Genesis 3.0:

Genesis 3.1: 3Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”

Genesis 3.2: 2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,

Genesis 3.3: 3 but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’”

Genesis 3.4: 4 The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t really die,

Genesis 3.5: 5 for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Genesis 3.6: 6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.

Genesis 3.7: 7 Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.

Genesis 3.8: 8 They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

Genesis 3.9: 9 Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”

Genesis 3.10: 10 The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself.”

Genesis 3.11: 11 God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

Genesis 3.12: 12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

Genesis 3.13: 13 Yahweh God said to the woman, “What have you done?”

The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

Genesis 3.14: 14 Yahweh God said to the serpent,

“Because you have done this,

you are cursed above all livestock,

and above every animal of the field.

You shall go on your belly

and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.

Genesis 3.15: 15 I will put hostility between you and the woman,

and between your offspring and her offspring.

He will bruise your head,

and you will bruise his heel.”

Genesis 3.16: 16 To the woman he said,

“I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth.

You will bear children in pain.

Your desire will be for your husband,

and he will rule over you.”

Genesis 3.17: 17 To Adam he said,

“Because you have listened to your wife’s voice,

and ate from the tree,

about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’

the ground is cursed for your sake.

You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.

Genesis 3.18: 18 It will yield thorns and thistles to you;

and you will eat the herb of the field.

Genesis 3.19: 19 You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground,

for you were taken out of it.

For you are dust,

and you shall return to dust.”

Genesis 3.20: 20 The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.

Genesis 3.21: 21 Yahweh God made garments of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.

Genesis 3.22: 22 Yahweh God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—”

Genesis 3.23: 23 Therefore Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

Genesis 3.24: 24 So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim1 at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

Genesis 7.0:

Genesis 7.1: 7Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

Genesis 7.2: 2 You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.

Genesis 7.3: 3 Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.

Genesis 7.4: 4 In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.”

Genesis 7.5: 5 Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.

Genesis 7.6: 6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.

Genesis 7.7: 7 Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.

Genesis 7.8: 8 Clean animals, unclean animals, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground

Genesis 7.9: 9 went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

Genesis 7.10: 10 After the seven days, the floodwaters came on the earth.

Genesis 7.11: 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened.

Genesis 7.12: 12 It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7.13: 13 In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth—the sons of Noah—and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship—

Genesis 7.14: 14 they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.

Genesis 7.15: 15 Pairs from all flesh with the breath of life in them went into the ship to Noah.

Genesis 7.16: 16 Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; then Yahweh shut him in.

Genesis 7.17: 17 The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.

Genesis 7.18: 18 The waters rose, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.

Genesis 7.19: 19 The waters rose very high on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.

Genesis 7.20: 20 The waters rose fifteen cubits1 higher, and the mountains were covered.

Genesis 7.21: 21 All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.

Genesis 7.22: 22 All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.

Genesis 7.23: 23 Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.

Genesis 7.24: 24 The waters flooded the earth one hundred fifty days.

Exodus 4.0:

Exodus 4.1: 4Moses answered, “But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, ‘Yahweh has not appeared to you.’”

Exodus 4.2: 2 Yahweh said to him, “What is that in your hand?”

He said, “A rod.”

Exodus 4.3: 3 He said, “Throw it on the ground.”

He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it.

Exodus 4.4: 4 Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand, and take it by the tail.”

He stretched out his hand, and took hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand.

Exodus 4.5: 5 “This is so that they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”

Exodus 4.6: 6 Yahweh said furthermore to him, “Now put your hand inside your cloak.”

He put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.

Exodus 4.7: 7 He said, “Put your hand inside your cloak again.”

He put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it out of his cloak, behold, it had turned again as his other flesh.

Exodus 4.8: 8 “It will happen, if they will not believe you or listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.

Exodus 4.9: 9 It will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, that you shall take of the water of the river, and pour it on the dry land. The water which you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land.”

Exodus 4.10: 10 Moses said to Yahweh, “O Lord,1 I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.”

Exodus 4.11: 11 Yahweh said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, Yahweh?

Exodus 4.12: 12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.”

Exodus 4.13: 13 Moses said, “Oh, Lord, please send someone else.”

Exodus 4.14: 14 Yahweh’s anger burned against Moses, and he said, “What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he is coming out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.

Exodus 4.15: 15 You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.

Exodus 4.16: 16 He will be your spokesman to the people. It will happen that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God.

Exodus 4.17: 17 You shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs.”

Exodus 4.18: 18 Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, “Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive.”

Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”

Exodus 4.19: 19 Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, “Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead.”

Exodus 4.20: 20 Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God’s rod in his hand.

Exodus 4.21: 21 Yahweh said to Moses, “When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.

Exodus 4.22: 22 You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

Exodus 4.23: 23 and I have said to you, “Let my son go, that he may serve me;” and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your firstborn son.’”

Exodus 4.24: 24 On the way at a lodging place, Yahweh met Moses and wanted to kill him.

Exodus 4.25: 25 Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me.”

Exodus 4.26: 26 So he let him alone. Then she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.

Exodus 4.27: 27 Yahweh said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.”

He went, and met him on God’s mountain, and kissed him.

Exodus 4.28: 28 Moses told Aaron all Yahweh’s words with which he had sent him, and all the signs with which he had instructed him.

Exodus 4.29: 29 Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.

Exodus 4.30: 30 Aaron spoke all the words which Yahweh had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.

Exodus 4.31: 31 The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.

Leviticus 8.0:

Leviticus 8.1: 8Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Leviticus 8.2: 2 “Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and the bull of the sin offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread;

Leviticus 8.3: 3 and assemble all the congregation at the door of the Tent of Meeting.”

Leviticus 8.4: 4 Moses did as Yahweh commanded him; and the congregation was assembled at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 8.5: 5 Moses said to the congregation, “This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded to be done.”

Leviticus 8.6: 6 Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water.

Leviticus 8.7: 7 He put the tunic on him, tied the sash on him, clothed him with the robe, put the ephod on him, and he tied the skillfully woven band of the ephod on him and fastened it to him with it.

Leviticus 8.8: 8 He placed the breastplate on him. He put the Urim and Thummim in the breastplate.

Leviticus 8.9: 9 He set the turban on his head. He set the golden plate, the holy crown, on the front of the turban, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Leviticus 8.10: 10 Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and sanctified them.

Leviticus 8.11: 11 He sprinkled it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the basin and its base, to sanctify them.

Leviticus 8.12: 12 He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.

Leviticus 8.13: 13 Moses brought Aaron’s sons, and clothed them with tunics, and tied sashes on them, and put headbands on them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Leviticus 8.14: 14 He brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering.

Leviticus 8.15: 15 He killed it; and Moses took the blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it.

Leviticus 8.16: 16 He took all the fat that was on the innards, and the cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat; and Moses burned it on the altar.

Leviticus 8.17: 17 But the bull, and its skin, and its meat, and its dung, he burned with fire outside the camp, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Leviticus 8.18: 18 He presented the ram of the burnt offering. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

Leviticus 8.19: 19 He killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood around on the altar.

Leviticus 8.20: 20 He cut the ram into its pieces; and Moses burned the head, and the pieces, and the fat.

Leviticus 8.21: 21 He washed the innards and the legs with water; and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Leviticus 8.22: 22 He presented the other ram, the ram of consecration. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

Leviticus 8.23: 23 He killed it; and Moses took some of its blood, and put it on the tip of Aaron’s right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot.

Leviticus 8.24: 24 He brought Aaron’s sons; and Moses put some of the blood on the tip of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot; and Moses sprinkled the blood around on the altar.

Leviticus 8.25: 25 He took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat that was on the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh;

Leviticus 8.26: 26 and out of the basket of unleavened bread that was before Yahweh, he took one unleavened cake, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat and on the right thigh.

Leviticus 8.27: 27 He put all these in Aaron’s hands and in his sons’ hands, and waved them for a wave offering before Yahweh.

Leviticus 8.28: 28 Moses took them from their hands, and burned them on the altar on the burnt offering. They were a consecration offering for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

Leviticus 8.29: 29 Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before Yahweh. It was Moses’ portion of the ram of consecration, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Leviticus 8.30: 30 Moses took some of the anointing oil, and some of the blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons, and on his sons’ garments with him, and sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him.

Leviticus 8.31: 31 Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, “Boil the meat at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it.’

Leviticus 8.32: 32 What remains of the meat and of the bread you shall burn with fire.

Leviticus 8.33: 33 You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting for seven days, until the days of your consecration are fulfilled: for he shall consecrate you seven days.

Leviticus 8.34: 34 What has been done today, so Yahweh has commanded to do, to make atonement for you.

Leviticus 8.35: 35 You shall stay at the door of the Tent of Meeting day and night seven days, and keep Yahweh’s command, that you don’t die: for so I am commanded.”

Leviticus 8.36: 36 Aaron and his sons did all the things which Yahweh commanded by Moses.

Leviticus 23.0:

Leviticus 23.1: 23Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Leviticus 23.2: 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘The set feasts of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my set feasts.

Leviticus 23.3: 3 “‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.

Leviticus 23.4: 4 “‘These are the set feasts of Yahweh, even holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their appointed season.

Leviticus 23.5: 5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh’s Passover.

Leviticus 23.6: 6 On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to Yahweh. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.

Leviticus 23.7: 7 In the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.

Leviticus 23.8: 8 But you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh seven days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.’”

Leviticus 23.9: 9 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Leviticus 23.10: 10 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest.

Leviticus 23.11: 11 He shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh, to be accepted for you. On the next day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.

Leviticus 23.12: 12 On the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb without defect a year old for a burnt offering to Yahweh.

Leviticus 23.13: 13 The meal offering with it shall be two tenths of an ephah1 of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to Yahweh for a pleasant aroma; and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.2

Leviticus 23.14: 14 You must not eat bread, or roasted grain, or fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Leviticus 23.15: 15 “‘You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed.

Leviticus 23.16: 16 The next day after the seventh Sabbath you shall count fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to Yahweh.

Leviticus 23.17: 17 You shall bring out of your habitations two loaves of bread for a wave offering made of two tenths of an ephah3 of fine flour. They shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits to Yahweh.

Leviticus 23.18: 18 You shall present with the bread seven lambs without defect a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their meal offering and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Yahweh.

Leviticus 23.19: 19 You shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings.

Leviticus 23.20: 20 The priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering before Yahweh, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to Yahweh for the priest.

Leviticus 23.21: 21 You shall make proclamation on the same day that there shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall do no regular work. This is a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

Leviticus 23.22: 22 “‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you must not wholly reap into the corners of your field, and you must not gather the gleanings of your harvest. You must leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.’”

Leviticus 23.23: 23 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Leviticus 23.24: 24 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, there shall be a solemn rest for you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.

Leviticus 23.25: 25 You shall do no regular work. You shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.’”

Leviticus 23.26: 26 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Leviticus 23.27: 27 “However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement. It shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall afflict yourselves and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

Leviticus 23.28: 28 You shall do no kind of work in that same day, for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before Yahweh your God.

Leviticus 23.29: 29 For whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day shall be cut off from his people.

Leviticus 23.30: 30 Whoever does any kind of work in that same day, I will destroy that person from among his people.

Leviticus 23.31: 31 You shall do no kind of work: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Leviticus 23.32: 32 It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.”

Leviticus 23.33: 33 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Leviticus 23.34: 34 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say, ‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of booths4 for seven days to Yahweh.

Leviticus 23.35: 35 On the first day shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.

Leviticus 23.36: 36 Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. It is a solemn assembly; you shall do no regular work.

Leviticus 23.37: 37 “‘These are the appointed feasts of Yahweh which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, a meal offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its own day—

Leviticus 23.38: 38 in addition to the Sabbaths of Yahweh, and in addition to your gifts, and in addition to all your vows, and in addition to all your free will offerings, which you give to Yahweh.

Leviticus 23.39: 39 “‘So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast of Yahweh seven days. On the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.

Leviticus 23.40: 40 You shall take on the first day the fruit of majestic trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God seven days.

Leviticus 23.41: 41 You shall keep it as a feast to Yahweh seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations. You shall keep it in the seventh month.

Leviticus 23.42: 42 You shall dwell in temporary shelters5 for seven days. All who are native-born in Israel shall dwell in temporary shelters,6

Leviticus 23.43: 43 that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in temporary shelters7 when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.’”

Leviticus 23.44: 44 So Moses declared to the children of Israel the appointed feasts of Yahweh.

2 Samuel 10.0:

2 Samuel 10.1: 10After this, the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place.

2 Samuel 10.2: 2 David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent by his servants to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.

2 Samuel 10.3: 3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn’t David sent his servants to you to search the city, to spy it out, and to overthrow it?”

2 Samuel 10.4: 4 So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved off one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.

2 Samuel 10.5: 5 When they told David this, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, “Wait at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return.”

2 Samuel 10.6: 6 When the children of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth Rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and the king of Maacah with one thousand men, and the men of Tob twelve thousand men.

2 Samuel 10.7: 7 When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of the mighty men.

2 Samuel 10.8: 8 The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entrance of the gate. The Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob, and the men of Tob and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.

2 Samuel 10.9: 9 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.

2 Samuel 10.10: 10 The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and he put them in array against the children of Ammon.

2 Samuel 10.11: 11 He said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will come and help you.

2 Samuel 10.12: 12 Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people, and for the cities of our God; and may Yahweh do what seems good to him.”

2 Samuel 10.13: 13 So Joab and the people who were with him came near to the battle against the Syrians, and they fled before him.

2 Samuel 10.14: 14 When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, and entered into the city. Then Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 10.15: 15 When the Syrians saw that they were defeated by Israel, they gathered themselves together.

2 Samuel 10.16: 16 Hadadezer sent, and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the River: and they came to Helam, with Shobach the captain of the army of Hadadezer at their head.

2 Samuel 10.17: 17 David was told that; and he gathered all Israel together, passed over the Jordan, and came to Helam. The Syrians set themselves in array against David, and fought with him.

2 Samuel 10.18: 18 The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed seven hundred charioteers of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and struck Shobach the captain of their army, so that he died there.

2 Samuel 10.19: 19 When all the kings who were servants to Hadadezer saw that they were defeated before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served them. So the Syrians were afraid to help the children of Ammon any more.

2 Kings 14.0:

2 Kings 14.1: 14In the second year of Joash son of Joahaz king of Israel Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah began to reign.

2 Kings 14.2: 2 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.

2 Kings 14.3: 3 He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, yet not like David his father. He did according to all that Joash his father had done.

2 Kings 14.4: 4 However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.

2 Kings 14.5: 5 As soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, he killed his servants who had slain the king his father,

2 Kings 14.6: 6 but the children of the murderers he didn’t put to death; according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, as Yahweh commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.”

2 Kings 14.7: 7 He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela by war, and called its name Joktheel, to this day.

2 Kings 14.8: 8 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let’s look one another in the face.”

2 Kings 14.9: 9 Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as wife. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle.

2 Kings 14.10: 10 You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you fall, even you, and Judah with you?’”

2 Kings 14.11: 11 But Amaziah would not listen. So Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah.

2 Kings 14.12: 12 Judah was defeated by Israel; and each man fled to his tent.

2 Kings 14.13: 13 Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.1

2 Kings 14.14: 14 He took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in Yahweh’s house and in the treasures of the king’s house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.

2 Kings 14.15: 15 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

2 Kings 14.16: 16 Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place.

2 Kings 14.17: 17 Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.

2 Kings 14.18: 18 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2 Kings 14.19: 19 They made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.

2 Kings 14.20: 20 They brought him on horses, and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in David’s city.

2 Kings 14.21: 21 All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.

2 Kings 14.22: 22 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah. After that the king slept with his fathers.

2 Kings 14.23: 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria for forty-one years.

2 Kings 14.24: 24 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight. He didn’t depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.

2 Kings 14.25: 25 He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, according to Yahweh, the God of Israel’s word, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath Hepher.

2 Kings 14.26: 26 For Yahweh saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter; for all, slave and free, and there was no helper for Israel.

2 Kings 14.27: 27 Yahweh didn’t say that he would blot out the name of Israel from under the sky; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.

2 Kings 14.28: 28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he fought, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which had belonged to Judah, for Israel, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

2 Kings 14.29: 29 Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zechariah his son reigned in his place.

Psalms 58.0:

For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A poem by David.

Psalms 58.1: 58Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones?

Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?

Psalms 58.2: 2 No, in your heart you plot injustice.

You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

Psalms 58.3: 3 The wicked go astray from the womb.

They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Psalms 58.4: 4 Their poison is like the poison of a snake,

like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

Psalms 58.5: 5 which doesn’t listen to the voice of charmers,

no matter how skillful the charmer may be.

Psalms 58.6: 6 Break their teeth, God, in their mouth.

Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.

Psalms 58.7: 7 Let them vanish like water that flows away.

When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

Psalms 58.8: 8 Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away,

like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.

Psalms 58.9: 9 Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns,

he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

Psalms 58.10: 10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance.

He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,

Psalms 58.11: 11 so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous.

Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”

Psalms 125.0:

A Song of Ascents.

Psalms 125.1: 125Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion,

which can’t be moved, but remains forever.

Psalms 125.2: 2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem,

so Yahweh surrounds his people from this time forward and forever more.

Psalms 125.3: 3 For the scepter of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous;

so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil.

Psalms 125.4: 4 Do good, Yahweh, to those who are good,

to those who are upright in their hearts.

Psalms 125.5: 5 But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways,

Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity.

Peace be on Israel.

Isaiah 12.0:

Isaiah 12.1: 12In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.

Isaiah 12.2: 2 Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”

Isaiah 12.3: 3 Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.

Isaiah 12.4: 4 In that day you will say, “Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name. Declare his doings among the peoples. Proclaim that his name is exalted!

Isaiah 12.5: 5 Sing to Yahweh, for he has done excellent things! Let this be known in all the earth!

Isaiah 12.6: 6 Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great among you!”

Ezekiel 21.0:

Ezekiel 21.1: 21Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 21.2: 2 “Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and preach toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel.

Ezekiel 21.3: 3 Tell the land of Israel, ‘Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, and will draw my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.

Ezekiel 21.4: 4 Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore my sword will go out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north.

Ezekiel 21.5: 5 All flesh will know that I, Yahweh, have drawn my sword out of its sheath. It will not return any more.”’

Ezekiel 21.6: 6 “Therefore sigh, you son of man. You shall sigh before their eyes with a broken heart1 and with bitterness.

Ezekiel 21.7: 7 It shall be, when they ask you, ‘Why do you sigh?’ that you shall say, ‘Because of the news, for it comes! Every heart will melt, all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint, and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh.’”

Ezekiel 21.8: 8 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 21.9: 9 “Son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘Yahweh says:

“A sword! A sword!

It is sharpened,

and also polished.

Ezekiel 21.10: 10 It is sharpened that it may make a slaughter.

It is polished that it may be as lightning.

Should we then make mirth?

The rod of my son condemns every tree.

Ezekiel 21.11: 11 It is given to be polished,

that it may be handled.

The sword is sharpened.

Yes, it is polished

to give it into the hand of the killer.”’

Ezekiel 21.12: 12 Cry and wail, son of man;

for it is on my people.

It is on all the princes of Israel.

They are delivered over to the sword with my people.

Therefore beat your thigh.

Ezekiel 21.13: 13 “For there is a trial. What if even the rod that condemns will be no more?” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 21.14: 14 “You therefore, son of man, prophesy,

and strike your hands together.

Let the sword be doubled the third time,

the sword of the fatally wounded.

It is the sword of the great one who is fatally wounded,

which enters into their rooms.

Ezekiel 21.15: 15 I have set the threatening sword against all their gates,

that their heart may melt,

and their stumblings be multiplied.

Ah! It is made as lightning.

It is pointed for slaughter.

Ezekiel 21.16: 16 Gather yourselves together.

Go to the right.

Set yourselves in array.

Go to the left,

wherever your face is set.

Ezekiel 21.17: 17 I will also strike my hands together,

and I will cause my wrath to rest.

I, Yahweh, have spoken it.”

Ezekiel 21.18: 18 Yahweh’s word came to me again, saying,

Ezekiel 21.19: 19 “Also, you son of man, appoint two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come. They both will come out of one land, and mark out a place. Mark it out at the head of the way to the city.

Ezekiel 21.20: 20 You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.

Ezekiel 21.21: 21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shook the arrows back and forth. He consulted the teraphim.2 He looked in the liver.

Ezekiel 21.22: 22 In his right hand was the lot for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, and to build forts.

Ezekiel 21.23: 23 It will be to them as a false divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths to them; but he brings iniquity to memory, that they may be taken.

Ezekiel 21.24: 24 “Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you have caused your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear; because you have come to memory, you will be taken with the hand.

Ezekiel 21.25: 25 “‘You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,

Ezekiel 21.26: 26 the Lord Yahweh says: “Remove the turban, and take off the crown. This will not be as it was. Exalt that which is low, and humble that which is high.

Ezekiel 21.27: 27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn it. This also will be no more, until he comes whose right it is; and I will give it.”’

Ezekiel 21.28: 28 “You, son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says this concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach:

“A sword! A sword is drawn!

It is polished for the slaughter,

to cause it to devour,

that it may be as lightning;

Ezekiel 21.29: 29 while they see for you false visions,

while they divine lies to you,

to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded,

whose day has come in the time of the iniquity of the end.

Ezekiel 21.30: 30 Cause it to return into its sheath.

In the place where you were created,

in the land of your birth, I will judge you.

Ezekiel 21.31: 31 I will pour out my indignation on you.

I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath.

I will deliver you into the hand of brutish men,

skillful to destroy.

Ezekiel 21.32: 32 You will be for fuel to the fire.

Your blood will be in the middle of the land.

You will be remembered no more;

for I, Yahweh, have spoken it.”’”

Obadiah 0.0:

The Book of

Obadiah

Obadiah 1.0:

Obadiah 1.1: 1The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord1 Yahweh2 says about Edom. We have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, “Arise, and let’s rise up against her in battle.

Obadiah 1.2: 2 Behold,3 I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised.

Obadiah 1.3: 3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’

Obadiah 1.4: 4 Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.

Obadiah 1.5: 5 “If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, what disaster awaits you—wouldn’t they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn’t they leave some gleaning grapes?

Obadiah 1.6: 6 How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!

Obadiah 1.7: 7 All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him.”

Obadiah 1.8: 8 “Won’t I in that day”, says Yahweh, “destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau?

Obadiah 1.9: 9 Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.

Obadiah 1.10: 10 For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.

Obadiah 1.11: 11 In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them.

Obadiah 1.12: 12 But don’t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don’t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress.

Obadiah 1.13: 13 Don’t enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don’t look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity.

Obadiah 1.14: 14 Don’t stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don’t deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress.

Obadiah 1.15: 15 For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.

Obadiah 1.16: 16 For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been.

Obadiah 1.17: 17 But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions.

Obadiah 1.18: 18 The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them, and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau.” Indeed, Yahweh has spoken.

Obadiah 1.19: 19 Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead.

Obadiah 1.20: 20 The captives of this army of the children of Israel, who are among the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the Negev.

Obadiah 1.21: 21 Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be Yahweh’s.

Romans 7.0:

Romans 7.1: 7Or don’t you know, brothers1 (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?

Romans 7.2: 2 For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

Romans 7.3: 3 So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

Romans 7.4: 4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

Romans 7.5: 5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.

Romans 7.6: 6 But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

Romans 7.7: 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”a

Romans 7.8: 8 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

Romans 7.9: 9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

Romans 7.10: 10 The commandment which was for life, this I found to be for death;

Romans 7.11: 11 for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

Romans 7.12: 12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

Romans 7.13: 13 Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, was producing death in me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful.

Romans 7.14: 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

Romans 7.15: 15 For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

Romans 7.16: 16 But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.

Romans 7.17: 17 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

Romans 7.18: 18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

Romans 7.19: 19 For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice.

Romans 7.20: 20 But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

Romans 7.21: 21 I find then the law that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

Romans 7.22: 22 For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,

Romans 7.23: 23 but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

Romans 7.24: 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

Romans 7.25: 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, sin’s law.

Wisdom of Solomon 14.0:

Wisdom of Solomon 14.1: 14Again, one preparing to sail, and about to journey over raging waves,

calls upon a piece of wood more rotten than the vessel that carries him.

Wisdom of Solomon 14.2: 2 For the hunger for profit planned it,

and wisdom was the craftsman who built it.

Wisdom of Solomon 14.3: 3 Your providence, O Father, guides it along,

because even in the sea you gave a way,

and in the waves a sure path,

Wisdom of Solomon 14.4: 4 showing that you can save out of every danger,

that even a man without skill may put to sea.

Wisdom of Solomon 14.5: 5 It is your will that the works of your wisdom should be not idle.

Therefore men also entrust their lives to a little piece of wood,

and passing through the surge on a raft come safely to land.

Wisdom of Solomon 14.6: 6 For 1 in the old time also, when proud giants were perishing,

the hope of the world, taking refuge on a raft,

your hand guided the seed of generations of the race of men.

Wisdom of Solomon 14.7: 7 For blessed is wood through which comes righteousness;

Wisdom of Solomon 14.8: 8 but the idol made with hands is accursed, itself and he that made it;

because his was the working, and the corruptible thing was called a god:

Wisdom of Solomon 14.9: 9 For both the ungodly and his ungodliness are alike hateful to God;

Wisdom of Solomon 14.10: 10 for truly the deed will be punished together with him who committed it.

Wisdom of Solomon 14.11: 11 Therefore also there will be a visitation among the idols of the nation,

because, though formed of things which God created, they were made an abomination,

stumbling blocks to the souls of men,

and a snare to the feet of the foolish.

Wisdom of Solomon 14.12: 12 For the devising of idols was the beginning of fornication,

and the invention of them the corruption of life.

Wisdom of Solomon 14.13: 13 For they didn’t exist from the beginning, and they won’t exist forever.

Wisdom of Solomon 14.14: 14 For by the vaingloriousness of men they entered into the world,

and therefore was a speedy end is planned for them.

Wisdom of Solomon 14.15: 15 For a father worn with untimely grief,

making an image of the child quickly taken away,

now honored him as a god which was then a dead man,

and delivered to those that were under him mysteries and solemn rites.

Wisdom of Solomon 14.16: 16 Afterward the ungodly custom, in process of time grown strong, was kept as a law,

and the engraved images received worship by the commandments of princes.

Wisdom of Solomon 14.17: 17 And when men could not honor them in presence because they lived far off,

imagining the likeness from afar,

they made a visible image of the king whom they honored,

that by their zeal they might flatter the absent as if present.

Wisdom of Solomon 14.18: 18 But worship was raised to a yet higher pitch, even by those who didn’t know him,

urged forward by the ambition of the architect;

Wisdom of Solomon 14.19: 19 for he, wishing perhaps to please one in authority,

used his art to force the likeness toward a greater beauty.

Wisdom of Solomon 14.20: 20 So the multitude, allured by reason of the grace of his handiwork,

now consider an object of devotion him that a little before was honored as a man.

Wisdom of Solomon 14.21: 21 And this became an ambush,

because men, in bondage either to calamity or to tyranny,

invested stones and stocks with the incommunicable Name.

Wisdom of Solomon 14.22: 22 Afterward it was not enough for them to go astray concerning the knowledge of God;

but also, while they live in a great war of ignorance that they call a multitude of evils peace.

Wisdom of Solomon 14.23: 23 For either slaughtering children in solemn rites, or celebrating secret mysteries,

or holding frantic revels of strange ordinances,

Wisdom of Solomon 14.24: 24 no longer do they guard either life or purity of marriage,

but one brings upon another either death by treachery, or anguish by adultery.

Wisdom of Solomon 14.25: 25 And all things confusedly are filled with blood and murder, theft and deceit,

corruption, faithlessness, tumult, perjury,

Wisdom of Solomon 14.26: 26 confusion about what is good, forgetfulness of favors,

ingratitude for benefits,

defiling of souls, confusion of sex,

disorder in marriage, adultery and wantonness.

Wisdom of Solomon 14.27: 27 For the worship of idols that may not be named a

is a beginning and cause and end of every evil.

Wisdom of Solomon 14.28: 28 For their worshipers either make merry to madness, or prophesy lies,

or live unrighteously, or lightly commit perjury.

Wisdom of Solomon 14.29: 29 For putting their trust in lifeless idols,

when they have sworn a wicked oath, they expect not to suffer harm.

Wisdom of Solomon 14.30: 30 But for both, the just doom will pursue them,

because they had evil thoughts of God by giving heed to idols,

and swore unrighteously in deceit through contempt for holiness.

Wisdom of Solomon 14.31: 31 For it is not the power of them by whom men swear,

but it is the just penalty for those who sin

that always visits the transgression of the unrighteous.

3 Maccabees 3.0:

3 Maccabees 3.1: 3On discovering this, so incensed was the wicked king, that he no longer confined his rage to the Jews in Alexandria. Laying his hand more heavily upon those who lived in the country, he gave orders that they should be quickly collected into one place, and most cruelly deprived of their lives.

3 Maccabees 3.2: 2 While this was going on, an invidious rumor was uttered abroad by men who had banded together to injure the Jewish race. The purport of their charge was, that the Jews kept them away from the ordinances of the law.

3 Maccabees 3.3: 3 Now, while the Jews always maintained a feeling of unwavering loyalty toward the kings,

3 Maccabees 3.4: 4 yet, as they worshiped God, and observed his law, they made certain distinctions, and avoided certain things. Hence some persons held them in odium;

3 Maccabees 3.5: 5 although, as they adorned their conversation with works of righteousness, they had established themselves in the good opinion of the world.

3 Maccabees 3.6: 6 What all the rest of mankind said, was, however, made of no account by the foreigners;

3 Maccabees 3.7: 7 who said much of the exclusiveness of the Jews with regard to their worship and meats; they alleged that they were men unsociable, hostile to the king’s interests, refusing to associate with him or his troops. By this way of speaking, they brought much odium upon them.

3 Maccabees 3.8: 8 Nor was this unexpected uproar and sudden conflux of people unobserved by the Greeks who lived in the city, concerning men who had never harmed them: yet to aid them was not in their power, since all was oppression around; but they encouraged them in their troubles, and expected a favorable turn of affairs:

3 Maccabees 3.9: 9 He who knows all things, will not, said they, disregard so great a people.

3 Maccabees 3.10: 10 Some of the neighbors, friends, and fellow dealers of the Jews, even called them secretly to an interview, pledged them their assistance, and promised to do their very utmost for them.

3 Maccabees 3.11: 11 Now the king, elated with his prosperous fortune, and not regarding the superior power of God, but thinking to persevere in his present purpose, wrote the following letter to the prejudice of the Jews.

3 Maccabees 3.12: 12 King Ptolemy Philopater, to the commanders and soldiers in Egypt, and in all places, health and happiness!

3 Maccabees 3.13: 13 I am right well; and so, too, are my affairs.

3 Maccabees 3.14: 14 Since our Asiatic campaign, the particulars of which you° know, and which by the aid of the gods, not lightly given, and by our own vigor, has been brought to a successful issue according to our expectation,

3 Maccabees 3.15: 15 we resolved, not with strength of spear, but with gentleness and much humanity, as it were to nurse the inhabitants of Coele-Syria and Phoenicia, and to be their willing benefactors.

3 Maccabees 3.16: 16 So, having bestowed considerable sums of money upon the temples of the several cities, we proceeded even as far as Jerusalem; and went up to honor the temple of these wretched beings who never cease from their folly.

3 Maccabees 3.17: 17 To outward appearance they received us willingly; but belied that appearance by their deeds. When we were eager to enter their temple, and to honor it with the most beautiful and exquisite gifts,

3 Maccabees 3.18: 18 they were so carried away by their old arrogance, as to forbid us the entrance; while we, out of our forbearance toward all men, refrained from exercising our power upon them.

3 Maccabees 3.19: 19 And thus, exhibiting their enmity against us, they alone among the nations lift up their heads against kings and benefactors, as men unwilling to submit to any thing reasonable.

3 Maccabees 3.20: 20 We then, having endeavored to make allowance for the madness of these persons, and on our victorious return treating all people in Egypt courteously, acted in a manner which was befitting.

3 Maccabees 3.21: 21 Accordingly, bearing no ill-will against their kinsmen at Jerusalem, but rather remembering our connection with them, and the numerous matters with sincere heart from a remote period entrusted to them, we wished to venture a total alteration of their state, by giving them the rights of citizens of Alexandria, and to admit them to the everlasting rites of our solemnities.

3 Maccabees 3.22: 22 All this, however, they have taken in a very different spirit. With their innate malignity, they have spurned the fair offer; and constantly inclining to evil,

3 Maccabees 3.23: 23 have rejected the inestimable rights. Not only so, but by using speech, and by refraining from speech, they abhor the few among them who are heartily disposed toward us; ever deeming that their ignoble course of procedure will force us to do away with our reform.

3 Maccabees 3.24: 24 Having then, received certain proofs that these Jews bear us every sort of ill-will, we must look forward to the possibility of some sudden tumult among ourselves, when these impious men may turn traitors and barbarous enemies.

3 Maccabees 3.25: 25 As soon, therefore, as the contents of this letter become known to you, in that same hour we order those Jews who dwell among you, with wives and children, to be sent to us, vilified and abused, in chains of iron, to undergo a death, cruel and ignominious, suitable to men disaffected.

3 Maccabees 3.26: 26 For by the punishment of them in one body we perceive that we have found the only means of establishing our affairs for the future on a firm and satisfactory basis.

3 Maccabees 3.27: 27 Whosoever shall shield a Jew, whether it be old man, child, or nursing baby, shall with his whole house be tortured to death.

3 Maccabees 3.28: 28 Whoever shall inform against the Jews, besides receiving the property of the person charged, shall be presented with two thousand drachmas from the royal treasury, shall be made free, and shall be crowned.

3 Maccabees 3.29: 29 Whatever place shall shelter a Jew, shall, when he is hunted forth, be put under the ban of fire, and be forever rendered useless to every living being for all time to come.

3 Maccabees 3.30: 30 Such was the purport of the king’s letter.

4 Maccabees 0.0:

THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE MACCABEES

The Fourth Book of the Maccabees appears in an appendix to the Greek Septuagint. It is considered to be apocrypha by most church traditions. It is preserved here for its supplementary historical value.