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Genesis 10.1: 10Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

Genesis 10.2: 2 The sons of Japheth were: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

Genesis 10.5: 5 Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.

Genesis 10.7: 7 The sons of Cush were: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah were: Sheba and Dedan.

Genesis 10.8: 8 Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.

Genesis 10.9: 9 He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, “like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh”.

Genesis 10.10: 10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Genesis 10.11: 11 Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,

Genesis 10.13: 13 Mizraim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,

Genesis 10.14: 14 Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.

Genesis 10.18: 18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.

Genesis 10.19: 19 The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon—as you go toward Gerar—to Gaza—as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim—to Lasha.

Genesis 10.20: 20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations.

Genesis 10.21: 21 Children were also born to Shem (the elder brother of Japheth), the father of all the children of Eber.

Genesis 10.22: 22 The sons of Shem were: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.

Genesis 10.24: 24 Arpachshad became the father of Shelah. Shelah became the father of Eber.

Genesis 10.25: 25 To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. His brother’s name was Joktan.

Genesis 10.26: 26 Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

Genesis 10.30: 30 Their dwelling extended from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.

Genesis 10.31: 31 These are the sons of Shem, by their families, according to their languages, lands, and nations.

Genesis 10.32: 32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, by their generations, according to their nations. The nations divided from these in the earth after the flood.

Genesis 14.1: 14In the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar; Arioch, king of Ellasar; Chedorlaomer, king of Elam; and Tidal, king of Goiim,

Genesis 14.2: 2 they made war with Bera, king of Sodom; Birsha, king of Gomorrah; Shinab, king of Admah; Shemeber, king of Zeboiim; and the king of Bela (also called Zoar).

Genesis 14.3: 3 All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (also called the Salt Sea).

Genesis 14.4: 4 They served Chedorlaomer for twelve years, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

Genesis 14.5: 5 In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

Genesis 14.6: 6 and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to El Paran, which is by the wilderness.

Genesis 14.7: 7 They returned, and came to En Mishpat (also called Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.

Genesis 14.8: 8 The king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (also called Zoar) went out; and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim

Genesis 14.9: 9 against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five.

Genesis 14.10: 10 Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and some fell there. Those who remained fled to the hills.

Genesis 14.11: 11 They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way.

Genesis 14.12: 12 They took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

Genesis 14.13: 13 One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. At that time, he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner. They were allies of Abram.

Genesis 14.14: 14 When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his three hundred eighteen trained men, born in his house, and pursued as far as Dan.

Genesis 14.15: 15 He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.

Genesis 14.16: 16 He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative Lot and his goods, and the women also, and the other people.

Genesis 14.17: 17 The king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).

Genesis 14.18: 18 Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High.

Genesis 14.19: 19 He blessed him, and said, “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth.

Genesis 14.20: 20 Blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.”

Genesis 14.21: 21 The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people, and take the goods for yourself.”

Genesis 14.22: 22 Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,

Genesis 14.23: 23 that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’

Genesis 14.24: 24 I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion.”

Genesis 20.1: 20Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.

Genesis 20.2: 2 Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

Genesis 20.3: 3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man’s wife.”

Genesis 20.4: 4 Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, “Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?

Genesis 20.5: 5 Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister’? She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”

Genesis 20.6: 6 God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her.

Genesis 20.7: 7 Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours.”

Genesis 20.8: 8 Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very scared.

Genesis 20.9: 9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!”

Genesis 20.10: 10 Abimelech said to Abraham, “What did you see, that you have done this thing?”

Genesis 20.11: 11 Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’

Genesis 20.12: 12 Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

Genesis 20.13: 13 When God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”

Genesis 20.14: 14 Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him.

Genesis 20.15: 15 Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you.”

Genesis 20.16: 16 To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated.”

Genesis 20.17: 17 Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.

Genesis 20.18: 18 For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

Genesis 34.1: 34Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

Genesis 34.2: 2 Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.

Genesis 34.3: 3 His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.

Genesis 34.4: 4 Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as a wife.”

Genesis 34.5: 5 Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came.

Genesis 34.7: 7 The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter, a thing ought not to be done.

Genesis 34.8: 8 Hamor talked with them, saying, “The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.

Genesis 34.9: 9 Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

Genesis 34.10: 10 You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.”

Genesis 34.11: 11 Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.

Genesis 34.12: 12 Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife.”

Genesis 34.13: 13 The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit when they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,

Genesis 34.14: 14 and said to them, “We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.

Genesis 34.15: 15 Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised,

Genesis 34.16: 16 then will we give our daughters to you; and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

Genesis 34.17: 17 But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our sister,1 and we will be gone.”

Genesis 34.19: 19 The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.

Genesis 34.20: 20 Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,

Genesis 34.21: 21 “These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let’s take their daughters to us for wives, and let’s give them our daughters.

Genesis 34.22: 22 Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.

Genesis 34.23: 23 Won’t their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let’s give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us.”

Genesis 34.24: 24 All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.

Genesis 34.25: 25 On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.

Genesis 34.26: 26 They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.

Genesis 34.27: 27 Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.

Genesis 34.28: 28 They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,

Genesis 34.29: 29 and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.

Genesis 34.30: 30 Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.”

Genesis 34.31: 31 They said, “Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?”

Genesis 50.1: 50Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him.

Genesis 50.2: 2 Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.

Genesis 50.3: 3 Forty days were used for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for Israel for seventy days.

Genesis 50.4: 4 When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh’s staff, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

Genesis 50.5: 5 ‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.’”

Genesis 50.6: 6 Pharaoh said, “Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear.”

Genesis 50.7: 7 Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt,

Genesis 50.8: 8 All the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.

Genesis 50.9: 9 There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company.

Genesis 50.10: 10 They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.

Genesis 50.11: 11 When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians.” Therefore its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

Genesis 50.13: 13 for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, as a possession for a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, near Mamre.

Genesis 50.14: 14 Joseph returned into Egypt—he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

Genesis 50.15: 15 When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all the evil which we did to him.”

Genesis 50.16: 16 They sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father commanded before he died, saying,

Genesis 50.17: 17 ‘You shall tell Joseph, “Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.”’ Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

Genesis 50.18: 18 His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, “Behold, we are your servants.”

Genesis 50.19: 19 Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for am I in the place of God?

Genesis 50.20: 20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

Genesis 50.21: 21 Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones.” He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

Genesis 50.22: 22 Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father’s house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years.

Genesis 50.23: 23 Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.

Genesis 50.24: 24 Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

Genesis 50.25: 25 Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”

Genesis 50.26: 26 So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

1 Samuel 2.11: 11 Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child served Yahweh before Eli the priest.

1 Samuel 2.12: 12 Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know Yahweh.

1 Samuel 2.13: 13 The custom of the priests with the people was that when anyone offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant came while the meat was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand;

1 Samuel 2.14: 14 and he stabbed it into the pan, or kettle, or cauldron, or pot. The priest took all that the fork brought up for himself. They did this to all the Israelites who came there to Shiloh.

1 Samuel 2.15: 15 Yes, before they burned the fat, the priest’s servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, “Give meat to roast for the priest; for he will not accept boiled meat from you, but raw.”

1 Samuel 2.16: 16 If the man said to him, “Let the fat be burned first, and then take as much as your soul desires;” then he would say, “No, but you shall give it to me now; and if not, I will take it by force.”

1 Samuel 2.17: 17 The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised Yahweh’s offering.

1 Samuel 2.18: 18 But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, clothed with a linen ephod.

1 Samuel 2.19: 19 Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and brought it to him from year to year when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

1 Samuel 2.20: 20 Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, “May Yahweh give you offspring2 from this woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh.” Then they went to their own home.

1 Samuel 2.21: 21 Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.

1 Samuel 2.22: 22 Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they slept with the women who served at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

1 Samuel 2.23: 23 He said to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all these people.

1 Samuel 2.24: 24 No, my sons; for it is not a good report that I hear! You make Yahweh’s people disobey.

1 Samuel 2.25: 25 If one man sins against another, God will judge him; but if a man sins against Yahweh, who will intercede for him?” Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh intended to kill them.

1 Samuel 2.26: 26 The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh and also with men.

1 Samuel 2.27: 27 A man of God came to Eli and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Did I reveal myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt in bondage to Pharaoh’s house?

1 Samuel 2.28: 28 Didn’t I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? Didn’t I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?

1 Samuel 2.29: 29 Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?’

1 Samuel 2.30: 30 “Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.

1 Samuel 2.31: 31 Behold,3 the days come that I will cut off your arm and the arm of your father’s house, that there will not be an old man in your house.

1 Samuel 2.32: 32 You will see the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth which I will give Israel. There shall not be an old man in your house forever.

1 Samuel 2.33: 33 The man of yours whom I don’t cut off from my altar will consume your eyes4 and grieve your heart. All the increase of your house will die in the flower of their age.

1 Samuel 2.34: 34 This will be the sign to you that will come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they will both die.

1 Samuel 2.35: 35 I will raise up a faithful priest for myself who will do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind. I will build him a sure house. He will walk before my anointed forever.

1 Samuel 2.36: 36 It will happen that everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and will say, “Please put me into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.”’”

2 Samuel 8.1: 8After this, David struck the Philistines and subdued them; and David took the bridle of the mother city out of the hand of the Philistines.

2 Samuel 8.2: 2 He struck Moab, and measured them with the line, making them to lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. The Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.

2 Samuel 8.3: 3 David struck also Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his dominion at the River.

2 Samuel 8.4: 4 David took from him one thousand seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand footmen. David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for one hundred chariots.

2 Samuel 8.5: 5 When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck twenty two thousand men of the Syrians.

2 Samuel 8.6: 6 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.

2 Samuel 8.7: 7 David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 8.8: 8 From Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took a great quantity of bronze.

2 Samuel 8.9: 9 When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army of Hadadezer,

2 Samuel 8.10: 10 then Toi sent Joram his son to king David, to greet him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and struck him; for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. Joram brought with him vessels of silver, vessels of gold, and vessels of bronze.

2 Samuel 8.11: 11 King David also dedicated these to Yahweh, with the silver and gold that he dedicated of all the nations which he subdued;

2 Samuel 8.12: 12 of Syria, of Moab, of the children of Ammon, of the Philistines, of Amalek, and of the plunder of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

2 Samuel 8.13: 13 David earned a reputation when he returned from striking down eighteen thousand men of the Syrians in the Valley of Salt.

2 Samuel 8.14: 14 He put garrisons in Edom. Throughout all Edom, he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became servants to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.

2 Samuel 8.15: 15 David reigned over all Israel; and David executed justice and righteousness for all his people.

2 Samuel 8.16: 16 Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder,

2 Samuel 8.17: 17 Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests, Seraiah was scribe,

2 Samuel 8.18: 18 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and David’s sons were chief ministers.

2 Samuel 17.1: 17Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.

2 Samuel 17.2: 2 I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only,

2 Samuel 17.3: 3 and I will bring back all the people to you. The man whom you seek is as if all returned. All the people shall be in peace.”

2 Samuel 17.5: 5 Then Absalom said, “Now call Hushai the Archite also, and let’s hear likewise what he says.”

2 Samuel 17.6: 6 When Hushai had come to Absalom, Absalom spoke to him, saying, “Ahithophel has spoken like this. Shall we do what he says? If not, speak up.”

2 Samuel 17.7: 7 Hushai said to Absalom, “The counsel that Ahithophel has given this time is not good.”

2 Samuel 17.8: 8 Hushai said moreover, “You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are fierce in their minds, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Your father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

2 Samuel 17.9: 9 Behold, he is now hidden in some pit, or in some other place. It will happen, when some of them have fallen at the first, that whoever hears it will say, ‘There is a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom!’

2 Samuel 17.10: 10 Even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant men.

2 Samuel 17.11: 11 But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person.

2 Samuel 17.12: 12 So we will come on him in some place where he will be found, and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground, then we will not leave so much as one of him and of all the men who are with him.

2 Samuel 17.13: 13 Moreover, if he has gone into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there isn’t one small stone found there.”

2 Samuel 17.14: 14 Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.

2 Samuel 17.15: 15 Then Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, “Ahithophel counseled Absalom and the elders of Israel that way; and I have counseled this way.

2 Samuel 17.16: 16 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, ‘Don’t lodge tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with him.’”

2 Samuel 17.17: 17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En Rogel; and a female servant used to go and tell them; and they went and told king David. For they might not be seen to come into the city.

2 Samuel 17.18: 18 But a boy saw them, and told Absalom. Then they both went away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down there.

2 Samuel 17.19: 19 The woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and spread out crushed grain on it; and nothing was known.

2 Samuel 17.20: 20 Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?”

2 Samuel 17.21: 21 After they had departed, they came up out of the well, and went and told king David; and they said to David, “Arise and pass quickly over the water; for thus has Ahithophel counseled against you.”

2 Samuel 17.22: 22 Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they passed over the Jordan. By the morning light there lacked not one of them who had not gone over the Jordan.

2 Samuel 17.23: 23 When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

2 Samuel 17.24: 24 Then David came to Mahanaim. Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

2 Samuel 17.25: 25 Absalom set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.

2 Samuel 17.27: 27 When David had come to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,

2 Samuel 17.28: 28 brought beds, basins, earthen vessels, wheat, barley, meal, parched grain, beans, lentils, roasted grain,

2 Samuel 17.29: 29 honey, butter, sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David, and for the people who were with him, to eat; for they said, “The people are hungry, weary, and thirsty in the wilderness.”

1 Kings 8.1: 8Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, with all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion.

1 Kings 8.2: 2 All the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

1 Kings 8.3: 3 All the elders of Israel came, and the priests picked up the ark.

1 Kings 8.4: 4 They brought up Yahweh’s ark, the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent. The priests and the Levites brought these up.

1 Kings 8.5: 5 King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle, that could not be counted or numbered for multitude.

1 Kings 8.6: 6 The priests brought in the ark of Yahweh’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the cherubim’s wings.

1 Kings 8.7: 7 For the cherubim spread their wings out over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above.

1 Kings 8.8: 8 The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the inner sanctuary; but they were not seen outside. They are there to this day.

1 Kings 8.9: 9 There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets which Moses put there at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

1 Kings 8.10: 10 It came to pass, when the priests had come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled Yahweh’s house,

1 Kings 8.11: 11 so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house.

1 Kings 8.12: 12 Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

1 Kings 8.13: 13 I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever.”

1 Kings 8.14: 14 The king turned his face around, and blessed all the assembly of Israel; and all the assembly of Israel stood.

1 Kings 8.15: 15 He said, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David your father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying,

1 Kings 8.16: 16 ‘Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.’

1 Kings 8.17: 17 “Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

1 Kings 8.18: 18 But Yahweh said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart.

1 Kings 8.19: 19 Nevertheless, you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.’

1 Kings 8.20: 20 Yahweh has established his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

1 Kings 8.21: 21 There I have set a place for the ark, in which is Yahweh’s covenant, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”

1 Kings 8.22: 22 Solomon stood before Yahweh’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven;

1 Kings 8.23: 23 and he said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keeps covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart;

1 Kings 8.24: 24 who has kept with your servant David my father that which you promised him. Yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is today.

1 Kings 8.25: 25 Now therefore, may Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.’

1 Kings 8.26: 26 “Now therefore, God of Israel, please let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father.

1 Kings 8.27: 27 But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

1 Kings 8.28: 28 Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and for his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you today;

1 Kings 8.29: 29 that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, ‘My name shall be there;’ to listen to the prayer which your servant prays toward this place.

1 Kings 8.30: 30 Listen to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Yes, hear in heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive.

1 Kings 8.31: 31 “If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house;

1 Kings 8.32: 32 then hear in heaven, and act, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

1 Kings 8.33: 33 “When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this house;

1 Kings 8.34: 34 then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers.

1 Kings 8.35: 35 “When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them,

1 Kings 8.36: 36 then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

1 Kings 8.37: 37 “If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;

1 Kings 8.38: 38 whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house,

1 Kings 8.39: 39 then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men);

1 Kings 8.40: 40 that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.

1 Kings 8.41: 41 “Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he comes out of a far country for your name’s sake

1 Kings 8.42: 42 (for they shall hear of your great name, and of your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm); when he comes and prays toward this house;

1 Kings 8.43: 43 hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.

1 Kings 8.44: 44 “If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to Yahweh toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name;

1 Kings 8.45: 45 then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

1 Kings 8.46: 46 If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

1 Kings 8.47: 47 yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;’

1 Kings 8.48: 48 if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name;

1 Kings 8.49: 49 then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling place, and maintain their cause;

1 Kings 8.50: 50 and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them

1 Kings 8.51: 51 (for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron furnace);

1 Kings 8.52: 52 that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant, and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to you.

1 Kings 8.53: 53 For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord Yahweh.”

1 Kings 8.54: 54 It was so, that when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before Yahweh’s altar, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread out toward heaven.

1 Kings 8.55: 55 He stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,

1 Kings 8.56: 56 “Blessed be Yahweh, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant.

1 Kings 8.57: 57 May Yahweh our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us or forsake us;

1 Kings 8.58: 58 that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.

1 Kings 8.59: 59 Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before Yahweh, be near to Yahweh our God day and night, that he may maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel, as every day requires;

1 Kings 8.60: 60 that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh himself is God. There is no one else.

1 Kings 8.61: 61 “Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as it is today.”

1 Kings 8.62: 62 The king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before Yahweh.

1 Kings 8.63: 63 Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to Yahweh, twenty two thousand head of cattle, and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated Yahweh’s house.

1 Kings 8.64: 64 The same day the king made the middle of the court holy that was before Yahweh’s house; for there he offered the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before Yahweh was too little to receive the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings.

1 Kings 8.65: 65 So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before Yahweh our God, seven days and seven more days, even fourteen days.

1 Kings 8.66: 66 On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad in their hearts for all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David his servant, and to Israel his people.

2 Kings 15.1: 15In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah began to reign.

2 Kings 15.2: 2 He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.

2 Kings 15.3: 3 He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.

2 Kings 15.4: 4 However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.

2 Kings 15.5: 5 Yahweh struck the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house. Jotham, the king’s son was over the household, judging the people of the land.

2 Kings 15.6: 6 Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2 Kings 15.7: 7 Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in David’s city: and Jotham his son reigned in his place.

2 Kings 15.8: 8 In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reigned over Israel in Samaria six months.

2 Kings 15.9: 9 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as his fathers had done. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.

2 Kings 15.10: 10 Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and struck him before the people, and killed him, and reigned in his place.

2 Kings 15.11: 11 Now the rest of the acts of Zechariah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

2 Kings 15.12: 12 This was Yahweh’s word which he spoke to Jehu, saying, “Your sons to the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.” So it came to pass.

2 Kings 15.13: 13 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned for a month in Samaria.

2 Kings 15.14: 14 Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, came to Samaria, struck Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, killed him, and reigned in his place.

2 Kings 15.15: 15 Now the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

2 Kings 15.16: 16 Then Menahem attacked Tiphsah, and all who were in it, and its border areas, from Tirzah. He attacked it because they didn’t open their gates to him, and he ripped up all their women who were with child.

2 Kings 15.17: 17 In the thirty ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem the son of Gadi began to reign over Israel for ten years in Samaria.

2 Kings 15.18: 18 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight. He didn’t depart all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.

2 Kings 15.19: 19 Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul one thousand talents1 of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.

2 Kings 15.20: 20 Menahem exacted the money from Israel, even from all the mighty men of wealth, from each man fifty shekels2 of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and didn’t stay there in the land.

2 Kings 15.21: 21 Now the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

2 Kings 15.22: 22 Menahem slept with his fathers, and Pekahiah his son reigned in his place.

2 Kings 15.23: 23 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria for two years.

2 Kings 15.24: 24 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.

2 Kings 15.25: 25 Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him and attacked him in Samaria, in the fortress of the king’s house, with Argob and Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the Gileadites. He killed him, and reigned in his place.

2 Kings 15.26: 26 Now the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

2 Kings 15.27: 27 In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria for twenty years.

2 Kings 15.28: 28 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.

2 Kings 15.29: 29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.

2 Kings 15.30: 30 Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, attacked him, killed him, and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

2 Kings 15.31: 31 Now the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

2 Kings 15.32: 32 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah began to reign.

2 Kings 15.33: 33 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.

2 Kings 15.34: 34 He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes. He did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.

2 Kings 15.35: 35 However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of Yahweh’s house.

2 Kings 15.36: 36 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2 Kings 15.37: 37 In those days, Yahweh began to send Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.

2 Kings 15.38: 38 Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in his father David’s city, and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.

1 Chronicles 7.1: 7Of the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.

1 Chronicles 7.2: 2 The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers’ houses, of Tola; mighty men of valor in their generations. Their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred.

1 Chronicles 7.3: 3 The son of Uzzi: Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah, five; all of them chief men.

1 Chronicles 7.4: 4 With them, by their generations, after their fathers’ houses, were bands of the army for war, thirty-six thousand; for they had many wives and sons.

1 Chronicles 7.5: 5 Their brothers among all the families of Issachar, mighty men of valor, listed in all by genealogy, were eighty-seven thousand.

1 Chronicles 7.7: 7 The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor; and they were listed by genealogy twenty-two thousand thirty-four.

1 Chronicles 7.8: 8 The sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.

1 Chronicles 7.9: 9 They were listed by genealogy, after their generations, heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor, twenty thousand two hundred.

1 Chronicles 7.10: 10 The son of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.

1 Chronicles 7.11: 11 All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers’ households, mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand two hundred, who were able to go out in the army for war.

1 Chronicles 7.12: 12 So were Shuppim, Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, and the sons of Aher.

1 Chronicles 7.13: 13 The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, Shallum, and the sons of Bilhah.

1 Chronicles 7.14: 14 The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his concubine the Aramitess bore. She bore Machir the father of Gilead.

1 Chronicles 7.15: 15 Machir took a wife of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister’s name was Maacah. The name of the second was Zelophehad; and Zelophehad had daughters.

1 Chronicles 7.16: 16 Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she named him Peresh. The name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.

1 Chronicles 7.17: 17 The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.

1 Chronicles 7.19: 19 The sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.

1 Chronicles 7.20: 20 The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son,

1 Chronicles 7.21: 21 Zabad his son, Shuthelah his son, Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath who were born in the land killed, because they came down to take away their livestock.

1 Chronicles 7.22: 22 Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.

1 Chronicles 7.23: 23 He went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he named him Beriah,1 because there was trouble with his house.

1 Chronicles 7.24: 24 His daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth Horon the lower and the upper, and Uzzen Sheerah.

1 Chronicles 7.25: 25 Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, Tahan his son,

1 Chronicles 7.28: 28 Their possessions and settlements were Bethel and its towns, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with its towns; Shechem also and its towns, to Azzah and its towns;

1 Chronicles 7.29: 29 and by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth Shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, and Dor and its towns. The children of Joseph the son of Israel lived in these.

1 Chronicles 7.30: 30 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah. Serah was their sister.

1 Chronicles 7.31: 31 The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.

1 Chronicles 7.32: 32 Heber became the father of Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and Shua their sister.

1 Chronicles 7.33: 33 The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet.

1 Chronicles 7.35: 35 The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.

1 Chronicles 7.40: 40 All these were the children of Asher, heads of the fathers’ houses, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. The number of them listed by genealogy for service in war was twenty-six thousand men.

Ezra 4.1: 4Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building a temple to Yahweh, the God of Israel;

Ezra 4.2: 2 they came near to Zerubbabel, and to the heads of fathers’ households, and said to them, “Let us build with you; for we seek your God, as you do; and we have been sacrificing to him since the days of Esar Haddon king of Assyria, who brought us up here.”

Ezra 4.3: 3 But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers’ households of Israel, said to them, “You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God; but we ourselves together will build to Yahweh, the God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.”

Ezra 4.4: 4 Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building.

Ezra 4.5: 5 They hired counselors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Ezra 4.6: 6 In the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.

Ezra 4.7: 7 In the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his companions, wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in Syrian, and delivered in the Syrian language.

Ezra 4.8: 8 Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king as follows,

Ezra 4.9: 9 then Rehum the chancellor, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions, the Dinaites, and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehaites, the Elamites,

Ezra 4.10: 10 and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnappar brought over, and set in the city of Samaria, and in the rest of the country beyond the River, and so forth, wrote.

Ezra 4.12: 12 Be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you have come to us to Jerusalem. They are building the rebellious and bad city, and have finished the walls, and repaired the foundations.

Ezra 4.13: 13 Be it known now to the king that if this city is built and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and in the end it will be hurtful to the kings.

Ezra 4.14: 14 Now because we eat the salt of the palace, and it is not appropriate for us to see the king’s dishonor, therefore we have sent and informed the king,

Ezra 4.15: 15 that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers. You will see in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to kings and provinces, and that they have started rebellions within it in the past. That is why this city was destroyed.

Ezra 4.16: 16 We inform the king that, if this city is built and the walls finished, then you will have no possession beyond the River.

Ezra 4.17: 17 Then the king sent an answer to Rehum the chancellor, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions who live in Samaria, and in the rest of the country beyond the River:

Ezra 4.19: 19 I decreed, and search has been made, and it was found that this city has made insurrection against kings in the past, and that rebellion and revolts have been made in it.

Ezra 4.20: 20 There have also been mighty kings over Jerusalem, who have ruled over all the country beyond the River; and tribute, custom, and toll, was paid to them.

Ezra 4.21: 21 Make a decree now to cause these men to cease, and that this city not be built, until a decree is made by me.

Ezra 4.22: 22 Be careful that you not be slack doing so. Why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?

Ezra 4.23: 23 Then when the copy of king Artaxerxes’ letter was read before Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and made them to cease by force of arms.

Ezra 4.24: 24 Then work stopped on God’s house which is at Jerusalem. It stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Esther 2.1: 2After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.

Esther 2.2: 2 Then the king’s servants who served him said, “Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king.

Esther 2.3: 3 Let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the beautiful young virgins to the citadel of Susa, to the women’s house, to the custody of Hegai the king’s eunuch, keeper of the women. Let cosmetics be given them;

Esther 2.4: 4 and let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” The thing pleased the king, and he did so.

Esther 2.5: 5 There was a certain Jew in the citadel of Susa, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite,

Esther 2.6: 6 who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives who had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.

Esther 2.7: 7 He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

Esther 2.8: 8 So, when the king’s commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together to the citadel of Susa, to the custody of Hegai, Esther was taken into the king’s house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.

Esther 2.9: 9 The maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness from him. He quickly gave her cosmetics and her portions of food, and the seven choice maidens who were to be given her out of the king’s house. He moved her and her maidens to the best place in the women’s house.

Esther 2.10: 10 Esther had not made known her people nor her relatives, because Mordecai had instructed her that she should not make it known.

Esther 2.11: 11 Mordecai walked every day in front of the court of the women’s house, to find out how Esther was doing, and what would become of her.

Esther 2.12: 12 Each young woman’s turn came to go in to King Ahasuerus after her purification for twelve months (for so were the days of their purification accomplished, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet fragrances and with preparations for beautifying women).

Esther 2.13: 13 The young woman then came to the king like this: whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the women’s house to the king’s house.

Esther 2.14: 14 In the evening she went, and on the next day she returned into the second women’s house, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch, who kept the concubines. She came in to the king no more, unless the king delighted in her, and she was called by name.

Esther 2.15: 15 Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.

Esther 2.16: 16 So Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus into his royal house in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

Esther 2.17: 17 The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she obtained favor and kindness in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.

Esther 2.18: 18 Then the king made a great feast for all his princes and his servants, even Esther’s feast; and he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces, and gave gifts according to the king’s bounty.

Esther 2.19: 19 When the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate.

Esther 2.20: 20 Esther had not yet made known her relatives nor her people, as Mordecai had commanded her; for Esther obeyed Mordecai, like she did when she was brought up by him.

Esther 2.21: 21 In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate, two of the king’s eunuchs, Bigthan and Teresh, who were doorkeepers, were angry, and sought to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus.

Esther 2.22: 22 This thing became known to Mordecai, who informed Esther the queen; and Esther informed the king in Mordecai’s name.

Esther 2.23: 23 When this matter was investigated, and it was found to be so, they were both hanged on a gallows; and it was written in the book of the chronicles in the king’s presence.

Esther 3.1: 3After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.

Esther 3.2: 2 All the king’s servants who were in the king’s gate bowed down, and paid homage to Haman; for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai didn’t bow down or pay him homage.

Esther 3.3: 3 Then the king’s servants, who were in the king’s gate, said to Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the king’s commandment?”

Esther 3.4: 4 Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and he didn’t listen to them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s reason would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew.

Esther 3.5: 5 When Haman saw that Mordecai didn’t bow down, nor pay him homage, Haman was full of wrath.

Esther 3.6: 6 But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai’s people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai’s people.

Esther 3.7: 7 In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, and chose the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.

Esther 3.8: 8 Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different from other people’s. They don’t keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not for the king’s profit to allow them to remain.

Esther 3.9: 9 If it pleases the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents1 of silver into the hands of those who are in charge of the king’s business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.”

Esther 3.10: 10 The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.

Esther 3.11: 11 The king said to Haman, “The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.”

Esther 3.12: 12 Then the king’s scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king’s local governors, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, and it was sealed with the king’s ring.

Esther 3.13: 13 Letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions.

Esther 3.14: 14 A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that they should be ready against that day.

Esther 3.15: 15 The couriers went out in haste by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Susa was perplexed.

Ecclesiastes 8.1: 8Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.

Ecclesiastes 8.2: 2 I say, “Keep the king’s command!” because of the oath to God.

Ecclesiastes 8.3: 3 Don’t be hasty to go out of his presence. Don’t persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him,

Ecclesiastes 8.4: 4 for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”

Ecclesiastes 8.5: 5 Whoever keeps the commandment shall not come to harm, and his wise heart will know the time and procedure.

Ecclesiastes 8.6: 6 For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him.

Ecclesiastes 8.7: 7 For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

Ecclesiastes 8.8: 8 There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.

Ecclesiastes 8.9: 9 All this I have seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.

Ecclesiastes 8.10: 10 So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 8.11: 11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

Ecclesiastes 8.12: 12 Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

Ecclesiastes 8.13: 13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God.

Ecclesiastes 8.14: 14 There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 8.15: 15 Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 8.16: 16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (even though eyes see no sleep day or night),

Ecclesiastes 8.17: 17 then I saw all the work of God, that man can’t find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won’t find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won’t be able to find it.

Isaiah 6.1: 6In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.

Isaiah 6.2: 2 Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew.

Isaiah 6.4: 4 The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.

Isaiah 6.5: 5 Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”

Isaiah 6.6: 6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar.

Isaiah 6.7: 7 He touched my mouth with it, and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven.”

Isaiah 6.8: 8 I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?”

Isaiah 38.1: 38In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.’”

Isaiah 38.3: 3 and said, “Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Isaiah 38.5: 5 “Go, and tell Hezekiah, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

Isaiah 38.6: 6 I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.

Isaiah 38.7: 7 This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken.

Isaiah 38.8: 8 Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps.”’” So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down.

Isaiah 38.9: 9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and had recovered of his sickness.

Isaiah 38.10: 10 I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol.1

Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in Yahweh’s house.

Isaiah 38.21: 21 Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover.”

Isaiah 38.22: 22 Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I will go up to Yahweh’s house?”

Isaiah 39.1: 39At that time, Merodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard that he had been sick, and had recovered.

Isaiah 39.2: 2 Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them the house of his precious things, the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn’t show them.

Isaiah 39.3: 3 Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and asked him, “What did these men say? From where did they come to you?”

Hezekiah said, “They have come from a country far from me, even from Babylon.”

Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.”

Isaiah 39.5: 5 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of Yahweh of Armies:

Isaiah 39.6: 6 ‘Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up until today, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,’ says Yahweh.

Isaiah 39.7: 7 ‘They will take away your sons who will issue from you, whom you shall father, and they will be eunuchs in the king of Babylon’s palace.’”

Isaiah 39.8: 8 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “Yahweh’s word which you have spoken is good.” He said moreover, “For there will be peace and truth in my days.”

Jeremiah 10.9: 9 There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish,

Jeremiah 10.11: 11 “You shall say this to them: ‘The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.’”

Jeremiah 50.1: 50The word that Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.

Jeremiah 50.5: 5 They will inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it,

and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country;

Jeremiah 50.28: 28 Listen to those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon,

Jeremiah 50.31: 31 “Behold, I am against you, you proud one,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies;

Jeremiah 50.33: 33 Yahweh of Armies says: “The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together.

Jeremiah 50.40: 40 As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbor cities,” says Yahweh,

and a great nation and many kings will be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.

and Moab will die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet;

Amos 2.8: 8 and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge;

and in the house of their God1 they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

Amos 2.16: 16 and he who is courageous among the mighty will flee away naked on that day,”

Habakkuk 1.2: 2 Yahweh,1 how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?

Habakkuk 1.3: 3 Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.

Habakkuk 1.4: 4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.

Habakkuk 1.5: 5 “Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously; for I am working a work in your days, which you will not believe though it is told you.

Habakkuk 1.6: 6 For, behold,2 I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the width of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.

Habakkuk 1.7: 7 They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.

Habakkuk 1.8: 8 Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.

Habakkuk 1.9: 9 All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.

Habakkuk 1.10: 10 Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.

Habakkuk 1.11: 11 Then he sweeps by like the wind, and goes on. He is indeed guilty, whose strength is his god.”

Habakkuk 1.12: 12 Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God,3 my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.

Habakkuk 1.13: 13 You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

Habakkuk 1.14: 14 and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

Habakkuk 1.15: 15 He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.

Habakkuk 1.16: 16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good.

Habakkuk 1.17: 17 Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?

Haggai 1.1: 1In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, Yahweh’s1 word came by Haggai, the prophet, to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,

Haggai 1.2: 2 “This is what Yahweh of Armies says: These people say, ‘The time hasn’t yet come, the time for Yahweh’s house to be built.’”

Haggai 1.4: 4 “Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?

Haggai 1.5: 5 Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.

Haggai 1.6: 6 You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.”

Haggai 1.8: 8 Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified,” says Yahweh.

Haggai 1.9: 9 “You looked for much, and, behold,2 it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says Yahweh of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.

Haggai 1.10: 10 Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.

Haggai 1.11: 11 I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground produces, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of the hands.”

Haggai 1.12: 12 Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed Yahweh, their God’s3 voice, and the words of Haggai, the prophet, as Yahweh, their God, had sent him; and the people feared Yahweh.

Haggai 1.13: 13 Then Haggai, Yahweh’s messenger, spoke Yahweh’s message to the people, saying, “I am with you,” says Yahweh.

Haggai 1.14: 14 Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of Yahweh of Armies, their God,

Haggai 1.15: 15 in the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.

Malachi 4.1: 4“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Malachi 4.2: 2 But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

Malachi 4.3: 3 You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Malachi 4.4: 4 “Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.

Malachi 4.5: 5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

Malachi 4.6: 6 He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”

Matthew 9.1: 9He entered into a boat, and crossed over, and came into his own city.

Matthew 9.2: 2 Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you.”

Matthew 9.3: 3 Behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man blasphemes.”

Matthew 9.4: 4 Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?

Matthew 9.5: 5 For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven;’ or to say, ‘Get up, and walk?’

Matthew 9.6: 6 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins-” (then he said to the paralytic), “Get up, and take up your mat, and go to your house.”

Matthew 9.8: 8 But when the multitudes saw it, they marveled and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.

Matthew 9.9: 9 As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, “Follow me.” He got up and followed him.

Matthew 9.10: 10 As he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.

Matthew 9.11: 11 When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

Matthew 9.12: 12 When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.

Matthew 9.13: 13 But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’a for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”1

Matthew 9.14: 14 Then John’s disciples came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”

Matthew 9.15: 15 Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

Matthew 9.16: 16 No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch would tear away from the garment, and a worse hole is made.

Matthew 9.17: 17 Neither do people put new wine into old wine skins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.”

Matthew 9.18: 18 While he told these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped him, saying, “My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live.”

Matthew 9.20: 20 Behold, a woman who had a discharge of blood for twelve years came behind him, and touched the fringe2 of his garment;

Matthew 9.21: 21 for she said within herself, “If I just touch his garment, I will be made well.”

Matthew 9.22: 22 But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said, “Daughter, cheer up! Your faith has made you well.” And the woman was made well from that hour.

Matthew 9.23: 23 When Jesus came into the ruler’s house, and saw the flute players, and the crowd in noisy disorder,

Matthew 9.24: 24 he said to them, “Make room, because the girl isn’t dead, but sleeping.”

Matthew 9.25: 25 But when the crowd was put out, he entered in, took her by the hand, and the girl arose.

Matthew 9.27: 27 As Jesus passed by from there, two blind men followed him, calling out and saying, “Have mercy on us, son of David!”

Matthew 9.28: 28 When he had come into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?”

Matthew 9.29: 29 Then he touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith be it done to you.”

Matthew 9.30: 30 Their eyes were opened. Jesus strictly commanded them, saying, “See that no one knows about this.”

Matthew 9.32: 32 As they went out, behold, a mute man who was demon possessed was brought to him.

Matthew 9.33: 33 When the demon was cast out, the mute man spoke. The multitudes marveled, saying, “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!”

Matthew 9.34: 34 But the Pharisees said, “By the prince of the demons, he casts out demons.”

Matthew 9.35: 35 Jesus went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

Matthew 9.36: 36 But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed3 and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.

Matthew 9.37: 37 Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few.

Matthew 9.38: 38 Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers into his harvest.”

Mark 4.1: 4Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea.

Mark 4.2: 2 He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,

Mark 4.4: 4 and as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds1 came and devoured it.

Mark 4.5: 5 Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.

Mark 4.6: 6 When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

Mark 4.7: 7 Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

Mark 4.8: 8 Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much.”

Mark 4.10: 10 When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.

Mark 4.11: 11 He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

Mark 4.12: 12 that ‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’”a

Mark 4.13: 13 He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

Mark 4.15: 15 The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them.

Mark 4.16: 16 These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.

Mark 4.17: 17 They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

Mark 4.18: 18 Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word,

Mark 4.19: 19 and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

Mark 4.20: 20 Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times.”

Mark 4.21: 21 He said to them, “Is the lamp brought to be put under a basket 2 or under a bed? Isn’t it put on a stand?

Mark 4.22: 22 For there is nothing hidden, except that it should be made known; neither was anything made secret, but that it should come to light.

Mark 4.24: 24 He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you who hear.

Mark 4.25: 25 For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.”

Mark 4.26: 26 He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,

Mark 4.27: 27 and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t know how.

Mark 4.28: 28 For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

Mark 4.29: 29 But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

Mark 4.30: 30 He said, “How will we liken God’s Kingdom? Or with what parable will we illustrate it?

Mark 4.31: 31 It’s like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth,

Mark 4.32: 32 yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow.”

Mark 4.33: 33 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.

Mark 4.34: 34 Without a parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

Mark 4.35: 35 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let’s go over to the other side.”

Mark 4.36: 36 Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were also with him.

Mark 4.37: 37 A big wind storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled.

Mark 4.38: 38 He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are dying?”

Mark 4.39: 39 He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

Mark 4.40: 40 He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?”

Mark 4.41: 41 They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”

John 1.1: 1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 1.3: 3 All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made.

John 1.5: 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome 1 it.

John 1.7: 7 The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.

John 1.8: 8 He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light.

John 1.10: 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him.

John 1.11: 11 He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.

John 1.12: 12 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

John 1.13: 13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

John 1.14: 14 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 1.15: 15 John testified about him. He cried out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.’”

John 1.17: 17 For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

John 1.18: 18 No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son,2 who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.

John 1.19: 19 This is John’s testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”

John 1.20: 20 He declared, and didn’t deny, but he declared, “I am not the Christ.”

John 1.22: 22 They said therefore to him, “Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”

John 1.23: 23 He said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’a as Isaiah the prophet said.”

John 1.25: 25 They asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”

John 1.26: 26 John answered them, “I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don’t know.

John 1.27: 27 He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to loosen.”

John 1.28: 28 These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

John 1.29: 29 The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold,3 the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

John 1.30: 30 This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.’

John 1.31: 31 I didn’t know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel.”

John 1.32: 32 John testified, saying, “I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.

John 1.33: 33 I didn’t recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water said to me, ‘On whomever you will see the Spirit descending and remaining on him is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.’

John 1.36: 36 and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”

John 1.38: 38 Jesus turned and saw them following, and said to them, “What are you looking for?”

They said to him, “Rabbi” (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), “where are you staying?”

They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.4

John 1.40: 40 One of the two who heard John and followed him was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.

John 1.41: 41 He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is, being interpreted, Christ5).

John 1.42: 42 He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, “You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas” (which is by interpretation, Peter).6

John 1.43: 43 On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, “Follow me.”

John 1.45: 45 Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

John 1.46: 46 Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?”

John 1.47: 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

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

John 1.49: 49 Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!”

John 1.50: 50 Jesus answered him, “Because I told you, ‘I saw you underneath the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these!”

John 1.51: 51 He said to him, “Most certainly, I tell you all, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

Romans 12.1: 12Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Romans 12.2: 2 Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Romans 12.3: 3 For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

Romans 12.4: 4 For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don’t have the same function,

Romans 12.5: 5 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another,

Romans 12.6: 6 having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us: if prophecy, let’s prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

Romans 12.7: 7 or service, let’s give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;

Romans 12.8: 8 or he who exhorts, to his exhorting; he who gives, let him do it with generosity; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

Romans 12.9: 9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

Romans 12.10: 10 In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

Romans 12.12: 12 rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

Romans 12.16: 16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

Romans 12.17: 17 Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

Romans 12.18: 18 If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

Romans 12.19: 19 Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.” a

Colossians 2.1: 2For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

Colossians 2.2: 2 that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

Colossians 2.4: 4 Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

Colossians 2.5: 5 For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

Colossians 2.6: 6 As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,

Colossians 2.7: 7 rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

Colossians 2.8: 8 Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

Colossians 2.10: 10 and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power.

Colossians 2.11: 11 In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ,

Colossians 2.12: 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

Colossians 2.13: 13 You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

Colossians 2.14: 14 wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us. He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.

Colossians 2.15: 15 Having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

Colossians 2.16: 16 Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

Colossians 2.17: 17 which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.

Colossians 2.18: 18 Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

Colossians 2.19: 19 and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.

Colossians 2.20: 20 If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

Colossians 2.22: 22 (all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?

Colossians 2.23: 23 These things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, humility, and severity to the body; but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

2 Peter 1.1: 1Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

2 Peter 1.2: 2 Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

2 Peter 1.3: 3 seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,

2 Peter 1.4: 4 by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

2 Peter 1.5: 5 Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

2 Peter 1.6: 6 and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness;

2 Peter 1.7: 7 and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.

2 Peter 1.8: 8 For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 1.9: 9 For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

2 Peter 1.10: 10 Therefore, brothers,1 be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

2 Peter 1.11: 11 For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 1.12: 12 Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

2 Peter 1.13: 13 I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you,

2 Peter 1.14: 14 knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.

2 Peter 1.15: 15 Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.

2 Peter 1.16: 16 For we didn’t follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

2 Peter 1.17: 17 For he received from God the Father honor and glory when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”a

2 Peter 1.18: 18 We heard this voice come out of heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain.

2 Peter 1.19: 19 We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:

2 Peter 1.20: 20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.

2 Peter 1.21: 21 For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

Revelation 10.1: 10I saw a mighty angel coming down out of the sky, clothed with a cloud. A rainbow was on his head. His face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire.

Revelation 10.2: 2 He had in his hand a little open book. He set his right foot on the sea, and his left on the land.

Revelation 10.3: 3 He cried with a loud voice, as a lion roars. When he cried, the seven thunders uttered their voices.

Revelation 10.4: 4 When the seven thunders sounded, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from the sky saying, “Seal up the things which the seven thunders said, and don’t write them.”

Revelation 10.5: 5 The angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to the sky,

Revelation 10.6: 6 and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there will no longer be delay,

Revelation 10.7: 7 but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as he declared to his servants, the prophets.

Revelation 10.8: 8 The voice which I heard from heaven, again speaking with me, said, “Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land.”

He said to me, “Take it, and eat it. It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.”

Revelation 10.10: 10 I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth. When I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter.

Revelation 10.11: 11 They1 told me, “You must prophesy again over many peoples, nations, languages, and kings.”

Esther (Greek) 1.1: 1[In the second year of the reign of Ahasuerus the great king, on the first day of Nisan, Mordecai the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Jew dwelling in the city Susa, a great man, serving in the king’s palace, saw a vision. Now he was of the captivity which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried captive from Jerusalem, with Jeconiah the king of Judea. This was his dream: Behold, voices and a noise, thunders and earthquake, tumult upon the earth. And, behold, two great serpents came out, both ready for conflict. A great voice came from them. Every nation was prepared for battle by their voice, even to fight against the nation of the just. Behold, a day of darkness and blackness, suffering and anguish, affection and tumult upon the earth. And all the righteous nation was troubled, fearing their own afflictions. They prepared to die, and cried to God. Something like a great river from a little spring with much water, came from their cry. Light and the sun arose, and the lowly were exalted, and devoured the honorable.

Mordecai, who had seen this vision and what God desired to do, having arisen, kept it in his heart, and desired by all means to interpret it, even until night.

Mordecai rested quietly in the palace with Gabatha and Tharrha the king’s two chamberlains, eunuchs who guarded the palace. He heard their conversation and searched out their plans. He learned that they were preparing to lay hands on king Ahasuerus; and he informed the king concerning them. The king examined the two chamberlains. They confessed, and were led away and executed. The king wrote these things for a record. Mordecai also wrote concerning these matters. The king commanded Mordecai to serve in the palace, and gave gifts for this service. But Haman the son of Hammedatha the Bougean was honored in the sight of the king, and he endeavored to harm Mordecai and his people, because of the king’s two chamberlains.]1 And it came to pass after these things2 in the days of Ahasuerus, —(this Ahasuerus ruled over one hundred twenty-seven provinces from India)—

Esther (Greek) 1.2: 2 in those days, when king Ahasuerus was on the throne in the city of Susa.

Esther (Greek) 1.3: 3 In the third year of his reign, he made a feast for his friends, and the other nations, and for the nobles of the Persians and Medes, and the chief of the local governors.

Esther (Greek) 1.4: 4 After this, after he had shown them the wealth of his kingdom and the abundant glory of his wealth during one hundred eighty days,

Esther (Greek) 1.5: 5 when the days of the wedding feast were completed, the king made a banquet for the people of the nations who were present in the city for six days, in the court of the king’s house,

Esther (Greek) 1.6: 6 which was adorned with fine linen and flax on cords of fine linen and purple, fastened to golden and silver studs, on pillars of white marble and stone. There were golden and silver couches on a pavement of emerald stone, and of pearl, and of white marble, with transparent coverings variously flowered, having roses worked around it.

Esther (Greek) 1.7: 7 There were gold and silver cups, and a small cup of carbuncle set out of the value of thirty thousand talents, with abundant and sweet wine, which the king himself drank.

Esther (Greek) 1.8: 8 This banquet was not according to the appointed law; but as the king desired to have it. He charged the stewards to perform his will and that of the company.

Esther (Greek) 1.9: 9 Also Vashti the queen made a banquet for the women in the palace where king Ahasuerus lived.

Esther (Greek) 1.10: 10 Now on the seventh day, the king, being merry, told Haman, Bazan, Tharrha, Baraze, Zatholtha, Abataza, and Tharaba, the seven chamberlains, servants of king Ahasuerus,

Esther (Greek) 1.11: 11 to bring in the queen to him, to 3 enthrone her, and crown her with the diadem, and to show her to the princes, and her beauty to the nations: for she was beautiful.

Esther (Greek) 1.12: 12 But queen Vashti didn’t listen to him to come with the chamberlains; so the king was grieved and angered.

Esther (Greek) 1.13: 13 And he said to his friends, “This is what Vashti said. Therefore pronounce your legal judgement on this case.”

Esther (Greek) 1.14: 14 So Arkesaeus, Sarsathaeus, and Malisear, the princes of the Persians and Medes, who were near the king, who sat chief in rank by the king, drew near to him,

Esther (Greek) 1.15: 15 and reported to him according to the laws what it was proper to do to queen Vashti, because she had not done the things commanded by the king through the chamberlains.

Esther (Greek) 1.16: 16 And Memucan said to the king and to the princes, “Queen Vashti has not wronged the king only, but also all the king’s rulers and princes:

Esther (Greek) 1.17: 17 for he has told them the words of the queen, and how she 4 disobeyed the king. As she then refused to obey king Ahasuerus,

Esther (Greek) 1.18: 18 so this day the other wives of the chiefs of the Persians and Medes, having heard what she said to the king, will dare in the same way to dishonor their husbands.

Esther (Greek) 1.19: 19 If then it seems good to the king, let him make a royal decree, and let it be written according to the laws of the Medes and Persians, and let him not alter it: ‘Don’t allow the queen to come in to him any more. Let the king give her royalty to a woman better than she.’

Esther (Greek) 1.20: 20 Let the law of the king which he will have made be widely proclaimed in his kingdom. Then all the women will give honor to their husbands, from the poor even to the rich.”

Esther (Greek) 1.21: 21 This advice pleased the king and the princes; and the king did as Memucan had said,

Esther (Greek) 1.22: 22 and sent into all his kingdom through the several provinces, according to their language, so that men might be feared in their own houses.

2 Maccabees 4.1: 4But the aforesaid Simon, he who had given information of the money, and had betrayed his country, slandered Onias, saying that it was he who had incited Heliodorus, and made himself the author of these evils.

2 Maccabees 4.2: 2 And him that was the benefactor of the city, and the guardian of his fellow countrymen, and a zealot for the laws, he dared to call a conspirator against the state.

2 Maccabees 4.3: 3 But when the growing enmity between them waxed so great, that even murders were perpetrated through one of 1 Simon’s trusted followers,

2 Maccabees 4.4: 4 Onias, seeing the 2 danger of the contention, and that 3 Apollonius the son of Menestheus, the governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, was increasing Simon’s malice,

2 Maccabees 4.5: 5 betook himself to the king, not to be an accuser of his fellow-citizens, but looking to the good of all the 4 people, both public and private;

2 Maccabees 4.6: 6 for he saw that without the king’s providence it was impossible for the state to obtain peace any more, and that Simon would not cease from his madness.

2 Maccabees 4.7: 7 But when Seleucus was deceased, and Antiochus, who was called Epiphanes, succeeded to the kingdom, Jason the brother of Onias supplanted his brother in the high priesthood,

2 Maccabees 4.8: 8 having promised to the king at an audience three hundred and threescore talents of silver, and out of another fund eighty talents;

2 Maccabees 4.9: 9 and beside this, he undertook to assign a hundred and fifty more, if it might be allowed him 5 through the king’s authority to set him up a Greek place of exercise and form a body of youths to be trained therein, and to register the inhabitants of Jerusalem as citizens of Antioch.

2 Maccabees 4.10: 10 And when the king had given assent, and he had gotten possession of the office, he forthwith brought over them of his own race to the Greek fashion.

2 Maccabees 4.11: 11 And setting aside the royal ordinances of special favor to the Jews, granted by the means of John the father of Eupolemus, who went on the ambassage to the Romans for friendship and alliance, and seeking to overthrow the lawful modes of life, he brought in new customs forbidden by the law:

2 Maccabees 4.12: 12 for he eagerly established a Greek place of exercise under the citadel itself; and caused the noblest of the young men to wear the Greek cap.

2 Maccabees 4.13: 13 And thus there was an extreme of Greek fashions, and an advance of an alien religion, by reason of the exceeding profaneness of Jason, that ungodly man and no high priest;

2 Maccabees 4.14: 14 so that the priests had no more any zeal for the services of the altar: but despising the sanctuary, and neglecting the sacrifices, they hastened to 6 enjoy that which was unlawfully provided in the palaestra, after the summons 7 of the discus;

2 Maccabees 4.15: 15 making of no account the honors of their fathers, and thinking the glories of the Greeks best of all.

2 Maccabees 4.16: 16 By reason whereof sore calamity beset them; and the men whose ways of living they earnestly followed, and to whom they desired to be made like in all things, these they had to be their enemies and to punish them.

2 Maccabees 4.17: 17 For it is not a light thing to do impiously against the laws of God: but 8 these things the time following shall declare.

2 Maccabees 4.18: 18 Now when certain games that came every fifth year were kept at Tyre, and the king was present,

2 Maccabees 4.19: 19 the vile Jason sent sacred envoys, 9 as being Antiochians of Jerusalem, bearing three hundred drachmas of silver to the sacrifice of Hercules, which even the bearers thereof thought not right to use for any sacrifice, because it was not fit, but to 1 expend on another charge.

2 Maccabees 4.20: 20 And though in the purpose of the sender this money was for the sacrifice of Hercules, yet on account of 2 present circumstances it went to the equipment of the galleys.

2 Maccabees 4.21: 21 Now when Apollonius the son of Menestheus was sent into Egypt for the 3 enthronement of Ptolemy Philometor as king, Antiochus, learning that Ptolemy had shown himself ill affected toward the state, took thought for the security of his realm; wherefore, going by sea to Joppa, he travelled on to Jerusalem.

2 Maccabees 4.22: 22 And being magnificently received by Jason and the city, he was brought in with torches and shouting. This done, he afterward led his army down into Phoenicia.

2 Maccabees 4.23: 23 Now after a space of three years Jason sent Menelaus, the aforesaid Simon’s brother, to bear the money to the king, and to 4 make reports concerning some necessary matters.

2 Maccabees 4.24: 24 But he being commended to the king, and 5 having glorified 6 himself 7 by the display of his authority, got the high priesthood for himself, outbidding Jason by three hundred talents of silver.

2 Maccabees 4.25: 25 And having received the royal mandates he came to Jerusalem, bringing nothing worthy the high priesthood, but having the passion of a cruel tyrant, and the rage of a savage beast.

2 Maccabees 4.26: 26 And whereas Jason, who had supplanted his own brother, was supplanted by another and driven as a fugitive into the country of the Ammonites,

2 Maccabees 4.27: 27 Menelaus had possession of the office: but of the money that had been promised to the king nothing 8 was duly paid, and that though Sostratus the governor of the citadel demanded it

2 Maccabees 4.28: 28 (for to him appertained the gathering of the revenues); for which cause they were both called by the king to his presence.

2 Maccabees 4.29: 29 And Menelaus left his own brother Lysimachus for his 9 deputy in the high priesthood; and Sostratus left Crates, who was over the Cyprians.

2 Maccabees 4.30: 30 Now while such was the state of things, it came to pass that they of Tarsus and Mallus made insurrection, because they were to be given as a present to Antiochis, the king’s concubine.

2 Maccabees 4.31: 31 The king therefore came to Cilicia in all haste to settle matters, leaving for his 1 deputy Andronicus, a man of high rank.

2 Maccabees 4.32: 32 And Menelaus, supposing that he had gotten a favorable opportunity, presented to Andronicus certain vessels of gold belonging to the temple, which he had stolen: other vessels also he had already sold into Tyre and the cities round about.

2 Maccabees 4.33: 33 And when Onias had sure knowledge of this, he sharply reproved him, having withdrawn himself into a sanctuary at Daphne, that lies by Antioch.

2 Maccabees 4.34: 34 Wherefore Menelaus, taking Andronicus apart, prayed him 2 to kill Onias. And coming to Onias, and 3 being persuaded to use treachery, and being received as a friend, Andronicus gave him his right hand with oaths of fidelity, and, though he was suspected by him, so persuaded him to come forth of the sanctuary; and forthwith he 4 despatched him without regard of justice.

2 Maccabees 4.35: 35 For the which cause not only Jews, but many also of the other nations, had indignation and displeasure at the unjust murder of the man.

2 Maccabees 4.36: 36 And when the king was come back again from the places in Cilicia, the Jews that were 5 in the city pleaded before him against Andronicus (the Greeks also joining with them in hatred of the wickedness), urging that Onias had been wrongfully slain.

2 Maccabees 4.37: 37 Antiochus therefore was heartily sorry, and was moved to pity, and wept, because of the sober and well ordered life of him that was dead;

2 Maccabees 4.38: 38 and being inflamed with passion, forthwith he stripped off Andronicus’s purple robe, and 6 tore off his under garments, and when he had led him round through the whole city to that very place where he had committed impiety against Onias, there he put the murderer out of the way, the Lord rendering to him the punishment he had deserved.

2 Maccabees 4.39: 39 Now when many sacrileges had been committed in the city by Lysimachus with the consent of Menelaus, and when the bruit thereof was spread abroad outside, the people gathered themselves together against Lysimachus, after many vessels of gold had been already dispersed.

2 Maccabees 4.40: 40 And when the multitudes were rising against him, and were filled with anger, Lysimachus armed about three thousand men, and with unrighteous violence began the conflict, one Hauran, a man far gone in years and no less also in madness, leading the attack.

2 Maccabees 4.41: 41 But when they perceived the assault of Lysimachus, some caught up stones, others logs of wood, and some took handfuls of the ashes that lay near, and they flung them all pell-mell upon Lysimachus and those who were with him;

2 Maccabees 4.42: 42 by reason of which they wounded many of them, and some they struck to the ground, and all of them they forced to flee, but the author of the sacrilege himself they killed beside the treasury.

2 Maccabees 4.43: 43 But touching these matters there was an accusation laid against Menelaus.

2 Maccabees 4.44: 44 And when the king was come to Tyre, the three men that were sent by the senate pleaded the cause before him.

2 Maccabees 4.45: 45 But Menelaus, seeing himself now defeated, promised much money to Ptolemy the son of Dorymenes, that he might win over the king.

2 Maccabees 4.46: 46 Whereupon Ptolemy taking the king aside into a cloister, as it were to take the air, brought him to be of another mind:

2 Maccabees 4.47: 47 and him that was the cause of all the evil, Menelaus, he discharged from the accusations; but these hapless men, who, if they had pleaded even before Scythians, would have been discharged uncondemned, them he sentenced to death.

2 Maccabees 4.48: 48 Soon then did those who were spokesmen for the city and the families of Israel and the holy vessels suffer that unrighteous penalty.

2 Maccabees 4.49: 49 For which cause even certain Tyrians, moved with hatred of the wickedness, provided magnificently for their burial.

2 Maccabees 4.50: 50 But Menelaus through the covetous dealings of those who were in power remained still in his office, growing in wickedness, 7 as a great conspirator against his fellow-citizens.

2 Maccabees 6.1: 6And not long after this the king sent forth 1 an old man of Athens to compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers, and not to live after the laws of God;

2 Maccabees 6.2: 2 and also to pollute the sanctuary in Jerusalem, and to call it by the name of 2 Jupiter Olympius, and to call the sanctuary in Gerizim by the name of 3 Jupiter the Protector of strangers, even as they 4 were that lived in the place.

2 Maccabees 6.3: 3 But sore and utterly grievous was the visitation of this evil.

2 Maccabees 6.4: 4 For the temple was filled with riot and revellings by the heathen, who 5 dallied with prostitutes, and had to do with women within the sacred precincts, and moreover brought inside things that were not befitting;

2 Maccabees 6.5: 5 and 6 the place of sacrifice was filled with those abominable things which had been prohibited by the laws.

2 Maccabees 6.6: 6 And a man could neither keep the Sabbath, nor observe the feasts of the fathers, nor so much as confess himself to be a Jew.

2 Maccabees 6.7: 7 And on the day of the king’s birth every month they were led along with bitter constraint to eat of the sacrifices; and when the 7 feast of Bacchus came, they were compelled to go in procession in honor of 8 Bacchus, wearing wreaths of ivy.

2 Maccabees 6.8: 8 A decree went out to the neighboring Greek cities, by the suggestion of Ptolemy, that they should observe the same conduct against the Jews, and should make them eat of the sacrifices;

2 Maccabees 6.9: 9 and that they should kill such as didn’t choose to go over to the Greek rites. So the present misery was for all to see:

2 Maccabees 6.10: 10 for two women were brought up for having circumcised their children; and these, when they had led them publicly round about the city, with the babes hung from their breasts, they cast down headlong from the wall.

2 Maccabees 6.11: 11 And others, that had run together into the caves near by to keep the seventh day secretly, being betrayed to Philip were all burned together, because they scrupled to defend themselves, from regard to the honor of that most solemn day.

2 Maccabees 6.12: 12 I beseech therefore those that read this book, that they be not discouraged because of the calamities, but account that these punishments were not for the destruction, but for the chastening of our race.

2 Maccabees 6.13: 13 For indeed that those who act impiously be not let alone any long time, but immediately meet with retribution, is a sign of great beneficence.

2 Maccabees 6.14: 14 For in the case of the other nations the Sovereign Lord does with patience forbear, until that he punish them when they have attained to the full measure of their sins; but not so judged he as touching us,

2 Maccabees 6.15: 15 that he may not take vengeance on us afterward, 9 when we be come to the 1 height of our sins.

2 Maccabees 6.16: 16 Wherefore he never withdraws his mercy from us; but though he chastens with calamity, yet does he not forsake his own people.

2 Maccabees 6.17: 17 However let this that we have spoken suffice to put you in remembrance; but after these few words we must come to the narrative.

2 Maccabees 6.18: 18 Eleazar, one of the principal scribes, a man already well stricken in years, and of a noble countenance, was compelled to open his mouth to eat swine’s flesh.

2 Maccabees 6.19: 19 But he, welcoming death with renown rather than life with pollution, advanced of his own accord to the instrument of torture, but first spat forth the flesh,

2 Maccabees 6.20: 20 coming forward as men ought to come that are resolute to repel such things as not even for the natural love of life is it lawful to taste.

2 Maccabees 6.21: 21 But those who had the charge of that forbidden sacrificial feast took the man aside, for the acquaintance which of old times they had with him, and privately implored him to bring flesh of his own providing, such as was befitting for him to use, and to make as if he did eat of the flesh from the sacrifice, as had been commanded by the king;

2 Maccabees 6.22: 22 that by so doing he might be delivered from death, and for his ancient friendship with them might be treated kindly.

2 Maccabees 6.23: 23 But he, having formed a high resolve, and one that became his years, and the dignity of old age, and the gray hairs 2 which he had reached with honor, and his excellent 3 education from a child, 4 or rather that became the holy 5 laws of God’s ordaining, declared his mind accordingly, bidding them quickly send him to Hades.

2 Maccabees 6.24: 24 For it becomes not our years to dissemble, said he, that through this many of the young should suppose that Eleazar, the man of fourscore years and ten, had gone over to an alien religion;

2 Maccabees 6.25: 25 and so they, by reason of my dissimulation, and for the sake of this brief and momentary life, should be led astray because of me, 6 and thus I get to myself a pollution and a stain of my old age.

2 Maccabees 6.26: 26 For even if for the present time I shall remove from me the punishment of men, yet shall I not escape the hands of the Almighty, either living or dead.

2 Maccabees 6.27: 27 Wherefore, by manfully parting with my life now, I will show myself worthy of my old age,

2 Maccabees 6.28: 28 and 7 leave behind a noble ensample to the young to die willingly and nobly a glorious death for the reverend and holy laws. And when he had said these words, he went immediately to the instrument of torture.

2 Maccabees 6.29: 29 8 And when they changed the good they will bare him a little before into ill will, because 9 these words of his were, as they thought, sheer madness,

2 Maccabees 6.30: 30 and when he was at the point to die with the 1 stripes, he groaned aloud and said, To the Lord, that has the holy knowledge, it is manifest that, whereas I might have been delivered from death, I endure sore pains in my body by being scourged; but in soul I gladly suffer these things for my fear of him.

2 Maccabees 6.31: 31 So this man also died after this manner, leaving his death for an ensample of nobleness and a memorial of virtue, not only to the young but also to the great body of his nation.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.1: 8a And after these things, when Artaxerxes the king of the Persians reigned, came Ezdras the son of Azaraias, the son of Zechrias, the son of Helkias, the son of Salem,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.2: 2 the son of Sadduk, the son of Ahitob, the son of Amarias, the son of Ozias, 1 the son of Memeroth, the son of Zaraias, the son of Savias, the son of Boccas, the son of Abisne, the son of Phinees, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the chief priest.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.3: 3 This Esdras went up from Babylon, as being a ready scribe in the law of Moses, that was given by the God of Israel.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.4: 4 And the king did him honor: for he found grace in hid sight in all his requests.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.5: 5 There went up with him also certain of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and Levites, and holy singers, and gatekeepers, and 2 temple servants, to Jerusalem,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.6: 6 in the seventh year of the reign of Artaxerxes, in the fifth month, this was the king’s seventh year; for they went from Babylon on the new moon of the first month, and came to Jerusalem, according to the prosperous journey which the Lord gave them 3 for his sake.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.7: 7 For Esdras had very great skill, so that he omitted nothing of the law and commandments of the Lord, but taught all Israel the ordinances and judgments.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.8: 8 Now the commission, which was written from Artaxerxes the king, came to Esdras the priest and reader of the law of the Lord, whereof this that follows is a copy;

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.9: 9 King Artaxerxes to Esdras the priest and reader of the law of the Lord, greeting:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.10: 10 Having determined to deal graciously, I have given order, that such of the nation of the Jews, and of the priests and Levites, 4 and of those within our realm, as are willing and desirous, should go with you to Jerusalem.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.11: 11 As many therefore as have a mind thereto, let them depart with you, as it has seemed good both to me and my seven friends the counselors;

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.12: 12 that they may look to the affairs of Judea and Jerusalem, agreeably to that which is in the law of the Lord,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.13: 13 and carry the gifts to the Lord of Israel to Jerusalem, which I and my friends have vowed; and that all the gold and silver that can be found in the country of Babylonia for the Lord in Jerusalem,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.14: 14 with that also which is given of the people for the temple of the Lord their God that is at Jerusalem, be collected: even the gold and silver for bullocks, rams, and lambs, and things thereto appertaining;

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.15: 15 to the end that they may offer sacrifices to the Lord upon the altar of the Lord their God, which is in Jerusalem.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.16: 16 And whatever you and your kindred are minded to do with gold and silver, that perform, according to the will of your God.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.17: 17 And the holy vessels of the Lord, which are given you for the use of the temple of your God, which is in Jerusalem:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.18: 18 and whatever thing else you shall remember for the use of the temple of your God, you shall give it out of the king’s treasury.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.19: 19 And I king Artaxerxes have also commanded the keepers of the treasures in Syria and Phoenicia, that whatever Esdras the priest and reader of the law of the Most High God shall send for, they should give it him with all diligence,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.20: 20 to the sum of a hundred talents of silver, likewise also of wheat even to a hundred 5 measures, and a hundred firkins6 of wine, and 7 salt in abundance.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.21: 21 Let all things be performed after the law of God diligently to the most high God, that wrath come not upon the kingdom of the king and his sons.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.22: 22 I command you also, that no tax, nor any other imposition, be laid upon any of the priests, or Levites, or holy singers, or gatekeepers, or temple servants, or any that have employment in this temple, and that no man have authority to impose anything upon them.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.23: 23 And you, Esdras, according to the wisdom of God ordain judges and justices, that they may judge in all Syria and Phoenicia all those that know the law of your God; and those that know it not you shall teach.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.24: 24 And whoever shall transgress the law of your God, and of the king, shall be punished diligently, whether it be by death, or other punishment, by penalty of money, or by 8 imprisonment.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.25: 25 Then said Esdras the scribe, Blessed be the only Lord, the God of my fathers, who has put these things into the heart of the king, to glorify his house that is in Jerusalem:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.26: 26 and has honored me in the sight of the king, and his counselors, and all his friends and nobles.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.27: 27 Therefore was I encouraged by the help of the Lord my God, and gathered together out of Israel men to go up with me.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.28: 28 And these are the chief according to their families and the several divisions thereof, that went up with me from Babylon in the reign of king Artaxerxes:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.29: 29 of the sons of Phinees, Gerson: of the sons of Ithamar, Gamael: of the sons of David, 9 Attus 1 the son of Sechenias:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.30: 30 of the sons of Phoros, Zacharais; and with him were counted a hundred and fifty men:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.31: 31 of the sons of Phaath Moab, Eliaonias the son of 2 Zaraias, and with him two hundred men:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.32: 32 3 of the sons of Zathoes, Sechenias the son of Jezelus, and with him 4 three hundred men: of the sons ofAdin, Obeth the son of Jonathan, and with him two hundred and fifty men:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.33: 33 of the sons of Elam, Jesias son of Athaliah. Gotholias, and with him seventy men:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.34: 34 of the sons of Saphatias, Zebadiah. Zaraias son of Michael, and with him threescore and ten men:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.35: 35 of the sons of Joab, Obadiah. Abadias son of Jehiel. Jezelus, and with him two hundred and twelve men:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.36: 36 5 of the sons of Banias, Salimoth son of Josaphias, and with him a hundred and threescore men:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.37: 37 of the sons of Babi, Zacharias son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight men:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.38: 38 of the sons of Azgad. Astath, Joannes son of Hakkatan Akatan, and with him a hundred and ten men:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.39: 39 of the sons of Adonikam, the last, and these are the names of them, Eliphalat, Jeuel, and Shemaiah. Samaias, and with them seventy men:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.40: 40 of the sons of Bigvai. Bago, Uthi the son of Istalcurus, and with him seventy men.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.41: 41 And I gathered them together to the river called Theras; and there we pitched our tents three days, and I surveyed them.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.42: 42 But when I had found there none of the priests and Levites,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.44: 44 and Elnathan, and Samaias, and Jarib Joribus, Nathan, Ennatan, Zacharias, and Mosollamus, principal men and men of understanding.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.45: 45 And I bade those who they should go to Iddo Loddeus the captain, who was in the place of Casiphia, the treasury:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.46: 46 and commanded them that they should speak to Loddeus, and to his kindred, and to the treasurers in that place, to send us such men as might execute the priests’ office in the house of our Lord.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.47: 47 And by the mighty hand of our Lord they brought to us 6 men of understanding of the sons of 7 Mooli the son of Levi, the son of Israel, 8 Asebebias, and his sons, and his kindred, who were eighteen,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.48: 48 and 9 Asebias, and Annuus, and Osaias his brother, of the sons of Chanuneus, and their sons were twenty men;

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.49: 49 and of the temple-servants whom David and the principal men had appointed for the servants of the Levites, two hundred and twenty temple-servants, the catalogue of all their names was showed.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.50: 50 And there I vowed a fast for the young men before our Lord, to desire of him a prosperous journey both for us and for our children and cattle that were with us:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.51: 51 for I was ashamed to ask of the king footmen, and horsemen, and conduct for protection against our adversaries.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.52: 52 For we had said to the king, that the power of our Lord would be with those who seek him, to support them in all ways.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.53: 53 And again we implored our lord as touching these things, and found him favorable to us.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.54: 54 Then I separated twelve men of the chiefs of the priests, 1 Eserebias, and Assamias, and ten men of their kindred with them:

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.55: 55 and I weighed them the silver, and the gold, and the holy vessels of the house of our Lord, which the king, and his counselors, and the nobles, and all Israel, had given.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.56: 56 And when I had weighed it, I delivered to them six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels of a hundred talents, and a hundred talents of gold,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.57: 57 and twenty golden vessels, and twelve vessels of brass, even of fine brass, glittering like gold.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.58: 58 And I said to them, Both you° are holy to the Lord, 2 and the vessels are holy, and the gold and the silver are a vow to the Lord, the Lord of our fathers.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.59: 59 Watch you°, and keep them till you° deliver them to the chiefs of the priests and Levites, and to the principal men of the families of Israel, in Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of our Lord.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.60: 60 So the priests and the Levites, who received the silver and the gold and the vessels which were in Jerusalem, brought them into the temple of the Lord.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.61: 61 And from the river Theras we departed the twelfth day of the first month, until we came to Jerusalem, by the mighty hand of our Lord which was upon us: and the Lord delivered us from assault by the way, from every enemy, and so we came to Jerusalem.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.62: 62 And when we had been there three days, the silver and gold was weighed and delivered in the house of our Lord on the fourth day to 3 Marmoth the priest the son of 4 Urias.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.63: 63 And with him was Eleazar the son of Phinees, and with them were Josabdus the son of Jesus and 5 Moeth the son of Sabannus, the Levites: all was delivered them by number and weight.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.64: 64 And all the weight of them was written up the same hour.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.65: 65 Moreover those who were come out of the captivity offered sacrifices to the Lord, the God of Israel, even twelve bullocks for all Israel, fourscore and sixteen rams,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.66: 66 threescore and twelve lambs, goats for a peace offering, twelve; all of them a sacrifice to the Lord.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.67: 67 And they delivered the king’s commandments to the king’s stewards, and to the governors of Coelesyria and Phoenicia; and they honored the people and the temple of the Lord.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.68: 68 Now when these things were done, the principal men came to me, and said,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.69: 69 The nation of Israel, and the princes, and the priests and the Levites, have not put away from them the strange people of the land, 6 nor the uncleannesses of the Gentiles, to wit, of the Canaanites, Hittites, Pherezites, Jebusites, and the Moabites, Egyptians, and Edomites.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.70: 70 For both they and their sons have married with their daughters, and the holy seed is mixed with the strange people of the land; and from the beginning of this matter the rulers and the nobles have been partakers of this iniquity.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.71: 71 And as soon as I had heard these things, I tore my clothes, and my holy garment, and plucked the hair from off my head and beard, and sat me down sad and full of heaviness.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.72: 72 So all those who were moved at the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, assembled to me, while I mourned for the iniquity: but I sat still full of heaviness until the evening sacrifice.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.73: 73 Then rising up from the fast with my clothes and my holy garment tore, and bowing my knees, and stretching forth my hands to the Lord,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.74: 74 I said, O Lord, I am ashamed and confounded before your face;

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.75: 75 for our sins are multiplied above our heads, and our errors have reached up to heaven,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.76: 76 ever since the time of our fathers; and we are in great sin, even to this day.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.77: 77 And for our sins and our fathers’ we with our kindred and our kings and our priests were given up to the kings of the earth, to the sword, and to captivity, and for a prey with shame, to this day.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.78: 78 And now in some measure has mercy been showed to us from you, O Lord, that there should be left us a root and a name in the place of your sanctuary;

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.79: 79 and to discover to us a light in the house of the Lord our God, and to give us food in the time of our servitude.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.80: 80 Yes, when we were in bondage, we were not forsaken of our Lord; but he made us gracious before the kings of Persia, so that they gave us food,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.81: 81 and glorified the temple of our Lord, and raised up the desolate Sion, to give us a sure dwelling in Jewry and Jerusalem.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.82: 82 And now, O Lord, what shall we say, having these things? For we have transgressed your commandments, which you gave by the hand of your servants the prophets, saying,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.83: 83 That the land, which you° enter into to possess as a heritage, is a land polluted with the pollutions of the strangers of the land, and they have filled it with their uncleanness.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.84: 84 Therefore now shall you° not join your daughters to their sons, neither shall you° take their daughters to your sons.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.85: 85 Neither shall you° seek to have peace with them forever, that you° may be strong, and eat the good things of the land, and that you° may leave it for an inheritance to your children for evermore.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.86: 86 And all that is befallen is done to us for our wicked works and great sins: for you, O Lord, did make our sins light,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.87: 87 and did give to us such a root: but we have turned back again to transgress your law, in mingling ourselves with the uncleanness of the heathen of the land.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.88: 88 7 You was not angry with us to destroy us, till you had left us neither root, seed, nor name.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.89: 89 O Lord of Israel, you are true: for we are left a root this day.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.90: 90 Behold, now are we before you in our iniquities, for we can’t stand any longer before you by reason of these things.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.91: 91 b And as Esdras in his prayer made his confession, weeping, and lying flat upon the ground before the temple, there gathered to him from Jerusalem a very great throng of men and women and children: for there was great weeping among the multitude.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.92: 92 Then Jechonias the son of Jeelus, one of the sons of Israel, called out, and said, O Esdras, we have sinned against the Lord God, we have married strange women of the heathen of the land, and now is all Israel 8 aloft.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.93: 93 Let’s make an oath to the Lord herein, that we will put away all our wives, which we have taken of the strangers, with their children,

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.94: 94 like as seems good to you, and to as many as do obey the Law of the Lord.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.95: 95 Arise, and put in execution: for to you does this matter appertain, and we will be with you to do valiantly.

1 Esdras (Greek) 8.96: 96 So Esdras arose, and took an oath of the chief of the priests and Levites of all Israel to do after these things; and so they sware.

The Prayer of Manasses is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox Churches. It is included in an appendix to the Latin Vulgate Bible.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.1: 3In the thirties year after the ruin of the city, I Salathiel (also called Esdras) was in Babylon, and lay troubled upon my bed, and my thoughts came up over my heart:

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.2: 2 for I saw the desolation of Sion, and the wealth of those who lived at Babylon.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.3: 3 And my spirit was sore moved, so that I began to speak words full of fear to the Most High, and said,

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.4: 4 O Lord that bear rule, did you not not speak at the beginning, when you did fashion the earth, and that yourself alone, and command the 1 dust.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.5: 5 and it 2 gave you Adam, a body without a soul? yet it was the workmanship of your hands, and you did breathe into him the breath of life, and he was made living before you.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.6: 6 And you led him into paradise, which your right hand did plant, before ever the earth came forward.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.7: 7 And to him you gave your one commandment: which he transgressed, and immediately you appointed death for him and in his generations; and there were born of him nations and tribes, peoples and kindred, out of number.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.8: 8 And every nation walked after their own will, and did ungodly things before you, and despised your commandments, and you didn’t forbid them.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.9: 9 Nevertheless again in process of time you brought the flood upon those that lived in the world, and destroyed them.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.10: 10 And it came to pass that the same hap befell them; like as death was to Adam, so was the flood to these.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.11: 11 Nevertheless one of them you left, Noah with his household, even all the righteous men that came of him.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.12: 12 And it came to pass, that when those who lived upon the earth began to multiply, they multiplied also children, and peoples, and many nations, and began again to be more ungodly than the first.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.13: 13 And it came to pass, when they did wickedly before you, you did choose you one from among them, whose name was Abraham;

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.14: 14 and him you loved, and to him only you showed the end of the times secretly by night:

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.15: 15 and made an everlasting covenant with him, promising him that you would never forsake his seed.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.16: 16 And to him you gave Isaac, and to Isaac you gave Jacob and Esau. And you did set apart Jacob for yourself, but did put by Esau: and Jacob became a great multitude.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.17: 17 And it came to pass, that when you led his seed out of Egypt, you brought them up to the mount Sinai.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.18: 18 You bowed the heavens also, and did 3 shake the earth, and movedst the whole world, and made the depths to tremble, and troubled the course of that age.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.19: 19 And your glory went through four gates, of fire, and of earthquake, and of wind, and of cold; that you might give the law to the seed of Jacob, and the commandment to the generation of Israel.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.20: 20 And yet took you not away from them their 4 wicked heart, that your law might bring forth fruit in them.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.21: 21 For the first Adam bearing a 5 wicked heart transgressed, and was overcome; and not he only, but all they also that are born of him.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.22: 22 Thus disease was made permanent; and the law was in the heart of the people along with the 6 wickedness of the root; so the good departed away, and that which was 7 wicked abode still.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.23: 23 So the times passed away, and the years were brought to an end: then did you raise you up a servant, called David,

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.24: 24 whom you commanded to build a city to your name, and to offer oblations to you therein of your own.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.25: 25 When this was done many years, then those who inhabited the city did evil,

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.26: 26 in all things doing even as Adam and all his generations had done: for they also bare a 8 wicked heart:

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.27: 27 and so you gave your city over into the hands of your enemies.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.28: 28 And I said then in my heart, are their deeds any better that inhabit Babylon? and has she therefore dominion over Sion?

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.29: 29 For it came to pass when I came here, that I saw also impieties without number, and my soul saw many evil-doers in this thirties year, so that my heart failed me.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.30: 30 For I have seen how you suffer them sinning, and have spared the ungodly doers, and have destroyed your people, and have preserved your enemies; and you have not signified

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.31: 31 to any 9 how your way may be comprehended. Are the deeds of Babylon better than those of Sion?

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.32: 32 Or is there any other nation that knows you beside Israel? or what tribes have so believed your covenants as these tribes of Jacob?

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.33: 33 And yet their reward appears not, and their labor has no fruit: for I have gone here and there through the nations, and I see that they abound in wealth, and think not upon your commandments.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.34: 34 Weigh you therefore our iniquities now in the balance, and theirs also that dwell in the world; and so shall it be found which way the scale inclines.

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.35: 35 Or when was it that they which dwell upon the earth have not sinned in your sight? or what nation has so kept your commandments?

2 Esdras (Latin) 3.36: 36 You shall find that men who may be reckoned by name have kept your precepts; but nations you shall not find.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.1: 5Nevertheless as concerning the tokens, behold, the days shall come, that they which dwell upon earth shall be taken 1 with great amazement, and the way of truth shall be hidden, and the land shall be barren of faith.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.2: 2 But iniquity shall be increased above that which now you see, or that you have heard long ago.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.3: 3 And the land, that you see now to have rule, shall be waste and 2 untrodden, and men shall see it desolate.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.4: 4 But if the Most High grant you to live, you shall see that which is after the third kingdom to be troubled; and the sun shall suddenly shine forth in the night, and the moon in the day:

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.5: 5 and blood shall drop out of wood, and the stone shall give his voice, and the peoples shall be troubled; and 3 their goings shall be changed:

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.6: 6 and he shall rule, whom those who dwell upon the earth look not for, and the fowls shall take their flight away together:

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.7: 7 and the Sodomite sea shall cast out fish, and make a noise in the night, which many have not known: but all shall hear the voice thereof.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.8: 8 There shall be chaos also in many places, and the fire shall be often sent out, and the wild beasts shall change their places, and women shall bring forth monsters:

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.9: 9 and salt waters shall be found in the sweet, and all friends shall destroy one another; then shall wit hide itself, and understanding withdraw itself into its chamber;

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.10: 10 and it shall be sought of many, and shall not be found: and unrighteousness and incontinency shall be multiplied upon earth.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.11: 11 One land also shall ask another, and say, Is righteousness, is a man that does righteousness, gone through you? And it shall say, No.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.12: 12 And it shall come to pass at that time that men shall hope, but shall not obtain: they shall labor, but their ways shall not prosper.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.13: 13 To show you such tokens I have leave; and if you will pray again, and weep as now, and fast seven days, you shall hear yet greater things than these.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.14: 14 Then I awaked, and an extreme trembling went through my body, and my mind was troubled, so that it fainted.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.15: 15 So the angel that was come to talk with me held me, comforted me, and set me up upon my feet.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.16: 16 And in the second night it came to pass, that 4 Phaltiel the captain of the people came to me, saying, Where have you been? and why is your countenance sad?

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.17: 17 or know you not that Israel is committed to you in the land of their captivity?

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.18: 18 Up then, and eat some bread, and forsake us not, as the shepherd that leaves in the hands of cruel wolves.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.19: 19 Then said I to him, Go your ways from me, and come not near me for seven days, and then shall you come to me. And he heard what I said, and went from me.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.20: 20 And so I fasted seven days, mourning and weeping, like as Uriel the angel commanded me.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.21: 21 And after seven days, so it was, that the thoughts of my heart were very grievous to me again,

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.22: 22 and my soul recovered the spirit of understanding, and I began to speak words before the Most High again,

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.23: 23 and said, O Lord that bear rule, of all the woods of the earth, and of all the trees thereof, you have chosen you one vine:

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.24: 24 and of all the lands of the world you have chosen you one 5 country: and of all the flowers of the world you have chosen you one lily:

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.25: 25 and of all the depths of the sea you have filled you one river: and of all built cities you have hallowed Sion to yourself:

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.26: 26 and of all the fowls that are created you have named you one dove: and of all the cattle that are made you have provided you one sheep:

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.27: 27 and among all the multitudes of peoples you have gotten you one people: and to this people, whom you loved, you gave a law that is approved of all.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.28: 28 And now, O Lord, why have you given this one people over to many, and 6 have dishonored the one root above others, and have scattered your only one among many?

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.29: 29 And they which did gainsay your promises have trodden them down that believed your covenants.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.30: 30 If you do so much hate your people, they should be punished with your own hands.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.31: 31 Now when I had spoken these words, the angel that came to me the night before was sent to me,

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.32: 32 and said to me, Hear me, and I will instruct you; listen to me, and I shall tell you more.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.33: 33 And I said, Speak on, my Lord. Then said he to me, You are sore troubled in mind for Israel’s sake: love you that people better than he that made them?

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.34: 34 And I said, No, Lord: but of very grief have I spoken: for my reins torment me every hour, while I labor to comprehend the way of the Most High, and to seek out part of his judgement.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.35: 35 And he said to me, You can not. And I said, Wherefore, Lord, or whereunto was I born? or why was not my mother’s womb then my grave, that I might not have seen the travail of Jacob, and the wearisome toil of the stock of Israel?

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.36: 36 And he said to me, Number me those who are not yet come, gather me together the drops that are scattered abroad, make me the flowers green again that are withered,

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.37: 37 open me the chambers that are closed, and bring me forth the winds that in them are shut up, or show me the image of a voice: and then I will declare to you the travail that you asked to see.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.38: 38 And I said, O Lord that bear rule, who may know these things, but he that has not his dwelling with men?

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.39: 39 As for me, I am unwise: how may I then speak of these things whereof you asked me?

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.40: 40 Then said he to me, Just as you can do none of these things that I have spoken of, even so can you not find out my judgement, or the end of the love that I have promised to my people.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.41: 41 And I said, But, behold, O Lord, you have made the promise to those who be in the end: and what shall they do that have been before us, or we that be now, or those who shall come after us?

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.42: 42 And he said to me, I will liken my judgement to a ring: like as there is no slackness of those who are last, even so there is no swiftness of those who be first.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.43: 43 So I answered and said, Couldest you not make them to be at once that have been made, and that be now, and that are for to come; that you might show your judgment the sooner?

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.44: 44 Then answered he me, and said, The creature may not haste above the creator; neither may the world hold them at once that shall be created therein.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.45: 45 And I said, How have you said to your servant, that 7 you will surely make alive at once the creature that you have created? 8 If therefore they shall be alive at once, and the creature shall sustain them: even so it might now also support them to be present at once.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.46: 46 And he said to me, Ask the womb of a woman, and say to her, If you bring forth ten children, why do you it at several times? pray her therefore to bring forth ten children at once.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.47: 47 And I said, she can’t: but must do it by distance of time.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.48: 48 Then said he to me, Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown therein in their several times.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.49: 49 For like as a young child may not bring forth, neither she that is grown old bring forth any more, even so have I disposed the world which I created.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.50: 50 And I asked, and said, Seeing you have now showed me the way, I will speak before you: Is our mother, of whom you have told me, still young? or does she now draw near to age?

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.51: 51 He answered me, and said, Ask a woman that bears children, and she shall tell you.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.52: 52 Say to her, wherefore are not they whom you have now brought forth like those that were before, but less of stature?

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.53: 53 And she also shall answer you, They that be born in the strength of youth are of one fashion, and those who are born in the time of age, when the womb fails, are otherwise.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.54: 54 Consider therefore you also, how that you° are less of stature than those that were before you.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.55: 55 And so are those who come after you less than you°, as born of the creature which now begins to be old, and is past the strength of youth.

2 Esdras (Latin) 5.56: 56 Then said I, Lord, I beseech you, if I have found favor in your sight, show your servant by whom you visit your creature.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.1: 9And he answered me, and said, Measure you diligently within yourself: and when you see that a certain part of the signs are past, which have been told you beforehand,

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.2: 2 then shall you understand, that it is the very time, wherein the Most High will visit the world which was made by him.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.3: 3 And when there shall be seen in the world earthquakes, disquietude of peoples, plans of nations, wavering of leaders, disquietude of princes,

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.4: 4 then shall you understand, that the Most High spoke of these things from the days that were aforetime from the beginning.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.5: 5 For like as of all that is made in the world, the beginning 1 is evident, and the end manifest;

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.6: 6 so also are the times of the Most High: the beginnings are manifest in wonders and mighty works, and the end in effects and signs.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.7: 7 And everyone that shall be saved, and shall be able to escape by his works, or by faith, whereby he has believed,

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.8: 8 shall be preserved from the said perils, and shall see my salvation in my land, and within my borders, which I have sanctified for me from the beginning.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.9: 9 Then shall they be amazed, which now have abused my ways: and those who have cast them away despitefully shall dwell in torments.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.10: 10 For as many as in their life have received benefits, and yet have not known me;

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.11: 11 and as many as have scorned my law, while they had yet liberty, and, when as yet place of repentance was open to them, understood not, but despised 2 it,

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.13: 13 And therefore be you no longer curious how the ungodly shall be punished; but inquire how the righteous shall be saved, 4 they whose the world is, and for whom the world was created.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.15: 15 I have said before, and now do speak, and will speak it also hereafter, that there be more of them which perish, than of the which will be saved:

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.17: 17 And he answered me, saying, Just as the field is, so also the seed; and as the flowers be, such are the colors also; and such as the work is, such also is the 5 judgement on it; and as is the husbandman, so is his threshing floor also. For there was a time in the world,

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.18: 18 even then when I was preparing for those who now live, before the world was made for them to dwell in; and then no man spoke against me,

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.19: 19 for 6 there was not any: but now they which are created in this world that is prepared, both 7 with a table that fails not, and a law which is unsearchable, are corrupted in their manners.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.20: 20 So I considered my world, and, behold, it was destroyed, and my earth, and, behold, it was in peril, because of the plans that had come into it.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.21: 21 And I saw, and spared them, but not greatly, and saved me a grape out of a cluster, and a plant out of 8 a great forest.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.22: 22 Let the multitude perish then, which was born in vain; and let my grape be saved, and my plant; for with great labor have I made them perfect.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.23: 23 Nevertheless if you will cease yet seven days more, (however you shall not fast in them,

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.24: 24 but shall go into a field of flowers, where no house is built, and eat only of the flowers of the field; and you shall taste no flesh, and shall drink no wine, but shall eat flowers only;)

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.25: 25 and pray to the Most High continually, then I will come and talk with you.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.26: 26 So I went my way, like as he commanded me, into the field which is called 9 Ardat; and there I sat among the flowers, and did eat of the herbs of the field, and its meat satisfied me.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.27: 27 And it came to pass after seven days that I lay upon the grass, and my heart was vexed again, like as before:

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.28: 28 and my mouth was opened, and I began to speak before the Lord Most High, and said,

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.29: 29 O Lord, you did show yourself among us, to our fathers in the wilderness, when they went forth out of Egypt, and when they came into the wilderness, where no man treads and that bears no fruit;

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.30: 30 and you did say, Hear me, you Israel; and mark my words, O seed of Jacob.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.31: 31 For, behold, I sow my law in you, and it shall bring forth fruit in you, and you° shall be glorified in it forever.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.32: 32 But our fathers, which received the law, kept it not, and observed not the statutes: and the fruit of the law didn’t perish, neither could it, for it was your;

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.33: 33 yet those who received it perished, because they kept not the thing that was sown in them.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.34: 34 And, behold, it is a custom, that when the ground has received seed, or the sea a ship, or any vessel meat or drink, and when it comes to pass that that which is sown, or that which is launched,

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.35: 35 or the things which have been received, should come to an end, these come to an end, but the receptacles remain: yet with us it has not happened so.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.36: 36 For we that have received the law shall perish by sin, and our heart also which received it.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.37: 37 Notwithstanding the law perishes not, but remains in its honor.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.38: 38 And when I spoke these things in my heart, I looked about me with my eyes, and upon the right side I saw a woman, and, behold, she mourned and wept with a loud voice, and was much grieved in mind, and her clothes were tore, and she had ashes upon her head.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.39: 39 Then let I my thoughts go wherein I was occupied, and turned me to her,

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.40: 40 and said to her, Why do you weep? and why are you grieved in your mind?

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.41: 41 And she said to me, Let me alone, my Lord, that I may bewail myself, and add to my sorrow, for I am sore vexed in my mind, and brought very low.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.43: 43 She said to me, I your servant was barren, and had no child, though I had a husband thirty years.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.44: 44 And every hour and every day these thirty years did I make my prayer to the Most High day and night.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.45: 45 And it came to pass after thirty years that God heard me your handmaid, and looked upon my low estate, and considered my trouble, and gave me a son: and I rejoiced in him greatly, I and my husband, and all my 1 neighbors: and we gave great honor to the Mighty.

2 Esdras (Latin) 9.47: 47 So when he grew up, and I came to take him a wife, I made him a feast day.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.1: 10And it so came to pass, that when my son was entered into his wedding chamber, he fell down, and died.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.2: 2 Then we all overthrew the lights, and all my 1 neighbors rose up to comfort me: and I remained quiet to the second day at night.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.3: 3 And it came to pass, when they had all left off to comfort me, to the end I might be quiet, then rose I up by night, and fled, and came here into this field, as you see.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.4: 4 And I do now purpose not to return into the city, but here to stay, and neither to eat nor drink, but continually to mourn and to fast until I die.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.5: 5 Then left I the meditations wherein I was, and answered her in anger, and said,

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.6: 6 You foolish woman above all other, see you not our mourning, and what has happened to us?

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.7: 7 how that Sion the mother of us all is full of sorrow, and much humbled.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.8: 8 2 It is right now to mourn very sore, seeing we all mourn, and to be sorrowful, seeing we are all in sorrow, but you sorrowest for one son.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.9: 9 For ask the earth, and she shall tell you, that it is she which ought to mourn for so many that grow upon her.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.10: 10 For out of her all had their beginnings, and others shall come; and, behold, they walk almost all into destruction, and the multitude of them is utterly rooted out.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.11: 11 Who then should make more mourning, 3 she, that has lost so great a multitude, or you, which are grieved but for one?

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.12: 12 but if you say to me, My lamentation is not like the earth’s, for I have lost the fruit of my womb, which I brought forth with pains, and bare with sorrows:

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.13: 13 but it is with the earth after the manner of the earth; the multitude present in it is gone, as it came:

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.14: 14 then say I to you, Just as you have brought forth with sorrow; even so the earth also has given her fruit, namely, man, ever since the beginning to him that made her.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.15: 15 Now therefore keep your sorrow to yourself, and bear with a good courage the adversities which have befallen you.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.16: 16 For if you shall acknowledge the decree of God to be just, you shall both receive your son in time, and shall be praised among women.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.18: 18 And she said to me, “I won’t do that. I will not go into the city, but I will die here.”

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.20: 20 Do not so, but suffer yourself to be prevailed on by reason of the adversities of Sion; and be comforted by reason of the sorrow of Jerusalem.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.21: 21 For you see that our sanctuary is laid waste, our altar broken down, our temple destroyed;

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.22: 22 our lute is brought low, our song is put to silence, our rejoicing is at an end; the light of our candlestick is put out, the ark of our covenant is plundered, our holy things are defiled, and the name that is called upon us is profaned; our freemen are despitefully treated, our priests are burned, our Levites are gone into captivity, our virgins are defiled, and our wives ravished; our righteous men carried away, our little ones betrayed, our young men are brought into bondage, and our strong men are become weak;

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.23: 23 and, what is more than all, the seal of Sion—for she has now lost the seal of her honor, and is delivered into the hands of those who hate us.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.24: 24 You therefore shake off your great heaviness, and put away from you the multitude of sorrows, that the Mighty may be merciful to you again, and the Most High may give you rest, even ease from your travails.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.25: 25 And it came to pass, while I was talking with her, behold, her face upon a sudden shined exceedingly, and her countenance glistered like lightning, so that I was sore afraid 4 of her, and mused what this might be;

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.26: 26 and, behold, suddenly she made a great cry very fearful; so that the earth shook at the noise.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.27: 27 And I looked, and, behold, the woman appeared to me no more, but there was a city built, and a place showed itself from large foundations: then was I afraid, and cried with a loud voice, and said,

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.28: 28 Where is Uriel the angel, who came to me at the first? for he has caused me to fall into this great trance, and my end is turned into corruption, and my prayer to rebuke.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.29: 29 And as I was speaking these words, behold, the angel who had come to me at the first came to me, and he looked upon me:

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.30: 30 and, behold, I lay as one that had been dead, and my understanding was taken from me; and he took me by the right hand, and comforted me, and set me upon my feet, and said to me,

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.31: 31 What ails you? and why are you so disquieted? and why is your understanding troubled, and the thoughts of your heart?

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.32: 32 And I said, Because you have forsaken me: yet I did according to your words, and went into the field, and, behold, I have seen, and yet see, that which I am not able to express.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.33: 33 And he said to me, Stand up like a man, and I will advise you.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.34: 34 Then said I, Speak on, my Lord; only forsake me not, lest I die frustrate of my hope.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.35: 35 For I have seen that I knew not, and hear that I do not know.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.37: 37 Now therefore I beseech you to show your servant concerning this trance.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.38: 38 And he answered me, and said, Hear me, and I shall inform you, and tell you concerning the things whereof you are afraid: For the Most High has revealed many secret things to you.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.39: 39 He has seen that your way is right: for that you sorrowest continually for your people, and make great lamentation for Sion.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.41: 41 The woman which appeared to you a little while ago, whom you saw mourning, and began to comfort her:

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.42: 42 but now see you the likeness of the woman no more, but there appeared to you a city in building:

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.43: 43 and whereas she told you of the death of her son, this is the solution:

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.44: 44 This woman, whom you saw, is 5 Sion, 6 whom you now see as a city built;

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.45: 45 and whereas she said to you, that she has been thirty years barren, it is, because there were three 7 thousand years in the world wherein there was no offering as yet offered in her.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.46: 46 And it came to pass after three 8 thousand years that Solomon built the city, and offered offerings: then it was that the barren bare a son.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.47: 47 And whereas she told you that she nourished him with travail: that was the dwelling in Jerusalem.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.48: 48 And whereas she said to you, My son coming into his marriage chamber died, and that misfortune befell her: this was the destruction that came to Jerusalem.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.49: 49 And, behold, you saw her likeness, how she mourned for her son, and you began to comfort her for what has befallen her; 9 these were the things to be opened to you.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.50: 50 For now the Most High, seeing that you are grieved unfeignedly, and suffer from your whole heart for her, has showed you the brightness of her glory, and the attractiveness of her beauty:

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.51: 51 and therefore I bade you remain in the field where no house was built:

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.52: 52 for I knew that the Most High would show this to you.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.53: 53 Therefore I commanded you to come into the field, where no foundation of any building was.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.54: 54 For in the place wherein the city of the Most High was to be showed, the work of no man’s building could stand.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.55: 55 Therefore fear you not, nor let your heart be affrighted, but go your way in, and see the beauty and greatness of the building, as much as your eyes be able to see:

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.56: 56 and then shall you hear as much as your ears may comprehend.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.57: 57 For you are blessed above many, and with the Most High are called by name, like as but few.

2 Esdras (Latin) 10.59: 59 and so shall the Most High show you those visions in dreams, of what the Most High will do to those who dwell upon earth in the last days. So I slept that night and another, like as he commanded me.

4 Maccabees 2.1: 2And what wonder? if the lusts of the soul, after participation with what is beautiful, are frustrated,

4 Maccabees 2.2: 2 on this ground, therefore, the temperate Joseph is praised in that by reasoning, he subdued, on reflection, the indulgence of sense.

4 Maccabees 2.3: 3 For, although young, and ripe for sexual intercourse, he abrogated by reasoning the stimulus of his passions.

4 Maccabees 2.4: 4 And it is not merely the stimulus of sensual indulgence, but that of every desire, that reasoning is able to master.

4 Maccabees 2.5: 5 For instance, the law says, You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor.

4 Maccabees 2.6: 6 Now, then, since it is the law which has forbidden us to desire, I shall much the more easily persuade you, that reasoning is able to govern our lusts, just as it does the affections which are impediments to justice.

4 Maccabees 2.7: 7 Since in what way is a solitary eater, and a glutton, and a drunkard reclaimed, unless it be clear that reasoning is lord of the passions?

4 Maccabees 2.8: 8 A man, therefore, who regulates his course by the law, even if he be a lover of money, immediately puts force upon his own disposition; lending to the needy without interest, and cancelling the debt of the incoming Sabbath.

4 Maccabees 2.9: 9 And should a man be parsimonious, he is ruled by the law acting through reasoning; so that he does not glean his harvest crops, nor vintage: and in reference to other points we may perceive that it is reasoning that conquers his passions.

4 Maccabees 2.10: 10 For the law conquers even affection toward parents, not surrendering virtue on their account.

4 Maccabees 2.11: 11 And it prevails over marriage love, condemning it when transgressing law.

4 Maccabees 2.12: 12 And it lords it over the love of parents toward their children, for they punish them for vice; and it domineers over the intimacy of friends, reproving them when wicked.

4 Maccabees 2.13: 13 And think it not a strange assertion that reasoning can in behalf of the law conquer even enmity.

4 Maccabees 2.14: 14 It allows not to cut down the cultivated herbage of an enemy, but preserves it from the destroyers, and collects their fallen ruins.

4 Maccabees 2.15: 15 And reason appears to be master of the more violent passions, as love of empire and empty boasting, and slander.

4 Maccabees 2.16: 16 For the temperate understanding repels all these malignant passions, as it does wrath: for it masters even this.

4 Maccabees 2.17: 17 Thus Moses, when angered against Dathan and Abiram, did nothing to them in wrath, but regulated his anger by reasoning.

4 Maccabees 2.18: 18 For the temperate mind is able, as I said, to be superior to the passions, and to transfer some, and destroy others.

4 Maccabees 2.19: 19 For why, else, does our most wise father Jacob blame Simeon and Levi for having irrationally slain the whole race of the Shechemites, saying, Cursed be their anger.

4 Maccabees 2.20: 20 For if reasoning didn’t possess the power of subduing angry affections, he would not have spoken thus.

4 Maccabees 2.21: 21 For at the time when God created man, He implanted within him his passions and moral nature.

4 Maccabees 2.22: 22 And at that time He enthroned above all the holy leader mind, through the medium of the senses.

4 Maccabees 2.23: 23 And He gave a law to this mind, by living according to which it will maintain a temperate, and just, and good, and manly reign.

4 Maccabees 2.24: 24 How, then, a man may say, if reasoning be master of the passions, has it no control over forgetfulness and ignorance?

1 34:17 Hebrew has, literally, “daughter”

1 2:6 Sheol is the place of the dead.

2 2:20 or, seed

3 2:31 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

4 2:33 or, blind your eyes with tears

1 15:19 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds, so 1000 talents is about 30 metric tons

2 15:20 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 50 shekels was about 0.5 kilograms or 1.1 pounds.

1 7:23 “Beriah” is similar to the Hebrew word for “misfortune”.

1 3:9 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces

1 5:25 or, seed

1 89:48 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 38:10 Sheol is the place of the dead.

2 38:18 Sheol is the place of the dead.

1 2:8 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

2 2:13 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

1 1:2 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

2 1:6 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

3 1:12 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

1 1:1 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

2 1:9 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

3 1:12 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

a 9:13 Hosea 6:6

1 9:13 NU omits “to repentance”.

2 9:20 or, tassel

3 9:36 TR reads “weary” instead of “harassed”

1 4:4 TR adds “of the air”

a 4:12 Isaiah 6:9-10

2 4:21 literally, a modion, a dry measuring basket containing about a peck (about 9 liters)

1 1:5 The word translated “overcome” (κατέλαβεν) can also be translated “comprehended.” It refers to getting a grip on an enemy to defeat him.

2 1:18 NU reads “God”

a 1:23 Isaiah 40:3

3 1:29 “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

4 1:39 4:00 p.m.

5 1:41 “Messiah” (Hebrew) and “Christ” (Greek) both mean “Anointed One”.

6 1:42 “Cephas” (Aramaic) and “Peter” (Greek) both mean “Rock”.

a 12:19 Deuteronomy 32:35

b 12:20 Proverbs 25:21-22

1 1:10 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”

a 1:17 Matthew 17:5; Mark 9:7; Luke 9:35

1 10:11 TR reads “He” instead of “They”

1 1:1 Note: In the Hebrew and some copies of LXX, Esther begins here.

2 1:1 Greek words.

3 1:11 Greek to make her queen.

4 1:17 Greek contradicted.

1 4:3 Gr. those that had been approved by Simon.

2 4:4 Or, severity

3 4:4 Compare 2 Maccabees 4:21. See also 2 Maccabees 3:5. The Greek as commonly read means Apollonius, as being the governor...Phoenicia, did rage, and increase etc.

4 4:5 Gr. multitude.

5 4:9 Gr. through his.

6 4:14 Or, take part in the unlawful provision for the palaestra

7 4:14 Or, to the game of the discus

8 4:17 Or, this the due season of requital will make plain

9 4:19 See ver. 9.

1 4:19 Or, reserve for

2 4:20 Some authorities read the bearers.

3 4:21 The exact meaning of the Greek word is uncertain.

4 4:23 Or, convey to him reports

5 4:24 The Greek text of this verse is uncertain.

6 4:24 Or, him

7 4:24 Or, by flattering the dignity of his authority

8 4:27 Gr. was in due order.

9 4:29 Gr. successor.

1 4:31 Gr. successor.

2 4:34 Or, to get Onias into his hands

3 4:34 The Greek text of this sentence is probably corrupt.

4 4:34 Or, imprisoned him Gr. shut him off.

5 4:36 Or, in the several cities

6 4:38 Or, tore his

7 4:50 Gr. established as a.

1 6:1 Or, Geron an Athenian

2 6:2 Gr. Zeus.

3 6:2 Gr. Zeus.

4 6:2 Or, did

5 6:4 Or, idled with their fellows

6 6:5 Or, the altar

7 6:7 Gr. feast of Dionysia.

8 6:7 Gr. Dionysus.

9 6:15 Or, when our sins be come to their height

1 6:15 Gr. end.

2 6:23 The Greek text appears to be corrupt.

3 6:23 Some authorities read manner of life.

4 6:23 Or, but yet more

5 6:23 Gr. legislation.

6 6:25 Or, while I shall get

7 6:28 Gr. one that has left behind.

8 6:29 The Greek text of this verse is uncertain.

9 6:29 Gr. the aforesaid words were.

1 6:30 Or, blows

a 8:1 Ezra 7:1

1 8:2 The Vatican MS. omits the son of Memeroth, the son of Zaraias, the son of Savias.

2 8:5 That is, the temple servants.

3 8:6 Some MSS. omit for his sake.

4 8:10 Another reading is, being within.

5 8:20 Gr. cors.

6 8:20 a firkin is about 41 liters or 11 gallons.

7 8:20 So some authorities. See Ezra 7:22. The common reading is, other things.

8 8:24 Or. captivity

9 8:29 Hattush.

1 8:29 Ezra 8:3, of the sons of Shecaniah; of the sons of Parosh.

2 8:31 Zerehiah.

3 8:32 Ezra 8:5, of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel.

4 8:32 Another reading is, two

5 8:36 Ezra 8:10, of the sons of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah.

6 8:47 Another reading is, a man.

7 8:47 Mahli.

8 8:47 Sherebiah.

9 8:48 Hashabiah.

1 8:54 Sherebiah, Hashabiah.

2 8:58 Another reading is, and the holy vessels and the silver and the gold etc.

3 8:62 Meremoth.

4 8:62 Uriah.

5 8:63 Noadiah the son of Binnui.

6 8:69 Another reading is, nor their uncleannesses, to wit, of the Gentiles, etc.

7 8:88 Or, Was you not etc.

b 8:91 Ezra 10:1

8 8:92 Or, exalted Deuteronomy 28:13.

1 3:4 So the Syriac and Aethiopic.

2 3:5 So the Syriac.

3 3:18 So some versions. Lat. set fast.

4 3:20 Or, corrupt

5 3:21 Or, corrupt

6 3:22 Or, corruption

7 3:22 Or, corrupt

8 3:26 Or, corrupt

9 3:31 So the Syriac. The Latin has how this way may be left.

1 5:1 So the syriac.

2 5:3 So the Syriac.

3 5:5 According to some Oriental versions, the air.

4 5:16 The Syriac has Psaltiel.

5 5:24 After the Oriental versions. The Latin has pit.

6 5:28 After the Oriental versions. The Latin reads have prepared.

7 5:45 So the Syriac.

8 5:45 The Latin omits If...alive at once.

1 9:5 So the Syriac. The Latin is corrupt.

2 9:11 Or, me

3 9:12 Or, me

4 9:13 So the Syriac and other versions. The Latin has and whose... created, and when.

5 9:17 So the Aethiopic and Arabic. The Latin has creation.

6 9:19 So the Syriac.

7 9:19 So the Syriac.

8 9:21 So the Syriac and other versions. The Latin has great tribes.

9 9:26 The Syriac and Aethiopic have Arphad.

1 9:45 Lat. townsmen.

1 10:2 Lat. townsmen.

2 10:8 See the Oriental versions. The Latin is corrupt.

3 10:11 So the Syriac.

4 10:25 The Syriac has to draw near to her, and my heart was greatly astonied, and when I mused etc.

5 10:44 So the Syriac and other versions. The Latin is incorrect.

6 10:44 So the Syriac and other versions. The Latin is incorrect.

7 10:45 So the Syriac and other versions. The Latin is incorrect.

8 10:46 So the Syriac and other versions. The Latin is incorrect.

9 10:49 Omitted in the Oriental versions.