1 Kings 6.0:

1 Kings 6.1: 6In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build Yahweh’s house.

1 Kings 6.2: 2 The house which king Solomon built for Yahweh had a length of sixty cubits,1 and its width twenty, and its height thirty cubits.

1 Kings 6.3: 3 The porch in front of the temple of the house had a length of twenty cubits, which was along the width of the house. Ten cubits was its width in front of the house.

1 Kings 6.4: 4 He made windows of fixed lattice work for the house.

1 Kings 6.5: 5 Against the wall of the house, he built floors all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the inner sanctuary; and he made side rooms all around.

1 Kings 6.6: 6 The lowest floor was five cubits wide, and the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for on the outside he made offsets in the wall of the house all around, that the beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house.

1 Kings 6.7: 7 The house, when it was under construction, was built of stone prepared at the quarry; and no hammer or ax or any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was under construction.

1 Kings 6.8: 8 The door for the middle side rooms was in the right side of the house. They went up by winding stairs into the middle floor, and out of the middle into the third.

1 Kings 6.9: 9 So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

1 Kings 6.10: 10 He built the floors all along the house, each five cubits high; and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

1 Kings 6.11: 11 Yahweh’s word came to Solomon, saying,

1 Kings 6.12: 12 “Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.

1 Kings 6.13: 13 I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.”

1 Kings 6.14: 14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

1 Kings 6.15: 15 He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with cypress boards.

1 Kings 6.16: 16 He built twenty cubits on the back part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the ceiling. He built them for it within, for an inner sanctuary, even for the most holy place.

1 Kings 6.17: 17 In front of the temple sanctuary was forty cubits.

1 Kings 6.18: 18 There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers. All was cedar. No stone was visible.

1 Kings 6.19: 19 He prepared an inner sanctuary in the middle of the house within, to set the ark of Yahweh’s covenant there.

1 Kings 6.20: 20 Within the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in width, and twenty cubits in its height; and he overlaid it with pure gold; and he covered the altar with cedar.

1 Kings 6.21: 21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold. He drew chains of gold across before the inner sanctuary, and he overlaid it with gold.

1 Kings 6.22: 22 He overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. He also overlaid the whole altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary with gold.

1 Kings 6.23: 23 In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim2 of olive wood, each ten cubits high.

1 Kings 6.24: 24 Five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub. From the tip of one wing to the tip of the other was ten cubits.

1 Kings 6.25: 25 The other cherub was ten cubits. Both the cherubim were of one measure and one form.

1 Kings 6.26: 26 One cherub was ten cubits high, and so was the other cherub.

1 Kings 6.27: 27 He set the cherubim within the inner house. The wings of the cherubim were stretched out, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the middle of the house.

1 Kings 6.28: 28 He overlaid the cherubim with gold.

1 Kings 6.29: 29 He carved all the walls of the house around with carved figures of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, inside and outside.

1 Kings 6.30: 30 He overlaid the floor of the house with gold, inside and outside.

1 Kings 6.31: 31 For the entrance of the inner sanctuary, he made doors of olive wood. The lintel and door posts were a fifth part of the wall.

1 Kings 6.32: 32 So he made two doors of olive wood; and he carved on them carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold. He spread the gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees.

1 Kings 6.33: 33 He also did so for the entrance of the temple door posts of olive wood, out of a fourth part of the wall;

1 Kings 6.34: 34 and two doors of cypress wood. The two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.

1 Kings 6.35: 35 He carved cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work.

1 Kings 6.36: 36 He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and a course of cedar beams.

1 Kings 6.37: 37 The foundation of Yahweh’s house was laid in the fourth year, in the month Ziv.

1 Kings 6.38: 38 In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished throughout all its parts, and according to all its specifications. So he spent seven years building it.

Esther 2.0:

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.

Job 34.0:

Job 34.1: 34Moreover Elihu answered,

Job 34.2: 2 “Hear my words, you wise men.

Give ear to me, you who have knowledge.

Job 34.3: 3 For the ear tries words,

as the palate tastes food.

Job 34.4: 4 Let us choose for us that which is right.

Let us know among ourselves what is good.

Job 34.5: 5 For Job has said, ‘I am righteous,

God has taken away my right:

Job 34.6: 6 Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar.

My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.’

Job 34.7: 7 What man is like Job,

who drinks scorn like water,

Job 34.8: 8 Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity,

and walks with wicked men?

Job 34.9: 9 For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing

that he should delight himself with God.’

Job 34.10: 10 “Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding:

far be it from God, that he should do wickedness,

from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

Job 34.11: 11 For the work of a man he will render to him,

and cause every man to find according to his ways.

Job 34.12: 12 Yes surely, God will not do wickedly,

neither will the Almighty pervert justice.

Job 34.13: 13 Who put him in charge of the earth?

Or who has appointed him over the whole world?

Job 34.14: 14 If he set his heart on himself,

if he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,

Job 34.15: 15 all flesh would perish together,

and man would turn again to dust.

Job 34.16: 16 “If now you have understanding, hear this.

Listen to the voice of my words.

Job 34.17: 17 Should even one who hates justice govern?

Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?—

Job 34.18: 18 Who says to a king, ‘Vile!’

or to nobles, ‘Wicked!’?

Job 34.19: 19 He doesn’t respect the persons of princes,

nor respect the rich more than the poor;

for they all are the work of his hands.

Job 34.20: 20 In a moment they die, even at midnight.

The people are shaken and pass away.

The mighty are taken away without a hand.

Job 34.21: 21 “For his eyes are on the ways of a man.

He sees all his goings.

Job 34.22: 22 There is no darkness, nor thick gloom,

where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

Job 34.23: 23 For he doesn’t need to consider a man further,

that he should go before God in judgment.

Job 34.24: 24 He breaks mighty men in pieces in ways past finding out,

and sets others in their place.

Job 34.25: 25 Therefore he takes knowledge of their works.

He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

Job 34.26: 26 He strikes them as wicked men

in the open sight of others;

Job 34.27: 27 because they turned away from following him,

and wouldn’t pay attention to any of his ways,

Job 34.28: 28 so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him.

He heard the cry of the afflicted.

Job 34.29: 29 When he gives quietness, who then can condemn?

When he hides his face, who then can see him?

He is over a nation or a man alike,

Job 34.30: 30 that the godless man may not reign,

that there be no one to ensnare the people.

Job 34.31: 31 “For has any said to God,

‘I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.

Job 34.32: 32 Teach me that which I don’t see.

If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?

Job 34.33: 33 Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it?

For you must choose, and not I.

Therefore speak what you know.

Job 34.34: 34 Men of understanding will tell me,

yes, every wise man who hears me:

Job 34.35: 35 ‘Job speaks without knowledge.

His words are without wisdom.’

Job 34.36: 36 I wish that Job were tried to the end,

because of his answering like wicked men.

Job 34.37: 37 For he adds rebellion to his sin.

He claps his hands among us,

and multiplies his words against God.”

Proverbs 1.0:

Proverbs 1.1: 1The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel:

Proverbs 1.2: 2 to know wisdom and instruction;

to discern the words of understanding;

Proverbs 1.3: 3 to receive instruction in wise dealing,

in righteousness, justice, and equity;

Proverbs 1.4: 4 to give prudence to the simple,

knowledge and discretion to the young man:

Proverbs 1.5: 5 that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning;

that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:

Proverbs 1.6: 6 to understand a proverb, and parables,

the words and riddles of the wise.

Proverbs 1.7: 7 The fear of Yahweh1 is the beginning of knowledge;

but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 1.8: 8 My son, listen to your father’s instruction,

and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

Proverbs 1.9: 9 for they will be a garland to grace your head,

and chains around your neck.

Proverbs 1.10: 10 My son, if sinners entice you,

don’t consent.

Proverbs 1.11: 11 If they say, “Come with us.

Let’s lay in wait for blood.

Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.

Proverbs 1.12: 12 Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol,2

and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

Proverbs 1.13: 13 We’ll find all valuable wealth.

We’ll fill our houses with plunder.

Proverbs 1.14: 14 You shall cast your lot among us.

We’ll all have one purse.”

Proverbs 1.15: 15 My son, don’t walk on the path with them.

Keep your foot from their path,

Proverbs 1.16: 16 for their feet run to evil.

They hurry to shed blood.

Proverbs 1.17: 17 For the net is spread in vain in the sight of any bird;

Proverbs 1.18: 18 but these lay in wait for their own blood.

They lurk secretly for their own lives.

Proverbs 1.19: 19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain.

It takes away the life of its owners.

Proverbs 1.20: 20 Wisdom calls aloud in the street.

She utters her voice in the public squares.

Proverbs 1.21: 21 She calls at the head of noisy places.

At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:

Proverbs 1.22: 22 “How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity?

How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery,

and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 1.23: 23 Turn at my reproof.

Behold,3 I will pour out my spirit on you.

I will make known my words to you.

Proverbs 1.24: 24 Because I have called, and you have refused;

I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;

Proverbs 1.25: 25 but you have ignored all my counsel,

and wanted none of my reproof;

Proverbs 1.26: 26 I also will laugh at your disaster.

I will mock when calamity overtakes you,

Proverbs 1.27: 27 when calamity overtakes you like a storm,

when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind,

when distress and anguish come on you.

Proverbs 1.28: 28 Then they will call on me, but I will not answer.

They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

Proverbs 1.29: 29 because they hated knowledge,

and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

Proverbs 1.30: 30 They wanted none of my counsel.

They despised all my reproof.

Proverbs 1.31: 31 Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way,

and be filled with their own schemes.

Proverbs 1.32: 32 For the backsliding of the simple will kill them.

The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

Proverbs 1.33: 33 But whoever listens to me will dwell securely,

and will be at ease, without fear of harm.”

Proverbs 6.0:

Proverbs 6.1: 6My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor,

if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger,

Proverbs 6.2: 2 you are trapped by the words of your mouth;

you are ensnared with the words of your mouth.

Proverbs 6.3: 3 Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself,

since you have come into the hand of your neighbor.

Go, humble yourself.

Press your plea with your neighbor.

Proverbs 6.4: 4 Give no sleep to your eyes,

nor slumber to your eyelids.

Proverbs 6.5: 5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,

like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

Proverbs 6.6: 6 Go to the ant, you sluggard.

Consider her ways, and be wise;

Proverbs 6.7: 7 which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

Proverbs 6.8: 8 provides her bread in the summer,

and gathers her food in the harvest.

Proverbs 6.9: 9 How long will you sleep, sluggard?

When will you arise out of your sleep?

Proverbs 6.10: 10 A little sleep, a little slumber,

a little folding of the hands to sleep:

Proverbs 6.11: 11 so your poverty will come as a robber,

and your scarcity as an armed man.

Proverbs 6.12: 12 A worthless person, a man of iniquity,

is he who walks with a perverse mouth,

Proverbs 6.13: 13 who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet,

who motions with his fingers,

Proverbs 6.14: 14 in whose heart is perverseness,

who devises evil continually,

who always sows discord.

Proverbs 6.15: 15 Therefore his calamity will come suddenly.

He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

Proverbs 6.16: 16 There are six things which Yahweh hates;

yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

Proverbs 6.17: 17 arrogant eyes, a lying tongue,

hands that shed innocent blood,

Proverbs 6.18: 18 a heart that devises wicked schemes,

feet that are swift in running to mischief,

Proverbs 6.19: 19 a false witness who utters lies,

and he who sows discord among brothers.

Proverbs 6.20: 20 My son, keep your father’s commandment,

and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.

Proverbs 6.21: 21 Bind them continually on your heart.

Tie them around your neck.

Proverbs 6.22: 22 When you walk, it will lead you.

When you sleep, it will watch over you.

When you awake, it will talk with you.

Proverbs 6.23: 23 For the commandment is a lamp,

and the law is light.

Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

Proverbs 6.24: 24 to keep you from the immoral woman,

from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.

Proverbs 6.25: 25 Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart,

neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

Proverbs 6.26: 26 For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread.

The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

Proverbs 6.27: 27 Can a man scoop fire into his lap,

and his clothes not be burned?

Proverbs 6.28: 28 Or can one walk on hot coals,

and his feet not be scorched?

Proverbs 6.29: 29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife.

Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.

Proverbs 6.30: 30 Men don’t despise a thief

if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry;

Proverbs 6.31: 31 but if he is found, he shall restore seven times.

He shall give all the wealth of his house.

Proverbs 6.32: 32 He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding.

He who does it destroys his own soul.

Proverbs 6.33: 33 He will get wounds and dishonor.

His reproach will not be wiped away.

Proverbs 6.34: 34 For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband.

He won’t spare in the day of vengeance.

Proverbs 6.35: 35 He won’t regard any ransom,

neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.

Proverbs 9.0:

Proverbs 9.1: 9Wisdom has built her house.

She has carved out her seven pillars.

Proverbs 9.2: 2 She has prepared her meat.

She has mixed her wine.

She has also set her table.

Proverbs 9.3: 3 She has sent out her maidens.

She cries from the highest places of the city:

Proverbs 9.4: 4 “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!”

As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

Proverbs 9.5: 5 “Come, eat some of my bread,

Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!

Proverbs 9.6: 6 Leave your simple ways, and live.

Walk in the way of understanding.”

Proverbs 9.7: 7 One who corrects a mocker invites insult.

One who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.

Proverbs 9.8: 8 Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you.

Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.

Proverbs 9.9: 9 Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser.

Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.

Proverbs 9.10: 10 The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom.

The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

Proverbs 9.11: 11 For by me your days will be multiplied.

The years of your life will be increased.

Proverbs 9.12: 12 If you are wise, you are wise for yourself.

If you mock, you alone will bear it.

Proverbs 9.13: 13 The foolish woman is loud,

undisciplined, and knows nothing.

Proverbs 9.14: 14 She sits at the door of her house,

on a seat in the high places of the city,

Proverbs 9.15: 15 to call to those who pass by,

who go straight on their ways,

Proverbs 9.16: 16 “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here.”

as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

Proverbs 9.17: 17 “Stolen water is sweet.

Food eaten in secret is pleasant.”

Proverbs 9.18: 18 But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there,

that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.1

2 Thessalonians 1.0:

2 Thessalonians 1.1: 1Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ:

2 Thessalonians 1.2: 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Thessalonians 1.3: 3 We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers,1 even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

2 Thessalonians 1.4: 4 so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

2 Thessalonians 1.5: 5 This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer.

2 Thessalonians 1.6: 6 Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,

2 Thessalonians 1.7: 7 and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,

2 Thessalonians 1.8: 8 punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

2 Thessalonians 1.9: 9 who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

2 Thessalonians 1.10: 10 when he comes in that day to be glorified in his saints and to be admired among all those who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.

2 Thessalonians 1.11: 11 To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,

2 Thessalonians 1.12: 12 that the name of our Lord Jesus2 may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.