2 Samuel 15.0:
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2 Samuel 15.1: 1 After this, Absalom prepared a chariot and horses for himself, and fifty men to run before him.
2 Samuel 15.2: 2 Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. When any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, “What city are you from?”
He said, “Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.”
2 Samuel 15.3: 3 Absalom said to him, “Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized by the king to hear you.”
2 Samuel 15.4: 4 Absalom said moreover, “Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!”
2 Samuel 15.5: 5 It was so, that when any man came near to bow down to him, he stretched out his hand, and took hold of him, and kissed him.
2 Samuel 15.6: 6 Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
2 Samuel 15.7: 7 At the end of forty years, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron.
2 Samuel 15.8: 8 For your servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying, ‘If Yahweh shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Yahweh.’”
2 Samuel 15.9: 9 The king said to him, “Go in peace.”
So he arose, and went to Hebron.
2 Samuel 15.10: 10 But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, ‘Absalom is king in Hebron!’”
2 Samuel 15.11: 11 Two hundred men went with Absalom out of Jerusalem, who were invited, and went in their simplicity; and they didn’t know anything.
2 Samuel 15.12: 12 Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.
2 Samuel 15.13: 13 A messenger came to David, saying, “The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.”
2 Samuel 15.14: 14 David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, “Arise! Let’s flee; or else none of us will escape from Absalom. Hurry to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”
2 Samuel 15.15: 15 The king’s servants said to the king, “Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king chooses.”
2 Samuel 15.16: 16 The king went out, and all his household after him. The king left ten women, who were concubines, to keep the house.
2 Samuel 15.17: 17 The king went out, and all the people after him; and they stayed in Beth Merhak.
2 Samuel 15.18: 18 All his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men who came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.
2 Samuel 15.19: 19 Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why do you also go with us? Return, and stay with the king; for you are a foreigner, and also an exile. Return to your own place.
2 Samuel 15.20: 20 Whereas you came but yesterday, should I today make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you.”
2 Samuel 15.21: 21 Ittai answered the king, and said, “As Yahweh lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king is, whether for death or for life, your servant will be there also.”
2 Samuel 15.22: 22 David said to Ittai, “Go and pass over.” Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones who were with him.
2 Samuel 15.23: 23 All the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over. The king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.
2 Samuel 15.24: 24 Behold, Zadok also came, and all the Levites with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God; and they set down God’s ark; and Abiathar went up, until all the people finished passing out of the city.
2 Samuel 15.25: 25 The king said to Zadok, “Carry God’s ark back into the city. If I find favor in Yahweh’s eyes, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation;
2 Samuel 15.26: 26 but if he says, ‘I have no delight in you;’ behold, here I am. Let him do to me as seems good to him.”
2 Samuel 15.27: 27 The king said also to Zadok the priest, “Aren’t you a seer? Return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
2 Samuel 15.28: 28 Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness, until word comes from you to inform me.”
2 Samuel 15.29: 29 Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried God’s ark to Jerusalem again; and they stayed there.
2 Samuel 15.30: 30 David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot. All the people who were with him each covered his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.
2 Samuel 15.31: 31 Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.”
David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”
2 Samuel 15.32: 32 When David had come to the top, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his tunic torn, and earth on his head.
2 Samuel 15.33: 33 David said to him, “If you pass on with me, then you will be a burden to me;
2 Samuel 15.34: 34 but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king. As I have been your father’s servant in time past, so I will now be your servant; then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.’
2 Samuel 15.35: 35 Don’t you have Zadok and Abiathar the priests there with you? Therefore whatever you hear out of the king’s house, tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.
2 Samuel 15.36: 36 Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz, Zadok’s son, and Jonathan, Abiathar’s son. Send to me everything that you shall hear by them.”
2 Samuel 15.37: 37 So Hushai, David’s friend, came into the city; and Absalom came into Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 22.0:
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2 Samuel 22.1: 1 David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul,
2 Samuel 22.2: 2 and he said:
“Yahweh is my rock,
my fortress,
and my deliverer, even mine;
2 Samuel 22.3: 3 God is my rock in whom I take refuge;
my shield, and the horn of my salvation,
my high tower, and my refuge.
My savior, you save me from violence.
2 Samuel 22.4: 4 I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised;
So shall I be saved from my enemies.
2 Samuel 22.5: 5 For the waves of death surrounded me.
The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
2 Samuel 22.6: 6 The cords of Sheol were around me.
The snares of death caught me.
2 Samuel 22.7: 7 In my distress, I called on Yahweh.
Yes, I called to my God.
He heard my voice out of his temple.
My cry came into his ears.
2 Samuel 22.8: 8 Then the earth shook and trembled.
The foundations of heaven quaked and were shaken,
because he was angry.
2 Samuel 22.9: 9 Smoke went up out of his nostrils.
Consuming fire came out of his mouth.
Coals were kindled by it.
2 Samuel 22.10: 10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down.
Thick darkness was under his feet.
2 Samuel 22.11: 11 He rode on a cherub, and flew.
Yes, he was seen on the wings of the wind.
2 Samuel 22.12: 12 He made darkness a shelter around himself:
gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
2 Samuel 22.13: 13 At the brightness before him,
coals of fire were kindled.
2 Samuel 22.14: 14 Yahweh thundered from heaven.
The Most High uttered his voice.
2 Samuel 22.15: 15 He sent out arrows, and scattered them;
lightning, and confused them.
2 Samuel 22.16: 16 Then the channels of the sea appeared.
The foundations of the world were laid bare by Yahweh’s rebuke,
at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
2 Samuel 22.17: 17 He sent from on high and he took me.
He drew me out of many waters.
2 Samuel 22.18: 18 He delivered me from my strong enemy,
from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.
2 Samuel 22.19: 19 They came on me in the day of my calamity,
but Yahweh was my support.
2 Samuel 22.20: 20 He also brought me out into a large place.
He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
2 Samuel 22.21: 21 Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness.
He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands.
2 Samuel 22.22: 22 For I have kept Yahweh’s ways,
and have not wickedly departed from my God.
2 Samuel 22.23: 23 For all his ordinances were before me.
As for his statutes, I didn’t depart from them.
2 Samuel 22.24: 24 I was also perfect toward him.
I kept myself from my iniquity.
2 Samuel 22.25: 25 Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness,
According to my cleanness in his eyesight.
2 Samuel 22.26: 26 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful.
With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect.
2 Samuel 22.27: 27 With the pure you will show yourself pure.
With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
2 Samuel 22.28: 28 You will save the afflicted people,
But your eyes are on the arrogant, that you may bring them down.
2 Samuel 22.29: 29 For you are my lamp, Yahweh.
Yahweh will light up my darkness.
2 Samuel 22.30: 30 For by you, I run against a troop.
By my God, I leap over a wall.
2 Samuel 22.31: 31 As for God, his way is perfect.
Yahweh’s word is tested.
He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
2 Samuel 22.32: 32 For who is God, besides Yahweh?
Who is a rock, besides our God?
2 Samuel 22.33: 33 God is my strong fortress.
He makes my way perfect.
2 Samuel 22.34: 34 He makes his feet like hinds’ feet,
and sets me on my high places.
2 Samuel 22.35: 35 He teaches my hands to war,
so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.
2 Samuel 22.36: 36 You have also given me the shield of your salvation.
Your gentleness has made me great.
2 Samuel 22.37: 37 You have enlarged my steps under me.
My feet have not slipped.
2 Samuel 22.38: 38 I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them.
I didn’t turn again until they were consumed.
2 Samuel 22.39: 39 I have consumed them,
and struck them through,
so that they can’t arise.
Yes, they have fallen under my feet.
2 Samuel 22.40: 40 For you have armed me with strength for the battle.
You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
2 Samuel 22.41: 41 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me,
that I might cut off those who hate me.
2 Samuel 22.42: 42 They looked, but there was no one to save;
even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.
2 Samuel 22.43: 43 Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth.
I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad.
2 Samuel 22.44: 44 You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people.
You have kept me to be the head of the nations.
A people whom I have not known will serve me.
2 Samuel 22.45: 45 The foreigners will submit themselves to me.
As soon as they hear of me, they will obey me.
2 Samuel 22.46: 46 The foreigners will fade away,
and will come trembling out of their close places.
2 Samuel 22.47: 47 Yahweh lives!
Blessed be my rock!
Exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,
2 Samuel 22.48: 48 even the God who executes vengeance for me,
who brings down peoples under me,
2 Samuel 22.49: 49 who brings me away from my enemies.
Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me.
You deliver me from the violent man.
2 Samuel 22.50: 50 Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations,
and will sing praises to your name.
2 Samuel 22.51: 51 He gives great deliverance to his king,
and shows loving kindness to his anointed,
to David and to his offspring, forever more.”
2 Kings 21.0:
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2 Kings 21.1: 1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.
2 Kings 21.2: 2 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.
2 Kings 21.3: 3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he raised up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel did, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.
2 Kings 21.4: 4 He built altars in Yahweh’s house, of which Yahweh said, “I will put my name in Jerusalem.”
2 Kings 21.5: 5 He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of Yahweh’s house.
2 Kings 21.6: 6 He made his son to pass through the fire, practiced sorcery, used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards. He did much evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
2 Kings 21.7: 7 He set the engraved image of Asherah that he had made in the house of which Yahweh said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever;
2 Kings 21.8: 8 I will not cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.”
2 Kings 21.9: 9 But they didn’t listen, and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than the nations did whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.
2 Kings 21.10: 10 Yahweh spoke by his servants the prophets, saying,
2 Kings 21.11: 11 “Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, and has done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has also made Judah to sin with his idols;
2 Kings 21.12: 12 therefore Yahweh the God of Israel says, ‘Behold, I bring such evil on Jerusalem and Judah that whoever hears of it, both his ears will tingle.
2 Kings 21.13: 13 I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of Ahab’s house; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
2 Kings 21.14: 14 I will cast off the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hands of their enemies. They will become a prey and a plunder to all their enemies,
2 Kings 21.15: 15 because they have done that which is evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.’”
2 Kings 21.16: 16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; in addition to his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.
2 Kings 21.17: 17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 21.18: 18 Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza; and Amon his son reigned in his place.
2 Kings 21.19: 19 Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
2 Kings 21.20: 20 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as Manasseh his father did.
2 Kings 21.21: 21 He walked in all the ways that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshiped them;
2 Kings 21.22: 22 and he abandoned Yahweh, the God of his fathers, and didn’t walk in the way of Yahweh.
2 Kings 21.23: 23 The servants of Amon conspired against him, and put the king to death in his own house.
2 Kings 21.24: 24 But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.
2 Kings 21.25: 25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 21.26: 26 He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son reigned in his place.
2 Kings 24.0:
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2 Kings 24.1: 1 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him.
2 Kings 24.2: 2 Yahweh sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by his servants the prophets.
2 Kings 24.3: 3 Surely at the commandment of Yahweh this came on Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did,
2 Kings 24.4: 4 and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Yahweh would not pardon.
2 Kings 24.5: 5 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 24.6: 6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.
2 Kings 24.7: 7 The king of Egypt didn’t come out of his land any more; for the king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates, all that belonged to the king of Egypt.
2 Kings 24.8: 8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
2 Kings 24.9: 9 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all that his father had done.
2 Kings 24.10: 10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
2 Kings 24.11: 11 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it,
2 Kings 24.12: 12 and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers; and the king of Babylon captured him in the eighth year of his reign.
2 Kings 24.13: 13 He carried out from there all the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold, which Solomon king of Israel had made in Yahweh’s temple, as Yahweh had said.
2 Kings 24.14: 14 He carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. No one remained, except the poorest people of the land.
2 Kings 24.15: 15 He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, with the king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officers, and the chief men of the land. He carried them into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
2 Kings 24.16: 16 All the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths one thousand, all of them strong and fit for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
2 Kings 24.17: 17 The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s father’s brother, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
2 Kings 24.18: 18 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
2 Kings 24.19: 19 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
2 Kings 24.20: 20 For through the anger of Yahweh, this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence.
Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
Proverbs 15.0:
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Proverbs 15.1: 1 A gentle answer turns away wrath,
but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Proverbs 15.2: 2 The tongue of the wise commends knowledge,
but the mouth of fools gush out folly.
Proverbs 15.3: 3 Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere,
keeping watch on the evil and the good.
Proverbs 15.4: 4 A gentle tongue is a tree of life,
but deceit in it crushes the spirit.
Proverbs 15.5: 5 A fool despises his father’s correction,
but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.
Proverbs 15.6: 6 In the house of the righteous is much treasure,
but the income of the wicked brings trouble.
Proverbs 15.7: 7 The lips of the wise spread knowledge;
not so with the heart of fools.
Proverbs 15.8: 8 The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh,
but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Proverbs 15.9: 9 The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh,
but he loves him who follows after righteousness.
Proverbs 15.10: 10 There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way:
whoever hates reproof shall die.
Proverbs 15.11: 11 Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh—
how much more then the hearts of the children of men!
Proverbs 15.12: 12 A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved;
he will not go to the wise.
Proverbs 15.13: 13 A glad heart makes a cheerful face,
but an aching heart breaks the spirit.
Proverbs 15.14: 14 The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge,
but the mouths of fools feed on folly.
Proverbs 15.15: 15 All the days of the afflicted are wretched,
but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.
Proverbs 15.16: 16 Better is little, with the fear of Yahweh,
than great treasure with trouble.
Proverbs 15.17: 17 Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is,
than a fattened calf with hatred.
Proverbs 15.18: 18 A wrathful man stirs up contention,
but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.
Proverbs 15.19: 19 The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch,
but the path of the upright is a highway.
Proverbs 15.20: 20 A wise son makes a father glad,
but a foolish man despises his mother.
Proverbs 15.21: 21 Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom,
but a man of understanding keeps his way straight.
Proverbs 15.22: 22 Where there is no counsel, plans fail;
but in a multitude of counselors they are established.
Proverbs 15.23: 23 Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth.
How good is a word at the right time!
Proverbs 15.24: 24 The path of life leads upward for the wise,
to keep him from going downward to Sheol.
Proverbs 15.25: 25 Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud,
but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.
Proverbs 15.26: 26 Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked,
but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.
Proverbs 15.27: 27 He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house,
but he who hates bribes will live.
Proverbs 15.28: 28 The heart of the righteous weighs answers,
but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.
Proverbs 15.29: 29 Yahweh is far from the wicked,
but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
Proverbs 15.30: 30 The light of the eyes rejoices the heart.
Good news gives health to the bones.
Proverbs 15.31: 31 The ear that listens to reproof lives,
and will be at home among the wise.
Proverbs 15.32: 32 He who refuses correction despises his own soul,
but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.
Proverbs 15.33: 33 The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom.
Before honor is humility.
Proverbs 22.0:
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Proverbs 22.1: 1 A good name is more desirable than great riches,
and loving favor is better than silver and gold.
Proverbs 22.2: 2 The rich and the poor have this in common:
Yahweh is the maker of them all.
Proverbs 22.3: 3 A prudent man sees danger and hides himself;
but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
Proverbs 22.4: 4 The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh
is wealth, honor, and life.
Proverbs 22.5: 5 Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked:
whoever guards his soul stays from them.
Proverbs 22.6: 6 Train up a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22.7: 7 The rich rule over the poor.
The borrower is servant to the lender.
Proverbs 22.8: 8 He who sows wickedness reaps trouble,
and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
Proverbs 22.9: 9 He who has a generous eye will be blessed;
for he shares his food with the poor.
Proverbs 22.10: 10 Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out;
yes, quarrels and insults will stop.
Proverbs 22.11: 11 He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully
is the king’s friend.
Proverbs 22.12: 12 Yahweh’s eyes watch over knowledge;
but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.
Proverbs 22.13: 13 The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside!
I will be killed in the streets!”
Proverbs 22.14: 14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit.
He who is under Yahweh’s wrath will fall into it.
Proverbs 22.15: 15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child:
the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Proverbs 22.16: 16 Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich,
both come to poverty.
Proverbs 22.17: 17 Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise.
Apply your heart to my teaching.
Proverbs 22.18: 18 For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you,
if all of them are ready on your lips.
Proverbs 22.19: 19 I teach you today, even you,
So that your trust may be in Yahweh.
Proverbs 22.20: 20 Haven’t I written to you thirty excellent things
of counsel and knowledge,
Proverbs 22.21: 21 To teach you truth, reliable words,
to give sound answers to the ones who sent you?
Proverbs 22.22: 22 Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor;
and don’t crush the needy in court;
Proverbs 22.23: 23 for Yahweh will plead their case,
and plunder the life of those who plunder them.
Proverbs 22.24: 24 Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man,
and don’t associate with one who harbors anger:
Proverbs 22.25: 25 lest you learn his ways,
and ensnare your soul.
Proverbs 22.26: 26 Don’t you be one of those who strike hands,
of those who are collateral for debts.
Proverbs 22.27: 27 If you don’t have means to pay,
why should he take away your bed from under you?
Proverbs 22.28: 28 Don’t move the ancient boundary stone
which your fathers have set up.
Proverbs 22.29: 29 Do you see a man skilled in his work?
He will serve kings.
He won’t serve obscure men.
Isaiah 36.0:
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Isaiah 36.1: 1 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.
Isaiah 36.2: 2 The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to king Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool in the fuller’s field highway.
Isaiah 36.3: 3 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder came out to him.
Isaiah 36.4: 4 Rabshakeh said to them, “Now tell Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the king of Assyria, says, “What confidence is this in which you trust?
Isaiah 36.5: 5 I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?
Isaiah 36.6: 6 Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
Isaiah 36.7: 7 But if you tell me, ‘We trust in Yahweh our God,’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar?’”
Isaiah 36.8: 8 Now therefore, please make a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.
Isaiah 36.9: 9 How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
Isaiah 36.10: 10 Have I come up now without Yahweh against this land to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, “Go up against this land, and destroy it.”’”
Isaiah 36.11: 11 Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Don’t speak to us in the Jews’ language in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”
Isaiah 36.12: 12 But Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you, to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”
Isaiah 36.13: 13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!
Isaiah 36.14: 14 The king says, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you.
Isaiah 36.15: 15 Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us. This city won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”’
Isaiah 36.16: 16 Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for the king of Assyria says, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and each of you eat from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, and each one of you drink the waters of his own cistern;
Isaiah 36.17: 17 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
Isaiah 36.18: 18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, “Yahweh will deliver us.” Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria?
Isaiah 36.19: 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
Isaiah 36.20: 20 Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”
Isaiah 36.21: 21 But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”
Isaiah 36.22: 22 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
Isaiah 39.0:
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Isaiah 39.1: 1 At 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.”
Isaiah 39.4: 4 Then he asked, “What have they seen in your house?”
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 2.0:
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Jeremiah 2.1: 1 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
Jeremiah 2.2: 2 “Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says,
“I remember for you the kindness of your youth,
the love of your weddings;
how you went after me in the wilderness,
in a land that was not sown.
Jeremiah 2.3: 3 Israel was holiness to Yahweh,
the first fruits of his increase.
All who devour him will be held guilty.
Evil will come on them,”’ says Yahweh.”
Jeremiah 2.4: 4 Hear Yahweh’s word, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel!
Jeremiah 2.5: 5 Yahweh says,
“What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me,
that they have gone far from me,
and have walked after worthless vanity,
and have become worthless?
Jeremiah 2.6: 6 They didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt,
who led us through the wilderness,
through a land of deserts and of pits,
through a land of drought and of the shadow of death,
through a land that no one passed through,
and where no man lived?’
Jeremiah 2.7: 7 I brought you into a plentiful land
to eat its fruit and its goodness;
but when you entered, you defiled my land,
and made my heritage an abomination.
Jeremiah 2.8: 8 The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh?’
and those who handle the law didn’t know me.
The rulers also transgressed against me,
and the prophets prophesied by Baal
and followed things that do not profit.
Jeremiah 2.9: 9 “Therefore I will yet contend with you,” says Yahweh,
“and I will contend with your children’s children.
Jeremiah 2.10: 10 For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see.
Send to Kedar, and consider diligently,
and see if there has been such a thing.
Jeremiah 2.11: 11 Has a nation changed its gods,
which really are no gods?
But my people have changed their glory for that which doesn’t profit.
Jeremiah 2.12: 12 “Be astonished, you heavens, at this
and be horribly afraid.
Be very desolate,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 2.13: 13 “For my people have committed two evils:
they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters,
and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.
Jeremiah 2.14: 14 Is Israel a slave?
Is he born into slavery?
Why has he become a captive?
Jeremiah 2.15: 15 The young lions have roared at him and yelled.
They have made his land waste.
His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 2.16: 16 The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.
Jeremiah 2.17: 17 “Haven’t you brought this on yourself,
in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?
Jeremiah 2.18: 18 Now what do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor?
Or why do you to go on the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?
Jeremiah 2.19: 19 “Your own wickedness will correct you,
and your backsliding will rebuke you.
Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing,
that you have forsaken Yahweh your God,
and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
Jeremiah 2.20: 20 “For long ago I broke off your yoke,
and burst your bonds.
You said, ‘I will not serve;’
for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself,
playing the prostitute.
Jeremiah 2.21: 21 Yet I had planted you a noble vine,
a pure and faithful seed.
How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
Jeremiah 2.22: 22 For though you wash yourself with lye,
and use much soap,
yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord Yahweh.
Jeremiah 2.23: 23 “How can you say, ‘I am not defiled.
I have not gone after the Baals’?
See your way in the valley.
Know what you have done.
You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways,
Jeremiah 2.24: 24 a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that sniffs the wind in her craving.
When she is in heat, who can turn her away?
All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month, they will find her.
Jeremiah 2.25: 25 “Keep your feet from being bare,
and your throat from thirst.
But you said, ‘It is in vain.
No, for I have loved strangers,
and I will go after them.’
Jeremiah 2.26: 26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found,
so the house of Israel is ashamed:
they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets,
Jeremiah 2.27: 27 who tell wood, ‘You are my father,’
and a stone, ‘You have given birth to me,’
for they have turned their back to me,
and not their face;
but in the time of their trouble they will say, ‘Arise, and save us!’
Jeremiah 2.28: 28 “But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves?
Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble;
for you have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah.
Jeremiah 2.29: 29 “Why will you contend with me?
You all have transgressed against me,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 2.30: 30 “I have struck your children in vain.
They received no correction.
Your own sword has devoured your prophets,
like a destroying lion.
Jeremiah 2.31: 31 Generation, consider Yahweh’s word.
Have I been a wilderness to Israel?
Or a land of thick darkness?
Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose.
We will come to you no more?’
Jeremiah 2.32: 32 “Can a virgin forget her ornaments,
or a bride her attire?
Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.
Jeremiah 2.33: 33 How well you prepare your way to seek love!
Therefore you have even taught the wicked women your ways.
Jeremiah 2.34: 34 Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts.
You didn’t find them breaking in,
but it is because of all these things.
Jeremiah 2.35: 35 “Yet you said, ‘I am innocent.
Surely his anger has turned away from me.’
“Behold, I will judge you,
because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
Jeremiah 2.36: 36 Why do you go about so much to change your ways?
You will be ashamed of Egypt also,
as you were ashamed of Assyria.
Jeremiah 2.37: 37 You will also leave that place with your hands on your head;
for Yahweh has rejected those in whom you trust,
and you won’t prosper with them.
Jeremiah 4.0:
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Jeremiah 4.1: 1 “If you will return, Israel,” says Yahweh, “if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you will not be removed;
Jeremiah 4.2: 2 and you will swear, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations will bless themselves in him, and they will glory in him.”
Jeremiah 4.3: 3 For Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.
Jeremiah 4.4: 4 Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Jeremiah 4.5: 5 Declare in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, ‘Blow the trumpet in the land!’ Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves! Let’s go into the fortified cities!’
Jeremiah 4.6: 6 Set up a standard toward Zion. Flee for safety! Don’t wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.”
Jeremiah 4.7: 7 A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations. He is on his way. He has gone out from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 4.8: 8 For this, clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn’t turned back from us.
Jeremiah 4.9: 9 “It will happen at that day,” says Yahweh, “that the heart of the king will perish, along with the heart of the princes. The priests will be astonished, and the prophets will wonder.”
Jeremiah 4.10: 10 Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You will have peace;’ whereas the sword reaches to the heart.”
Jeremiah 4.11: 11 At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse;
Jeremiah 4.12: 12 a full wind from these will come for me. Now I will also utter judgments against them.”
Jeremiah 4.13: 13 Behold, he will come up as clouds, and his chariots will be as the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined.
Jeremiah 4.14: 14 Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?
Jeremiah 4.15: 15 For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim:
Jeremiah 4.16: 16 “Tell the nations, behold, publish against Jerusalem, ‘Watchers come from a far country, and raise their voice against the cities of Judah.
Jeremiah 4.17: 17 As keepers of a field, they are against her all around, because she has been rebellious against me,’” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 4.18: 18 “Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.”
Jeremiah 4.19: 19 My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
Jeremiah 4.20: 20 Destruction on destruction is decreed, for the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, and my curtains gone in a moment.
Jeremiah 4.21: 21 How long will I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet?
Jeremiah 4.22: 22 “For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”
Jeremiah 4.23: 23 I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void, and the heavens, and they had no light.
Jeremiah 4.24: 24 I saw the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth.
Jeremiah 4.25: 25 I saw, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky had fled.
Jeremiah 4.26: 26 I saw, and behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of Yahweh, before his fierce anger.
Jeremiah 4.27: 27 For Yahweh says, “The whole land will be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.
Jeremiah 4.28: 28 For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above be black, because I have spoken it. I have planned it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.”
Jeremiah 4.29: 29 Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers. They go into the thickets, and climb up on the rocks. Every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells therein.
Jeremiah 4.30: 30 You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with makeup, you make yourself beautiful in vain. Your lovers despise you. They seek your life.
Jeremiah 4.31: 31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who gives birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying, “Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers.”
Jeremiah 9.0:
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Jeremiah 9.1: 1 Oh that my head were waters,
and my eyes a spring of tears,
that I might weep day and night
for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Jeremiah 9.2: 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness
a lodging place of wayfaring men;
that I might leave my people,
and go from them!
For they are all adulterers,
an assembly of treacherous men.
Jeremiah 9.3: 3 “They bend their tongue,
as their bow, for falsehood.
They have grown strong in the land,
but not for truth;
for they proceed from evil to evil,
and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 9.4: 4 “Everyone beware of his neighbor,
and don’t trust in any brother;
for every brother will utterly supplant,
and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.
Jeremiah 9.5: 5 Friends deceive each other,
and will not speak the truth.
They have taught their tongue to speak lies.
They weary themselves commiting iniquity.
Jeremiah 9.6: 6 Your habitation is in the middle of deceit.
Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 9.7: 7 Therefore Yahweh of Armies says,
“Behold, I will melt them and test them;
for how should I deal with the daughter of my people?
Jeremiah 9.8: 8 Their tongue is a deadly arrow.
It speaks deceit.
One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth,
but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.
Jeremiah 9.9: 9 Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh.
“Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on a nation such as this?
Jeremiah 9.10: 10 I will weep and wail for the mountains,
and lament for the pastures of the wilderness,
because they are burned up, so that no one passes through;
Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock.
Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled.
They are gone.
Jeremiah 9.11: 11 “I will make Jerusalem heaps,
a dwelling place of jackals.
I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,
without inhabitant.”
Jeremiah 9.12: 12 Who is wise enough to understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?
Jeremiah 9.13: 13 Yahweh says, “Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice or walked in my ways,
Jeremiah 9.14: 14 but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”
Jeremiah 9.15: 15 Therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.
Jeremiah 9.16: 16 I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.”
Jeremiah 9.17: 17 Yahweh of Armies says,
“Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come.
Send for the skillful women, that they may come.
Jeremiah 9.18: 18 Let them make haste
and take up a wailing for us,
that our eyes may run down with tears
and our eyelids gush out with waters.
Jeremiah 9.19: 19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion,
‘How we are ruined!
We are greatly confounded
because we have forsaken the land,
because they have cast down our dwellings.’”
Jeremiah 9.20: 20 Yet hear Yahweh’s word, you women.
Let your ear receive the word of his mouth.
Teach your daughters wailing.
Everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation.
Jeremiah 9.21: 21 For death has come up into our windows.
It has entered into our palaces
to cut off the children from outside,
and the young men from the streets.
Jeremiah 9.22: 22 Speak, “Yahweh says,
“‘The dead bodies of men will fall as dung on the open field,
and as the handful after the harvester.
No one will gather them.’”
Jeremiah 9.23: 23 Yahweh says,
“Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom.
Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might.
Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.
Jeremiah 9.24: 24 But let him who glories glory in this,
that he has understanding, and knows me,
that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth,
for I delight in these things,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 9.25: 25 “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will punish all those who are circumcised only in their flesh:
Jeremiah 9.26: 26 Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and all who have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness, for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.”
Jeremiah 14.0:
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Jeremiah 14.1: 1 This is Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.
Jeremiah 14.2: 2 “Judah mourns,
and its gates languish.
They sit in black on the ground.
The cry of Jerusalem goes up.
Jeremiah 14.3: 3 Their nobles send their little ones to the waters.
They come to the cisterns,
and find no water.
They return with their vessels empty.
They are disappointed and confounded,
and cover their heads.
Jeremiah 14.4: 4 Because of the ground which is cracked,
because no rain has been in the land,
the plowmen are disappointed.
They cover their heads.
Jeremiah 14.5: 5 Yes, the doe in the field also calves and forsakes her young,
because there is no grass.
Jeremiah 14.6: 6 The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights.
They pant for air like jackals.
Their eyes fail,
because there is no vegetation.
Jeremiah 14.7: 7 Though our iniquities testify against us,
work for your name’s sake, Yahweh;
for our rebellions are many.
We have sinned against you.
Jeremiah 14.8: 8 You hope of Israel,
its Savior in the time of trouble,
why should you be as a foreigner in the land,
and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?
Jeremiah 14.9: 9 Why should you be like a scared man,
as a mighty man who can’t save?
Yet you, Yahweh, are in the middle of us,
and we are called by your name.
Don’t leave us.
Jeremiah 14.10: 10 Yahweh says to this people,
“Even so they have loved to wander.
They have not restrained their feet.
Therefore Yahweh does not accept them.
Now he will remember their iniquity,
and punish them for their sins.”
Jeremiah 14.11: 11 Yahweh said to me, “Don’t pray for this people for their good.
Jeremiah 14.12: 12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”
Jeremiah 14.13: 13 Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, the prophets tell them, ‘You will not see the sword, neither will you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.’”
Jeremiah 14.14: 14 Then Yahweh said to me, “The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I didn’t send them. I didn’t command them. I didn’t speak to them. They prophesy to you a lying vision, divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.
Jeremiah 14.15: 15 Therefore Yahweh says concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, but I didn’t send them, yet they say, ‘Sword and famine will not be in this land.’ Those prophets will be consumed by sword and famine.
Jeremiah 14.16: 16 The people to whom they prophesy will be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. They will have no one to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters, for I will pour their wickedness on them.
Jeremiah 14.17: 17 “You shall say this word to them:
“‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day,
and let them not cease;
for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach,
with a very grievous wound.
Jeremiah 14.18: 18 If I go out into the field,
then, behold, the slain with the sword!
If I enter into the city,
then, behold, those who are sick with famine!
For both the prophet and the priest go about in the land,
and have no knowledge.’”
Jeremiah 14.19: 19 Have you utterly rejected Judah?
Has your soul loathed Zion?
Why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us?
We looked for peace, but no good came;
and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
Jeremiah 14.20: 20 We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness,
and the iniquity of our fathers;
for we have sinned against you.
Jeremiah 14.21: 21 Do not abhor us, for your name’s sake.
Do not disgrace the throne of your glory.
Remember, and don’t break your covenant with us.
Jeremiah 14.22: 22 Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain?
Or can the sky give showers?
Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God?
Therefore we will wait for you;
for you have made all these things.
Jeremiah 16.0:
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Jeremiah 16.1: 1 Yahweh’s word came also to me, saying,
Jeremiah 16.2: 2 “You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.”
Jeremiah 16.3: 3 For Yahweh says concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who became their father in this land:
Jeremiah 16.4: 4 “They will die grievous deaths. They will not be lamented, neither will they be buried. They will be as dung on the surface of the ground. They will be consumed by the sword and by famine. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.”
Jeremiah 16.5: 5 For Yahweh says, “Don’t enter into the house of mourning. Don’t go to lament. Don’t bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people,” says Yahweh, “even loving kindness and tender mercies.
Jeremiah 16.6: 6 Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried. Men won’t lament for them, cut themselves, or make themselves bald for them.
Jeremiah 16.7: 7 Men won’t break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead. Men won’t give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
Jeremiah 16.8: 8 “You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.”
Jeremiah 16.9: 9 For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
Jeremiah 16.10: 10 It will happen, when you tell this people all these words, and they ask you, ‘Why has Yahweh pronounced all this great evil against us?’ or ‘What is our iniquity? or ‘What is our sin that we have committed against Yahweh our God?’
Jeremiah 16.11: 11 then you shall tell them, ‘Because your fathers have forsaken me,’ says Yahweh, ‘and have walked after other gods, have served them, have worshiped them, have forsaken me, and have not kept my law.
Jeremiah 16.12: 12 You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.
Jeremiah 16.13: 13 Therefore I will cast you out of this land into the land that you have not known, neither you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’
Jeremiah 16.14: 14 “Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that it will no more be said, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;’
Jeremiah 16.15: 15 but, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had driven them.’ I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers.
Jeremiah 16.16: 16 “Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says Yahweh, “and they will fish them up. Afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
Jeremiah 16.17: 17 For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.
Jeremiah 16.18: 18 First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”
Jeremiah 16.19: 19 Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold,
and my refuge in the day of affliction,
the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth,
and will say,
“Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies,
vanity and things in which there is no profit.
Jeremiah 16.20: 20 Should a man make to himself gods
which yet are no gods?”
Jeremiah 16.21: 21 “Therefore behold, I will cause them to know,
this once I will cause them to know my hand and my might.
Then they will know that my name is Yahweh.”
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Jeremiah 21.1: 1 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when king Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying,
Jeremiah 21.2: 2 “Please inquire of Yahweh for us; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon makes war against us. Perhaps Yahweh will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may withdraw from us.”
Jeremiah 21.3: 3 Then Jeremiah said to them, “Tell Zedekiah:
Jeremiah 21.4: 4 ‘Yahweh, the God of Israel says, “Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the walls; and I will gather them into the middle of this city.
Jeremiah 21.5: 5 I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation.
Jeremiah 21.6: 6 I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and animal. They will die of a great pestilence.
Jeremiah 21.7: 7 Afterward,” says Yahweh, “I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, his servants, and the people, even those who are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life. He will strike them with the edge of the sword. He will not spare them, have pity, or have mercy.”’
Jeremiah 21.8: 8 “You shall say to this people, ‘Yahweh says: “Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.
Jeremiah 21.9: 9 He who remains in this city will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out and passes over to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he will live, and he will escape with his life.
Jeremiah 21.10: 10 For I have set my face on this city for evil, and not for good,” says Yahweh. “It will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire.”’
Jeremiah 21.11: 11 “Concerning the house of the king of Judah, hear Yahweh’s word:
Jeremiah 21.12: 12 House of David, Yahweh says,
‘Execute justice in the morning,
and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor,
lest my wrath go out like fire,
and burn so that no one can quench it,
because of the evil of your doings.
Jeremiah 21.13: 13 Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley,
and of the rock of the plain,’ says Yahweh.
‘You that say, “Who would come down against us?”
or “Who would enter into our homes?”
Jeremiah 21.14: 14 I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says Yahweh;
and I will kindle a fire in her forest,
and it will devour all that is around her.’”
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Jeremiah 23.1: 1 “Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 23.2: 2 Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says against the shepherds who feed my people: “You have scattered my flock, driven them away, and have not visited them. Behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 23.3: 3 “I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they will be fruitful and multiply.
Jeremiah 23.4: 4 I will set up shepherds over them, who will feed them. They will no longer be afraid or dismayed, neither will any be lacking,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 23.5: 5 “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh,
“that I will raise to David a righteous Branch,
and he will reign as king and deal wisely,
and will execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Jeremiah 23.6: 6 In his days Judah will be saved,
and Israel will dwell safely.
This is his name by which he will be called:
Yahweh our righteousness.
Jeremiah 23.7: 7 “Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that they will no more say, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;’
Jeremiah 23.8: 8 but, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up and who led the offspring of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all the countries where I had driven them.’ Then they will dwell in their own land.”
Jeremiah 23.9: 9 Concerning the prophets:
My heart within me is broken.
All my bones shake.
I am like a drunken man,
and like a man whom wine has overcome,
because of Yahweh,
and because of his holy words.
Jeremiah 23.10: 10 For the land is full of adulterers;
for because of the curse the land mourns.
The pastures of the wilderness have dried up.
Their course is evil,
and their might is not right;
Jeremiah 23.11: 11 for both prophet and priest are profane.
Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 23.12: 12 Therefore their way will be to them as slippery places in the darkness.
They will be driven on,
and fall therein;
for I will bring evil on them,
even the year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 23.13: 13 “I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria.
They prophesied by Baal,
and caused my people Israel to err.
Jeremiah 23.14: 14 In the prophets of Jerusalem I have also seen a horrible thing:
they commit adultery and walk in lies.
They strengthen the hands of evildoers,
so that no one returns from his wickedness.
They have all become to me as Sodom,
and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.”
Jeremiah 23.15: 15 Therefore Yahweh of Armies says concerning the prophets:
“Behold, I will feed them with wormwood,
and make them drink poisoned water;
for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”
Jeremiah 23.16: 16 Yahweh of Armies says,
“Don’t listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you.
They teach you vanity.
They speak a vision of their own heart,
and not out of the mouth of Yahweh.
Jeremiah 23.17: 17 They say continually to those who despise me,
‘Yahweh has said, “You will have peace;”’
and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say,
‘No evil will come on you.’
Jeremiah 23.18: 18 For who has stood in the council of Yahweh,
that he should perceive and hear his word?
Who has listened to my word, and heard it?
Jeremiah 23.19: 19 Behold, Yahweh’s storm, his wrath, has gone out.
Yes, a whirling storm:
It will burst on the head of the wicked.
Jeremiah 23.20: 20 Yahweh’s anger will not return until he has executed,
and until he has performed the intents of his heart.
In the latter days, you will understand it perfectly.
Jeremiah 23.21: 21 I didn’t send these prophets, yet they ran.
I didn’t speak to them, yet they prophesied.
Jeremiah 23.22: 22 But if they had stood in my council,
then they would have caused my people to hear my words,
and would have turned them from their evil way,
and from the evil of their doings.
Jeremiah 23.23: 23 “Am I a God at hand,” says Yahweh,
“and not a God afar off?
Jeremiah 23.24: 24 Can anyone hide himself in secret places
so that I can’t see him?” says Yahweh.
“Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 23.25: 25 “I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’
Jeremiah 23.26: 26 How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?
Jeremiah 23.27: 27 They intend to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they each tell his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name because of Baal.
Jeremiah 23.28: 28 The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 23.29: 29 “Isn’t my word like fire?” says Yahweh; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
Jeremiah 23.30: 30 “Therefore behold, I am against the prophets,” says Yahweh, “who each steal my words from his neighbor.
Jeremiah 23.31: 31 Behold, I am against the prophets,” says Yahweh, “who use their tongues, and say, ‘He says.’
Jeremiah 23.32: 32 Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams,” says Yahweh, “who tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting; yet I didn’t send them or command them. They don’t profit this people at all,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 23.33: 33 “When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, asks you, saying, ‘What is the message from Yahweh?’ Then you shall tell them, ‘“What message? I will cast you off,” says Yahweh.’
Jeremiah 23.34: 34 As for the prophet, the priest, and the people, who say, ‘The message from Yahweh,’ I will even punish that man and his household.
Jeremiah 23.35: 35 You will say everyone to his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, ‘What has Yahweh answered?’ and, ‘What has Yahweh said?’
Jeremiah 23.36: 36 You will mention the message from Yahweh no more: for every man’s own word has become his message; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of Yahweh of Armies, our God.
Jeremiah 23.37: 37 You will say to the prophet, ‘What has Yahweh answered you?’ and, ‘What has Yahweh spoken?’
Jeremiah 23.38: 38 Although you say, ‘The message from Yahweh;’ therefore Yahweh says: ‘Because you say this word, “The message from Yahweh,” and I have sent to you, telling you not to say, “The message from Yahweh;”
Jeremiah 23.39: 39 therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence.
Jeremiah 23.40: 40 I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which will not be forgotten.’”
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Jeremiah 30.1: 1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
Jeremiah 30.2: 2 “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Write all the words that I have spoken to you in a book.
Jeremiah 30.3: 3 For, behold, the days come,’ says Yahweh, ‘that I will reverse the captivity of my people Israel and Judah,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it.’”
Jeremiah 30.4: 4 These are the words that Yahweh spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
Jeremiah 30.5: 5 For Yahweh says:
“We have heard a voice of trembling;
a voice of fear, and not of peace.
Jeremiah 30.6: 6 Ask now, and see whether a man travails with child.
Why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail,
and all faces are turned pale?
Jeremiah 30.7: 7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it.
It is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;
but he will be saved out of it.
Jeremiah 30.8: 8 It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will break his yoke from off your neck,
and will burst your bonds.
Strangers will no more make them their bondservants;
Jeremiah 30.9: 9 but they will serve Yahweh their God,
and David their king,
whom I will raise up to them.
Jeremiah 30.10: 10 Therefore don’t be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh.
Don’t be dismayed, Israel.
For, behold, I will save you from afar,
and save your offspring from the land of their captivity.
Jacob will return,
and will be quiet and at ease.
No one will make him afraid.
Jeremiah 30.11: 11 For I am with you, says Yahweh, to save you;
for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have scattered you,
but I will not make a full end of you;
but I will correct you in measure,
and will in no way leave you unpunished.”
Jeremiah 30.12: 12 For Yahweh says,
“Your hurt is incurable.
Your wound is grievous.
Jeremiah 30.13: 13 There is no one to plead your cause,
that you may be bound up.
You have no healing medicines.
Jeremiah 30.14: 14 All your lovers have forgotten you.
They don’t seek you.
For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy,
with the chastisement of a cruel one,
for the greatness of your iniquity,
because your sins were increased.
Jeremiah 30.15: 15 Why do you cry over your injury?
Your pain is incurable.
For the greatness of your iniquity,
because your sins have increased,
I have done these things to you.
Jeremiah 30.16: 16 Therefore all those who devour you will be devoured.
All your adversaries, everyone of them, will go into captivity.
Those who plunder you will be plunder.
I will make all who prey on you become prey.
Jeremiah 30.17: 17 For I will restore health to you,
and I will heal you of your wounds,” says Yahweh;
“because they have called you an outcast,
saying, ‘It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.’”
Jeremiah 30.18: 18 Yahweh says:
“Behold, I will reverse the captivity of Jacob’s tents,
and have compassion on his dwelling places.
The city will be built on its own hill,
and the palace will be inhabited in its own place.
Jeremiah 30.19: 19 Thanksgiving will proceed out of them
with the voice of those who make merry.
I will multiply them,
and they will not be few;
I will also glorify them,
and they will not be small.
Jeremiah 30.20: 20 Their children also will be as before,
and their congregation will be established before me.
I will punish all who oppress them.
Jeremiah 30.21: 21 Their prince will be one of them,
and their ruler will proceed from among them.
I will cause him to draw near,
and he will approach me;
for who is he who has had boldness to approach me?” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 30.22: 22 “You shall be my people,
and I will be your God.
Jeremiah 30.23: 23 Behold, Yahweh’s storm, his wrath, has gone out,
a sweeping storm:
it will burst on the head of the wicked.
Jeremiah 30.24: 24 The fierce anger of Yahweh will not return until he has accomplished,
and until he has performed the intentions of his heart.
In the latter days you will understand it.”
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Jeremiah 39.1: 1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem, and besieged it.
Jeremiah 39.2: 2 In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city.
Jeremiah 39.3: 3 All the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, Nergal Sharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag, with all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.
Jeremiah 39.4: 4 When Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah.
Jeremiah 39.5: 5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. When they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he pronounced judgment on him.
Jeremiah 39.6: 6 Then the king of Babylon killed Zedekiah’s sons in Riblah before his eyes. The king of Babylon also killed all the nobles of Judah.
Jeremiah 39.7: 7 Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
Jeremiah 39.8: 8 The Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 39.9: 9 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the residue of the people who remained in the city, the deserters also who fell away to him, and the residue of the people who remained.
Jeremiah 39.10: 10 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, who had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.
Jeremiah 39.11: 11 Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon commanded Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard concerning Jeremiah, saying,
Jeremiah 39.12: 12 “Take him, and take care of him. Do him no harm; but do to him even as he tells you.”
Jeremiah 39.13: 13 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, with Nebushazban, Rabsaris, and Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag, and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon;
Jeremiah 39.14: 14 they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guard, and committed him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home. So he lived among the people.
Jeremiah 39.15: 15 Now Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the guard, saying,
Jeremiah 39.16: 16 “Go, and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will bring my words on this city for evil, and not for good; and they will be accomplished before you in that day.
Jeremiah 39.17: 17 But I will deliver you in that day,” says Yahweh; “and you will not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid.
Jeremiah 39.18: 18 For I will surely save you, and you won’t fall by the sword, but you will escape with your life; because you have put your trust in me,” says Yahweh.’”
Jeremiah 46.0:
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Jeremiah 46.1: 1 Yahweh’s word which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
Jeremiah 46.2: 2 Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah.
Jeremiah 46.3: 3 “Prepare the buckler and shield,
and draw near to battle!
Jeremiah 46.4: 4 Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen,
and stand up with your helmets.
Polish the spears,
put on the coats of mail.
Jeremiah 46.5: 5 Why have I seen it?
They are dismayed and are turned backward.
Their mighty ones are beaten down,
have fled in haste,
and don’t look back.
Terror is on every side,”
says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 46.6: 6 “Don’t let the swift flee away,
nor the mighty man escape.
In the north by the river Euphrates
they have stumbled and fallen.
Jeremiah 46.7: 7 “Who is this who rises up like the Nile,
whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?
Jeremiah 46.8: 8 Egypt rises up like the Nile,
and his waters toss themselves like the rivers.
He says, ‘I will rise up. I will cover the earth.
I will destroy cities and its inhabitants.’
Jeremiah 46.9: 9 Go up, you horses!
Rage, you chariots!
Let the mighty men go out:
Cush and Put, who handle the shield;
and the Ludim, who handle and bend the bow.
Jeremiah 46.10: 10 For that day is of the Lord, Yahweh of Armies,
a day of vengeance,
that he may avenge himself of his adversaries.
The sword will devour and be satiated,
and will drink its fill of their blood;
for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
Jeremiah 46.11: 11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt.
You use many medicines in vain.
There is no healing for you.
Jeremiah 46.12: 12 The nations have heard of your shame,
and the earth is full of your cry;
for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty,
they both fall together.”
Jeremiah 46.13: 13 The word that Yahweh spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon should come and strike the land of Egypt.
Jeremiah 46.14: 14 “Declare in Egypt,
publish in Migdol,
and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes:
say, ‘Stand up, and prepare;
for the sword has devoured around you.’
Jeremiah 46.15: 15 Why are your strong ones swept away?
They didn’t stand, because Yahweh pushed them.
Jeremiah 46.16: 16 He made many to stumble.
Yes, they fell on one another.
They said, ‘Arise! Let’s go again to our own people,
and to the land of our birth,
from the oppressing sword.’
Jeremiah 46.17: 17 They cried there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise;
he has let the appointed time pass by.’
Jeremiah 46.18: 18 “As I live,” says the King,
whose name is Yahweh of Armies,
“surely like Tabor among the mountains,
and like Carmel by the sea,
so he will come.
Jeremiah 46.19: 19 You daughter who dwells in Egypt,
furnish yourself to go into captivity;
for Memphis will become a desolation,
and will be burned up,
without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 46.20: 20 “Egypt is a very beautiful heifer;
but destruction out of the north has come.
It has come.
Jeremiah 46.21: 21 Also her hired men in the middle of her are like calves of the stall;
for they also are turned back.
They have fled away together.
They didn’t stand,
for the day of their calamity has come on them,
the time of their visitation.
Jeremiah 46.22: 22 Its sound will go like the serpent;
for they will march with an army,
and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.
Jeremiah 46.23: 23 They will cut down her forest,” says Yahweh,
“though it can’t be searched;
because they are more than the locusts,
and are innumerable.
Jeremiah 46.24: 24 The daughter of Egypt will be disappointed;
she will be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.”
Jeremiah 46.25: 25 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and her kings; even Pharaoh, and those who trust in him.
Jeremiah 46.26: 26 I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants. Afterwards it will be inhabited, as in the days of old,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 46.27: 27 “But don’t you be afraid, Jacob my servant.
Don’t be dismayed, Israel;
for, behold, I will save you from afar,
and your offspring from the land of their captivity.
Jacob will return,
and will be quiet and at ease.
No one will make him afraid.
Jeremiah 46.28: 28 Don’t be afraid, O Jacob my servant,” says Yahweh;
“for I am with you;
for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you;
but I will not make a full end of you,
but I will correct you in measure,
and will in no way leave you unpunished.”
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Jeremiah 48.1: 1 Of Moab. Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says:
“Woe to Nebo!
For it is laid waste.
Kiriathaim is disappointed.
It is taken.
Misgab is put to shame
and broken down.
Jeremiah 48.2: 2 The praise of Moab is no more.
In Heshbon they have devised evil against her:
‘Come! Let’s cut her off from being a nation.’
You also, Madmen, will be brought to silence.
The sword will pursue you.
Jeremiah 48.3: 3 The sound of a cry from Horonaim,
desolation and great destruction!
Jeremiah 48.4: 4 Moab is destroyed.
Her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
Jeremiah 48.5: 5 For they will go up by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping.
For at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.
Jeremiah 48.6: 6 Flee! Save your lives!
Be like the juniper bush in the wilderness.
Jeremiah 48.7: 7 For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures,
you also will be taken.
Chemosh will go out into captivity,
his priests and his princes together.
Jeremiah 48.8: 8 The destroyer will come on every city,
and no city will escape;
the valley also will perish,
and the plain will be destroyed; as Yahweh has spoken.
Jeremiah 48.9: 9 Give wings to Moab,
that she may fly and get herself away:
and her cities will become a desolation,
without anyone to dwell in them.
Jeremiah 48.10: 10 “Cursed is he who does the work of Yahweh negligently;
and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood.
Jeremiah 48.11: 11 “Moab has been at ease from his youth,
and he has settled on his lees,
and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel,
neither has he gone into captivity:
therefore his taste remains in him,
and his scent is not changed.
Jeremiah 48.12: 12 Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh,
“that I will send to him those who pour off,
and they will pour him off;
and they will empty his vessels,
and break their containers in pieces.
Jeremiah 48.13: 13 Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh,
as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.
Jeremiah 48.14: 14 “How do you say, ‘We are mighty men,
and valiant men for the war?’
Jeremiah 48.15: 15 Moab is laid waste,
and they have gone up into his cities,
and his chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter,”
says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.
Jeremiah 48.16: 16 “The calamity of Moab is near to come,
and his affliction hurries fast.
Jeremiah 48.17: 17 All you who are around him, bemoan him,
and all you who know his name; say,
‘How the strong staff is broken,
the beautiful rod!’
Jeremiah 48.18: 18 “You daughter who dwells in Dibon,
come down from your glory,
and sit in thirst;
for the destroyer of Moab has come up against you.
He has destroyed your strongholds.
Jeremiah 48.19: 19 Inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way and watch.
Ask him who flees, and her who escapes;
say, ‘What has been done?’
Jeremiah 48.20: 20 Moab is disappointed;
for it is broken down.
Wail and cry!
Tell it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.
Jeremiah 48.21: 21 Judgment has come on the plain country,
on Holon, on Jahzah, on Mephaath,
Jeremiah 48.22: 22 on Dibon, on Nebo, on Beth Diblathaim,
Jeremiah 48.23: 23 on Kiriathaim, on Beth Gamul, on Beth Meon,
Jeremiah 48.24: 24 on Kerioth, on Bozrah,
and on all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.
Jeremiah 48.25: 25 The horn of Moab is cut off,
and his arm is broken,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 48.26: 26 “Make him drunken;
for he magnified himself against Yahweh.
Moab will wallow in his vomit,
and he also will be in derision.
Jeremiah 48.27: 27 For wasn’t Israel a derision to you?
Was he found among thieves?
For as often as you speak of him,
you shake your head.
Jeremiah 48.28: 28 You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock.
Be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss.
Jeremiah 48.29: 29 “We have heard of the pride of Moab.
He is very proud in his loftiness, his pride,
his arrogance, and the arrogance of his heart.
Jeremiah 48.30: 30 I know his wrath,” says Yahweh, “that it is nothing;
his boastings have done nothing.
Jeremiah 48.31: 31 Therefore I will wail for Moab.
Yes, I will cry out for all Moab.
They will mourn for the men of Kir Heres.
Jeremiah 48.32: 32 With more than the weeping of Jazer
I will weep for you, vine of Sibmah.
Your branches passed over the sea.
They reached even to the sea of Jazer.
The destroyer has fallen on your summer fruits
and on your vintage.
Jeremiah 48.33: 33 Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field
and from the land of Moab.
I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses.
No one will tread with shouting.
The shouting will be no shouting.
Jeremiah 48.34: 34 From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh,
even to Jahaz they have uttered their voice,
from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath Shelishiyah;
for the waters of Nimrim will also become desolate.
Jeremiah 48.35: 35 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab,” says Yahweh,
“him who offers in the high place,
and him who burns incense to his gods.
Jeremiah 48.36: 36 Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes,
and my heart sounds like pipes for the men of Kir Heres.
Therefore the abundance that he has gotten has perished.
Jeremiah 48.37: 37 For every head is bald,
and every beard clipped.
There are cuttings on all the hands,
and sackcloth on the waist.
Jeremiah 48.38: 38 On all the housetops of Moab,
and in its streets, there is lamentation everywhere;
for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which no one delights,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 48.39: 39 “How it is broken down!
How they wail!
How Moab has turned the back with shame!
So will Moab become a derision
and a terror to all who are around him.”
Jeremiah 48.40: 40 For Yahweh says: “Behold, he will fly as an eagle,
and will spread out his wings against Moab.
Jeremiah 48.41: 41 Kerioth is taken,
and the strongholds are seized.
The heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day
will be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
Jeremiah 48.42: 42 Moab will be destroyed from being a people,
because he has magnified himself against Yahweh.
Jeremiah 48.43: 43 Terror, the pit, and the snare are on you,
inhabitant of Moab,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 48.44: 44 “He who flees from the terror will fall into the pit;
and he who gets up out of the pit will be taken in the snare:
for I will bring on him, even on Moab,
the year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 48.45: 45 “Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon;
for a fire has gone out of Heshbon,
and a flame from the middle of Sihon,
and has devoured the corner of Moab,
and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
Jeremiah 48.46: 46 Woe to you, O Moab!
The people of Chemosh are undone;
for your sons are taken away captive,
and your daughters into captivity.
Jeremiah 48.47: 47 “Yet I will reverse the captivity of Moab in the latter days,”
says Yahweh.
Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
Jeremiah 52.0:
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Jeremiah 52.1: 1 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign. He reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
Jeremiah 52.2: 2 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
Jeremiah 52.3: 3 For through Yahweh’s anger this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence.
Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
Jeremiah 52.4: 4 In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.
Jeremiah 52.5: 5 So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
Jeremiah 52.6: 6 In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
Jeremiah 52.7: 7 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, and went out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden. Now the Chaldeans were against the city all around. The men of war went toward the Arabah,
Jeremiah 52.8: 8 but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
Jeremiah 52.9: 9 Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he pronounced judgment on him.
Jeremiah 52.10: 10 The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. He also killed all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
Jeremiah 52.11: 11 He put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death.
Jeremiah 52.12: 12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, came into Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 52.13: 13 He burned Yahweh’s house, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.
Jeremiah 52.14: 14 All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around.
Jeremiah 52.15: 15 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the poorest of the people, and the residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude.
Jeremiah 52.16: 16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vineyard keepers and farmers.
Jeremiah 52.17: 17 The Chaldeans broke the pillars of bronze that were in Yahweh’s house, and the bases and the bronze sea that were in Yahweh’s house in pieces, and carried all of their bronze to Babylon.
Jeremiah 52.18: 18 They also took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered.
Jeremiah 52.19: 19 The captain of the guard took away the cups, the fire pans, the basins, the pots, the lamp stands, the spoons, and the bowls; that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver.
Jeremiah 52.20: 20 They took the two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made for Yahweh’s house. The bronze of all these vessels was without weight.
Jeremiah 52.21: 21 As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits encircled it; and its thickness was four fingers. It was hollow.
Jeremiah 52.22: 22 A capital of bronze was on it; and the height of the one capital was five cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of bronze: and the second pillar also had like these, and pomegranates.
Jeremiah 52.23: 23 There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were one hundred on the network all around.
Jeremiah 52.24: 24 The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:
Jeremiah 52.25: 25 and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and seven men of those who saw the king’s face, who were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the middle of the city.
Jeremiah 52.26: 26 Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
Jeremiah 52.27: 27 The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath.
So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.
Jeremiah 52.28: 28 This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive:
in the seventh year, three thousand twenty-three Jews;
Jeremiah 52.29: 29 in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty-two persons;
Jeremiah 52.30: 30 in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty-five people:
all the people were four thousand six hundred.
Jeremiah 52.31: 31 In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and released him from prison.
Jeremiah 52.32: 32 He spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,
Jeremiah 52.33: 33 and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life.
Jeremiah 52.34: 34 For his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.
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Zechariah 14.1: 1 Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your plunder will be divided within you.
Zechariah 14.2: 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.
Zechariah 14.3: 3 Then Yahweh will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
Zechariah 14.4: 4 His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very great valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
Zechariah 14.5: 5 You shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azel; yes, you shall flee, just like you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Yahweh my God will come, and all the holy ones with you.
Zechariah 14.6: 6 It will happen in that day, that there will not be light, cold, or frost.
Zechariah 14.7: 7 It will be a unique day which is known to Yahweh; not day, and not night; but it will come to pass, that at evening time there will be light.
Zechariah 14.8: 8 It will happen in that day, that living waters will go out from Jerusalem: half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea. It will be so in summer and in winter.
Zechariah 14.9: 9 Yahweh will be King over all the earth. In that day Yahweh will be one, and his name one.
Zechariah 14.10: 10 All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up, and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin’s gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses.
Zechariah 14.11: 11 Men will dwell therein, and there will be no more curse; but Jerusalem will dwell safely.
Zechariah 14.12: 12 This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the peoples who have fought against Jerusalem: their flesh will consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume away in their sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth.
Zechariah 14.13: 13 It will happen in that day, that a great panic from Yahweh will be among them; and they will each hold onto the hand of his neighbor, and his hand will rise up against the hand of his neighbor.
Zechariah 14.14: 14 Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered together: gold, and silver, and clothing, in great abundance.
Zechariah 14.15: 15 A plague like this will fall on the horse, on the mule, on the camel, on the donkey, and on all the animals that will be in those camps.
Zechariah 14.16: 16 It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, and to keep the feast of booths.
Zechariah 14.17: 17 It will be, that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn’t go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, on them there will be no rain.
Zechariah 14.18: 18 If the family of Egypt doesn’t go up, and doesn’t come, neither will it rain on them. This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of booths.
Zechariah 14.19: 19 This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of booths.
Zechariah 14.20: 20 In that day there will be on the bells of the horses, “HOLY TO YAHWEH”; and the pots in Yahweh’s house will be like the bowls before the altar.
Zechariah 14.21: 21 Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to Yahweh of Armies; and all those who sacrifice will come and take of them, and cook in them. In that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of Yahweh of Armies.
John 18.0:
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John 18.1: 1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered.
John 18.2: 2 Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples.
John 18.3: 3 Judas then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.
John 18.4: 4 Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were happening to him, went out, and said to them, “Who are you looking for?”
John 18.5: 5 They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.”
Jesus said to them, “I am he.”
Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing with them.
John 18.6: 6 When therefore he said to them, “I am he,” they went backward, and fell to the ground.
John 18.7: 7 Again therefore he asked them, “Who are you looking for?”
They said, “Jesus of Nazareth.”
John 18.8: 8 Jesus answered, “I told you that I am he. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way,”
John 18.9: 9 that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, “Of those whom you have given me, I have lost none.”
John 18.10: 10 Simon Peter therefore, having a sword, drew it, struck the high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus.
John 18.11: 11 Jesus therefore said to Peter, “Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?”
John 18.12: 12 So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him,
John 18.13: 13 and led him to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.
John 18.14: 14 Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews that it was expedient that one man should perish for the people.
John 18.15: 15 Simon Peter followed Jesus, as did another disciple. Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and entered in with Jesus into the court of the high priest;
John 18.16: 16 but Peter was standing at the door outside. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to her who kept the door, and brought in Peter.
John 18.17: 17 Then the maid who kept the door said to Peter, “Are you also one of this man’s disciples?”
He said, “I am not.”
John 18.18: 18 Now the servants and the officers were standing there, having made a fire of coals, for it was cold. They were warming themselves. Peter was with them, standing and warming himself.
John 18.19: 19 The high priest therefore asked Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.
John 18.20: 20 Jesus answered him, “I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.
John 18.21: 21 Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, they know the things which I said.”
John 18.22: 22 When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, “Do you answer the high priest like that?”
John 18.23: 23 Jesus answered him, “If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why do you beat me?”
John 18.24: 24 Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high priest.
John 18.25: 25 Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him, “You aren’t also one of his disciples, are you?”
He denied it and said, “I am not.”
John 18.26: 26 One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “Didn’t I see you in the garden with him?”
John 18.27: 27 Peter therefore denied it again, and immediately the rooster crowed.
John 18.28: 28 They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.
John 18.29: 29 Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?”
John 18.30: 30 They answered him, “If this man weren’t an evildoer, we wouldn’t have delivered him up to you.”
John 18.31: 31 Pilate therefore said to them, “Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law.”
Therefore the Jews said to him, “It is illegal for us to put anyone to death,”
John 18.32: 32 that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die.
John 18.33: 33 Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”
John 18.34: 34 Jesus answered him, “Do you say this by yourself, or did others tell you about me?”
John 18.35: 35 Pilate answered, “I’m not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?”
John 18.36: 36 Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.”
John 18.37: 37 Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?”
Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
John 18.38: 38 Pilate said to him, “What is truth?”
When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, “I find no basis for a charge against him.
John 18.39: 39 But you have a custom, that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Therefore, do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”
John 18.40: 40 Then they all shouted again, saying, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.
John 20.0:
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John 20.1: 1 Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.
John 20.2: 2 Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have laid him!”
John 20.3: 3 Therefore Peter and the other disciple went out, and they went toward the tomb.
John 20.4: 4 They both ran together. The other disciple outran Peter, and came to the tomb first.
John 20.5: 5 Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he didn’t enter in.
John 20.6: 6 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and entered into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying,
John 20.7: 7 and the cloth that had been on his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself.
John 20.8: 8 So then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also entered in, and he saw and believed.
John 20.9: 9 For as yet they didn’t know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
John 20.10: 10 So the disciples went away again to their own homes.
John 20.11: 11 But Mary was standing outside at the tomb weeping. So as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb,
John 20.12: 12 and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
John 20.13: 13 They asked her, “Woman, why are you weeping?”
She said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don’t know where they have laid him.”
John 20.14: 14 When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, and didn’t know that it was Jesus.
John 20.15: 15 Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?”
She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.”
John 20.16: 16 Jesus said to her, “Mary.”
She turned and said to him, “Rabboni!” which is to say, “Teacher!”
John 20.17: 17 Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
John 20.18: 18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her.
John 20.19: 19 When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”
John 20.20: 20 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the Lord.
John 20.21: 21 Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”
John 20.22: 22 When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit!
John 20.23: 23 If you forgive anyone’s sins, they have been forgiven them. If you retain anyone’s sins, they have been retained.”
John 20.24: 24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, wasn’t with them when Jesus came.
John 20.25: 25 The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord!”
But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”
John 20.26: 26 After eight days again his disciples were inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the middle, and said, “Peace be to you.”
John 20.27: 27 Then he said to Thomas, “Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don’t be unbelieving, but believing.”
John 20.28: 28 Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”
John 20.29: 29 Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed.”
John 20.30: 30 Therefore Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book;
John 20.31: 31 but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
1 Timothy 5.0:
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1 Timothy 5.1: 1 Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;
1 Timothy 5.2: 2 the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
1 Timothy 5.3: 3 Honor widows who are widows indeed.
1 Timothy 5.4: 4 But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
1 Timothy 5.5: 5 Now she who is a widow indeed and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.
1 Timothy 5.6: 6 But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.
1 Timothy 5.7: 7 Also command these things, that they may be without reproach.
1 Timothy 5.8: 8 But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
1 Timothy 5.9: 9 Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,
1 Timothy 5.10: 10 being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.
1 Timothy 5.11: 11 But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,
1 Timothy 5.12: 12 having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge.
1 Timothy 5.13: 13 Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.
1 Timothy 5.14: 14 I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.
1 Timothy 5.15: 15 For already some have turned away after Satan.
1 Timothy 5.16: 16 If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don’t let the assembly be burdened, that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.
1 Timothy 5.17: 17 Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.
1 Timothy 5.18: 18 For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.” And, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”
1 Timothy 5.19: 19 Don’t receive an accusation against an elder, except at the word of two or three witnesses.
1 Timothy 5.20: 20 Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.
1 Timothy 5.21: 21 I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.
1 Timothy 5.22: 22 Lay hands hastily on no one. Don’t be a participant in other people’s sins. Keep yourself pure.
1 Timothy 5.23: 23 Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.
1 Timothy 5.24: 24 Some men’s sins are evident, preceding them to judgment, and some also follow later.
1 Timothy 5.25: 25 In the same way also there are good works that are obvious, and those that are otherwise can’t be hidden.
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Judith 8.1: 1 In those days Judith heard about this. She was the daughter of Merari, the son of Ox, the son of Joseph, the son of Oziel, the son of Elkiah, the son of Ananias, the son of Gideon, the son of Raphaim, the son of Ahitub, the son of Elihu, the son of Eliab, the son of Nathanael, the son of Salamiel, the son of Salasadai, the son of Israel.
Judith 8.2: 2 Her husband was Manasses, of her tribe and of her family. He died in the days of barley harvest.
Judith 8.3: 3 For he stood over those who bound sheaves in the field, and the heat came upon his head, and he fell on his bed, and died in his city Bethulia. So they buried him with his fathers in the field which is between Dothaim and Balamon.
Judith 8.4: 4 Judith was a widow in her house three years and four months.
Judith 8.5: 5 She made herself a tent upon the roof of her house, and put on sackcloth upon her loins. The garments of her widowhood were upon her.
Judith 8.6: 6 And she fasted all the days of her widowhood, except the eves of the Sabbaths, the Sabbaths, the eves of the new moons, the new moons, and the feasts and joyful days of the house of Israel.
Judith 8.7: 7 She was of a goodly countenance, and exceedingly beautiful to behold. Her husband Manasses had left her gold, silver, menservants, maidservants, cattle, and lands. She remained on those lands.
Judith 8.8: 8 No one said anything evil about her; for she feared God exceedingly.
Judith 8.9: 9 She heard the evil words of the people against the governor, because they fainted for lack of water; and Judith heard all the words that Ozias spoke to them, how he swore to them that he would deliver the city to the Assyrians after five days.
Judith 8.10: 10 So she sent her maid, who was over all things that she had, to summon Ozias, Chabris, and Charmis, the elders of her city.
Judith 8.11: 11 They came to her, and she said to them, “Hear me now, O you rulers of the inhabitants of Bethulia: for your word that you have spoken before the people this day is not right. You have set the oath which you have pronounced between God and you, and have promised to deliver the city to our enemies, unless within these days the Lord turns to help you.
Judith 8.12: 12 Now who are you that you have tempted God this day, and stand in the place of God among the children of men?
Judith 8.13: 13 Now try the Lord Almighty, and you will never know anything.
Judith 8.14: 14 For you will not find the depth of the heart of man, and you will not perceive the things that he thinks. How will you search out God, who has made all these things, and know his mind, and comprehend his purpose? No, my kindred, don’t provoke the Lord our God to anger!
Judith 8.15: 15 For if he has not decided to help us within these five days, he has power to defend us in such time as he will, or to destroy us before the face of our enemies.
Judith 8.16: 16 But don’t you pledge the counsels of the Lord our God! For God is not as man, that he should be threatened; neither as the son of man, that he should be turned by entreaty.
Judith 8.17: 17 Therefore let’s wait for the salvation that comes from him, and call upon him to help us. He will hear our voice, if it pleases him.
Judith 8.18: 18 For there arose none in our age, neither is there any of us today, tribe, or kindred, or family, or city, which worship gods made with hands, as it was in the former days;
Judith 8.19: 19 for which cause our fathers were given to the sword, and for plunder, and fell with a great fall before our enemies.
Judith 8.20: 20 But we know no other god beside him. Therefore we hope that he will not despise us, nor any of our race.
Judith 8.21: 21 For if we are taken so, all Judea will sit upon the ground, and our sanctuary will be plundered; and he will require our blood for profaning it.
Judith 8.22: 22 And the slaughter of our kindred, and the captivity of the land, and the desolation of our inheritance, he will turn upon our heads among the Gentiles, wherever we will be in bondage. We will be an offense and a reproach before those who take us for a possession.
Judith 8.23: 23 For our bondage will not be ordered to favor; but the Lord our God will turn it to dishonor.
Judith 8.24: 24 And now, kindred, let’s show an example to our kindred, because their soul hangs upon us, and the sanctuary, the house, and the altar rest upon us.
Judith 8.25: 25 Besides all this let’s give thanks to the Lord our God, who tries us, even as he did our fathers also.
Judith 8.26: 26 Remember all the things which he did to Abraham, and all the things in which he tried Isaac, and all the things which happened to Jacob in Mesopotamia of Syria, when he kept the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother.
Judith 8.27: 27 For he has not tried us in the fire, as he did them, to search out their hearts, neither has he taken vengeance on us; but the Lord does scourge them that come near to him, to admonish them.”
Judith 8.28: 28 And Ozias said to her, “All that you have spoken, you have spoken with a good heart. There is no one who will deny your words.
Judith 8.29: 29 For this is not the first day wherein your wisdom is manifested; but from the beginning of your days all the people have known your understanding, because the disposition of your heart is good.
Judith 8.30: 30 But the people were exceedingly thirsty, and compelled us to do as we spoke to them, and to bring an oath upon ourselves, which we will not break.
Judith 8.31: 31 And now pray you for us, because you are a godly woman, and the Lord will send us rain to fill our cisterns, and we will faint no more.”
Judith 8.32: 32 Then Judith said to them, “Hear me, and I will do a thing, which will go down to all generations among the children of our race.
Judith 8.33: 33 You shall all stand at the gate tonight. I will go out with my maid. Within the days after which you said that you would deliver the city to our enemies, the Lord will visit Israel by my hand.
Judith 8.34: 34 But you shall not inquire of my act; for I will not declare it to you, until the things are finished that I will do.”
Judith 8.35: 35 Then Ozias and the rulers said to her, “Go in peace. May the Lord God be before you, to take vengeance on our enemies.”
Judith 8.36: 36 So they returned from the tent, and went to their stations.
Sirach 20.0:
20
Sirach 20.1: 1 There is a reproof that is not comely;
And there is a man that keeps silence, and he is wise.
Sirach 20.2: 2 How good is it to reprove, rather than to be angry;
And he that makes confession will be kept back from hurt.
Sirach 20.3: 3
Sirach 20.4: 4 As is the lust of an eunuch to deflower a virgin;
So is he that executes judgments with violence.
Sirach 20.5: 5 There is one that keeps silence, and is found wise;
And there is one that is hated for his much talk.
Sirach 20.6: 6 There is one that keeps silence, for he has no answer to make;
And there is that keeps silence, as knowing his time.
Sirach 20.7: 7 A wise man will be silent till his time come;
But the braggart and fool will overpass his time.
Sirach 20.8: 8 He that uses many words will be abhorred;
And he that takes to himself authority therein will be hated.
Sirach 20.9: 9 There is a prosperity that a man finds in misfortunes;
And there is a gain that turns to loss.
Sirach 20.10: 10 There is a gift that will not profit you;
And there is a gift whose recompense is double.
Sirach 20.11: 11 There is an abasement because of glory;
And there is that has lifted up his head from a low estate.
Sirach 20.12: 12 There is that buys much for a little,
And pays for it again sevenfold.
Sirach 20.13: 13 He that is wise in words will make himself beloved;
But the pleasantries of fools will be wasted.
Sirach 20.14: 14 The gift of a fool will not profit you;
For his eyes are many instead of one.
Sirach 20.15: 15 He will give little, and upbraid much;
And he will open his mouth like a crier:
Today he will lend, and tomorrow he will ask it again:
Such an one is a hateful man.
Sirach 20.16: 16 The fool will say, I have no friend,
And I have no thanks for my good deeds;
They that eat my bread are of evil tongue.
Sirach 20.17: 17 How often, and of how many, will he be laughed to scorn!
Sirach 20.18: 18 A slip on a pavement is better than a slip with the tongue;
So the fall of the wicked will come speedily.
Sirach 20.19: 19 A man without grace is as a tale out of season:
It will be continually in the mouth of the ignorant.
Sirach 20.20: 20 A wise sentence from a fool’s mouth will be rejected;
For he will not speak it in its season.
Sirach 20.21: 21 There is that is hindered from sinning through lack;
And when he takes rest, he will not be troubled.
Sirach 20.22: 22 There is that destroys his soul through bashfulness;
And by a foolish countenance he will destroy it.
Sirach 20.23: 23 There is that for bashfulness promises to his friend;
And he makes him his enemy for nothing.
Sirach 20.24: 24 A lie is a foul blot in a man:
It will be continually in the mouth of the ignorant.
Sirach 20.25: 25 A thief is better than a man that is continually lying:
But they both will inherit destruction.
Sirach 20.26: 26 The disposition of a liar is dishonor;
And his shame is with him continually.
Sirach 20.27: 27 He that is wise in words will advance himself;
And one that is prudent will please great men.
Sirach 20.28: 28 He that tils his land will raise his heap high;
And he that pleases great men will get pardon for iniquity.
Sirach 20.29: 29 Presents and gifts blind the eyes of the wise,
And as a muzzle on the mouth, turn away reproofs.
Sirach 20.30: 30 Wisdom that is hid, and treasure that is out of sight,
What profit is in them both?
Sirach 20.31: 31 Better is a man that hides his folly
Than a man that hides his wisdom.
Sirach 20.32: 32
Sirach 23.0:
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Sirach 23.1: 1 O Lord, Father and Master of my life,
Abandon me not to their counsel:
Suffer me not to fall by them.
Sirach 23.2: 2 Who will set scourges over my thought,
And a discipline of wisdom over my heart?
That they spare me not for my ignorances,
And my heart pass not by their sins:
Sirach 23.3: 3 That my ignorances be not multiplied,
And my sins abound not;
And I will fall before my adversaries,
And my enemy rejoice over me.
Sirach 23.4: 4 O Lord, Father and God of my life,
Give me not a proud look,
Sirach 23.5: 5 And turn away concupiscense from me.
Sirach 23.6: 6 Let not greediness and chambering overtake me;
And give me not over to a shameless mind.
Sirach 23.7: 7 Hear you°, my children, the discipline of the mouth;
And he that keeps it will not be taken.
Sirach 23.8: 8 The sinner will be overtaken in his lips;
And the reviler and the proud man will stumble therein.
Sirach 23.9: 9 Accustom not your mouth to an oath;
And be not accustomed to the naming of the Holy One.
Sirach 23.10: 10 For as a servant that is continually scourged will not lack a bruise,
So he also that swears and names God continually will not be cleansed from sin.
Sirach 23.11: 11 A man of many oaths will be filled with iniquity;
And the scourge will not depart from his house:
If he shall offend, his sin will be upon him;
And if he disregard it, he has sinned doubly;
And if he has sworn in vain, he will not be justified;
For his house will be filled with calamities.
Sirach 23.12: 12 There is a manner of speech that is clothed about with death:
Let it not be found in the heritage of Jacob;
For all these things will be far from the godly,
And they will not wallow in sins.
Sirach 23.13: 13 Accustom not your mouth to gross rudeness,
For therein is the word of sin.
Sirach 23.14: 14 Remember your father and your mother,
For you sit in the midst of great men;
That you be not forgetful before them,
And become a fool by your custom;
So will you wish that you had not been born,
And curse the day of your nativity.
Sirach 23.15: 15 A man that is accustomed to words of reproach
Will not be corrected all the days of his life.
Sirach 23.16: 16 Two sorts of men multiply sins,
And the third will bring wrath:
A hot mind, as a burning fire, will not be quenched till it be consumed:
A fornicator in the body of his flesh will never cease till he has burned out the fire.
Sirach 23.17: 17 All bread is sweet to a fornicator:
He will not leave off till he die.
Sirach 23.18: 18 A man that goes astray from his own bed,
Saying in his heart, Who sees me?
Darkness is round about me, and the walls hide me,
And no man sees me; of whom am I afraid?
The Most High will not remember my sins;
Sirach 23.19: 19 —And the eyes of men are his terror,
And he knows not that the eyes of the Lord are ten thousand times brighter than the sun,
Beholding all the ways of men,
And looking into secret places.
Sirach 23.20: 20 All things were known to him or ever they were created;
And in like manner also after they were perfected.
Sirach 23.21: 21 This man will be punished in the streets of the city;
And where he suspected not he will be taken.
Sirach 23.22: 22 So also a wife that leaves her husband,
And brings in an heir by a stranger.
Sirach 23.23: 23 For first, she was disobedient in the law of the Most High;
And secondly, she trespassed against her own husband;
And thirdly, she played the adulteress in whoredom,
And brought in children by a stranger.
Sirach 23.24: 24 She shall be brought out into the congregation;
And upon her children will there be visitation.
Sirach 23.25: 25 Her children will not spread into roots,
And her branches will bear no fruit.
Sirach 23.26: 26 She will leave her memory for a curse;
And her reproach will not be blotted out.
Sirach 23.27: 27 And those who are left behind will know that there is nothing better than the fear of the Lord,
And nothing sweeter than to take heed to the commandments of the Lord.
Sirach 23.28: 28
Sirach 29.0:
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Sirach 29.1: 1 He that shows mercy will lend to his neighbor;
And he that strengthens him with his hand keeps the commandments.
Sirach 29.2: 2 Lend to your neighbor in time of his need;
And pay you your neighbor again in due season.
Sirach 29.3: 3 Confirm your word, and keep faith with him;
And at all seasons you shall find what you need.
Sirach 29.4: 4 Many have reckoned a loan as a windfall,
And have given trouble to those that helped them.
Sirach 29.5: 5 Till he has received, he will kiss a man’s hands;
And for his neighbor’s money he will speak submissly:
And when payment is due, he will prolong the time,
And return words of heaviness, and complain of the times.
Sirach 29.6: 6 If he prevail, he shall hardly receive the half;
And he will count it as a windfall:
If not, he has deprived him of his money,
And he has gotten him for an enemy without cause:
He will pay him with cursing and railing;
And for honor he will pay him disgrace.
Sirach 29.7: 7 Many on account of men’s ill-dealing have turned away;
They have feared to be defrauded for nothing.
Sirach 29.8: 8 However with a man in poor estate be patient;
And let him not wait for your alms.
Sirach 29.9: 9 Help a poor man for the commandment’s sake;
And according to his need send him not empty away.
Sirach 29.10: 10 Lose your money for a brother and a friend;
And let it not rust under the stone to be lost.
Sirach 29.11: 11 Bestow your treasure according to the commandments of the Most High;
And it shall profit you more than gold.
Sirach 29.12: 12 Shut up alms in your store-chambers;
And it shall deliver you out of all affliction:
Sirach 29.13: 13 It shall fight for you against your enemy
Better than a mighty shield and a ponderous spear.
Sirach 29.14: 14 A good man will be surety for his neighbor;
And he that has lost shame will fail him.
Sirach 29.15: 15 Forget not the good offices of your surety;
For he has given his life for you.
Sirach 29.16: 16 A sinner will overthrow the good estate of his surety;
Sirach 29.17: 17 And he that is of an unthankful mind will fail him that delivered him.
Sirach 29.18: 18 Suretiship has undone many that were prospering,
And shaken them as a wave of the sea:
Mighty men has it driven from their homes;
And they wandered among strange nations.
Sirach 29.19: 19 A sinner that falls into suretiship,
And undertakes contracts for work, shall fall into lawsuits.
Sirach 29.20: 20 Help your neighbor according to your power,
And take heed to yourself that you fall not the same way.
Sirach 29.21: 21 The chief thing for life is water, and bread,
And a garment, and a house to cover shame.
Sirach 29.22: 22 Better is the life of a poor man under a shelter of logs,
Than sumptuous fare in another man’s house.
Sirach 29.23: 23 With little or with much, be well satisfied.
Sirach 29.24: 24 It is a miserable life to go from house to house:
And where you are a sojourner, you shall not dare to open your mouth.
Sirach 29.25: 25 You shall entertain, and give to drink, and have no thanks:
And in addition to this you shall hear bitter words.
Sirach 29.26: 26 Come here, you sojourner, furnish a table,
And if you have anything in your hand, feed me with it.
Sirach 29.27: 27 Go forth, you sojourner, from the face of honor;
My brother is come to be my guest; I have need of my house.
Sirach 29.28: 28 These things are grievous to a man of understanding;
The upbraiding of house-room, and the reproaching of the money-lender.
Sirach 36.0:
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Sirach 36.1: 1 Have mercy upon us, O Lord the God of all, and behold;
Sirach 36.2: 2 And send your fear upon all the nations:
Sirach 36.3: 3 Lift up your hand against the strange nations;
And let them see your mighty power.
Sirach 36.4: 4 As you were sanctified in us before them,
So be you magnified in them before us.
Sirach 36.5: 5 And let them know you, as we also have known you,
That there is no God but only you, O God.
Sirach 36.6: 6 Show new signs, and work various wonders;
Glorify your hand and your right arm.
Sirach 36.7: 7 Raise up indignation, and pour out wrath;
Take away the adversary, and destroy the enemy.
Sirach 36.8: 8 Hasten the time, and remember the oath;
And let them declare your mighty works.
Sirach 36.9: 9 Let him that escapes be devoured by the rage of fire;
And may those who harm your people find destruction.
Sirach 36.10: 10 Crush the heads of the rulers of the enemies,
That say, There is none but we.
Sirach 36.11: 11 Gather all the tribes of Jacob together,
And take them for your inheritance, as from the beginning.
Sirach 36.12: 12 O Lord, have mercy upon the people that is called by your name,
And upon Israel, whom you did liken to a firstborn.
Sirach 36.13: 13 Have compassion upon the city of your sanctuary,
Jerusalem, the place of your rest.
Sirach 36.14: 14 Fill Sion; exalt your oracles,
And fill your people with your glory.
Sirach 36.15: 15 Give testimony to those that were your creatures in the beginning,
And raise up the prophecies that have been in your name.
Sirach 36.16: 16 Give reward to those who wait for you:
And men shall put their trust in your prophets.
Sirach 36.17: 17 Listen, O Lord, to the prayer of your suppliants,
According to the blessing of Aaron concerning your people;
And all those who are on the earth shall know
That you are the Lord, the eternal God.
Sirach 36.18: 18 The belly will eat any meat;
Yet is one meat better than another.
Sirach 36.19: 19 The mouth tastes meats taken in hunting:
So does an understanding heart false speeches.
Sirach 36.20: 20 A contrary heart will cause heaviness:
And a man of experience will recompense him.
Sirach 36.21: 21 A woman will receive any man;
But one daughter is better than another.
Sirach 36.22: 22 The beauty of a woman cheers the countenance;
And a man desires nothing so much.
Sirach 36.23: 23 If there is on her tongue mercy and meekness,
Her husband is not like the sons of men.
Sirach 36.24: 24 He that gets a wife enters upon a possession:
A help meet for him, and a pillar of rest.
Sirach 36.25: 25 Where no hedge is, the possession will be laid waste:
And he that has no wife will mourn as he wanders up and down.
Sirach 36.26: 26 For who will trust a nimble robber, that skips from city to city?
Even so who shall trust a man that has no nest, and lodges wherever he finds himself at nightfall?
1 Maccabees 2.0:
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1 Maccabees 2.1: 1 In those days rose up Mattathias the son of John, the son of Simeon, a priest of the sons of Joarib, from Jerusalem; and he lived at Modin.
1 Maccabees 2.2: 2 And he had five sons, John, who was surnamed Gaddis;
1 Maccabees 2.3: 3 Simon, who was called Thassi;
1 Maccabees 2.4: 4 Judas, who was called Maccabaeus;
1 Maccabees 2.5: 5 Eleazar, who was called Avaran; Jonathan, who was called Apphus.
1 Maccabees 2.6: 6 And he saw the blasphemies that were committed in Judah and in Jerusalem,
1 Maccabees 2.7: 7 and he said,
Woe is me! wherefore was I born to see the destruction of my people, and the destruction of the holy city, and to dwell there, when it was given into the hand of the enemy, the sanctuary into the hand of aliens?
1 Maccabees 2.8: 8 Her temple is become as a man that was glorious:
1 Maccabees 2.9: 9 her vessels of glory are carried away into captivity, her infants are slain in her streets, her young men with the sword of the enemy.
1 Maccabees 2.10: 10 What nation has not inherited her palaces, and gotten possession of her spoils?
1 Maccabees 2.11: 11 her adorning is all taken away; instead of a free woman she is become a bond woman:
1 Maccabees 2.12: 12 and, behold, our holy things and our beauty and our glory are laid waste, and the Gentiles have profaned them.
1 Maccabees 2.13: 13 Wherefore should we live any longer?
1 Maccabees 2.14: 14 And Mattathias and his sons tore their clothes, and put on sackcloth, and mourned exceedingly.
1 Maccabees 2.15: 15 And the king’s officers, that were enforcing the apostasy, came into the city Modin to sacrifice.
1 Maccabees 2.16: 16 And many of Israel came to them, and Mattathias and his sons were gathered together.
1 Maccabees 2.17: 17 And the king’s officers answered and spoke to Mattathias, saying, You are a ruler and an honorable and great man in this city, and strengthened with sons and kindred:
1 Maccabees 2.18: 18 now therefore come you first and do the commandment of the king, as all the nations have done, and the men of Judah, and those who remain in Jerusalem: and you and your house shall be in the number of the king’s Friends, and you and your sons shall be honored with silver and gold and many gifts.
1 Maccabees 2.19: 19 And Mattathias answered and said with a loud voice, If all the nations that are in the house of the king’s dominion listen to him, to fall away each one from the worship of his fathers, and have made choice to follow his commandments,
1 Maccabees 2.20: 20 yet I and my sons and my kindred will walk in the covenant of our fathers.
1 Maccabees 2.21: 21 Heaven forbid that we should forsake the law and the ordinances.
1 Maccabees 2.22: 22 We will not listen to the king’s words, to go aside from our worship, on the right hand, or on the left.
1 Maccabees 2.23: 23 And when he had left speaking these words, there came a Jew in the sight of all to sacrifice on the altar which was at Modin, according to the king’s commandment.
1 Maccabees 2.24: 24 And Mattathias saw it, and his zeal was kindled, and his reins trembled, and he showed forth his wrath according to judgement, and ran, and killed him upon the altar.
1 Maccabees 2.25: 25 And the king’s officer, who compelled men to sacrifice, he killed at that time, and pulled down the altar.
1 Maccabees 2.26: 26 And he was zealous for the law, even as Phinehas did to Zimri the son of Salu.
1 Maccabees 2.27: 27 And Mattathias cried out in the city with a loud voice, saying, Whosoever is zealous for the law, and maintains the covenant, let him come forth after me.
1 Maccabees 2.28: 28 And he and his sons fled into the mountains, and forsook all that they had in the city.
1 Maccabees 2.29: 29 Then many that sought after justice and judgement went down into the wilderness, to dwell there,
1 Maccabees 2.30: 30 they, and their sons, and their wives, and their cattle; because evils were multiplied upon them.
1 Maccabees 2.31: 31 And it was told the king’s officers, and the forces that were in Jerusalem, the city of David, that certain men, who had broken the king’s commandment, were gone down into the secret places in the wilderness;
1 Maccabees 2.32: 32 and many pursued after them, and having overtaken them, they encamped against them, and set the battle in array against them on the Sabbath day.
1 Maccabees 2.33: 33 And they said to them, Thus far. Come forth, and do according to the word of the king, and you° shall live.
1 Maccabees 2.34: 34 And they said, We will not come forth, neither will we do the word of the king, to profane the Sabbath day.
1 Maccabees 2.35: 35 And they hurried to give them battle.
1 Maccabees 2.36: 36 And they answered them not, neither cast they a stone at them, nor stopped up the secret places,
1 Maccabees 2.37: 37 saying, Let us die all in our innocency: heaven and earth witness over us, that you° put us to death without trial.
1 Maccabees 2.38: 38 And they rose up against them in battle on the Sabbath, and they died, they and their wives and their children, and their cattle, to the number of a thousand souls.
1 Maccabees 2.39: 39 And Mattathias and his friends knew it, and they mourned over them exceedingly.
1 Maccabees 2.40: 40 And one said to another, If we all do as our kindred have done, and fight not against the Gentiles for our lives and our ordinances, they will now quickly destroy us from off the earth.
1 Maccabees 2.41: 41 And they took counsel on that day, saying, whoever shall come against us to battle on the Sabbath day, let’s fight against him, and we shall in no wise all die, as our kindred died in the secret places.
1 Maccabees 2.42: 42 Then were gathered together to them a company of Hasidaeans, mighty men of Israel, every one that offered himself willingly for the law.
1 Maccabees 2.43: 43 And all those who fled from the evils were added to them, and became a stay to them.
1 Maccabees 2.44: 44 And they mustered an army, and struck sinners in their anger, and lawless men in their wrath: and the rest fled to the Gentiles for safety.
1 Maccabees 2.45: 45 And Mattathias and his friends went round about, and pulled down the altars;
1 Maccabees 2.46: 46 and they circumcised by force the children that were uncircumcised, as many as they found in the coasts of Israel.
1 Maccabees 2.47: 47 And they pursued after the sons of pride, and the work prospered in their hand.
1 Maccabees 2.48: 48 And they rescued the law out of the hand of the Gentiles, and out of the hand of the kings, neither suffered they the sinner to triumph.
1 Maccabees 2.49: 49 And the days of Mattathias drew near that he should die, and he said to his sons,
Now have pride and rebuke gotten strength, and a season of overthrow, and wrath of indignation.
1 Maccabees 2.50: 50 And now, my children, be you° zealous for the law, and give your lives for the covenant of your fathers.
1 Maccabees 2.51: 51 And call to remembrance the deeds of our fathers which they did in their generations; and receive great glory and an everlasting name.
1 Maccabees 2.52: 52 Was not Abraham found faithful in temptation, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness?
1 Maccabees 2.53: 53 Joseph in the time of his distress kept the commandment, and became lord of Egypt.
1 Maccabees 2.54: 54 Phinehas our father, for that he was zealous exceedingly, obtained the covenant of an everlasting priesthood.
1 Maccabees 2.55: 55 Joshua for fulfilling the word became a judge in Israel.
1 Maccabees 2.56: 56 Caleb for bearing witness in the congregation obtained a heritage in the land.
1 Maccabees 2.57: 57 David for being merciful inherited the throne of a kingdom forever and ever.
1 Maccabees 2.58: 58 Elijah, for that he was exceedingly zealous for the law, was taken up into heaven.
1 Maccabees 2.59: 59 Hananiah, Azariah, Mishael, believed, and were saved out of the flame.
1 Maccabees 2.60: 60 Daniel for his innocency was delivered from the mouth of lions.
1 Maccabees 2.61: 61 And thus consider you° from generation to generation, that none that put their trust in him shall lack for strength.
1 Maccabees 2.62: 62 And be not afraid of the words of a sinful man; for his glory shall be dung and worms.
1 Maccabees 2.63: 63 To-day he shall be lifted up, and tomorrow he shall in no wise be found, because he is returned to his dust, and his thought is perished.
1 Maccabees 2.64: 64 And you°, my children, be strong, and show yourselves men in behalf of the law; for therein shall you° obtain glory.
1 Maccabees 2.65: 65 And, behold, Simon your brother, I know that he is a man of counsel; give ear to him always: he shall be a father to you.
1 Maccabees 2.66: 66 And Judas Maccabaeus, he has been strong and mighty from his youth: he shall be your captain, and shall fight the battle of the people.
1 Maccabees 2.67: 67 And take you° to you all the doers of the law, and avenge the wrong of your people.
1 Maccabees 2.68: 68 Render a recompense to the Gentiles, and take heed to the commandments of the law.
1 Maccabees 2.69: 69 And he blessed them, and was gathered to his fathers.
1 Maccabees 2.70: 70 And he died in the hundred and forty and sixth year, and his sons buried him in the sepulchres of his fathers at Modin, and all Israel made great lamentation for him.
1 Maccabees 9.0:
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1 Maccabees 9.1: 1 And Demetrius heard that Nicanor was fallen with his forces in battle, and he sent Bacchides and Alcimus again into the land of Judah a second time, and the right wing of his army with them:
1 Maccabees 9.2: 2 and they went by the way that leads to Gilgal, and encamped against Mesaloth, which is in Arbela, and got possession of it, and destroyed much people.
1 Maccabees 9.3: 3 And the first month of the hundred and fifty and second year they encamped against Jerusalem:
1 Maccabees 9.4: 4 and they removed, and went to Berea, with twenty thousand footmen and two thousand horse.
1 Maccabees 9.5: 5 And Judas was encamped at Elasa, and three thousand chosen men with him:
1 Maccabees 9.6: 6 and they saw the multitude of the forces, that they were many, and they feared exceedingly: and many slipped away out of the army; there were not left of them more than eight hundred men.
1 Maccabees 9.7: 7 And Judas saw that his army slipped away, and that the battle pressed upon him, and he was sore troubled in heart, for that he had no time to gather them together, and he waxed faint.
1 Maccabees 9.8: 8 And he said to those who were left, Let’s arise and go up against our adversaries, if perhaps we may be able to fight with them.
1 Maccabees 9.9: 9 And they would have dissuaded him, saying, We shall in no wise be able: but let’s rather save our lives now: let’s return again, we and our kindred, and fight against them: but we are few.
1 Maccabees 9.10: 10 And Judas said, let it not be so that I should do this thing, to flee from them: and if our time is come, let’s die in a manly way for our kindred’s sake, and not leave a cause of reproach against our glory.
1 Maccabees 9.11: 11 And the army removed from the camp, and stood to encounter them, and the horse was parted into two companies, and the slingers and the archers went before the army, and all the mighty men that fought in the front of the battle.
1 Maccabees 9.12: 12 But Bacchides was in the right wing; and the phalanx drew near on the two parts, and they blew with their trumpets.
1 Maccabees 9.13: 13 And the men of Judas’ side, even they sounded with their trumpets, and the earth shook with the shout of the armies, and the battle was joined, and continued from morning until evening.
1 Maccabees 9.14: 14 And Judas saw that Bacchides and the strength of his army were on the right side, and there went with him all that were brave in heart,
1 Maccabees 9.15: 15 and the right wing was discomfited by them, and he pursued after them to the mount Azotus.
1 Maccabees 9.16: 16 And those who were on the left wing saw that the right wing was discomfited, and they turned and followed upon the footsteps of Judas and of those that were with him:
1 Maccabees 9.17: 17 and the battle waxed sore, and many on both parts fell wounded to death.
1 Maccabees 9.18: 18 And Judas fell, and the rest fled.
1 Maccabees 9.19: 19 And Jonathan and Simon took Judas their brother, and buried him in the sepulchre of his fathers at Modin.
1 Maccabees 9.20: 20 And they bewailed him, and all Israel made great lamentation for him, and mourned many days, and said,
1 Maccabees 9.21: 21 How is the mighty fallen, the savior of Israel!
1 Maccabees 9.22: 22 And the rest of the acts of Judas, and his wars, and the valiant deeds which he did, and his greatness, they are not written; for they were exceedingly many.
1 Maccabees 9.23: 23 And it came to pass after the death of Judas, that the lawless put forth their heads in all the coasts of Israel, and all those who did iniquity rose up
1 Maccabees 9.24: 24 (in those days there was an exceedingly great famine), and the country went over with them.
1 Maccabees 9.25: 25 And Bacchides chose out the ungodly men, and made them lords of the country.
1 Maccabees 9.26: 26 And they sought out and searched for the friends of Judas, and brought them to Bacchides, and he took vengeance on them, and used them despitefully.
1 Maccabees 9.27: 27 And there was great suffering in Israel, such as was not since the time that no prophet appeared to them.
1 Maccabees 9.28: 28 And all the friends of Judas were gathered together, and they said to Jonathan,
1 Maccabees 9.29: 29 Since your brother Judas has died, we have no man like him to go forth against our enemies and Bacchides, and among them of our nation that hate us.
1 Maccabees 9.30: 30 Now therefore we have chosen you this day to be our prince and leader in his stead, that you may fight our battles.
1 Maccabees 9.31: 31 And Jonathan took the governance upon him at that time, and rose up in the stead of his brother Judas.
1 Maccabees 9.32: 32 And Bacchides knew it, and he sought to kill him.
1 Maccabees 9.33: 33 And Jonathan, and Simon his brother, and all that were with him, knew it; and they fled into the wilderness of Tekoah, and encamped by the water of the pool Asphar.
1 Maccabees 9.34: 34 And Bacchides knew it on the Sabbath day, and came, he and all his army, over Jordan.
1 Maccabees 9.35: 35 And Jonathan sent his brother, a leader of the multitude, and implored his friends the Nabathaeans, that they might leave with them their baggage, which was much.
1 Maccabees 9.36: 36 And the children of Jambri came out of Medaba, and took John, and all that he had, and went their way with it.
1 Maccabees 9.37: 37 But after these things they brought word to Jonathan and Simon his brother, that the children of Jambri were making a great marriage, and were bringing the bride from Nadabath with a great train, a daughter of one of the great nobles of Canaan.
1 Maccabees 9.38: 38 And they remembered John their brother, and went up, and hid themselves under the covert of the mountain:
1 Maccabees 9.39: 39 and they lifted up their eyes, and saw, and, behold, a great ado and much baggage: and the bridegroom came forth, and his friends and his kindred, to meet them with timbrels, and minstrels, and many weapons.
1 Maccabees 9.40: 40 And they rose up against them from their ambush, and killed them, and many fell wounded to death, and the remnant fled into the mountain, and they took all their spoils.
1 Maccabees 9.41: 41 And the marriage was turned into mourning, and the voice of their minstrels into lamentation.
1 Maccabees 9.42: 42 And they avenged fully the blood of their brother, and turned back to the marsh of Jordan.
1 Maccabees 9.43: 43 And Bacchides heard it, and he came on the Sabbath day to the banks of Jordan with a great army.
1 Maccabees 9.44: 44 And Jonathan said to his company, Let’s stand up now and fight for our lives, for it is not with us today, as yesterday and the day before.
1 Maccabees 9.45: 45 For, behold, the battle is before us and behind us; moreover the water of the Jordan is on this side and on that side, and marsh and wood; and there is no place to escape.
1 Maccabees 9.46: 46 Now therefore cry to heaven, that you° may be delivered out of the hand of your enemies.
1 Maccabees 9.47: 47 And the battle was joined, and Jonathan stretched forth his hand to strike Bacchides, and he turned away back from him.
1 Maccabees 9.48: 48 And Jonathan and those who were with him leapt into the Jordan, and swam over to the other side: and they didn’t pass over Jordan against them.
1 Maccabees 9.49: 49 And there fell of Bacchides’ company that day about a thousand men;
1 Maccabees 9.50: 50 and he returned to Jerusalem. And they built strong cities in Judea, the stronghold that was in Jericho, and Emmaus, and Bethhoron, and Bethel, and Timnath, Pharathon, and Tephon, with high walls and gates and bars.
1 Maccabees 9.51: 51 And in them he set a garrison, to vex Israel.
1 Maccabees 9.52: 52 And he fortified the city Bethsura, and Gazara, and the citadel, and put forces in them, and store of food.
1 Maccabees 9.53: 53 And he took the sons of the chief men of the country for hostages, and put them in ward in the citadel at Jerusalem.
1 Maccabees 9.54: 54 And in the hundred and fifty and third year, in the second month, Alcimus commanded to pull down the wall of the inner court of the sanctuary; he pulled down also the works of the prophets;
1 Maccabees 9.55: 55 and he began to pull down. At that time was Alcimus stricken, and his works were hindered; and his mouth was stopped, and he was taken with a palsy, and he could no more speak anything and give order concerning his house.
1 Maccabees 9.56: 56 And Alcimus died at that time with great torment.
1 Maccabees 9.57: 57 And Bacchides saw that Alcimus was dead, and he returned to the king: and the land of Judah had rest two years.
1 Maccabees 9.58: 58 And all the lawless men took counsel, saying, Behold, Jonathan and they of his part are dwelling at ease, and in security: now therefore we will bring Bacchides, and he shall lay hands on them all in one night.
1 Maccabees 9.59: 59 And they went and consulted with him.
1 Maccabees 9.60: 60 And he removed, and came with a great army, and sent letters privily to all his allies that were in Judea, that they should lay hands on Jonathan and those that were with him: and they could not, because their counsel was known to them.
1 Maccabees 9.61: 61 And those who were of Jonathan’s part laid hands on about fifty of the men of the country, that were authors of the wickedness, and he killed them.
1 Maccabees 9.62: 62 And Jonathan, and Simon, and those who were with him, got them away to Bethbasi, which is in the wilderness, and he built up that which had been pulled down thereof, and they made it strong.
1 Maccabees 9.63: 63 And Bacchides knew it, and he gathered together all his multitude, and sent word to those who were of Judea.
1 Maccabees 9.64: 64 And he went and encamped against Bethbasi, and fought against it many days, and made engines of war.
1 Maccabees 9.65: 65 And Jonathan left his brother Simon in the city, and went forth into the country, and he went with a few men.
1 Maccabees 9.66: 66 And he struck Odomera and his kindred, and the children of Phasiron in their tent.
1 Maccabees 9.67: 67 And they began to strike them, and to go up with their forces. And Simon and those who were with him went out of the city, and set on fire the engines of war,
1 Maccabees 9.68: 68 and fought against Bacchides, and he was discomfited by them, and they afflicted him sore; for his counsel was in vain, and his inroad.
1 Maccabees 9.69: 69 And they were very angry with the lawless men that gave him counsel to come into the country, and they killed many of them. And he took counsel to depart into his own land.
1 Maccabees 9.70: 70 And Jonathan had knowledge thereof, and sent ambassadors to him, to the end that they should make peace with him, and that he should restore to them the captives.
1 Maccabees 9.71: 71 And he accepted the thing, and did according to his words, and sware to him that he would not seek his hurt all the days of his life.
1 Maccabees 9.72: 72 And he restored to him the captives which he had taken aforetime out of the land of Judah, and he returned and departed into his own land, and came not any more into their borders.
1 Maccabees 9.73: 73 And the sword ceased from Israel. And Jonathan lived at Michmash; and Jonathan began to judge the people; and he destroyed the ungodly out of Israel.
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1 Maccabees 13.1: 1 And Simon heard that Tryphon had gathered together a mighty army to come into the land of Judah, and destroy it utterly.
1 Maccabees 13.2: 2 And he saw that the people trembled and was in great fear; and he went up to Jerusalem, and gathered the people together;
1 Maccabees 13.3: 3 and he encouraged them, and said to them, You° yourselves know all the things that I, and my kindred, and my father’s house, have done for the laws and the sanctuary, and the battles and the distresses which we have seen:
1 Maccabees 13.4: 4 by reason of this all my kindred have perished for Israel’s sake, and I am left alone.
1 Maccabees 13.5: 5 And now be it far from me, that I should spare my own life in any time of affliction; for I am not better than my kindred.
1 Maccabees 13.6: 6 However I will take vengeance for my nation, and for the sanctuary, and for our wives and children; because all the Gentiles are gathered to destroy us of very hatred.
1 Maccabees 13.7: 7 And the spirit of the people revived, as soon as they heard these words.
1 Maccabees 13.8: 8 And they answered with a loud voice, saying, You are our leader instead of Judas and Jonathan your brother.
1 Maccabees 13.9: 9 Fight you our battles, and all that you shall say to us, that will we do.
1 Maccabees 13.10: 10 And he gathered together all the men of war, and made haste to finish the walls of Jerusalem, and he fortified it round about.
1 Maccabees 13.11: 11 And he sent Jonathan the son of Absalom, and with him a great army, to Joppa: and he cast out those who were therein, and abode there in it.
1 Maccabees 13.12: 12 And Tryphon removed from Ptolemais with a mighty army to enter into the land of Judah, and Jonathan was with him in ward.
1 Maccabees 13.13: 13 But Simon encamped at Adida, near the plain.
1 Maccabees 13.14: 14 And Tryphon knew that Simon was risen up instead of his brother Jonathan, and meant to join battle with him, and he sent ambassadors to him, saying,
1 Maccabees 13.15: 15 It is for money which Jonathan your brother owed to the king’s treasure, by reason of the offices which he had, that we hold him fast.
1 Maccabees 13.16: 16 And now send a hundred talents of silver, and two of his sons for hostages, that when he is set at liberty he may not revolt from us, and we will set him at liberty.
1 Maccabees 13.17: 17 And Simon knew that they spoke to him deceitfully; and he sends the money and the children, lest perhaps he should procure to himself great hatred of the people,
1 Maccabees 13.18: 18 and they should say, Because I sent him not the money and the children, he perished.
1 Maccabees 13.19: 19 And he sent the children and the hundred talents. And he dealt falsely, and didn’t set Jonathan at liberty.
1 Maccabees 13.20: 20 And after this Tryphon came to invade the land, and destroy it, and he went round about by the way that leads to Adora: and Simon and his army marched near him to every place, wherever he went.
1 Maccabees 13.21: 21 Now they of the citadel sent to Tryphon ambassadors, hastening him to come to them through the wilderness, and to send them food.
1 Maccabees 13.22: 22 And Tryphon made ready all his horse to come: and on that night there fell a very great snow, and he came not by reason of the snow. And he removed, and came into the country of Gilead.
1 Maccabees 13.23: 23 But when he came near to Bascama, he killed Jonathan, and he was buried there.
1 Maccabees 13.24: 24 And Tryphon returned, and went away into his own land.
1 Maccabees 13.25: 25 And Simon sent, and took the bones of Jonathan his brother, and buried him at Modin, the city of his fathers.
1 Maccabees 13.26: 26 And all Israel made great lamentation over him, and mourned for him many days.
1 Maccabees 13.27: 27 And Simon built a monument upon the sepulchre of his father and his kindred, and raised it aloft to the sight, with polished stone behind and before.
1 Maccabees 13.28: 28 And he set up seven pyramids, one near another, for his father, and his mother, and his four kindred.
1 Maccabees 13.29: 29 And for these he made cunning devices, setting about them great pillars, and upon the pillars he fashioned all manner of arms for a perpetual memory, and beside the arms ships carved, that they should be seen of all that sail on the sea.
1 Maccabees 13.30: 30 This is the sepulchre which he made at Modin, and it is there to this day.
1 Maccabees 13.31: 31 Now Tryphon dealt deceitfully with the young king Antiochus, and killed him,
1 Maccabees 13.32: 32 and reigned in his stead, and put on himself the diadem of Asia, and brought a great calamity upon the land.
1 Maccabees 13.33: 33 And Simon built the strongholds of Judea, and fenced them about with high towers, and great walls, and gates, and bars; and he laid up food in the strongholds.
1 Maccabees 13.34: 34 And Simon chose men, and sent to king Demetrius, to the end he should give the country an immunity, because all that Tryphon did was to plunder.
1 Maccabees 13.35: 35 And king Demetrius sent to him according to these words, and answered him, and wrote a letter to him, after this manner:
1 Maccabees 13.36: 36 King Demetrius to Simon the high priest and Friend of kings, and to the elders and nation of the Jews, greeting:
1 Maccabees 13.37: 37 The golden crown, and the palm branch, which you° sent, we have received: and we are ready to make a steadfast peace with you, yes, and to write to our officers, to grant immunities to you.
1 Maccabees 13.38: 38 And whatever things we confirmed to you, they are confirmed; and the strongholds, which you° have built, let them be your own.
1 Maccabees 13.39: 39 As for any oversights and faults committed to this day, we forgive them, and the crown which you° owed us: and if there were any other toll exacted in Jerusalem, let it be exacted no longer.
1 Maccabees 13.40: 40 And if there be any among you meet to be enrolled in our court, let them be enrolled, and let there be peace between us.
1 Maccabees 13.41: 41 In the hundred and seventies year was the yoke of the heathen taken away from Israel.
1 Maccabees 13.42: 42 And the people began to write in their instruments and contracts, In the first year of Simon, the great high priest and captain and leader of the Jews.
1 Maccabees 13.43: 43 In those days he encamped against Gazara, and compassed it round about with armies; and he made an engine of siege, and brought it up to the city, and struck a tower, and took it.
1 Maccabees 13.44: 44 And those who were in the engine leaped forth into the city; and there was a great uproar in the city:
1 Maccabees 13.45: 45 and they of the city tore their clothes, and went up on the walls with their wives and children, and cried with a loud voice, making request to Simon to give them his right hand.
1 Maccabees 13.46: 46 And they said, Deal not with us according to our wickednesses, but according to your mercy.
1 Maccabees 13.47: 47 And Simon was reconciled to them, and didn’t fight against them: and he put them out of the city, and cleansed the houses wherein the idols were, and so entered into it with singing and giving praise.
1 Maccabees 13.48: 48 And he put all uncleanness out of it, and placed in it such men as would keep the law, and made it stronger than it was before, and built therein a dwelling place for himself.
1 Maccabees 13.49: 49 But they of the citadel in Jerusalem were hindered from going forth, and from going into the country, and from buying and selling; and they hungered exceedingly, and a great number of them perished through famine.
1 Maccabees 13.50: 50 And they cried out to Simon, that he should give them his right hand; and he gave it to them: and he put them out from thence, and he cleansed the citadel from its pollutions.
1 Maccabees 13.51: 51 And he entered into it on the three and twentieth day of the second month, in the hundred and seventy and first year, with praise and palm branches, and with harps, and with cymbals, and with viols, and with hymns, and with songs: because a great enemy was destroyed out of Israel.
1 Maccabees 13.52: 52 And he ordained that they should keep that day every year with gladness. And the hill of the temple that was by the citadel he made stronger than before, and there he lived, himself and his men.
1 Maccabees 13.53: 53 And Simon saw that John his son was a valiant man, and he made him leader of all his forces: and he lived in Gazara.