1 Chronicles 13.0:

1 Chronicles 13.1: 13David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader.

1 Chronicles 13.2: 2 David said to all the assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if it is of Yahweh our God, let’s send word everywhere to our brothers who are left in all the land of Israel, with whom the priests and Levites are in their cities that have pasture lands, that they may gather themselves to us.

1 Chronicles 13.3: 3 Also, let’s bring the ark of our God back to us again; for we didn’t seek it in the days of Saul.”

1 Chronicles 13.4: 4 All the assembly said that they would do so; for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.

1 Chronicles 13.5: 5 So David assembled all Israel together, from the Shihor the brook of Egypt even to the entrance of Hamath, to bring God’s ark from Kiriath Jearim.

1 Chronicles 13.6: 6 David went up with all Israel to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath Jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up from there God Yahweh’s ark that sits above the cherubim, that is called by the Name.

1 Chronicles 13.7: 7 They carried God’s ark on a new cart, and brought it out of Abinadab’s house; and Uzza and Ahio drove the cart.

1 Chronicles 13.8: 8 David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with cymbals, and with trumpets.

1 Chronicles 13.9: 9 When they came to Chidon’s threshing floor, Uzza put out his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.

1 Chronicles 13.10: 10 Yahweh’s anger burned against Uzza, and he struck him, because he put his hand on the ark; and he died there before God.

1 Chronicles 13.11: 11 David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken out against Uzza. He called that place Perez Uzza, to this day.

1 Chronicles 13.12: 12 David was afraid of God that day, saying, “How can I bring God’s ark home to me?”

1 Chronicles 13.13: 13 So David didn’t move the ark with him into David’s city, but carried it aside into Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house.

1 Chronicles 13.14: 14 God’s ark remained with the family of Obed-Edom in his house three months; and Yahweh blessed Obed-Edom’s house and all that he had.

2 Chronicles 1.0:

2 Chronicles 1.1: 1Solomon the son of David was firmly established in his kingdom, and Yahweh 1 his God2 was with him, and made him exceedingly great.

2 Chronicles 1.2: 2 Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to every prince in all Israel, the heads of the fathers’ households.

2 Chronicles 1.3: 3 So Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for God’s Tent of Meeting was there, which Yahweh’s servant Moses had made in the wilderness.

2 Chronicles 1.4: 4 But David had brought God’s ark up from Kiriath Jearim to the place that David had prepared for it; for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 1.5: 5 Moreover the bronze altar that Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made was there before Yahweh’s tabernacle; and Solomon and the assembly were seeking counsel there.

2 Chronicles 1.6: 6 Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before Yahweh, which was at the Tent of Meeting, and offered one thousand burnt offerings on it.

2 Chronicles 1.7: 7 That night, God appeared to Solomon and said to him, “Ask for what you want me to give you.”

2 Chronicles 1.8: 8 Solomon said to God, “You have shown great loving kindness to David my father, and have made me king in his place.

2 Chronicles 1.9: 9 Now, Yahweh God, let your promise to David my father be established; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.

2 Chronicles 1.10: 10 Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this great people of yours?”

2 Chronicles 1.11: 11 God said to Solomon, “Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches, wealth, honor, or the life of those who hate you, nor yet have you asked for long life; but have asked for wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people, over whom I have made you king,

2 Chronicles 1.12: 12 therefore wisdom and knowledge is granted to you. I will give you riches, wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had who have been before you had, and none after you will have.”

2 Chronicles 1.13: 13 So Solomon came from the high place that was at Gibeon, from before the Tent of Meeting, to Jerusalem; and he reigned over Israel.

2 Chronicles 1.14: 14 Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen. He had one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen that he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 1.15: 15 The king made silver and gold to be as common as stones in Jerusalem, and he made cedars to be as common as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.

2 Chronicles 1.16: 16 The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt and from Kue. The king’s merchants purchased them from Kue.

2 Chronicles 1.17: 17 They brought up and brought out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred pieces of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty.3 They also exported them to the Hittite kings and the Syrian4 kings.

2 Chronicles 9.0:

2 Chronicles 9.1: 9When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to test Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great caravan, including camels that bore spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones. When she had come to Solomon, she talked with him about all that was in her heart.

2 Chronicles 9.2: 2 Solomon answered all her questions. There wasn’t anything hidden from Solomon which he didn’t tell her.

2 Chronicles 9.3: 3 When the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,

2 Chronicles 9.4: 4 the food of his table, the seating of his servants, the attendance of his ministers, their clothing, his cup bearers also, their clothing, and his ascent by which he went up to Yahweh’s house; there was no more spirit in her.1

2 Chronicles 9.5: 5 She said to the king, “It was a true report that I heard in my own land of your acts and of your wisdom.

2 Chronicles 9.6: 6 However I didn’t believe their words until I came, and my eyes had seen it; and behold half of the greatness of your wisdom wasn’t told me. You exceed the fame that I heard!

2 Chronicles 9.7: 7 Happy are your men, and happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, and hear your wisdom.

2 Chronicles 9.8: 8 Blessed be Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on his throne, to be king for Yahweh your God; because your God loved Israel, to establish them forever. Therefore he made you king over them, to do justice and righteousness.”

2 Chronicles 9.9: 9 She gave the king one hundred and twenty talents2 of gold, spices in great abundance, and precious stones. There was never before such spice as the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.

2 Chronicles 9.10: 10 The servants of Huram and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, also brought algum trees3 and precious stones.

2 Chronicles 9.11: 11 The king used algum tree wood to make terraces for Yahweh’s house and for the king’s house, and harps and stringed instruments for the singers. There were none like these seen before in the land of Judah.

2 Chronicles 9.12: 12 King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, in addition to that which she had brought to the king. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants.

2 Chronicles 9.13: 13 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred sixty-six talents4 of gold,

2 Chronicles 9.14: 14 in addition to that which the traders and merchants brought. All the kings of Arabia and the governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.

2 Chronicles 9.15: 15 King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold. Six hundred shekels5 of beaten gold went to one buckler.

2 Chronicles 9.16: 16 He made three hundred shields of beaten gold. Three hundred shekels6 of gold went to one shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

2 Chronicles 9.17: 17 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.

2 Chronicles 9.18: 18 There were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and armrests on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests.

2 Chronicles 9.19: 19 Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps. There was nothing like it made in any other kingdom.

2 Chronicles 9.20: 20 All king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. Silver was not considered valuable in the days of Solomon.

2 Chronicles 9.21: 21 For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with Huram’s servants. Once every three years, the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

2 Chronicles 9.22: 22 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

2 Chronicles 9.23: 23 All the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

2 Chronicles 9.24: 24 They each brought tribute, vessels of silver, vessels of gold, clothing, armor, spices, horses, and mules every year.

2 Chronicles 9.25: 25 Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he stationed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 9.26: 26 He ruled over all the kings from the River even to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.

2 Chronicles 9.27: 27 The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars to be as abundant as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.

2 Chronicles 9.28: 28 They brought horses for Solomon out of Egypt and out of all lands.

2 Chronicles 9.29: 29 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, aren’t they written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?

2 Chronicles 9.30: 30 Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.

2 Chronicles 9.31: 31 Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in his father David’s city: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.

Esther 0.0:

The Book of

Esther

Psalms 68.0:

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song.

Psalms 68.1: 68Let God arise!

Let his enemies be scattered!

Let them who hate him also flee before him.

Psalms 68.2: 2 As smoke is driven away,

so drive them away.

As wax melts before the fire,

so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

Psalms 68.3: 3 But let the righteous be glad.

Let them rejoice before God.

Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.

Psalms 68.4: 4 Sing to God! Sing praises to his name!

Extol him who rides on the clouds:

to Yah, his name!

Rejoice before him!

Psalms 68.5: 5 A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows,

is God in his holy habitation.

Psalms 68.6: 6 God sets the lonely in families.

He brings out the prisoners with singing,

but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

Psalms 68.7: 7 God, when you went out before your people,

when you marched through the wilderness... Selah.

Psalms 68.8: 8 The earth trembled.

The sky also poured down rain at the presence of the God of Sinai—

at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

Psalms 68.9: 9 You, God, sent a plentiful rain.

You confirmed your inheritance when it was weary.

Psalms 68.10: 10 Your congregation lived therein.

You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.

Psalms 68.11: 11 The Lord announced the word.

The ones who proclaim it are a great company.

Psalms 68.12: 12 “Kings of armies flee! They flee!”

She who waits at home divides the plunder,

Psalms 68.13: 13 while you sleep among the camp fires,

the wings of a dove sheathed with silver,

her feathers with shining gold.

Psalms 68.14: 14 When the Almighty scattered kings in her,

it snowed on Zalmon.

Psalms 68.15: 15 The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains.

The mountains of Bashan are rugged.

Psalms 68.16: 16 Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains,

at the mountain where God chooses to reign?

Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever.

Psalms 68.17: 17 The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands.

The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.

Psalms 68.18: 18 You have ascended on high.

You have led away captives.

You have received gifts among people,

yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.

Psalms 68.19: 19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens,

even the God who is our salvation. Selah.

Psalms 68.20: 20 God is to us a God of deliverance.

To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.

Psalms 68.21: 21 But God will strike through the head of his enemies,

the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.

Psalms 68.22: 22 The Lord said, “I will bring you again from Bashan,

I will bring you again from the depths of the sea,

Psalms 68.23: 23 that you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood,

that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies.”

Psalms 68.24: 24 They have seen your processions, God,

even the processions of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.

Psalms 68.25: 25 The singers went before, the minstrels followed after,

among the ladies playing with tambourines,

Psalms 68.26: 26 “Bless God in the congregations,

even the Lord in the assembly of Israel!”

Psalms 68.27: 27 There is little Benjamin, their ruler,

the princes of Judah, their council,

the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.

Psalms 68.28: 28 Your God has commanded your strength.

Strengthen, God, that which you have done for us.

Psalms 68.29: 29 Because of your temple at Jerusalem,

kings shall bring presents to you.

Psalms 68.30: 30 Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds,

the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples.

Being humbled, may it bring bars of silver.

Scatter the nations that delight in war.

Psalms 68.31: 31 Princes shall come out of Egypt.

Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her hands to God.

Psalms 68.32: 32 Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth!

Sing praises to the Lord! Selah.

Psalms 68.33: 33 To him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old;

behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.

Psalms 68.34: 34 Ascribe strength to God!

His excellency is over Israel,

his strength is in the skies.

Psalms 68.35: 35 You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries.

The God of Israel gives strength and power to his people.

Praise be to God!

Psalms 78.0:

A contemplation by Asaph.

Psalms 78.1: 78Hear my teaching, my people.

Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.

Psalms 78.2: 2 I will open my mouth in a parable.

I will utter dark sayings of old,

Psalms 78.3: 3 Which we have heard and known,

and our fathers have told us.

Psalms 78.4: 4 We will not hide them from their children,

telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh,

his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.

Psalms 78.5: 5 For he established a covenant in Jacob,

and appointed a teaching in Israel,

which he commanded our fathers,

that they should make them known to their children;

Psalms 78.6: 6 that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born;

who should arise and tell their children,

Psalms 78.7: 7 that they might set their hope in God,

and not forget God’s deeds,

but keep his commandments,

Psalms 78.8: 8 and might not be as their fathers,

a stubborn and rebellious generation,

a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal,

whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

Psalms 78.9: 9 The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows,

turned back in the day of battle.

Psalms 78.10: 10 They didn’t keep God’s covenant,

and refused to walk in his law.

Psalms 78.11: 11 They forgot his doings,

his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.

Psalms 78.12: 12 He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers,

in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

Psalms 78.13: 13 He split the sea, and caused them to pass through.

He made the waters stand as a heap.

Psalms 78.14: 14 In the daytime he also led them with a cloud,

and all night with a light of fire.

Psalms 78.15: 15 He split rocks in the wilderness,

and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

Psalms 78.16: 16 He brought streams also out of the rock,

and caused waters to run down like rivers.

Psalms 78.17: 17 Yet they still went on to sin against him,

to rebel against the Most High in the desert.

Psalms 78.18: 18 They tempted God in their heart

by asking food according to their desire.

Psalms 78.19: 19 Yes, they spoke against God.

They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

Psalms 78.20: 20 Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out,

and streams overflowed.

Can he give bread also?

Will he provide meat for his people?”

Psalms 78.21: 21 Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry.

A fire was kindled against Jacob,

anger also went up against Israel,

Psalms 78.22: 22 because they didn’t believe in God,

and didn’t trust in his salvation.

Psalms 78.23: 23 Yet he commanded the skies above,

and opened the doors of heaven.

Psalms 78.24: 24 He rained down manna on them to eat,

and gave them food from the sky.

Psalms 78.25: 25 Man ate the bread of angels.

He sent them food to the full.

Psalms 78.26: 26 He caused the east wind to blow in the sky.

By his power he guided the south wind.

Psalms 78.27: 27 He also rained meat on them as the dust,

winged birds as the sand of the seas.

Psalms 78.28: 28 He let them fall in the middle of their camp,

around their habitations.

Psalms 78.29: 29 So they ate, and were well filled.

He gave them their own desire.

Psalms 78.30: 30 They didn’t turn from their cravings.

Their food was yet in their mouths,

Psalms 78.31: 31 when the anger of God went up against them,

killed some of their fattest,

and struck down the young men of Israel.

Psalms 78.32: 32 For all this they still sinned,

and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.

Psalms 78.33: 33 Therefore he consumed their days in vanity,

and their years in terror.

Psalms 78.34: 34 When he killed them, then they inquired after him.

They returned and sought God earnestly.

Psalms 78.35: 35 They remembered that God was their rock,

the Most High God, their redeemer.

Psalms 78.36: 36 But they flattered him with their mouth,

and lied to him with their tongue.

Psalms 78.37: 37 For their heart was not right with him,

neither were they faithful in his covenant.

Psalms 78.38: 38 But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them.

Yes, many times he turned his anger away,

and didn’t stir up all his wrath.

Psalms 78.39: 39 He remembered that they were but flesh,

a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

Psalms 78.40: 40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness,

and grieved him in the desert!

Psalms 78.41: 41 They turned again and tempted God,

and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Psalms 78.42: 42 They didn’t remember his hand,

nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

Psalms 78.43: 43 how he set his signs in Egypt,

his wonders in the field of Zoan,

Psalms 78.44: 44 he turned their rivers into blood,

and their streams, so that they could not drink.

Psalms 78.45: 45 He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them;

and frogs, which destroyed them.

Psalms 78.46: 46 He gave also their increase to the caterpillar,

and their labor to the locust.

Psalms 78.47: 47 He destroyed their vines with hail,

their sycamore fig trees with frost.

Psalms 78.48: 48 He gave over their livestock also to the hail,

and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

Psalms 78.49: 49 He threw on them the fierceness of his anger,

wrath, indignation, and trouble,

and a band of angels of evil.

Psalms 78.50: 50 He made a path for his anger.

He didn’t spare their soul from death,

but gave their life over to the pestilence,

Psalms 78.51: 51 and struck all the firstborn in Egypt,

the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.

Psalms 78.52: 52 But he led out his own people like sheep,

and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

Psalms 78.53: 53 He led them safely, so that they weren’t afraid,

but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

Psalms 78.54: 54 He brought them to the border of his sanctuary,

to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.

Psalms 78.55: 55 He also drove out the nations before them,

allotted them for an inheritance by line,

and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

Psalms 78.56: 56 Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God,

and didn’t keep his testimonies,

Psalms 78.57: 57 but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers.

They were twisted like a deceitful bow.

Psalms 78.58: 58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places,

and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.

Psalms 78.59: 59 When God heard this, he was angry,

and greatly abhorred Israel,

Psalms 78.60: 60 so that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh,

the tent which he placed among men,

Psalms 78.61: 61 and delivered his strength into captivity,

his glory into the adversary’s hand.

Psalms 78.62: 62 He also gave his people over to the sword,

and was angry with his inheritance.

Psalms 78.63: 63 Fire devoured their young men.

Their virgins had no wedding song.

Psalms 78.64: 64 Their priests fell by the sword,

and their widows couldn’t weep.

Psalms 78.65: 65 Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep,

like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.

Psalms 78.66: 66 He struck his adversaries backward.

He put them to a perpetual reproach.

Psalms 78.67: 67 Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph,

and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim,

Psalms 78.68: 68 But chose the tribe of Judah,

Mount Zion which he loved.

Psalms 78.69: 69 He built his sanctuary like the heights,

like the earth which he has established forever.

Psalms 78.70: 70 He also chose David his servant,

and took him from the sheepfolds;

Psalms 78.71: 71 from following the ewes that have their young,

he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people,

and Israel, his inheritance.

Psalms 78.72: 72 So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart,

and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

Psalms 114.0:

Psalms 114.1: 114When Israel went out of Egypt,

the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language,

Psalms 114.2: 2 Judah became his sanctuary,

Israel his dominion.

Psalms 114.3: 3 The sea saw it, and fled.

The Jordan was driven back.

Psalms 114.4: 4 The mountains skipped like rams,

the little hills like lambs.

Psalms 114.5: 5 What was it, you sea, that you fled?

You Jordan, that you turned back?

Psalms 114.6: 6 You mountains, that you skipped like rams;

you little hills, like lambs?

Psalms 114.7: 7 Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord,

at the presence of the God of Jacob,

Psalms 114.8: 8 who turned the rock into a pool of water,

the flint into a spring of waters.

Jeremiah 49.0:

Jeremiah 49.1: 49Of the children of Ammon. Yahweh says:

“Has Israel no sons?

Has he no heir?

Why then does Malcam possess Gad,

and his people dwell in its cities?

Jeremiah 49.2: 2 Therefore behold, the days come,”

says Yahweh,

“that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon;

and it will become a desolate heap,

and her daughters will be burned with fire:

then Israel will possess those who possessed him,”

says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 49.3: 3 “Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste!

Cry, you daughters of Rabbah!

Clothe yourself in sackcloth.

Lament, and run back and forth among the fences;

for Malcam will go into captivity,

his priests and his princes together.

Jeremiah 49.4: 4 Why do you boast in the valleys,

your flowing valley, backsliding daughter?

You trusted in her treasures,

saying, ‘Who will come to me?’

Jeremiah 49.5: 5 Behold, I will bring a terror on you,”

says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies,

“from all who are around you.

All of you will be driven completely out,

and there will be no one to gather together the fugitives.

Jeremiah 49.6: 6 “But afterward I will reverse the captivity of the children of Ammon,”

says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 49.7: 7 Of Edom, Yahweh of Armies says:

“Is wisdom no more in Teman?

Has counsel perished from the prudent?

Has their wisdom vanished?

Jeremiah 49.8: 8 Flee! Turn back!

Dwell in the depths, inhabitants of Dedan;

for I will bring the calamity of Esau on him when I visit him.

Jeremiah 49.9: 9 If grape gatherers came to you,

would they not leave some gleaning grapes?

If thieves came by night,

wouldn’t they steal until they had enough?

Jeremiah 49.10: 10 But I have made Esau bare,

I have uncovered his secret places,

and he will not be able to hide himself.

His offspring is destroyed,

with his brothers and his neighbors;

and he is no more.

Jeremiah 49.11: 11 Leave your fatherless children.

I will preserve them alive.

Let your widows trust in me.”

Jeremiah 49.12: 12 For Yahweh says: “Behold, they to whom it didn’t pertain to drink of the cup will certainly drink; and are you he who will altogether go unpunished? You won’t go unpunished, but you will surely drink.

Jeremiah 49.13: 13 For I have sworn by myself,” says Yahweh, “that Bozrah will become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. All its cities will be perpetual wastes.”

Jeremiah 49.14: 14 I have heard news from Yahweh,

and an ambassador is sent among the nations,

saying, “Gather yourselves together!

Come against her!

Rise up to the battle!”

Jeremiah 49.15: 15 “For, behold, I have made you small among the nations,

and despised among men.

Jeremiah 49.16: 16 As for your terror,

the pride of your heart has deceived you,

O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock,

who hold the height of the hill,

though you should make your nest as high as the eagle,

I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 49.17: 17 “Edom will become an astonishment.

Everyone who passes by it will be astonished,

and will hiss at all its plagues.

Jeremiah 49.18: 18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbor cities,” says Yahweh,

“no man will dwell there,

neither will any son of man live therein.

Jeremiah 49.19: 19 “Behold, he will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation:

for I will suddenly make them run away from it;

and whoever is chosen,

I will appoint him over it.

For who is like me?

Who will appoint me a time?

Who is the shepherd who will stand before me?”

Jeremiah 49.20: 20 Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against Edom;

and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman:

Surely they will drag them away,

the little ones of the flock.

Surely he will make their habitation desolate over them.

Jeremiah 49.21: 21 The earth trembles at the noise of their fall;

there is a cry, the noise which is heard in the Red Sea.

Jeremiah 49.22: 22 Behold, he will come up and fly as the eagle,

and spread out his wings against Bozrah.

The heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day will be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

Jeremiah 49.23: 23 Of Damascus:

“Hamath is confounded, and Arpad;

for they have heard evil news.

They have melted away.

There is sorrow on the sea.

It can’t be quiet.

Jeremiah 49.24: 24 Damascus has grown feeble,

she turns herself to flee,

and trembling has seized her.

Anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her,

as of a woman in travail.

Jeremiah 49.25: 25 How is the city of praise not forsaken,

the city of my joy?

Jeremiah 49.26: 26 Therefore her young men will fall in her streets,

and all the men of war will be brought to silence in that day,”

says Yahweh of Armies.

Jeremiah 49.27: 27 “I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus,

and it will devour the palaces of Ben Hadad.”

Jeremiah 49.28: 28 Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck. Yahweh says:

“Arise, go up to Kedar,

and destroy the children of the east.

Jeremiah 49.29: 29 They will take their tents and their flocks.

they will carry away for themselves their curtains,

all their vessels, and their camels;

and they will cry to them, ‘Terror on every side!’

Jeremiah 49.30: 30 Flee!

Wander far off!

Dwell in the depths, you inhabitants of Hazor,” says Yahweh;

“for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you,

and has conceived a purpose against you.

Jeremiah 49.31: 31 Arise! Go up to a nation that is at ease,

that dwells without care,” says Yahweh;

“that has neither gates nor bars,

that dwells alone.

Jeremiah 49.32: 32 Their camels will be a booty,

and the multitude of their livestock a plunder.

I will scatter to all winds those who have the corners of their beards cut off;

and I will bring their calamity from every side of them,”

says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 49.33: 33 Hazor will be a dwelling place of jackals,

a desolation forever.

No man will dwell there,

neither will any son of man live therein.”

Jeremiah 49.34: 34 Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,

Jeremiah 49.35: 35 “Yahweh of Armies says:

‘Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,

the chief of their might.

Jeremiah 49.36: 36 I will bring on Elam the four winds from the four quarters of the sky,

and will scatter them toward all those winds.

There will be no nation where the outcasts of Elam will not come.

Jeremiah 49.37: 37 I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies,

and before those who seek their life.

I will bring evil on them, even my fierce anger,’ says Yahweh;

‘and I will send the sword after them,

until I have consumed them.

Jeremiah 49.38: 38 I will set my throne in Elam,

and will destroy from there king and princes,’ says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 49.39: 39 ‘But it will happen in the latter days

that I will reverse the captivity of Elam,’ says Yahweh.”

Malachi 4.0:

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 1.0:

Matthew 1.1: 1The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ,1 the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Matthew 1.2: 2 Abraham became the father of Isaac. Isaac became the father of Jacob. Jacob became the father of Judah and his brothers.

Matthew 1.3: 3 Judah became the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar. Perez became the father of Hezron. Hezron became the father of Ram.

Matthew 1.4: 4 Ram became the father of Amminadab. Amminadab became the father of Nahshon. Nahshon became the father of Salmon.

Matthew 1.5: 5 Salmon became the father of Boaz by Rahab. Boaz became the father of Obed by Ruth. Obed became the father of Jesse.

Matthew 1.6: 6 Jesse became the father of King David. David became the father of Solomon by her who had been Uriah’s wife.

Matthew 1.7: 7 Solomon became the father of Rehoboam. Rehoboam became the father of Abijah. Abijah became the father of Asa.

Matthew 1.8: 8 Asa became the father of Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat became the father of Joram. Joram became the father of Uzziah.

Matthew 1.9: 9 Uzziah became the father of Jotham. Jotham became the father of Ahaz. Ahaz became the father of Hezekiah.

Matthew 1.10: 10 Hezekiah became the father of Manasseh. Manasseh became the father of Amon. Amon became the father of Josiah.

Matthew 1.11: 11 Josiah became the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the exile to Babylon.

Matthew 1.12: 12 After the exile to Babylon, Jechoniah became the father of Shealtiel. Shealtiel became the father of Zerubbabel.

Matthew 1.13: 13 Zerubbabel became the father of Abiud. Abiud became the father of Eliakim. Eliakim became the father of Azor.

Matthew 1.14: 14 Azor became the father of Zadok. Zadok became the father of Achim. Achim became the father of Eliud.

Matthew 1.15: 15 Eliud became the father of Eleazar. Eleazar became the father of Matthan. Matthan became the father of Jacob.

Matthew 1.16: 16 Jacob became the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, from whom was born Jesus,2 who is called Christ.

Matthew 1.17: 17 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; from David to the exile to Babylon fourteen generations; and from the carrying away to Babylon to the Christ, fourteen generations.

Matthew 1.18: 18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this: After his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 1.19: 19 Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.

Matthew 1.20: 20 But when he thought about these things, behold,3 an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 1.21: 21 She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus,4 for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”

Matthew 1.22: 22 Now all this has happened that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,

Matthew 1.23: 23 “Behold, the virgin shall be with child,

and shall give birth to a son.

They shall call his name Immanuel;”

which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”a

Matthew 1.24: 24 Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took his wife to himself;

Matthew 1.25: 25 and didn’t know her sexually until she had given birth to her firstborn son. He named him Jesus.