.
 Revelation	Rev	73	3	20	Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any one hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
 Revelation	Rev	73	3	21	He who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I myself conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.
 Revelation	Rev	73	3	22	He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’”
 Revelation	Rev	73	4	1	After this I looked, and lo, in heaven an open door! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up hither, and I will show you what must take place after this.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	4	2	At once I was in the Spirit, and lo, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne!
 Revelation	Rev	73	4	3	And he who sat there appeared like jasper and carnelian, and round the throne was a rainbow that looked like an emerald.
 Revelation	Rev	73	4	4	Round the throne were twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, clad in white garments, with golden crowns upon their heads.
 Revelation	Rev	73	4	5	From the throne issue flashes of lightning, and voices and peals of thunder, and before the throne burn seven torches of fire, which are the seven spirits of God;
 Revelation	Rev	73	4	6	and before the throne there is as it were a sea of glass, like crystal. And round the throne, on each side of the throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind:
 Revelation	Rev	73	4	7	the first living creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature with the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like a flying eagle.
 Revelation	Rev	73	4	8	And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all round and within, and day and night they never cease to sing, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”
 Revelation	Rev	73	4	9	And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated on the throne, who lives for ever and ever,
 Revelation	Rev	73	4	10	the twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives for ever and ever; they cast their crowns before the throne, singing,
 Revelation	Rev	73	4	11	“Worthy art thou, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for thou didst create all things, and by thy will they existed and were created.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	5	1	And I saw in the right hand of him who was seated on the throne a scroll written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals;
 Revelation	Rev	73	5	2	and I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?”
 Revelation	Rev	73	5	3	And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it,
 Revelation	Rev	73	5	4	and I wept much that no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it.
 Revelation	Rev	73	5	5	Then one of the elders said to me, “Weep not; lo, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	5	6	And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders, I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth;
 Revelation	Rev	73	5	7	and he went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who was seated on the throne.
 Revelation	Rev	73	5	8	And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and with golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints;
 Revelation	Rev	73	5	9	and they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy art thou to take the scroll and to open its seals, for thou wast slain and by thy blood didst ransom men for God from every tribe and tongue and people and nation,
 Revelation	Rev	73	5	10	and hast made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on earth.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	5	11	Then I looked, and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders the voice of many angels, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands,
 Revelation	Rev	73	5	12	saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!”
 Revelation	Rev	73	5	13	And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all therein, saying, “To him who sits upon the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might for ever and ever!”
 Revelation	Rev	73	5	14	And the four living creatures said, “Amen!” and the elders fell down and worshiped.
 Revelation	Rev	73	6	1	Now I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say, as with a voice of thunder, “Come!”
 Revelation	Rev	73	6	2	And I saw, and behold, a white horse, and its rider had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer.
 Revelation	Rev	73	6	3	When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!”
 Revelation	Rev	73	6	4	And out came another horse, bright red; its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that men should slay one another; and he was given a great sword.
 Revelation	Rev	73	6	5	When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” And I saw, and behold, a black horse, and its rider had a balance in his hand;
 Revelation	Rev	73	6	6	and I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; but do not harm oil and wine!”
 Revelation	Rev	73	6	7	When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!”
 Revelation	Rev	73	6	8	And I saw, and behold, a pale horse, and its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed him; and they were given power over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by wild beasts of the earth.
 Revelation	Rev	73	6	9	When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne;
 Revelation	Rev	73	6	10	they cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before thou wilt judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell upon the earth?”
 Revelation	Rev	73	6	11	Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brethren should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.
 Revelation	Rev	73	6	12	When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood,
 Revelation	Rev	73	6	13	and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale;
 Revelation	Rev	73	6	14	the sky vanished like a scroll that is rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.
 Revelation	Rev	73	6	15	Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the generals and the rich and the strong, and every one, slave and free, hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains,
 Revelation	Rev	73	6	16	calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb;
 Revelation	Rev	73	6	17	for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand before it?”
 Revelation	Rev	73	7	1	After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, that no wind might blow on earth or sea or against any tree.
 Revelation	Rev	73	7	2	Then I saw another angel ascend from the rising of the sun, with the seal of the living God, and he called with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm earth and sea,
 Revelation	Rev	73	7	3	saying, “Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God upon their foreheads.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	7	4	And I heard the number of the sealed, a hundred and forty-four thousand sealed, out of every tribe of the sons of Israel,
 Revelation	Rev	73	7	5	twelve thousand sealed out of the tribe of Judah, twelve thousand of the tribe of Reuben, twelve thousand of the tribe of Gad,
 Revelation	Rev	73	7	6	twelve thousand of the tribe of Asher, twelve thousand of the tribe of Naphtali, twelve thousand of the tribe of Manasseh,
 Revelation	Rev	73	7	7	twelve thousand of the tribe of Simeon, twelve thousand of the tribe of Levi, twelve thousand of the tribe of Issachar,
 Revelation	Rev	73	7	8	twelve thousand of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve thousand of the tribe of Joseph, twelve thousand sealed out of the tribe of Benjamin.
 Revelation	Rev	73	7	9	After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no man could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
 Revelation	Rev	73	7	10	and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb!”
 Revelation	Rev	73	7	11	And all the angels stood round the throne and round the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,
 Revelation	Rev	73	7	12	saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God for ever and ever! Amen.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	7	13	Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, “Who are these, clothed in white robes, and whence have they come?”
 Revelation	Rev	73	7	14	I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
 Revelation	Rev	73	7	15	Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night within his temple; and he who sits upon the throne will shelter them with his presence.
 Revelation	Rev	73	7	16	They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; the sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat.
 Revelation	Rev	73	7	17	For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water; and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	8	1	When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.
 Revelation	Rev	73	8	2	Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.
 Revelation	Rev	73	8	3	And another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer; and he was given much incense to mingle with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar before the throne;
 Revelation	Rev	73	8	4	and the smoke of the incense rose with the prayers of the saints from the hand of the angel before God.
 Revelation	Rev	73	8	5	Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth; and there were peals of thunder, voices, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.
 Revelation	Rev	73	8	6	Now the seven angels who had the seven trumpets made ready to blow them.
 Revelation	Rev	73	8	7	The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, which fell on the earth; and a third of the earth was burnt up, and a third of the trees were burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
 Revelation	Rev	73	8	8	The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea;
 Revelation	Rev	73	8	9	and a third of the sea became blood, a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
 Revelation	Rev	73	8	10	The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the fountains of water.
 Revelation	Rev	73	8	11	The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died of the water, because it was made bitter.
 Revelation	Rev	73	8	12	The fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of their light was darkened; a third of the day was kept from shining, and likewise a third of the night.
 Revelation	Rev	73	8	13	Then I looked, and I heard an eagle crying with a loud voice, as it flew in midheaven, “Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, at the blasts of the other trumpets which the three angels are about to blow!”
 Revelation	Rev	73	9	1	And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key of the shaft of the bottomless pit;
 Revelation	Rev	73	9	2	he opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft.
 Revelation	Rev	73	9	3	Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth;
 Revelation	Rev	73	9	4	they were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green growth or any tree, but only those of mankind who have not the seal of God upon their foreheads;
 Revelation	Rev	73	9	5	they were allowed to torture them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torture was like the torture of a scorpion, when it stings a man.
 Revelation	Rev	73	9	6	And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death will fly from them.
 Revelation	Rev	73	9	7	In appearance the locusts were like horses arrayed for battle; on their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces,
 Revelation	Rev	73	9	8	their hair like women’s hair, and their teeth like lions’ teeth;
 Revelation	Rev	73	9	9	they had scales like iron breastplates, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle.
 Revelation	Rev	73	9	10	They have tails like scorpions, and stings, and their power of hurting men for five months lies in their tails.
 Revelation	Rev	73	9	11	They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.
 Revelation	Rev	73	9	12	The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still to come.
 Revelation	Rev	73	9	13	Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God,
 Revelation	Rev	73	9	14	saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	9	15	So the four angels were released, who had been held ready for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, to kill a third of mankind.
 Revelation	Rev	73	9	16	The number of the troops of cavalry was twice ten thousand times ten thousand; I heard their number.
 Revelation	Rev	73	9	17	And this was how I saw the horses in my vision: the riders wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire and of sulphur, and the heads of the horses were like lions’ heads, and fire and smoke and sulphur issued from their mouths.
 Revelation	Rev	73	9	18	By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulphur issuing from their mouths.
 Revelation	Rev	73	9	19	For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; their tails are like serpents, with heads, and by means of them they wound.
 Revelation	Rev	73	9	20	The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot either see or hear or walk;
 Revelation	Rev	73	9	21	nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their immorality or their thefts.
 Revelation	Rev	73	10	1	Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head, and his face was like the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire.
 Revelation	Rev	73	10	2	He had a little scroll open in his hand. And he set his right foot on the sea, and his left foot on the land,
 Revelation	Rev	73	10	3	and called out with a loud voice, like a lion roaring; when he called out, the seven thunders sounded.
 Revelation	Rev	73	10	4	And when the seven thunders had sounded, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Seal up what the seven thunders have said, and do not write it down.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	10	5	And the angel whom I saw standing on sea and land lifted up his right hand to heaven
 Revelation	Rev	73	10	6	and swore by him who lives for ever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, that there should be no more delay,
 Revelation	Rev	73	10	7	but that in the days of the trumpet call to be sounded by the seventh angel, the mystery of God, as he announced to his servants the prophets, should be fulfilled.
 Revelation	Rev	73	10	8	Then the voice which I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, “Go, take the scroll which is open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	10	9	So I went to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll; and he said to me, “Take it and eat; it will be bitter to your stomach, but sweet as honey in your mouth.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	10	10	And I took the little scroll from the hand of the angel and ate it; it was sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it my stomach was made bitter.
 Revelation	Rev	73	10	11	And I was told, “You must again prophesy about many peoples and nations and tongues and kings.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	11	1	Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told: “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there,
 Revelation	Rev	73	11	2	but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample over the holy city for forty-two months.
 Revelation	Rev	73	11	3	And I will grant my two witnesses power to prophesy for one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	11	4	These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands which stand before the Lord of the earth.
 Revelation	Rev	73	11	5	And if any one would harm them, fire pours out from their mouth and consumes their foes; if any one would harm them, thus he is doomed to be killed.
 Revelation	Rev	73	11	6	They have power to shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.
 Revelation	Rev	73	11	7	And when they have finished their testimony, the beast that ascends from the bottomless pit will make war upon them and conquer them and kill them,
 Revelation	Rev	73	11	8	and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which is allegorically called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified.
 Revelation	Rev	73	11	9	For three days and a half men from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb,
 Revelation	Rev	73	11	10	and those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and exchange presents, because these two prophets had been a torment to those who dwell on the earth.
 Revelation	Rev	73	11	11	But after the three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood up on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them.
 Revelation	Rev	73	11	12	Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up hither!” And in the sight of their foes they went up to heaven in a cloud.
 Revelation	Rev	73	11	13	And at that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell; seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.
 Revelation	Rev	73	11	14	The second woe has passed; behold, the third woe is soon to come.
 Revelation	Rev	73	11	15	Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	11	16	And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God,
 Revelation	Rev	73	11	17	saying, “We give thanks to thee, Lord God Almighty, who art and who wast, that thou hast taken thy great power and begun to reign.
 Revelation	Rev	73	11	18	The nations raged, but thy wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, for rewarding thy servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear thy name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	11	19	Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple; and there were flashes of lightning, voices, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.
 Revelation	Rev	73	12	1	And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars;
 Revelation	Rev	73	12	2	she was with child and she cried out in her pangs of birth, in anguish for delivery.
 Revelation	Rev	73	12	3	And another portent appeared in heaven; behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems upon his heads.
 Revelation	Rev	73	12	4	His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven, and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to bear a child, that he might devour her child when she brought it forth;
 Revelation	Rev	73	12	5	she brought forth a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne,
 Revelation	Rev	73	12	6	and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which to be nourished for one thousand two hundred and sixty days.
 Revelation	Rev	73	12	7	Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought,
 Revelation	Rev	73	12	8	but they were defeated and there was no longer any place for them in heaven.
 Revelation	Rev	73	12	9	And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
 Revelation	Rev	73	12	10	And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.
 Revelation	Rev	73	12	11	And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.
 Revelation	Rev	73	12	12	Rejoice then, O heaven and you that dwell therein! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!”
 Revelation	Rev	73	12	13	And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had borne the male child.
 Revelation	Rev	73	12	14	But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle that she might fly from the serpent into the wilderness, to the place where she is to be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.
 Revelation	Rev	73	12	15	The serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, to sweep her away with the flood.
 Revelation	Rev	73	12	16	But the earth came to the help of the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river which the dragon had poured from his mouth.
 Revelation	Rev	73	12	17	Then the dragon was angry with the woman, and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God and bear testimony to Jesus. And he stood on the sand of the sea.
 Revelation	Rev	73	13	1	And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems upon its horns and a blasphemous name upon its heads.
 Revelation	Rev	73	13	2	And the beast that I saw was like a leopard, its feet were like a bear’s, and its mouth was like a lion’s mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority.
 Revelation	Rev	73	13	3	One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth followed the beast with wonder.
 Revelation	Rev	73	13	4	Men worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?”
 Revelation	Rev	73	13	5	And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months;
 Revelation	Rev	73	13	6	it opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling, that is, those who dwell in heaven.
 Revelation	Rev	73	13	7	Also it was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them. And authority was given it over every tribe and people and tongue and nation,
 Revelation	Rev	73	13	8	and all who dwell on earth will worship it, every one whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain.
 Revelation	Rev	73	13	9	If any one has an ear, let him hear:
 Revelation	Rev	73	13	10	If any one is to be taken captive, to captivity he goes; if any one slays with the sword, with the sword must he be slain. Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.
 Revelation	Rev	73	13	11	Then I saw another beast which rose out of the earth; it had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon.
 Revelation	Rev	73	13	12	It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed.
 Revelation	Rev	73	13	13	It works great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in the sight of men;
 Revelation	Rev	73	13	14	and by the signs which it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast, it deceives those who dwell on earth, bidding them make an image for the beast which was wounded by the sword and yet lived;
 Revelation	Rev	73	13	15	and it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast so that the image of the beast should even speak, and to cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain.
 Revelation	Rev	73	13	16	Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead,
 Revelation	Rev	73	13	17	so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.
 Revelation	Rev	73	13	18	This calls for wisdom: let him who has understanding reckon the number of the beast, for it is a human number, its number is six hundred and sixty-six.
 Revelation	Rev	73	14	1	Then I looked, and lo, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads.
 Revelation	Rev	73	14	2	And I heard a voice from heaven like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder; the voice I heard was like the sound of harpers playing on their harps,
 Revelation	Rev	73	14	3	and they sing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. No one could learn that song except the hundred and forty-four thousand who had been redeemed from the earth.
 Revelation	Rev	73	14	4	It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are chaste; it is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes; these have been redeemed from mankind as first fruits for God and the Lamb,
 Revelation	Rev	73	14	5	and in their mouth no lie was found, for they are spotless.
 Revelation	Rev	73	14	6	Then I saw another angel flying in midheaven, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and tongue and people;
 Revelation	Rev	73	14	7	and he said with a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, for the hour of his judgment has come; and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the fountains of water.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	14	8	Another angel, a second, followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who made all nations drink the wine of her impure passion.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	14	9	And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If any one worships the beast and its image, and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand,
 Revelation	Rev	73	14	10	he also shall drink the wine of God’s wrath, poured unmixed into the cup of his anger, and he shall be tormented with fire and sulphur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.
 Revelation	Rev	73	14	11	And the smoke of their torment goes up for ever and ever; and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	14	12	Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
 Revelation	Rev	73	14	13	And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord henceforth.” “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!”
 Revelation	Rev	73	14	14	Then I looked, and lo, a white cloud, and seated on the cloud one like a son of man, with a golden crown on his head, and a sharp sickle in his hand.
 Revelation	Rev	73	14	15	And another angel came out of the temple, calling with a loud voice to him who sat upon the cloud, “Put in your sickle, and reap, for the hour to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is fully ripe.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	14	16	So he who sat upon the cloud swung his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped.
 Revelation	Rev	73	14	17	And another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.
 Revelation	Rev	73	14	18	Then another angel came out from the altar, the angel who has power over fire, and he called with a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, “Put in your sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for its grapes are ripe.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	14	19	So the angel swung his sickle on the earth and gathered the vintage of the earth, and threw it into the great wine press of the wrath of God;
 Revelation	Rev	73	14	20	and the wine press was trodden outside the city, and blood flowed from the wine press, as high as a horse’s bridle, for one thousand six hundred stadia.
 Revelation	Rev	73	15	1	Then I saw another portent in heaven, great and wonderful, seven angels with seven plagues, which are the last, for with them the wrath of God is ended.
 Revelation	Rev	73	15	2	And I saw what appeared to be a sea of glass mingled with fire, and those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name, standing beside the sea of glass with harps of God in their hands.
 Revelation	Rev	73	15	3	And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and wonderful are thy deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are thy ways, O King of the ages!
 Revelation	Rev	73	15	4	Who shall not fear and glorify thy name, O Lord? For thou alone art holy. All nations shall come and worship thee, for thy judgments have been revealed.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	15	5	After this I looked, and the temple of the tent of witness in heaven was opened,
 Revelation	Rev	73	15	6	and out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues, robed in pure bright linen, and their breasts girded with golden girdles.
 Revelation	Rev	73	15	7	And one of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God who lives for ever and ever;
 Revelation	Rev	73	15	8	and the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were ended.
 Revelation	Rev	73	16	1	Then I heard a loud voice from the temple telling the seven angels, “Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	16	2	So the first angel went and poured his bowl on the earth, and foul and evil sores came upon the men who bore the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.
 Revelation	Rev	73	16	3	The second angel poured his bowl into the sea, and it became like the blood of a dead man, and every living thing died that was in the sea.
 Revelation	Rev	73	16	4	The third angel poured his bowl into the rivers and the fountains of water, and they became blood.
 Revelation	Rev	73	16	5	And I heard the angel of water say, “Just art thou in these thy judgments, thou who art and wast, O Holy One.
 Revelation	Rev	73	16	6	For men have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink. It is their due!”
 Revelation	Rev	73	16	7	And I heard the altar cry, “Yea, Lord God the Almighty, true and just are thy judgments!”
 Revelation	Rev	73	16	8	The fourth angel poured his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch men with fire;
 Revelation	Rev	73	16	9	men were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues, and they did not repent and give him glory.
 Revelation	Rev	73	16	10	The fifth angel poured his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was in darkness; men gnawed their tongues in anguish
 Revelation	Rev	73	16	11	and cursed the God of heaven for their pain and sores, and did not repent of their deeds.
 Revelation	Rev	73	16	12	The sixth angel poured his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the east.
 Revelation	Rev	73	16	13	And I saw, issuing from the mouth of the dragon and from the mouth of the beast and from the mouth of the false prophet, three foul spirits like frogs;
 Revelation	Rev	73	16	14	for they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.
 Revelation	Rev	73	16	15	(“Lo, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is he who is awake, keeping his garments that he may not go naked and be seen exposed!”)
 Revelation	Rev	73	16	16	And they assembled them at the place which is called in Hebrew Armageddon.
 Revelation	Rev	73	16	17	The seventh angel poured his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple, from the throne, saying, “It is done!”
 Revelation	Rev	73	16	18	And there were flashes of lightning, voices, peals of thunder, and a great earthquake such as had never been since men were on the earth, so great was that earthquake.
 Revelation	Rev	73	16	19	The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered great Babylon, to make her drain the cup of the fury of his wrath.
 Revelation	Rev	73	16	20	And every island fled away, and no mountains were to be found;
 Revelation	Rev	73	16	21	and great hailstones, heavy as a hundred-weight, dropped on men from heaven, till men cursed God for the plague of the hail, so fearful was that plague.
 Revelation	Rev	73	17	1	Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who is seated upon many waters,
 Revelation	Rev	73	17	2	with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and with the wine of whose fornication the dwellers on earth have become drunk.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	17	3	And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns.
 Revelation	Rev	73	17	4	The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and bedecked with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her fornication;
 Revelation	Rev	73	17	5	and on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of harlots and of earth’s abominations.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	17	6	And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her I marveled greatly.
 Revelation	Rev	73	17	7	But the angel said to me, “Why marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns that carries her.
 Revelation	Rev	73	17	8	The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is to ascend from the bottomless pit and go to perdition; and the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will marvel to behold the beast, because it was and is not and is to come.
 Revelation	Rev	73	17	9	This calls for a mind with wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman is seated;
 Revelation	Rev	73	17	10	they are also seven kings, five of whom have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and when he comes he must remain only a little while.
 Revelation	Rev	73	17	11	As for the beast that was and is not, it is an eighth but it belongs to the seven, and it goes to perdition.
 Revelation	Rev	73	17	12	And the ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have not yet received royal power, but they are to receive authority as kings for one hour, together with the beast.
 Revelation	Rev	73	17	13	These are of one mind and give over their power and authority to the beast;
 Revelation	Rev	73	17	14	they will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	17	15	And he said to me, “The waters that you saw, where the harlot is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.
 Revelation	Rev	73	17	16	And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will hate the harlot; they will make her desolate and naked, and devour her flesh and burn her up with fire,
 Revelation	Rev	73	17	17	for God has put it into their hearts to carry out his purpose by being of one mind and giving over their royal power to the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
 Revelation	Rev	73	17	18	And the woman that you saw is the great city which has dominion over the kings of the earth.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	18	1	After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority; and the earth was made bright with his splendor.
 Revelation	Rev	73	18	2	And he called out with a mighty voice, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! It has become a dwelling place of demons, a haunt of every foul spirit, a haunt of every foul and hateful bird;
 Revelation	Rev	73	18	3	for all nations have drunk the wine of her impure passion, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich with the wealth of her wantonness.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	18	4	Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues;
 Revelation	Rev	73	18	5	for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
 Revelation	Rev	73	18	6	Render to her as she herself has rendered, and repay her double for her deeds; mix a double draught for her in the cup she mixed.
 Revelation	Rev	73	18	7	As she glorified herself and played the wanton, so give her a like measure of torment and mourning. Since in her heart she says, ‘A queen I sit, I am no widow, mourning I shall never see,’
 Revelation	Rev	73	18	8	so shall her plagues come in a single day, pestilence and mourning and famine, and she shall be burned with fire; for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	18	9	And the kings of the earth, who committed fornication and were wanton with her, will weep and wail over her when they see the smoke of her burning;
 Revelation	Rev	73	18	10	they will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say, “Alas! alas! thou great city, thou mighty city, Babylon! In one hour has thy judgment come.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	18	11	And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn for her, since no one buys their cargo any more,
 Revelation	Rev	73	18	12	cargo of gold, silver, jewels and pearls, fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet, all kinds of scented wood, all articles of ivory, all articles of costly wood, bronze, iron and marble,
 Revelation	Rev	73	18	13	cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour and wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and slaves, that is, human souls.
 Revelation	Rev	73	18	14	“The fruit for which thy soul longed has gone from thee, and all thy dainties and thy splendor are lost to thee, never to be found again!”
 Revelation	Rev	73	18	15	The merchants of these wares, who gained wealth from her, will stand far off, in fear of her torment, weeping and mourning aloud,
 Revelation	Rev	73	18	16	“Alas, alas, for the great city that was clothed in fine linen, in purple and scarlet, bedecked with gold, with jewels, and with pearls!
 Revelation	Rev	73	18	17	In one hour all this wealth has been laid waste.” And all shipmasters and seafaring men, sailors and all whose trade is on the sea, stood far off
 Revelation	Rev	73	18	18	and cried out as they saw the smoke of her burning, “What city was like the great city?”
 Revelation	Rev	73	18	19	And they threw dust on their heads, as they wept and mourned, crying out, “Alas, alas, for the great city where all who had ships at sea grew rich by her wealth! In one hour she has been laid waste.
 Revelation	Rev	73	18	20	Rejoice over her, O heaven, O saints and apostles and prophets, for God has given judgment for you against her!”
 Revelation	Rev	73	18	21	Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, “So shall Babylon the great city be thrown down with violence, and shall be found no more;
 Revelation	Rev	73	18	22	and the sound of harpers and minstrels, of flute players and trumpeters, shall be heard in thee no more; and a craftsman of any craft shall be found in thee no more; and the sound of the millstone shall be heard in thee no more;
 Revelation	Rev	73	18	23	and the light of a lamp shall shine in thee no more; and the voice of bridegroom and bride shall be heard in thee no more; for thy merchants were the great men of the earth, and all nations were deceived by thy sorcery.
 Revelation	Rev	73	18	24	And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on earth.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	19	1	After this I heard what seemed to be the loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, crying, “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God,
 Revelation	Rev	73	19	2	for his judgments are true and just; he has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication, and he has avenged on her the blood of his servants.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	19	3	Once more they cried, “Hallelujah! The smoke from her goes up for ever and ever.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	19	4	And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who is seated on the throne, saying, “Amen. Hallelujah!”
 Revelation	Rev	73	19	5	And from the throne came a voice crying, “Praise our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, small and great.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	19	6	Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like the sound of many waters and like the sound of mighty thunderpeals, crying, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns.
 Revelation	Rev	73	19	7	Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready;
 Revelation	Rev	73	19	8	it was granted her to be clothed with fine linen, bright and pure”— for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.
 Revelation	Rev	73	19	9	And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are true words of God.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	19	10	Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brethren who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God.” For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
 Revelation	Rev	73	19	11	Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! He who sat upon it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war.
 Revelation	Rev	73	19	12	His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems; and he has a name inscribed which no one knows but himself.
 Revelation	Rev	73	19	13	He is clad in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God.
 Revelation	Rev	73	19	14	And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, followed him on white horses.
 Revelation	Rev	73	19	15	From his mouth issues a sharp sword with which to smite the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron; he will tread the wine press of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.
 Revelation	Rev	73	19	16	On his robe and on his thigh he has a name inscribed, King of kings and Lord of lords.
 Revelation	Rev	73	19	17	Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and with a loud voice he called to all the birds that fly in midheaven, “Come, gather for the great supper of God,
 Revelation	Rev	73	19	18	to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, both small and great.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	19	19	And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth with their armies gathered to make war against him who sits upon the horse and against his army.
 Revelation	Rev	73	19	20	And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had worked the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulphur.
 Revelation	Rev	73	19	21	And the rest were slain by the sword of him who sits upon the horse, the sword that issues from his mouth; and all the birds were gorged with their flesh.
 Revelation	Rev	73	20	1	Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain.
 Revelation	Rev	73	20	2	And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,
 Revelation	Rev	73	20	3	and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years were ended. After that he must be loosed for a little while.
 Revelation	Rev	73	20	4	Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom judgment was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony to Jesus and for the word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life, and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
 Revelation	Rev	73	20	5	The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection.
 Revelation	Rev	73	20	6	Blessed and holy is he who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and they shall reign with him a thousand years.
 Revelation	Rev	73	20	7	And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be loosed from his prison
 Revelation	Rev	73	20	8	and will come out to deceive the nations which are at the four corners of the earth, that is, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea.
 Revelation	Rev	73	20	9	And they marched up over the broad earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city; but fire came down from heaven and consumed them,
 Revelation	Rev	73	20	10	and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulphur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
 Revelation	Rev	73	20	11	Then I saw a great white throne and him who sat upon it; from his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them.
 Revelation	Rev	73	20	12	And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Also another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, by what they had done.
 Revelation	Rev	73	20	13	And the sea gave up the dead in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead in them, and all were judged by what they had done.
 Revelation	Rev	73	20	14	Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire;
 Revelation	Rev	73	20	15	and if any one’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
 Revelation	Rev	73	21	1	Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
 Revelation	Rev	73	21	2	And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband;
 Revelation	Rev	73	21	3	and I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling of God is with men. He will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself will be with them;
 Revelation	Rev	73	21	4	he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	21	5	And he who sat upon the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” Also he said, “Write this, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	21	6	And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the fountain of the water of life without payment.
 Revelation	Rev	73	21	7	He who conquers shall have this heritage, and I will be his God and he shall be my son.
 Revelation	Rev	73	21	8	But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	21	9	Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues, and spoke to me, saying, “Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	21	10	And in the Spirit he carried me away to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,
 Revelation	Rev	73	21	11	having the glory of God, its radiance like a most rare jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal.
 Revelation	Rev	73	21	12	It had a great, high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel were inscribed;
 Revelation	Rev	73	21	13	on the east three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and on the west three gates.
 Revelation	Rev	73	21	14	And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
 Revelation	Rev	73	21	15	And he who talked to me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city and its gates and walls.
 Revelation	Rev	73	21	16	The city lies foursquare, its length the same as its breadth; and he measured the city with his rod, twelve thousand stadia; its length and breadth and height are equal.
 Revelation	Rev	73	21	17	He also measured its wall, a hundred and forty-four cubits by a man’s measure, that is, an angel’s.
 Revelation	Rev	73	21	18	The wall was built of jasper, while the city was pure gold, clear as glass.
 Revelation	Rev	73	21	19	The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with every jewel; the first was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald,
 Revelation	Rev	73	21	20	the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst.
 Revelation	Rev	73	21	21	And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, each of the gates made of a single pearl, and the street of the city was pure gold, transparent as glass.
 Revelation	Rev	73	21	22	And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb.
 Revelation	Rev	73	21	23	And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine upon it, for the glory of God is its light, and its lamp is the Lamb.
 Revelation	Rev	73	21	24	By its light shall the nations walk; and the kings of the earth shall bring their glory into it,
 Revelation	Rev	73	21	25	and its gates shall never be shut by day—and there shall be no night there;
 Revelation	Rev	73	21	26	they shall bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations.
 Revelation	Rev	73	21	27	But nothing unclean shall enter it, nor any one who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
 Revelation	Rev	73	22	1	Then he showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb
 Revelation	Rev	73	22	2	through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
 Revelation	Rev	73	22	3	There shall no more be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and his servants shall worship him;
 Revelation	Rev	73	22	4	they shall see his face, and his name shall be on their foreheads.
 Revelation	Rev	73	22	5	And night shall be no more; they need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they shall reign for ever and ever.
 Revelation	Rev	73	22	6	And he said to me, “These words are trustworthy and true. And the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent his angel to show his servants what must soon take place.
 Revelation	Rev	73	22	7	And behold, I am coming soon.” Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.
 Revelation	Rev	73	22	8	I John am he who heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed them to me;
 Revelation	Rev	73	22	9	but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brethren the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	22	10	And he said to me, “Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is near.
 Revelation	Rev	73	22	11	Let the evildoer still do evil, and the filthy still be filthy, and the righteous still do right, and the holy still be holy.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	22	12	“Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense, to repay every one for what he has done.
 Revelation	Rev	73	22	13	I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	22	14	Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates.
 Revelation	Rev	73	22	15	Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and fornicators and murderers and idolaters, and every one who loves and practices falsehood.
 Revelation	Rev	73	22	16	“I Jesus have sent my angel to you with this testimony for the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright morning star.”
 Revelation	Rev	73	22	17	The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let him who hears say, “Come.” And let him who is thirsty come, let him who desires take the water of life without price.
 Revelation	Rev	73	22	18	I warn every one who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if any one adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book,
 Revelation	Rev	73	22	19	and if any one takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.
 Revelation	Rev	73	22	20	He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!
 Revelation	Rev	73	22	21	The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints. Amen.