Genesis 0.0:
The First Book of Moses,
Commonly Called
Genesis
Genesis 1.0:
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Genesis 1.1: 1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1.2: 2 The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
Genesis 1.3: 3 God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
Genesis 1.4: 4 God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.
Genesis 1.5: 5 God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.
Genesis 1.6: 6 God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”
Genesis 1.7: 7 God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.
Genesis 1.8: 8 God called the expanse “sky”. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
Genesis 1.9: 9 God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so.
Genesis 1.10: 10 God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1.11: 11 God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth;” and it was so.
Genesis 1.12: 12 The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1.13: 13 There was evening and there was morning, a third day.
Genesis 1.14: 14 God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years;
Genesis 1.15: 15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth;” and it was so.
Genesis 1.16: 16 God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.
Genesis 1.17: 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth,
Genesis 1.18: 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1.19: 19 There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
Genesis 1.20: 20 God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”
Genesis 1.21: 21 God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1.22: 22 God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”
Genesis 1.23: 23 There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
Genesis 1.24: 24 God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;” and it was so.
Genesis 1.25: 25 God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1.26: 26 God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Genesis 1.27: 27 God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
Genesis 1.28: 28 God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Genesis 1.29: 29 God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.
Genesis 1.30: 30 To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so.
Genesis 1.31: 31 God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
Genesis 2.0:
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Genesis 2.1: 1 The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished.
Genesis 2.2: 2 On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.
Genesis 2.3: 3 God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.
Genesis 2.4: 4 This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.
Genesis 2.5: 5 No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,
Genesis 2.6: 6 but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.
Genesis 2.7: 7 Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Genesis 2.8: 8 Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Genesis 2.9: 9 Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2.10: 10 A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became the source of four rivers.
Genesis 2.11: 11 The name of the first is Pishon: it flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
Genesis 2.12: 12 and the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and onyx stone are also there.
Genesis 2.13: 13 The name of the second river is Gihon. It is the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.
Genesis 2.14: 14 The name of the third river is Hiddekel. This is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
Genesis 2.15: 15 Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.
Genesis 2.16: 16 Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;
Genesis 2.17: 17 but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
Genesis 2.18: 18 Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
Genesis 2.19: 19 Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature became its name.
Genesis 2.20: 20 The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper comparable to him.
Genesis 2.21: 21 Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
Genesis 2.22: 22 Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which he had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.
Genesis 2.23: 23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.”
Genesis 2.24: 24 Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
Genesis 2.25: 25 The man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.
Genesis 3.0:
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Genesis 3.1: 1 Now 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 cherubim 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 4.0:
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Genesis 4.1: 1 The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.”
Genesis 4.2: 2 Again she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Genesis 4.3: 3 As time passed, Cain brought an offering to Yahweh from the fruit of the ground.
Genesis 4.4: 4 Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering,
Genesis 4.5: 5 but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.
Genesis 4.6: 6 Yahweh said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?
Genesis 4.7: 7 If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”
Genesis 4.8: 8 Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.
Genesis 4.9: 9 Yahweh said to Cain, “Where is Abel, your brother?”
He said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”
Genesis 4.10: 10 Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.
Genesis 4.11: 11 Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
Genesis 4.12: 12 From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth.”
Genesis 4.13: 13 Cain said to Yahweh, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.
Genesis 4.14: 14 Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. Whoever finds me will kill me.”
Genesis 4.15: 15 Yahweh said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, so that anyone finding him would not strike him.
Genesis 4.16: 16 Cain left Yahweh’s presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
Genesis 4.17: 17 Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and named the city after the name of his son, Enoch.
Genesis 4.18: 18 Irad was born to Enoch. Irad became the father of Mehujael. Mehujael became the father of Methushael. Methushael became the father of Lamech.
Genesis 4.19: 19 Lamech took two wives: the name of the first one was Adah, and the name of the second one was Zillah.
Genesis 4.20: 20 Adah gave birth to Jabal, who was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.
Genesis 4.21: 21 His brother’s name was Jubal, who was the father of all who handle the harp and pipe.
Genesis 4.22: 22 Zillah also gave birth to Tubal Cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of bronze and iron. Tubal Cain’s sister was Naamah.
Genesis 4.23: 23 Lamech said to his wives,
“Adah and Zillah, hear my voice.
You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech,
for I have slain a man for wounding me,
a young man for bruising me.
Genesis 4.24: 24 If Cain will be avenged seven times,
truly Lamech seventy-seven times.”
Genesis 4.25: 25 Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, saying, “for God has given me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him.”
Genesis 4.26: 26 A son was also born to Seth, and he named him Enosh. At that time men began to call on Yahweh’s name.
Genesis 5.0:
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Genesis 5.1: 1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.
Genesis 5.2: 2 He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them Adam.
Genesis 5.3: 3 Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
Genesis 5.4: 4 The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5.5: 5 All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.
Genesis 5.6: 6 Seth lived one hundred five years, then became the father of Enosh.
Genesis 5.7: 7 Seth lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5.8: 8 All of the days of Seth were nine hundred twelve years, then he died.
Genesis 5.9: 9 Enosh lived ninety years, and became the father of Kenan.
Genesis 5.10: 10 Enosh lived after he became the father of Kenan eight hundred fifteen years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5.11: 11 All of the days of Enosh were nine hundred five years, then he died.
Genesis 5.12: 12 Kenan lived seventy years, then became the father of Mahalalel.
Genesis 5.13: 13 Kenan lived after he became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred forty years, and became the father of other sons and daughters
Genesis 5.14: 14 and all of the days of Kenan were nine hundred ten years, then he died.
Genesis 5.15: 15 Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, then became the father of Jared.
Genesis 5.16: 16 Mahalalel lived after he became the father of Jared eight hundred thirty years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5.17: 17 All of the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety-five years, then he died.
Genesis 5.18: 18 Jared lived one hundred sixty-two years, then became the father of Enoch.
Genesis 5.19: 19 Jared lived after he became the father of Enoch eight hundred years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5.20: 20 All of the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty-two years, then he died.
Genesis 5.21: 21 Enoch lived sixty-five years, then became the father of Methuselah.
Genesis 5.22: 22 After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 5.23: 23 All the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five years.
Genesis 5.24: 24 Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.
Genesis 5.25: 25 Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-seven years, then became the father of Lamech.
Genesis 5.26: 26 Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5.27: 27 All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.
Genesis 5.28: 28 Lamech lived one hundred eighty-two years, then became the father of a son.
Genesis 5.29: 29 He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground which Yahweh has cursed.”
Genesis 5.30: 30 Lamech lived after he became the father of Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5.31: 31 All the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years, then he died.
Genesis 5.32: 32 Noah was five hundred years old, then Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6.0:
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Genesis 6.1: 1 When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,
Genesis 6.2: 2 God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.
Genesis 6.3: 3 Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”
Genesis 6.4: 4 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
Genesis 6.5: 5 Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
Genesis 6.6: 6 Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
Genesis 6.7: 7 Yahweh said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I am sorry that I have made them.”
Genesis 6.8: 8 But Noah found favor in Yahweh’s eyes.
Genesis 6.9: 9 This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
Genesis 6.10: 10 Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6.11: 11 The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Genesis 6.12: 12 God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
Genesis 6.13: 13 God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.
Genesis 6.14: 14 Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.
Genesis 6.15: 15 This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
Genesis 6.16: 16 You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.
Genesis 6.17: 17 I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.
Genesis 6.18: 18 But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
Genesis 6.19: 19 Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.
Genesis 6.20: 20 Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort will come to you, to keep them alive.
Genesis 6.21: 21 Take with you some of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them.”
Genesis 6.22: 22 Thus Noah did. He did all that God commanded him.
Genesis 7.0:
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Genesis 7.1: 1 Yahweh 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 cubits 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.
Genesis 8.0:
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Genesis 8.1: 1 God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
Genesis 8.2: 2 The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
Genesis 8.3: 3 The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded.
Genesis 8.4: 4 The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains.
Genesis 8.5: 5 The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.
Genesis 8.6: 6 At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,
Genesis 8.7: 7 and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.
Genesis 8.8: 8 He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,
Genesis 8.9: 9 but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned into the ship to him, for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put out his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.
Genesis 8.10: 10 He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship.
Genesis 8.11: 11 The dove came back to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.
Genesis 8.12: 12 He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more.
Genesis 8.13: 13 In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
Genesis 8.14: 14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
Genesis 8.15: 15 God spoke to Noah, saying,
Genesis 8.16: 16 “Go out of the ship, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.
Genesis 8.17: 17 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth.”
Genesis 8.18: 18 Noah went out, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him.
Genesis 8.19: 19 Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.
Genesis 8.20: 20 Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Genesis 8.21: 21 Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.
Genesis 8.22: 22 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”
Genesis 9.0:
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Genesis 9.1: 1 God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth.
Genesis 9.2: 2 The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that moves along the ground, and all the fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand.
Genesis 9.3: 3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.
Genesis 9.4: 4 But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.
Genesis 9.5: 5 I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.
Genesis 9.6: 6 Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
Genesis 9.7: 7 Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.”
Genesis 9.8: 8 God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
Genesis 9.9: 9 “As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
Genesis 9.10: 10 and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.
Genesis 9.11: 11 I will establish my covenant with you: All flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood. There will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”
Genesis 9.12: 12 God said, “This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
Genesis 9.13: 13 I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
Genesis 9.14: 14 When I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,
Genesis 9.15: 15 I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Genesis 9.16: 16 The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”
Genesis 9.17: 17 God said to Noah, “This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”
Genesis 9.18: 18 The sons of Noah who went out from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.
Genesis 9.19: 19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.
Genesis 9.20: 20 Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.
Genesis 9.21: 21 He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.
Genesis 9.22: 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
Genesis 9.23: 23 Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn’t see their father’s nakedness.
Genesis 9.24: 24 Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.
Genesis 9.25: 25 He said,
“Canaan is cursed.
He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”
Genesis 9.26: 26 He said,
“Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem.
Let Canaan be his servant.
Genesis 9.27: 27 May God enlarge Japheth.
Let him dwell in the tents of Shem.
Let Canaan be his servant.”
Genesis 9.28: 28 Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood.
Genesis 9.29: 29 All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, and then he died.
Genesis 10.0:
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Genesis 10.1: 1 Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
Genesis 10.2: 2 The sons of Japheth were: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
Genesis 10.3: 3 The sons of Gomer were: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
Genesis 10.4: 4 The sons of Javan were: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
Genesis 10.5: 5 Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.
Genesis 10.6: 6 The sons of Ham were: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
Genesis 10.7: 7 The sons of Cush were: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah were: Sheba and Dedan.
Genesis 10.8: 8 Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.
Genesis 10.9: 9 He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, “like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh”.
Genesis 10.10: 10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Genesis 10.11: 11 Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
Genesis 10.12: 12 and Resen between Nineveh and the great city Calah.
Genesis 10.13: 13 Mizraim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
Genesis 10.14: 14 Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.
Genesis 10.15: 15 Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth,
Genesis 10.16: 16 the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
Genesis 10.17: 17 the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
Genesis 10.18: 18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.
Genesis 10.19: 19 The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon—as you go toward Gerar—to Gaza—as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim—to Lasha.
Genesis 10.20: 20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations.
Genesis 10.21: 21 Children were also born to Shem (the elder brother of Japheth), the father of all the children of Eber.
Genesis 10.22: 22 The sons of Shem were: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
Genesis 10.23: 23 The sons of Aram were: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
Genesis 10.24: 24 Arpachshad became the father of Shelah. Shelah became the father of Eber.
Genesis 10.25: 25 To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. His brother’s name was Joktan.
Genesis 10.26: 26 Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
Genesis 10.27: 27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
Genesis 10.28: 28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
Genesis 10.29: 29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
Genesis 10.30: 30 Their dwelling extended from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.
Genesis 10.31: 31 These are the sons of Shem, by their families, according to their languages, lands, and nations.
Genesis 10.32: 32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, by their generations, according to their nations. The nations divided from these in the earth after the flood.
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Genesis 11.1: 1 The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
Genesis 11.2: 2 As they traveled from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.
Genesis 11.3: 3 They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
Genesis 11.4: 4 They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”
Genesis 11.5: 5 Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
Genesis 11.6: 6 Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
Genesis 11.7: 7 Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
Genesis 11.8: 8 So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
Genesis 11.9: 9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
Genesis 11.10: 10 This is the history of the generations of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.
Genesis 11.11: 11 Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11.12: 12 Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah.
Genesis 11.13: 13 Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11.14: 14 Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber.
Genesis 11.15: 15 Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Eber, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11.16: 16 Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.
Genesis 11.17: 17 Eber lived four hundred thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11.18: 18 Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.
Genesis 11.19: 19 Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11.20: 20 Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.
Genesis 11.21: 21 Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father of Serug, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11.22: 22 Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.
Genesis 11.23: 23 Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11.24: 24 Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.
Genesis 11.25: 25 Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11.26: 26 Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Genesis 11.27: 27 Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.
Genesis 11.28: 28 Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees, while his father Terah was still alive.
Genesis 11.29: 29 Abram and Nahor married wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, who was also the father of Iscah.
Genesis 11.30: 30 Sarai was barren. She had no child.
Genesis 11.31: 31 Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.
Genesis 11.32: 32 The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.
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Genesis 12.1: 1 Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.
Genesis 12.2: 2 I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
Genesis 12.3: 3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”
Genesis 12.4: 4 So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
Genesis 12.5: 5 Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan. They entered into the land of Canaan.
Genesis 12.6: 6 Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time, Canaanites were in the land.
Genesis 12.7: 7 Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.”
He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.
Genesis 12.8: 8 He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name.
Genesis 12.9: 9 Abram traveled, still going on toward the South.
Genesis 12.10: 10 There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.
Genesis 12.11: 11 When he had come near to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.
Genesis 12.12: 12 It will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me, but they will save you alive.
Genesis 12.13: 13 Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.”
Genesis 12.14: 14 When Abram had come into Egypt, Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
Genesis 12.15: 15 The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
Genesis 12.16: 16 He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
Genesis 12.17: 17 Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
Genesis 12.18: 18 Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife?
Genesis 12.19: 19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way.”
Genesis 12.20: 20 Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they escorted him away with his wife and all that he had.
Genesis 13.0:
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Genesis 13.1: 1 Abram went up out of Egypt—he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him—into the South.
Genesis 13.2: 2 Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
Genesis 13.3: 3 He went on his journeys from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
Genesis 13.4: 4 to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on Yahweh’s name.
Genesis 13.5: 5 Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, herds, and tents.
Genesis 13.6: 6 The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together; for their possessions were so great that they couldn’t live together.
Genesis 13.7: 7 There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land at that time.
Genesis 13.8: 8 Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives.
Genesis 13.9: 9 Isn’t the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left.”
Genesis 13.10: 10 Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.
Genesis 13.11: 11 So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves from one other.
Genesis 13.12: 12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
Genesis 13.13: 13 Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.
Genesis 13.14: 14 Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,
Genesis 13.15: 15 for I will give all the land which you see to you and to your offspring forever.
Genesis 13.16: 16 I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted.
Genesis 13.17: 17 Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its width; for I will give it to you.”
Genesis 13.18: 18 Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.
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Genesis 14.1: 1 In the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar; Arioch, king of Ellasar; Chedorlaomer, king of Elam; and Tidal, king of Goiim,
Genesis 14.2: 2 they made war with Bera, king of Sodom; Birsha, king of Gomorrah; Shinab, king of Admah; Shemeber, king of Zeboiim; and the king of Bela (also called Zoar).
Genesis 14.3: 3 All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (also called the Salt Sea).
Genesis 14.4: 4 They served Chedorlaomer for twelve years, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
Genesis 14.5: 5 In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
Genesis 14.6: 6 and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to El Paran, which is by the wilderness.
Genesis 14.7: 7 They returned, and came to En Mishpat (also called Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.
Genesis 14.8: 8 The king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (also called Zoar) went out; and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim
Genesis 14.9: 9 against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five.
Genesis 14.10: 10 Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and some fell there. Those who remained fled to the hills.
Genesis 14.11: 11 They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way.
Genesis 14.12: 12 They took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
Genesis 14.13: 13 One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. At that time, he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner. They were allies of Abram.
Genesis 14.14: 14 When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his three hundred eighteen trained men, born in his house, and pursued as far as Dan.
Genesis 14.15: 15 He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
Genesis 14.16: 16 He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative Lot and his goods, and the women also, and the other people.
Genesis 14.17: 17 The king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).
Genesis 14.18: 18 Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High.
Genesis 14.19: 19 He blessed him, and said, “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth.
Genesis 14.20: 20 Blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.”
Abram gave him a tenth of all.
Genesis 14.21: 21 The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people, and take the goods for yourself.”
Genesis 14.22: 22 Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,
Genesis 14.23: 23 that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’
Genesis 14.24: 24 I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion.”
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Genesis 15.1: 1 After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”
Genesis 15.2: 2 Abram said, “Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”
Genesis 15.3: 3 Abram said, “Behold, you have given no children to me: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir.”
Genesis 15.4: 4 Behold, Yahweh’s word came to him, saying, “This man will not be your heir, but he who will come out of your own body will be your heir.”
Genesis 15.5: 5 Yahweh brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He said to Abram, “So your offspring will be.”
Genesis 15.6: 6 He believed in Yahweh, who credited it to him for righteousness.
Genesis 15.7: 7 He said to Abram, “I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.”
Genesis 15.8: 8 He said, “Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?”
Genesis 15.9: 9 He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”
Genesis 15.10: 10 He brought him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn’t divide the birds.
Genesis 15.11: 11 The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
Genesis 15.12: 12 When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.
Genesis 15.13: 13 He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
Genesis 15.14: 14 I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth;
Genesis 15.15: 15 but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.
Genesis 15.16: 16 In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”
Genesis 15.17: 17 It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.
Genesis 15.18: 18 In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
Genesis 15.19: 19 the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
Genesis 15.20: 20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
Genesis 15.21: 21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”
Genesis 16.0:
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Genesis 16.1: 1 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
Genesis 16.2: 2 Sarai said to Abram, “See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will obtain children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
Genesis 16.3: 3 Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.
Genesis 16.4: 4 He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
Genesis 16.5: 5 Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my servant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, she despised me. May Yahweh judge between me and you.”
Genesis 16.6: 6 But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.” Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.
Genesis 16.7: 7 Yahweh’s angel found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur.
Genesis 16.8: 8 He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where did you come from? Where are you going?”
She said, “I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.”
Genesis 16.9: 9 Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.”
Genesis 16.10: 10 Yahweh’s angel said to her, “I will greatly multiply your offspring, that they will not be counted for multitude.”
Genesis 16.11: 11 Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.
Genesis 16.12: 12 He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. He will live opposed to all of his brothers.”
Genesis 16.13: 13 She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?”
Genesis 16.14: 14 Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
Genesis 16.15: 15 Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
Genesis 16.16: 16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.
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Genesis 17.1: 1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.
Genesis 17.2: 2 I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”
Genesis 17.3: 3 Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,
Genesis 17.4: 4 “As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.
Genesis 17.5: 5 Your name will no more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
Genesis 17.6: 6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.
Genesis 17.7: 7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.
Genesis 17.8: 8 I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God.”
Genesis 17.9: 9 God said to Abraham, “As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations.
Genesis 17.10: 10 This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.
Genesis 17.11: 11 You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.
Genesis 17.12: 12 He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring.
Genesis 17.13: 13 He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
Genesis 17.14: 14 The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.”
Genesis 17.15: 15 God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.
Genesis 17.16: 16 I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.”
Genesis 17.17: 17 Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?”
Genesis 17.18: 18 Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!”
Genesis 17.19: 19 God said, “No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.
Genesis 17.20: 20 As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
Genesis 17.21: 21 But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”
Genesis 17.22: 22 When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.
Genesis 17.23: 23 Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money: every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.
Genesis 17.24: 24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Genesis 17.25: 25 Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Genesis 17.26: 26 In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised.
Genesis 17.27: 27 All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
Genesis 18.0:
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Genesis 18.1: 1 Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.
Genesis 18.2: 2 He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood near him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,
Genesis 18.3: 3 and said, “My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant.
Genesis 18.4: 4 Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
Genesis 18.5: 5 I will get a piece of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant.”
They said, “Very well, do as you have said.”
Genesis 18.6: 6 Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly prepare three seahs of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.”
Genesis 18.7: 7 Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.
Genesis 18.8: 8 He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.
Genesis 18.9: 9 They asked him, “Where is Sarah, your wife?”
He said, “There, in the tent.”
Genesis 18.10: 10 He said, “I will certainly return to you at about this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.”
Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.
Genesis 18.11: 11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
Genesis 18.12: 12 Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”
Genesis 18.13: 13 Yahweh said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child when I am old?’
Genesis 18.14: 14 Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”
Genesis 18.15: 15 Then Sarah denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh,” for she was afraid.
He said, “No, but you did laugh.”
Genesis 18.16: 16 The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.
Genesis 18.17: 17 Yahweh said, “Will I hide from Abraham what I do,
Genesis 18.18: 18 since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?
Genesis 18.19: 19 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”
Genesis 18.20: 20 Yahweh said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,
Genesis 18.21: 21 I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.”
Genesis 18.22: 22 The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.
Genesis 18.23: 23 Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
Genesis 18.24: 24 What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?
Genesis 18.25: 25 May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”
Genesis 18.26: 26 Yahweh said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
Genesis 18.27: 27 Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.
Genesis 18.28: 28 What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?”
He said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”
Genesis 18.29: 29 He spoke to him yet again, and said, “What if there are forty found there?”
He said, “I will not do it for the forty’s sake.”
Genesis 18.30: 30 He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?”
He said, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”
Genesis 18.31: 31 He said, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?”
He said, “I will not destroy it for the twenty’s sake.”
Genesis 18.32: 32 He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?”
He said, “I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.”
Genesis 18.33: 33 Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
Genesis 19.0:
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Genesis 19.1: 1 The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,
Genesis 19.2: 2 and he said, “See now, my lords, please come into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way.”
They said, “No, but we will stay in the street all night.”
Genesis 19.3: 3 He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
Genesis 19.4: 4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.
Genesis 19.5: 5 They called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them.”
Genesis 19.6: 6 Lot went out to them through the door, and shut the door after himself.
Genesis 19.7: 7 He said, “Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly.
Genesis 19.8: 8 See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only don’t do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof.”
Genesis 19.9: 9 They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now we will deal worse with you than with them!” They pressed hard on the man Lot, and came near to break the door.
Genesis 19.10: 10 But the men reached out their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.
Genesis 19.11: 11 They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
Genesis 19.12: 12 The men said to Lot, “Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:
Genesis 19.13: 13 for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown so great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it.”
Genesis 19.14: 14 Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city!”
But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.
Genesis 19.15: 15 When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city.”
Genesis 19.16: 16 But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and his two daughters’ hands, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.
Genesis 19.17: 17 It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”
Genesis 19.18: 18 Lot said to them, “Oh, not so, my lord.
Genesis 19.19: 19 See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.
Genesis 19.20: 20 See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn’t it a little one?), and my soul will live.”
Genesis 19.21: 21 He said to him, “Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
Genesis 19.22: 22 Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
Genesis 19.23: 23 The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
Genesis 19.24: 24 Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.
Genesis 19.25: 25 He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.
Genesis 19.26: 26 But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
Genesis 19.27: 27 Abraham went up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.
Genesis 19.28: 28 He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Genesis 19.29: 29 When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
Genesis 19.30: 30 Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.
Genesis 19.31: 31 The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.
Genesis 19.32: 32 Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”
Genesis 19.33: 33 They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she arose.
Genesis 19.34: 34 It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let’s make him drink wine again tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”
Genesis 19.35: 35 They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she got up.
Genesis 19.36: 36 Thus both of Lot’s daughters were with child by their father.
Genesis 19.37: 37 The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.
Genesis 19.38: 38 The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.
Genesis 20.0:
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Genesis 20.1: 1 Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.
Genesis 20.2: 2 Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
Genesis 20.3: 3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man’s wife.”
Genesis 20.4: 4 Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, “Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?
Genesis 20.5: 5 Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister’? She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”
Genesis 20.6: 6 God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her.
Genesis 20.7: 7 Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours.”
Genesis 20.8: 8 Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very scared.
Genesis 20.9: 9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!”
Genesis 20.10: 10 Abimelech said to Abraham, “What did you see, that you have done this thing?”
Genesis 20.11: 11 Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’
Genesis 20.12: 12 Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
Genesis 20.13: 13 When God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”
Genesis 20.14: 14 Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him.
Genesis 20.15: 15 Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you.”
Genesis 20.16: 16 To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated.”
Genesis 20.17: 17 Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.
Genesis 20.18: 18 For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
Genesis 21.0:
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Genesis 21.1: 1 Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.
Genesis 21.2: 2 Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
Genesis 21.3: 3 Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.
Genesis 21.4: 4 Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
Genesis 21.5: 5 Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.
Genesis 21.6: 6 Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.”
Genesis 21.7: 7 She said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.”
Genesis 21.8: 8 The child grew and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
Genesis 21.9: 9 Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.
Genesis 21.10: 10 Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”
Genesis 21.11: 11 The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son.
Genesis 21.12: 12 God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For your offspring will be named through Isaac.
Genesis 21.13: 13 I will also make a nation of the son of the servant, because he is your child.”
Genesis 21.14: 14 Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a container of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
Genesis 21.15: 15 The water in the container was spent, and she put the child under one of the shrubs.
Genesis 21.16: 16 She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of the child.” She sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
Genesis 21.17: 17 God heard the voice of the boy.
The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Don’t be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
Genesis 21.18: 18 Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him with your hand. For I will make him a great nation.”
Genesis 21.19: 19 God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the container with water, and gave the boy a drink.
Genesis 21.20: 20 God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and as he grew up, became an archer.
Genesis 21.21: 21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
Genesis 21.22: 22 At that time, Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do.
Genesis 21.23: 23 Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner.”
Genesis 21.24: 24 Abraham said, “I will swear.”
Genesis 21.25: 25 Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.
Genesis 21.26: 26 Abimelech said, “I don’t know who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t hear of it until today.”
Genesis 21.27: 27 Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.
Genesis 21.28: 28 Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
Genesis 21.29: 29 Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs, which you have set by themselves, mean?”
Genesis 21.30: 30 He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well.”
Genesis 21.31: 31 Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore an oath there.
Genesis 21.32: 32 So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
Genesis 21.33: 33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.
Genesis 21.34: 34 Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.
Genesis 22.0:
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Genesis 22.1: 1 After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!”
He said, “Here I am.”
Genesis 22.2: 2 He said, “Now take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.”
Genesis 22.3: 3 Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey; and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.
Genesis 22.4: 4 On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off.
Genesis 22.5: 5 Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there. We will worship, and come back to you.”
Genesis 22.6: 6 Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife. They both went together.
Genesis 22.7: 7 Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, “My father?”
He said, “Here I am, my son.”
He said, “Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”
Genesis 22.8: 8 Abraham said, “God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they both went together.
Genesis 22.9: 9 They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.
Genesis 22.10: 10 Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to kill his son.
Genesis 22.11: 11 Yahweh’s angel called to him out of the sky, and said, “Abraham, Abraham!”
He said, “Here I am.”
Genesis 22.12: 12 He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”
Genesis 22.13: 13 Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.
Genesis 22.14: 14 Abraham called the name of that place “Yahweh Will Provide”. As it is said to this day, “On Yahweh’s mountain, it will be provided.”
Genesis 22.15: 15 Yahweh’s angel called to Abraham a second time out of the sky,
Genesis 22.16: 16 and said, “‘I have sworn by myself,’ says Yahweh, ‘because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,
Genesis 22.17: 17 that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.
Genesis 22.18: 18 All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’”
Genesis 22.19: 19 So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. Abraham lived at Beersheba.
Genesis 22.20: 20 After these things, Abraham was told, “Behold, Milcah, she also has borne children to your brother Nahor:
Genesis 22.21: 21 Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,
Genesis 22.22: 22 Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.”
Genesis 22.23: 23 Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
Genesis 22.24: 24 His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
Genesis 23.0:
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Genesis 23.1: 1 Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah’s life.
Genesis 23.2: 2 Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
Genesis 23.3: 3 Abraham rose up from before his dead and spoke to the children of Heth, saying,
Genesis 23.4: 4 “I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”
Genesis 23.5: 5 The children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,
Genesis 23.6: 6 “Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead.”
Genesis 23.7: 7 Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, to the children of Heth.
Genesis 23.8: 8 He talked with them, saying, “If you agree that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
Genesis 23.9: 9 that he may sell me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him sell it to me among you as a possession for a burial place.”
Genesis 23.10: 10 Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,
Genesis 23.11: 11 “No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.”
Genesis 23.12: 12 Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land.
Genesis 23.13: 13 He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, “But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there.”
Genesis 23.14: 14 Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,
Genesis 23.15: 15 “My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead.”
Genesis 23.16: 16 Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard.
Genesis 23.17: 17 So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded
Genesis 23.18: 18 to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.
Genesis 23.19: 19 After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 23.20: 20 The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham by the children of Heth as a possession for a burial place.
Genesis 24.0:
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Genesis 24.1: 1 Abraham was old, and well advanced in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.
Genesis 24.2: 2 Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please put your hand under my thigh.
Genesis 24.3: 3 I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.
Genesis 24.4: 4 But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”
Genesis 24.5: 5 The servant said to him, “What if the woman isn’t willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?”
Genesis 24.6: 6 Abraham said to him, “Beware that you don’t bring my son there again.
Genesis 24.7: 7 Yahweh, the God of heaven—who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, ‘I will give this land to your offspring—he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
Genesis 24.8: 8 If the woman isn’t willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this oath to me. Only you shall not bring my son there again.”
Genesis 24.9: 9 The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.
Genesis 24.10: 10 The servant took ten of his master’s camels, and departed, having a variety of good things of his master’s with him. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
Genesis 24.11: 11 He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.
Genesis 24.12: 12 He said, “Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.
Genesis 24.13: 13 Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.
Genesis 24.14: 14 Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, ‘Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,’ then she says, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,’—let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.”
Genesis 24.15: 15 Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder.
Genesis 24.16: 16 The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin. No man had known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.
Genesis 24.17: 17 The servant ran to meet her, and said, “Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher.”
Genesis 24.18: 18 She said, “Drink, my lord.” She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him a drink.
Genesis 24.19: 19 When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I will also draw for your camels, until they have finished drinking.”
Genesis 24.20: 20 She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.
Genesis 24.21: 21 The man looked steadfastly at her, remaining silent, to know whether Yahweh had made his journey prosperous or not.
Genesis 24.22: 22 As the camels had done drinking, the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,
Genesis 24.23: 23 and said, “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room in your father’s house for us to stay?”
Genesis 24.24: 24 She said to him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.”
Genesis 24.25: 25 She said moreover to him, “We have both straw and feed enough, and room to lodge in.”
Genesis 24.26: 26 The man bowed his head, and worshiped Yahweh.
Genesis 24.27: 27 He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”
Genesis 24.28: 28 The young lady ran, and told her mother’s house about these words.
Genesis 24.29: 29 Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.
Genesis 24.30: 30 When he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, “This is what the man said to me,” he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.
Genesis 24.31: 31 He said, “Come in, you blessed of Yahweh. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.”
Genesis 24.32: 32 The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels. He gave straw and feed for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.
Genesis 24.33: 33 Food was set before him to eat, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told my message.”
Laban said, “Speak on.”
Genesis 24.34: 34 He said, “I am Abraham’s servant.
Genesis 24.35: 35 Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. Yahweh has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
Genesis 24.36: 36 Sarah, my master’s wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.
Genesis 24.37: 37 My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,
Genesis 24.38: 38 but you shall go to my father’s house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’
Genesis 24.39: 39 I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not follow me?’
Genesis 24.40: 40 He said to me, ‘Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my relatives, and of my father’s house.
Genesis 24.41: 41 Then you will be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. If they don’t give her to you, you shall be clear from my oath.’
Genesis 24.42: 42 I came today to the spring, and said, ‘Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go—
Genesis 24.43: 43 behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes out to draw, to whom I will say, “Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink,”
Genesis 24.44: 44 then she tells me, “Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,”—let her be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for my master’s son.’
Genesis 24.45: 45 Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’
Genesis 24.46: 46 She hurried and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.’ So I drank, and she also gave the camels a drink.
Genesis 24.47: 47 I asked her, and said, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bore to him.’ I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands.
Genesis 24.48: 48 I bowed my head, and worshiped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter for his son.
Genesis 24.49: 49 Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.”
Genesis 24.50: 50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “The thing proceeds from Yahweh. We can’t speak to you bad or good.
Genesis 24.51: 51 Behold, Rebekah is before you. Take her, and go, and let her be your master’s son’s wife, as Yahweh has spoken.”
Genesis 24.52: 52 When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to Yahweh.
Genesis 24.53: 53 The servant brought out jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and her mother.
Genesis 24.54: 54 They ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and stayed all night. They rose up in the morning, and he said, “Send me away to my master.”
Genesis 24.55: 55 Her brother and her mother said, “Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go.”
Genesis 24.56: 56 He said to them, “Don’t hinder me, since Yahweh has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.”
Genesis 24.57: 57 They said, “We will call the young lady, and ask her.”
Genesis 24.58: 58 They called Rebekah, and said to her, “Will you go with this man?”
She said, “I will go.”
Genesis 24.59: 59 They sent away Rebekah, their sister, with her nurse, Abraham’s servant, and his men.
Genesis 24.60: 60 They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your offspring possess the gate of those who hate them.”
Genesis 24.61: 61 Rebekah arose with her ladies. They rode on the camels, and followed the man. The servant took Rebekah, and went his way.
Genesis 24.62: 62 Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived in the land of the South.
Genesis 24.63: 63 Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. He lifted up his eyes and looked. Behold, there were camels coming.
Genesis 24.64: 64 Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she got off the camel.
Genesis 24.65: 65 She said to the servant, “Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us?”
The servant said, “It is my master.”
She took her veil, and covered herself.
Genesis 24.66: 66 The servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.
Genesis 24.67: 67 Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
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Genesis 25.1: 1 Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.
Genesis 25.2: 2 She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
Genesis 25.3: 3 Jokshan became the father of Sheba, and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.
Genesis 25.4: 4 The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.
Genesis 25.5: 5 Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac,
Genesis 25.6: 6 but Abraham gave gifts to the sons of Abraham’s concubines. While he still lived, he sent them away from Isaac his son, eastward, to the east country.
Genesis 25.7: 7 These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years.
Genesis 25.8: 8 Abraham gave up his spirit, and died at a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
Genesis 25.9: 9 Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is near Mamre,
Genesis 25.10: 10 the field which Abraham purchased from the children of Heth. Abraham was buried there with Sarah, his wife.
Genesis 25.11: 11 After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.
Genesis 25.12: 12 Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s servant, bore to Abraham.
Genesis 25.13: 13 These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to the order of their birth: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
Genesis 25.14: 14 Mishma, Dumah, Massa,
Genesis 25.15: 15 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
Genesis 25.16: 16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments: twelve princes, according to their nations.
Genesis 25.17: 17 These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up his spirit and died, and was gathered to his people.
Genesis 25.18: 18 They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.
Genesis 25.19: 19 This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.
Genesis 25.20: 20 Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.
Genesis 25.21: 21 Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
Genesis 25.22: 22 The children struggled together within her. She said, “If it is like this, why do I live?” She went to inquire of Yahweh.
Genesis 25.23: 23 Yahweh said to her,
“Two nations are in your womb.
Two peoples will be separated from your body.
The one people will be stronger than the other people.
The elder will serve the younger.”
Genesis 25.24: 24 When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
Genesis 25.25: 25 The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau.
Genesis 25.26: 26 After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau’s heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.
Genesis 25.27: 27 The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
Genesis 25.28: 28 Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.
Genesis 25.29: 29 Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.
Genesis 25.30: 30 Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me with some of that red stew, for I am famished.” Therefore his name was called Edom.
Genesis 25.31: 31 Jacob said, “First, sell me your birthright.”
Genesis 25.32: 32 Esau said, “Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?”
Genesis 25.33: 33 Jacob said, “Swear to me first.”
He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob.
Genesis 25.34: 34 Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.
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Genesis 26.1: 1 There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.
Genesis 26.2: 2 Yahweh appeared to him, and said, “Don’t go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.
Genesis 26.3: 3 Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
Genesis 26.4: 4 I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,
Genesis 26.5: 5 because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
Genesis 26.6: 6 Isaac lived in Gerar.
Genesis 26.7: 7 The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.”
Genesis 26.8: 8 When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.
Genesis 26.9: 9 Abimelech called Isaac, and said, “Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, ‘She is my sister?’”
Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die because of her.’”
Genesis 26.10: 10 Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!”
Genesis 26.11: 11 Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”
Genesis 26.12: 12 Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.
Genesis 26.13: 13 The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.
Genesis 26.14: 14 He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.
Genesis 26.15: 15 Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.
Genesis 26.16: 16 Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”
Genesis 26.17: 17 Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.
Genesis 26.18: 18 Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
Genesis 26.19: 19 Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
Genesis 26.20: 20 The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
Genesis 26.21: 21 They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called its name Sitnah.
Genesis 26.22: 22 He left that place, and dug another well. They didn’t argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, “For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”
Genesis 26.23: 23 He went up from there to Beersheba.
Genesis 26.24: 24 Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.”
Genesis 26.25: 25 He built an altar there, and called on Yahweh’s name, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac’s servants dug a well.
Genesis 26.26: 26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.
Genesis 26.27: 27 Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?”
Genesis 26.28: 28 They said, “We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let’s make a covenant with you,
Genesis 26.29: 29 that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.’ You are now the blessed of Yahweh.”
Genesis 26.30: 30 He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
Genesis 26.31: 31 They rose up some time in the morning, and swore an oath to one another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
Genesis 26.32: 32 The same day, Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”
Genesis 26.33: 33 He called it “Shibah”. Therefore the name of the city is “Beersheba” to this day.
Genesis 26.34: 34 When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
Genesis 26.35: 35 They grieved Isaac’s and Rebekah’s spirits.
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Genesis 27.1: 1 When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My son?”
He said to him, “Here I am.”
Genesis 27.2: 2 He said, “See now, I am old. I don’t know the day of my death.
Genesis 27.3: 3 Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and get me venison.
Genesis 27.4: 4 Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die.”
Genesis 27.5: 5 Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
Genesis 27.6: 6 Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,
Genesis 27.7: 7 ‘Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my death.’
Genesis 27.8: 8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.
Genesis 27.9: 9 Go now to the flock and get me two good young goats from there. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.
Genesis 27.10: 10 You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.”
Genesis 27.11: 11 Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
Genesis 27.12: 12 What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing.”
Genesis 27.13: 13 His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.”
Genesis 27.14: 14 He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.
Genesis 27.15: 15 Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.
Genesis 27.16: 16 She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.
Genesis 27.17: 17 She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
Genesis 27.18: 18 He came to his father, and said, “My father?”
He said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”
Genesis 27.19: 19 Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me.”
Genesis 27.20: 20 Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?”
He said, “Because Yahweh your God gave me success.”
Genesis 27.21: 21 Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”
Genesis 27.22: 22 Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
Genesis 27.23: 23 He didn’t recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau’s hands. So he blessed him.
Genesis 27.24: 24 He said, “Are you really my son Esau?”
He said, “I am.”
Genesis 27.25: 25 He said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s venison, that my soul may bless you.”
He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank.
Genesis 27.26: 26 His father Isaac said to him, “Come near now, and kiss me, my son.”
Genesis 27.27: 27 He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said,
“Behold, the smell of my son
is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed.
Genesis 27.28: 28 God give you of the dew of the sky,
of the fatness of the earth,
and plenty of grain and new wine.
Genesis 27.29: 29 Let peoples serve you,
and nations bow down to you.
Be lord over your brothers.
Let your mother’s sons bow down to you.
Cursed be everyone who curses you.
Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”
Genesis 27.30: 30 As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
Genesis 27.31: 31 He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, “Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that your soul may bless me.”
Genesis 27.32: 32 Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?”
He said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”
Genesis 27.33: 33 Isaac trembled violently, and said, “Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it to me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed.”
Genesis 27.34: 34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, my father.”
Genesis 27.35: 35 He said, “Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.”
Genesis 27.36: 36 He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?”
Genesis 27.37: 37 Isaac answered Esau, “Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants. I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then will I do for you, my son?”
Genesis 27.38: 38 Esau said to his father, “Do you have just one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
Genesis 27.39: 39 Isaac his father answered him,
“Behold, your dwelling will be of the fatness of the earth,
and of the dew of the sky from above.
Genesis 27.40: 40 You will live by your sword, and you will serve your brother.
It will happen, when you will break loose,
that you will shake his yoke from off your neck.”
Genesis 27.41: 41 Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
Genesis 27.42: 42 The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.
Genesis 27.43: 43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.
Genesis 27.44: 44 Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away—
Genesis 27.45: 45 until your brother’s anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?”
Genesis 27.46: 46 Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?”
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Genesis 28.1: 1 Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
Genesis 28.2: 2 Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
Genesis 28.3: 3 May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,
Genesis 28.4: 4 and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham.”
Genesis 28.5: 5 Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.
Genesis 28.6: 6 Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;”
Genesis 28.7: 7 and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.
Genesis 28.8: 8 Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn’t please Isaac, his father.
Genesis 28.9: 9 Esau went to Ishmael, and took, in addition to the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.
Genesis 28.10: 10 Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
Genesis 28.11: 11 He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.
Genesis 28.12: 12 He dreamed and saw a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
Genesis 28.13: 13 Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, “I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. I will give the land you lie on to you and to your offspring.
Genesis 28.14: 14 Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed.
Genesis 28.15: 15 Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”
Genesis 28.16: 16 Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, “Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn’t know it.”
Genesis 28.17: 17 He was afraid, and said, “How awesome this place is! This is none other than God’s house, and this is the gate of heaven.”
Genesis 28.18: 18 Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on its top.
Genesis 28.19: 19 He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
Genesis 28.20: 20 Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,
Genesis 28.21: 21 so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God,
Genesis 28.22: 22 then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God’s house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give a tenth to you.”
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Genesis 29.1: 1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.
Genesis 29.2: 2 He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and saw three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well’s mouth was large.
Genesis 29.3: 3 There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well’s mouth in its place.
Genesis 29.4: 4 Jacob said to them, “My relatives, where are you from?”
They said, “We are from Haran.”
Genesis 29.5: 5 He said to them, “Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?”
They said, “We know him.”
Genesis 29.6: 6 He said to them, “Is it well with him?”
They said, “It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep.”
Genesis 29.7: 7 He said, “Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time to gather the livestock together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them.”
Genesis 29.8: 8 They said, “We can’t, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well’s mouth. Then we water the sheep.”
Genesis 29.9: 9 While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she kept them.
Genesis 29.10: 10 When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother, Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.
Genesis 29.11: 11 Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
Genesis 29.12: 12 Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s relative, and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.
Genesis 29.13: 13 When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.
Genesis 29.14: 14 Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” Jacob stayed with him for a month.
Genesis 29.15: 15 Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?”
Genesis 29.16: 16 Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
Genesis 29.17: 17 Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.
Genesis 29.18: 18 Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”
Genesis 29.19: 19 Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”
Genesis 29.20: 20 Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
Genesis 29.21: 21 Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”
Genesis 29.22: 22 Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
Genesis 29.23: 23 In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to Jacob. He went in to her.
Genesis 29.24: 24 Laban gave Zilpah his servant to his daughter Leah for a servant.
Genesis 29.25: 25 In the morning, behold, it was Leah! He said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”
Genesis 29.26: 26 Laban said, “It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.
Genesis 29.27: 27 Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me for seven more years.”
Genesis 29.28: 28 Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.
Genesis 29.29: 29 Laban gave Bilhah, his servant, to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.
Genesis 29.30: 30 He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him seven more years.
Genesis 29.31: 31 Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
Genesis 29.32: 32 Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction; for now my husband will love me.”
Genesis 29.33: 33 She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, “Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also.” She named him Simeon.
Genesis 29.34: 34 She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore his name was called Levi.
Genesis 29.35: 35 She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “This time I will praise Yahweh.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.
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Genesis 30.1: 1 When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”
Genesis 30.2: 2 Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
Genesis 30.3: 3 She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.”
Genesis 30.4: 4 She gave him Bilhah her servant as wife, and Jacob went in to her.
Genesis 30.5: 5 Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.
Genesis 30.6: 6 Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan.
Genesis 30.7: 7 Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.
Genesis 30.8: 8 Rachel said, “I have wrestled with my sister with mighty wrestlings, and have prevailed.” She named him Naphtali.
Genesis 30.9: 9 When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
Genesis 30.10: 10 Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a son.
Genesis 30.11: 11 Leah said, “How fortunate!” She named him Gad.
Genesis 30.12: 12 Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a second son.
Genesis 30.13: 13 Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.
Genesis 30.14: 14 Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”
Genesis 30.15: 15 Leah said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes, also?”
Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”
Genesis 30.16: 16 Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, “You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son’s mandrakes.”
He lay with her that night.
Genesis 30.17: 17 God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.
Genesis 30.18: 18 Leah said, “God has given me my hire, because I gave my servant to my husband.” She named him Issachar.
Genesis 30.19: 19 Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.
Genesis 30.20: 20 Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons.” She named him Zebulun.
Genesis 30.21: 21 Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.
Genesis 30.22: 22 God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
Genesis 30.23: 23 She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”
Genesis 30.24: 24 She named him Joseph, saying, “May Yahweh add another son to me.”
Genesis 30.25: 25 When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.
Genesis 30.26: 26 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you.”
Genesis 30.27: 27 Laban said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake.”
Genesis 30.28: 28 He said, “Appoint me your wages, and I will give it.”
Genesis 30.29: 29 Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.
Genesis 30.30: 30 For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?”
Genesis 30.31: 31 Laban said, “What shall I give you?”
Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.
Genesis 30.32: 32 I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.
Genesis 30.33: 33 So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be considered stolen.”
Genesis 30.34: 34 Laban said, “Behold, let it be according to your word.”
Genesis 30.35: 35 That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
Genesis 30.36: 36 He set three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.
Genesis 30.37: 37 Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, and plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
Genesis 30.38: 38 He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.
Genesis 30.39: 39 The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted.
Genesis 30.40: 40 Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in Laban’s flock. He put his own droves apart, and didn’t put them into Laban’s flock.
Genesis 30.41: 41 Whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, Jacob laid the rods in front of the eyes of the flock in the watering troughs, that they might conceive among the rods;
Genesis 30.42: 42 but when the flock were feeble, he didn’t put them in. So the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
Genesis 30.43: 43 The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.
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Genesis 31.1: 1 Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this wealth from that which was our father’s.”
Genesis 31.2: 2 Jacob saw the expression on Laban’s face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.
Genesis 31.3: 3 Yahweh said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”
Genesis 31.4: 4 Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,
Genesis 31.5: 5 and said to them, “I see the expression on your father’s face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.
Genesis 31.6: 6 You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.
Genesis 31.7: 7 Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.
Genesis 31.8: 8 If he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore speckled. If he said, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore streaked.
Genesis 31.9: 9 Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.
Genesis 31.10: 10 During mating season, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
Genesis 31.11: 11 The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’
Genesis 31.12: 12 He said, ‘Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.
Genesis 31.13: 13 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.’”
Genesis 31.14: 14 Rachel and Leah answered him, “Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?
Genesis 31.15: 15 Aren’t we considered as foreigners by him? For he has sold us, and has also used up our money.
Genesis 31.16: 16 For all the riches which God has taken away from our father are ours and our children’s. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do.”
Genesis 31.17: 17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,
Genesis 31.18: 18 and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.
Genesis 31.19: 19 Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.
Genesis 31.20: 20 Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away.
Genesis 31.21: 21 So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.
Genesis 31.22: 22 Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.
Genesis 31.23: 23 He took his relatives with him, and pursued him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.
Genesis 31.24: 24 God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.”
Genesis 31.25: 25 Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.
Genesis 31.26: 26 Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?
Genesis 31.27: 27 Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;
Genesis 31.28: 28 and didn’t allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.
Genesis 31.29: 29 It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’
Genesis 31.30: 30 Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?”
Genesis 31.31: 31 Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’
Genesis 31.32: 32 Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it.” For Jacob didn’t know that Rachel had stolen them.
Genesis 31.33: 33 Laban went into Jacob’s tent, into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn’t find them. He went out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.
Genesis 31.34: 34 Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt around all the tent, but didn’t find them.
Genesis 31.35: 35 She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He searched, but didn’t find the teraphim.
Genesis 31.36: 36 Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?
Genesis 31.37: 37 Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.
Genesis 31.38: 38 “These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven’t eaten the rams of your flocks.
Genesis 31.39: 39 That which was torn of animals, I didn’t bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
Genesis 31.40: 40 This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.
Genesis 31.41: 41 These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
Genesis 31.42: 42 Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”
Genesis 31.43: 43 Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine! What can I do today to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?
Genesis 31.44: 44 Now come, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be for a witness between me and you.”
Genesis 31.45: 45 Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
Genesis 31.46: 46 Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.
Genesis 31.47: 47 Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
Genesis 31.48: 48 Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you today.” Therefore it was named Galeed
Genesis 31.49: 49 and Mizpah, for he said, “Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.
Genesis 31.50: 50 If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives in addition to my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you.”
Genesis 31.51: 51 Laban said to Jacob, “See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.
Genesis 31.52: 52 May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.
Genesis 31.53: 53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac.
Genesis 31.54: 54 Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain.
Genesis 31.55: 55 Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place.
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Genesis 32.1: 1 Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
Genesis 32.2: 2 When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s army.” He called the name of that place Mahanaim.
Genesis 32.3: 3 Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.
Genesis 32.4: 4 He commanded them, saying, “This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: ‘This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.
Genesis 32.5: 5 I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.’”
Genesis 32.6: 6 The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”
Genesis 32.7: 7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;
Genesis 32.8: 8 and he said, “If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.”
Genesis 32.9: 9 Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,’
Genesis 32.10: 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.
Genesis 32.11: 11 Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me and the mothers with the children.
Genesis 32.12: 12 You said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which can’t be counted because there are so many.’”
Genesis 32.13: 13 He stayed there that night, and took from that which he had with him a present for Esau, his brother:
Genesis 32.14: 14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
Genesis 32.15: 15 thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.
Genesis 32.16: 16 He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd.”
Genesis 32.17: 17 He commanded the foremost, saying, “When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, ‘Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?’
Genesis 32.18: 18 Then you shall say, ‘They are your servant, Jacob’s. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.’”
Genesis 32.19: 19 He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, “This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.
Genesis 32.20: 20 You shall say, ‘Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.’” For, he said, “I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.”
Genesis 32.21: 21 So the present passed over before him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp.
Genesis 32.22: 22 He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of the Jabbok.
Genesis 32.23: 23 He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.
Genesis 32.24: 24 Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.
Genesis 32.25: 25 When he saw that he didn’t prevail against him, the man touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained as he wrestled.
Genesis 32.26: 26 The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.”
Jacob said, “I won’t let you go unless you bless me.”
Genesis 32.27: 27 He said to him, “What is your name?”
He said, “Jacob”.
Genesis 32.28: 28 He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
Genesis 32.29: 29 Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.”
He said, “Why is it that you ask what my name is?” He blessed him there.
Genesis 32.30: 30 Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; for he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”
Genesis 32.31: 31 The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh.
Genesis 32.32: 32 Therefore the children of Israel don’t eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew of the hip.
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Genesis 33.1: 1 Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two servants.
Genesis 33.2: 2 He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
Genesis 33.3: 3 He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
Genesis 33.4: 4 Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.
Genesis 33.5: 5 He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, “Who are these with you?”
He said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”
Genesis 33.6: 6 Then the servants came near with their children, and they bowed themselves.
Genesis 33.7: 7 Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.
Genesis 33.8: 8 Esau said, “What do you mean by all this company which I met?”
Jacob said, “To find favor in the sight of my lord.”
Genesis 33.9: 9 Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours.”
Genesis 33.10: 10 Jacob said, “Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.
Genesis 33.11: 11 Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” He urged him, and he took it.
Genesis 33.12: 12 Esau said, “Let’s take our journey, and let’s go, and I will go before you.”
Genesis 33.13: 13 Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.
Genesis 33.14: 14 Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir.”
Genesis 33.15: 15 Esau said, “Let me now leave with you some of the people who are with me.”
He said, “Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”
Genesis 33.16: 16 So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.
Genesis 33.17: 17 Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
Genesis 33.18: 18 Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.
Genesis 33.19: 19 He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for one hundred pieces of money.
Genesis 33.20: 20 He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.
Genesis 34.0:
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Genesis 34.1: 1 Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
Genesis 34.2: 2 Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.
Genesis 34.3: 3 His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.
Genesis 34.4: 4 Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as a wife.”
Genesis 34.5: 5 Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came.
Genesis 34.6: 6 Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.
Genesis 34.7: 7 The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter, a thing ought not to be done.
Genesis 34.8: 8 Hamor talked with them, saying, “The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.
Genesis 34.9: 9 Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
Genesis 34.10: 10 You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.”
Genesis 34.11: 11 Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.
Genesis 34.12: 12 Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife.”
Genesis 34.13: 13 The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit when they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
Genesis 34.14: 14 and said to them, “We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.
Genesis 34.15: 15 Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised,
Genesis 34.16: 16 then will we give our daughters to you; and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
Genesis 34.17: 17 But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone.”
Genesis 34.18: 18 Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son.
Genesis 34.19: 19 The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.
Genesis 34.20: 20 Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,
Genesis 34.21: 21 “These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let’s take their daughters to us for wives, and let’s give them our daughters.
Genesis 34.22: 22 Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.
Genesis 34.23: 23 Won’t their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let’s give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us.”
Genesis 34.24: 24 All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.
Genesis 34.25: 25 On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.
Genesis 34.26: 26 They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.
Genesis 34.27: 27 Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.
Genesis 34.28: 28 They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,
Genesis 34.29: 29 and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.
Genesis 34.30: 30 Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.”
Genesis 34.31: 31 They said, “Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?”
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Genesis 35.1: 1 God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”
Genesis 35.2: 2 Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.
Genesis 35.3: 3 Let’s arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.”
Genesis 35.4: 4 They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
Genesis 35.5: 5 They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob.
Genesis 35.6: 6 So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
Genesis 35.7: 7 He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
Genesis 35.8: 8 Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.
Genesis 35.9: 9 God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.
Genesis 35.10: 10 God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel.” He named him Israel.
Genesis 35.11: 11 God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.
Genesis 35.12: 12 The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your offspring after you I will give the land.”
Genesis 35.13: 13 God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.
Genesis 35.14: 14 Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.
Genesis 35.15: 15 Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him “Bethel”.
Genesis 35.16: 16 They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.
Genesis 35.17: 17 When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for now you will have another son.”
Genesis 35.18: 18 As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.
Genesis 35.19: 19 Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).
Genesis 35.20: 20 Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.
Genesis 35.21: 21 Israel traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder.
Genesis 35.22: 22 While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it.
Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
Genesis 35.23: 23 The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
Genesis 35.24: 24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
Genesis 35.25: 25 The sons of Bilhah (Rachel’s servant): Dan and Naphtali.
Genesis 35.26: 26 The sons of Zilpah (Leah’s servant): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
Genesis 35.27: 27 Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.
Genesis 35.28: 28 The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.
Genesis 35.29: 29 Isaac gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.
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Genesis 36.1: 1 Now this is the history of the generations of Esau (that is, Edom).
Genesis 36.2: 2 Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite;
Genesis 36.3: 3 and Basemath, Ishmael’s daughter, sister of Nebaioth.
Genesis 36.4: 4 Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz. Basemath bore Reuel.
Genesis 36.5: 5 Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 36.6: 6 Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, with his livestock, all his animals, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan, and went into a land away from his brother Jacob.
Genesis 36.7: 7 For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn’t bear them because of their livestock.
Genesis 36.8: 8 Esau lived in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom.
Genesis 36.9: 9 This is the history of the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir:
Genesis 36.10: 10 these are the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz, the son of Adah, the wife of Esau; and Reuel, the son of Basemath, the wife of Esau.
Genesis 36.11: 11 The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.
Genesis 36.12: 12 Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau’s son; and she bore to Eliphaz Amalek. These are the descendants of Adah, Esau’s wife.
Genesis 36.13: 13 These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the descendants of Basemath, Esau’s wife.
Genesis 36.14: 14 These were the sons of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, Esau’s wife: she bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
Genesis 36.15: 15 These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz,
Genesis 36.16: 16 chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek. These are the chiefs who came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom. These are the sons of Adah.
Genesis 36.17: 17 These are the sons of Reuel, Esau’s son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah. These are the chiefs who came of Reuel in the land of Edom. These are the sons of Basemath, Esau’s wife.
Genesis 36.18: 18 These are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau’s wife: chief Jeush, chief Jalam, chief Korah. These are the chiefs who came of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau’s wife.
Genesis 36.19: 19 These are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these are their chiefs.
Genesis 36.20: 20 These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
Genesis 36.21: 21 Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs who came of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.
Genesis 36.22: 22 The children of Lotan were Hori and Heman. Lotan’s sister was Timna.
Genesis 36.23: 23 These are the children of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.
Genesis 36.24: 24 These are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the donkeys of Zibeon his father.
Genesis 36.25: 25 These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah.
Genesis 36.26: 26 These are the children of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.
Genesis 36.27: 27 These are the children of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.
Genesis 36.28: 28 These are the children of Dishan: Uz and Aran.
Genesis 36.29: 29 These are the chiefs who came of the Horites: chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah,
Genesis 36.30: 30 chief Dishon, chief Ezer, and chief Dishan. These are the chiefs who came of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of Seir.
Genesis 36.31: 31 These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children of Israel.
Genesis 36.32: 32 Bela, the son of Beor, reigned in Edom. The name of his city was Dinhabah.
Genesis 36.33: 33 Bela died, and Jobab, the son of Zerah of Bozrah, reigned in his place.
Genesis 36.34: 34 Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.
Genesis 36.35: 35 Husham died, and Hadad, the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place. The name of his city was Avith.
Genesis 36.36: 36 Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.
Genesis 36.37: 37 Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the river, reigned in his place.
Genesis 36.38: 38 Shaul died, and Baal Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his place.
Genesis 36.39: 39 Baal Hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place. The name of his city was Pau. His wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
Genesis 36.40: 40 These are the names of the chiefs who came from Esau, according to their families, after their places, and by their names: chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth,
Genesis 36.41: 41 chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon,
Genesis 36.42: 42 chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,
Genesis 36.43: 43 chief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession. This is Esau, the father of the Edomites.
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Genesis 37.1: 1 Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 37.2: 2 This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.
Genesis 37.3: 3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a tunic of many colors.
Genesis 37.4: 4 His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.
Genesis 37.5: 5 Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.
Genesis 37.6: 6 He said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:
Genesis 37.7: 7 for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf.”
Genesis 37.8: 8 His brothers asked him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.
Genesis 37.9: 9 He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.”
Genesis 37.10: 10 He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?”
Genesis 37.11: 11 His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.
Genesis 37.12: 12 His brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.
Genesis 37.13: 13 Israel said to Joseph, “Aren’t your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” He said to him, “Here I am.”
Genesis 37.14: 14 He said to him, “Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again.” So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
Genesis 37.15: 15 A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, “What are you looking for?”
Genesis 37.16: 16 He said, “I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock.”
Genesis 37.17: 17 The man said, “They have left here, for I heard them say, ‘Let’s go to Dothan.’”
Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.
Genesis 37.18: 18 They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.
Genesis 37.19: 19 They said to one another, “Behold, this dreamer comes.
Genesis 37.20: 20 Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has devoured him.’ We will see what will become of his dreams.”
Genesis 37.21: 21 Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, “Let’s not take his life.”
Genesis 37.22: 22 Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”—that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.
Genesis 37.23: 23 When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him;
Genesis 37.24: 24 and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.
Genesis 37.25: 25 They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
Genesis 37.26: 26 Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
Genesis 37.27: 27 Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh.” His brothers listened to him.
Genesis 37.28: 28 Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The merchants brought Joseph into Egypt.
Genesis 37.29: 29 Reuben returned to the pit, and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.
Genesis 37.30: 30 He returned to his brothers, and said, “The child is no more; and I, where will I go?”
Genesis 37.31: 31 They took Joseph’s tunic, and killed a male goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood.
Genesis 37.32: 32 They took the tunic of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, “We have found this. Examine it, now, and see if it is your son’s tunic or not.”
Genesis 37.33: 33 He recognized it, and said, “It is my son’s tunic. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.”
Genesis 37.34: 34 Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
Genesis 37.35: 35 All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.
Genesis 37.36: 36 The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard.
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Genesis 38.1: 1 At that time, Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
Genesis 38.2: 2 There, Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite man named Shua. He took her, and went in to her.
Genesis 38.3: 3 She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him Er.
Genesis 38.4: 4 She conceived again, and bore a son; and she named him Onan.
Genesis 38.5: 5 She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah. He was at Chezib when she bore him.
Genesis 38.6: 6 Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
Genesis 38.7: 7 Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in Yahweh’s sight. So Yahweh killed him.
Genesis 38.8: 8 Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.”
Genesis 38.9: 9 Onan knew that the offspring wouldn’t be his; and when he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground, lest he should give offspring to his brother.
Genesis 38.10: 10 The thing which he did was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and he killed him also.
Genesis 38.11: 11 Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;” for he said, “Lest he also die, like his brothers.” Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.
Genesis 38.12: 12 After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.
Genesis 38.13: 13 Tamar was told, “Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”
Genesis 38.14: 14 She took off the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a wife.
Genesis 38.15: 15 When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.
Genesis 38.16: 16 He turned to her by the way, and said, “Please come, let me come in to you,” for he didn’t know that she was his daughter-in-law.
She said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?”
Genesis 38.17: 17 He said, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.”
She said, “Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?”
Genesis 38.18: 18 He said, “What pledge will I give you?”
She said, “Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand.”
He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.
Genesis 38.19: 19 She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
Genesis 38.20: 20 Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand, but he didn’t find her.
Genesis 38.21: 21 Then he asked the men of her place, saying, “Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?”
They said, “There has been no prostitute here.”
Genesis 38.22: 22 He returned to Judah, and said, “I haven’t found her; and also the men of the place said, ‘There has been no prostitute here.’”
Genesis 38.23: 23 Judah said, “Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this young goat, and you haven’t found her.”
Genesis 38.24: 24 About three months later, Judah was told, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute. Moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution.”
Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.”
Genesis 38.25: 25 When she was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, “I am with child by the man who owns these.” She also said, “Please discern whose these are—the signet, and the cords, and the staff.”
Genesis 38.26: 26 Judah acknowledged them, and said, “She is more righteous than I, because I didn’t give her to Shelah, my son.”
He knew her again no more.
Genesis 38.27: 27 In the time of her travail, behold, twins were in her womb.
Genesis 38.28: 28 When she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, “This came out first.”
Genesis 38.29: 29 As he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out, and she said, “Why have you made a breach for yourself?” Therefore his name was called Perez.
Genesis 38.30: 30 Afterward his brother came out, who had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.
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Genesis 39.1: 1 Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there.
Genesis 39.2: 2 Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
Genesis 39.3: 3 His master saw that Yahweh was with him, and that Yahweh made all that he did prosper in his hand.
Genesis 39.4: 4 Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and Potiphar made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.
Genesis 39.5: 5 From the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, Yahweh blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake. Yahweh’s blessing was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.
Genesis 39.6: 6 He left all that he had in Joseph’s hand. He didn’t concern himself with anything, except for the food which he ate.
Joseph was well-built and handsome.
Genesis 39.7: 7 After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”
Genesis 39.8: 8 But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.
Genesis 39.9: 9 No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”
Genesis 39.10: 10 As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn’t listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.
Genesis 39.11: 11 About this time, he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside.
Genesis 39.12: 12 She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!”
He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.
Genesis 39.13: 13 When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had run outside,
Genesis 39.14: 14 she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, “Behold, he has brought a Hebrew in to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.
Genesis 39.15: 15 When he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”
Genesis 39.16: 16 She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.
Genesis 39.17: 17 She spoke to him according to these words, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me,
Genesis 39.18: 18 and as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”
Genesis 39.19: 19 When his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, “This is what your servant did to me,” his wrath was kindled.
Genesis 39.20: 20 Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.
Genesis 39.21: 21 But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
Genesis 39.22: 22 The keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did there, he was responsible for it.
Genesis 39.23: 23 The keeper of the prison didn’t look after anything that was under his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and that which he did, Yahweh made it prosper.
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Genesis 40.1: 1 After these things, the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.
Genesis 40.2: 2 Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cup bearer and the chief baker.
Genesis 40.3: 3 He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
Genesis 40.4: 4 The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took care of them. They stayed in prison many days.
Genesis 40.5: 5 They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cup bearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.
Genesis 40.6: 6 Joseph came in to them in the morning, and saw them, and saw that they were sad.
Genesis 40.7: 7 He asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?”
Genesis 40.8: 8 They said to him, “We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it.”
Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me.”
Genesis 40.9: 9 The chief cup bearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, “In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me,
Genesis 40.10: 10 and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters produced ripe grapes.
Genesis 40.11: 11 Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.”
Genesis 40.12: 12 Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days.
Genesis 40.13: 13 Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cup bearer.
Genesis 40.14: 14 But remember me when it is well with you. Please show kindness to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.
Genesis 40.15: 15 For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.”
Genesis 40.16: 16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, “I also was in my dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head.
Genesis 40.17: 17 In the uppermost basket there were all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head.”
Genesis 40.18: 18 Joseph answered, “This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days.
Genesis 40.19: 19 Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you.”
Genesis 40.20: 20 On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cup bearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.
Genesis 40.21: 21 He restored the chief cup bearer to his position again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand;
Genesis 40.22: 22 but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
Genesis 40.23: 23 Yet the chief cup bearer didn’t remember Joseph, but forgot him.
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Genesis 41.1: 1 At the end of two full years, Pharaoh dreamed, and behold, he stood by the river.
Genesis 41.2: 2 Behold, seven cattle came up out of the river. They were sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass.
Genesis 41.3: 3 Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the brink of the river.
Genesis 41.4: 4 The ugly and thin cattle ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle. So Pharaoh awoke.
Genesis 41.5: 5 He slept and dreamed a second time; and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.
Genesis 41.6: 6 Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
Genesis 41.7: 7 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.
Genesis 41.8: 8 In the morning, his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt’s magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.
Genesis 41.9: 9 Then the chief cup bearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “I remember my faults today.
Genesis 41.10: 10 Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, with the chief baker.
Genesis 41.11: 11 We dreamed a dream in one night, he and I. Each man dreamed according to the interpretation of his dream.
Genesis 41.12: 12 There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams. He interpreted to each man according to his dream.
Genesis 41.13: 13 As he interpreted to us, so it was. He restored me to my office, and he hanged him.”
Genesis 41.14: 14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh.
Genesis 41.15: 15 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”
Genesis 41.16: 16 Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, “It isn’t in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.”
Genesis 41.17: 17 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, “In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river;
Genesis 41.18: 18 and behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass;
Genesis 41.19: 19 and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.
Genesis 41.20: 20 The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle;
Genesis 41.21: 21 and when they had eaten them up, it couldn’t be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
Genesis 41.22: 22 I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good;
Genesis 41.23: 23 and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
Genesis 41.24: 24 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me.”
Genesis 41.25: 25 Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.
Genesis 41.26: 26 The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.
Genesis 41.27: 27 The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.
Genesis 41.28: 28 That is the thing which I have spoken to Pharaoh. God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do.
Genesis 41.29: 29 Behold, seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt are coming.
Genesis 41.30: 30 Seven years of famine will arise after them, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,
Genesis 41.31: 31 and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.
Genesis 41.32: 32 The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
Genesis 41.33: 33 “Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.
Genesis 41.34: 34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt’s produce in the seven plenteous years.
Genesis 41.35: 35 Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and store grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.
Genesis 41.36: 36 The food will be to supply the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; so that the land will not perish through the famine.”
Genesis 41.37: 37 The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.
Genesis 41.38: 38 Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?”
Genesis 41.39: 39 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one so discreet and wise as you.
Genesis 41.40: 40 You shall be over my house. All my people will be ruled according to your word. Only in the throne I will be greater than you.”
Genesis 41.41: 41 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.”
Genesis 41.42: 42 Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck.
Genesis 41.43: 43 He made him ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, “Bow the knee!” He set him over all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 41.44: 44 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh. Without you, no man shall lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.”
Genesis 41.45: 45 Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-Paneah. He gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
Genesis 41.46: 46 Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 41.47: 47 In the seven plenteous years the earth produced abundantly.
Genesis 41.48: 48 He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities. He stored food in each city from the fields around that city.
Genesis 41.49: 49 Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.
Genesis 41.50: 50 To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.
Genesis 41.51: 51 Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, “For”, he said, “God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.”
Genesis 41.52: 52 The name of the second, he called Ephraim: “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
Genesis 41.53: 53 The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt, came to an end.
Genesis 41.54: 54 The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
Genesis 41.55: 55 When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do.”
Genesis 41.56: 56 The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
Genesis 41.57: 57 All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.
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Genesis 42.1: 1 Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”
Genesis 42.2: 2 He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die.”
Genesis 42.3: 3 Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
Genesis 42.4: 4 But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”
Genesis 42.5: 5 The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 42.6: 6 Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.
Genesis 42.7: 7 Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, “Where did you come from?”
They said, “From the land of Canaan, to buy food.”
Genesis 42.8: 8 Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn’t recognize him.
Genesis 42.9: 9 Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, “You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land.”
Genesis 42.10: 10 They said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.
Genesis 42.11: 11 We are all one man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies.”
Genesis 42.12: 12 He said to them, “No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!”
Genesis 42.13: 13 They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is today with our father, and one is no more.”
Genesis 42.14: 14 Joseph said to them, “It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are spies!’
Genesis 42.15: 15 By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go out from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.
Genesis 42.16: 16 Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies.”
Genesis 42.17: 17 He put them all together into custody for three days.
Genesis 42.18: 18 Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.
Genesis 42.19: 19 If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.
Genesis 42.20: 20 Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die.”
They did so.
Genesis 42.21: 21 They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”
Genesis 42.22: 22 Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.”
Genesis 42.23: 23 They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.
Genesis 42.24: 24 He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.
Genesis 42.25: 25 Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore each man’s money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it was done to them.
Genesis 42.26: 26 They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.
Genesis 42.27: 27 As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.
Genesis 42.28: 28 He said to his brothers, “My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!” Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?”
Genesis 42.29: 29 They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,
Genesis 42.30: 30 “The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.
Genesis 42.31: 31 We said to him, ‘We are honest men. We are no spies.
Genesis 42.32: 32 We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Canaan.’
Genesis 42.33: 33 The man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.
Genesis 42.34: 34 Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.’”
Genesis 42.35: 35 As they emptied their sacks, behold, each man’s bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.
Genesis 42.36: 36 Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.”
Genesis 42.37: 37 Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “Kill my two sons, if I don’t bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again.”
Genesis 42.38: 38 He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”
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Genesis 43.1: 1 The famine was severe in the land.
Genesis 43.2: 2 When they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little more food.”
Genesis 43.3: 3 Judah spoke to him, saying, “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’
Genesis 43.4: 4 If you’ll send our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy you food;
Genesis 43.5: 5 but if you don’t send him, we won’t go down, for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’”
Genesis 43.6: 6 Israel said, “Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?”
Genesis 43.7: 7 They said, “The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?’ We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down?’”
Genesis 43.8: 8 Judah said to Israel, his father, “Send the boy with me, and we’ll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.
Genesis 43.9: 9 I’ll be collateral for him. From my hand will you require him. If I don’t bring him to you, and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever;
Genesis 43.10: 10 for if we hadn’t delayed, surely we would have returned a second time by now.”
Genesis 43.11: 11 Their father, Israel, said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;
Genesis 43.12: 12 and take double money in your hand, and take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight.
Genesis 43.13: 13 Take your brother also, get up, and return to the man.
Genesis 43.14: 14 May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”
Genesis 43.15: 15 The men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and got up, went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
Genesis 43.16: 16 When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, “Bring the men into the house, and butcher an animal, and prepare; for the men will dine with me at noon.”
Genesis 43.17: 17 The man did as Joseph commanded, and the man brought the men to Joseph’s house.
Genesis 43.18: 18 The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph’s house; and they said, “Because of the money that was returned in our sacks the first time, we’re brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, attack us, and seize us as slaves, along with our donkeys.”
Genesis 43.19: 19 They came near to the steward of Joseph’s house, and they spoke to him at the door of the house,
Genesis 43.20: 20 and said, “Oh, my lord, we indeed came down the first time to buy food.
Genesis 43.21: 21 When we came to the lodging place, we opened our sacks, and behold, each man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. We have brought it back in our hand.
Genesis 43.22: 22 We have brought down other money in our hand to buy food. We don’t know who put our money in our sacks.”
Genesis 43.23: 23 He said, “Peace be to you. Don’t be afraid. Your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks. I received your money.” He brought Simeon out to them.
Genesis 43.24: 24 The man brought the men into Joseph’s house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet. He gave their donkeys fodder.
Genesis 43.25: 25 They prepared the present for Joseph’s coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.
Genesis 43.26: 26 When Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves down to the earth before him.
Genesis 43.27: 27 He asked them of their welfare, and said, “Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?”
Genesis 43.28: 28 They said, “Your servant, our father, is well. He is still alive.” They bowed down humbly.
Genesis 43.29: 29 He lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother’s son, and said, “Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?” He said, “God be gracious to you, my son.”
Genesis 43.30: 30 Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, and wept there.
Genesis 43.31: 31 He washed his face, and came out. He controlled himself, and said, “Serve the meal.”
Genesis 43.32: 32 They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because the Egyptians don’t eat with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.
Genesis 43.33: 33 They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth, and the men marveled with one another.
Genesis 43.34: 34 He sent portions to them from before him, but Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. They drank, and were merry with him.
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Genesis 44.1: 1 He commanded the steward of his house, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in his sack’s mouth.
Genesis 44.2: 2 Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, with his grain money.” He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.
Genesis 44.3: 3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.
Genesis 44.4: 4 When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, ‘Why have you rewarded evil for good?
Genesis 44.5: 5 Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’”
Genesis 44.6: 6 He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them.
Genesis 44.7: 7 They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!
Genesis 44.8: 8 Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord’s house?
Genesis 44.9: 9 With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves.”
Genesis 44.10: 10 He said, “Now also let it be according to your words. He with whom it is found will be my slave; and you will be blameless.”
Genesis 44.11: 11 Then they hurried, and each man took his sack down to the ground, and each man opened his sack.
Genesis 44.12: 12 He searched, beginning with the oldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
Genesis 44.13: 13 Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city.
Genesis 44.14: 14 Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him.
Genesis 44.15: 15 Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Don’t you know that such a man as I can indeed do divination?”
Genesis 44.16: 16 Judah said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? How will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we and he also in whose hand the cup is found.”
Genesis 44.17: 17 He said, “Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.”
Genesis 44.18: 18 Then Judah came near to him, and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and don’t let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh.
Genesis 44.19: 19 My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’
Genesis 44.20: 20 We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.’
Genesis 44.21: 21 You said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’
Genesis 44.22: 22 We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’
Genesis 44.23: 23 You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’
Genesis 44.24: 24 When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
Genesis 44.25: 25 Our father said, ‘Go again and buy us a little food.’
Genesis 44.26: 26 We said, ‘We can’t go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man’s face, unless our youngest brother is with us.’
Genesis 44.27: 27 Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.
Genesis 44.28: 28 One went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces;” and I haven’t seen him since.
Genesis 44.29: 29 If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’
Genesis 44.30: 30 Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life;
Genesis 44.31: 31 it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.
Genesis 44.32: 32 For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I don’t bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.’
Genesis 44.33: 33 Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers.
Genesis 44.34: 34 For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me?—lest I see the evil that will come on my father.”
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Genesis 45.1: 1 Then Joseph couldn’t control himself before all those who stood before him, and he called out, “Cause everyone to go out from me!” No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
Genesis 45.2: 2 He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.
Genesis 45.3: 3 Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Does my father still live?”
His brothers couldn’t answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.
Genesis 45.4: 4 Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.”
They came near. He said, “I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
Genesis 45.5: 5 Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
Genesis 45.6: 6 For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be no plowing and no harvest.
Genesis 45.7: 7 God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
Genesis 45.8: 8 So now it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 45.9: 9 Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says, “God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don’t wait.
Genesis 45.10: 10 You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be near to me, you, your children, your children’s children, your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.
Genesis 45.11: 11 There I will provide for you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have.”’
Genesis 45.12: 12 Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.
Genesis 45.13: 13 You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring my father down here.”
Genesis 45.14: 14 He fell on his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.
Genesis 45.15: 15 He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.
Genesis 45.16: 16 The report of it was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, “Joseph’s brothers have come.” It pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.
Genesis 45.17: 17 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do this: Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.
Genesis 45.18: 18 Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.’
Genesis 45.19: 19 Now you are commanded to do this: Take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
Genesis 45.20: 20 Also, don’t concern yourselves about your belongings, for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.”
Genesis 45.21: 21 The sons of Israel did so. Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.
Genesis 45.22: 22 He gave each one of them changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.
Genesis 45.23: 23 He sent the following to his father: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way.
Genesis 45.24: 24 So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, “See that you don’t quarrel on the way.”
Genesis 45.25: 25 They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father.
Genesis 45.26: 26 They told him, saying, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” His heart fainted, for he didn’t believe them.
Genesis 45.27: 27 They told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them. When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob, their father, revived.
Genesis 45.28: 28 Israel said, “It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”
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Genesis 46.1: 1 Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.
Genesis 46.2: 2 God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!”
He said, “Here I am.”
Genesis 46.3: 3 He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.
Genesis 46.4: 4 I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph’s hand will close your eyes.”
Genesis 46.5: 5 Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
Genesis 46.6: 6 They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt—Jacob, and all his offspring with him,
Genesis 46.7: 7 his sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and he brought all his offspring with him into Egypt.
Genesis 46.8: 8 These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.
Genesis 46.9: 9 The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
Genesis 46.10: 10 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.
Genesis 46.11: 11 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Genesis 46.12: 12 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
Genesis 46.13: 13 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.
Genesis 46.14: 14 The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
Genesis 46.15: 15 These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.
Genesis 46.16: 16 The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.
Genesis 46.17: 17 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
Genesis 46.18: 18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.
Genesis 46.19: 19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
Genesis 46.20: 20 To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.
Genesis 46.21: 21 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.
Genesis 46.22: 22 These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.
Genesis 46.23: 23 The son of Dan: Hushim.
Genesis 46.24: 24 The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
Genesis 46.25: 25 These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven.
Genesis 46.26: 26 All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct offspring, in addition to Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were sixty-six.
Genesis 46.27: 27 The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy.
Genesis 46.28: 28 Jacob sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.
Genesis 46.29: 29 Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
Genesis 46.30: 30 Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.”
Genesis 46.31: 31 Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father’s house, “I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, ‘My brothers, and my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
Genesis 46.32: 32 These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.’
Genesis 46.33: 33 It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, ‘What is your occupation?’
Genesis 46.34: 34 that you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:’ that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”
Genesis 47.0:
47
Genesis 47.1: 1 Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.”
Genesis 47.2: 2 From among his brothers he took five men, and presented them to Pharaoh.
Genesis 47.3: 3 Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?”
They said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers.”
Genesis 47.4: 4 They also said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.”
Genesis 47.5: 5 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.
Genesis 47.6: 6 The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock.”
Genesis 47.7: 7 Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
Genesis 47.8: 8 Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How old are you?”
Genesis 47.9: 9 Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”
Genesis 47.10: 10 Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.
Genesis 47.11: 11 Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
Genesis 47.12: 12 Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household with bread, according to the sizes of their families.
Genesis 47.13: 13 There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
Genesis 47.14: 14 Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.
Genesis 47.15: 15 When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, “Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For our money fails.”
Genesis 47.16: 16 Joseph said, “Give me your livestock; and I will give you food for your livestock, if your money is gone.”
Genesis 47.17: 17 They brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock for that year.
Genesis 47.18: 18 When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.
Genesis 47.19: 19 Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won’t be desolate.”
Genesis 47.20: 20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh’s.
Genesis 47.21: 21 As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.
Genesis 47.22: 22 Only he didn’t buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they didn’t sell their land.
Genesis 47.23: 23 Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.
Genesis 47.24: 24 It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.”
Genesis 47.25: 25 They said, “You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”
Genesis 47.26: 26 Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn’t become Pharaoh’s.
Genesis 47.27: 27 Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.
Genesis 47.28: 28 Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.
Genesis 47.29: 29 The time came near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt,
Genesis 47.30: 30 but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place.”
Joseph said, “I will do as you have said.”
Genesis 47.31: 31 Israel said, “Swear to me,” and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself on the bed’s head.
Genesis 48.0:
48
Genesis 48.1: 1 After these things, someone said to Joseph, “Behold, your father is sick.” He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
Genesis 48.2: 2 Someone told Jacob, and said, “Behold, your son Joseph comes to you,” and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed.
Genesis 48.3: 3 Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
Genesis 48.4: 4 and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession.’
Genesis 48.5: 5 Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.
Genesis 48.6: 6 Your offspring, whom you become the father of after them, will be yours. They will be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance.
Genesis 48.7: 7 As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).”
Genesis 48.8: 8 Israel saw Joseph’s sons, and said, “Who are these?”
Genesis 48.9: 9 Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.”
He said, “Please bring them to me, and I will bless them.”
Genesis 48.10: 10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn’t see well. Joseph brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.
Genesis 48.11: 11 Israel said to Joseph, “I didn’t think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your offspring also.”
Genesis 48.12: 12 Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
Genesis 48.13: 13 Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them near to him.
Genesis 48.14: 14 Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.
Genesis 48.15: 15 He blessed Joseph, and said,
“The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,
the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,
Genesis 48.16: 16 the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads,
and let my name be named on them,
and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac.
Let them grow into a multitude upon the earth.”
Genesis 48.17: 17 When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.
Genesis 48.18: 18 Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.”
Genesis 48.19: 19 His father refused, and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a multitude of nations.”
Genesis 48.20: 20 He blessed them that day, saying, “Israel will bless in you, saying, ‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh’” He set Ephraim before Manasseh.
Genesis 48.21: 21 Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.
Genesis 48.22: 22 Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.”
Genesis 49.0:
49
Genesis 49.1: 1 Jacob called to his sons, and said: “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.
Genesis 49.2: 2 Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob.
Listen to Israel, your father.
Genesis 49.3: 3 “Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength;
excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.
Genesis 49.4: 4 Boiling over like water, you shall not excel;
because you went up to your father’s bed,
then defiled it. He went up to my couch.
Genesis 49.5: 5 “Simeon and Levi are brothers.
Their swords are weapons of violence.
Genesis 49.6: 6 My soul, don’t come into their council.
My glory, don’t be united to their assembly;
for in their anger they killed men.
In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.
Genesis 49.7: 7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce;
and their wrath, for it was cruel.
I will divide them in Jacob,
and scatter them in Israel.
Genesis 49.8: 8 “Judah, your brothers will praise you.
Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies.
Your father’s sons will bow down before you.
Genesis 49.9: 9 Judah is a lion’s cub.
From the prey, my son, you have gone up.
He stooped down, he crouched as a lion,
as a lioness.
Who will rouse him up?
Genesis 49.10: 10 The scepter will not depart from Judah,
nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,
until he comes to whom it belongs.
To him will the obedience of the peoples be.
Genesis 49.11: 11 Binding his foal to the vine,
his donkey’s colt to the choice vine;
he has washed his garments in wine,
his robes in the blood of grapes.
Genesis 49.12: 12 His eyes will be red with wine,
his teeth white with milk.
Genesis 49.13: 13 “Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea.
He will be for a haven of ships.
His border will be on Sidon.
Genesis 49.14: 14 “Issachar is a strong donkey,
lying down between the saddlebags.
Genesis 49.15: 15 He saw a resting place, that it was good,
the land, that it was pleasant.
He bows his shoulder to the burden,
and becomes a servant doing forced labor.
Genesis 49.16: 16 “Dan will judge his people,
as one of the tribes of Israel.
Genesis 49.17: 17 Dan will be a serpent on the trail,
an adder in the path,
that bites the horse’s heels,
so that his rider falls backward.
Genesis 49.18: 18 I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.
Genesis 49.19: 19 “A troop will press on Gad,
but he will press on their heel.
Genesis 49.20: 20 “Asher’s food will be rich.
He will produce royal dainties.
Genesis 49.21: 21 “Naphtali is a doe set free,
who bears beautiful fawns.
Genesis 49.22: 22 “Joseph is a fruitful vine,
a fruitful vine by a spring.
His branches run over the wall.
Genesis 49.23: 23 The archers have severely grieved him,
shot at him, and persecuted him:
Genesis 49.24: 24 But his bow remained strong.
The arms of his hands were made strong,
by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob,
(from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),
Genesis 49.25: 25 even by the God of your father, who will help you,
by the Almighty, who will bless you,
with blessings of heaven above,
blessings of the deep that lies below,
blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.
Genesis 49.26: 26 The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors,
above the boundaries of the ancient hills.
They will be on the head of Joseph,
on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.
Genesis 49.27: 27 “Benjamin is a ravenous wolf.
In the morning he will devour the prey.
At evening he will divide the plunder.”
Genesis 49.28: 28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them, and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his own blessing.
Genesis 49.29: 29 He instructed them, and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
Genesis 49.30: 30 in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.
Genesis 49.31: 31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:
Genesis 49.32: 32 the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth.”
Genesis 49.33: 33 When Jacob finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, breathed his last breath, and was gathered to his people.
Genesis 50.0:
50
Genesis 50.1: 1 Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him.
Genesis 50.2: 2 Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.
Genesis 50.3: 3 Forty days were used for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for Israel for seventy days.
Genesis 50.4: 4 When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh’s staff, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
Genesis 50.5: 5 ‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.’”
Genesis 50.6: 6 Pharaoh said, “Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear.”
Genesis 50.7: 7 Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt,
Genesis 50.8: 8 All the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
Genesis 50.9: 9 There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company.
Genesis 50.10: 10 They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.
Genesis 50.11: 11 When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians.” Therefore its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
Genesis 50.12: 12 His sons did to him just as he commanded them,
Genesis 50.13: 13 for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, as a possession for a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, near Mamre.
Genesis 50.14: 14 Joseph returned into Egypt—he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
Genesis 50.15: 15 When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all the evil which we did to him.”
Genesis 50.16: 16 They sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father commanded before he died, saying,
Genesis 50.17: 17 ‘You shall tell Joseph, “Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.”’ Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
Genesis 50.18: 18 His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, “Behold, we are your servants.”
Genesis 50.19: 19 Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for am I in the place of God?
Genesis 50.20: 20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.
Genesis 50.21: 21 Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones.” He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.
Genesis 50.22: 22 Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father’s house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years.
Genesis 50.23: 23 Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.
Genesis 50.24: 24 Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”
Genesis 50.25: 25 Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”
Genesis 50.26: 26 So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
1 Kings 0.0:
The First Book of Kings
1 Kings 1.0:
1
1 Kings 1.1: 1 Now king David was old and advanced in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn’t keep warm.
1 Kings 1.2: 2 Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young virgin be sought for my lord the king. Let her stand before the king, and cherish him; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may keep warm.”
1 Kings 1.3: 3 So they sought for a beautiful young lady throughout all the borders of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
1 Kings 1.4: 4 The young lady was very beautiful; and she cherished the king, and served him; but the king didn’t know her intimately.
1 Kings 1.5: 5 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” Then he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
1 Kings 1.6: 6 His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, “Why have you done so?” and he was also a very handsome man; and he was born after Absalom.
1 Kings 1.7: 7 He conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest; and they followed Adonijah and helped him.
1 Kings 1.8: 8 But Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and the mighty men who belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.
1 Kings 1.9: 9 Adonijah killed sheep, cattle, and fatlings by the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En Rogel; and he called all his brothers, the king’s sons, and all the men of Judah, the king’s servants;
1 Kings 1.10: 10 but he didn’t call Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother.
1 Kings 1.11: 11 Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, “Haven’t you heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith reigns, and David our lord doesn’t know it?
1 Kings 1.12: 12 Now therefore come, please let me give you counsel, that you may save your own life, and your son Solomon’s life.
1 Kings 1.13: 13 Go in to king David, and tell him, ‘Didn’t you, my lord, king, swear to your servant, saying, “Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne?” Why then does Adonijah reign?’
1 Kings 1.14: 14 Behold, while you are still talking there with the king, I will also come in after you and confirm your words.”
1 Kings 1.15: 15 Bathsheba went in to the king in his room. The king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite was serving the king.
1 Kings 1.16: 16 Bathsheba bowed, and showed respect to the king. The king said, “What would you like?”
1 Kings 1.17: 17 She said to him, “My lord, you swore by Yahweh your God to your servant, ‘Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.’
1 Kings 1.18: 18 Now, behold, Adonijah reigns; and you, my lord the king, don’t know it.
1 Kings 1.19: 19 He has slain cattle and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has called all the sons of the king, Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the army; but he hasn’t called Solomon your servant.
1 Kings 1.20: 20 You, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, that you should tell them who will sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.
1 Kings 1.21: 21 Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be considered criminals.”
1 Kings 1.22: 22 Behold, while she was still talking with the king, Nathan the prophet came in.
1 Kings 1.23: 23 They told the king, saying, “Behold, Nathan the prophet!”
When he had come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.
1 Kings 1.24: 24 Nathan said, “My lord, king, have you said, ‘Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne?’
1 Kings 1.25: 25 For he has gone down today, and has slain cattle, fatlings, and sheep in abundance, and has called all the king’s sons, the captains of the army, and Abiathar the priest. Behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and saying, ‘Long live king Adonijah!’
1 Kings 1.26: 26 But he hasn’t called me, even me your servant, Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon.
1 Kings 1.27: 27 Was this thing done by my lord the king, and you haven’t shown to your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?”
1 Kings 1.28: 28 Then king David answered, “Call Bathsheba in to me.” She came into the king’s presence and stood before the king.
1 Kings 1.29: 29 The king swore, and said, “As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
1 Kings 1.30: 30 most certainly as I swore to you by Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, ‘Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place;’ I will most certainly do this today.”
1 Kings 1.31: 31 Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and showed respect to the king, and said, “Let my lord king David live forever!”
1 Kings 1.32: 32 King David said, “Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada.” They came before the king.
1 Kings 1.33: 33 The king said to them, “Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon.
1 Kings 1.34: 34 Let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel. Blow the trumpet, and say, ‘Long live king Solomon!’
1 Kings 1.35: 35 Then come up after him, and he shall come and sit on my throne; for he shall be king in my place. I have appointed him to be prince over Israel and over Judah.”
1 Kings 1.36: 36 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, “Amen. May Yahweh, the God of my lord the king, say so.
1 Kings 1.37: 37 As Yahweh has been with my lord the king, even so may he be with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David.”
1 Kings 1.38: 38 So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon ride on king David’s mule, and brought him to Gihon.
1 Kings 1.39: 39 Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the Tent, and anointed Solomon. They blew the trumpet; and all the people said, “Long live king Solomon!”
1 Kings 1.40: 40 All the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth shook with their sound.
1 Kings 1.41: 41 Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they had finished eating. When Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, “Why is this noise of the city being in an uproar?”
1 Kings 1.42: 42 While he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came; and Adonijah said, “Come in; for you are a worthy man, and bring good news.”
1 Kings 1.43: 43 Jonathan answered Adonijah, “Most certainly our lord king David has made Solomon king.
1 Kings 1.44: 44 The king has sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and they have caused him to ride on the king’s mule.
1 Kings 1.45: 45 Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon. They have come up from there rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that you have heard.
1 Kings 1.46: 46 Also, Solomon sits on the throne of the kingdom.
1 Kings 1.47: 47 Moreover the king’s servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne;’ and the king bowed himself on the bed.
1 Kings 1.48: 48 Also thus said the king, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who has given one to sit on my throne today, my eyes even seeing it.’”
1 Kings 1.49: 49 All the guests of Adonijah were afraid, and rose up, and each man went his way.
1 Kings 1.50: 50 Adonijah was afraid because of Solomon; and he arose, and went, and hung onto the horns of the altar.
1 Kings 1.51: 51 Solomon was told, “Behold, Adonijah fears king Solomon; for, behold, he is hanging onto the horns of the altar, saying, ‘Let king Solomon swear to me first that he will not kill his servant with the sword.’”
1 Kings 1.52: 52 Solomon said, “If he shows himself a worthy man, not a hair of his shall fall to the earth; but if wickedness is found in him, he shall die.”
1 Kings 1.53: 53 So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. He came and bowed down to king Solomon; and Solomon said to him, “Go to your house.”
1 Kings 2.0:
2
1 Kings 2.1: 1 Now the days of David came near that he should die; and he commanded Solomon his son, saying,
1 Kings 2.2: 2 “I am going the way of all the earth. You be strong therefore, and show yourself a man;
1 Kings 2.3: 3 and keep the instruction of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself.
1 Kings 2.4: 4 Then Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your children are careful of their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you,’ he said, ‘a man on the throne of Israel.’
1 Kings 2.5: 5 “Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was around his waist, and in his sandals that were on his feet.
1 Kings 2.6: 6 Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.
1 Kings 2.7: 7 But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table; for so they came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother.
1 Kings 2.8: 8 “Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by Yahweh, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’
1 Kings 2.9: 9 Now therefore don’t hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood.”
1 Kings 2.10: 10 David slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city.
1 Kings 2.11: 11 The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
1 Kings 2.12: 12 Solomon sat on David his father’s throne; and his kingdom was firmly established.
1 Kings 2.13: 13 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. She said, “Do you come peaceably?”
He said, “Peaceably.
1 Kings 2.14: 14 He said moreover, I have something to tell you.”
She said, “Say on.”
1 Kings 2.15: 15 He said, “You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign. However the kingdom is turned around, and has become my brother’s; for it was his from Yahweh.
1 Kings 2.16: 16 Now I ask one petition of you. Don’t deny me.”
She said to him, “Say on.”
1 Kings 2.17: 17 He said, “Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell you ‘no’), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife.”
1 Kings 2.18: 18 Bathsheba said, “All right. I will speak for you to the king.”
1 Kings 2.19: 19 Bathsheba therefore went to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a throne to be set for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand.
1 Kings 2.20: 20 Then she said, “I ask one small petition of you; don’t deny me.”
The king said to her, “Ask on, my mother; for I will not deny you.”
1 Kings 2.21: 21 She said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife.”
1 Kings 2.22: 22 King Solomon answered his mother, “Why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also; for he is my elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.”
1 Kings 2.23: 23 Then king Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.
1 Kings 2.24: 24 Now therefore as Yahweh lives, who has established me, and set me on my father David’s throne, and who has made me a house as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death today.”
1 Kings 2.25: 25 King Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell on him, so that he died.
1 Kings 2.26: 26 To Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your own fields; for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the Lord Yahweh’s ark before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted.”
1 Kings 2.27: 27 So Solomon thrust Abiathar out from being priest to Yahweh, that he might fulfill Yahweh’s word, which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
1 Kings 2.28: 28 This news came to Joab; for Joab had followed Adonijah, although he didn’t follow Absalom. Joab fled to Yahweh’s Tent, and held onto the horns of the altar.
1 Kings 2.29: 29 King Solomon was told, “Joab has fled to Yahweh’s Tent, and behold, he is by the altar.” Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, fall on him.”
1 Kings 2.30: 30 Benaiah came to Yahweh’s Tent, and said to him, “The king says, ‘Come out!’”
He said, “No; but I will die here.”
Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, “This is what Joab said, and this is how he answered me.”
1 Kings 2.31: 31 The king said to him, “Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father’s house.
1 Kings 2.32: 32 Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn’t know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.
1 Kings 2.33: 33 So their blood will return on the head of Joab, and on the head of his offspring forever. But for David, for his offspring, for his house, and for his throne, there will be peace forever from Yahweh.”
1 Kings 2.34: 34 Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell on him, and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
1 Kings 2.35: 35 The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his place over the army; and the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar.
1 Kings 2.36: 36 The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem, and live there, and don’t go anywhere else.
1 Kings 2.37: 37 For on the day you go out and pass over the brook Kidron, know for certain that you will surely die. Your blood will be on your own head.”
1 Kings 2.38: 38 Shimei said to the king, “What you say is good. As my lord the king has said, so will your servant do.” Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days.
1 Kings 2.39: 39 At the end of three years, two of Shimei’s slaves ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. They told Shimei, saying, “Behold, your slaves are in Gath.”
1 Kings 2.40: 40 Shimei arose, saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish, to seek his slaves; and Shimei went, and brought his slaves from Gath.
1 Kings 2.41: 41 Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and had come again.
1 Kings 2.42: 42 The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Didn’t I adjure you by Yahweh, and warn you, saying, ‘Know for certain, that on the day you go out, and walk anywhere else, you shall surely die?’ You said to me, ‘The saying that I have heard is good.’
1 Kings 2.43: 43 Why then have you not kept the oath of Yahweh, and the commandment that I have instructed you with?”
1 Kings 2.44: 44 The king said moreover to Shimei, “You know in your heart all the wickedness that you did to David my father. Therefore Yahweh will return your wickedness on your own head.
1 Kings 2.45: 45 But king Solomon will be blessed, and David’s throne will be established before Yahweh forever.”
1 Kings 2.46: 46 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
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1 Kings 3.1: 1 Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into David’s city, until he had finished building his own house, Yahweh’s house, and the wall around Jerusalem.
1 Kings 3.2: 2 However the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was not yet a house built for Yahweh’s name.
1 Kings 3.3: 3 Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father; except that he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
1 Kings 3.4: 4 The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.
1 Kings 3.5: 5 In Gibeon, Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask for what I should give you.”
1 Kings 3.6: 6 Solomon said, “You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, because he walked before you in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.
1 Kings 3.7: 7 Now, Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father. I am just a little child. I don’t know how to go out or come in.
1 Kings 3.8: 8 Your servant is among your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can’t be numbered or counted for multitude.
1 Kings 3.9: 9 Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”
1 Kings 3.10: 10 This request pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
1 Kings 3.11: 11 God said to him, “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have you asked for riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice;
1 Kings 3.12: 12 behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart; so that there has been no one like you before you, and after you none will arise like you.
1 Kings 3.13: 13 I have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there will not be any among the kings like you for all your days.
1 Kings 3.14: 14 If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”
1 Kings 3.15: 15 Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and offered up burnt offerings, offered peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.
1 Kings 3.16: 16 Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him.
1 Kings 3.17: 17 The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house.
1 Kings 3.18: 18 The third day after I delivered, this woman delivered also. We were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, just us two in the house.
1 Kings 3.19: 19 This woman’s child died in the night, because she lay on it.
1 Kings 3.20: 20 She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
1 Kings 3.21: 21 When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I bore.”
1 Kings 3.22: 22 The other woman said, “No; but the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son.”
The first one said, “No; but the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son.” They argued like this before the king.
1 Kings 3.23: 23 Then the king said, “One says, ‘This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead;’ and the other says, ‘No; but your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.’”
1 Kings 3.24: 24 The king said, “Get me a sword.” So they brought a sword before the king.
1 Kings 3.25: 25 The king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.”
1 Kings 3.26: 26 Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!”
But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him.”
1 Kings 3.27: 27 Then the king answered, “Give her the living child, and definitely do not kill him. She is his mother.”
1 Kings 3.28: 28 All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.
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1 Kings 4.1: 1 King Solomon was king over all Israel.
1 Kings 4.2: 2 These were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;
1 Kings 4.3: 3 Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder;
1 Kings 4.4: 4 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
1 Kings 4.5: 5 Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister, the king’s friend;
1 Kings 4.6: 6 Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor.
1 Kings 4.7: 7 Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household. Each man had to make provision for a month in the year.
1 Kings 4.8: 8 These are their names: Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;
1 Kings 4.9: 9 Ben Deker, in Makaz, in Shaalbim, Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan;
1 Kings 4.10: 10 Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (Socoh and all the land of Hepher belonged to him);
1 Kings 4.11: 11 Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath, Solomon’s daughter, as wife);
1 Kings 4.12: 12 Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth Shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam;
1 Kings 4.13: 13 Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, belonged to him; and the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars, belonged to him);
1 Kings 4.14: 14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;
1 Kings 4.15: 15 Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife);
1 Kings 4.16: 16 Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;
1 Kings 4.17: 17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
1 Kings 4.18: 18 Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;
1 Kings 4.19: 19 Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer who was in the land.
1 Kings 4.20: 20 Judah and Israel were numerous as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
1 Kings 4.21: 21 Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.
1 Kings 4.22: 22 Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour, sixty measures of meal,
1 Kings 4.23: 23 ten head of fat cattle, twenty head of cattle out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, in addition to deer, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl.
1 Kings 4.24: 24 For he had dominion over all on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River: and he had peace on all sides around him.
1 Kings 4.25: 25 Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.
1 Kings 4.26: 26 Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
1 Kings 4.27: 27 Those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon’s table, every man in his month. They let nothing be lacking.
1 Kings 4.28: 28 They also brought Barley and straw for the horses and swift steeds to the place where the officers were, each man according to his duty.
1 Kings 4.29: 29 God gave Solomon abundant wisdom and understanding, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore.
1 Kings 4.30: 30 Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.
1 Kings 4.31: 31 For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all the nations all around.
1 Kings 4.32: 32 He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs numbered one thousand five.
1 Kings 4.33: 33 He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows out of the wall; he also spoke of animals, of birds, of creeping things, and of fish.
1 Kings 4.34: 34 People of all nations came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, sent by all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.
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1 Kings 5.1: 1 Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the place of his father, and Hiram had always loved David.
1 Kings 5.2: 2 Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
1 Kings 5.3: 3 “You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of Yahweh his God because of the wars which were around him on every side, until Yahweh put his enemies under the soles of his feet.
1 Kings 5.4: 4 But now Yahweh my God has given me rest on every side. There is no enemy and no evil occurrence.
1 Kings 5.5: 5 Behold, I intend to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, as Yahweh spoke to David my father, saying, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place shall build the house for my name.’
1 Kings 5.6: 6 Now therefore command that cedar trees be cut for me out of Lebanon. My servants will be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you say. For you know that there is nobody among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”
1 Kings 5.7: 7 When Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly, and said, “Blessed is Yahweh today, who has given to David a wise son to rule over this great people.”
1 Kings 5.8: 8 Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, “I have heard the message which you have sent to me. I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning cypress timber.
1 Kings 5.9: 9 My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you specify to me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you will receive them. You will accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.”
1 Kings 5.10: 10 So Hiram gave Solomon cedar timber and cypress timber according to all his desire.
1 Kings 5.11: 11 Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand cors of wheat for food to his household, and twenty cors of pure oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.
1 Kings 5.12: 12 Yahweh gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty together.
1 Kings 5.13: 13 King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
1 Kings 5.14: 14 He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; for a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to forced labor.
1 Kings 5.15: 15 Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;
1 Kings 5.16: 16 besides Solomon’s chief officers who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who ruled over the people who labored in the work.
1 Kings 5.17: 17 The king commanded, and they cut out large stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.
1 Kings 5.18: 18 Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites cut them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.
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1 Kings 6.1: 1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build Yahweh’s house.
1 Kings 6.2: 2 The house which king Solomon built for Yahweh had a length of sixty cubits, and its width twenty, and its height thirty cubits.
1 Kings 6.3: 3 The porch in front of the temple of the house had a length of twenty cubits, which was along the width of the house. Ten cubits was its width in front of the house.
1 Kings 6.4: 4 He made windows of fixed lattice work for the house.
1 Kings 6.5: 5 Against the wall of the house, he built floors all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the inner sanctuary; and he made side rooms all around.
1 Kings 6.6: 6 The lowest floor was five cubits wide, and the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for on the outside he made offsets in the wall of the house all around, that the beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house.
1 Kings 6.7: 7 The house, when it was under construction, was built of stone prepared at the quarry; and no hammer or ax or any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was under construction.
1 Kings 6.8: 8 The door for the middle side rooms was in the right side of the house. They went up by winding stairs into the middle floor, and out of the middle into the third.
1 Kings 6.9: 9 So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.
1 Kings 6.10: 10 He built the floors all along the house, each five cubits high; and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
1 Kings 6.11: 11 Yahweh’s word came to Solomon, saying,
1 Kings 6.12: 12 “Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.
1 Kings 6.13: 13 I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.”
1 Kings 6.14: 14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
1 Kings 6.15: 15 He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with cypress boards.
1 Kings 6.16: 16 He built twenty cubits on the back part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the ceiling. He built them for it within, for an inner sanctuary, even for the most holy place.
1 Kings 6.17: 17 In front of the temple sanctuary was forty cubits.
1 Kings 6.18: 18 There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers. All was cedar. No stone was visible.
1 Kings 6.19: 19 He prepared an inner sanctuary in the middle of the house within, to set the ark of Yahweh’s covenant there.
1 Kings 6.20: 20 Within the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in width, and twenty cubits in its height; and he overlaid it with pure gold; and he covered the altar with cedar.
1 Kings 6.21: 21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold. He drew chains of gold across before the inner sanctuary, and he overlaid it with gold.
1 Kings 6.22: 22 He overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. He also overlaid the whole altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary with gold.
1 Kings 6.23: 23 In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.
1 Kings 6.24: 24 Five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub. From the tip of one wing to the tip of the other was ten cubits.
1 Kings 6.25: 25 The other cherub was ten cubits. Both the cherubim were of one measure and one form.
1 Kings 6.26: 26 One cherub was ten cubits high, and so was the other cherub.
1 Kings 6.27: 27 He set the cherubim within the inner house. The wings of the cherubim were stretched out, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the middle of the house.
1 Kings 6.28: 28 He overlaid the cherubim with gold.
1 Kings 6.29: 29 He carved all the walls of the house around with carved figures of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, inside and outside.
1 Kings 6.30: 30 He overlaid the floor of the house with gold, inside and outside.
1 Kings 6.31: 31 For the entrance of the inner sanctuary, he made doors of olive wood. The lintel and door posts were a fifth part of the wall.
1 Kings 6.32: 32 So he made two doors of olive wood; and he carved on them carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold. He spread the gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees.
1 Kings 6.33: 33 He also did so for the entrance of the temple door posts of olive wood, out of a fourth part of the wall;
1 Kings 6.34: 34 and two doors of cypress wood. The two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.
1 Kings 6.35: 35 He carved cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work.
1 Kings 6.36: 36 He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and a course of cedar beams.
1 Kings 6.37: 37 The foundation of Yahweh’s house was laid in the fourth year, in the month Ziv.
1 Kings 6.38: 38 In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished throughout all its parts, and according to all its specifications. So he spent seven years building it.
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1 Kings 7.1: 1 Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
1 Kings 7.2: 2 For he built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was one hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.
1 Kings 7.3: 3 It was covered with cedar above over the forty-five beams, that were on the pillars, fifteen in a row.
1 Kings 7.4: 4 There were beams in three rows, and window was facing window in three ranks.
1 Kings 7.5: 5 All the doors and posts were made square with beams: and window was facing window in three ranks.
1 Kings 7.6: 6 He made the porch of pillars. Its length was fifty cubits and its width thirty cubits; with a porch before them, and pillars and a threshold before them.
1 Kings 7.7: 7 He made the porch of the throne where he was to judge, even the porch of judgment; and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor.
1 Kings 7.8: 8 His house where he was to dwell, the other court within the porch, was of the like work. He made also a house for Pharaoh’s daughter (whom Solomon had taken as wife), like this porch.
1 Kings 7.9: 9 All these were of costly stones, even of cut stone, according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside, even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court.
1 Kings 7.10: 10 The foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
1 Kings 7.11: 11 Above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar wood.
1 Kings 7.12: 12 The great court around had three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams; like the inner court of Yahweh’s house and the porch of the house.
1 Kings 7.13: 13 King Solomon sent and brought Hiram out of Tyre.
1 Kings 7.14: 14 He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill, to work all works in bronze. He came to king Solomon, and performed all his work.
1 Kings 7.15: 15 For he fashioned the two pillars of bronze, eighteen cubits high apiece; and a line of twelve cubits encircled either of them.
1 Kings 7.16: 16 He made two capitals of molten bronze, to set on the tops of the pillars. The height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits.
1 Kings 7.17: 17 There were nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital, and seven for the other capital.
1 Kings 7.18: 18 So he made the pillars; and there were two rows around on the one network, to cover the capitals that were on the top of the pillars: and he did so for the other capital.
1 Kings 7.19: 19 The capitals that were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily work, four cubits.
1 Kings 7.20: 20 There were capitals above also on the two pillars, close by the belly which was beside the network. There were two hundred pomegranates in rows around the other capital.
1 Kings 7.21: 21 He set up the pillars at the porch of the temple. He set up the right pillar, and called its name Jachin; and he set up the left pillar, and called its name Boaz.
1 Kings 7.22: 22 On the top of the pillars was lily work: so the work of the pillars was finished.
1 Kings 7.23: 23 He made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in shape. Its height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits encircled it.
1 Kings 7.24: 24 Under its brim around there were buds which encircled it for ten cubits, encircling the sea. The buds were in two rows, cast when it was cast.
1 Kings 7.25: 25 It stood on twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; and the sea was set on them above, and all their hindquarters were inward.
1 Kings 7.26: 26 It was a hand width thick. Its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.
1 Kings 7.27: 27 He made the ten bases of bronze. The length of one base was four cubits, four cubits its width, and three cubits its height.
1 Kings 7.28: 28 The work of the bases was like this: they had panels; and there were panels between the ledges;
1 Kings 7.29: 29 and on the panels that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and on the ledges there was a pedestal above; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work.
1 Kings 7.30: 30 Every base had four bronze wheels, and axles of bronze; and the four feet of it had supports. The supports were cast beneath the basin, with wreaths at the side of each.
1 Kings 7.31: 31 Its mouth within the capital and above was a cubit. Its mouth was round after the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on its mouth were engravings, and their panels were square, not round.
1 Kings 7.32: 32 The four wheels were underneath the panels; and the axles of the wheels were in the base. The height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.
1 Kings 7.33: 33 The work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel. Their axles, and their rims, and their spokes, and their naves, were all of cast metal.
1 Kings 7.34: 34 There were four supports at the four corners of each base. Its supports were of the base itself.
1 Kings 7.35: 35 In the top of the base there was a round band half a cubit high; and on the top of the base its supports and its panels were the same.
1 Kings 7.36: 36 On the plates of its supports, and on its panels, he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, each in its space, with wreaths all around.
1 Kings 7.37: 37 He made the ten bases in this way: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form.
1 Kings 7.38: 38 He made ten basins of bronze. One basin contained forty baths; and every basin was four cubits; and on every one of the ten bases one basin.
1 Kings 7.39: 39 He set the bases, five on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house. He set the sea on the right side of the house eastward and toward the south.
1 Kings 7.40: 40 Hiram made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished doing all the work that he worked for king Solomon in Yahweh’s house:
1 Kings 7.41: 41 the two pillars; the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars;
1 Kings 7.42: 42 the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars;
1 Kings 7.43: 43 the ten bases; the ten basins on the bases;
1 Kings 7.44: 44 the one sea; the twelve oxen under the sea;
1 Kings 7.45: 45 the pots; the shovels; and the basins: even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon, in Yahweh’s house, were of burnished bronze.
1 Kings 7.46: 46 The king cast them in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.
1 Kings 7.47: 47 Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them. The weight of the bronze could not be determined.
1 Kings 7.48: 48 Solomon made all the vessels that were in Yahweh’s house: the golden altar and the table that the show bread was on, of gold;
1 Kings 7.49: 49 and the lamp stands, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of gold;
1 Kings 7.50: 50 the cups, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and the fire pans, of pure gold; and the hinges, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, of the temple, of gold.
1 Kings 7.51: 51 Thus all the work that king Solomon did in Yahweh’s house was finished. Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, the silver, the gold, and the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of Yahweh’s house.
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1 Kings 8.1: 1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, with all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion.
1 Kings 8.2: 2 All the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.
1 Kings 8.3: 3 All the elders of Israel came, and the priests picked up the ark.
1 Kings 8.4: 4 They brought up Yahweh’s ark, the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent. The priests and the Levites brought these up.
1 Kings 8.5: 5 King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle, that could not be counted or numbered for multitude.
1 Kings 8.6: 6 The priests brought in the ark of Yahweh’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the cherubim’s wings.
1 Kings 8.7: 7 For the cherubim spread their wings out over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above.
1 Kings 8.8: 8 The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the inner sanctuary; but they were not seen outside. They are there to this day.
1 Kings 8.9: 9 There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets which Moses put there at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
1 Kings 8.10: 10 It came to pass, when the priests had come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled Yahweh’s house,
1 Kings 8.11: 11 so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house.
1 Kings 8.12: 12 Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
1 Kings 8.13: 13 I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever.”
1 Kings 8.14: 14 The king turned his face around, and blessed all the assembly of Israel; and all the assembly of Israel stood.
1 Kings 8.15: 15 He said, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David your father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying,
1 Kings 8.16: 16 ‘Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.’
1 Kings 8.17: 17 “Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
1 Kings 8.18: 18 But Yahweh said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart.
1 Kings 8.19: 19 Nevertheless, you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.’
1 Kings 8.20: 20 Yahweh has established his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
1 Kings 8.21: 21 There I have set a place for the ark, in which is Yahweh’s covenant, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”
1 Kings 8.22: 22 Solomon stood before Yahweh’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven;
1 Kings 8.23: 23 and he said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keeps covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart;
1 Kings 8.24: 24 who has kept with your servant David my father that which you promised him. Yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is today.
1 Kings 8.25: 25 Now therefore, may Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.’
1 Kings 8.26: 26 “Now therefore, God of Israel, please let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father.
1 Kings 8.27: 27 But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
1 Kings 8.28: 28 Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and for his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you today;
1 Kings 8.29: 29 that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, ‘My name shall be there;’ to listen to the prayer which your servant prays toward this place.
1 Kings 8.30: 30 Listen to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Yes, hear in heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive.
1 Kings 8.31: 31 “If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house;
1 Kings 8.32: 32 then hear in heaven, and act, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
1 Kings 8.33: 33 “When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this house;
1 Kings 8.34: 34 then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers.
1 Kings 8.35: 35 “When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them,
1 Kings 8.36: 36 then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.
1 Kings 8.37: 37 “If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;
1 Kings 8.38: 38 whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house,
1 Kings 8.39: 39 then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men);
1 Kings 8.40: 40 that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.
1 Kings 8.41: 41 “Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he comes out of a far country for your name’s sake
1 Kings 8.42: 42 (for they shall hear of your great name, and of your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm); when he comes and prays toward this house;
1 Kings 8.43: 43 hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.
1 Kings 8.44: 44 “If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to Yahweh toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name;
1 Kings 8.45: 45 then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
1 Kings 8.46: 46 If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;
1 Kings 8.47: 47 yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;’
1 Kings 8.48: 48 if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name;
1 Kings 8.49: 49 then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling place, and maintain their cause;
1 Kings 8.50: 50 and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them
1 Kings 8.51: 51 (for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron furnace);
1 Kings 8.52: 52 that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant, and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to you.
1 Kings 8.53: 53 For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord Yahweh.”
1 Kings 8.54: 54 It was so, that when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before Yahweh’s altar, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread out toward heaven.
1 Kings 8.55: 55 He stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
1 Kings 8.56: 56 “Blessed be Yahweh, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant.
1 Kings 8.57: 57 May Yahweh our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us or forsake us;
1 Kings 8.58: 58 that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.
1 Kings 8.59: 59 Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before Yahweh, be near to Yahweh our God day and night, that he may maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel, as every day requires;
1 Kings 8.60: 60 that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh himself is God. There is no one else.
1 Kings 8.61: 61 “Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as it is today.”
1 Kings 8.62: 62 The king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before Yahweh.
1 Kings 8.63: 63 Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to Yahweh, twenty two thousand head of cattle, and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated Yahweh’s house.
1 Kings 8.64: 64 The same day the king made the middle of the court holy that was before Yahweh’s house; for there he offered the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before Yahweh was too little to receive the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings.
1 Kings 8.65: 65 So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before Yahweh our God, seven days and seven more days, even fourteen days.
1 Kings 8.66: 66 On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad in their hearts for all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David his servant, and to Israel his people.
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1 Kings 9.1: 1 When Solomon had finished the building of Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,
1 Kings 9.2: 2 Yahweh appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
1 Kings 9.3: 3 Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
1 Kings 9.4: 4 As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;
1 Kings 9.5: 5 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man on the throne of Israel.’
1 Kings 9.6: 6 But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them;
1 Kings 9.7: 7 then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and I will cast this house, which I have made holy for my name, out of my sight; and Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
1 Kings 9.8: 8 Though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land, and to this house?’
1 Kings 9.9: 9 and they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned Yahweh their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped them, and served them. Therefore Yahweh has brought all this evil on them.’”
1 Kings 9.10: 10 At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, Yahweh’s house and the king’s house
1 Kings 9.11: 11 (now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and cypress trees, and with gold, according to all his desire), King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
1 Kings 9.12: 12 Hiram came out of Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they didn’t please him.
1 Kings 9.13: 13 He said, “What cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” He called them the land of Cabul to this day.
1 Kings 9.14: 14 Hiram sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold.
1 Kings 9.15: 15 This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build Yahweh’s house, his own house, Millo, Jerusalem’s wall, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
1 Kings 9.16: 16 Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, taken Gezer, burned it with fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
1 Kings 9.17: 17 Solomon built in the land Gezer, Beth Horon the lower,
1 Kings 9.18: 18 Baalath, Tamar in the wilderness,
1 Kings 9.19: 19 all the storage cities that Solomon had, the cities for his chariots, the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
1 Kings 9.20: 20 As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel;
1 Kings 9.21: 21 their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them Solomon raised a levy of bondservants to this day.
1 Kings 9.22: 22 But of the children of Israel Solomon made no bondservants; but they were the men of war, his servants, his princes, his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
1 Kings 9.23: 23 These were the five hundred fifty chief officers who were over Solomon’s work, who ruled over the people who labored in the work.
1 Kings 9.24: 24 But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of David’s city to her house which Solomon had built for her. Then he built Millo.
1 Kings 9.25: 25 Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh three times per year, burning incense with them, on the altar that was before Yahweh. So he finished the house.
1 Kings 9.26: 26 King Solomon made a fleet of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
1 Kings 9.27: 27 Hiram sent in the fleet his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
1 Kings 9.28: 28 They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
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1 Kings 10.1: 1 When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning Yahweh’s name, she came to test him with hard questions.
1 Kings 10.2: 2 She came to Jerusalem with a very great caravan, with camels that bore spices, very much gold, and precious stones; and when she had come to Solomon, she talked with him about all that was in her heart.
1 Kings 10.3: 3 Solomon answered all her questions. There wasn’t anything hidden from the king which he didn’t tell her.
1 Kings 10.4: 4 When the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,
1 Kings 10.5: 5 the food of his table, the sitting of his servants, the attendance of his officials, their clothing, his cup bearers, and his ascent by which he went up to Yahweh’s house; there was no more spirit in her.
1 Kings 10.6: 6 She said to the king, “It was a true report that I heard in my own land of your acts, and of your wisdom.
1 Kings 10.7: 7 However I didn’t believe the words until I came and my eyes had seen it. Behold, not even half was told me! Your wisdom and prosperity exceed the fame which I heard.
1 Kings 10.8: 8 Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, who hear your wisdom.
1 Kings 10.9: 9 Blessed is Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel. Because Yahweh loved Israel forever, therefore he made you king, to do justice and righteousness.”
1 Kings 10.10: 10 She gave the king one hundred twenty talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again was there such an abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
1 Kings 10.11: 11 The fleet of Hiram that brought gold from Ophir, also brought in from Ophir great quantities of almug trees and precious stones.
1 Kings 10.12: 12 The king made of the almug trees pillars for Yahweh’s house, and for the king’s house, harps also and stringed instruments for the singers; no such almug trees came or were seen, to this day.
1 Kings 10.13: 13 King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, in addition to that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own land, she and her servants.
1 Kings 10.14: 14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred sixty-six talents of gold,
1 Kings 10.15: 15 in addition to that which the traders brought, and the traffic of the merchants, and of all the kings of the mixed people, and of the governors of the country.
1 Kings 10.16: 16 King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of gold went to one buckler.
1 Kings 10.17: 17 he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went to one shield; and the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
1 Kings 10.18: 18 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold.
1 Kings 10.19: 19 There were six steps to the throne, and the top of the throne was round behind; and there were armrests on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests.
1 Kings 10.20: 20 Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps. Nothing like it was made in any kingdom.
1 Kings 10.21: 21 All king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None were of silver, because it was considered of little value in the days of Solomon.
1 Kings 10.22: 22 For the king had a fleet of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet. Once every three years the fleet of Tarshish came, bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
1 Kings 10.23: 23 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.
1 Kings 10.24: 24 All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
1 Kings 10.25: 25 Year after year, every man brought his tribute, vessels of silver, vessels of gold, clothing, armor, spices, horses, and mules.
1 Kings 10.26: 26 Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had one thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he kept in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem.
1 Kings 10.27: 27 The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and cedars as common as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.
1 Kings 10.28: 28 The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt. The king’s merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price.
1 Kings 10.29: 29 A chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty shekels; and so they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites, and to the kings of Syria.
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1 Kings 11.1: 1 Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;
1 Kings 11.2: 2 of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon joined to these in love.
1 Kings 11.3: 3 He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. His wives turned his heart away.
1 Kings 11.4: 4 When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father was.
1 Kings 11.5: 5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
1 Kings 11.6: 6 Solomon did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and didn’t go fully after Yahweh, as David his father did.
1 Kings 11.7: 7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.
1 Kings 11.8: 8 So he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
1 Kings 11.9: 9 Yahweh was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from Yahweh, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,
1 Kings 11.10: 10 and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he didn’t keep that which Yahweh commanded.
1 Kings 11.11: 11 Therefore Yahweh said to Solomon, “Because this is done by you, and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant.
1 Kings 11.12: 12 Nevertheless, I will not do it in your days, for David your father’s sake; but I will tear it out of your son’s hand.
1 Kings 11.13: 13 However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.”
1 Kings 11.14: 14 Yahweh raised up an adversary to Solomon: Hadad the Edomite. He was one of the king’s offspring in Edom.
1 Kings 11.15: 15 For when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army had gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom
1 Kings 11.16: 16 (for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom);
1 Kings 11.17: 17 Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father’s servants with him, to go into Egypt, when Hadad was still a little child.
1 Kings 11.18: 18 They arose out of Midian, and came to Paran; and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house, and appointed him food, and gave him land.
1 Kings 11.19: 19 Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him as wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.
1 Kings 11.20: 20 The sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh’s house among the sons of Pharaoh.
1 Kings 11.21: 21 When Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Let me depart, that I may go to my own country.”
1 Kings 11.22: 22 Then Pharaoh said to him, “But what have you lacked with me, that behold, you seek to go to your own country?”
He answered, “Nothing, however only let me depart.”
1 Kings 11.23: 23 God raised up an adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah.
1 Kings 11.24: 24 He gathered men to himself, and became captain over a troop, when David killed them of Zobah. They went to Damascus, and lived there, and reigned in Damascus.
1 Kings 11.25: 25 He was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, in addition to the mischief of Hadad. He abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.
1 Kings 11.26: 26 Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow, also lifted up his hand against the king.
1 Kings 11.27: 27 This was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of his father David’s city.
1 Kings 11.28: 28 The man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor; and Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he put him in charge of all the labor of the house of Joseph.
1 Kings 11.29: 29 At that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the way. Now Ahijah had clad himself with a new garment; and the two of them were alone in the field.
1 Kings 11.30: 30 Ahijah took the new garment that was on him, and tore it in twelve pieces.
1 Kings 11.31: 31 He said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to you
1 Kings 11.32: 32 (but he shall have one tribe, for my servant David’s sake and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel);
1 Kings 11.33: 33 because that they have forsaken me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon. They have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in my eyes, and to keep my statutes and my ordinances, as David his father did.
1 Kings 11.34: 34 “‘However I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will make him prince all the days of his life, for David my servant’s sake whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes;
1 Kings 11.35: 35 but I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand, and will give it to you, even ten tribes.
1 Kings 11.36: 36 I will give one tribe to his son, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.
1 Kings 11.37: 37 I will take you, and you shall reign according to all that your soul desires, and shall be king over Israel.
1 Kings 11.38: 38 It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.
1 Kings 11.39: 39 I will afflict the offspring of David for this, but not forever.’”
1 Kings 11.40: 40 Therefore Solomon sought to kill Jeroboam; but Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.
1 Kings 11.41: 41 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, aren’t they written in the book of the acts of Solomon?
1 Kings 11.42: 42 The time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
1 Kings 11.43: 43 Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in his father David’s city; and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.
1 Kings 12.0:
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1 Kings 12.1: 1 Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
1 Kings 12.2: 2 When Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was yet in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam lived in Egypt,
1 Kings 12.3: 3 and they sent and called him), Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came, and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,
1 Kings 12.4: 4 “Your father made our yoke difficult. Now therefore make the hard service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.”
1 Kings 12.5: 5 He said to them, “Depart for three days, then come back to me.”
So the people departed.
1 Kings 12.6: 6 King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me to answer these people?”
1 Kings 12.7: 7 They replied, “If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them, and answer them with good words, then they will be your servants forever.”
1 Kings 12.8: 8 But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.
1 Kings 12.9: 9 He said to them, “What counsel do you give, that we may answer these people, who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Make the yoke that your father put on us lighter?’”
1 Kings 12.10: 10 The young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Tell these people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter to us;’ tell them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.
1 Kings 12.11: 11 Now my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’”
1 Kings 12.12: 12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king asked, saying, “Come to me again the third day.”
1 Kings 12.13: 13 The king answered the people roughly, and abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him,
1 Kings 12.14: 14 and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”
1 Kings 12.15: 15 So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was a thing brought about from Yahweh, that he might establish his word, which Yahweh spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
1 Kings 12.16: 16 When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion have we in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So Israel departed to their tents.
1 Kings 12.17: 17 But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
1 Kings 12.18: 18 Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the men subject to forced labor; and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam hurried to get himself up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
1 Kings 12.19: 19 So Israel rebelled against David’s house to this day.
1 Kings 12.20: 20 When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel. There was no one who followed David’s house, except for the tribe of Judah only.
1 Kings 12.21: 21 When Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
1 Kings 12.22: 22 But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
1 Kings 12.23: 23 “Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people, saying,
1 Kings 12.24: 24 ‘Yahweh says, “You shall not go up or fight against your brothers, the children of Israel. Everyone return to his house; for this thing is from me.”’” So they listened to Yahweh’s word, and returned and went their way, according to Yahweh’s word.
1 Kings 12.25: 25 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and lived in it; and he went out from there, and built Penuel.
1 Kings 12.26: 26 Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to David’s house.
1 Kings 12.27: 27 If this people goes up to offer sacrifices in Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn again to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”
1 Kings 12.28: 28 So the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look and behold your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
1 Kings 12.29: 29 He set the one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.
1 Kings 12.30: 30 This thing became a sin; for the people went even as far as Dan to worship before the one there.
1 Kings 12.31: 31 He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.
1 Kings 12.32: 32 Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar. He did so in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.
1 Kings 12.33: 33 He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up to the altar, to burn incense.
1 Kings 13.0:
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1 Kings 13.1: 1 Behold, a man of God came out of Judah by Yahweh’s word to Bethel; and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense.
1 Kings 13.2: 2 He cried against the altar by Yahweh’s word, and said, “Altar! Altar! Yahweh says: ‘Behold, a son will be born to David’s house, Josiah by name. On you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and they will burn men’s bones on you.’”
1 Kings 13.3: 3 He gave a sign the same day, saying, “This is the sign which Yahweh has spoken: Behold, the altar will be split apart, and the ashes that are on it will be poured out.”
1 Kings 13.4: 4 When the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam put out his hand from the altar, saying, “Seize him!” His hand, which he put out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back again to himself.
1 Kings 13.5: 5 The altar was also split apart, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by Yahweh’s word.
1 Kings 13.6: 6 The king answered the man of God, “Now intercede for the favor of Yahweh your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again.”
The man of God interceded with Yahweh, and the king’s hand was restored to him again, and became as it was before.
1 Kings 13.7: 7 The king said to the man of God, “Come home with me, and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.”
1 Kings 13.8: 8 The man of God said to the king, “Even if you gave me half of your house, I would not go in with you, neither would I eat bread nor drink water in this place;
1 Kings 13.9: 9 for so was it commanded me by Yahweh’s word, saying, ‘You shall eat no bread, drink no water, and don’t return by the way that you came.’”
1 Kings 13.10: 10 So he went another way, and didn’t return by the way that he came to Bethel.
1 Kings 13.11: 11 Now an old prophet lived in Bethel, and one of his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the words which he had spoken to the king.
1 Kings 13.12: 12 Their father said to them, “Which way did he go?” Now his sons had seen which way the man of God went, who came from Judah.
1 Kings 13.13: 13 He said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled the donkey for him; and he rode on it.
1 Kings 13.14: 14 He went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak. He said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?”
He said, “I am.”
1 Kings 13.15: 15 Then he said to him, “Come home with me, and eat bread.”
1 Kings 13.16: 16 He said, “I may not return with you, nor go in with you. I will not eat bread or drink water with you in this place.
1 Kings 13.17: 17 For it was said to me by Yahweh’s word, ‘You shall eat no bread or drink water there, and don’t turn again to go by the way that you came.’”
1 Kings 13.18: 18 He said to him, “I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel spoke to me by Yahweh’s word, saying, ‘Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.’” He lied to him.
1 Kings 13.19: 19 So he went back with him, ate bread in his house, and drank water.
1 Kings 13.20: 20 As they sat at the table, Yahweh’s word came to the prophet who brought him back;
1 Kings 13.21: 21 and he cried out to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, “Yahweh says, ‘Because you have been disobedient to Yahweh’s mouth, and have not kept the commandment which Yahweh your God commanded you,
1 Kings 13.22: 22 but came back, and have eaten bread and drank water in the place of which he said to you, “Eat no bread, and drink no water;” your body will not come to the tomb of your fathers.’”
1 Kings 13.23: 23 After he had eaten bread, and after he drank, he saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back.
1 Kings 13.24: 24 When he had gone, a lion met him by the way and killed him. His body was thrown on the path, and the donkey stood by it. The lion also stood by the body.
1 Kings 13.25: 25 Behold, men passed by, and saw the body thrown on the path, and the lion standing by the body; and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived.
1 Kings 13.26: 26 When the prophet who brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, “It is the man of God who was disobedient to Yahweh’s mouth. Therefore Yahweh has delivered him to the lion, which has mauled him and slain him, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke to him.”
1 Kings 13.27: 27 He said to his sons, saying, “Saddle the donkey for me,” and they saddled it.
1 Kings 13.28: 28 He went and found his body thrown on the path, and the donkey and the lion standing by the body. The lion had not eaten the body, nor mauled the donkey.
1 Kings 13.29: 29 The prophet took up the body of the man of God, and laid it on the donkey, and brought it back. He came to the city of the old prophet to mourn, and to bury him.
1 Kings 13.30: 30 He laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, “Alas, my brother!”
1 Kings 13.31: 31 After he had buried him, he spoke to his sons, saying, “When I am dead, bury me in the tomb in which the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones.
1 Kings 13.32: 32 For the saying which he cried by Yahweh’s word against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, will surely happen.”
1 Kings 13.33: 33 After this thing Jeroboam didn’t return from his evil way, but again made priests of the high places from among all the people. Whoever wanted to, he consecrated him, that there might be priests of the high places.
1 Kings 13.34: 34 This thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the surface of the earth.
1 Kings 14.0:
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1 Kings 14.1: 1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick.
1 Kings 14.2: 2 Jeroboam said to his wife, “Please get up and disguise yourself, so that you won’t be recognized as Jeroboam’s wife. Go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who said that I would be king over this people.
1 Kings 14.3: 3 Take with you ten loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will become of the child.”
1 Kings 14.4: 4 Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to Ahijah’s house. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.
1 Kings 14.5: 5 Yahweh said to Ahijah, “Behold, Jeroboam’s wife is coming to inquire of you concerning her son; for he is sick. Tell her such and such; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will pretend to be another woman.”
1 Kings 14.6: 6 So when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the door, he said, “Come in, Jeroboam’s wife! Why do you pretend to be another? For I am sent to you with heavy news.
1 Kings 14.7: 7 Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: “Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you prince over my people Israel,
1 Kings 14.8: 8 and tore the kingdom away from David’s house, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes,
1 Kings 14.9: 9 but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods, molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back;
1 Kings 14.10: 10 therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates on a wall, he who is shut up and he who is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung, until it is all gone.
1 Kings 14.11: 11 The dogs will eat he who belongs to Jeroboam who dies in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat he who dies in the field: for Yahweh has spoken it.”’
1 Kings 14.12: 12 Arise therefore, and go to your house. When your feet enter into the city, the child will die.
1 Kings 14.13: 13 All Israel will mourn for him and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam will come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.
1 Kings 14.14: 14 Moreover Yahweh will raise up a king for himself over Israel, who will cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is the day! What? Even now.
1 Kings 14.15: 15 For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking Yahweh to anger.
1 Kings 14.16: 16 He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin.”
1 Kings 14.17: 17 Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed, and came to Tirzah. As she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.
1 Kings 14.18: 18 All Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.
1 Kings 14.19: 19 The rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
1 Kings 14.20: 20 The days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty two years, then he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.
1 Kings 14.21: 21 Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
1 Kings 14.22: 22 Judah did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.
1 Kings 14.23: 23 For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
1 Kings 14.24: 24 There were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove out before the children of Israel.
1 Kings 14.25: 25 In the fifth year of king Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem,
1 Kings 14.26: 26 and he took away the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house. He even took away all of it, including all the gold shields which Solomon had made.
1 Kings 14.27: 27 King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house.
1 Kings 14.28: 28 It was so, that as often as the king went into Yahweh’s house, the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard room.
1 Kings 14.29: 29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
1 Kings 14.30: 30 There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
1 Kings 14.31: 31 Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. Abijam his son reigned in his place.
1 Kings 15.0:
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1 Kings 15.1: 1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah.
1 Kings 15.2: 2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
1 Kings 15.3: 3 He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father.
1 Kings 15.4: 4 Nevertheless for David’s sake, Yahweh his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem;
1 Kings 15.5: 5 because David did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and didn’t turn away from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
1 Kings 15.6: 6 Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
1 Kings 15.7: 7 The rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
1 Kings 15.8: 8 Abijam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in David’s city; and Asa his son reigned in his place.
1 Kings 15.9: 9 In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa began to reign over Judah.
1 Kings 15.10: 10 He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
1 Kings 15.11: 11 Asa did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, as David his father did.
1 Kings 15.12: 12 He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
1 Kings 15.13: 13 He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah. Asa cut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron.
1 Kings 15.14: 14 But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Yahweh all his days.
1 Kings 15.15: 15 He brought into Yahweh’s house the things that his father had dedicated, and the things that he himself had dedicated: silver, gold, and utensils.
1 Kings 15.16: 16 There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
1 Kings 15.17: 17 Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
1 Kings 15.18: 18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that was left in the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house, and delivered it into the hand of his servants. Then King Asa sent them to Ben Hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying,
1 Kings 15.19: 19 “There is a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. Behold, I have sent to you a present of silver and gold. Go, break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.”
1 Kings 15.20: 20 Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel, and struck Ijon, and Dan, and Abel Beth Maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
1 Kings 15.21: 21 When Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and lived in Tirzah.
1 Kings 15.22: 22 Then king Asa made a proclamation to all Judah. No one was exempted. They carried away the stones of Ramah, and its timber, with which Baasha had built; and king Asa used it to build Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
1 Kings 15.23: 23 Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
1 Kings 15.24: 24 Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in his father David’s city; and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place.
1 Kings 15.25: 25 Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah; and he reigned over Israel two years.
1 Kings 15.26: 26 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.
1 Kings 15.27: 27 Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha struck him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were besieging Gibbethon.
1 Kings 15.28: 28 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha killed him, and reigned in his place.
1 Kings 15.29: 29 As soon as he was king, he struck all the house of Jeroboam. He didn’t leave to Jeroboam any who breathed, until he had destroyed him; according to the saying of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite;
1 Kings 15.30: 30 for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and with which he made Israel to sin, because of his provocation with which he provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger.
1 Kings 15.31: 31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1 Kings 15.32: 32 There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
1 Kings 15.33: 33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha the son of Ahijah began to reign over all Israel in Tirzah for twenty-four years.
1 Kings 15.34: 34 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.
1 Kings 16.0:
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1 Kings 16.1: 1 Yahweh’s word came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
1 Kings 16.2: 2 “Because I exalted you out of the dust, and made you prince over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;
1 Kings 16.3: 3 behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house; and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
1 Kings 16.4: 4 The dogs will eat Baasha’s descendants who die in the city; and he who dies of his in the field, the birds of the sky will eat.”
1 Kings 16.5: 5 Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1 Kings 16.6: 6 Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah; and Elah his son reigned in his place.
1 Kings 16.7: 7 Moreover Yahweh’s word came by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha and against his house, both because of all the evil that he did in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he struck him.
1 Kings 16.8: 8 In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha began to reign over Israel in Tirzah for two years.
1 Kings 16.9: 9 His servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah;
1 Kings 16.10: 10 and Zimri went in and struck him, and killed him, in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place.
1 Kings 16.11: 11 When he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, he attacked all the house of Baasha. He didn’t leave him a single one who urinates on a wall among his relatives or his friends.
1 Kings 16.12: 12 Thus Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,
1 Kings 16.13: 13 for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned, and with which they made Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.
1 Kings 16.14: 14 Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1 Kings 16.15: 15 In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.
1 Kings 16.16: 16 The people who were encamped heard that Zimri had conspired, and had also killed the king. Therefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp.
1 Kings 16.17: 17 Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.
1 Kings 16.18: 18 When Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the fortified part of the king’s house, and burned the king’s house over him with fire, and died,
1 Kings 16.19: 19 for his sins which he sinned in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin.
1 Kings 16.20: 20 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he committed, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1 Kings 16.21: 21 Then the people of Israel were divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri.
1 Kings 16.22: 22 But the people who followed Omri prevailed against the people who followed Tibni the son of Ginath; so Tibni died, and Omri reigned.
1 Kings 16.23: 23 In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri began to reign over Israel for twelve years. He reigned six years in Tirzah.
1 Kings 16.24: 24 He bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver; and he built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.
1 Kings 16.25: 25 Omri did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and dealt wickedly above all who were before him.
1 Kings 16.26: 26 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sins with which he made Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.
1 Kings 16.27: 27 Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he showed, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1 Kings 16.28: 28 So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria; and Ahab his son reigned in his place.
1 Kings 16.29: 29 In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel. Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.
1 Kings 16.30: 30 Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight above all that were before him.
1 Kings 16.31: 31 As if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.
1 Kings 16.32: 32 He raised up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.
1 Kings 16.33: 33 Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did more yet to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
1 Kings 16.34: 34 In his days Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho. He laid its foundation with the loss of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates with the loss of his youngest son Segub, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.
1 Kings 17.0:
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1 Kings 17.1: 1 Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”
1 Kings 17.2: 2 Then Yahweh’s word came to him, saying,
1 Kings 17.3: 3 “Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.
1 Kings 17.4: 4 You shall drink from the brook. I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”
1 Kings 17.5: 5 So he went and did according to Yahweh’s word; for he went and lived by the brook Cherith that is before the Jordan.
1 Kings 17.6: 6 The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook.
1 Kings 17.7: 7 After a while, the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
1 Kings 17.8: 8 Yahweh’s word came to him, saying,
1 Kings 17.9: 9 “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.”
1 Kings 17.10: 10 So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her, and said, “Please get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink.”
1 Kings 17.11: 11 As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”
1 Kings 17.12: 12 She said, “As Yahweh your God lives, I don’t have a cake, but a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”
1 Kings 17.13: 13 Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you have said; but make me a little cake from it first, and bring it out to me, and afterward make some for you and for your son.
1 Kings 17.14: 14 For Yahweh, the God of Israel says, ‘The jar of meal will not run out, and the jar of oil will not fail, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the earth.’”
1 Kings 17.15: 15 She went and did according to the saying of Elijah; and she, and he, and her house, ate many days.
1 Kings 17.16: 16 The jar of meal didn’t run out, and the jar of oil didn’t fail, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by Elijah.
1 Kings 17.17: 17 After these things, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.
1 Kings 17.18: 18 She said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!”
1 Kings 17.19: 19 He said to her, “Give me your son.” He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the room where he stayed, and laid him on his own bed.
1 Kings 17.20: 20 He cried to Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I am staying, by killing her son?”
1 Kings 17.21: 21 He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh my God, please let this child’s soul come into him again.”
1 Kings 17.22: 22 Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
1 Kings 17.23: 23 Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the room into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, “Behold, your son lives.”
1 Kings 17.24: 24 The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God, and that Yahweh’s word in your mouth is truth.”
1 Kings 18.0:
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1 Kings 18.1: 1 After many days, Yahweh’s word came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth.”
1 Kings 18.2: 2 Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria.
1 Kings 18.3: 3 Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Yahweh greatly;
1 Kings 18.4: 4 for when Jezebel cut off Yahweh’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
1 Kings 18.5: 5 Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals.”
1 Kings 18.6: 6 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
1 Kings 18.7: 7 As Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him. He recognized him, and fell on his face, and said, “Is it you, my lord Elijah?”
1 Kings 18.8: 8 He answered him, “It is I. Go, tell your lord, ‘Behold, Elijah is here!’”
1 Kings 18.9: 9 He said, “How have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?
1 Kings 18.10: 10 As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn’t find you.
1 Kings 18.11: 11 Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here.”’
1 Kings 18.12: 12 It will happen, as soon as I leave you, that Yahweh’s Spirit will carry you I don’t know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared Yahweh from my youth.
1 Kings 18.13: 13 Wasn’t it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed Yahweh’s prophets, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh’s prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
1 Kings 18.14: 14 Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here”.’ He will kill me.”
1 Kings 18.15: 15 Elijah said, “As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today.”
1 Kings 18.16: 16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
1 Kings 18.17: 17 When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?”
1 Kings 18.18: 18 He answered, “I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken Yahweh’s commandments, and you have followed the Baals.
1 Kings 18.19: 19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel, and four hundred fifty of the prophets of Baal, and four hundred of the prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”
1 Kings 18.20: 20 So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together to Mount Carmel.
1 Kings 18.21: 21 Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.”
The people didn’t say a word.
1 Kings 18.22: 22 Then Elijah said to the people, “I, even I only, am left as a prophet of Yahweh; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred fifty men.
1 Kings 18.23: 23 Let them therefore give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under; and I will dress the other bull, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under it.
1 Kings 18.24: 24 You call on the name of your god, and I will call on Yahweh’s name. The God who answers by fire, let him be God.”
All the people answered, “What you say is good.”
1 Kings 18.25: 25 Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one bull for yourselves, and dress it first; for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it.”
1 Kings 18.26: 26 They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, “Baal, hear us!” But there was no voice, and nobody answered. They leaped about the altar which was made.
1 Kings 18.27: 27 At noon, Elijah mocked them, and said, “Cry aloud; for he is a god. Either he is deep in thought, or he has gone somewhere, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened.”
1 Kings 18.28: 28 They cried aloud, and cut themselves in their way with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them.
1 Kings 18.29: 29 When midday was past, they prophesied until the time of the evening offering; but there was no voice, no answer, and nobody paid attention.
1 Kings 18.30: 30 Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me!”; and all the people came near to him. He repaired Yahweh’s altar that had been thrown down.
1 Kings 18.31: 31 Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom Yahweh’s word came, saying, “Israel shall be your name.”
1 Kings 18.32: 32 With the stones he built an altar in Yahweh’s name. He made a trench around the altar, large enough to contain two seahs of seed.
1 Kings 18.33: 33 He put the wood in order, and cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood. He said, “Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering, and on the wood.”
1 Kings 18.34: 34 He said, “Do it a second time;” and they did it the second time. He said, “Do it a third time;” and they did it the third time.
1 Kings 18.35: 35 The water ran around the altar; and he also filled the trench with water.
1 Kings 18.36: 36 At the time of the evening offering, Elijah the prophet came near, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.
1 Kings 18.37: 37 Hear me, Yahweh, hear me, that this people may know that you, Yahweh, are God, and that you have turned their heart back again.”
1 Kings 18.38: 38 Then Yahweh’s fire fell, and consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
1 Kings 18.39: 39 When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces. They said, “Yahweh, he is God! Yahweh, he is God!”
1 Kings 18.40: 40 Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let one of them escape!”
They seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.
1 Kings 18.41: 41 Elijah said to Ahab, “Get up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.”
1 Kings 18.42: 42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down on the earth, and put his face between his knees.
1 Kings 18.43: 43 He said to his servant, “Go up now, and look toward the sea.”
He went up, and looked, and said, “There is nothing.”
He said, “Go again” seven times.
1 Kings 18.44: 44 On the seventh time, he said, “Behold, a small cloud, like a man’s hand, is rising out of the sea.”
He said, “Go up, tell Ahab, ‘Get ready and go down, so that the rain doesn’t stop you.’”
1 Kings 18.45: 45 In a little while, the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.
1 Kings 18.46: 46 Yahweh’s hand was on Elijah; and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
1 Kings 19.0:
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1 Kings 19.1: 1 Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.
1 Kings 19.2: 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”
1 Kings 19.3: 3 When he saw that, he arose, and ran for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
1 Kings 19.4: 4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”
1 Kings 19.5: 5 He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, “Arise and eat!”
1 Kings 19.6: 6 He looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on the coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again.
1 Kings 19.7: 7 Yahweh’s angel came again the second time, and touched him, and said, “Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.”
1 Kings 19.8: 8 He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, God’s Mountain.
1 Kings 19.9: 9 He came to a cave there, and camped there; and behold, Yahweh’s word came to him, and he said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
1 Kings 19.10: 10 He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”
1 Kings 19.11: 11 He said, “Go out, and stand on the mountain before Yahweh.”
Behold, Yahweh passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before Yahweh; but Yahweh was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake; but Yahweh was not in the earthquake.
1 Kings 19.12: 12 After the earthquake a fire passed; but Yahweh was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a still small voice.
1 Kings 19.13: 13 When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle, went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. Behold, a voice came to him, and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
1 Kings 19.14: 14 He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”
1 Kings 19.15: 15 Yahweh said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. When you arrive, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.
1 Kings 19.16: 16 Anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi to be king over Israel; and anoint Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah to be prophet in your place.
1 Kings 19.17: 17 He who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and he who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill.
1 Kings 19.18: 18 Yet I reserved seven thousand in Israel, all the knees of which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him.”
1 Kings 19.19: 19 So he departed from there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. Elijah went over to him, and put his mantle on him.
1 Kings 19.20: 20 Elisha left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, “Let me please kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.”
He said to him, “Go back again; for what have I done to you?”
1 Kings 19.21: 21 He returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, and killed them, and boiled their meat with the instruments of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and served him.
1 Kings 20.0:
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1 Kings 20.1: 1 Ben Hadad the king of Syria gathered all his army together; and there were thirty-two kings with him, with horses and chariots. He went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it.
1 Kings 20.2: 2 He sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel, into the city, and said to him, “Ben Hadad says,
1 Kings 20.3: 3 ‘Your silver and your gold is mine. Your wives also and your children, even the best, are mine.’”
1 Kings 20.4: 4 The king of Israel answered, “It is according to your saying, my lord, O king. I am yours, and all that I have.”
1 Kings 20.5: 5 The messengers came again, and said, “Ben Hadad says, ‘I sent indeed to you, saying, “You shall deliver me your silver, and your gold, and your wives, and your children;
1 Kings 20.6: 6 but I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they will search your house, and the houses of your servants; whatever is pleasant in your eyes, they will put it in their hand, and take it away.”’”
1 Kings 20.7: 7 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, “Please notice how this man seeks mischief; for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I didn’t deny him.”
1 Kings 20.8: 8 All the elders and all the people said to him, “Don’t listen, and don’t consent.”
1 Kings 20.9: 9 Therefore he said to the messengers of Ben Hadad, “Tell my lord the king, ‘All that you sent for to your servant at the first I will do; but this thing I cannot do.’”
The messengers departed, and brought him back the message.
1 Kings 20.10: 10 Ben Hadad sent to him, and said, “The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria will be enough for handfuls for all the people who follow me.”
1 Kings 20.11: 11 The king of Israel answered, “Tell him, ‘Don’t let him who puts on his armor brag like he who takes it off.’”
1 Kings 20.12: 12 When Ben Hadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings, in the pavilions, he said to his servants, “Prepare to attack!” They prepared to attack the city.
1 Kings 20.13: 13 Behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will deliver it into your hand today. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.’”
1 Kings 20.14: 14 Ahab said, “By whom?”
He said, “Yahweh says, ‘By the young men of the princes of the provinces.’”
Then he said, “Who shall begin the battle?”
He answered, “You.”
1 Kings 20.15: 15 Then he mustered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty-two. After them, he mustered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.
1 Kings 20.16: 16 They went out at noon. But Ben Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped him.
1 Kings 20.17: 17 The young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben Hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, “Men are coming out from Samaria.”
1 Kings 20.18: 18 He said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive.”
1 Kings 20.19: 19 So these went out of the city, the young men of the princes of the provinces, and the army which followed them.
1 Kings 20.20: 20 They each killed his man. The Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them. Ben Hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen.
1 Kings 20.21: 21 The king of Israel went out, and struck the horses and chariots, and killed the Syrians with a great slaughter.
1 Kings 20.22: 22 The prophet came near to the king of Israel, and said to him, “Go, strengthen yourself, and mark, and see what you do; for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against you.”
1 Kings 20.23: 23 The servants of the king of Syria said to him, “Their god is a god of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we. But let’s fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they.
1 Kings 20.24: 24 Do this thing: take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their place.
1 Kings 20.25: 25 Muster an army, like the army that you have lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot. We will fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they are.”
He listened to their voice, and did so.
1 Kings 20.26: 26 At the return of the year, Ben Hadad mustered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.
1 Kings 20.27: 27 The children of Israel were mustered and given provisions, and went against them. The children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of young goats; but the Syrians filled the country.
1 Kings 20.28: 28 A man of God came near and spoke to the king of Israel, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘Because the Syrians have said, “Yahweh is a god of the hills, but he is not a god of the valleys;” therefore I will deliver all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am Yahweh.’”
1 Kings 20.29: 29 They encamped opposite each other for seven days. So it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined; and the children of Israel killed one hundred thousand footmen of the Syrians in one day.
1 Kings 20.30: 30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who were left. Ben Hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner room.
1 Kings 20.31: 31 His servants said to him, “See now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Please let us put sackcloth on our bodies, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel. Maybe he will save your life.”
1 Kings 20.32: 32 So they put sackcloth on their bodies and ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, “Your servant Ben Hadad says, ‘Please let me live.’”
He said, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.”
1 Kings 20.33: 33 Now the men observed diligently, and hurried to take this phrase; and they said, “Your brother Ben Hadad.”
Then he said, “Go, bring him.”
Then Ben Hadad came out to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.
1 Kings 20.34: 34 Ben Hadad said to him, “The cities which my father took from your father I will restore. You shall make streets for yourself in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria.”
“I”, said Ahab, “will let you go with this covenant.” So he made a covenant with him, and let him go.
1 Kings 20.35: 35 A certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow by Yahweh’s word, “Please strike me!”
The man refused to strike him.
1 Kings 20.36: 36 Then he said to him, “Because you have not obeyed Yahweh’s voice, behold, as soon as you have departed from me, a lion will kill you.” As soon as he had departed from him, a lion found him and killed him.
1 Kings 20.37: 37 Then he found another man, and said, “Please strike me.”
The man struck him and wounded him.
1 Kings 20.38: 38 So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with his headband over his eyes.
1 Kings 20.39: 39 As the king passed by, he cried to the king; and he said, “Your servant went out into the middle of the battle; and behold, a man came over, and brought a man to me, and said, ‘Guard this man! If by any means he is missing, then your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.’
1 Kings 20.40: 40 As your servant was busy here and there, he was gone.”
The king of Israel said to him, “So shall your judgment be. You yourself have decided it.”
1 Kings 20.41: 41 He hurried, and took the headband away from his eyes; and the king of Israel recognized that he was one of the prophets.
1 Kings 20.42: 42 He said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life will take the place of his life, and your people take the place of his people.’”
1 Kings 20.43: 43 The king of Israel went to his house sullen and angry, and came to Samaria.
1 Kings 21.0:
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1 Kings 21.1: 1 After these things, Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
1 Kings 21.2: 2 Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money.”
1 Kings 21.3: 3 Naboth said to Ahab, “May Yahweh forbid me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!”
1 Kings 21.4: 4 Ahab came into his house sullen and angry because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He laid himself down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
1 Kings 21.5: 5 But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, “Why is your spirit so sad, that you eat no bread?”
1 Kings 21.6: 6 He said to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it pleases you, I will give you another vineyard for it.’ He answered, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’”
1 Kings 21.7: 7 Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now govern the kingdom of Israel? Arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry. I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”
1 Kings 21.8: 8 So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, who lived with Naboth.
1 Kings 21.9: 9 She wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
1 Kings 21.10: 10 Set two men, wicked fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king!’ Then carry him out, and stone him to death.”
1 Kings 21.11: 11 The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had instructed them in the letters which she had written and sent to them.
1 Kings 21.12: 12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
1 Kings 21.13: 13 The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.
1 Kings 21.14: 14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned, and is dead.”
1 Kings 21.15: 15 When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned, and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, “Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.”
1 Kings 21.16: 16 When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
1 Kings 21.17: 17 Yahweh’s word came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
1 Kings 21.18: 18 “Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who dwells in Samaria. Behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone down to take possession of it.
1 Kings 21.19: 19 You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “Have you killed and also taken possession?”’ You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs will lick your blood, even yours.”’”
1 Kings 21.20: 20 Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?”
He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight.
1 Kings 21.21: 21 Behold, I will bring evil on you, and will utterly sweep you away and will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall, and him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel.
1 Kings 21.22: 22 I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah for the provocation with which you have provoked me to anger, and have made Israel to sin.”
1 Kings 21.23: 23 Yahweh also spoke of Jezebel, saying, “The dogs will eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel.
1 Kings 21.24: 24 The dogs will eat he who dies of Ahab in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat he who dies in the field.”
1 Kings 21.25: 25 But there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
1 Kings 21.26: 26 He did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.
1 Kings 21.27: 27 When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
1 Kings 21.28: 28 Yahweh’s word came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
1 Kings 21.29: 29 “See how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but I will bring the evil on his house in his son’s day.”
1 Kings 22.0:
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1 Kings 22.1: 1 They continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.
1 Kings 22.2: 2 In the third year, Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
1 Kings 22.3: 3 The king of Israel said to his servants, “You know that Ramoth Gilead is ours, and we do nothing, and don’t take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?”
1 Kings 22.4: 4 He said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to battle to Ramoth Gilead?”
Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”
1 Kings 22.5: 5 Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Please inquire first for Yahweh’s word.”
1 Kings 22.6: 6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Should I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or should I refrain?”
They said, “Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
1 Kings 22.7: 7 But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there here a prophet of Yahweh, that we may inquire of him?”
1 Kings 22.8: 8 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.”
Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”
1 Kings 22.9: 9 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, “Quickly get Micaiah the son of Imlah.”
1 Kings 22.10: 10 Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.
1 Kings 22.11: 11 Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made himself horns of iron, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘With these you will push the Syrians, until they are consumed.’”
1 Kings 22.12: 12 All the prophets prophesied so, saying, “Go up to Ramoth Gilead, and prosper; for Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
1 Kings 22.13: 13 The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, “See now, the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak good.”
1 Kings 22.14: 14 Micaiah said, “As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me, that I will speak.”
1 Kings 22.15: 15 When he had come to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall we forbear?”
He answered him, “Go up and prosper; and Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
1 Kings 22.16: 16 The king said to him, “How many times do I have to adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in Yahweh’s name?”
1 Kings 22.17: 17 He said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. Yahweh said, ‘These have no master. Let them each return to his house in peace.’”
1 Kings 22.18: 18 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?”
1 Kings 22.19: 19 Micaiah said, “Therefore hear Yahweh’s word. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
1 Kings 22.20: 20 Yahweh said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ One said one thing; and another said another.
1 Kings 22.21: 21 A spirit came out and stood before Yahweh, and said, ‘I will entice him.’
1 Kings 22.22: 22 Yahweh said to him, ‘How?’
He said, ‘I will go out and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’
He said, ‘You will entice him, and will also prevail. Go out and do so.’
1 Kings 22.23: 23 Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you.”
1 Kings 22.24: 24 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did Yahweh’s Spirit go from me to speak to you?”
1 Kings 22.25: 25 Micaiah said, “Behold, you will see on that day, when you go into an inner room to hide yourself.”
1 Kings 22.26: 26 The king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son.
1 Kings 22.27: 27 Say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.”’”
1 Kings 22.28: 28 Micaiah said, “If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me.” He said, “Listen, all you people!”
1 Kings 22.29: 29 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead.
1 Kings 22.30: 30 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but you put on your robes.” The king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.
1 Kings 22.31: 31 Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, “Don’t fight with small nor great, except only with the king of Israel.”
1 Kings 22.32: 32 When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “Surely that is the king of Israel!” and they came over to fight against him. Jehoshaphat cried out.
1 Kings 22.33: 33 When the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.
1 Kings 22.34: 34 A certain man drew his bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn your hand, and carry me out of the battle; for I am severely wounded.”
1 Kings 22.35: 35 The battle increased that day. The king was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians, and died at evening. The blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the chariot.
1 Kings 22.36: 36 A cry went throughout the army about the going down of the sun, saying, “Every man to his city, and every man to his country!”
1 Kings 22.37: 37 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.
1 Kings 22.38: 38 They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood where the prostitutes washed themselves; according to Yahweh’s word which he spoke.
1 Kings 22.39: 39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1 Kings 22.40: 40 So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.
1 Kings 22.41: 41 Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
1 Kings 22.42: 42 Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
1 Kings 22.43: 43 He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He didn’t turn away from it, doing that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes. However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
1 Kings 22.44: 44 Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
1 Kings 22.45: 45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he fought, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
1 Kings 22.46: 46 The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.
1 Kings 22.47: 47 There was no king in Edom. A deputy ruled.
1 Kings 22.48: 48 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they didn’t go; for the ships wrecked at Ezion Geber.
1 Kings 22.49: 49 Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants go with your servants in the ships.” But Jehoshaphat would not.
1 Kings 22.50: 50 Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in his father David’s city. Jehoram his son reigned in his place.
1 Kings 22.51: 51 Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel.
1 Kings 22.52: 52 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, in which he made Israel to sin.
1 Kings 22.53: 53 He served Baal and worshiped him, and provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger in all the ways that his father had done so.
1 Chronicles 0.0:
The First Book of Chronicles
1 Chronicles 1.0:
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1 Chronicles 1.1: 1 Adam, Seth, Enosh,
1 Chronicles 1.2: 2 Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,
1 Chronicles 1.3: 3 Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech,
1 Chronicles 1.4: 4 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
1 Chronicles 1.5: 5 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
1 Chronicles 1.6: 6 The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Diphath, and Togarmah.
1 Chronicles 1.7: 7 The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
1 Chronicles 1.8: 8 The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
1 Chronicles 1.9: 9 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama, Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
1 Chronicles 1.10: 10 Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.
1 Chronicles 1.11: 11 Mizraim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
1 Chronicles 1.12: 12 Pathrusim, Casluhim (where the Philistines came from), and Caphtorim.
1 Chronicles 1.13: 13 Canaan became the father of Sidon his firstborn, Heth,
1 Chronicles 1.14: 14 the Jebusite, and the Amorite, the Girgashite,
1 Chronicles 1.15: 15 the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite,
1 Chronicles 1.16: 16 the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.
1 Chronicles 1.17: 17 The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.
1 Chronicles 1.18: 18 Arpachshad became the father of Shelah, and Shelah became the father of Eber.
1 Chronicles 1.19: 19 To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.
1 Chronicles 1.20: 20 Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
1 Chronicles 1.21: 21 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
1 Chronicles 1.22: 22 Ebal, Abimael, Sheba,
1 Chronicles 1.23: 23 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
1 Chronicles 1.24: 24 Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah,
1 Chronicles 1.25: 25 Eber, Peleg, Reu,
1 Chronicles 1.26: 26 Serug, Nahor, Terah,
1 Chronicles 1.27: 27 Abram (also called Abraham).
1 Chronicles 1.28: 28 The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael.
1 Chronicles 1.29: 29 These are their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
1 Chronicles 1.30: 30 Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema,
1 Chronicles 1.31: 31 Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.
1 Chronicles 1.32: 32 The sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bore Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.
1 Chronicles 1.33: 33 The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah.
1 Chronicles 1.34: 34 Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.
1 Chronicles 1.35: 35 The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
1 Chronicles 1.36: 36 The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, Omar, Zephi, Gatam, Kenaz, Timna, and Amalek.
1 Chronicles 1.37: 37 The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
1 Chronicles 1.38: 38 The sons of Seir: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.
1 Chronicles 1.39: 39 The sons of Lotan: Hori and Homam; and Timna was Lotan’s sister.
1 Chronicles 1.40: 40 The sons of Shobal: Alian, Manahath, Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. The sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah.
1 Chronicles 1.41: 41 The son of Anah: Dishon. The sons of Dishon: Hamran, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.
1 Chronicles 1.42: 42 The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Jaakan. The sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.
1 Chronicles 1.43: 43 Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children of Israel: Bela the son of Beor; and the name of his city was Dinhabah.
1 Chronicles 1.44: 44 Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his place.
1 Chronicles 1.45: 45 Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.
1 Chronicles 1.46: 46 Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Avith.
1 Chronicles 1.47: 47 Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.
1 Chronicles 1.48: 48 Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the River reigned in his place.
1 Chronicles 1.49: 49 Shaul died, and Baal Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his place.
1 Chronicles 1.50: 50 Baal Hanan died, and Hadad reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Pai: and his wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
1 Chronicles 1.51: 51 Then Hadad died. The chiefs of Edom were: chief Timna, chief Aliah, chief Jetheth,
1 Chronicles 1.52: 52 chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon,
1 Chronicles 1.53: 53 chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,
1 Chronicles 1.54: 54 chief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom.
1 Chronicles 2.0:
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1 Chronicles 2.1: 1 These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,
1 Chronicles 2.2: 2 Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
1 Chronicles 2.3: 3 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah; which three were born to him of Shua’s daughter the Canaanitess. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in Yahweh’s sight; and he killed him.
1 Chronicles 2.4: 4 Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.
1 Chronicles 2.5: 5 The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
1 Chronicles 2.6: 6 The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara; five of them in all.
1 Chronicles 2.7: 7 The son of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who committed a trespass in the devoted thing.
1 Chronicles 2.8: 8 The son of Ethan: Azariah.
1 Chronicles 2.9: 9 The sons also of Hezron, who were born to him: Jerahmeel, Ram, and Chelubai.
1 Chronicles 2.10: 10 Ram became the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah;
1 Chronicles 2.11: 11 and Nahshon became the father of Salma, and Salma became the father of Boaz,
1 Chronicles 2.12: 12 and Boaz became the father of Obed, and Obed became the father of Jesse;
1 Chronicles 2.13: 13 and Jesse became the father of his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third,
1 Chronicles 2.14: 14 Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,
1 Chronicles 2.15: 15 Ozem the sixth, David the seventh;
1 Chronicles 2.16: 16 and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three.
1 Chronicles 2.17: 17 Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
1 Chronicles 2.18: 18 Caleb the son of Hezron became the father of children of Azubah his wife, and of Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.
1 Chronicles 2.19: 19 Azubah died, and Caleb married Ephrath, who bore him Hur.
1 Chronicles 2.20: 20 Hur became the father of Uri, and Uri became the father of Bezalel.
1 Chronicles 2.21: 21 Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he took as wife when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub.
1 Chronicles 2.22: 22 Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
1 Chronicles 2.23: 23 Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and its villages, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.
1 Chronicles 2.24: 24 After Hezron died in Caleb Ephrathah, Abijah Hezron’s wife bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.
1 Chronicles 2.25: 25 The sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were Ram the firstborn, Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah.
1 Chronicles 2.26: 26 Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah. She was the mother of Onam.
1 Chronicles 2.27: 27 The sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were Maaz, Jamin, and Eker.
1 Chronicles 2.28: 28 The sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada. The sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur.
1 Chronicles 2.29: 29 The name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail; and she bore him Ahban and Molid.
1 Chronicles 2.30: 30 The sons of Nadab: Seled and Appaim; but Seled died without children.
1 Chronicles 2.31: 31 The son of Appaim: Ishi. The son of Ishi: Sheshan. The son of Sheshan: Ahlai.
1 Chronicles 2.32: 32 The sons of Jada the brother of Shammai: Jether and Jonathan; and Jether died without children.
1 Chronicles 2.33: 33 The sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.
1 Chronicles 2.34: 34 Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.
1 Chronicles 2.35: 35 Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant as wife; and she bore him Attai.
1 Chronicles 2.36: 36 Attai became the father of Nathan, and Nathan became the father of Zabad,
1 Chronicles 2.37: 37 and Zabad became the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal became the father of Obed,
1 Chronicles 2.38: 38 and Obed became the father of Jehu, and Jehu became the father of Azariah,
1 Chronicles 2.39: 39 and Azariah became the father of Helez, and Helez became the father of Eleasah,
1 Chronicles 2.40: 40 and Eleasah became the father of Sismai, and Sismai became the father of Shallum,
1 Chronicles 2.41: 41 and Shallum became the father of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah became the father of Elishama.
1 Chronicles 2.42: 42 The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.
1 Chronicles 2.43: 43 The sons of Hebron: Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema.
1 Chronicles 2.44: 44 Shema became the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem became the father of Shammai.
1 Chronicles 2.45: 45 The son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth Zur.
1 Chronicles 2.46: 46 Ephah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Haran, Moza, and Gazez; and Haran became the father of Gazez.
1 Chronicles 2.47: 47 The sons of Jahdai: Regem, Jothan, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph.
1 Chronicles 2.48: 48 Maacah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah.
1 Chronicles 2.49: 49 She bore also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena, and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.
1 Chronicles 2.50: 50 These were the sons of Caleb, the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim,
1 Chronicles 2.51: 51 Salma the father of Bethlehem, and Hareph the father of Beth Gader.
1 Chronicles 2.52: 52 Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth.
1 Chronicles 2.53: 53 The families of Kiriath Jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; from them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.
1 Chronicles 2.54: 54 The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth Beth Joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.
1 Chronicles 2.55: 55 The families of scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.
1 Chronicles 3.0:
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1 Chronicles 3.1: 1 Now these were the sons of David, who were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second, Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess;
1 Chronicles 3.2: 2 the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith;
1 Chronicles 3.3: 3 the fifth, Shephatiah of Abital; the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife:
1 Chronicles 3.4: 4 six were born to him in Hebron; and he reigned there seven years and six months. He reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem;
1 Chronicles 3.5: 5 and these were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel;
1 Chronicles 3.6: 6 and Ibhar, Elishama, Eliphelet,
1 Chronicles 3.7: 7 Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia,
1 Chronicles 3.8: 8 Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.
1 Chronicles 3.9: 9 All these were the sons of David, in addition to the sons of the concubines; and Tamar was their sister.
1 Chronicles 3.10: 10 Solomon’s son was Rehoboam, Abijah his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,
1 Chronicles 3.11: 11 Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,
1 Chronicles 3.12: 12 Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,
1 Chronicles 3.13: 13 Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,
1 Chronicles 3.14: 14 Amon his son, and Josiah his son.
1 Chronicles 3.15: 15 The sons of Josiah: the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, and the fourth Shallum.
1 Chronicles 3.16: 16 The sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, and Zedekiah his son.
1 Chronicles 3.17: 17 The sons of Jeconiah, the captive: Shealtiel his son,
1 Chronicles 3.18: 18 Malchiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.
1 Chronicles 3.19: 19 The sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei. The sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam and Hananiah; and Shelomith was their sister;
1 Chronicles 3.20: 20 and Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah, and Jushab Hesed, five.
1 Chronicles 3.21: 21 The sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah and Jeshaiah; the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shecaniah.
1 Chronicles 3.22: 22 The son of Shecaniah: Shemaiah. The sons of Shemaiah: Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah, and Shaphat, six.
1 Chronicles 3.23: 23 The sons of Neariah: Elioenai, Hizkiah, and Azrikam, three.
1 Chronicles 3.24: 24 The sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah, and Anani, seven.
1 Chronicles 4.0:
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1 Chronicles 4.1: 1 The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal.
1 Chronicles 4.2: 2 Reaiah the son of Shobal became the father of Jahath; and Jahath became the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.
1 Chronicles 4.3: 3 These were the sons of the father of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash. The name of their sister was Hazzelelponi.
1 Chronicles 4.4: 4 Penuel was the father of Gedor and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem.
1 Chronicles 4.5: 5 Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
1 Chronicles 4.6: 6 Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.
1 Chronicles 4.7: 7 The sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.
1 Chronicles 4.8: 8 Hakkoz became the father of Anub, Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.
1 Chronicles 4.9: 9 Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him with sorrow.”
1 Chronicles 4.10: 10 Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border! May your hand be with me, and may you keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!”
God granted him that which he requested.
1 Chronicles 4.11: 11 Chelub the brother of Shuhah became the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.
1 Chronicles 4.12: 12 Eshton became the father of Beth Rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir Nahash. These are the men of Recah.
1 Chronicles 4.13: 13 The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath.
1 Chronicles 4.14: 14 Meonothai became the father of Ophrah: and Seraiah became the father of Joab the father of Ge Harashim; for they were craftsmen.
1 Chronicles 4.15: 15 The sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam. The son of Elah: Kenaz.
1 Chronicles 4.16: 16 The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel.
1 Chronicles 4.17: 17 The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon; and she bore Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.
1 Chronicles 4.18: 18 His wife the Jewess bore Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. These are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took.
1 Chronicles 4.19: 19 The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.
1 Chronicles 4.20: 20 The sons of Shimon: Amnon, Rinnah, Ben Hanan, and Tilon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth, and Ben Zoheth.
1 Chronicles 4.21: 21 The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of those who worked fine linen, of the house of Ashbea;
1 Chronicles 4.22: 22 and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. These records are ancient.
1 Chronicles 4.23: 23 These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah: they lived there with the king for his work.
1 Chronicles 4.24: 24 The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul;
1 Chronicles 4.25: 25 Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, and Mishma his son.
1 Chronicles 4.26: 26 The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.
1 Chronicles 4.27: 27 Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers didn’t have many children, and all their family didn’t multiply like the children of Judah.
1 Chronicles 4.28: 28 They lived at Beersheba, Moladah, Hazarshual,
1 Chronicles 4.29: 29 at Bilhah, at Ezem, at Tolad,
1 Chronicles 4.30: 30 at Bethuel, at Hormah, at Ziklag,
1 Chronicles 4.31: 31 at Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susim, at Beth Biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities until David’s reign.
1 Chronicles 4.32: 32 Their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, five cities;
1 Chronicles 4.33: 33 and all their villages that were around the same cities, to Baal. These were their settlements, and they have their genealogy.
1 Chronicles 4.34: 34 Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah the son of Amaziah,
1 Chronicles 4.35: 35 Joel, Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,
1 Chronicles 4.36: 36 Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah,
1 Chronicles 4.37: 37 and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah—
1 Chronicles 4.38: 38 these mentioned by name were princes in their families. Their fathers’ houses increased greatly.
1 Chronicles 4.39: 39 They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
1 Chronicles 4.40: 40 They found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceful; for those who lived there before were descended from Ham.
1 Chronicles 4.41: 41 These written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and struck their tents. The Meunim who were found there, and they destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place; because there was pasture there for their flocks.
1 Chronicles 4.42: 42 Some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to Mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.
1 Chronicles 4.43: 43 They struck the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped, and have lived there to this day.
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1 Chronicles 5.1: 1 The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father’s couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be listed according to the birthright.
1 Chronicles 5.2: 2 For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and from him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph’s)—
1 Chronicles 5.3: 3 the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
1 Chronicles 5.4: 4 The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,
1 Chronicles 5.5: 5 Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son,
1 Chronicles 5.6: 6 and Beerah his son, whom Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria carried away captive. He was prince of the Reubenites.
1 Chronicles 5.7: 7 His brothers by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was listed: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,
1 Chronicles 5.8: 8 and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who lived in Aroer, even to Nebo and Baal Meon;
1 Chronicles 5.9: 9 and he lived eastward even to the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their livestock were multiplied in the land of Gilead.
1 Chronicles 5.10: 10 In the days of Saul, they made war with the Hagrites, who fell by their hand; and they lived in their tents throughout all the land east of Gilead.
1 Chronicles 5.11: 11 The sons of Gad lived beside them, in the land of Bashan to Salecah:
1 Chronicles 5.12: 12 Joel the chief, Shapham the second, Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan.
1 Chronicles 5.13: 13 Their brothers of their fathers’ houses: Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia, and Eber, seven.
1 Chronicles 5.14: 14 These were the sons of Abihail, the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz;
1 Chronicles 5.15: 15 Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of their fathers’ houses.
1 Chronicles 5.16: 16 They lived in Gilead in Bashan, and in its towns, and in all the pasture lands of Sharon, as far as their borders.
1 Chronicles 5.17: 17 All these were listed by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.
1 Chronicles 5.18: 18 The sons of Reuben, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were forty-four thousand seven hundred sixty, that were able to go out to war.
1 Chronicles 5.19: 19 They made war with the Hagrites, with Jetur, and Naphish, and Nodab.
1 Chronicles 5.20: 20 They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he answered them, because they put their trust in him.
1 Chronicles 5.21: 21 They took away their livestock; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred fifty thousand, and of donkeys two thousand, and of men one hundred thousand.
1 Chronicles 5.22: 22 For many fell slain, because the war was of God. They lived in their place until the captivity.
1 Chronicles 5.23: 23 The children of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land: they increased from Bashan to Baal Hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon.
1 Chronicles 5.24: 24 These were the heads of their fathers’ houses: even Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valor, famous men, heads of their fathers’ houses.
1 Chronicles 5.25: 25 They trespassed against the God of their fathers, and played the prostitute after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
1 Chronicles 5.26: 26 So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this day.
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1 Chronicles 6.1: 1 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
1 Chronicles 6.2: 2 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
1 Chronicles 6.3: 3 The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
1 Chronicles 6.4: 4 Eleazar became the father of Phinehas, Phinehas became the father of Abishua,
1 Chronicles 6.5: 5 Abishua became the father of Bukki. Bukki became the father of Uzzi.
1 Chronicles 6.6: 6 Uzzi became the father of Zerahiah. Zerahiah became the father of Meraioth.
1 Chronicles 6.7: 7 Meraioth became the father of Amariah. Amariah became the father of Ahitub.
1 Chronicles 6.8: 8 Ahitub became the father of Zadok. Zadok became the father of Ahimaaz.
1 Chronicles 6.9: 9 Ahimaaz became the father of Azariah. Azariah became the father of Johanan.
1 Chronicles 6.10: 10 Johanan became the father of Azariah, who executed the priest’s office in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 6.11: 11 Azariah became the father of Amariah. Amariah became the father of Ahitub.
1 Chronicles 6.12: 12 Ahitub became the father of Zadok. Zadok became the father of Shallum.
1 Chronicles 6.13: 13 Shallum became the father of Hilkiah. Hilkiah became the father of Azariah.
1 Chronicles 6.14: 14 Azariah became the father of Seraiah. Seraiah became the father of Jehozadak.
1 Chronicles 6.15: 15 Jehozadak went into captivity, when Yahweh carried Judah and Jerusalem away by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.
1 Chronicles 6.16: 16 The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
1 Chronicles 6.17: 17 These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.
1 Chronicles 6.18: 18 The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
1 Chronicles 6.19: 19 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ households.
1 Chronicles 6.20: 20 Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,
1 Chronicles 6.21: 21 Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, and Jeatherai his son.
1 Chronicles 6.22: 22 The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,
1 Chronicles 6.23: 23 Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, Assir his son,
1 Chronicles 6.24: 24 Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son.
1 Chronicles 6.25: 25 The sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth.
1 Chronicles 6.26: 26 As for Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah: Zophai his son, Nahath his son,
1 Chronicles 6.27: 27 Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, and Elkanah his son.
1 Chronicles 6.28: 28 The sons of Samuel: the firstborn, Joel, and the second, Abijah.
1 Chronicles 6.29: 29 The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son,
1 Chronicles 6.30: 30 Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.
1 Chronicles 6.31: 31 These are they whom David set over the service of song in Yahweh’s house, after the ark came to rest there.
1 Chronicles 6.32: 32 They ministered with song before the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, until Solomon had built Yahweh’s house in Jerusalem. They performed the duties of their office according to their order.
1 Chronicles 6.33: 33 These are those who served, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,
1 Chronicles 6.34: 34 the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
1 Chronicles 6.35: 35 the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,
1 Chronicles 6.36: 36 the son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,
1 Chronicles 6.37: 37 the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,
1 Chronicles 6.38: 38 the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.
1 Chronicles 6.39: 39 His brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea,
1 Chronicles 6.40: 40 the son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchijah,
1 Chronicles 6.41: 41 the son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,
1 Chronicles 6.42: 42 the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
1 Chronicles 6.43: 43 the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
1 Chronicles 6.44: 44 On the left hand their brothers the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,
1 Chronicles 6.45: 45 the son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah,
1 Chronicles 6.46: 46 the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer,
1 Chronicles 6.47: 47 the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.
1 Chronicles 6.48: 48 Their brothers the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of God’s house.
1 Chronicles 6.49: 49 But Aaron and his sons offered on the altar of burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
1 Chronicles 6.50: 50 These are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,
1 Chronicles 6.51: 51 Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son,
1 Chronicles 6.52: 52 Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
1 Chronicles 6.53: 53 Zadok his son, and Ahimaaz his son.
1 Chronicles 6.54: 54 Now these are their dwelling places according to their encampments in their borders: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites (for theirs was the first lot),
1 Chronicles 6.55: 55 to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and its pasture lands around it;
1 Chronicles 6.56: 56 but the fields of the city, and its villages, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
1 Chronicles 6.57: 57 To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge, Hebron; Libnah also with its pasture lands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasture lands,
1 Chronicles 6.58: 58 Hilen with its pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands,
1 Chronicles 6.59: 59 Ashan with its pasture lands, and Beth Shemesh with its pasture lands;
1 Chronicles 6.60: 60 and out of the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its pasture lands, Allemeth with its pasture lands, and Anathoth with its pasture lands. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.
1 Chronicles 6.61: 61 To the rest of the sons of Kohath were given by lot, out of the family of the tribe, out of the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities.
1 Chronicles 6.62: 62 To the sons of Gershom, according to their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
1 Chronicles 6.63: 63 To the sons of Merari were given by lot, according to their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
1 Chronicles 6.64: 64 The children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their pasture lands.
1 Chronicles 6.65: 65 They gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities which are mentioned by name.
1 Chronicles 6.66: 66 Some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their borders out of the tribe of Ephraim.
1 Chronicles 6.67: 67 They gave to them the cities of refuge, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim with its pasture lands, and Gezer with its pasture lands,
1 Chronicles 6.68: 68 Jokmeam with its pasture lands, Beth Horon with its pasture lands,
1 Chronicles 6.69: 69 Aijalon with its pasture lands, Gath Rimmon with its pasture lands;
1 Chronicles 6.70: 70 and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its pasture lands, and Bileam with its pasture lands, for the rest of the family of the sons of Kohath.
1 Chronicles 6.71: 71 To the sons of Gershom were given, out of the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its pasture lands, and Ashtaroth with its pasture lands;
1 Chronicles 6.72: 72 and out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with its pasture lands, Daberath with its pasture lands,
1 Chronicles 6.73: 73 Ramoth with its pasture lands, and Anem with its pasture lands;
1 Chronicles 6.74: 74 and out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its pasture lands, Abdon with its pasture lands,
1 Chronicles 6.75: 75 Hukok with its pasture lands, and Rehob with its pasture lands;
1 Chronicles 6.76: 76 and out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its pasture lands, Hammon with its pasture lands, and Kiriathaim with its pasture lands.
1 Chronicles 6.77: 77 To the rest of the Levites, the sons of Merari, were given, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with its pasture lands, Tabor with its pasture lands;
1 Chronicles 6.78: 78 and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, were given them, out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with its pasture lands, and Jahzah with its pasture lands,
1 Chronicles 6.79: 79 Kedemoth with its pasture lands, and Mephaath with its pasture lands;
1 Chronicles 6.80: 80 and out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its pasture lands, Mahanaim with its pasture lands,
1 Chronicles 6.81: 81 Heshbon with its pasture lands, and Jazer with its pasture lands.
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1 Chronicles 7.1: 1 Of the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.
1 Chronicles 7.2: 2 The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers’ houses, of Tola; mighty men of valor in their generations. Their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred.
1 Chronicles 7.3: 3 The son of Uzzi: Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah, five; all of them chief men.
1 Chronicles 7.4: 4 With them, by their generations, after their fathers’ houses, were bands of the army for war, thirty-six thousand; for they had many wives and sons.
1 Chronicles 7.5: 5 Their brothers among all the families of Issachar, mighty men of valor, listed in all by genealogy, were eighty-seven thousand.
1 Chronicles 7.6: 6 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael, three.
1 Chronicles 7.7: 7 The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor; and they were listed by genealogy twenty-two thousand thirty-four.
1 Chronicles 7.8: 8 The sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.
1 Chronicles 7.9: 9 They were listed by genealogy, after their generations, heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor, twenty thousand two hundred.
1 Chronicles 7.10: 10 The son of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.
1 Chronicles 7.11: 11 All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers’ households, mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand two hundred, who were able to go out in the army for war.
1 Chronicles 7.12: 12 So were Shuppim, Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, and the sons of Aher.
1 Chronicles 7.13: 13 The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, Shallum, and the sons of Bilhah.
1 Chronicles 7.14: 14 The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his concubine the Aramitess bore. She bore Machir the father of Gilead.
1 Chronicles 7.15: 15 Machir took a wife of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister’s name was Maacah. The name of the second was Zelophehad; and Zelophehad had daughters.
1 Chronicles 7.16: 16 Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she named him Peresh. The name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.
1 Chronicles 7.17: 17 The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.
1 Chronicles 7.18: 18 His sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.
1 Chronicles 7.19: 19 The sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.
1 Chronicles 7.20: 20 The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son,
1 Chronicles 7.21: 21 Zabad his son, Shuthelah his son, Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath who were born in the land killed, because they came down to take away their livestock.
1 Chronicles 7.22: 22 Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.
1 Chronicles 7.23: 23 He went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he named him Beriah, because there was trouble with his house.
1 Chronicles 7.24: 24 His daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth Horon the lower and the upper, and Uzzen Sheerah.
1 Chronicles 7.25: 25 Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, Tahan his son,
1 Chronicles 7.26: 26 Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,
1 Chronicles 7.27: 27 Nun his son, and Joshua his son.
1 Chronicles 7.28: 28 Their possessions and settlements were Bethel and its towns, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with its towns; Shechem also and its towns, to Azzah and its towns;
1 Chronicles 7.29: 29 and by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth Shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, and Dor and its towns. The children of Joseph the son of Israel lived in these.
1 Chronicles 7.30: 30 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah. Serah was their sister.
1 Chronicles 7.31: 31 The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.
1 Chronicles 7.32: 32 Heber became the father of Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and Shua their sister.
1 Chronicles 7.33: 33 The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet.
1 Chronicles 7.34: 34 The sons of Shemer: Ahi, Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.
1 Chronicles 7.35: 35 The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.
1 Chronicles 7.36: 36 The sons of Zophah: Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah,
1 Chronicles 7.37: 37 Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera.
1 Chronicles 7.38: 38 The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, Pispa, and Ara.
1 Chronicles 7.39: 39 The sons of Ulla: Arah, Hanniel, and Rizia.
1 Chronicles 7.40: 40 All these were the children of Asher, heads of the fathers’ houses, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. The number of them listed by genealogy for service in war was twenty-six thousand men.
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1 Chronicles 8.1: 1 Benjamin became the father of Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, Aharah the third,
1 Chronicles 8.2: 2 Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.
1 Chronicles 8.3: 3 Bela had sons: Addar, Gera, Abihud,
1 Chronicles 8.4: 4 Abishua, Naaman, Ahoah,
1 Chronicles 8.5: 5 Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram.
1 Chronicles 8.6: 6 These are the sons of Ehud. These are the heads of fathers’ households of the inhabitants of Geba, who were carried captive to Manahath:
1 Chronicles 8.7: 7 Naaman, Ahijah, and Gera, who carried them captive; and he became the father of Uzza and Ahihud.
1 Chronicles 8.8: 8 Shaharaim became the father of children in the field of Moab, after he had sent them away. Hushim and Baara were his wives.
1 Chronicles 8.9: 9 By Hodesh his wife, he became the father of Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, Malcam,
1 Chronicles 8.10: 10 Jeuz, Shachia, and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of fathers’ households.
1 Chronicles 8.11: 11 By Hushim, he became the father of Abitub and Elpaal.
1 Chronicles 8.12: 12 The sons of Elpaal: Eber, Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod, with its towns;
1 Chronicles 8.13: 13 and Beriah, and Shema, who were heads of fathers’ households of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who put to flight the inhabitants of Gath;
1 Chronicles 8.14: 14 and Ahio, Shashak, Jeremoth,
1 Chronicles 8.15: 15 Zebadiah, Arad, Eder,
1 Chronicles 8.16: 16 Michael, Ishpah, Joha, the sons of Beriah,
1 Chronicles 8.17: 17 Zebadiah, Meshullam, Hizki, Heber,
1 Chronicles 8.18: 18 Ishmerai, Izliah, Jobab, the sons of Elpaal,
1 Chronicles 8.19: 19 Jakim, Zichri, Zabdi,
1 Chronicles 8.20: 20 Elienai, Zillethai, Eliel,
1 Chronicles 8.21: 21 Adaiah, Beraiah, Shimrath, the sons of Shimei,
1 Chronicles 8.22: 22 Ishpan, Eber, Eliel,
1 Chronicles 8.23: 23 Abdon, Zichri, Hanan,
1 Chronicles 8.24: 24 Hananiah, Elam, Anthothijah,
1 Chronicles 8.25: 25 Iphdeiah, Penuel, the sons of Shashak,
1 Chronicles 8.26: 26 Shamsherai, Shehariah, Athaliah,
1 Chronicles 8.27: 27 Jaareshiah, Elijah, Zichri, and the sons of Jeroham.
1 Chronicles 8.28: 28 These were heads of fathers’ households throughout their generations, chief men. These lived in Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 8.29: 29 The father of Gibeon, whose wife’s name was Maacah, lived in Gibeon,
1 Chronicles 8.30: 30 with his firstborn son Abdon, Zur, Kish, Baal, Nadab,
1 Chronicles 8.31: 31 Gedor, Ahio, and Zecher.
1 Chronicles 8.32: 32 Mikloth became the father of Shimeah. They also lived with their brothers in Jerusalem, near their brothers.
1 Chronicles 8.33: 33 Ner became the father of Kish. Kish became the father of Saul. Saul became the father of Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
1 Chronicles 8.34: 34 The son of Jonathan was Merib Baal. Merib Baal became the father of Micah.
1 Chronicles 8.35: 35 The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tarea, and Ahaz.
1 Chronicles 8.36: 36 Ahaz became the father of Jehoaddah. Jehoaddah became the father of Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri. Zimri became the father of Moza.
1 Chronicles 8.37: 37 Moza became the father of Binea. Raphah was his son, Eleasah his son, and Azel his son.
1 Chronicles 8.38: 38 Azel had six sons, whose names are these: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.
1 Chronicles 8.39: 39 The sons of Eshek his brother: Ulam his firstborn, Jeush the second, and Eliphelet the third.
1 Chronicles 8.40: 40 The sons of Ulam were mighty men of valor, archers, and had many sons, and sons’ sons, one hundred fifty. All these were of the sons of Benjamin.
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1 Chronicles 9.1: 1 So all Israel were listed by genealogies; and behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel. Judah was carried away captive to Babylon for their disobedience.
1 Chronicles 9.2: 2 Now the first inhabitants who lived in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants.
1 Chronicles 9.3: 3 In Jerusalem lived of the children of Judah, of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim and Manasseh:
1 Chronicles 9.4: 4 Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Perez the son of Judah.
1 Chronicles 9.5: 5 Of the Shilonites: Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons.
1 Chronicles 9.6: 6 Of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel and their brothers, six hundred ninety.
1 Chronicles 9.7: 7 Of the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah, the son of Hassenuah,
1 Chronicles 9.8: 8 and Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, and Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;
1 Chronicles 9.9: 9 and their brothers, according to their generations, nine hundred fifty-six. All these men were heads of fathers’ households by their fathers’ houses.
1 Chronicles 9.10: 10 Of the priests: Jedaiah, Jehoiarib, Jachin,
1 Chronicles 9.11: 11 and Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of God’s house;
1 Chronicles 9.12: 12 and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;
1 Chronicles 9.13: 13 and their brothers, heads of their fathers’ houses, one thousand seven hundred sixty; very able men for the work of the service of God’s house.
1 Chronicles 9.14: 14 Of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;
1 Chronicles 9.15: 15 and Bakbakkar, Heresh, Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph,
1 Chronicles 9.16: 16 and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.
1 Chronicles 9.17: 17 The gatekeepers: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their brothers (Shallum was the chief),
1 Chronicles 9.18: 18 who previously served in the king’s gate eastward. They were the gatekeepers for the camp of the children of Levi.
1 Chronicles 9.19: 19 Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers, of his father’s house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent. Their fathers had been over Yahweh’s camp, keepers of the entry.
1 Chronicles 9.20: 20 Phinehas the son of Eleazar was ruler over them in time past, and Yahweh was with him.
1 Chronicles 9.21: 21 Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was gatekeeper of the door of the Tent of Meeting.
1 Chronicles 9.22: 22 All these who were chosen to be gatekeepers in the thresholds were two hundred twelve. These were listed by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer ordained in their office of trust.
1 Chronicles 9.23: 23 So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of Yahweh’s house, even the house of the tent, as guards.
1 Chronicles 9.24: 24 On the four sides were the gatekeepers, toward the east, west, north, and south.
1 Chronicles 9.25: 25 Their brothers, in their villages, were to come in every seven days from time to time to be with them:
1 Chronicles 9.26: 26 for the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the rooms and over the treasuries in God’s house.
1 Chronicles 9.27: 27 They stayed around God’s house, because that duty was on them; and to their duty was its opening morning by morning.
1 Chronicles 9.28: 28 Certain of them were in charge of the vessels of service; for these were brought in by count, and these were taken out by count.
1 Chronicles 9.29: 29 Some of them also were appointed over the furniture, and over all the vessels of the sanctuary, over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the frankincense, and the spices.
1 Chronicles 9.30: 30 Some of the sons of the priests prepared the mixing of the spices.
1 Chronicles 9.31: 31 Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the office of trust over the things that were baked in pans.
1 Chronicles 9.32: 32 Some of their brothers, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the show bread, to prepare it every Sabbath.
1 Chronicles 9.33: 33 These are the singers, heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, who lived in the rooms and were free from other service; for they were employed in their work day and night.
1 Chronicles 9.34: 34 These were heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, throughout their generations, chief men. These lived at Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 9.35: 35 Jeiel the father of Gibeon, whose wife’s name was Maacah, lived in Gibeon with
1 Chronicles 9.36: 36 his firstborn son Abdon, Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab,
1 Chronicles 9.37: 37 Gedor, Ahio, Zechariah, and Mikloth.
1 Chronicles 9.38: 38 Mikloth became the father of Shimeam. They also lived with their brothers in Jerusalem, near their brothers.
1 Chronicles 9.39: 39 Ner became the father of Kish. Kish became the father of Saul. Saul became the father of Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
1 Chronicles 9.40: 40 The son of Jonathan was Merib Baal. Merib Baal became the father of Micah.
1 Chronicles 9.41: 41 The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tahrea, and Ahaz.
1 Chronicles 9.42: 42 Ahaz became the father of Jarah. Jarah became the father of Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri. Zimri became the father of Moza.
1 Chronicles 9.43: 43 Moza became the father of Binea; and Rephaiah his son, Eleasah his son, and Azel his son.
1 Chronicles 9.44: 44 Azel had six sons, whose names are these: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. These were the sons of Azel.
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1 Chronicles 10.1: 1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.
1 Chronicles 10.2: 2 The Philistines followed hard after Saul and after his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.
1 Chronicles 10.3: 3 The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was distressed by reason of the archers.
1 Chronicles 10.4: 4 Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me.”
But his armor bearer would not; for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell on it.
1 Chronicles 10.5: 5 When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died.
1 Chronicles 10.6: 6 So Saul died with his three sons; and all his house died together.
1 Chronicles 10.7: 7 When all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.
1 Chronicles 10.8: 8 On the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
1 Chronicles 10.9: 9 They stripped him, and took his head and his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines all around, to carry the news to their idols, and to the people.
1 Chronicles 10.10: 10 They put his armor in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the house of Dagon.
1 Chronicles 10.11: 11 When all Jabesh Gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,
1 Chronicles 10.12: 12 all the valiant men arose, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
1 Chronicles 10.13: 13 So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against Yahweh, because of Yahweh’s word, which he didn’t keep; and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire,
1 Chronicles 10.14: 14 and didn’t inquire of Yahweh. Therefore he killed him, and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse.
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1 Chronicles 11.1: 1 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
1 Chronicles 11.2: 2 In times past, even when Saul was king, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. Yahweh your God said to you, ‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over my people Israel.’”
1 Chronicles 11.3: 3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to Yahweh’s word by Samuel.
1 Chronicles 11.4: 4 David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (also called Jebus); and the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were there.
1 Chronicles 11.5: 5 The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, “You will not come in here.” Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. The same is David’s city.
1 Chronicles 11.6: 6 David said, “Whoever strikes the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain.” Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and was made chief.
1 Chronicles 11.7: 7 David lived in the stronghold; therefore they called it David’s city.
1 Chronicles 11.8: 8 He built the city all around, from Millo even around; and Joab repaired the rest of the city.
1 Chronicles 11.9: 9 David grew greater and greater; for Yahweh of Armies was with him.
1 Chronicles 11.10: 10 Now these are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who showed themselves strong with him in his kingdom, together with all Israel, to make him king, according to Yahweh’s word concerning Israel.
1 Chronicles 11.11: 11 This is the number of the mighty men whom David had: Jashobeam, the son of a Hachmonite, the chief of the thirty; he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them at one time.
1 Chronicles 11.12: 12 After him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighty men.
1 Chronicles 11.13: 13 He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where there was a plot of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.
1 Chronicles 11.14: 14 They stood in the middle of the plot, defended it, and killed the Philistines; and Yahweh saved them by a great victory.
1 Chronicles 11.15: 15 Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the army of the Philistines were encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
1 Chronicles 11.16: 16 David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was in Bethlehem at that time.
1 Chronicles 11.17: 17 David longed, and said, “Oh that one would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!”
1 Chronicles 11.18: 18 The three broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David; but David would not drink any of it, but poured it out to Yahweh,
1 Chronicles 11.19: 19 and said, “My God forbid me, that I should do this! Shall I drink the blood of these men who have put their lives in jeopardy?” For they risked their lives to bring it. Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things.
1 Chronicles 11.20: 20 Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.
1 Chronicles 11.21: 21 Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, and was made their captain; however he wasn’t included in the three.
1 Chronicles 11.22: 22 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit on a snowy day.
1 Chronicles 11.23: 23 He killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high. In the Egyptian’s hand was a spear like a weaver’s beam; and he went down to him with a staff, plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear.
1 Chronicles 11.24: 24 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things, and had a name among the three mighty men.
1 Chronicles 11.25: 25 Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn’t attain to the three; and David set him over his guard.
1 Chronicles 11.26: 26 The mighty men of the armies also include Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
1 Chronicles 11.27: 27 Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,
1 Chronicles 11.28: 28 Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite,
1 Chronicles 11.29: 29 Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,
1 Chronicles 11.30: 30 Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite,
1 Chronicles 11.31: 31 Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
1 Chronicles 11.32: 32 Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,
1 Chronicles 11.33: 33 Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,
1 Chronicles 11.34: 34 the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shagee the Hararite,
1 Chronicles 11.35: 35 Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,
1 Chronicles 11.36: 36 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,
1 Chronicles 11.37: 37 Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai,
1 Chronicles 11.38: 38 Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri,
1 Chronicles 11.39: 39 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armor bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,
1 Chronicles 11.40: 40 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
1 Chronicles 11.41: 41 Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,
1 Chronicles 11.42: 42 Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the Reubenites, and thirty with him,
1 Chronicles 11.43: 43 Hanan the son of Maacah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite,
1 Chronicles 11.44: 44 Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the Aroerite,
1 Chronicles 11.45: 45 Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,
1 Chronicles 11.46: 46 Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite,
1 Chronicles 11.47: 47 Eliel, and Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.
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1 Chronicles 12.1: 1 Now these are those who came to David to Ziklag, while he was a fugitive from Saul the son of Kish. They were among the mighty men, his helpers in war.
1 Chronicles 12.2: 2 They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow. They were of Saul’s relatives of the tribe of Benjamin.
1 Chronicles 12.3: 3 The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; Jeziel and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; Beracah; Jehu the Anathothite;
1 Chronicles 12.4: 4 Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty and a leader of the thirty; Jeremiah; Jahaziel; Johanan; Jozabad the Gederathite;
1 Chronicles 12.5: 5 Eluzai; Jerimoth; Bealiah; Shemariah; Shephatiah the Haruphite;
1 Chronicles 12.6: 6 Elkanah, Isshiah Azarel, Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korahites;
1 Chronicles 12.7: 7 and Joelah and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.
1 Chronicles 12.8: 8 Some Gadites joined David in the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for war, who could handle shield and spear; whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the gazelles on the mountains:
1 Chronicles 12.9: 9 Ezer the chief, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,
1 Chronicles 12.10: 10 Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,
1 Chronicles 12.11: 11 Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,
1 Chronicles 12.12: 12 Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,
1 Chronicles 12.13: 13 Jeremiah the tenth, and Machbannai the eleventh.
1 Chronicles 12.14: 14 These of the sons of Gad were captains of the army: he who was least was equal to one hundred, and the greatest to one thousand.
1 Chronicles 12.15: 15 These are those who went over the Jordan in the first month, when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all who lived in the valleys, both toward the east and toward the west.
1 Chronicles 12.16: 16 Some of the children of Benjamin and Judah came to the stronghold to David.
1 Chronicles 12.17: 17 David went out to meet them, and answered them, “If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my adversaries, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers see this and rebuke it.”
1 Chronicles 12.18: 18 Then the Spirit came on Amasai, who was chief of the thirty, and he said, “We are yours, David, and on your side, you son of Jesse. Peace, peace be to you, and peace be to your helpers; for your God helps you.” Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.
1 Chronicles 12.19: 19 Some of Manasseh also joined David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle; but they didn’t help them; for the lords of the Philistines sent him away after consultation, saying, “He will desert to his master Saul to the jeopardy of our heads.”
1 Chronicles 12.20: 20 As he went to Ziklag, some from Manasseh joined him: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, captains of thousands who were of Manasseh.
1 Chronicles 12.21: 21 They helped David against the band of rovers; for they were all mighty men of valor, and were captains in the army.
1 Chronicles 12.22: 22 For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great army, like God’s army.
1 Chronicles 12.23: 23 These are the numbers of the heads of those who were armed for war, who came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to Yahweh’s word.
1 Chronicles 12.24: 24 The children of Judah who bore shield and spear were six thousand eight hundred, armed for war.
1 Chronicles 12.25: 25 Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor for the war: seven thousand one hundred.
1 Chronicles 12.26: 26 Of the children of Levi: four thousand six hundred.
1 Chronicles 12.27: 27 Jehoiada was the leader of the household of Aaron; and with him were three thousand seven hundred,
1 Chronicles 12.28: 28 and Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father’s house twenty-two captains.
1 Chronicles 12.29: 29 Of the children of Benjamin, Saul’s relatives: three thousand, for until then, the greatest part of them had kept their allegiance to Saul’s house.
1 Chronicles 12.30: 30 Of the children of Ephraim: twenty thousand eight hundred, mighty men of valor, famous men in their fathers’ houses.
1 Chronicles 12.31: 31 Of the half-tribe of Manasseh: eighteen thousand, who were mentioned by name, to come and make David king.
1 Chronicles 12.32: 32 Of the children of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, their heads were two hundred; and all their brothers were at their command.
1 Chronicles 12.33: 33 Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array, with all kinds of instruments of war: fifty thousand who could command and were not of double heart.
1 Chronicles 12.34: 34 Of Naphtali: one thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty-seven thousand.
1 Chronicles 12.35: 35 Of the Danites who could set the battle in array: twenty-eight thousand six hundred.
1 Chronicles 12.36: 36 Of Asher, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array: forty thousand.
1 Chronicles 12.37: 37 On the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites, the Gadites, and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, with all kinds of instruments of war for the battle: one hundred twenty thousand.
1 Chronicles 12.38: 38 All these were men of war, who could order the battle array, and came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel; and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.
1 Chronicles 12.39: 39 They were there with David three days, eating and drinking; for their brothers had supplied provisions for them.
1 Chronicles 12.40: 40 Moreover those who were near to them, as far as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali, brought bread on donkeys, on camels, on mules, and on oxen: supplies of flour, cakes of figs, clusters of raisins, wine, oil, cattle, and sheep in abundance; for there was joy in Israel.
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1 Chronicles 13.1: 1 David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader.
1 Chronicles 13.2: 2 David said to all the assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if it is of Yahweh our God, let’s send word everywhere to our brothers who are left in all the land of Israel, with whom the priests and Levites are in their cities that have pasture lands, that they may gather themselves to us.
1 Chronicles 13.3: 3 Also, let’s bring the ark of our God back to us again; for we didn’t seek it in the days of Saul.”
1 Chronicles 13.4: 4 All the assembly said that they would do so; for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
1 Chronicles 13.5: 5 So David assembled all Israel together, from the Shihor the brook of Egypt even to the entrance of Hamath, to bring God’s ark from Kiriath Jearim.
1 Chronicles 13.6: 6 David went up with all Israel to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath Jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up from there God Yahweh’s ark that sits above the cherubim, that is called by the Name.
1 Chronicles 13.7: 7 They carried God’s ark on a new cart, and brought it out of Abinadab’s house; and Uzza and Ahio drove the cart.
1 Chronicles 13.8: 8 David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with cymbals, and with trumpets.
1 Chronicles 13.9: 9 When they came to Chidon’s threshing floor, Uzza put out his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.
1 Chronicles 13.10: 10 Yahweh’s anger burned against Uzza, and he struck him, because he put his hand on the ark; and he died there before God.
1 Chronicles 13.11: 11 David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken out against Uzza. He called that place Perez Uzza, to this day.
1 Chronicles 13.12: 12 David was afraid of God that day, saying, “How can I bring God’s ark home to me?”
1 Chronicles 13.13: 13 So David didn’t move the ark with him into David’s city, but carried it aside into Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house.
1 Chronicles 13.14: 14 God’s ark remained with the family of Obed-Edom in his house three months; and Yahweh blessed Obed-Edom’s house and all that he had.
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1 Chronicles 14.1: 1 Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David with cedar trees, masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.
1 Chronicles 14.2: 2 David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over Israel; for his kingdom was exalted on high, for his people Israel’s sake.
1 Chronicles 14.3: 3 David took more wives at Jerusalem, and David became the father of more sons and daughters.
1 Chronicles 14.4: 4 These are the names of the children whom he had in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,
1 Chronicles 14.5: 5 Ibhar, Elishua, Elpelet,
1 Chronicles 14.6: 6 Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia,
1 Chronicles 14.7: 7 Elishama, Beeliada, and Eliphelet.
1 Chronicles 14.8: 8 When the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went out against them.
1 Chronicles 14.9: 9 Now the Philistines had come and made a raid in the valley of Rephaim.
1 Chronicles 14.10: 10 David inquired of God, saying, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?”
Yahweh said to him, “Go up; for I will deliver them into your hand.”
1 Chronicles 14.11: 11 So they came up to Baal Perazim, and David defeated them there. David said, God has broken my enemies by my hand, like waters breaking out. Therefore they called the name of that place Baal Perazim.
1 Chronicles 14.12: 12 They left their gods there; and David gave a command, and they were burned with fire.
1 Chronicles 14.13: 13 The Philistines made a another raid in the valley.
1 Chronicles 14.14: 14 David inquired again of God; and God said to him, “You shall not go up after them. Turn away from them, and come on them opposite the mulberry trees.
1 Chronicles 14.15: 15 When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then go out to battle; for God has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines.”
1 Chronicles 14.16: 16 David did as God commanded him; and they attacked the army of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer.
1 Chronicles 14.17: 17 The fame of David went out into all lands; and Yahweh brought the fear of him on all nations.
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1 Chronicles 15.1: 1 David made himself houses in David’s city; and he prepared a place for God’s ark, and pitched a tent for it.
1 Chronicles 15.2: 2 Then David said, “No one ought to carry God’s ark but the Levites. For Yahweh has chosen them to carry God’s ark, and to minister to him forever.”
1 Chronicles 15.3: 3 David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring up Yahweh’s ark to its place, which he had prepared for it.
1 Chronicles 15.4: 4 David gathered together the sons of Aaron and the Levites:
1 Chronicles 15.5: 5 of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, and his brothers one hundred twenty;
1 Chronicles 15.6: 6 of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his brothers two hundred twenty;
1 Chronicles 15.7: 7 of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and his brothers one hundred thirty;
1 Chronicles 15.8: 8 of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, and his brothers two hundred;
1 Chronicles 15.9: 9 of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and his brothers eighty;
1 Chronicles 15.10: 10 of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and his brothers one hundred twelve.
1 Chronicles 15.11: 11 David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab,
1 Chronicles 15.12: 12 and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that you may bring the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, up to the place that I have prepared for it.
1 Chronicles 15.13: 13 For because you didn’t carry it at first, Yahweh our God broke out in anger against us, because we didn’t seek him according to the ordinance.”
1 Chronicles 15.14: 14 So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
1 Chronicles 15.15: 15 The children of the Levites bore God’s ark on their shoulders with its poles, as Moses commanded according to Yahweh’s word.
1 Chronicles 15.16: 16 David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers with instruments of music, stringed instruments, harps, and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up their voices with joy.
1 Chronicles 15.17: 17 So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brothers, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;
1 Chronicles 15.18: 18 and with them their brothers of the second rank, Zechariah, Ben, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, the doorkeepers.
1 Chronicles 15.19: 19 So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were given cymbals of bronze to sound aloud;
1 Chronicles 15.20: 20 and Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with stringed instruments set to Alamoth;
1 Chronicles 15.21: 21 and Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps tuned to the eight-stringed lyre, to lead.
1 Chronicles 15.22: 22 Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was over the singing. He taught the singers, because he was skillful.
1 Chronicles 15.23: 23 Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.
1 Chronicles 15.24: 24 Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, blew the trumpets before God’s ark; and Obed-Edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.
1 Chronicles 15.25: 25 So David, the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant up out of the house of Obed-Edom with joy.
1 Chronicles 15.26: 26 When God helped the Levites who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.
1 Chronicles 15.27: 27 David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, as were all the Levites who bore the ark, the singers, and Chenaniah the choir master with the singers; and David had an ephod of linen on him.
1 Chronicles 15.28: 28 Thus all Israel brought the ark of Yahweh’s covenant up with shouting, with sound of the cornet, with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with stringed instruments and harps.
1 Chronicles 15.29: 29 As the ark of Yahweh’s covenant came to David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David dancing and playing; and she despised him in her heart.
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1 Chronicles 16.1: 1 They brought in God’s ark, and set it in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it; and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.
1 Chronicles 16.2: 2 When David had finished offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in Yahweh’s name.
1 Chronicles 16.3: 3 He gave to everyone of Israel, both man and woman, to everyone a loaf of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins.
1 Chronicles 16.4: 4 He appointed some of the Levites to minister before Yahweh’s ark, and to commemorate, to thank, and to praise Yahweh, the God of Israel:
1 Chronicles 16.5: 5 Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, then Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, with stringed instruments and with harps; and Asaph with cymbals, sounding aloud;
1 Chronicles 16.6: 6 with Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.
1 Chronicles 16.7: 7 Then on that day David first ordained to give thanks to Yahweh, by the hand of Asaph and his brothers.
1 Chronicles 16.8: 8 Oh give thanks to Yahweh.
Call on his name.
Make what he has done known among the peoples.
1 Chronicles 16.9: 9 Sing to him.
Sing praises to him.
Tell of all his marvelous works.
1 Chronicles 16.10: 10 Glory in his holy name.
Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
1 Chronicles 16.11: 11 Seek Yahweh and his strength.
Seek his face forever more.
1 Chronicles 16.12: 12 Remember his marvelous works that he has done,
his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
1 Chronicles 16.13: 13 you offspring of Israel his servant,
you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
1 Chronicles 16.14: 14 He is Yahweh our God.
His judgments are in all the earth.
1 Chronicles 16.15: 15 Remember his covenant forever,
the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,
1 Chronicles 16.16: 16 the covenant which he made with Abraham,
his oath to Isaac.
1 Chronicles 16.17: 17 He confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,
and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
1 Chronicles 16.18: 18 saying, “I will give you the land of Canaan,
The lot of your inheritance,”
1 Chronicles 16.19: 19 when you were but a few men in number,
yes, very few, and foreigners were in it.
1 Chronicles 16.20: 20 They went about from nation to nation,
from one kingdom to another people.
1 Chronicles 16.21: 21 He allowed no man to do them wrong.
Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
1 Chronicles 16.22: 22 “Don’t touch my anointed ones!
Do my prophets no harm!”
1 Chronicles 16.23: 23 Sing to Yahweh, all the earth!
Display his salvation from day to day.
1 Chronicles 16.24: 24 Declare his glory among the nations,
and his marvelous works among all the peoples.
1 Chronicles 16.25: 25 For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised.
He also is to be feared above all gods.
1 Chronicles 16.26: 26 For all the gods of the peoples are idols,
but Yahweh made the heavens.
1 Chronicles 16.27: 27 Honor and majesty are before him.
Strength and gladness are in his place.
1 Chronicles 16.28: 28 Ascribe to Yahweh, you relatives of the peoples,
ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength!
1 Chronicles 16.29: 29 Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name.
Bring an offering, and come before him.
Worship Yahweh in holy array.
1 Chronicles 16.30: 30 Tremble before him, all the earth.
The world also is established that it can’t be moved.
1 Chronicles 16.31: 31 Let the heavens be glad,
and let the earth rejoice!
Let them say among the nations, “Yahweh reigns!”
1 Chronicles 16.32: 32 Let the sea roar, and its fullness!
Let the field exult, and all that is in it!
1 Chronicles 16.33: 33 Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before Yahweh,
for he comes to judge the earth.
1 Chronicles 16.34: 34 Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good,
for his loving kindness endures forever.
1 Chronicles 16.35: 35 Say, “Save us, God of our salvation!
Gather us together and deliver us from the nations,
to give thanks to your holy name,
to triumph in your praise.”
1 Chronicles 16.36: 36 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel,
from everlasting even to everlasting.
All the people said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh.
1 Chronicles 16.37: 37 So he left Asaph and his brothers there before the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, to minister before the ark continually, as every day’s work required;
1 Chronicles 16.38: 38 and Obed-Edom with their brothers, sixty-eight; Obed-Edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be doorkeepers;
1 Chronicles 16.39: 39 and Zadok the priest, and his brothers the priests, before Yahweh’s tabernacle in the high place that was at Gibeon,
1 Chronicles 16.40: 40 to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar of burnt offering continually morning and evening, even according to all that is written in Yahweh’s law, which he commanded to Israel;
1 Chronicles 16.41: 41 and with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who were chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to Yahweh, because his loving kindness endures forever;
1 Chronicles 16.42: 42 and with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should sound aloud, and with instruments for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate.
1 Chronicles 16.43: 43 All the people departed, each man to his house; and David returned to bless his house.
1 Chronicles 17.0:
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1 Chronicles 17.1: 1 When David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of Yahweh’s covenant is in a tent.”
1 Chronicles 17.2: 2 Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you.”
1 Chronicles 17.3: 3 That same night, the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
1 Chronicles 17.4: 4 “Go and tell David my servant, ‘Yahweh says, “You shall not build me a house to dwell in;
1 Chronicles 17.5: 5 for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Israel to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tent to another.
1 Chronicles 17.6: 6 In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’”’
1 Chronicles 17.7: 7 “Now therefore, you shall tell my servant David, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people Israel.
1 Chronicles 17.8: 8 I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a name like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.
1 Chronicles 17.9: 9 I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more. The children of wickedness will not waste them any more, as at the first,
1 Chronicles 17.10: 10 and from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that Yahweh will build you a house.
1 Chronicles 17.11: 11 It will happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your offspring after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
1 Chronicles 17.12: 12 He will build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.
1 Chronicles 17.13: 13 I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will not take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before you;
1 Chronicles 17.14: 14 but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever. His throne will be established forever.”’”
1 Chronicles 17.15: 15 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.
1 Chronicles 17.16: 16 Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, “Who am I, Yahweh God, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?
1 Chronicles 17.17: 17 This was a small thing in your eyes, God; but you have spoken of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and have respected me according to the standard of a man of high degree, Yahweh God.
1 Chronicles 17.18: 18 What can David say yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant? For you know your servant.
1 Chronicles 17.19: 19 Yahweh, for your servant’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have done all this greatness, to make known all these great things.
1 Chronicles 17.20: 20 Yahweh, there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
1 Chronicles 17.21: 21 What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeem out of Egypt?
1 Chronicles 17.22: 22 For you made your people Israel your own people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.
1 Chronicles 17.23: 23 Now, Yahweh, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, be established forever, and do as you have spoken.
1 Chronicles 17.24: 24 Let your name be established and magnified forever, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel. The house of David your servant is established before you.’
1 Chronicles 17.25: 25 For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build him a house. Therefore your servant has found courage to pray before you.
1 Chronicles 17.26: 26 Now, Yahweh, you are God, and have promised this good thing to your servant.
1 Chronicles 17.27: 27 Now it has pleased you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Yahweh, have blessed, and it is blessed forever.”
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1 Chronicles 18.1: 1 After this, David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of the hand of the Philistines.
1 Chronicles 18.2: 2 He defeated Moab; and the Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.
1 Chronicles 18.3: 3 David defeated Hadadezer king of Zobah to Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion by the river Euphrates.
1 Chronicles 18.4: 4 David took from him one thousand chariots, seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them enough for one hundred chariots.
1 Chronicles 18.5: 5 When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck twenty-two thousand men of the Syrians.
1 Chronicles 18.6: 6 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
1 Chronicles 18.7: 7 David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 18.8: 8 From Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David took very much bronze, with which Solomon made the bronze sea, the pillars, and the vessels of bronze.
1 Chronicles 18.9: 9 When Tou king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army of Hadadezer king of Zobah,
1 Chronicles 18.10: 10 he sent Hadoram his son to king David, to Greet him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and struck him (for Hadadezer had wars with Tou); and he had with him all kinds of vessels of gold and silver and bronze.
1 Chronicles 18.11: 11 King David also dedicated these to Yahweh, with the silver and the gold that he carried away from all the nations; from Edom, from Moab, from the children of Ammon, from the Philistines, and from Amalek.
1 Chronicles 18.12: 12 Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck eighteen thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
1 Chronicles 18.13: 13 He put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became servants to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
1 Chronicles 18.14: 14 David reigned over all Israel; and he executed justice and righteousness for all his people.
1 Chronicles 18.15: 15 Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;
1 Chronicles 18.16: 16 Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, were priests; Shavsha was scribe;
1 Chronicles 18.17: 17 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief officials serving the king.
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1 Chronicles 19.1: 1 After this, Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his place.
1 Chronicles 19.2: 2 David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.”
So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.
1 Chronicles 19.3: 3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Haven’t his servants come to you to search, to overthrow, and to spy out the land?”
1 Chronicles 19.4: 4 So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle at their buttocks, and sent them away.
1 Chronicles 19.5: 5 Then some people went and told David how the men were treated. He sent to meet them; for the men were greatly humiliated. The king said, “Stay at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return.”
1 Chronicles 19.6: 6 When the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one thousand talents of silver to hire chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, out of Aram-maacah, and out of Zobah.
1 Chronicles 19.7: 7 So they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king of Maacah with his people, who came and encamped near Medeba. The children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.
1 Chronicles 19.8: 8 When David heard of it, he sent Joab with all the army of the mighty men.
1 Chronicles 19.9: 9 The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the gate of the city; and the kings who had come were by themselves in the field.
1 Chronicles 19.10: 10 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose some of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.
1 Chronicles 19.11: 11 The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and they put themselves in array against the children of Ammon.
1 Chronicles 19.12: 12 He said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you are to help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will help you.
1 Chronicles 19.13: 13 Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people and for the cities of our God. May Yahweh do that which seems good to him.”
1 Chronicles 19.14: 14 So Joab and the people who were with him came near to the front of the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him.
1 Chronicles 19.15: 15 When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 19.16: 16 When the Syrians saw that they were defeated by Israel, they sent messengers, and called out the Syrians who were beyond the River, with Shophach the captain of the army of Hadadezer leading them.
1 Chronicles 19.17: 17 David was told that; so he gathered all Israel together, passed over the Jordan, came to them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.
1 Chronicles 19.18: 18 The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syrian men seven thousand chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and also killed Shophach the captain of the army.
1 Chronicles 19.19: 19 When the servants of Hadadezer saw that they were defeated by Israel, they made peace with David, and served him. The Syrians would not help the children of Ammon any more.
1 Chronicles 20.0:
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1 Chronicles 20.1: 1 At the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, Joab led out the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew it.
1 Chronicles 20.2: 2 David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it. It was set on David’s head, and he brought very much plunder out of the city.
1 Chronicles 20.3: 3 He brought out the people who were in it, and had them cut with saws, with iron picks, and with axes. David did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 20.4: 4 After this, war arose at Gezer with the Philistines. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, of the sons of the giant; and they were subdued.
1 Chronicles 20.5: 5 Again there was war with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
1 Chronicles 20.6: 6 There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had twenty-four fingers and toes, six on each hand, and six on each foot; and he also was born to the giant.
1 Chronicles 20.7: 7 When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David’s brother killed him.
1 Chronicles 20.8: 8 These were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
1 Chronicles 21.0:
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1 Chronicles 21.1: 1 Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel.
1 Chronicles 21.2: 2 David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, “Go, count Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know how many there are.”
1 Chronicles 21.3: 3 Joab said, “May Yahweh make his people a hundred times as many as they are. But, my lord the king, aren’t they all my lord’s servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?”
1 Chronicles 21.4: 4 Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, then came to Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 21.5: 5 Joab gave up the sum of the census of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew a sword; and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew a sword.
1 Chronicles 21.6: 6 But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among them; for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.
1 Chronicles 21.7: 7 God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.
1 Chronicles 21.8: 8 David said to God, “I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”
1 Chronicles 21.9: 9 Yahweh spoke to Gad, David’s seer, saying,
1 Chronicles 21.10: 10 “Go and speak to David, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’”
1 Chronicles 21.11: 11 So Gad came to David, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Take your choice:
1 Chronicles 21.12: 12 either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and Yahweh’s angel destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.’”
1 Chronicles 21.13: 13 David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into Yahweh’s hand; for his mercies are very great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand.”
1 Chronicles 21.14: 14 So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.
1 Chronicles 21.15: 15 God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 21.16: 16 David lifted up his eyes, and saw Yahweh’s angel standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem.
Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.
1 Chronicles 21.17: 17 David said to God, “Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be counted? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me, and against my father’s house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.”
1 Chronicles 21.18: 18 Then Yahweh’s angel commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up and raise an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 21.19: 19 David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in Yahweh’s name.
1 Chronicles 21.20: 20 Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
1 Chronicles 21.21: 21 As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
1 Chronicles 21.22: 22 Then David said to Ornan, “Give me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to Yahweh on it. You shall sell it to me for the full price, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”
1 Chronicles 21.23: 23 Ornan said to David, “Take it for yourself, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes. Behold, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal offering. I give it all.”
1 Chronicles 21.24: 24 King David said to Ornan, “No; but I will most certainly buy it for the full price. For I will not take that which is yours for Yahweh, nor offer a burnt offering that costs me nothing.”
1 Chronicles 21.25: 25 So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.
1 Chronicles 21.26: 26 David built an altar to Yahweh there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on Yahweh; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.
1 Chronicles 21.27: 27 Then Yahweh commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.
1 Chronicles 21.28: 28 At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
1 Chronicles 21.29: 29 For Yahweh’s tabernacle, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.
1 Chronicles 21.30: 30 But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of Yahweh’s angel.
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1 Chronicles 22.1: 1 Then David said, “This is the house of Yahweh God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
1 Chronicles 22.2: 2 David gave orders to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to cut dressed stones to build God’s house.
1 Chronicles 22.3: 3 David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the couplings; and bronze in abundance without weight;
1 Chronicles 22.4: 4 and cedar trees without number, for the Sidonians and the people of Tyre brought cedar trees in abundance to David.
1 Chronicles 22.5: 5 David said, “Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built for Yahweh must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries. I will therefore make preparation for it.” So David prepared abundantly before his death.
1 Chronicles 22.6: 6 Then he called for Solomon his son, and commanded him to build a house for Yahweh, the God of Israel.
1 Chronicles 22.7: 7 David said to Solomon his son, “As for me, it was in my heart to build a house to the name of Yahweh my God.
1 Chronicles 22.8: 8 But Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, ‘You have shed blood abundantly, and have made great wars. You shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight.
1 Chronicles 22.9: 9 Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of peace. I will give him rest from all his enemies all around; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days.
1 Chronicles 22.10: 10 He shall build a house for my name; and he will be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.’
1 Chronicles 22.11: 11 Now, my son, may Yahweh be with you and prosper you, and build the house of Yahweh your God, as he has spoken concerning you.
1 Chronicles 22.12: 12 May Yahweh give you discretion and understanding, and put you in charge of Israel; that so you may keep the law of Yahweh your God.
1 Chronicles 22.13: 13 Then you will prosper, if you observe to do the statutes and the ordinances which Yahweh gave Moses concerning Israel. Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed.
1 Chronicles 22.14: 14 Now, behold, in my affliction I have prepared for Yahweh’s house one hundred thousand talents of gold, one million talents of silver, and bronze and iron without weight; for it is in abundance. I have also prepared timber and stone; and you may add to them.
1 Chronicles 22.15: 15 There are also workmen with you in abundance, cutters and workers of stone and timber, and all kinds of men who are skillful in every kind of work;
1 Chronicles 22.16: 16 of the gold, the silver, the bronze, and the iron, there is no number. Arise and be doing, and may Yahweh be with you.”
1 Chronicles 22.17: 17 David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying,
1 Chronicles 22.18: 18 “Isn’t Yahweh your God with you? Hasn’t he given you rest on every side? For he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand; and the land is subdued before Yahweh, and before his people.
1 Chronicles 22.19: 19 Now set your heart and your soul to follow Yahweh your God. Arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for Yahweh’s name.”
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1 Chronicles 23.1: 1 Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
1 Chronicles 23.2: 2 He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.
1 Chronicles 23.3: 3 The Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
1 Chronicles 23.4: 4 David said, “Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of Yahweh’s house, six thousand were officers and judges,
1 Chronicles 23.5: 5 four thousand were doorkeepers, and four thousand praised Yahweh with the instruments which I made for giving praise.”
1 Chronicles 23.6: 6 David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
1 Chronicles 23.7: 7 Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
1 Chronicles 23.8: 8 The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, Zetham, and Joel, three.
1 Chronicles 23.9: 9 The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers’ households of Ladan.
1 Chronicles 23.10: 10 The sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.
1 Chronicles 23.11: 11 Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second; but Jeush and Beriah didn’t have many sons; therefore they became a fathers’ house in one reckoning.
1 Chronicles 23.12: 12 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.
1 Chronicles 23.13: 13 The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons, forever, to burn incense before Yahweh, to minister to him, and to bless in his name, forever.
1 Chronicles 23.14: 14 But as for Moses the man of God, his sons were named among the tribe of Levi.
1 Chronicles 23.15: 15 The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.
1 Chronicles 23.16: 16 The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.
1 Chronicles 23.17: 17 The sons of Eliezer were: Rehabiah the chief; and Eliezer had no other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
1 Chronicles 23.18: 18 The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.
1 Chronicles 23.19: 19 The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.
1 Chronicles 23.20: 20 The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief, and Isshiah the second.
1 Chronicles 23.21: 21 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.
1 Chronicles 23.22: 22 Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters only: and their brothers the sons of Kish took them as wives.
1 Chronicles 23.23: 23 The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jeremoth, three.
1 Chronicles 23.24: 24 These were the sons of Levi after their fathers’ houses, even the heads of the fathers’ houses of those who were counted individually, in the number of names by their polls, who did the work for the service of Yahweh’s house, from twenty years old and upward.
1 Chronicles 23.25: 25 For David said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people; and he dwells in Jerusalem forever.
1 Chronicles 23.26: 26 Also the Levites will no longer need to carry the tabernacle and all its vessels for its service.”
1 Chronicles 23.27: 27 For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were counted, from twenty years old and upward.
1 Chronicles 23.28: 28 For their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of Yahweh’s house, in the courts, and in the rooms, and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the service of God’s house;
1 Chronicles 23.29: 29 for the show bread also, and for the fine flour for a meal offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked in the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for all measurements of quantity and size;
1 Chronicles 23.30: 30 and to stand every morning to thank and praise Yahweh, and likewise in the evening;
1 Chronicles 23.31: 31 and to offer all burnt offerings to Yahweh, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, in number according to the ordinance concerning them, continually before Yahweh;
1 Chronicles 23.32: 32 and that they should keep the duty of the Tent of Meeting, the duty of the holy place, and the duty of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the service of Yahweh’s house.
1 Chronicles 24.0:
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1 Chronicles 24.1: 1 These were the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
1 Chronicles 24.2: 2 But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest’s office.
1 Chronicles 24.3: 3 David with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their ordering in their service.
1 Chronicles 24.4: 4 There were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and they were divided like this: of the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen, heads of fathers’ houses; and of the sons of Ithamar, according to their fathers’ houses, eight.
1 Chronicles 24.5: 5 Thus they were divided impartially by drawing lots; for there were princes of the sanctuary, and princes of God, both of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.
1 Chronicles 24.6: 6 Shemaiah the son of Nethanel the scribe, who was of the Levites, wrote them in the presence of the king, the princes, Zadok the priest, Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the priests and of the Levites; one fathers’ house being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
1 Chronicles 24.7: 7 Now the first lot came out to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,
1 Chronicles 24.8: 8 the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,
1 Chronicles 24.9: 9 the fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin,
1 Chronicles 24.10: 10 the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,
1 Chronicles 24.11: 11 the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah,
1 Chronicles 24.12: 12 the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim,
1 Chronicles 24.13: 13 the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab,
1 Chronicles 24.14: 14 the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer,
1 Chronicles 24.15: 15 the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez,
1 Chronicles 24.16: 16 the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezkel,
1 Chronicles 24.17: 17 the twenty-first to Jachin, the twenty-second to Gamul,
1 Chronicles 24.18: 18 the twenty-third to Delaiah, and the twenty-fourth to Maaziah.
1 Chronicles 24.19: 19 This was their ordering in their service, to come into Yahweh’s house according to the ordinance given to them by Aaron their father, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, had commanded him.
1 Chronicles 24.20: 20 Of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah.
1 Chronicles 24.21: 21 Of Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, Isshiah the chief.
1 Chronicles 24.22: 22 Of the Izharites, Shelomoth; of the sons of Shelomoth, Jahath.
1 Chronicles 24.23: 23 The sons of Hebron: Jeriah, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.
1 Chronicles 24.24: 24 The sons of Uzziel: Micah; of the sons of Micah, Shamir.
1 Chronicles 24.25: 25 The brother of Micah: Isshiah; of the sons of Isshiah, Zechariah.
1 Chronicles 24.26: 26 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The son of Jaaziah: Beno.
1 Chronicles 24.27: 27 The sons of Merari: of Jaaziah, Beno, Shoham, Zaccur, and Ibri.
1 Chronicles 24.28: 28 Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.
1 Chronicles 24.29: 29 Of Kish, the son of Kish: Jerahmeel.
1 Chronicles 24.30: 30 The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites after their fathers’ houses.
1 Chronicles 24.31: 31 These likewise cast lots even as their brothers the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the priests and of the Levites; the fathers’ households of the chief even as those of his younger brother.
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1 Chronicles 25.1: 1 Moreover, David and the captains of the army set apart for the service certain of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who were to prophesy with harps, with stringed instruments, and with cymbals. The number of those who did the work according to their service was:
1 Chronicles 25.2: 2 of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asharelah. The sons of Asaph were under the hand of Asaph, who prophesied at the order of the king.
1 Chronicles 25.3: 3 Of Jeduthun, the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Shimei, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied in giving thanks and praising Yahweh with the harp.
1 Chronicles 25.4: 4 Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, Romamti-Ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth.
1 Chronicles 25.5: 5 All these were the sons of Heman the king’s seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.
1 Chronicles 25.6: 6 All these were under the hands of their father for song in Yahweh’s house, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and harps, for the service of God’s house: Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman being under the order of the king.
1 Chronicles 25.7: 7 The number of them, with their brothers who were instructed in singing to Yahweh, even all who were skillful, was two hundred eighty-eight.
1 Chronicles 25.8: 8 They cast lots for their offices, all alike, the small as well as the great, the teacher as well as the student.
1 Chronicles 25.9: 9 Now the first lot came out for Asaph to Joseph; the second to Gedaliah, he and his brothers and sons were twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.10: 10 the third to Zaccur, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.11: 11 the fourth to Izri, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.12: 12 the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.13: 13 the sixth to Bukkiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.14: 14 the seventh to Jesharelah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.15: 15 the eighth to Jeshaiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.16: 16 the ninth to Mattaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.17: 17 the tenth to Shimei, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.18: 18 the eleventh to Azarel, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.19: 19 the twelfth to Hashabiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.20: 20 for the thirteenth, Shubael, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.21: 21 for the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.22: 22 for the fifteenth to Jeremoth, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.23: 23 for the sixteenth to Hananiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.24: 24 for the seventeenth to Joshbekashah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.25: 25 for the eighteenth to Hanani, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.26: 26 for the nineteenth to Mallothi, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.27: 27 for the twentieth to Eliathah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.28: 28 for the twenty-first to Hothir, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.29: 29 for the twenty-second to Giddalti, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.30: 30 for the twenty-third to Mahazioth, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
1 Chronicles 25.31: 31 for the twenty-fourth to Romamti-Ezer, his sons and his brothers, twelve.
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1 Chronicles 26.1: 1 For the divisions of the doorkeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.
1 Chronicles 26.2: 2 Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,
1 Chronicles 26.3: 3 Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, and Eliehoenai the seventh.
1 Chronicles 26.4: 4 Obed-Edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sacar the fourth, Nethanel the fifth,
1 Chronicles 26.5: 5 Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, and Peullethai the eighth; for God blessed him.
1 Chronicles 26.6: 6 Sons were also born to Shemaiah his son, who ruled over the house of their father; for they were mighty men of valor.
1 Chronicles 26.7: 7 The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad, whose brothers were valiant men, Elihu, and Semachiah.
1 Chronicles 26.8: 8 All these were of the sons of Obed-Edom: they and their sons and their brothers, able men in strength for the service: sixty-two of Obed-Edom.
1 Chronicles 26.9: 9 Meshelemiah had sons and brothers, valiant men, eighteen.
1 Chronicles 26.10: 10 Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him chief),
1 Chronicles 26.11: 11 Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, and Zechariah the fourth. All the sons and brothers of Hosah were thirteen.
1 Chronicles 26.12: 12 Of these were the divisions of the doorkeepers, even of the chief men, having offices like their brothers, to minister in Yahweh’s house.
1 Chronicles 26.13: 13 They cast lots, the small as well as the great, according to their fathers’ houses, for every gate.
1 Chronicles 26.14: 14 The lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counselor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.
1 Chronicles 26.15: 15 To Obed-Edom southward; and to his sons the storehouse.
1 Chronicles 26.16: 16 To Shuppim and Hosah westward, by the gate of Shallecheth, at the causeway that goes up, watchman opposite watchman.
1 Chronicles 26.17: 17 Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and for the storehouse two and two.
1 Chronicles 26.18: 18 For Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.
1 Chronicles 26.19: 19 These were the divisions of the doorkeepers; of the sons of the Korahites, and of the sons of Merari.
1 Chronicles 26.20: 20 Of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of God’s house and over the treasures of the dedicated things.
1 Chronicles 26.21: 21 The sons of Ladan, the sons of the Gershonites belonging to Ladan, the heads of the fathers’ households belonging to Ladan the Gershonite: Jehieli.
1 Chronicles 26.22: 22 The sons of Jehieli: Zetham, and Joel his brother, over the treasures of Yahweh’s house.
1 Chronicles 26.23: 23 Of the Amramites, of the Izharites, of the Hebronites, of the Uzzielites:
1 Chronicles 26.24: 24 and Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was ruler over the treasures.
1 Chronicles 26.25: 25 His brothers: of Eliezer, Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomoth his son.
1 Chronicles 26.26: 26 This Shelomoth and his brothers were over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the heads of the fathers’ households, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the army, had dedicated.
1 Chronicles 26.27: 27 They dedicated some of the plunder won in battles to repair Yahweh’s house.
1 Chronicles 26.28: 28 All that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated, whoever had dedicated anything, it was under the hand of Shelomoth, and of his brothers.
1 Chronicles 26.29: 29 Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.
1 Chronicles 26.30: 30 Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brothers, men of valor, one thousand seven hundred, had the oversight of Israel beyond the Jordan westward, for all the business of Yahweh, and for the service of the king.
1 Chronicles 26.31: 31 Of the Hebronites, Jerijah was the chief, even of the Hebronites, according to their generations by fathers’ households. They were sought for in the fortieth year of the reign of David, and mighty men of valor were found among them at Jazer of Gilead.
1 Chronicles 26.32: 32 His brothers, men of valor, were two thousand seven hundred, heads of fathers’ households, whom king David made overseers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites, for every matter pertaining to God, and for the affairs of the king.
1 Chronicles 27.0:
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1 Chronicles 27.1: 1 Now the children of Israel after their number, the heads of fathers’ households and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and their officers who served the king, in any matter of the divisions which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year—of every division were twenty-four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27.2: 2 Over the first division for the first month was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27.3: 3 He was of the children of Perez, the chief of all the captains of the army for the first month.
1 Chronicles 27.4: 4 Over the division of the second month was Dodai the Ahohite, and his division; and Mikloth the ruler: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27.5: 5 The third captain of the army for the third month was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the chief priest. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27.6: 6 This is that Benaiah who was the mighty man of the thirty, and over the thirty: and of his division was Ammizabad his son.
1 Chronicles 27.7: 7 The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27.8: 8 The fifth captain for the fifth month was Shamhuth the Izrahite: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27.9: 9 The sixth captain for the sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27.10: 10 The seventh captain for the seventh month was Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27.11: 11 The eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zerahites. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27.12: 12 The ninth captain for the ninth month was Abiezer the Anathothite, of the Benjamites. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27.13: 13 The tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zerahites. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27.14: 14 The eleventh captain for the eleventh month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27.15: 15 The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27.16: 16 Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: of the Reubenites, Eliezer the son of Zichri was the ruler; of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maacah;
1 Chronicles 27.17: 17 of Levi, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel; of Aaron, Zadok;
1 Chronicles 27.18: 18 of Judah, Elihu, one of the brothers of David; of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael;
1 Chronicles 27.19: 19 of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah; of Naphtali, Jeremoth the son of Azriel;
1 Chronicles 27.20: 20 of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah; of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah;
1 Chronicles 27.21: 21 of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah; of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner;
1 Chronicles 27.22: 22 of Dan, Azarel the son of Jeroham. These were the captains of the tribes of Israel.
1 Chronicles 27.23: 23 But David didn’t take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because Yahweh had said he would increase Israel like the stars of the sky.
1 Chronicles 27.24: 24 Joab the son of Zeruiah began to take a census, but didn’t finish; and wrath came on Israel for this. The number wasn’t put into the account in the chronicles of king David.
1 Chronicles 27.25: 25 Over the king’s treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the treasures in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the towers, was Jonathan the son of Uzziah;
1 Chronicles 27.26: 26 Over those who did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub;
1 Chronicles 27.27: 27 and over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite; and over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite;
1 Chronicles 27.28: 28 and over the olive trees and the sycamore trees that were in the lowland was Baal Hanan the Gederite; and over the cellars of oil was Joash;
1 Chronicles 27.29: 29 and over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite; and over the herds that were in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai;
1 Chronicles 27.30: 30 and over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite; and over the donkeys was Jehdeiah the Meronothite; and over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagrite.
1 Chronicles 27.31: 31 All these were the rulers of the property which was king David’s.
1 Chronicles 27.32: 32 Also Jonathan, David’s uncle, was a counselor, a man of understanding, and a scribe. Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king’s sons.
1 Chronicles 27.33: 33 Ahithophel was the king’s counselor. Hushai the Archite was the king’s friend.
1 Chronicles 27.34: 34 After Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar. Joab was the captain of the king’s army.
1 Chronicles 28.0:
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1 Chronicles 28.1: 1 David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, the captains of the companies who served the king by division, the captains of thousands, the captains of hundreds, and the rulers over all the substance and possessions of the king and of his sons, with the officers and the mighty men, even all the mighty men of valor, to Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 28.2: 2 Then David the king stood up on his feet, and said, “Hear me, my brothers, and my people! As for me, it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and for the footstool of our God; and I had prepared for the building.
1 Chronicles 28.3: 3 But God said to me, ‘You shall not build a house for my name, because you are a man of war, and have shed blood.’
1 Chronicles 28.4: 4 However Yahweh, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever. For he has chosen Judah to be prince; and in the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.
1 Chronicles 28.5: 5 Of all my sons (for Yahweh has given me many sons), he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of Yahweh’s kingdom over Israel.
1 Chronicles 28.6: 6 He said to me, ‘Solomon, your son, shall build my house and my courts; for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.
1 Chronicles 28.7: 7 I will establish his kingdom forever if he continues to do my commandments and my ordinances, as it is today.’
1 Chronicles 28.8: 8 Now therefore, in the sight of all Israel, Yahweh’s assembly, and in the audience of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of Yahweh your God; that you may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children after you forever.
1 Chronicles 28.9: 9 You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
1 Chronicles 28.10: 10 Take heed now; for Yahweh has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it.”
1 Chronicles 28.11: 11 Then David gave to Solomon his son the plans for the porch of the temple, for its houses, for its treasuries, for its upper rooms, for its inner rooms, for the place of the mercy seat;
1 Chronicles 28.12: 12 and the plans of all that he had by the Spirit, for the courts of Yahweh’s house, for all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of God’s house, and for the treasuries of the dedicated things;
1 Chronicles 28.13: 13 also for the divisions of the priests and the Levites, for all the work of the service of Yahweh’s house, and for all the vessels of service in Yahweh’s house;
1 Chronicles 28.14: 14 of gold by weight for the gold, for all vessels of every kind of service; for all the vessels of silver by weight, for all vessels of every kind of service;
1 Chronicles 28.15: 15 by weight also for the lamp stands of gold, and for its lamps, of gold, by weight for every lamp stand and for its lamps; and for the lamp stands of silver, by weight for every lamp stand and for its lamps, according to the use of every lamp stand;
1 Chronicles 28.16: 16 and the gold by weight for the tables of show bread, for every table; and silver for the tables of silver;
1 Chronicles 28.17: 17 and the forks, the basins, and the cups, of pure gold; and for the golden bowls by weight for every bowl; and for the silver bowls by weight for every bowl;
1 Chronicles 28.18: 18 and for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the plans for the chariot, and the cherubim that spread out and cover the ark of Yahweh’s covenant.
1 Chronicles 28.19: 19 “All this”, David said, “I have been made to understand in writing from Yahweh’s hand, even all the works of this pattern.”
1 Chronicles 28.20: 20 David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do it. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed; for Yahweh God, even my God, is with you. He will not fail you, nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of Yahweh’s house is finished.
1 Chronicles 28.21: 21 Behold, there are the divisions of the priests and the Levites, for all the service of God’s house. Every willing man who has skill, for any kind of service, shall be with you in all kinds of work. Also the captains and all the people will be entirely at your command.”
1 Chronicles 29.0:
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1 Chronicles 29.1: 1 David the king said to all the assembly, “Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for Yahweh God.
1 Chronicles 29.2: 2 Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, the bronze for the things of bronze, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; also onyx stones, stones to be set, stones for inlaid work, of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.
1 Chronicles 29.3: 3 In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, since I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,
1 Chronicles 29.4: 4 even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, with which to overlay the walls of the houses;
1 Chronicles 29.5: 5 of gold for the things of gold, and of silver for the things of silver, and for all kinds of work to be made by the hands of artisans. Who then offers willingly to consecrate himself today to Yahweh?”
1 Chronicles 29.6: 6 Then the princes of the fathers’ households, and the princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers over the king’s work, offered willingly;
1 Chronicles 29.7: 7 and they gave for the service of God’s house of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand darics, of silver ten thousand talents, of bronze eighteen thousand talents, and of iron one hundred thousand talents.
1 Chronicles 29.8: 8 People with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of Yahweh’s house, under the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.
1 Chronicles 29.9: 9 Then the people rejoiced, because they offered willingly, because with a perfect heart they offered willingly to Yahweh; and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.
1 Chronicles 29.10: 10 Therefore David blessed Yahweh before all the assembly; and David said, “You are blessed, Yahweh, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.
1 Chronicles 29.11: 11 Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.
1 Chronicles 29.12: 12 Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all! In your hand is power and might! It is in your hand to make great, and to give strength to all!
1 Chronicles 29.13: 13 Now therefore, our God, we thank you, and praise your glorious name.
1 Chronicles 29.14: 14 But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and we have given you of your own.
1 Chronicles 29.15: 15 For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
1 Chronicles 29.16: 16 Yahweh our God, all this store that we have prepared to build you a house for your holy name comes from your hand, and is all your own.
1 Chronicles 29.17: 17 I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.
1 Chronicles 29.18: 18 Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;
1 Chronicles 29.19: 19 and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision.”
1 Chronicles 29.20: 20 Then David said to all the assembly, “Now bless Yahweh your God!”
All the assembly blessed Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads and prostrated themselves before Yahweh and the king.
1 Chronicles 29.21: 21 They sacrificed sacrifices to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings to Yahweh, on the next day after that day, even one thousand bulls, one thousand rams, and one thousand lambs, with their drink offerings and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel,
1 Chronicles 29.22: 22 and ate and drank before Yahweh on that day with great gladness. They made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him before Yahweh to be prince, and Zadok to be priest.
1 Chronicles 29.23: 23 Then Solomon sat on the throne of Yahweh as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.
1 Chronicles 29.24: 24 All the princes, the mighty men, and also all of the sons of king David submitted themselves to Solomon the king.
1 Chronicles 29.25: 25 Yahweh magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and gave to him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel.
1 Chronicles 29.26: 26 Now David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.
1 Chronicles 29.27: 27 The time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 29.28: 28 He died at a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor; and Solomon his son reigned in his place.
1 Chronicles 29.29: 29 Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Samuel the seer, and in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the history of Gad the seer,
1 Chronicles 29.30: 30 with all his reign and his might, and the times that went over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries.
Ezra 0.0:
The Book of
Ezra
Ezra 1.0:
1
Ezra 1.1: 1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
Ezra 1.2: 2 “Cyrus king of Persia says, ‘Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Ezra 1.3: 3 Whoever there is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of Yahweh, the God of Israel (he is God), which is in Jerusalem.
Ezra 1.4: 4 Whoever is left, in any place where he lives, let the men of his place help him with silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, in addition to the free will offering for God’s house which is in Jerusalem.’”
Ezra 1.5: 5 Then the heads of fathers’ households of Judah and Benjamin, the priests, and the Levites, all whose spirit God had stirred to go up rose up to build Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem.
Ezra 1.6: 6 All those who were around them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, with animals, and with precious things, in addition to all that was willingly offered.
Ezra 1.7: 7 Also Cyrus the king brought out the vessels of Yahweh’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought out of Jerusalem, and had put in the house of his gods;
Ezra 1.8: 8 even those, Cyrus king of Persia brought out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and counted them out to Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.
Ezra 1.9: 9 This is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, one thousand platters of silver, twenty-nine knives,
Ezra 1.10: 10 thirty bowls of gold, four hundred ten silver bowls of a second sort, and one thousand other vessels.
Ezra 1.11: 11 All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand four hundred. Sheshbazzar brought all these up when the captives were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
Ezra 2.0:
2
Ezra 2.1: 1 Now these are the children of the province, who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to his city;
Ezra 2.2: 2 who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah.
The number of the men of the people of Israel:
Ezra 2.3: 3 The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two.
Ezra 2.4: 4 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.
Ezra 2.5: 5 The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy-five.
Ezra 2.6: 6 The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred twelve.
Ezra 2.7: 7 The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
Ezra 2.8: 8 The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty-five.
Ezra 2.9: 9 The children of Zaccai, seven hundred sixty.
Ezra 2.10: 10 The children of Bani, six hundred forty-two.
Ezra 2.11: 11 The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-three.
Ezra 2.12: 12 The children of Azgad, one thousand two hundred twenty-two.
Ezra 2.13: 13 The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty-six.
Ezra 2.14: 14 The children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty-six.
Ezra 2.15: 15 The children of Adin, four hundred fifty-four.
Ezra 2.16: 16 The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.
Ezra 2.17: 17 The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty-three.
Ezra 2.18: 18 The children of Jorah, one hundred twelve.
Ezra 2.19: 19 The children of Hashum, two hundred twenty-three.
Ezra 2.20: 20 The children of Gibbar, ninety-five.
Ezra 2.21: 21 The children of Bethlehem, one hundred twenty-three.
Ezra 2.22: 22 The men of Netophah, fifty-six.
Ezra 2.23: 23 The men of Anathoth, one hundred twenty-eight.
Ezra 2.24: 24 The children of Azmaveth, forty-two.
Ezra 2.25: 25 The children of Kiriath Arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty-three.
Ezra 2.26: 26 The children of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.
Ezra 2.27: 27 The men of Michmas, one hundred twenty-two.
Ezra 2.28: 28 The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty-three.
Ezra 2.29: 29 The children of Nebo, fifty-two.
Ezra 2.30: 30 The children of Magbish, one hundred fifty-six.
Ezra 2.31: 31 The children of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
Ezra 2.32: 32 The children of Harim, three hundred twenty.
Ezra 2.33: 33 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty-five.
Ezra 2.34: 34 The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five.
Ezra 2.35: 35 The children of Senaah, three thousand six hundred thirty.
Ezra 2.36: 36 The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy-three.
Ezra 2.37: 37 The children of Immer, one thousand fifty-two.
Ezra 2.38: 38 The children of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred forty-seven.
Ezra 2.39: 39 The children of Harim, one thousand seventeen.
Ezra 2.40: 40 The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy-four.
Ezra 2.41: 41 The singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred twenty-eight.
Ezra 2.42: 42 The children of the gatekeepers: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all one hundred thirty-nine.
Ezra 2.43: 43 The temple servants: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
Ezra 2.44: 44 the children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon,
Ezra 2.45: 45 the children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub,
Ezra 2.46: 46 the children of Hagab, the children of Shamlai, the children of Hanan,
Ezra 2.47: 47 the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah,
Ezra 2.48: 48 the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam,
Ezra 2.49: 49 the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai,
Ezra 2.50: 50 the children of Asnah, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephisim,
Ezra 2.51: 51 the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,
Ezra 2.52: 52 the children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,
Ezra 2.53: 53 the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah,
Ezra 2.54: 54 the children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.
Ezra 2.55: 55 The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Hassophereth, the children of Peruda,
Ezra 2.56: 56 the children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,
Ezra 2.57: 57 the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth Hazzebaim, the children of Ami.
Ezra 2.58: 58 All the temple servants, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety-two.
Ezra 2.59: 59 These were those who went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers’ houses, and their offspring, whether they were of Israel:
Ezra 2.60: 60 the children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty-two.
Ezra 2.61: 61 Of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Hakkoz, and the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.
Ezra 2.62: 62 These sought their place among those who were registered by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they deemed disqualified and removed from the priesthood.
Ezra 2.63: 63 The governor told them that they should not eat of the most holy things until a priest stood up to serve with Urim and with Thummim.
Ezra 2.64: 64 The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,
Ezra 2.65: 65 in addition to their male servants and their female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven; and they had two hundred singing men and singing women.
Ezra 2.66: 66 Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, two hundred forty-five;
Ezra 2.67: 67 their camels, four hundred thirty-five; their donkeys, six thousand seven hundred twenty.
Ezra 2.68: 68 Some of the heads of fathers’ households, when they came to Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem, offered willingly for God’s house to set it up in its place.
Ezra 2.69: 69 They gave according to their ability into the treasury of the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold, and five thousand minas of silver, and one hundred priests’ garments.
Ezra 2.70: 70 So the priests and the Levites, with some of the people, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants, lived in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.
Ezra 3.0:
3
Ezra 3.1: 1 When the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
Ezra 3.2: 2 Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak stood up with his brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his brothers, and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.
Ezra 3.3: 3 In spite of their fear because of the peoples of the surrounding lands, they set the altar on its base; and they offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh, even burnt offerings morning and evening.
Ezra 3.4: 4 They kept the feast of booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required;
Ezra 3.5: 5 and afterward the continual burnt offering, the offerings of the new moons, of all the set feasts of Yahweh that were consecrated, and of everyone who willingly offered a free will offering to Yahweh.
Ezra 3.6: 6 From the first day of the seventh month, they began to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh; but the foundation of Yahweh’s temple was not yet laid.
Ezra 3.7: 7 They also gave money to the masons, and to the carpenters. They also gave food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had from Cyrus King of Persia.
Ezra 3.8: 8 Now in the second year of their coming to God’s house at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, began the work and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of Yahweh’s house.
Ezra 3.9: 9 Then Jeshua stood with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to have the oversight of the workmen in God’s house: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brothers the Levites.
Ezra 3.10: 10 When the builders laid the foundation of Yahweh’s temple, they set the priests in their clothing with trumpets, with the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise Yahweh, according to the directions of David king of Israel.
Ezra 3.11: 11 They sang to one another in praising and giving thanks to Yahweh, “For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel.” All the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised Yahweh, because the foundation of Yahweh’s house had been laid.
Ezra 3.12: 12 But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ households, the old men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice. Many also shouted aloud for joy,
Ezra 3.13: 13 so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people; for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard far away.
Ezra 4.0:
4
Ezra 4.1: 1 Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building a temple to Yahweh, the God of Israel;
Ezra 4.2: 2 they came near to Zerubbabel, and to the heads of fathers’ households, and said to them, “Let us build with you; for we seek your God, as you do; and we have been sacrificing to him since the days of Esar Haddon king of Assyria, who brought us up here.”
Ezra 4.3: 3 But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers’ households of Israel, said to them, “You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God; but we ourselves together will build to Yahweh, the God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.”
Ezra 4.4: 4 Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building.
Ezra 4.5: 5 They hired counselors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.
Ezra 4.6: 6 In the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.
Ezra 4.7: 7 In the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his companions, wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in Syrian, and delivered in the Syrian language.
Ezra 4.8: 8 Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king as follows,
Ezra 4.9: 9 then Rehum the chancellor, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions, the Dinaites, and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehaites, the Elamites,
Ezra 4.10: 10 and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnappar brought over, and set in the city of Samaria, and in the rest of the country beyond the River, and so forth, wrote.
Ezra 4.11: 11 This is the copy of the letter that they sent:
To King Artaxerxes,
From your servants the men beyond the River.
Ezra 4.12: 12 Be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you have come to us to Jerusalem. They are building the rebellious and bad city, and have finished the walls, and repaired the foundations.
Ezra 4.13: 13 Be it known now to the king that if this city is built and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and in the end it will be hurtful to the kings.
Ezra 4.14: 14 Now because we eat the salt of the palace, and it is not appropriate for us to see the king’s dishonor, therefore we have sent and informed the king,
Ezra 4.15: 15 that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers. You will see in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to kings and provinces, and that they have started rebellions within it in the past. That is why this city was destroyed.
Ezra 4.16: 16 We inform the king that, if this city is built and the walls finished, then you will have no possession beyond the River.
Ezra 4.17: 17 Then the king sent an answer to Rehum the chancellor, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions who live in Samaria, and in the rest of the country beyond the River:
Peace.
Ezra 4.18: 18 The letter which you sent to us has been plainly read before me.
Ezra 4.19: 19 I decreed, and search has been made, and it was found that this city has made insurrection against kings in the past, and that rebellion and revolts have been made in it.
Ezra 4.20: 20 There have also been mighty kings over Jerusalem, who have ruled over all the country beyond the River; and tribute, custom, and toll, was paid to them.
Ezra 4.21: 21 Make a decree now to cause these men to cease, and that this city not be built, until a decree is made by me.
Ezra 4.22: 22 Be careful that you not be slack doing so. Why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?
Ezra 4.23: 23 Then when the copy of king Artaxerxes’ letter was read before Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and made them to cease by force of arms.
Ezra 4.24: 24 Then work stopped on God’s house which is at Jerusalem. It stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
Ezra 5.0:
5
Ezra 5.1: 1 Now the prophets, Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem. They prophesied to them in the name of the God of Israel.
Ezra 5.2: 2 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak rose up and began to build God’s house which is at Jerusalem; and with them were the prophets of God, helping them.
Ezra 5.3: 3 At the same time Tattenai, the governor beyond the River came to them, with Shetharbozenai, and their companions, and asked them, “Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?”
Ezra 5.4: 4 They also asked for the names of the men were who were making this building.
Ezra 5.5: 5 But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they didn’t make them cease, until the matter should come to Darius, and an answer should be returned by letter concerning it.
Ezra 5.6: 6 The copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shetharbozenai, and his companions the Apharsachites, who were beyond the River, sent to Darius the king follows.
Ezra 5.7: 7 They sent a letter to him, in which was written:
To Darius the king, all peace.
Ezra 5.8: 8 Be it known to the king that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is built with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls. This work goes on with diligence and prospers in their hands.
Ezra 5.9: 9 Then we asked those elders, and said to them thus, “Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?”
Ezra 5.10: 10 We asked them their names also, to inform you that we might write the names of the men who were at their head.
Ezra 5.11: 11 Thus they returned us answer, saying, “We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and are building the house that was built these many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.
Ezra 5.12: 12 But after our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
Ezra 5.13: 13 But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God.
Ezra 5.14: 14 The gold and silver vessels of God’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought into the temple of Babylon, those Cyrus the king also took out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor.
Ezra 5.15: 15 He said to him, ‘Take these vessels, go, put them in the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let God’s house be built in its place.’
Ezra 5.16: 16 Then the same Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of God’s house which is in Jerusalem. Since that time even until now it has been being built, and yet it is not completed.
Ezra 5.17: 17 Now therefore, if it seems good to the king, let a search be made in the king’s treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it is so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem; and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.”
Ezra 6.0:
6
Ezra 6.1: 1 Then Darius the king made a decree, and the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon, was searched.
Ezra 6.2: 2 A scroll was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, and in it this was written for a record:
Ezra 6.3: 3 In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: Concerning God’s house at Jerusalem, let the house be built, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let its foundations be strongly laid; with its height sixty cubits, and its width sixty cubits;
Ezra 6.4: 4 with three courses of great stones and a course of new timber. Let the expenses be given out of the king’s house.
Ezra 6.5: 5 Also let the gold and silver vessels of God’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, be restored and brought again to the temple which is at Jerusalem, everything to its place. You shall put them in God’s house.
Ezra 6.6: 6 Now therefore, Tattenai, governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and your companions the Apharsachites, who are beyond the River, you must stay far from there.
Ezra 6.7: 7 Leave the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in its place.
Ezra 6.8: 8 Moreover I make a decree what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king’s goods, even of the tribute beyond the River, expenses must be given with all diligence to these men, that they not be hindered.
Ezra 6.9: 9 That which they have need of, including young bulls, rams, and lambs, for burnt offerings to the God of heaven; also wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the word of the priests who are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail;
Ezra 6.10: 10 that they may offer sacrifices of pleasant aroma to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.
Ezra 6.11: 11 I have also made a decree that whoever alters this message, let a beam be pulled out from his house, and let him be lifted up and fastened on it; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.
Ezra 6.12: 12 May the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow all kings and peoples who stretch out their hand to alter this, to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree. Let it be done with all diligence.
Ezra 6.13: 13 Then Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and their companions did accordingly with all diligence, because Darius the king had sent a decree.
Ezra 6.14: 14 The elders of the Jews built and prospered, through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. They built and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the decree of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.
Ezra 6.15: 15 This house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
Ezra 6.16: 16 The children of Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy.
Ezra 6.17: 17 They offered at the dedication of this house of God one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve male goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
Ezra 6.18: 18 They set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.
Ezra 6.19: 19 The children of the captivity kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
Ezra 6.20: 20 Because the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together, all of them were pure. They killed the Passover for all the children of the captivity, for their brothers the priests, and for themselves.
Ezra 6.21: 21 The children of Israel who had returned out of the captivity, and all who had separated themselves to them from the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, ate,
Ezra 6.22: 22 and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; because Yahweh had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of God, the God of Israel’s house.
Ezra 7.0:
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Ezra 7.1: 1 Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,
Ezra 7.2: 2 the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,
Ezra 7.3: 3 the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,
Ezra 7.4: 4 the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,
Ezra 7.5: 5 the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest—
Ezra 7.6: 6 this Ezra went up from Babylon. He was a skilled scribe in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to Yahweh his God’s hand on him.
Ezra 7.7: 7 Some of the children of Israel, including some of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants went up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
Ezra 7.8: 8 He came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.
Ezra 7.9: 9 For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylon; and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God on him.
Ezra 7.10: 10 For Ezra had set his heart to seek Yahweh’s law, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel.
Ezra 7.11: 11 Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, even the scribe of the words of Yahweh’s commandments, and of his statutes to Israel:
Ezra 7.12: 12 Artaxerxes, king of kings,
To Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the perfect God of heaven.
Now
Ezra 7.13: 13 I make a decree, that all those of the people of Israel, and their priests and the Levites, in my realm, who intend of their own free will to go to Jerusalem, go with you.
Ezra 7.14: 14 Because you are sent by the king and his seven counselors, to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of your God which is in your hand,
Ezra 7.15: 15 and to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,
Ezra 7.16: 16 and all the silver and gold that you will find in all the province of Babylon, with the free will offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem;
Ezra 7.17: 17 therefore you shall with all diligence buy with this money bulls, rams, lambs, with their meal offerings and their drink offerings, and shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.
Ezra 7.18: 18 Whatever seems good to you and to your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, do that according to the will of your God.
Ezra 7.19: 19 The vessels that are given to you for the service of the house of your God, deliver before the God of Jerusalem.
Ezra 7.20: 20 Whatever more will be needed for the house of your God, which you may have occasion to give, give it out of the king’s treasure house.
Ezra 7.21: 21 I, even I Artaxerxes the king, make a decree to all the treasurers who are beyond the River, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, requires of you, it shall be done with all diligence,
Ezra 7.22: 22 up to one hundred talents of silver, and to one hundred cors of wheat, and to one hundred baths of wine, and to one hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
Ezra 7.23: 23 Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done exactly for the house of the God of heaven; for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?
Ezra 7.24: 24 Also we inform you that it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll, on any of the priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, temple servants, or laborers of this house of God.
Ezra 7.25: 25 You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, who all know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn’t know them.
Ezra 7.26: 26 Whoever will not do the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed on him with all diligence, whether it is to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
Ezra 7.27: 27 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem;
Ezra 7.28: 28 and has extended loving kindness to me before the king and his counselors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. I was strengthened according to Yahweh my God’s hand on me, and I gathered together chief men out of Israel to go up with me.
Ezra 8.0:
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Ezra 8.1: 1 Now these are the heads of their fathers’ households, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:
Ezra 8.2: 2 Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom.
Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel.
Of the sons of David, Hattush.
Ezra 8.3: 3 Of the sons of Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and with him were listed by genealogy of the males one hundred fifty.
Ezra 8.4: 4 Of the sons of Pahathmoab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah; and with him two hundred males.
Ezra 8.5: 5 Of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him three hundred males.
Ezra 8.6: 6 Of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan; and with him fifty males.
Ezra 8.7: 7 Of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah; and with him seventy males.
Ezra 8.8: 8 Of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael; and with him eighty males.
Ezra 8.9: 9 Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel; and with him two hundred eighteen males.
Ezra 8.10: 10 Of the sons of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah; and with him one hundred sixty males.
Ezra 8.11: 11 Of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai; and with him twenty-eight males.
Ezra 8.12: 12 Of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan; and with him one hundred ten males.
Ezra 8.13: 13 Of the sons of Adonikam, who were the last; and these are their names: Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah; and with them sixty males.
Ezra 8.14: 14 Of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud; and with them seventy males.
Ezra 8.15: 15 I gathered them together to the river that runs to Ahava; and there we encamped three days: and I looked around at the people and the priests, and found there were none of the sons of Levi.
Ezra 8.16: 16 Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, for Elnathan, for Jarib, for Elnathan, for Nathan, for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib and for Elnathan, who were teachers.
Ezra 8.17: 17 I sent them out to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia; and I told them what they should tell Iddo, and his brothers the temple servants, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring to us ministers for the house of our God.
Ezra 8.18: 18 According to the good hand of our God on us they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brothers, eighteen;
Ezra 8.19: 19 and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty;
Ezra 8.20: 20 and of the temple servants, whom David and the princes had given for the service of the Levites, two hundred twenty temple servants. All of them were mentioned by name.
Ezra 8.21: 21 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our possessions.
Ezra 8.22: 22 For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”
Ezra 8.23: 23 So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he granted our request.
Ezra 8.24: 24 Then I set apart twelve of the chiefs of the priests, even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,
Ezra 8.25: 25 and weighed to them the silver, the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, his counselors, his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered.
Ezra 8.26: 26 I weighed into their hand six hundred fifty talents of silver, one hundred talents of silver vessels; one hundred talents of gold,
Ezra 8.27: 27 twenty bowls of gold weighing one thousand darics; and two vessels of fine bright bronze, precious as gold.
Ezra 8.28: 28 I said to them, “You are holy to Yahweh, and the vessels are holy. The silver and the gold are a free will offering to Yahweh, the God of your fathers.
Ezra 8.29: 29 Watch and keep them, until you weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the princes of the fathers’ households of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the rooms of Yahweh’s house.”
Ezra 8.30: 30 So the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem to the house of our God.
Ezra 8.31: 31 Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandit by the way.
Ezra 8.32: 32 We came to Jerusalem, and stayed there three days.
Ezra 8.33: 33 On the fourth day the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed in the house of our God into the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, the Levite;
Ezra 8.34: 34 everything by number and by weight; and all the weight was written at that time.
Ezra 8.35: 35 The children of the captivity, who had come out of exile, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve male goats for a sin offering. All this was a burnt offering to Yahweh.
Ezra 8.36: 36 They delivered the king’s commissions to the king’s local governors, and to the governors beyond the River. So they supported the people and God’s house.
Ezra 9.0:
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Ezra 9.1: 1 Now when these things were done, the princes came near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
Ezra 9.2: 2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy offspring have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.”
Ezra 9.3: 3 When I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and pulled the hair out of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.
Ezra 9.4: 4 Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel were assembled to me, because of their trespass of the captivity; and I sat confounded until the evening offering.
Ezra 9.5: 5 At the evening offering I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Yahweh my God;
Ezra 9.6: 6 and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.
Ezra 9.7: 7 Since the days of our fathers we have been exceedingly guilty to this day; and for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.
Ezra 9.8: 8 Now for a little moment grace has been shown from Yahweh our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and revived us a little in our bondage.
Ezra 9.9: 9 For we are bondservants; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to revive us, to set up the house of our God, and to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
Ezra 9.10: 10 “Now, our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments,
Ezra 9.11: 11 which you have commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land, to which you go to possess it, is an unclean land through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, through their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their filthiness.
Ezra 9.12: 12 Now therefore don’t give your daughters to their sons. Don’t take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’
Ezra 9.13: 13 “After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,
Ezra 9.14: 14 shall we again break your commandments, and join ourselves with the peoples that do these abominations? Wouldn’t you be angry with us until you had consumed us, so that there would be no remnant, nor any to escape?
Ezra 9.15: 15 Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guiltiness; for no one can stand before you because of this.”
Ezra 10.0:
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Ezra 10.1: 1 Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before God’s house, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very bitterly.
Ezra 10.2: 2 Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered Ezra, “We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land. Yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.
Ezra 10.3: 3 Now therefore let’s make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and those who are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the law.
Ezra 10.4: 4 Arise; for the matter belongs to you, and we are with you. Be courageous, and do it.”
Ezra 10.5: 5 Then Ezra arose, and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word. So they swore.
Ezra 10.6: 6 Then Ezra rose up from before God’s house, and went into the room of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib. When he came there, he ate no bread, nor drank water; for he mourned because of their trespass of the captivity.
Ezra 10.7: 7 They made a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together to Jerusalem;
Ezra 10.8: 8 and that whoever didn’t come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his possessions should be forfeited, and himself separated from the assembly of the captivity.
Ezra 10.9: 9 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the wide place in front of God’s house, trembling because of this matter, and because of the great rain.
Ezra 10.10: 10 Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel.
Ezra 10.11: 11 Now therefore make confession to Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.”
Ezra 10.12: 12 Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, “We must do as you have said concerning us.
Ezra 10.13: 13 But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand outside. This is not a work of one day or two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.
Ezra 10.14: 14 Now let our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all those who are in our cities who have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and its judges, until the fierce wrath of our God is turned from us, until this matter is resolved.”
Ezra 10.15: 15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against this; and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.
Ezra 10.16: 16 The children of the captivity did so. Ezra the priest, with certain heads of fathers’ households, after their fathers’ houses, and all of them by their names, were set apart; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
Ezra 10.17: 17 They finished with all the men who had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.
Ezra 10.18: 18 Among the sons of the priests there were found who had married foreign women:
of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
Ezra 10.19: 19 They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.
Ezra 10.20: 20 Of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.
Ezra 10.21: 21 Of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.
Ezra 10.22: 22 Of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.
Ezra 10.23: 23 Of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (also called Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
Ezra 10.24: 24 Of the singers: Eliashib. Of the gatekeepers: Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.
Ezra 10.25: 25 Of Israel: Of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, and Izziah, and Malchijah, and Mijamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah.
Ezra 10.26: 26 Of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Elijah.
Ezra 10.27: 27 Of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.
Ezra 10.28: 28 Of the sons of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, Athlai.
Ezra 10.29: 29 Of the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal, Jeremoth.
Ezra 10.30: 30 Of the sons of Pahathmoab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.
Ezra 10.31: 31 Of the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,
Ezra 10.32: 32 Benjamin, Malluch, Shemariah.
Ezra 10.33: 33 Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, Shimei.
Ezra 10.34: 34 Of the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, and Uel,
Ezra 10.35: 35 Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi,
Ezra 10.36: 36 Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,
Ezra 10.37: 37 Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasu,
Ezra 10.38: 38 and Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
Ezra 10.39: 39 and Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,
Ezra 10.40: 40 Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,
Ezra 10.41: 41 Azarel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah,
Ezra 10.42: 42 Shallum, Amariah, Joseph.
Ezra 10.43: 43 Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iddo, and Joel, Benaiah.
Ezra 10.44: 44 All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
Lamentations 0.0:
The
Lamentations
of Jeremiah
Lamentations 1.0:
1
Lamentations 1.1: 1 How the city sits solitary,
that was full of people!
She has become as a widow,
who was great among the nations!
She who was a princess among the provinces
has become a slave!
Lamentations 1.2: 2 She weeps bitterly in the night.
Her tears are on her cheeks.
Among all her lovers
she has no one to comfort her.
All her friends have dealt treacherously with her.
They have become her enemies.
Lamentations 1.3: 3 Judah has gone into captivity because of affliction,
and because of great servitude.
She dwells among the nations.
She finds no rest.
All her persecutors overtook her within the straits.
Lamentations 1.4: 4 The roads to Zion mourn,
because no one comes to the solemn assembly.
All her gates are desolate.
Her priests sigh.
Her virgins are afflicted,
and she herself is in bitterness.
Lamentations 1.5: 5 Her adversaries have become the head.
Her enemies prosper;
for Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions.
Her young children have gone into captivity before the adversary.
Lamentations 1.6: 6 All majesty has departed from the daughter of Zion.
Her princes have become like deer that find no pasture.
They have gone without strength before the pursuer.
Lamentations 1.7: 7 Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries
all her pleasant things that were from the days of old;
when her people fell into the hand of the adversary,
and no one helped her.
The adversaries saw her.
They mocked at her desolations.
Lamentations 1.8: 8 Jerusalem has grievously sinned.
Therefore she has become unclean.
All who honored her despise her,
because they have seen her nakedness.
Yes, she sighs, and turns backward.
Lamentations 1.9: 9 Her filthiness was in her skirts.
She didn’t remember her latter end.
Therefore she has come down astoundingly.
She has no comforter.
“See, Yahweh, my affliction;
for the enemy has magnified himself.”
Lamentations 1.10: 10 The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things;
for she has seen that the nations have entered into her sanctuary,
concerning whom you commanded that they should not enter into your assembly.
Lamentations 1.11: 11 All her people sigh.
They seek bread.
They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh their soul.
“Look, Yahweh, and see;
for I have become despised.”
Lamentations 1.12: 12 “Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?
Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow,
which is brought on me,
with which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Lamentations 1.13: 13 “From on high has he sent fire into my bones,
and it prevails against them.
He has spread a net for my feet.
He has turned me back.
He has made me desolate and I faint all day long.
Lamentations 1.14: 14 “The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand.
They are knit together.
They have come up on my neck.
He made my strength fail.
The Lord has delivered me into their hands,
against whom I am not able to stand.
Lamentations 1.15: 15 “The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men within me.
He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men.
The Lord has trodden the virgin daughter of Judah as in a wine press.
Lamentations 1.16: 16 “For these things I weep.
My eye, my eye runs down with water,
because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me.
My children are desolate,
because the enemy has prevailed.”
Lamentations 1.17: 17 Zion spreads out her hands.
There is no one to comfort her.
Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob,
that those who are around him should be his adversaries.
Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.
Lamentations 1.18: 18 “Yahweh is righteous;
for I have rebelled against his commandment.
Please hear all you peoples,
and see my sorrow.
My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.
Lamentations 1.19: 19 “I called for my lovers,
but they deceived me.
My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city,
while they sought food for themselves to refresh their souls.
Lamentations 1.20: 20 “Look, Yahweh; for I am in distress.
My heart is troubled.
My heart turns over within me,
for I have grievously rebelled.
Abroad, the sword bereaves.
At home, it is like death.
Lamentations 1.21: 21 “They have heard that I sigh.
There is no one to comfort me.
All my enemies have heard of my trouble.
They are glad that you have done it.
You will bring the day that you have proclaimed,
and they will be like me.
Lamentations 1.22: 22 “Let all their wickedness come before you.
Do to them as you have done to me for all my transgressions.
For my sighs are many,
and my heart is faint.
Lamentations 2.0:
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Lamentations 2.1: 1 How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger!
He has cast the beauty of Israel down from heaven to the earth,
and hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
Lamentations 2.2: 2 The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob
without pity.
He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah.
He has brought them down to the ground.
He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
Lamentations 2.3: 3 He has cut off all the horn of Israel in fierce anger.
He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy.
He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire,
which devours all around.
Lamentations 2.4: 4 He has bent his bow like an enemy.
He has stood with his right hand as an adversary.
Has killed all that were pleasant to the eye.
In the tent of the daughter of Zion, he has poured out his wrath like fire.
Lamentations 2.5: 5 The Lord has become as an enemy.
He has swallowed up Israel.
He has swallowed up all her palaces.
He has destroyed his strongholds.
He has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.
Lamentations 2.6: 6 He has violently taken away his tabernacle,
as if it were of a garden.
He has destroyed his place of assembly.
Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion.
In the indignation of his anger, he has despised the king and the priest.
Lamentations 2.7: 7 The Lord has cast off his altar.
He has abhorred his sanctuary.
He has given the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy.
They have made a noise in Yahweh’s house,
as in the day of a solemn assembly.
Lamentations 2.8: 8 Yahweh has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion.
He has stretched out the line.
He has not withdrawn his hand from destroying;
He has made the rampart and wall lament.
They languish together.
Lamentations 2.9: 9 Her gates have sunk into the ground.
He has destroyed and broken her bars.
Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not.
Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.
Lamentations 2.10: 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground.
They keep silence.
They have cast up dust on their heads.
They have clothed themselves with sackcloth.
The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
Lamentations 2.11: 11 My eyes fail with tears.
My heart is troubled.
My liver is poured on the earth,
because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.
Lamentations 2.12: 12 They ask their mothers,
“Where is grain and wine?”
when they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city,
when their soul is poured out into their mothers’ bosom.
Lamentations 2.13: 13 What shall I testify to you?
What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem?
What shall I compare to you,
that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion?
For your breach is as big as the sea.
Who can heal you?
Lamentations 2.14: 14 Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions for you.
They have not uncovered your iniquity,
to reverse your captivity,
but have seen for you false revelations and causes of banishment.
Lamentations 2.15: 15 All that pass by clap their hands at you.
They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying,
“Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty,
the joy of the whole earth’?”
Lamentations 2.16: 16 All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you.
They hiss and gnash their teeth.
They say, “We have swallowed her up.
Certainly this is the day that we looked for.
We have found it.
We have seen it.”
Lamentations 2.17: 17 Yahweh has done that which he planned.
He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old.
He has thrown down,
and has not pitied.
He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you.
He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
Lamentations 2.18: 18 Their heart cried to the Lord.
O wall of the daughter of Zion,
let tears run down like a river day and night.
Give yourself no relief.
Don’t let the your eyes rest.
Lamentations 2.19: 19 Arise, cry out in the night,
at the beginning of the watches!
Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord.
Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children,
who faint for hunger at the head of every street.
Lamentations 2.20: 20 “Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus!
Should the women eat their offspring,
the children that they held and bounced on their knees?
Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Lamentations 2.21: 21 “The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets.
My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword.
You have killed them in the day of your anger.
You have slaughtered, and not pitied.
Lamentations 2.22: 22 “You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side.
There was no one that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh’s anger.
My enemy has consumed those whom I have cared for and brought up.
Lamentations 3.0:
3
Lamentations 3.1: 1 I am the man who has seen affliction
by the rod of his wrath.
Lamentations 3.2: 2 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness,
and not in light.
Lamentations 3.3: 3 Surely he turns his hand against me
again and again all day long.
Lamentations 3.4: 4 He has made my flesh and my skin old.
He has broken my bones.
Lamentations 3.5: 5 He has built against me,
and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
Lamentations 3.6: 6 He has made me dwell in dark places,
as those who have been long dead.
Lamentations 3.7: 7 He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out.
He has made my chain heavy.
Lamentations 3.8: 8 Yes, when I cry, and call for help,
he shuts out my prayer.
Lamentations 3.9: 9 He has walled up my ways with cut stone.
He has made my paths crooked.
Lamentations 3.10: 10 He is to me as a bear lying in wait,
as a lion in secret places.
Lamentations 3.11: 11 He has turned away my ways,
and pulled me in pieces.
He has made me desolate.
Lamentations 3.12: 12 He has bent his bow,
and set me as a mark for the arrow.
Lamentations 3.13: 13 He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
Lamentations 3.14: 14 I have become a derision to all my people,
and their song all day long.
Lamentations 3.15: 15 He has filled me with bitterness.
He has stuffed me with wormwood.
Lamentations 3.16: 16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel.
He has covered me with ashes.
Lamentations 3.17: 17 You have removed my soul far away from peace.
I forgot prosperity.
Lamentations 3.18: 18 I said, “My strength has perished,
along with my expectation from Yahweh.”
Lamentations 3.19: 19 Remember my affliction and my misery,
the wormwood and the bitterness.
Lamentations 3.20: 20 My soul still remembers them,
and is bowed down within me.
Lamentations 3.21: 21 This I recall to my mind;
therefore I have hope.
Lamentations 3.22: 22 It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed,
because his compassion doesn’t fail.
Lamentations 3.23: 23 They are new every morning.
Great is your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3.24: 24 “Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul.
“Therefore I will hope in him.”
Lamentations 3.25: 25 Yahweh is good to those who wait for him,
to the soul who seeks him.
Lamentations 3.26: 26 It is good that a man should hope
and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
Lamentations 3.27: 27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
Lamentations 3.28: 28 Let him sit alone and keep silence,
because he has laid it on him.
Lamentations 3.29: 29 Let him put his mouth in the dust,
if it is so that there may be hope.
Lamentations 3.30: 30 Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him.
Let him be filled full of reproach.
Lamentations 3.31: 31 For the Lord will not cast off forever.
Lamentations 3.32: 32 For though he causes grief,
yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
Lamentations 3.33: 33 For he does not afflict willingly,
nor grieve the children of men.
Lamentations 3.34: 34 To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
Lamentations 3.35: 35 to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
Lamentations 3.36: 36 to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.
Lamentations 3.37: 37 Who is he who says, and it comes to pass,
when the Lord doesn’t command it?
Lamentations 3.38: 38 Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
Lamentations 3.39: 39 Why does a living man complain,
a man for the punishment of his sins?
Lamentations 3.40: 40 Let us search and try our ways,
and turn again to Yahweh.
Lamentations 3.41: 41 Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
Lamentations 3.42: 42 “We have transgressed and have rebelled.
You have not pardoned.
Lamentations 3.43: 43 “You have covered us with anger and pursued us.
You have killed.
You have not pitied.
Lamentations 3.44: 44 You have covered yourself with a cloud,
so that no prayer can pass through.
Lamentations 3.45: 45 You have made us an off-scouring and refuse
in the middle of the peoples.
Lamentations 3.46: 46 “All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
Lamentations 3.47: 47 Terror and the pit have come on us,
devastation and destruction.”
Lamentations 3.48: 48 My eye runs down with streams of water,
for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 3.49: 49 My eye pours down
and doesn’t cease,
without any intermission,
Lamentations 3.50: 50 until Yahweh looks down,
and sees from heaven.
Lamentations 3.51: 51 My eye affects my soul,
because of all the daughters of my city.
Lamentations 3.52: 52 They have chased me relentlessly like a bird,
those who are my enemies without cause.
Lamentations 3.53: 53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon,
and have cast a stone on me.
Lamentations 3.54: 54 Waters flowed over my head.
I said, “I am cut off.”
Lamentations 3.55: 55 I called on your name, Yahweh,
out of the lowest dungeon.
Lamentations 3.56: 56 You heard my voice:
“Don’t hide your ear from my sighing,
and my cry.”
Lamentations 3.57: 57 You came near in the day that I called on you.
You said, “Don’t be afraid.”
Lamentations 3.58: 58 Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul.
You have redeemed my life.
Lamentations 3.59: 59 Yahweh, you have seen my wrong.
Judge my cause.
Lamentations 3.60: 60 You have seen all their vengeance
and all their plans against me.
Lamentations 3.61: 61 You have heard their reproach, Yahweh,
and all their plans against me,
Lamentations 3.62: 62 the lips of those that rose up against me,
and their plots against me all day long.
Lamentations 3.63: 63 You see their sitting down and their rising up.
I am their song.
Lamentations 3.64: 64 You will pay them back, Yahweh,
according to the work of their hands.
Lamentations 3.65: 65 You will give them hardness of heart,
your curse to them.
Lamentations 3.66: 66 You will pursue them in anger,
and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.
Lamentations 4.0:
4
Lamentations 4.1: 1 How the gold has become dim!
The most pure gold has changed!
The stones of the sanctuary are poured out
at the head of every street.
Lamentations 4.2: 2 The precious sons of Zion,
comparable to fine gold,
how they are esteemed as earthen pitchers,
the work of the hands of the potter!
Lamentations 4.3: 3 Even the jackals offer their breast.
They nurse their young ones.
But the daughter of my people has become cruel,
like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Lamentations 4.4: 4 The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst.
The young children ask bread,
and no one breaks it for them.
Lamentations 4.5: 5 Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets.
Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.
Lamentations 4.6: 6 For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom,
which was overthrown as in a moment.
No hands were laid on her.
Lamentations 4.7: 7 Her nobles were purer than snow.
They were whiter than milk.
They were more ruddy in body than rubies.
Their polishing was like sapphire.
Lamentations 4.8: 8 Their appearance is blacker than a coal.
They are not known in the streets.
Their skin clings to their bones.
It is withered.
It has become like a stick.
Lamentations 4.9: 9 Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger;
For these pine away, stricken through,
for lack of the fruits of the field.
Lamentations 4.10: 10 The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children.
They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 4.11: 11 Yahweh has accomplished his wrath.
He has poured out his fierce anger.
He has kindled a fire in Zion,
which has devoured its foundations.
Lamentations 4.12: 12 The kings of the earth didn’t believe,
neither did all the inhabitants of the world,
that the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.
Lamentations 4.13: 13 It is because of the sins of her prophets
and the iniquities of her priests,
That have shed the blood of the just in the middle of her.
Lamentations 4.14: 14 They wander as blind men in the streets.
They are polluted with blood,
So that men can’t touch their garments.
Lamentations 4.15: 15 “Go away!” they cried to them.
“Unclean! Go away! Go away! Don’t touch!
When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations,
“They can’t live here any more.”
Lamentations 4.16: 16 Yahweh’s anger has scattered them.
He will not pay attention to them any more.
They didn’t respect the persons of the priests.
They didn’t favor the elders.
Lamentations 4.17: 17 Our eyes still fail,
looking in vain for our help.
In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
Lamentations 4.18: 18 They hunt our steps,
so that we can’t go in our streets.
Our end is near.
Our days are fulfilled,
for our end has come.
Lamentations 4.19: 19 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky.
They chased us on the mountains.
They set an ambush for us in the wilderness.
Lamentations 4.20: 20 The breath of our nostrils,
the anointed of Yahweh,
was taken in their pits;
of whom we said,
under his shadow we will live among the nations.
Lamentations 4.21: 21 Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom,
that dwells in the land of Uz.
The cup will pass through to you also.
You will be drunken,
and will make yourself naked.
Lamentations 4.22: 22 The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, daughter of Zion.
He will no more carry you away into captivity.
He will visit your iniquity, daughter of Edom.
He will uncover your sins.
Lamentations 5.0:
5
Lamentations 5.1: 1 Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us.
Look, and see our reproach.
Lamentations 5.2: 2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
our houses to aliens.
Lamentations 5.3: 3 We are orphans and fatherless.
Our mothers are as widows.
Lamentations 5.4: 4 We have drunken our water for money.
Our wood is sold to us.
Lamentations 5.5: 5 Our pursuers are on our necks.
We are weary, and have no rest.
Lamentations 5.6: 6 We have given our hands to the Egyptians,
and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Lamentations 5.7: 7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more.
We have borne their iniquities.
Lamentations 5.8: 8 Servants rule over us.
There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.
Lamentations 5.9: 9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives,
because of the sword of the wilderness.
Lamentations 5.10: 10 Our skin is black like an oven,
because of the burning heat of famine.
Lamentations 5.11: 11 They ravished the women in Zion,
the virgins in the cities of Judah.
Lamentations 5.12: 12 Princes were hanged up by their hands.
The faces of elders were not honored.
Lamentations 5.13: 13 The young men carry millstones.
The children stumbled under loads of wood.
Lamentations 5.14: 14 The elders have ceased from the gate,
and the young men from their music.
Lamentations 5.15: 15 The joy of our heart has ceased.
Our dance is turned into mourning.
Lamentations 5.16: 16 The crown has fallen from our head.
Woe to us, for we have sinned!
Lamentations 5.17: 17 For this our heart is faint.
For these things our eyes are dim.
Lamentations 5.18: 18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate.
The foxes walk on it.
Lamentations 5.19: 19 You, Yahweh, remain forever.
Your throne is from generation to generation.
Lamentations 5.20: 20 Why do you forget us forever,
and forsake us for so long a time?
Lamentations 5.21: 21 Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we will be turned.
Renew our days as of old.
Lamentations 5.22: 22 But you have utterly rejected us.
You are very angry against us.
Zephaniah 0.0:
The Book of
Zephaniah
Zephaniah 1.0:
1
Zephaniah 1.1: 1 Yahweh’s word which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah.
Zephaniah 1.2: 2 I will utterly sweep away everything from the surface of the earth, says Yahweh.
Zephaniah 1.3: 3 I will sweep away man and animal. I will sweep away the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and the heaps of rubble with the wicked. I will cut off man from the surface of the earth, says Yahweh.
Zephaniah 1.4: 4 I will stretch out my hand against Judah, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place: the name of the idolatrous and pagan priests,
Zephaniah 1.5: 5 those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam,
Zephaniah 1.6: 6 those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.
Zephaniah 1.7: 7 Be silent at the presence of the Lord Yahweh, for the day of Yahweh is at hand. For Yahweh has prepared a sacrifice. He has consecrated his guests.
Zephaniah 1.8: 8 It will happen in the day of Yahweh’s sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, the king’s sons, and all those who are clothed with foreign clothing.
Zephaniah 1.9: 9 In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.
Zephaniah 1.10: 10 In that day, says Yahweh, there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.
Zephaniah 1.11: 11 Wail, you inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the people of Canaan are undone! All those who were loaded with silver are cut off.
Zephaniah 1.12: 12 It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, “Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil.”
Zephaniah 1.13: 13 Their wealth will become a plunder, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won’t inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won’t drink their wine.
Zephaniah 1.14: 14 The great day of Yahweh is near. It is near, and hurries greatly, the voice of the day of Yahweh. The mighty man cries there bitterly.
Zephaniah 1.15: 15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,
Zephaniah 1.16: 16 a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.
Zephaniah 1.17: 17 I will bring distress on men, that they will walk like blind men, because they have sinned against Yahweh, and their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.
Zephaniah 1.18: 18 Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.
Zephaniah 2.0:
2
Zephaniah 2.1: 1 Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, you nation that has no shame,
Zephaniah 2.2: 2 before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Yahweh comes on you, before the day of Yahweh’s anger comes on you.
Zephaniah 2.3: 3 Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.
Zephaniah 2.4: 4 For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted up.
Zephaniah 2.5: 5 Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! Yahweh’s word is against you, Canaan, the land of the Philistines. I will destroy you, that there will be no inhabitant.
Zephaniah 2.6: 6 The sea coast will be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.
Zephaniah 2.7: 7 The coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah. They will find pasture. In the houses of Ashkelon, they will lie down in the evening, for Yahweh, their God, will visit them, and restore them.
Zephaniah 2.8: 8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.
Zephaniah 2.9: 9 Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.
Zephaniah 2.10: 10 This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies.
Zephaniah 2.11: 11 Yahweh will be awesome to them, for he will famish all the gods of the land. Men will worship him, everyone from his place, even all the shores of the nations.
Zephaniah 2.12: 12 You Cushites also, you will be killed by my sword.
Zephaniah 2.13: 13 He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the wilderness.
Zephaniah 2.14: 14 Herds will lie down in the middle of her, all the animals of the nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams.
Zephaniah 2.15: 15 This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.
Zephaniah 3.0:
3
Zephaniah 3.1: 1 Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city!
Zephaniah 3.2: 2 She didn’t obey the voice. She didn’t receive correction. She didn’t trust in Yahweh. She didn’t draw near to her God.
Zephaniah 3.3: 3 Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.
Zephaniah 3.4: 4 Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.
Zephaniah 3.5: 5 Yahweh, within her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know no shame.
Zephaniah 3.6: 6 I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.
Zephaniah 3.7: 7 I said, “Just fear me. Receive correction, so that her dwelling won’t be cut off, according to all that I have appointed concerning her.” But they rose early and corrupted all their doings.
Zephaniah 3.8: 8 “Therefore wait for me”, says Yahweh, “until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
Zephaniah 3.9: 9 For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on Yahweh’s name, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.
Zephaniah 3.10: 10 From beyond the rivers of Cush, my worshipers, even the daughter of my dispersed people, will bring my offering.
Zephaniah 3.11: 11 In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out from among you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be arrogant in my holy mountain.
Zephaniah 3.12: 12 But I will leave among you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in Yahweh’s name.
Zephaniah 3.13: 13 The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid.”
Zephaniah 3.14: 14 Sing, daughter of Zion! Shout, Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem.
Zephaniah 3.15: 15 Yahweh has taken away your judgments. He has thrown out your enemy. The King of Israel, Yahweh, is among you. You will not be afraid of evil any more.
Zephaniah 3.16: 16 In that day, it will be said to Jerusalem, “Don’t be afraid, Zion. Don’t let your hands be weak.”
Zephaniah 3.17: 17 Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.
Zephaniah 3.18: 18 I will remove those who grieve about the appointed feasts from you. They are a burden and a reproach to you.
Zephaniah 3.19: 19 Behold, at that time I will deal with all those who afflict you, and I will save those who are lame, and gather those who were driven away. I will give them praise and honor, whose shame has been in all the earth.
Zephaniah 3.20: 20 At that time I will bring you in, and at that time I will gather you; for I will give you honor and praise among all the peoples of the earth, when I restore your fortunes before your eyes, says Yahweh.
Galatians 0.0:
Paul’s Letter to the Galatians
Galatians 1.0:
1
Galatians 1.1: 1 Paul, an apostle—not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—
Galatians 1.2: 2 and all the brothers who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:
Galatians 1.3: 3 Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,
Galatians 1.4: 4 who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—
Galatians 1.5: 5 to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
Galatians 1.6: 6 I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”,
Galatians 1.7: 7 but there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.
Galatians 1.8: 8 But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any “good news” other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.
Galatians 1.9: 9 As we have said before, so I now say again: if any man preaches to you any “good news” other than that which you received, let him be cursed.
Galatians 1.10: 10 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.
Galatians 1.11: 11 But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not according to man.
Galatians 1.12: 12 For I didn’t receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.
Galatians 1.13: 13 For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God and ravaged it.
Galatians 1.14: 14 I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
Galatians 1.15: 15 But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace
Galatians 1.16: 16 to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,
Galatians 1.17: 17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus.
Galatians 1.18: 18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days.
Galatians 1.19: 19 But of the other apostles I saw no one except James, the Lord’s brother.
Galatians 1.20: 20 Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I’m not lying.
Galatians 1.21: 21 Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
Galatians 1.22: 22 I was still unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea which were in Christ,
Galatians 1.23: 23 but they only heard: “He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy.”
Galatians 1.24: 24 So they glorified God in me.
Galatians 2.0:
2
Galatians 2.1: 1 Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.
Galatians 2.2: 2 I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.
Galatians 2.3: 3 But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.
Galatians 2.4: 4 This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,
Galatians 2.5: 5 to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.
Galatians 2.6: 6 But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,
Galatians 2.7: 7 but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcised, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcised—
Galatians 2.8: 8 for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles—
Galatians 2.9: 9 and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.
Galatians 2.10: 10 They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.
Galatians 2.11: 11 But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.
Galatians 2.12: 12 For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.
Galatians 2.13: 13 And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.
Galatians 2.14: 14 But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?
Galatians 2.15: 15 “We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,
Galatians 2.16: 16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
Galatians 2.17: 17 But if while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!
Galatians 2.18: 18 For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.
Galatians 2.19: 19 For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
Galatians 2.20: 20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
Galatians 2.21: 21 I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”
Galatians 3.0:
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Galatians 3.1: 1 Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?
Galatians 3.2: 2 I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
Galatians 3.3: 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?
Galatians 3.4: 4 Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?
Galatians 3.5: 5 He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you and does miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
Galatians 3.6: 6 Even as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”
Galatians 3.7: 7 Know therefore that those who are of faith are children of Abraham.
Galatians 3.8: 8 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”
Galatians 3.9: 9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.
Galatians 3.10: 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”
Galatians 3.11: 11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”
Galatians 3.12: 12 The law is not of faith, but, “The man who does them will live by them.”
Galatians 3.13: 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”
Galatians 3.14: 14 that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Galatians 3.15: 15 Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void or adds to it.
Galatians 3.16: 16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. He doesn’t say, “To descendants”, as of many, but as of one, “To your offspring”, which is Christ.
Galatians 3.17: 17 Now I say this: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.
Galatians 3.18: 18 For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.
Galatians 3.19: 19 Then why is there the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
Galatians 3.20: 20 Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one.
Galatians 3.21: 21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.
Galatians 3.22: 22 But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
Galatians 3.23: 23 But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
Galatians 3.24: 24 So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Galatians 3.25: 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
Galatians 3.26: 26 For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3.27: 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Galatians 3.28: 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3.29: 29 If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.
Galatians 4.0:
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Galatians 4.1: 1 But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all,
Galatians 4.2: 2 but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father.
Galatians 4.3: 3 So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.
Galatians 4.4: 4 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
Galatians 4.5: 5 that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.
Galatians 4.6: 6 And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”
Galatians 4.7: 7 So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Galatians 4.8: 8 However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.
Galatians 4.9: 9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?
Galatians 4.10: 10 You observe days, months, seasons, and years.
Galatians 4.11: 11 I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.
Galatians 4.12: 12 I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,
Galatians 4.13: 13 but you know that because of weakness in the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.
Galatians 4.14: 14 That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
Galatians 4.15: 15 What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.
Galatians 4.16: 16 So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?
Galatians 4.17: 17 They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.
Galatians 4.18: 18 But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.
Galatians 4.19: 19 My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—
Galatians 4.20: 20 but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.
Galatians 4.21: 21 Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?
Galatians 4.22: 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant, and one by the free woman.
Galatians 4.23: 23 However, the son by the servant was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.
Galatians 4.24: 24 These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.
Galatians 4.25: 25 For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.
Galatians 4.26: 26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Galatians 4.27: 27 For it is written,
“Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear.
Break out and shout, you who don’t travail.
For the desolate have more children than her who has a husband.”
Galatians 4.28: 28 Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.
Galatians 4.29: 29 But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.
Galatians 4.30: 30 However what does the Scripture say? “Throw out the servant and her son, for the son of the servant will not inherit with the son of the free woman.”
Galatians 4.31: 31 So then, brothers, we are not children of a servant, but of the free woman.
Galatians 5.0:
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Galatians 5.1: 1 Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
Galatians 5.2: 2 Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
Galatians 5.3: 3 Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
Galatians 5.4: 4 You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
Galatians 5.5: 5 For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.
Galatians 5.6: 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
Galatians 5.7: 7 You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?
Galatians 5.8: 8 This persuasion is not from him who calls you.
Galatians 5.9: 9 A little yeast grows through the whole lump.
Galatians 5.10: 10 I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.
Galatians 5.11: 11 But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.
Galatians 5.12: 12 I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.
Galatians 5.13: 13 For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
Galatians 5.14: 14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Galatians 5.15: 15 But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.
Galatians 5.16: 16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.
Galatians 5.17: 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.
Galatians 5.18: 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
Galatians 5.19: 19 Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
Galatians 5.20: 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,
Galatians 5.21: 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.
Galatians 5.22: 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
Galatians 5.23: 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Galatians 5.24: 24 Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
Galatians 5.25: 25 If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.
Galatians 5.26: 26 Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.
Galatians 6.0:
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Galatians 6.1: 1 Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.
Galatians 6.2: 2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Galatians 6.3: 3 For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
Galatians 6.4: 4 But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.
Galatians 6.5: 5 For each man will bear his own burden.
Galatians 6.6: 6 But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.
Galatians 6.7: 7 Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
Galatians 6.8: 8 For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
Galatians 6.9: 9 Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.
Galatians 6.10: 10 So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.
Galatians 6.11: 11 See with what large letters I write to you with my own hand.
Galatians 6.12: 12 As many as desire to make a good impression in the flesh compel you to be circumcised; just so they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
Galatians 6.13: 13 For even they who receive circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.
Galatians 6.14: 14 But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Galatians 6.15: 15 For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
Galatians 6.16: 16 As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.
Galatians 6.17: 17 From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus branded on my body.
Galatians 6.18: 18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.
Philippians 0.0:
Paul’s Letter to the Philippians
Philippians 1.0:
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Philippians 1.1: 1 Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ;
To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:
Philippians 1.2: 2 Grace to you, and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Philippians 1.3: 3 I thank my God whenever I remember you,
Philippians 1.4: 4 always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy,
Philippians 1.5: 5 for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now;
Philippians 1.6: 6 being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
Philippians 1.7: 7 It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.
Philippians 1.8: 8 For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
Philippians 1.9: 9 This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,
Philippians 1.10: 10 so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,
Philippians 1.11: 11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
Philippians 1.12: 12 Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News,
Philippians 1.13: 13 so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ,
Philippians 1.14: 14 and that most of the brothers in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.
Philippians 1.15: 15 Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.
Philippians 1.16: 16 The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;
Philippians 1.17: 17 but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.
Philippians 1.18: 18 What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice.
Philippians 1.19: 19 For I know that this will turn out to my salvation, through your prayers and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
Philippians 1.20: 20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.
Philippians 1.21: 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Philippians 1.22: 22 But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don’t know what I will choose.
Philippians 1.23: 23 But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.
Philippians 1.24: 24 Yet to remain in the flesh is more needful for your sake.
Philippians 1.25: 25 Having this confidence, I know that I will remain, yes, and remain with you all for your progress and joy in the faith,
Philippians 1.26: 26 that your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again.
Philippians 1.27: 27 Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;
Philippians 1.28: 28 and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.
Philippians 1.29: 29 Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,
Philippians 1.30: 30 having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear is in me.
Philippians 2.0:
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Philippians 2.1: 1 If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,
Philippians 2.2: 2 make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;
Philippians 2.3: 3 doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
Philippians 2.4: 4 each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.
Philippians 2.5: 5 Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,
Philippians 2.6: 6 who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,
Philippians 2.7: 7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.
Philippians 2.8: 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.
Philippians 2.9: 9 Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name,
Philippians 2.10: 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,
Philippians 2.11: 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Philippians 2.12: 12 So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Philippians 2.13: 13 For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
Philippians 2.14: 14 Do all things without complaining and arguing,
Philippians 2.15: 15 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
Philippians 2.16: 16 holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.
Philippians 2.17: 17 Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.
Philippians 2.18: 18 In the same way, you also rejoice, and rejoice with me.
Philippians 2.19: 19 But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered up when I know how you are doing.
Philippians 2.20: 20 For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you.
Philippians 2.21: 21 For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.
Philippians 2.22: 22 But you know the proof of him, that as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.
Philippians 2.23: 23 Therefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see how it will go with me.
Philippians 2.24: 24 But I trust in the Lord that I myself also will come shortly.
Philippians 2.25: 25 But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need,
Philippians 2.26: 26 since he longed for you all, and was very troubled because you had heard that he was sick.
Philippians 2.27: 27 For indeed he was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.
Philippians 2.28: 28 I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
Philippians 2.29: 29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such people in honor,
Philippians 2.30: 30 because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.
Philippians 3.0:
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Philippians 3.1: 1 Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.
Philippians 3.2: 2 Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.
Philippians 3.3: 3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;
Philippians 3.4: 4 though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:
Philippians 3.5: 5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;
Philippians 3.6: 6 concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
Philippians 3.7: 7 However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.
Philippians 3.8: 8 Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ
Philippians 3.9: 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,
Philippians 3.10: 10 that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,
Philippians 3.11: 11 if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Philippians 3.12: 12 Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3.13: 13 Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,
Philippians 3.14: 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3.15: 15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.
Philippians 3.16: 16 Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let’s walk by the same rule. Let’s be of the same mind.
Philippians 3.17: 17 Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.
Philippians 3.18: 18 For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,
Philippians 3.19: 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
Philippians 3.20: 20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
Philippians 3.21: 21 who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
Philippians 4.0:
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Philippians 4.1: 1 Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.
Philippians 4.2: 2 I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in the Lord.
Philippians 4.3: 3 Yes, I beg you also, true partner, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.
Philippians 4.4: 4 Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”
Philippians 4.5: 5 Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
Philippians 4.6: 6 In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
Philippians 4.7: 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4.8: 8 Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.
Philippians 4.9: 9 The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
Philippians 4.10: 10 But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length you have revived your thought for me; in which you did indeed take thought, but you lacked opportunity.
Philippians 4.11: 11 Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.
Philippians 4.12: 12 I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.
Philippians 4.13: 13 I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
Philippians 4.14: 14 However you did well that you shared in my affliction.
Philippians 4.15: 15 You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Good News, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only.
Philippians 4.16: 16 For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need.
Philippians 4.17: 17 Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.
Philippians 4.18: 18 But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.
Philippians 4.19: 19 My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4.20: 20 Now to our God and Father be the glory forever and ever! Amen.
Philippians 4.21: 21 Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me greet you.
Philippians 4.22: 22 All the saints greet you, especially those who are of Caesar’s household.
Philippians 4.23: 23 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
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Preface to the World English Bible
What is the Holy Bible?
The Holy Bible is a collection of books and letters written by many people who were inspired by the Holy Spirit of God. These books tell us how we can be saved from the evil of this world and gain eternal life that is truly worth living. Although the Holy Bible contains rules of conduct, it is not just a rule book. It reveals God’s heart—a Father’s heart, full of love and compassion. The Holy Bible tells you what you need to know and believe to be saved from sin and evil and how to live a life that is truly worth living, no matter what your current circumstances may be.
The Holy Bible consists of two main sections: the Old Testament (including Psalms and Proverbs) and the New Testament (Matthew through Revelation). The Old Testament records God’s interaction with mankind before He sent His son to redeem us, while recording prophesy predicting that coming. The New Testament tells us of God’s Son and Anointed One, Jesus, and the wonderful salvation that He purchased for us.
The same Holy Spirit who inspired the Holy Bible is living among us today, and He is happy to help you understand what He intended as you study His Word. Just ask Him, and He is more than happy to help you apply His message to your life.
The Old Testament was originally written mostly in Hebrew. The New Testament was originally written mostly in the common street Greek (not the formal Greek used for official legal matters). The Holy Bible is translated into many languages, and being translated into many more, so that everyone may have an opportunity to hear the Good News about Jesus Christ.
Why was the World English Bible translated?
There are already many good translations of the Holy Bible into contemporary English. Unfortunately, almost all of them are restricted by copyright and copyright holder policy. This restricts publication and republication of God’s Word in many ways, such as in downloadable files on the Internet, use of extensive quotations in books, etc. The World English Bible was commissioned by God in response to prayer about this subject.
Because the World English Bible is in the Public Domain (not copyrighted), it can be freely copied, distributed, and redistributed without any payment of royalties. You don’t even have to ask permission to do so. You may publish the whole World English Bible in book form, bind it in leather and sell it. You may incorporate it into your Bible study software. You may make and distribute audio recordings of it. You may broadcast it. All you have to do is maintain the integrity of God’s Word before God, and reserve the name “World English Bible” for faithful copies of this translation.
How was the World English Bible translated?
The World English Bible is an update of the American Standard Version (ASV) of the Holy Bible, published in 1901. A custom computer program updated the archaic words and word forms to contemporary equivalents, and then a team of volunteers proofread and updated the grammar. The New Testament was updated to conform to the Majority Text reconstruction of the original Greek manuscripts, thus taking advantage of the superior access to manuscripts that we have now compared to when the original ASV was translated.
What is different about the World English Bible?
The style of the World English Bible, while fairly literally translated, is in informal, spoken English. The World English Bible is designed to sound good and be accurate when read aloud. It is not formal in its language, just as the original Greek of the New Testament was not formal. The WEB uses contractions rather freely.
The World English Bible doesn’t capitalize pronouns pertaining to God. The original manuscripts made no such distinction. Hebrew has no such thing as upper and lower case, and the original Greek manuscripts were written in all upper case letters. Attempting to add in such a distinction raises some difficulties in translating dual-meaning Scriptures such as the coronation psalms.
The World English Bible main edition translates God’s Proper Name in the Old Testament as “Yahweh.” The Messianic Edition and the British Edition of the World English Bible translates the same name as “LORD” (all capital letters), or when used with “Lord” (mixed case, translated from “Adonai”,) GOD. There are solid translational arguments for both traditions.
Because World English Bible uses the Majority Text as the basis for the New Testament, you may notice the following differences in comparing the WEB to other translations:
The order of Matthew 23:13 and 14 is reversed in some translations.
Luke 17:36 and Acts 15:34, which are not found in the majority of the Greek Manuscripts (and are relegated to footnotes in the WEB) may be included in some other translations.
Romans 14:24-26 in the WEB may appear as Romans 16:25-27 in other translations.
1 John 5:7-8 contains an addition in some translations, including the KJV. Erasmus admitted adding this text to his published Greek New Testament, even though he could at first find no Greek manuscript support for it, because he was being pressured by men to do so, and because he didn’t see any doctrinal harm in it. Lots of things not written by John in this letter are true, but we decline to add them to what the Holy Spirit inspired through John.
With all of the above and some other places where lack of clarity in the original manuscripts has led to multiple possible readings, significant variants are listed in footnotes. The reading that in our prayerful judgment is best is in the main text. Overall, the World English Bible doesn’t differ very much from several other good contemporary English translations of the Holy Bible. The message of Salvation through Jesus Christ is still the same. The point of this translation was not to be very different (except for legal status), but to update the ASV for readability while retaining or improving the accuracy of that well-respected translation and retaining the public domain status of the ASV.
Does the World English Bible include the Apocrypha?
The World English Bible is an ecumenical project that includes books included in Bibles in many denominations. The main 66 books of the Old and New Testaments are recognized as Scripture by all true Christians. There are also books considered to be part of, depending on which book and who you ask, Deuterocanon, Apocrypha, and Pseudepigrapha.
The following books and parts of books are recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Russian Orthodox Churches: Tobit, Judith, Esther from the Greek Septuagint, The Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus (also called The Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach), Baruch, The Song of the Three Holy Children, Susanna, and Bel and the Dragon, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees. In this edition, The Letter of Jeremiah is included as chapter 6 of Baruch. Three of those books come from parts of Daniel found in the Greek Septuagint, but not the Hebrew Old Testament: The Song of the Three Holy Children, Susanna, and Bel and the Dragon. These 11 books, plus the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments comprise the 88 books in the Roman Catholic Bible.
The following books are recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches, but not the Roman Catholic Church: 1 Esdras, The Prayer of Manasseh, Psalm 151, and 3 Maccabees. Note that 1 Esdras and the Prayer of Manasseh are also in an appendix to the Latin Vulgate Bible.
The Slavonic Bible includes 2 Esdras, but calls it 3 Esdras. This same book is in the Appendix to the Latin Vulgate as 4 Esdras.
An appendix to the Greek Septuagint contains 4 Maccabees. It is included for its historical value.
Among Christian denominations and among individual Christians, opinions vary widely on the Deuterocanon/Apocrypha, as do the collective names they give them. Many regard them as useful in gaining additional understanding of the Old and New Testaments and the hand of God in history, even if they don’t give them the same status as the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments. They are included here in support of the churches and individuals who read them and use them, as separate from, but frequently used with, the core canon of the 66 books of the Holy Bible.
What are MT, TR, and NU?
In the footnotes, MT refers to the Greek Majority Text New Testament, which is the authoritative basis for this translation. TR stands for Textus Receptus, which is the Greek Text from which the King James Version New Testament was translated. NU stands for the Nestle-Aland/UBS critical text of the Greek New Testament, which is used as a basis for some other Bible translations.
More Information
For answers to frequently asked questions about the World English Bible, please visit WorldEnglishBible.org.
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TOBIT
Tobit is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Russian Orthodox Churches.
Tobit 1.0:
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Tobit 1.1: 1 The book of the words of Tobit, the son of Tobiel, the son of Ananiel, the son of Aduel, the son of Gabael, of the seed of Asiel, of the tribe of Naphtali;
Tobit 1.2: 2 who in the days of Enemessar king of the Assyrians was carried away captive out of Thisbe, which is on the right hand of Kedesh Naphtali in Galilee above Asher.
Tobit 1.3: 3 I, Tobit walked in the ways of truth and righteousness all the days of my life, and I did many alms deeds to my kindred and my nation, who went with me into the land of the Assyrians, to Nineveh.
Tobit 1.4: 4 When I was in my own country, in the land of Israel, while I was yet young, all the tribe of Naphtali my father fell away from the house of Jerusalem, which was chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, that all the tribes should sacrifice there, and the temple of the habitation of the Most High was hallowed and built therein for all ages.
Tobit 1.5: 5 All the tribes which fell away together sacrificed to the heifer Baal, and so did the house of Naphtali my father.
Tobit 1.6: 6 I alone went often to Jerusalem at the feasts, as it has been ordained to all Israel by an everlasting decree, having the first fruits and the tenths of my increase, and that which was first shorn; and I gave them at the altar to the priests the sons of Aaron.
Tobit 1.7: 7 I gave a tenth part of all my increase to the sons of Levi, who ministered at Jerusalem. A second tenth part I sold away, and went, and spent it each year at Jerusalem.
Tobit 1.8: 8 A third tenth I gave to them to whom it was appropriate, as Deborah my father’s mother had commanded me, because I was left an orphan by my father.
Tobit 1.9: 9 When I became a man, I took as wife Anna of the seed of our own family. With her, I became the father of Tobias.
Tobit 1.10: 10 When I was carried away captive to Nineveh, all my kindred and my relatives ate of the bread of the Gentiles;
Tobit 1.11: 11 but I kept myself from eating,
Tobit 1.12: 12 because I remembered God with all my soul.
Tobit 1.13: 13 So the Most High gave me grace and favor in the sight of Enemessar, and I was his purchasing agent.
Tobit 1.14: 14 And I went into Media, and left ten talents of silver in trust with Gabael, the brother of Gabrias, at Rages of Media.
Tobit 1.15: 15 And when Enemessar was dead, Sennacherib his son reigned in his place. In his time, the highways were troubled, and I could no longer go into Media.
Tobit 1.16: 16 In the days of Enemessar, I did many alms deeds to my kindred: I gave my bread to the hungry,
Tobit 1.17: 17 and my garments to the naked. If I saw any of my race dead, and thrown out on the wall of Ninevah, I buried him.
Tobit 1.18: 18 If Sennacherib the king killed any, when he came fleeing from Judea, I buried them privately; for in his wrath he killed many; and the bodies were sought for by the king, and were not found.
Tobit 1.19: 19 But one of the Ninevites went and showed to the king concerning me, how I buried them, and hid myself; and when I knew that I was sought for to be put to death, I withdrew myself for fear.
Tobit 1.20: 20 And all my goods were forcibly taken away, and there was nothing left to me, save my wife Anna and my son Tobias.
Tobit 1.21: 21 No more than fifty five days passed before two of his sons killed him, and they fled into the mountains of Ararat. And Sarchedonus his son reigned in his place; and he appointed Achiacharus my brother Anael’s son over all the accounts of his kingdom, and over all his affairs.
Tobit 1.22: 22 Achiacharus requested me, and I came to Nineveh. Now Achiacharus was cupbearer, keeper of the signet, steward, and overseer of the accounts. Sarchedonus appointed him next to himself, but he was my brother’s son.
Tobit 2.0:
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Tobit 2.1: 1 Now when I had come home again, and my wife Anna was restored to me, and my son Tobias, in the feast of Pentecost, which is the holy feast of the seven weeks, there was a good dinner prepared me, and I sat down to eat.
Tobit 2.2: 2 I saw abundance of meat, and I said to my son, “Go and bring whatever poor man you find of our kindred, who is mindful of the Lord. Behold, I wait for you.”
Tobit 2.3: 3 Then he came, and said, “Father, one of our race is strangled, and has been cast out in the marketplace.”
Tobit 2.4: 4 Before I had tasted anything, I sprang up, and took him up into a chamber until the sun had set.
Tobit 2.5: 5 Then I returned, washed myself, ate my bread in heaviness,
Tobit 2.6: 6 and remembered the prophecy of Amos, as he said,
“Your feasts will be turned into mourning,
and all your mirth into lamentation.
Tobit 2.7: 7 So I wept: and when the sun had set, I went and dug a grave, and buried him.
Tobit 2.8: 8 My neighbors mocked me, and said, “He is no longer afraid to be put to death for this matter; and yet he fled away. Behold, he buries the dead again.”
Tobit 2.9: 9 The same night I returned from burying him, and slept by the wall of my courtyard, being polluted; and my face was uncovered.
Tobit 2.10: 10 I didn’t know that there were sparrows in the wall. My eyes were open and the sparrows dropped warm dung into my eyes, and white films came over my eyes. I went to the physicians, and they didn’t help me; but Achiacharus nourished me, until I went into Elymais.
Tobit 2.11: 11 My wife Anna wove cloth in the women’s chambers,
Tobit 2.12: 12 and sent the work back to the owners. They on their part paid her wages, and also gave her a kid.
Tobit 2.13: 13 But when it came to my house, it began to cry, and I said to her, Where did this kid come from? Is it stolen? Give it back to the owners; for it is not lawful to eat anything that is stolen.
Tobit 2.14: 14 But she said, “It has been given to me for a gift more than the wages.”
I didn’t believe her, and I asked her to return it to the owners; and I was ashamed of her.
But she answered and said to me, “Where are your alms and your righteous deeds? Behold, you and all your works are known.”
Tobit 3.0:
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Tobit 3.1: 1 I was grieved and wept, and prayed in sorrow, saying,
Tobit 3.2: 2 “O Lord, you are righteous, and all your works and all your ways are mercy and truth, and you judge true and righteous judgement forever.
Tobit 3.3: 3 Remember me, and look at me. Don’t take vengeance on me for my sins and my ignorances, and the sins of my fathers who sinned before you.
Tobit 3.4: 4 For they disobeyed your commandments. You gave us as plunder, for captivity, for death, and for a proverb of reproach to all the nations among whom we are dispersed.
Tobit 3.5: 5 Now your judgments are many and true; that you should deal with me according to my sins and the sins of my fathers; because we didn’t keep your commandments, for we didn’t walk in truth before you.
Tobit 3.6: 6 Now deal with me according to that which is pleasing in your sight. Command my spirit to be taken from me, that I may be released, and become earth. For it is more profitable for me to die rather than to live, because I have heard false reproaches, and there is much sorrow in me. Command that I be released from my distress, now, and go to the everlasting place. Don’t turn your face away from me.”
Tobit 3.7: 7 The same day it happened to Sarah the daughter of Raguel in Ecbatana of Media, that she also was reproached by her father’s maidservants;
Tobit 3.8: 8 because that she had been given to seven husbands, and Asmodaeus the evil spirit killed them, before they had lain with her. And they said to her, “Do you not know that you strangle your husbands? You have had already seven husbands, and you haven’t borne the name of any one of them.
Tobit 3.9: 9 Why do you scourge us? If they are dead, go your ways with them. Let us never see either son or daughter from you.”
Tobit 3.10: 10 When she heard these things, she was grieved exceedingly, so that she thought about hanging herself. Then she said, “I am the only daughter of my father. If I do this, it will be a reproach to him, and I will bring down his old age with sorrow to the grave.”
Tobit 3.11: 11 Then she prayed by the window, and said, “Blessed are you, O Lord my God, and blessed is your holy and honorable name forever! Let all your works praise you forever!
Tobit 3.12: 12 And now, Lord, I have set my eyes and my face toward you.
Tobit 3.13: 13 Command that I be released from the earth, and that I no longer hear reproach.
Tobit 3.14: 14 You know, Lord, that I am pure from all sin with man,
Tobit 3.15: 15 and that I never polluted my name or the name of my father, in the land of my captivity. I am the only daughter of my father, and he has no child that will be his heir, nor brother near him, nor son belonging to him, that I should keep myself for a wife to him. Seven husbands of mine are dead already. Why should I live? If it doesn’t please you to kill me, command some regard to be had of me, and pity taken of me, and that I hear no more reproach.”
Tobit 3.16: 16 The prayer of both was heard before the glory of the great God.
Tobit 3.17: 17 Raphael also was sent to heal them both, to scale away the white films from Tobit’s eyes, and to give Sarah the daughter of Raguel for a wife to Tobias the son of Tobit; and to bind Asmodaeus the evil spirit; because it belonged to Tobias that he should inherit her. At that very time, Tobit returned and entered into his house, and Sarah the daughter of Raguel came down from her upper chamber.
Tobit 4.0:
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Tobit 4.1: 1 In that day Tobit remembered the money which he had left in trust with Gabael in Rages of Media,
Tobit 4.2: 2 and he said to himself, I have asked for death; why do I not call my son Tobias, that I may explain to him about the money before I die?
Tobit 4.3: 3 And he called him, and said,
“My child, if I die, bury me. Don’t despise your mother. Honor her all the days of your life, and do that which is pleasing to her, and don’t grieve her.
Tobit 4.4: 4 Remember, my child, that she has seen many dangers for you, when you were in her womb. When she is dead, bury her by me in one grave.
Tobit 4.5: 5 My child, be mindful of the Lord our God all your days, and don’t let your will be set to sin and to transgress his commandments: do righteousness all the days of your life, and don’t follow the ways of unrighteousness.
Tobit 4.6: 6 For if you do what is true, your deeds will prosperously succeed for you, and for all those who do righteousness.
Tobit 4.7: 7 Give alms from your possessions. When you give alms, don’t let your eye be envious. Don’t turn away your face from any poor man, and the face of God won’t be turned away from you.
Tobit 4.8: 8 As your possessions are, give alms of it according to your abundance. If you have little, don’t be afraid to give alms according to that little;
Tobit 4.9: 9 for you lay up a good treasure for yourself against the day of necessity;
Tobit 4.10: 10 because alms-giving delivers from death, and doesn’t allow you to come into darkness.
Tobit 4.11: 11 Alms is a good gift in the sight of the Most High for all that give it.
Tobit 4.12: 12 Beware, my child, of all whoredom, and take first a wife of the seed of your fathers. Don’t take a strange wife, who is not of your father’s tribe; for we are the descendants of the prophets. Remember, my child, that Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, our fathers of old time, all took wives of their kindred, and were blessed in their children, and their seed will inherit the land.
Tobit 4.13: 13 And now, my child, love your kindred, and don’t scorn your kindred and the sons and the daughters of your people in your heart, to take a wife of them; for in scornfulness is destruction and much trouble, and in naughtiness is decay and great lack; for naughtiness is the mother of famine.
Tobit 4.14: 14 Don’t let the wages of any man who works for you wait with you, but give it to him out of hand. If you serve God, you will be rewarded. Take heed to yourself, my child, in all your works, and be discreet in all your behavior.
Tobit 4.15: 15 And what you yourself hate, do to no man. Don’t drink wine to drunkenness, and don’t let drunkenness go with you on your way.
Tobit 4.16: 16 Give of your bread to the hungry, and of your garments to those who are naked. Give alms from all your abundance. Don’t let your eye be envious when you give alms.
Tobit 4.17: 17 Pour out your bread on the burial of the just, and give nothing to sinners.
Tobit 4.18: 18 Ask counsel of every man who is wise, and don’t despise any counsel that is profitable.
Tobit 4.19: 19 Bless the Lord your God at all times, and ask of him that your ways may be made straight, and that all your paths and counsels may prosper; for every nation has no counsel; but the Lord himself gives all good things, and he humbles whom he will, as he will. And now, my child, remember my commandments, and let them not be blotted out of your mind.
Tobit 4.20: 20 And now I explain to you about the ten talents of silver, which I left in trust with Gabael the son of Gabrias at Rages of Media.
Tobit 4.21: 21 And fear not, my child, because we are made poor. You have much wealth, if you fear God, and depart from all sin, and do that which is pleasing in his sight.”
Tobit 5.0:
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Tobit 5.1: 1 Then Tobias answered and said to him, “Father, I will do all things, whatever you have commanded me.
Tobit 5.2: 2 But how could I receive the money, since I don’t know him?”
Tobit 5.3: 3 He gave him the handwriting, and said to him, “Seek a man who will go with you, and I will give him wages, whiles I yet live; and go and receive the money.”
Tobit 5.4: 4 He went to seek a man, and found Raphael who was an angel;
Tobit 5.5: 5 and he didn’t know it. He said to him, “Can I go with you to Rages of Media? Do you know those places well?”
Tobit 5.6: 6 The angel said to him, “I will go with you. I know the way well. I have lodged with our brother Gabael.”
Tobit 5.7: 7 Tobias said to him, “Wait for me, and I will tell my father.”
Tobit 5.8: 8 He said to him, “Go, and don’t wait. And he went in and said to his father, “Behold, I have found someone who will go with me.”
But he said, “Call him to me, that I may know of what tribe he is, and whether he be a trustworthy man to go with you.”
Tobit 5.9: 9 So he called him, and he came in, and they saluted one another.
Tobit 5.10: 10 And Tobit said to him, “Brother, of what tribe and of what family are you? Tell me.”
Tobit 5.11: 11 He said to him, “Do you seek a tribe and a family, or a hired man which will go with your son?”
And Tobit said to him, “I want to know, brother, your kindred and your name.”
Tobit 5.12: 12 And he said, “I am Azarias, the son of Ananias the great, of your kindred.”
Tobit 5.13: 13 And he said to him, “Welcome, brother. Don’t be angry with me, because I sought to know your tribe and family. You are my brother, of an honest and good lineage; for I knew Ananias and Jathan, the sons of Shemaiah the great, when we went together to Jerusalem to worship, and offered the firstborn, and the tenths of our increase; and they didn’t go astray in the error of our kindred. My brother, you are of a great stock.
Tobit 5.14: 14 But tell me, what wages shall I give you? A drachma a day, and those things that be necessary for you, as to my son?
Tobit 5.15: 15 And moreover, if you both return safe and sound, I will add something to your wages.”
Tobit 5.16: 16 And so they agreed. And he said to Tobias, “Prepare yourself for the journey. May God prosper you.” So his son prepared what was needful for the journey, and his father said to him, “Go with this man; but God, who dwells in heaven, will prosper your journey. May his angel go with you.”
Then they both departed, and the young man’s dog went with them.
Tobit 5.17: 17 But Anna his mother wept, and said to Tobit, “Why have you sent away our child? Isn’t he the staff of our hand, in going in and out before us?
Tobit 5.18: 18 Don’t be greedy to add money to money; but let it be as refuse compared to our child.
Tobit 5.19: 19 For what the Lord has given us to live is enough for us.”
Tobit 5.20: 20 Tobit said to her, “Don’t worry, my sister. He will return safe and sound, and your eyes will see him.
Tobit 5.21: 21 For a good angel will go with him. His journey will be prospered, and he will return safe and sound.”
Tobit 5.22: 22 So she stopped weeping.
Tobit 6.0:
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Tobit 6.1: 1 Now as they went on their journey, they came at evening to the river Tigris, and they lodged there.
Tobit 6.2: 2 But the young man went down to wash himself, and a fish leaped out of the river, and would have swallowed up the young man.
Tobit 6.3: 3 But the angel said to him, “Grab the fish!”
So the young man grabbed the fish, and hauled it up onto the land.
Tobit 6.4: 4 And the angel said to him, “Cut the fish open, and take the heart, the liver, and the bile, and keep them with you.”
Tobit 6.5: 5 And the young man did as the angel commanded him; but they roasted the fish, and ate it. And they both went on their way, till they drew near to Ecbatana.
Tobit 6.6: 6 The young man said to the angel, “Brother Azarias, of what use is the heart, the liver, and the bile of the fish?”
Tobit 6.7: 7 He said to him, “About the heart and the liver: If a demon or an evil spirit troubles anyone, we must burn those and make smoke of them before the man or the woman, and the affliction will flee.
Tobit 6.8: 8 But as for the bile, it is good to anoint a man that has white films in his eyes, and he will be healed.”
Tobit 6.9: 9 But when they drew near to Rages,
Tobit 6.10: 10 the angel said to the young man, “Brother, today we will lodge with Raguel. He is your kinsman. He has an only daughter named Sarah. I will speak about her, that she should be given to you for a wife.
Tobit 6.11: 11 For her inheritance belongs to you, and you only are of her kindred.
Tobit 6.12: 12 The maid is fair and wise. And now hear me, and I will speak to her father. When we return from Rages we will celebrate the marriage; for I know that Raguel may in no way marry her to another according to the law of Moses, or else he would be liable to death, because it belongs to you to take the inheritance, rather than any other.”
Tobit 6.13: 13 Then the young man said to the angel, “Brother Azarias, I have heard that this maid has been given to seven men, and that they all perished in the bride-chamber.
Tobit 6.14: 14 Now I am the only son of my father, and I am afraid, lest I go in and die, even as those before me. For a demon loves her, which harms no man, but those which come to her. Now I fear lest I die, and bring my father’s and my mother’s life to the grave with sorrow because of me. They have no other son to bury them.”
Tobit 6.15: 15 But the angel said to him, “Don’t you remember the words which your father commanded you, that you should take a wife of your own kindred? Now hear me, brother; for she will be your wife. Don’t worry about the demon; for this night she will be given you as wife.
Tobit 6.16: 16 And when you come into the bride-chamber, you shall take the ashes of incense, and shall lay upon them some of the heart and liver of the fish, and shall make smoke with them.
Tobit 6.17: 17 The demon will smell it, and flee away, and never come again any more. But when you go near to her, both of you rise up, and cry to God who is merciful. He will save you, and have mercy on you. Don’t be afraid, for she was prepared for you from the beginning; and you will save her, and she will go with you. And I suppose that you will have children with her.”
When Tobias heard these things, he loved her, and his soul was strongly joined to her.
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Tobit 7.1: 1 They came to Ecbatana, and arrived at the house of Raguel. But Sarah met them; and she greeted them, and they her. Then she brought them into the house.
Tobit 7.2: 2 Raguel said to Edna his wife, “This young man really resembles Tobit my cousin!”
Tobit 7.3: 3 And Raguel asked them, “Where are you two from, kindred?”
They said to him, “We are of the sons of Naphtali, who are captives in Nineveh.”
Tobit 7.4: 4 He said to them, “Do you know Tobit our brother?”
They said, “We know him.”
Then he said to them, “Is he in good health?”
Tobit 7.5: 5 They said, “He is both alive, and in good health.” Tobias said, “He is my father.”
Tobit 7.6: 6 And Raguel sprang up, and kissed him, wept,
Tobit 7.7: 7 blessed him, and said to him, “You are the son of an honest and good man.” When he had heard that Tobit had lost his sight, he was grieved, and wept;
Tobit 7.8: 8 and Edna his wife and Sarah his daughter wept. They received them gladly; and they killed a ram of the flock, and served them meat.
But Tobias said to Raphael, “Brother Azarias, speak of those things of which you talked about in the way, and let the matter be finished.”
Tobit 7.9: 9 So he communicated the thing to Raguel. Raguel said to Tobias, “Eat, drink, and make merry:
Tobit 7.10: 10 for it belongs to you to take my child. However I will tell you the truth.
Tobit 7.11: 11 I have given my child to seven men, and whenever they came in to her, they died in the night. But for the present be merry.”
And Tobias said, “I will taste nothing here, until you all make a covenant and enter into that covenant with me.”
Tobit 7.12: 12 Raguel said, “Take her to yourself from now on according to custom. You are her relative, and she is yours. The merciful God will give all good success to you.”
Tobit 7.13: 13 And he called his daughter Sarah, and took her by the hand, and gave her to be wife of Tobias, and said, “Behold, take her to yourself after the law of Moses, and lead her away to your father.” And he blessed them.
Tobit 7.14: 14 He called Edna his wife, then took a book, wrote a contract, and sealed it.
Tobit 7.15: 15 Then they began to eat.
Tobit 7.16: 16 And Raguel called his wife Edna, and said to her, “Sister, prepare the other chamber, and bring her in there.”
Tobit 7.17: 17 She did as he asked her, and brought her in there. She wept, and she received the tears of her daughter, and said to her,
Tobit 7.18: 18 “Be comforted, my child. May the Lord of heaven and earth give you favor for this your sorrow. Be comforted, my daughter.”
Tobit 8.0:
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Tobit 8.1: 1 When they had finished their supper, they brought Tobias in to her.
Tobit 8.2: 2 But as he went, he remembered the words of Raphael, and took the ashes of the incense, and put the heart and the liver of the fish on them, and made smoke with them.
Tobit 8.3: 3 When the demon smelled that smell, it fled into the uppermost parts of Egypt, and the angel bound him.
Tobit 8.4: 4 But after they were both shut in together, Tobias rose up from the bed, and said, “Sister, arise, and let’s pray that the Lord may have mercy on us.”
Tobit 8.5: 5 And Tobias began to say, “Blessed are you, O God of our fathers, and blessed is your holy and glorious name forever. Let the heavens bless you, and all your creatures.
Tobit 8.6: 6 You made Adam, and gave him Eve his wife for a helper and support. From them came the seed of men. You said, it is not good that the man should be alone. Let’s make him a helper like him.
Tobit 8.7: 7 And now, O Lord, I take not this my sister for lust, but in truth. Command that I may find mercy and grow old with her.”
Tobit 8.8: 8 She said with him, “Amen.” And they both slept that night.
Tobit 8.9: 9 Raguel arose, and went and dug a grave,
Tobit 8.10: 10 saying, “Lest he also should die.”
Tobit 8.11: 11 And Raguel came into his house,
Tobit 8.12: 12 and said to Edna his wife, “Send one of the maidservants, and let them see if he is alive. If not, we will bury him, and no man will know it.”
Tobit 8.13: 13 So the maidservant opened the door, and went in, and found them both sleeping,
Tobit 8.14: 14 and came out, and told them that he was alive.
Tobit 8.15: 15 Then Raguel blessed God, saying, “Blessed are you, O God, with all pure and holy blessing! Let your saints bless you, and all your creatures! Let all your angels and your elect bless you forever!
Tobit 8.16: 16 Blessed are you, because you have made me glad; and it has not happened to me as I suspected; but you have dealt with us according to your great mercy.
Tobit 8.17: 17 Blessed are you, because you have had mercy on two that were the only begotten children of their parents. Show them mercy, O Lord. Fulfill their life in health with gladness and mercy.
Tobit 8.18: 18 He commanded his servants to fill the grave.
Tobit 8.19: 19 He kept the wedding feast for them fourteen days.
Tobit 8.20: 20 Before the days of the wedding feast were finished, Raguel sware to him, that he should not depart till the fourteen days of the wedding feast were fulfilled;
Tobit 8.21: 21 and that then he should take half of his goods, and go in safety to his father; and the rest, said he, when my wife and I die.
Tobit 9.0:
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Tobit 9.1: 1 And Tobias called Raphael, and said to him,
Tobit 9.2: 2 “Brother Azarias, take with you a servant and two camels, and go to Rages of Media to Gabael, and receive the money for me, and bring him to the wedding feast,
Tobit 9.3: 3 because Raguel has sworn that I must not depart.
Tobit 9.4: 4 My father counts the days; and if I wait long, he will be very grieved.
Tobit 9.5: 5 So Raphael went on his way, and lodged with Gabael, and gave him the handwriting; so he brought forth the bags with their seals, and gave them to him.
Tobit 9.6: 6 Then they rose up early in the morning together, and came to the wedding feast. Tobias blessed his wife.
Tobit 10.0:
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Tobit 10.1: 1 Tobit his father counted every day. When the days of the journey were expired, and they didn’t come,
Tobit 10.2: 2 he said, “Is he perchance detained? Or is Gabael perchance dead, and there is no one to give him the money?”
Tobit 10.3: 3 He was very grieved.
Tobit 10.4: 4 But his wife said to him, “The child has perished, seeing he waits long.” She began to bewail him, and said,
Tobit 10.5: 5 “I care about nothing, my child, since I have let you go, the light of my eyes.”
Tobit 10.6: 6 Tobit said to her, “Hold your peace. Don’t worry. He is in good health.”
Tobit 10.7: 7 And she said to him, “Hold your peace. Don’t deceive me. My child has perished.” And she went out every day into the way by which they went, and ate no bread in the day-time, and didn’t stop bewailing her son Tobias for whole nights, until the fourteen days of the wedding feast were expired, which Raguel had sworn that he should spend there.
Then Tobias said to Raguel, “Send me away, for my father and my mother look no more to see me.”
Tobit 10.8: 8 But his father-in-law said to him, “Stay with me, and I will send to your father, and they will declare to him how things go with you.”
Tobit 10.9: 9 Tobias said, “No. Send me away to my father.”
Tobit 10.10: 10 Raguel arose, and gave him Sarah his wife, and half his goods, servants and cattle and money;
Tobit 10.11: 11 and he blessed them, and sent them away, saying, “The God of heaven will prosper you, my children, before I die.”
Tobit 10.12: 12 And he said to his daughter, “Honor your father-in-law and your mother-in-law. They are now your parents. Let me hear a good report of you. Then he kissed her.
Edna said to Tobias, “May the Lord of heaven restore you, dear brother, and grant to me that I may see your children of my daughter Sarah, that I may rejoice before the Lord. Behold, I commit my daughter to you in special trust. Don’t cause her grief.
Tobit 11.0:
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Tobit 11.1: 1 After these things Tobias also went his way, blessing God because he had prospered his journey; and he blessed Raguel and Edna his wife. Then he went on his way until they drew near to Nineveh.
Tobit 11.2: 2 Raphael said to Tobias, “Don’t you know, brother, how you left your father?
Tobit 11.3: 3 Let’s run forward before your wife, and prepare the house.
Tobit 11.4: 4 But take in your hand the bile of the fish.” So they went their way, and the dog went after them.
Tobit 11.5: 5 Anna sat looking around toward the path for her son.
Tobit 11.6: 6 She saw him coming, and said to his father, “Behold, your son is coming with the man that went with him!”
Tobit 11.7: 7 Raphael said, “I know, Tobias, that your father will open his eyes.
Tobit 11.8: 8 Therefore anoint his eyes with the bile, and being pricked with it, he will rub, and will make the white films fall away. Then he will see you.”
Tobit 11.9: 9 Anna ran to him, and fell upon the neck of her son, and said to him, “I have seen you, my child! I am ready to die.” They wept both.
Tobit 11.10: 10 Tobit went toward the door and stumbled; but his son ran to him,
Tobit 11.11: 11 and took hold of his father. He rubbed the bile on his father’s eyes, saying, “Cheer up, my father.”
Tobit 11.12: 12 When his eyes began to hurt, he rubbed them.
Tobit 11.13: 13 Then the white films peeled away from the corners of his eyes; and he saw his son, and fell upon his neck.
Tobit 11.14: 14 He wept, and said, “Blessed are you, O God, and blessed is your name forever! Blessed are all your holy angels!
Tobit 11.15: 15 For you scourged, and had mercy on me. Behold, I see my son Tobias.” And his son went in rejoicing, and told his father the great things that had happened to him in Media.
Tobit 11.16: 16 Tobit went out to meet his daughter-in-law at the gate of Nineveh, rejoicing, and blessing God. Those who saw him go marveled, because he had received his sight.
Tobit 11.17: 17 Tobit gave thanks before them, because God had shown mercy on him. When Tobit came near to Sarah his daughter-in-law, he blessed her, saying, “Welcome, daughter! Blessed is God who has brought you to us, and blessed are your father and your mother.” And there was joy among all his kindred who were at Nineveh.
Tobit 11.18: 18 Achiacharus and Nasbas his brother’s son came.
Tobit 11.19: 19 Tobias’ wedding feast was kept seven days with great gladness.
Tobit 12.0:
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Tobit 12.1: 1 And Tobit called his son Tobias, and said to him, “See, my child, that the man which went with you have his wages, and you must give him more.”
Tobit 12.2: 2 And he said to him, “Father, it is no harm to me to give him the half of those things which I have brought;
Tobit 12.3: 3 for he has led me for you in safety, and he cured my wife, and brought my money, and likewise cured you.”
Tobit 12.4: 4 The old man said, “It is due to him.”
Tobit 12.5: 5 And he called the angel, and said to him, “Take half of all that you all have brought.”
Tobit 12.6: 6 Then he called them both privately, and said to them, “Bless God, and give him thanks, and magnify him, and give him thanks in the sight of all that live, for the things which he has done with you. It is good to bless God and exalt his name, showing forth with honor the works of God. Don’t be slack to give him thanks.
Tobit 12.7: 7 It is good to keep close the secret of a king, but to reveal gloriously the works of God. Do good, and evil won’t find you.
Tobit 12.8: 8 Good is prayer with fasting, alms, and righteousness. A little with righteousness is better than much with unrighteousness. It is better to give alms than to lay up gold.
Tobit 12.9: 9 Alms delivers from death, and it purges away all sin. Those who give alms and do righteousness will be filled with life;
Tobit 12.10: 10 but those who sin are enemies to their own life.
Tobit 12.11: 11 Surely I will keep nothing closed from you. I have said, ‘It is good to keep close the secret of a king, but to reveal gloriously the works of God.’
Tobit 12.12: 12 And now, when you prayed, and Sarah your daughter-in-law, I brought the memorial of your prayer before the Holy One. When you buried the dead, I was with you likewise.
Tobit 12.13: 13 And when you didn’t delay to rise up, and leave your dinner, that you might go and cover the dead, your good deed was not hidden from me. I was with you.
Tobit 12.14: 14 And now God sent me to heal you and Sarah your daughter-in-law.
Tobit 12.15: 15 I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels, which present the prayers of the saints, and go in before the glory of the Holy One.”
Tobit 12.16: 16 And they were both troubled, and fell upon their faces; for they were afraid.
Tobit 12.17: 17 And he said to them, “Don’t be afraid. You will all have peace; but bless God forever.
Tobit 12.18: 18 For I came not of any favor of my own, but by the will of your God. Therefore bless him forever.
Tobit 12.19: 19 All these days I appeared to you. I didn’t eat or drink, but you all saw a vision.
Tobit 12.20: 20 Now give God thanks, because I ascend to him that sent me. Write in a book all the things which have been done.”
Tobit 12.21: 21 Then they rose up, and saw him no more.
Tobit 12.22: 22 They confessed the great and wonderful works of God, and how the angel of the Lord had appeared to them.
Tobit 13.0:
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Tobit 13.1: 1 And Tobit wrote a prayer for rejoicing, and said,
“Blessed is God who lives forever!
Blessed is his kingdom!
Tobit 13.2: 2 For he scourges, and shows mercy.
He leads down to the grave, and brings up again.
There is no one that will escape his hand.
Tobit 13.3: 3 Give thanks to him before the Gentiles, all you children of Israel!
For he has scattered us among them.
Tobit 13.4: 4 Declare his greatness, there.
Extol him before all the living;
because he is our Lord,
and God is our Father forever.
Tobit 13.5: 5 He will scourge us for our iniquities, and will again show mercy,
and will gather us out of all the nations among whom you are all scattered.
Tobit 13.6: 6 If you turn to him with your whole heart and with your whole soul,
to do truth before him,
then he will turn to you,
and won’t hide his face from you.
See what he will do with you.
Give him thanks with your whole mouth.
Bless the Lord of righteousness.
Exalt the everlasting King.
I give him thanks in the land of my captivity,
and show his strength and majesty to a nation of sinners.
Turn, you sinners, and do righteousness before him.
Who can tell if he will accept you and have mercy on you?
Tobit 13.7: 7 I exalt my God.
My soul exalts the King of heaven,
and rejoices in his greatness.
Tobit 13.8: 8 Let all men speak,
and let them give him thanks in Jerusalem.
Tobit 13.9: 9 O Jerusalem, the holy city,
he will scourge you for the works of your sons,
and will again have mercy on the sons of the righteous.
Tobit 13.10: 10 Give thanks to the Lord with goodness,
and bless the everlasting King,
that his tabernacle may be built in you again with joy,
and that he may make glad in you those who are captives,
and love in you forever those who are miserable.
Tobit 13.11: 11 Many nations will come from afar to the name of the Lord God
with gifts in their hands, even gifts to the King of heaven.
Generations of generations will praise you,
and sing songs of rejoicing.
Tobit 13.12: 12 All those who hate you are cursed.
All those who love you forever will be blessed.
Tobit 13.13: 13 Rejoice and be exceedingly glad for the sons of the righteous;
for they will be gathered together and will bless the Lord of the righteous.
Tobit 13.14: 14 Oh blessed are those who love you.
They will rejoice for your peace.
Blessed are all those who sorrowed for all your scourges;
because they will rejoice for you when they have seen all your glory.
They will be made glad forever.
Tobit 13.15: 15 Let my soul bless God the great King.
Tobit 13.16: 16 For Jerusalem will be built with sapphires, emeralds, and precious stones;
your walls and towers and battlements with pure gold.
Tobit 13.17: 17 The streets of Jerusalem will be paved with beryl, carbuncle, and stones of Ophir.
Tobit 13.18: 18 All her streets will say, “Hallelujah!”
and give praise, saying, “Blessed be God, who has exalted you forever!”
Tobit 14.0:
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Tobit 14.1: 1 Then Tobit finished giving thanks.
Tobit 14.2: 2 He was fifty-eight years old when he lost his sight. After eight years, he received it again. He gave alms and he feared the Lord God more and more, and gave thanks to him.
Tobit 14.3: 3 Now he grew very old; and he called his son with the six sons of his son, and said to him, “My child, take your sons. Behold, I have grown old, and am ready to depart out of this life.
Tobit 14.4: 4 Go into Media, my child, for I surely believe all the things which Jonah the prophet spoke of Nineveh, that it will be overthrown, but in Media there will rather be peace for a season. Our kindred will be scattered in the earth from the good land. Jerusalem will be desolate, and the house of God in it will be burned up, and will be desolate for a time.
Tobit 14.5: 5 God will again have mercy on them, and bring them back into the land, and they will build the house, but not like to the former house, until the times of that age are fulfilled. Afterward they will return from the places of their captivity, and build up Jerusalem with honor. The house of God will be built in it forever with a glorious building, even as the prophets spoke concerning it.
Tobit 14.6: 6 And all the nations will turn to fear the Lord God truly, and will bury their idols.
Tobit 14.7: 7 All the nations will bless the Lord, and his people will give thanks to God, and the Lord will exalt his people; and all those who love the Lord God in truth and righteousness will rejoice, showing mercy to our kindred.
Tobit 14.8: 8 And now, my child, depart from Nineveh, because those things which the prophet Jonah spoke will surely come to pass.
Tobit 14.9: 9 But you must keep the law and the ordinances, and show yourself merciful and righteous, that it may be well with you.
Tobit 14.10: 10 Bury me decently, and your mother with me. Don’t stay at Nineveh. See, my child, what Aman did to Achiacharus that nourished him, how out of light he brought him into darkness, and all the recompense that he made him. Achiacharus was saved, but the other had his recompense, and he went down into darkness. Manasses gave alms, and escaped the snare of death which he set for him; but Aman fell into the snare, and perished.
Tobit 14.11: 11 And now, my children, consider what alms does, and how righteousness delivers.”
While he was saying these things, he gave up the ghost in the bed; but he was one hundred fifty eight years old. Tobias buried him magnificently.
Tobit 14.12: 12 When Anna died, he buried her with his father. But Tobias departed with his wife and his sons to Ecbatana to Raguel his father-in-law,
Tobit 14.13: 13 and he grew old in honor, and he buried his father-in-law and mother-in-law magnificently, and he inherited their possessions, and his father Tobit’s.
Tobit 14.14: 14 He died at Ecbatana of Media, being one hundred twenty seven years old.
Tobit 14.15: 15 Before he died, he heard of the destruction of Nineveh, which Nebuchadnezzar and Ahasuerus took captive. Before his death, he rejoiced over Nineveh.
Judith 0.0:
JUDITH
Judith is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Russian Orthodox Churches.
Judith 1.0:
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Judith 1.1: 1 In the twelfth year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, who reigned over the Assyrians in Nineveh, the great city, in the days of Arphaxad, who reigned over the Medes in Ecbatana,
Judith 1.2: 2 and built around Ecbatana walls of hewn stones three cubits broad and six cubits long, and made the height of the wall seventy cubits, and its breadth fifty cubits;
Judith 1.3: 3 and set its towers at its gates, one hundred cubits high, and its breadth in the foundation was sixty cubits;
Judith 1.4: 4 and made its gates, even gates that were raised to the height of seventy cubits, and their breadth forty cubits, for his mighty army to go out of, and the setting in array of his footmen—
Judith 1.5: 5 even in those days king Nebuchadnezzar made war with king Arphaxad in the great plain. This plain is on the borders of Ragau.
Judith 1.6: 6 There came to meet him all that lived in the hill country, and all that lived by Euphrates, Tigris, and Hydaspes, and in the plain of Arioch the king of the Elymaeans. Many nations of the sons of Chelod assembled themselves to the battle.
Judith 1.7: 7 And Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians sent to all who lived in Persia, and to all who lived westward, to those who lived in Cilicia, Damascus, Libanus, and Antilibanus, and to all who lived along the sea coast,
Judith 1.8: 8 and to those among the nations that were of Carmel and Gilead, and to the higher Galilee and the great plain of Esdraelon,
Judith 1.9: 9 and to all who were in Samaria and its cities, and beyond Jordan to Jerusalem, Betane, Chellus, Kadesh, the river of Egypt, Tahpanhes, Rameses, and all the land of Goshen,
Judith 1.10: 10 until you come above Tanis and Memphis, and to all that lived in Egypt, until you come to the borders of Ethiopia.
Judith 1.11: 11 All those who lived in all the land made light of the commandment of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians, and didn’t go with him to the war; for they were not afraid of him, but he was before them as one man. They turned away his messengers from their presence without effect, and with disgrace.
Judith 1.12: 12 And Nebuchadnezzar was exceedingly angry with all this land, and he swore by his throne and kingdom, that he would surely be avenged upon all the coasts of Cilicia, Damascus, and Syria, that he would kill with his sword all the inhabitants of the land of Moab, and the children of Ammon, all Judea, and all that were in Egypt, until you come to the borders of the two seas.
Judith 1.13: 13 And he set the battle in array with his army against king Arphaxad in the seventeenth year; and he prevailed in his battle, and turned to flight all the army of Arphaxad, with all his horses and all his chariots.
Judith 1.14: 14 He became master of his cities, and he came even to Ecbatana, and took the towers, plundered its streets, and turned its beauty into shame.
Judith 1.15: 15 He took Arphaxad in the mountains of Ragau, struck him through with his darts, and utterly destroyed him, to this day.
Judith 1.16: 16 He returned with them to Nineveh, he and all his company of sundry nations, an exceedingly great multitude of men of war, and there he took his ease and banqueted, he and his army, for one hundred twenty days.
Judith 2.0:
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Judith 2.1: 1 In the eighteenth year, the twenty-second day of the first month, there was talk in the house of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians, that he should be avenged on all the land, even as he spoke.
Judith 2.2: 2 He called together all his servants and all his great men, and communicated with them his secret counsel, and concluded the afflicting of all the land out of his own mouth.
Judith 2.3: 3 They decreed to destroy all flesh which didn’t follow the word of his mouth.
Judith 2.4: 4 It came to pass, when he had ended his counsel, Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians called Holofernes the chief captain of his army, which was next after himself, and said to him,
Judith 2.5: 5 “The great king, the lord of all the earth, says: Behold, you shall go out from my presence, and take with you men who trust in their strength, to one hundred twenty thousand footmen and twelve thousand horses with their riders.
Judith 2.6: 6 And you shall go out against all the west country, because they disobeyed the commandment of my mouth.
Judith 2.7: 7 You shall declare to them that they should prepare earth and water, because I will go out in my wrath against them, and will cover the whole face of the earth with the feet of my army, and I will give them as plunder to them.
Judith 2.8: 8 Their slain will fill their valleys and brooks, and the river will be filled with their dead until it overflows.
Judith 2.9: 9 I will lead them captives to the utmost parts of all the earth.
Judith 2.10: 10 But you shall go forth, and take all their coasts for me first. If they will yield themselves to you, then you must reserve them for me until the day of their reproof.
Judith 2.11: 11 As for those who are disobedient, your eye shall not spare; but you shall give them up to be slain and to be plundered in all your land.
Judith 2.12: 12 For as I live, and by the power of my kingdom, I have spoken, and I will do this with my hand.
Judith 2.13: 13 Moreover, you shall not transgress anything of the commandments of your lord, but you shall surely accomplish them, as I have commanded you. You shall not defer to do them.”
Judith 2.14: 14 So Holofernes went out from the presence of his lord, and called all the governors, the captains, and officers of the army of Asshur.
Judith 2.15: 15 He counted chosen men for the battle, as his lord had commanded him, to one hundred twenty thousand, with twelve thousand archers on horseback.
Judith 2.16: 16 He arranged them as a great multitude is ordered for the war.
Judith 2.17: 17 He took camels and asses and mules for their baggage, an exceedingly great multitude, and sheep and oxen and goats without number for their provision,
Judith 2.18: 18 and great store of rations for every man, and exceedingly much gold and silver out of the king’s house.
Judith 2.19: 19 He went out, he and all his army, on their journey, to go before king Nebuchadnezzar, and to cover all the face of the earth westward with their chariots, horsemen, and chosen footmen.
Judith 2.20: 20 A great company of various nations went out with them like locusts, and like the sand of the earth. For they could not be counted by reason of their multitude.
Judith 2.21: 21 And they departed out of Nineveh three days’ journey toward the plain of Bectileth, and encamped from Bectileth near the mountain which is at the left hand of the upper Cilicia.
Judith 2.22: 22 And he took all his army, his footmen, horsemen, and chariots, and went away from there into the hill country,
Judith 2.23: 23 and destroyed Put and Lud, and plundered all the children of Rasses and the children of Ishmael, which were along the wilderness to the south of the land of the Chellians.
Judith 2.24: 24 And he went over Euphrates, and went through Mesopotamia, and broke down all the high cities that were upon the river Arbonai, until you come to the sea.
Judith 2.25: 25 And he took possession of the borders of Cilicia, and killed all that resisted him, and came to the borders of Japheth, which were toward the south, opposite Arabia.
Judith 2.26: 26 He surrounded all the children of Midian, and set their tents on fire, and plundered their sheepfolds.
Judith 2.27: 27 He went down into the plain of Damascus in the days of wheat harvest, and set all their fields on fire, and utterly destroyed their flocks and herds, and plundered their cities, laid their plains waste, and struck all their young men with the edge of the sword.
Judith 2.28: 28 And the fear and the dread of him fell upon those who lived on the sea coast, upon those who were in Sidon and Tyre, those who lived in Sur and Ocina, and all who lived in Jemnaan. Those who lived in Azotus and Ascalon feared him exceedingly.
Judith 3.0:
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Judith 3.1: 1 And they sent to him messengers with words of peace, saying,
Judith 3.2: 2 “Behold, we the servants of Nebuchadnezzar the great king lie before you. Use us as it is pleasing in your sight.
Judith 3.3: 3 Behold, our dwellings, and all our country, and all our fields of wheat, and our flocks and herds, and all the sheepfolds of our tents, lie before your face. Use them as it may please you.
Judith 3.4: 4 Behold, even our cities and those who dwell in them are your servants. Come and deal with them as it is good in your eyes.”
Judith 3.5: 5 So the men came to Holofernes, and declared to him according to these words.
Judith 3.6: 6 He came down toward the sea coast, he and his army, and set garrisons in the high cities, and took out of them chosen men for allies.
Judith 3.7: 7 They received him, they and all the country round about them, with garlands and dances and timbrels.
Judith 3.8: 8 He cast down all their borders, and cut down their sacred groves. It had been given to him to destroy all the gods of the land, that all the nations would worship Nebuchadnezzar only, and that all their tongues and their tribes would call upon him as god.
Judith 3.9: 9 Then he came toward Esdraelon near to Dotaea, which is opposite the great ridge of Judea.
Judith 3.10: 10 He encamped between Geba and Scythopolis. He was there a whole month, that he might gather together all the baggage of his army.
Judith 4.0:
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Judith 4.1: 1 The children of Israel that lived in Judea heard all that Holofernes the chief captain of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians had done to the nations, and how he had plundered all their temples and destroyed them utterly.
Judith 4.2: 2 They were exceedingly afraid before him, and were troubled for Jerusalem, and for the temple of the Lord their God;
Judith 4.3: 3 because they had newly come up from the captivity, and all the people of Judea were recently gathered together; and the vessels, the altar, and the house were sanctified after being profaned.
Judith 4.4: 4 And they sent into every coast of Samaria, to Konae, to Beth-horon, Belmaim, Jericho, to Choba, Aesora, and to the valley of Salem;
Judith 4.5: 5 and they occupied beforehand all the tops of the high mountains, fortified the villages that were in them, stored supplies for the provision of war; for their fields were newly reaped.
Judith 4.6: 6 Joakim the high priest, who was in those days at Jerusalem, wrote to those who lived in Bethulia, and Betomesthaim, which is opposite Esdraelon toward the plain that is near to Dothaim,
Judith 4.7: 7 charging them to seize upon the ascents of the hill country; because by them was the entrance into Judea, and it was easy to stop them from approaching, inasmuch as the approach was narrow, with space for two men at the most.
Judith 4.8: 8 And the children of Israel did as Joakim the high priest had commanded them, as did the senate of all the people of Israel, which lived at Jerusalem.
Judith 4.9: 9 And every man of Israel cried to God with great earnestness, and with great earnestness they humbled their souls.
Judith 4.10: 10 They, their wives, their children, their cattle, and every sojourner, hireling, and servant bought with their money put sackcloth on their loins.
Judith 4.11: 11 Every man and woman of Israel, and the little children, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, fell before the temple, and cast ashes upon their heads, and spread out their sackcloth before the Lord. They put sackcloth around the altar.
Judith 4.12: 12 They cried to the God of Israel earnestly with one consent, that he would not give their children as prey, their wives as plunder, the cities of their inheritance to destruction, and the sanctuary to being profaned and being made a reproach, for the nations to rejoice at.
Judith 4.13: 13 The Lord heard their voice, and looked at their affliction. The people continued fasting many days in all Judea and Jerusalem before the sanctuary of the Lord Almighty.
Judith 4.14: 14 And Joakim the high priest, and all the priests that stood before the Lord, and those who ministered to the Lord, had their loins dressed in sackcloth, and offered the continual burnt offering, the vows, and the free gifts of the people.
Judith 4.15: 15 They had ashes on their hats. They cried to the Lord with all their power, that he would look upon all the house of Israel for good.
Judith 5.0:
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Judith 5.1: 1 Holofernes, the chief captain of the army of Asshur, was told that the children of Israel had prepared for war, had shut up the passages of the hill country, had fortified all the tops of the high hills, and had laid impediments in the plains.
Judith 5.2: 2 Then he was exceedingly angry, and he called all the princes of Moab, and the captains of Ammon, and all the governors of the sea coast,
Judith 5.3: 3 and he said to them, “Tell me now, you sons of Canaan, who are these people who dwell in the hill country? What are the cities that they inhabit? How large is their army? Where is their power and their strength? What king is set over them, to be the leader of their army?
Judith 5.4: 4 Why have they turned their backs, that they should not come and meet me, more than all that dwell in the west?”
Judith 5.5: 5 Then Achior, the leader of all the children of Ammon, said to him, “Let my lord now hear a word from the mouth of your servant, and I will tell you the truth concerning these people who dwell in this hill country, near to the place where you dwell. No lie will come out of the mouth of your servant.
Judith 5.6: 6 These people are descended from the Chaldeans.
Judith 5.7: 7 They sojourned before this in Mesopotamia, because they didn’t want to follow the gods of their fathers, which were in the land of the Chaldeans.
Judith 5.8: 8 They departed from the way of their parents, and worshiped the God of heaven, the God whom they knew. Their parents cast them out from the face of their gods, and they fled into Mesopotamia, and sojourned there many days.
Judith 5.9: 9 Then their God commanded them to depart from the place where they sojourned, and to go into the land of Canaan. They lived there, and prospered with gold and silver, and with exceedingly much cattle.
Judith 5.10: 10 Then they went down into Egypt, for a famine covered all the land of Canaan. They sojourned there until they had grown up. They became a great multitude there, so that one could not count the population of their nation.
Judith 5.11: 11 Then the king of Egypt rose up against them, and dealt subtly with them, and brought them low, making them labor in brick, and made them slaves.
Judith 5.12: 12 They cried to their God, and he struck all the land of Egypt with incurable plagues; so the Egyptians cast them out of their sight.
Judith 5.13: 13 God dried up the Red sea before them,
Judith 5.14: 14 and brought them into the way of Sinai Kadesh-Barnea, and they cast out all that lived in the wilderness.
Judith 5.15: 15 They lived in the land of the Amorites, and they destroyed by their strength everyone in Heshbon. Passing over Jordan, they possessed all the hill country.
Judith 5.16: 16 They cast out before them the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, the Shechemite, and all the Girgashites, and they lived in that country many days.
Judith 5.17: 17 And while they didn’t sin before their God, they prospered, because God who hates iniquity was with them.
Judith 5.18: 18 But when they departed from the way which he appointed them, they were destroyed in many severe battles, and were led captives into a land that was not theirs. The temple of their God was cast to the ground, and their cities were taken by their adversaries.
Judith 5.19: 19 And now they have returned to their God, and have come up from the dispersion where they were dispersed, and have possessed Jerusalem, where their sanctuary is, and are seated in the hill country; for it was desolate.
Judith 5.20: 20 And now, my lord and master, if there is any error in this people, and they sin against their God, we will consider what this thing is in which they stumble, and we will go up and overcome them.
Judith 5.21: 21 But if there is no lawlessness in their nation, let my lord now pass by, lest their Lord defend them, and their God be for them, and we will be a reproach before all the earth.”
Judith 5.22: 22 It came to pass, when Achior had finished speaking these words, all the people standing around the tent murmured. The great men of Holofernes, and all that lived by the sea side and in Moab, said that he should kill him.
Judith 5.23: 23 For, they said, “We will not be afraid of the children of Israel, because, behold, they are a people that has no power nor might to make the battle strong.
Judith 5.24: 24 Therefore now we will go up, and they will be a prey to be devoured by all your army, Lord Holofernes.”
Judith 6.0:
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Judith 6.1: 1 And when the disturbance of the men that were around the council had ceased, Holofernes the chief captain of the army of Asshur said to Achior and to all the children of Moab before all the people of the foreigners,
Judith 6.2: 2 “And who are you, Achior, and the hirelings of Ephraim, that you have prophesied among us as today, and have said that we should not make war with the race of Israel, because their God will defend them? And who is God but Nebuchadnezzar?
Judith 6.3: 3 He will send forth his might, and will destroy them from the face of the earth, and their God will not deliver them; but we his servants will strike them as one man. They will not sustain the might of our horses.
Judith 6.4: 4 For with them we will burn them up. Their mountains will be drunken with their blood. Their plains will be filled with their dead bodies. Their footsteps will not stand before us, but they will surely perish, says king Nebuchadnezzar, lord of all the earth; for he said, ‘The words that I have spoken will not be in vain.’
Judith 6.5: 5 But you, Achior, hireling of Ammon, who have spoken these words in the day of your iniquity, will see my face no more from this day, until I am avenged of the race of those that came out of Egypt.
Judith 6.6: 6 And then the sword of my army, and the multitude of those who serve me, will pass through your sides, and you will fall among their slain when I return.
Judith 6.7: 7 Then my servants will bring you back into the hill country, and will set you in one of the cities of the ascents.
Judith 6.8: 8 You will not perish until you are destroyed with them.
Judith 6.9: 9 And if you hope in your heart that they will not be taken, don’t let your countenance fall. I have spoken it, and none of my words will fall to the ground.”
Judith 6.10: 10 Then Holofernes commanded his servants who waited in his tent to take Achior, and bring him back to Bethulia, and deliver him into the hands of the children of Israel.
Judith 6.11: 11 So his servants took him, and brought him out of the camp into the plain, and they moved from the midst of the plains into the hill country, and came to the springs that were under Bethulia.
Judith 6.12: 12 When the men of the city saw them on the top of the hill, they took up their weapons, and went out of the city against them to the top of the hill. Every man that used a sling kept them from coming up, and cast stones against them.
Judith 6.13: 13 They took cover under the hill, bound Achior, cast him down, left him at the foot of the hill, and went away to their lord.
Judith 6.14: 14 But the children of Israel descended from their city, and came to him, untied him, led him away into Bethulia, and presented him to the rulers of their city;
Judith 6.15: 15 which were in those days Ozias the son of Micah, of the tribe of Simeon, and Chabris the son of Gothoniel, and Charmis the son of Melchiel.
Judith 6.16: 16 Then they called together all the elders of the city; and all their young men ran together, with their women, to the assembly. They set Achior in the midst of all their people. Then Ozias asked him what had happened.
Judith 6.17: 17 He answered and declared to them the words of the council of Holofernes, and all the words that he had spoken in the midst of the princes of the children of Asshur, and all the great words that Holofernes had spoken against the house of Israel.
Judith 6.18: 18 Then the people fell down and worshiped God, and cried, saying,
Judith 6.19: 19 “O Lord God of heaven, behold their arrogance, and pity the low estate of our race. Look upon the face of those who are sanctified to you this day.”
Judith 6.20: 20 They comforted Achior, and praised him exceedingly.
Judith 6.21: 21 Then Ozias took him out of the assembly into his house, and made a feast for the elders. They called on the God of Israel for help all that night.
Judith 7.0:
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Judith 7.1: 1 The next day Holofernes commanded all his army and all the people who had come to be his allies, that they should move their camp toward Bethulia, take beforehand the ascents of the hill country, and make war against the children of Israel.
Judith 7.2: 2 Every mighty man of them moved that day. The army of their men of war was one hundred seventy thousand footmen, plus twelve thousand horsemen, besides the baggage, and the men that were on foot among them: an exceedingly great multitude.
Judith 7.3: 3 They encamped in the valley near Bethulia, by the fountain. They spread themselves in breadth over Dothaim even to Belmaim, and in length from Bethulia to Cyamon, which is near Esdraelon.
Judith 7.4: 4 But the children of Israel, when they saw the multitude of them, were troubled exceedingly, and everyone said to his neighbor, “Now these men will lick up the face of all the earth. Neither the high mountains, nor the valleys, nor the hills will be able to bear their weight.
Judith 7.5: 5 Every man took up his weapons of war, and when they had kindled fires upon their towers, they remained and watched all that night.
Judith 7.6: 6 But on the second day Holofernes led out all his cavalry in the sight of the children of Israel which were in Bethulia,
Judith 7.7: 7 viewed the ascents to their city, and searched out the springs of the waters, seized upon them, and set garrisons of men of war over them. Then he departed back to his people.
Judith 7.8: 8 All the rulers of the children of Esau, all the leaders of the people of Moab, and the captains of the sea coast came to him and said,
Judith 7.9: 9 “Let our lord now hear a word, that there be not losses in your army.
Judith 7.10: 10 For this people of the children of Israel do not trust in their spears, but in the height of the mountains wherein they dwell, for it is not easy to come up to the tops of their mountains.
Judith 7.11: 11 And now, my lord, don’t fight against them as men fight who join battle, and there will not so much as one man of your people perish.
Judith 7.12: 12 Remain in your camp, and keep every man of your army safe. Let your servants get possession of the water spring, which flows from the foot of the mountain,
Judith 7.13: 13 because all the inhabitants of Bethulia get their water from there. Then thirst will kill them, and they will give up their city. Then we and our people will go up to the tops of the mountains that are near, and will encamp upon them, to watch that not one man gets out of the city.
Judith 7.14: 14 They will be consumed with famine, they and their wives and their children. Before the sword comes against them they will be laid low in the streets where they dwell.
Judith 7.15: 15 And you will pay them back with evil, because they rebelled, and didn’t meet your face in peace.”
Judith 7.16: 16 Their words were pleasing in the sight of Holofernes and in the sight of all his servants; and he ordered them to do as they had spoken.
Judith 7.17: 17 And the army of the children of Ammon moved, and with them five thousand of the children of Asshur, and they encamped in the valley. They seized the waters and the springs of the waters of the children of Israel.
Judith 7.18: 18 The children of Esau went up with the children of Ammon, and encamped in the hill country near Dothaim. They sent some of them toward the south, and toward the east, near Ekrebel, which is near Chusi, that is upon the brook Mochmur. The rest of the army of the Assyrians encamped in the plain, and covered all the face of the land. Their tents and baggage were pitched upon it in a great crowd. They were an exceedingly great multitude.
Judith 7.19: 19 The children of Israel cried to the Lord their God, for their spirit fainted; for all their enemies had surrounded them. There was no way to escape out from among them.
Judith 7.20: 20 All the army of Asshur remained around them, their footmen and their chariots and their horsemen, thirty-four days. All their vessels of water ran dry for all the inhabitants of Bethulia.
Judith 7.21: 21 The cisterns were emptied, and they had no water to drink their fill for one day; for they rationed drink by measure.
Judith 7.22: 22 Their young children were discouraged. The women and the young men fainted for thirst. They fell down in the streets of the city, and in the passages of the gates. There was no longer any strength in them.
Judith 7.23: 23 All the people, including the young men, the women, and the children, were gathered together against Ozias, and against the rulers of the city. They cried with a loud voice, and said before all the elders,
Judith 7.24: 24 “God be judge between all of you and us, because you have done us great wrong, in that you have not spoken words of peace with the children of Asshur.
Judith 7.25: 25 Now we have no helper; but God has sold us into their hands, that we should be laid low before them with thirst and great destruction.
Judith 7.26: 26 And now summon them, and deliver up the whole city as prey to the people of Holofernes, and to all his army.
Judith 7.27: 27 For it is better for us to be made a plunder to them. For we will be servants, and our souls will live, and we will not see the death of our babies before our eyes, and our wives and our children fainting in death.
Judith 7.28: 28 We take to witness against you the heaven and the earth, and our God and the Lord of our fathers, who punishes us according to our sins and the sins of our fathers. Do what we have said today!”
Judith 7.29: 29 And there was great weeping of all with one consent in the midst of the assembly; and they cried to the Lord God with a loud voice.
Judith 7.30: 30 And Ozias said to them, “Brethren, be of good courage! Let us endure five more days, during which the Lord our God will turn his mercy toward us; for he will not forsake us utterly.
Judith 7.31: 31 But if these days pass, and no help comes to us, I will do what you say.”
Judith 7.32: 32 Then he dispersed the people, every man to his own camp; and they went away to the walls and towers of their city. He sent the women and children into their houses. They were brought very low in the city.
Judith 8.0:
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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.
Judith 9.0:
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Judith 9.1: 1 But Judith fell upon her face, and put ashes upon her head, and uncovered the sackcloth with which she was clothed. The incense of that evening was now being offered at Jerusalem in the house of God, and Judith cried to the Lord with a loud voice, and said,
Judith 9.2: 2 “O Lord God of my father Simeon, into whose hand you gave a sword to take vengeance on the strangers who loosened the belt of a virgin to defile her, uncovered the thigh to her shame, and profaned the womb to her reproach; for you said, ‘It shall not be so;’ and they did so.
Judith 9.3: 3 Therefore you gave their rulers to be slain, and their bed, which was ashamed for her who was deceived, to be dyed in blood, and struck the servants with their masters, and the masters upon their thrones;
Judith 9.4: 4 and gave their wives for a prey, and their daughters to be captives, and all their spoils to be divided among your dear children; which were moved with zeal for you, and abhorred the pollution of their blood, and called upon you for aid. O God, O my God, hear me also who am a widow.
Judith 9.5: 5 For you did the things that were before those things, and those things, and such as come after; and you planned the things which are now, and the things which are to come. The things which you planned came to pass.
Judith 9.6: 6 Yes, the things which you determined stood before you, and said, ‘Behold, we are here; for all your ways are prepared, and your judgement is with foreknowledge.’
Judith 9.7: 7 For, behold, the Assyrians are multiplied in their power. They are exalted with horse and rider. They were proud of the strength of their footmen. They have trusted in shield, spear, bow, and sling. They don’t know that you are the Lord who breaks the battles. ‘The Lord’ is your name.
Judith 9.8: 8 Break their strength in your power, and bring down their force in your wrath; for they intend to profane your sanctuary, and to defile the tabernacle where your glorious name rests, and to destroy the horn of your altar with the sword.
Judith 9.9: 9 Look at their pride, and send your wrath upon their heads. Give into my hand, which am a widow, the might that I have conceived.
Judith 9.10: 10 Strike by the deceit of my lips the servant with the prince, and the prince with his servant. Break down their arrogance by the hand of a woman.
Judith 9.11: 11 For your power stands not in multitude, nor your might in strong men: but you are a God of the afflicted. You are a helper of the minorities, a helper of the weak, a protector of the forsaken, a savior of those who are without hope.
Judith 9.12: 12 Yes, yes, God of my father, and God of the inheritance of Israel, Lord of the heavens and of the earth. Creator of the waters, King of every creature, hear my prayer.
Judith 9.13: 13 Make my speech and deceit to be their wound and stripe, who intend hard things against your covenant, your holy house, the top of Sion, and the house of the possession of your children.
Judith 9.14: 14 Make every nation and tribe of yours to know that you are God, the God of all power and might, and that there is none other that protects the race of Israel but you.”
Judith 10.0:
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Judith 10.1: 1 It came to pass, when she had ceased to cry to the God of Israel, and had finished saying all these words,
Judith 10.2: 2 that she rose up where she had fallen down, called her maid, and went down into the house that she used to live in on the Sabbath days and on her feast days.
Judith 10.3: 3 She pulled off the sackcloth which she had put on, took off the garments of her widowhood, washed her body all over with water, anointed herself with rich ointment, braided the hair of her head, and put a tiara upon it. She put on her garments of gladness, which she used to wear in the days of the life of Manasses her husband.
Judith 10.4: 4 She took sandals for her feet, and put her chains around her, and her bracelets, her rings, her earrings, and all her jewelry, and decked herself bravely, to deceive the eyes of all men who would see her.
Judith 10.5: 5 She gave her maid a leather container of wine and a flask of oil, and filled a bag with parched corn, lumps of figs, and fine bread. She packed all her vessels together, and laid them upon her.
Judith 10.6: 6 They went out to the gate of the city of Bethulia, and found Ozias and the elders of the city, Chabris and Charmis standing by it.
Judith 10.7: 7 But when they saw her, that her countenance was altered and her apparel was changed, they wondered at her beauty very exceedingly, and said to her,
Judith 10.8: 8 “May the God of our fathers give you favor, and accomplish your purposes to the glory of the children of Israel, and to the exaltation of Jerusalem.”
Then she worshiped God,
Judith 10.9: 9 and said to them, “Command that they open the gate of the city for me, and I will go out to accomplish the things you spoke with me about.”
And they commanded the young men to open to her, as she had spoken;
Judith 10.10: 10 and they did so.
Then Judith went out, she, and her handmaid with her. The men of the city watched her until she had gone down the mountain, until she had passed the valley, and they could see her no more.
Judith 10.11: 11 They went straight onward in the valley. The watch of the Assyrians met her;
Judith 10.12: 12 and they took her, and asked her, “Of what people are you? Where are you coming from? Where are you going?”
She said, “I am a daughter of the Hebrews. I am fleeing away from their presence, because they are about to be given you to be consumed.
Judith 10.13: 13 I am coming into the presence of Holofernes the chief captain of your army, to declare words of truth. I will show him a way that he can go and win all the hill country, and there will not be lacking of his men one person, nor one life.”
Judith 10.14: 14 Now when the men heard her words, and considered her countenance, the beauty thereof was exceedingly marvelous in their eyes. They said to her,
Judith 10.15: 15 “You have saved your life, in that you have hurried to come down to the presence of our master. Now come to his tent. Some of us will guide you until they deliver you into his hands.
Judith 10.16: 16 But when you stand before him, don’t be afraid in your heart, but declare to him according to your words; and he will treat you well.”
Judith 10.17: 17 They chose out of them a hundred men, and appointed them to accompany her and her maid; and they brought them to the tent of Holofernes.
Judith 10.18: 18 And there was great excitement throughout all the camp, for her coming was reported among the tents. They came and surrounded her as she stood outside Holofernes’ tent, until they told him about her.
Judith 10.19: 19 They marveled at her beauty, and marveled at the children of Israel because of her. Each one said to his neighbor, “Who would despise this people, that have among them such women? For it is not good that one man of them be left, seeing that, if they are let go, they will be able to deceive the whole earth.
Judith 10.20: 20 Those who lay near Holofernes, and all his servants, went out and brought her into the tent.
Judith 10.21: 21 And Holofernes was resting upon his bed under the canopy, which was woven with purple, gold, emeralds, and precious stones.
Judith 10.22: 22 And they told him about her; and he came out into the space before his tent, with silver lamps going before him.
Judith 10.23: 23 But when Judith had come before him and his servants, they all marveled at the beauty of her countenance. She fell down upon her face, and bowed down to him, but his servants raised her up.
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Judith 11.1: 1 Holofernes said to her, “Woman, take courage. Don’t be afraid in your heart; for I never hurt anyone who has chosen to serve Nebuchadnezzar, the king of all the earth.
Judith 11.2: 2 And now, if your people who dwell in the hill country had not slighted me, I would not have lifted up my spear against them; but they have done these things to themselves.
Judith 11.3: 3 And now tell me why you fled from them and came to us; for you have come to save yourself. Take courage! You will live tonight, and hereafter;
Judith 11.4: 4 for there is no one that will wrong you, but all will treat you well, as is done to the servants of king Nebuchadnezzar my lord.”
Judith 11.5: 5 And Judith said to him, “Receive the words of your servant, and let your handmaid speak in your presence, and I will declare no lie to my lord this night.
Judith 11.6: 6 If you will follow the words of your handmaid, God will bring the thing to pass perfectly with you; and my lord will not fail to accomplish his purposes.
Judith 11.7: 7 As Nebuchadnezzar king of all the earth lives, and as his power lives, who has sent you for the preservation of every living thing, not only do men serve him by you, but also the beasts of the field, the cattle, and the birds of the sky will live through your strength, in the time of Nebuchadnezzar and of all his house.
Judith 11.8: 8 For we have heard of your wisdom and the subtle plans of your soul. It has been reported in all the earth that you only are brave in all the kingdom, mighty in knowledge, and wonderful in feats of war.
Judith 11.9: 9 And now as concerning the matter which Achior spoke in your council, we have heard his words; for the men of Bethulia saved him, and he declared to them all that he had spoken before you.
Judith 11.10: 10 Therefore, O lord and master, don’t neglect his word; but lay it up in your heart, for it is true; for our race will not be punished, neither will the sword prevail against them, unless they sin against their God.
Judith 11.11: 11 And now, that my lord be not defeated and frustrate of his purpose, and that death may fall upon them, their sin has overtaken them, wherewith they will provoke their God to anger, whenever they do wickedness.
Judith 11.12: 12 Since their food failed them, and all their water was scant, they took counsel to lay hands upon their cattle, and determined to consume all those things which God charged them by his laws that they should not eat.
Judith 11.13: 13 They are resolved to spend the first fruits of the corn, and the tenths of the wine and the oil, which they had sanctified and reserved for the priests who stand before the face of our God in Jerusalem; which things it is not fitting for any of the people so much as to touch with their hands.
Judith 11.14: 14 They have sent some to Jerusalem, because they also that dwell there have done this thing, to bring them permission from the council of elders.
Judith 11.15: 15 It will be, when word comes to them and they do it, they will be given to you to be destroyed the same day.
Judith 11.16: 16 Therefore I your servant, knowing all this, fled away from their presence. God sent me to work things with you, at which all the earth will be astonished, even as many as hear it.
Judith 11.17: 17 For your servant is religious, and serves the God of heaven day and night. Now, my lord, I will stay with you, and your servant will go out by night into the valley. I will pray to God, and he will tell me when they have committed their sins.
Judith 11.18: 18 Then I will come and show it also to you. Then you shall go out with all your army, and there will be none of them that will resist you.
Judith 11.19: 19 And I will lead you through the midst of Judea, until you come to Jerusalem. I will set your seat in the midst of it. You will drive them as sheep that have no shepherd, and a dog will not so much as open his mouth before you; for these things were told me according to my foreknowledge, and were declared to me, and I was sent to tell you.”
Judith 11.20: 20 Her words were pleasing in the sight of Holofernes and of all his servants. They marveled at her wisdom, and said,
Judith 11.21: 21 “There is not such a woman from one end of the earth to the other, for beauty of face and wisdom of words.”
Judith 11.22: 22 Holofernes said to her, “God did well to send you before the people, that might would be in our hands, and destruction among those who slighted my lord.
Judith 11.23: 23 And now you are beautiful in your countenance, and wise in your words. If you will do as you have spoken, your God will be my God, and you will dwell in the house of king Nebuchadnezzar, and will be renowned through the whole earth.”
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Judith 12.1: 1 He commanded that she should be brought in where his silver vessels were set, and asked that his servants should prepare some of his own meats for her, and that she should drink from his own wine.
Judith 12.2: 2 And Judith said, “I will not eat of it, lest there be an occasion of stumbling: but provision will be made for me of the things that have come with me.”
Judith 12.3: 3 And Holofernes said to her, “But if the things that are with you should fail, from where will we be able to give you more like it? For there is none of your race with us.”
Judith 12.4: 4 And Judith said to him, “As your soul lives, my lord, your servant will not spend those things that are with me, until the Lord works by my hand the things that he has determined.”
Judith 12.5: 5 Then Holofernes’ servants brought her into the tent, and she slept until midnight. Then she rose up toward the morning watch,
Judith 12.6: 6 and sent to Holofernes, saying, “Let my lord now command that they allow your servant to go out to pray.”
Judith 12.7: 7 Holofernes commanded his guards that they should not stop her. She stayed in the camp three days, and went out every night into the valley of Bethulia, and washed herself at the fountain of water in the camp.
Judith 12.8: 8 And when she came up, she implored the Lord God of Israel to direct her way to the raising up of the children of his people.
Judith 12.9: 9 She came in clean, and remained in the tent, until she ate her food toward evening.
Judith 12.10: 10 It came to pass on the fourth day, that Holofernes made a feast for his own servants only, and called none of the officers to the banquet.
Judith 12.11: 11 And he said to Bagoas the eunuch, who had charge over all that he had, “Go now, and persuade this Hebrew woman who is with you that she come to us, and eat and drink with us.
Judith 12.12: 12 For, behold, it is a shame for our person, if we shall let such a woman go, not having had her company; for if we don’t draw her to ourselves, she will laugh us to scorn.”
Judith 12.13: 13 Bagoas went from the presence of Holofernes, and came in to her, and said, “Let this fair lady not fear to come to my lord, and to be honored in his presence, and to drink wine and be merry with us, and to be made this day as one of the daughters of the children of Asshur, which wait in the house of Nebuchadnezzar.”
Judith 12.14: 14 Judith said to him, “Who am I, that I should contradict my lord? For whatever would be pleasing in his eyes, I will do speedily, and this will be my joy to the day of my death.”
Judith 12.15: 15 She arose, and decked herself with her apparel and all her woman’s attire; and her servant went and laid fleeces on the ground for her next to Holofernes, which she had received from Bagoas for her daily use, that she might sit and eat upon them.
Judith 12.16: 16 Judith came in and sat down, and Holofernes’ heart was ravished with her. His soul was moved, and he exceedingly desired her company. He was watching for a time to deceive her, from the day that he had seen her.
Judith 12.17: 17 Holofernes said to her, “Drink now, and be merry with us.”
Judith 12.18: 18 Judith said, “I will drink now, my lord, because my life is magnified in me this day more than all the days since I was born.”
Judith 12.19: 19 Then she took and ate and drank before him what her servant had prepared.
Judith 12.20: 20 Holofernes took great delight in her, and drank exceedingly much wine, more than he had drunk at any time in one day since he was born.
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Judith 13.1: 1 But when the evening had come, his servants hurried to depart. Bagoas shut the tent outside, and dismissed those who waited from the presence of his lord. They went away to their beds; for they were all weary, because the feast had been long.
Judith 13.2: 2 But Judith was left alone in the tent, with Holofernes lying along upon his bed; for he was drunk with wine.
Judith 13.3: 3 Judith had said to her servant that she should stand outside her bedchamber, and wait for her to come out, as she did daily; for she said she would go out to her prayer. She spoke to Bagoas according to the same words.
Judith 13.4: 4 All went away from her presence, and none was left in the bedchamber, small or great. Judith, standing by his bed, said in her heart, O Lord God of all power, look in this hour upon the works of my hands for the exaltation of Jerusalem.
Judith 13.5: 5 For now is the time to help your inheritance, and to do the thing that I have purposed to the destruction of the enemies which have risen up against us.
Judith 13.6: 6 She came to the rail of the bed, which was at Holofernes’ head, and took down his scimitar from there.
Judith 13.7: 7 She drew near to the bed, took hold of the hair of his head, and said, “Strengthen me, O Lord God of Israel, this day.”
Judith 13.8: 8 She struck twice upon his neck with all her might, and took away his head from him,
Judith 13.9: 9 tumbled his body down from the bed, and took down the canopy from the pillars. After a little while she went out, and gave Holofernes’ head to her maid;
Judith 13.10: 10 and she put it in her bag of food. They both went out together to prayer, according to their custom. They passed through the camp, circled around that valley, and went up to the mountain of Bethulia, and came to its gates.
Judith 13.11: 11 Judith said afar off to the watchmen at the gates, “Open, open the gate, now. God is with us, even our God, to show his power yet in Israel, and his might against the enemy, as he has done even this day.”
Judith 13.12: 12 It came to pass, when the men of her city heard her voice, they made haste to go down to the gate of their city, and they called together the elders of the city.
Judith 13.13: 13 They all ran together, both small and great, for it was strange to them that she had come. They opened the gate and received them, making a fire to give light, and surrounded them.
Judith 13.14: 14 She said to them with a loud voice, “Praise God! Praise him! Praise God, who has not taken away his mercy from the house of Israel, but has destroyed our enemies by my hand tonight!”
Judith 13.15: 15 Then she took the head out of the bag and showed it, and said to them, “Behold, the head of Holofernes, the chief captain of the army of Asshur, and behold, the canopy, in which he laid in his drunkenness. The Lord struck him by the hand of a woman.
Judith 13.16: 16 And as the Lord lives, who preserved me in my way that I went, my countenance deceived him to his destruction, and he didn’t commit sin with me, to defile and shame me.”
Judith 13.17: 17 All the people were exceedingly amazed, and bowed themselves, and worshiped God, and said with one accord, “Blessed are you, O our God, which have this day brought to nothing the enemies of your people.”
Judith 13.18: 18 Ozias said to her, “Blessed are you, daughter, in the sight of the Most High God, above all the women upon the earth; and blessed is the Lord God, who created the heavens and the earth, who directed you to cut off the head of the prince of our enemies.
Judith 13.19: 19 For your hope will not depart from the heart of men that remember the strength of God forever.
Judith 13.20: 20 May God turn these things to you for a perpetual praise, to visit you with good things, because you didn’t spare your life by reason of the affliction of our race, but avenged our fall, walking a straight way before our God.”
And all the people said, “Amen! Amen!”
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Judith 14.1: 1 Judith said to them, “Hear me now, my kindred, and take this head, and hang it upon the battlement of your wall.
Judith 14.2: 2 It will be, so soon as the morning appears, and the sun comes up on the earth, you shall each take up his weapons of war, and every valiant man of you go out of the city. You shall set a captain over them, as though you would go down to the plain toward the watch of the children of Asshur; but you men shall not go down.
Judith 14.3: 3 These shall take up their full armor, and shall go into their camp and rouse up the captains of the army of Asshur. They will run together to Holofernes’ tent. They won’t find him. Fear will fall upon them, and they will flee before your face.
Judith 14.4: 4 You men, and all that inhabit every coast of Israel, shall pursue them and overthrow them as they go.
Judith 14.5: 5 But before you do these things, summon Achior the Ammonite to me, that he may see and know him that despised the house of Israel, and that sent him to us, as it were to death.
Judith 14.6: 6 And they called Achior out of the house of Ozias; but when he came, and saw the head of Holofernes in a man’s hand in the assembly of the people, he fell upon his face, and his spirit failed.
Judith 14.7: 7 But when they had recovered him, he fell at Judith’s feet, and bowed down to her, and said, “Blessed are you in every tent of Judah, and in every nation, which hearing your name will be troubled.
Judith 14.8: 8 Now tell me all the things that you have done in these days.”
And Judith declared to him in the midst of the people all the things that she had done, from the day that she went out until the time that she spoke to them.
Judith 14.9: 9 But when she finished speaking, the people shouted with a loud voice, and made a joyful noise in their city.
Judith 14.10: 10 But when Achior saw all the things that the God of Israel had done, he believed in God exceedingly, and circumcised the flesh of his foreskin, and was joined to the house of Israel, to this day.
Judith 14.11: 11 But as soon as the morning arose, they hanged the head of Holofernes upon the wall, and every man took up his weapons, and they went forth by bands to the ascents of the mountain.
Judith 14.12: 12 But when the children of Asshur saw them, they sent word to their leaders; but they went to their captains and tribunes, and to every one of their rulers.
Judith 14.13: 13 They came to Holofernes’ tent, and said to him that was over all that he had, “Wake our lord up, now; for the slaves have been bold to come down against us to battle, that they may be utterly destroyed.”
Judith 14.14: 14 Bagoas went in, and knocked at the outer door of the tent; for he supposed that he was sleeping with Judith.
Judith 14.15: 15 But when no one listened to him, he opened it, and went into the bedchamber, and found him cast upon the threshold dead, and his head had been taken from him.
Judith 14.16: 16 He cried with a loud voice, with weeping and groaning and a mighty cry, and tore his garments.
Judith 14.17: 17 He entered into the tent where Judith lodged, and he didn’t find her. He leaped out to the people, and cried aloud,
Judith 14.18: 18 “The slaves have dealt treacherously! One woman of the Hebrews has brought shame upon the house of king Nebuchadnezzar; for, behold, Holofernes lies upon the ground, and his head is not on him!”
Judith 14.19: 19 But when the rulers of the army of Asshur heard the words, they tore their coats, and their soul was troubled exceedingly. There was a cry and an exceedingly great noise in the midst of the camp.
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Judith 15.1: 1 When those who were in the tents heard, they were amazed at what happened.
Judith 15.2: 2 Trembling and fear fell upon them, and no man dared stay any more in the sight of his neighbor, but rushing out with one accord, they fled into every way of the plain and of the hill country.
Judith 15.3: 3 Those who had encamped in the hill country round about Bethulia fled away. And then the children of Israel, every one who was a warrior among them, rushed out upon them.
Judith 15.4: 4 Ozias sent to Betomasthaim, Bebai, Chobai, and Chola, and to every coast of Israel, to tell about the things that had been accomplished, and that all should rush upon their enemies to destroy them.
Judith 15.5: 5 But wnen the children of Israel heard, they all fell upon them with one accord, and struck them to Chobai. Yes, and in like manner also they of Jerusalem and of all the hill country came (for men had told them about what happened in their enemies’ camp), and those who were in Gilead and in Galilee fell upon their flank with a great slaughter, until they were past Damascus and its borders.
Judith 15.6: 6 The rest of the people who lived at Bethulia fell upon the camp of Asshur, and plundered them, and were enriched exceedingly.
Judith 15.7: 7 The children of Israel returned from the slaughter, and got possession of that which remained. The villages and the cities that were in the hill country and in the plain country, took many spoils; for there was an exceedingly great supply.
Judith 15.8: 8 Joakim the high priest, and the elders of the children of Israel who lived in Jerusalem, came to see the good things which the Lord had showed to Israel, and to see Judith, and to salute her.
Judith 15.9: 9 When they came to her, they all blessed her with one accord, and said to her, “You are the exaltation of Jerusalem! You are the great glory of Israel! You are the great rejoicing of our race!
Judith 15.10: 10 You have done all these things by your hand. You have done with Israel the things that are good, and God is pleased with it. Blessed be you with the Almighty Lord forever.”
And all the people said, “Amen!”
Judith 15.11: 11 And the people plundered the camp for the space of thirty days: and they gave Holofernes’ tent to Judith, along with all his silver cups, his beds, his bowls, and all his furniture. She took them, and placed them on her mule, and prepared her wagons, and heaped them on it.
Judith 15.12: 12 And all the women of Israel ran together to see her; and they blessed her, and made a dance among them for her. She took branches in her hand, and distributed them to the women who were with her.
Judith 15.13: 13 Then they made themselves garlands of olive, she and those who were with her, and she went before all the people in the dance, leading all the women. All the men of Israel followed in their armor with garlands, and with songs in their mouths.
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Judith 16.1: 1 And Judith began to sing this song of thanksgiving in all Israel, and all the people sang with loud voices this song of praise.
Judith 16.2: 2 Judith said,
“Begin a song to my God with timbrels.
Sing to my Lord with cymbals.
Make melody to him psalm and praise.
Exalt him, and call upon his name.
Judith 16.3: 3 For the Lord is the God that crushes battles.
For in his armies in the midst of the people,
he delivered me out of the hand of those who persecuted me.
Judith 16.4: 4 Asshur came out of the mountains from the north.
He came with ten thousands of his army.
Its multitude stopped the torrents.
Their horsemen covered the hills.
Judith 16.5: 5 He said that he would burn up my borders,
kill my young men with the sword,
throw my nursing children to the ground,
give my infants up as prey,
and make my virgins a plunder.
Judith 16.6: 6 “The Almighty Lord brought them to nothing by the hand of a woman.
Judith 16.7: 7 For their mighty one didn’t fall by young men,
neither did sons of the Titans strike him.
Tall giants didn’t attack him,
but Judith the daughter of Merari made him weak with the beauty of her countenance.
Judith 16.8: 8 “For she put off the apparel of her widowhood
for the exaltation of those who were distressed in Israel.
She anointed her face with ointment,
bound her hair in a tiara,
and took a linen garment to deceive him.
Judith 16.9: 9 Her sandal ravished his eye.
Her beauty took his soul prisoner.
The scimitar passed through his neck.
Judith 16.10: 10 “The Persians quaked at her daring.
The Medes were daunted at her boldness.
Judith 16.11: 11 “Then my lowly ones shouted aloud.
My weak ones were terrified and trembled for fear.
They lifted up their voice, and they fled.
Judith 16.12: 12 The sons of ladies pierced them through,
and wounded them as fugitives’ children.
They perished by the battle of my Lord.
Judith 16.13: 13 “I will sing to my God a new song:
O Lord, you are great and glorious,
marvelous in strength, invincible.
Judith 16.14: 14 Let all your creation serve you;
for you spoke, and they were made.
You sent out your spirit, and it built them.
There is no one who can resist your voice.
Judith 16.15: 15 For the mountains will be moved from their foundations with the waters,
and the rocks will melt as wax at your presence:
But you are yet merciful to those who fear you.
Judith 16.16: 16 For all sacrifice is little for a sweet savor,
And all the fat is very little for a whole burnt offering to you;
But he who fears the Lord is great continually.
Judith 16.17: 17 “Woe to the nations who rise up against my race!
The Lord Almighty will take vengeance on them in the day of judgement,
to put fire and worms in their flesh;
and they will weep and feel their pain forever.”
Judith 16.18: 18 Now when they came to Jerusalem, they worshiped God. When the people were purified, they offered their whole burnt offerings, their free will offerings, and their gifts.
Judith 16.19: 19 Judith dedicated all Holofernes’ stuff, which the people had given her, and gave the canopy, which she had taken for herself out of his bedchamber, for a gift to the Lord.
Judith 16.20: 20 And the people continued feasting in Jerusalem before the sanctuary for three months, and Judith remained with them.
Judith 16.21: 21 But after these days, everyone departed to his own inheritance. Judith went away to Bethulia, and remained in her own possession, and was honorable in her time in all the land.
Judith 16.22: 22 Many desired her, and no man knew her all the days of her life, from the day that Manasses her husband died and was gathered to his people.
Judith 16.23: 23 She increased in greatness exceedingly; and she grew old in her husband’s house, to one hundred five years, and let her maid go free. Then she died in Bethulia. They buried her in the cave of her husband Manasses.
Judith 16.24: 24 The house of Israel mourned for her seven days. She distributed her goods before she died to all those who were nearest of kin to Manasses her husband, and to those who were nearest of her own kindred.
Judith 16.25: 25 There was no one that made the children of Israel afraid any more in the days of Judith, nor a long time after her death.
Psalm 151 0.0:
PSALM 151
Psalm 151 is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox Churches.
Psalm 151 1.0:
151
This Psalm is a genuine one of David, though extra, composed when he fought in single combat with Goliath.
Psalm 151 1.1: 1 I was small among my brothers,
and youngest in my father’s house.
I tended my father’s sheep.
Psalm 151 1.2: 2 My hands formed a musical instrument,
and my fingers tuned a lute.
Psalm 151 1.3: 3 Who shall tell my Lord?
The Lord himself, he himself hears.
Psalm 151 1.4: 4 He sent forth his angel and took me from my father’s sheep,
and he anointed me with his anointing oil.
Psalm 151 1.5: 5 My brothers were handsome and tall;
but the Lord didn’t take pleasure in them.
Psalm 151 1.6: 6 I went out to meet the Philistine,
and he cursed me by his idols.
Psalm 151 1.7: 7 But I drew his own sword and beheaded him,
and removed reproach from the children of Israel.
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THE SECOND BOOK OF ESDRAS
The Second Book of Esdras is included in the Slavonic Bible as 3 Esdras, but is not found in the Greek Septuagint. It is included in the Appendix to the Latin Vulgate Bible as 4 Esdras. It is considered to be Apocrypha by most church traditions. It is preserved here for its supplementary historical value.
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.0:
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2 Esdras (Latin) 1.1: 1 The second book of the prophet Esdras, the son of Saraias, the son of Azaraias, the son of Helkias, the son of Salemas, the son of Sadoc, the son of Ahitob,
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.2: 2 the son of Achias, the son of Phinees, the son of Heli, the son of Amarias, the son of Aziei, the son of Marimoth, the son of Arna, the son of Ozias, the son of Borith, the son of Abissei, the son of Phinees, the son of Eleazar,
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.3: 3 the son of Aaron, of the tribe of Levi; which was captive in the land of the Medes, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of the Persians.
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.4: 4 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.5: 5 Go your way, and show my people their sinful deeds, and their children their wickedness which they have done against me; that they may tell their children’s children:
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.6: 6 because the sins of their fathers are increased in them: for they have forgotten me, and have done sacrifice to strange gods.
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.7: 7 Did I not bring them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage? but they have provoked me to wrath, and have despised my counsels.
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.8: 8 Shake you then the hair of your head, and cast all evils upon them, for they have not been obedient to my law, but it is a rebellious people.
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.9: 9 How long shall I forbear them, to whom I have done so much good?
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.10: 10 I have overthrown many kings for their sakes; I have struck down Pharoah with his servants and all his army.
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.11: 11 I have destroyed all the nations before them, and in the east I have scattered the people of two provinces, even of Tyre and Sidon, and have slain all their adversaries.
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.12: 12 Speak therefore to them, saying,
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.13: 13 The Lord says, of a truth I brought you through the sea, and where there was no path I made for you highways; I gave you Moses for a leader, and Aaron for a priest.
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.14: 14 I gave you light in a pillar of fire, and great wonders have I done among you; yet have you° forgotten me, says the Lord.
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.15: 15 The Lord Almighty says, The quails were for a token to you; I gave you a camp for your protection, nevertheless you° murmured there:
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.16: 16 and you° triumphed not in my name for the destruction of your enemies, but ever to this day do you° yet murmur.
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.17: 17 Where are the benefits that I have done for you? when you° were hungry and thirsty in the wilderness, did you° not cry to me,
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.18: 18 saying, Why have you brought us into this wilderness to kill us? it had been better for us to have served the Egyptians, than to die in this wilderness.
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.19: 19 I had pity upon your mourning, and gave you manna for food; you° did eat angels’ bread.
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.20: 20 When you° were thirsty, did I not cleave the rock, and waters flowed out to your fill? for the heat I covered you with the leaves of the trees.
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.21: 21 I divided among you fruitful lands; I cast out the Canaanites, the Pherezites, and the Philistines, before you: what shall I yet do more for you? says the Lord.
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.22: 22 The Lord Almighty says, When you° were in the wilderness, at the bitter river, being thirsty, and blaspheming my name,
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.23: 23 I gave you not fire for your blasphemies, but cast a tree in the water, and made the river sweet.
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.24: 24 What shall I do to you, O Jacob? you, Judah, would not obey me: I will turn me to other nations, and I will give my name to them, that they may keep my statutes.
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.25: 25 Seeing you° have forsaken me, I also will forsake you; when you° ask me to be merciful to you, I will have no mercy upon you.
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.26: 26 Whenever you° shall call upon me, I will not hear you: for you° have defiled your hands with blood, and your feet are swift to commit manslaughter.
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.27: 27 You° have not as it were forsaken me, but your own selves, says the Lord.
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.28: 28 The Lord Almighty says, Have I not prayed you as a father his sons, as a mother her daughters, and a nurse her young babes,
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.29: 29 that you° would be my people, and I should be your God; that you° would be my children, and I should be your father?
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.30: 30 I gathered you together, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings: but now, what shall I do to you? I will cast you out from my presence.
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.31: 31 When you° offer oblations to me, I will turn my face from you: for your solemn feast days, your new moons, and your circumcisions of the flesh, have I rejected.
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.32: 32 I sent to you my servants the prophets, whom you° have taken and slain, and torn their bodies in pieces, whose blood I will require of your hands, says the Lord.
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.33: 33 The Lord Almighty says, Your house is desolate, I will cast you out as the wind does stubble.
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.34: 34 And your children shall not be fruitful; for they have neglected my commandment to you, and done that which is evil before me.
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.35: 35 I will give your houses to a people that will come; which not having heard of me yet believe me; they to whom I have showed no signs shall do that which I have commanded.
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.36: 36 They have seen no prophets, yet they shall call their former estate to remembrance.
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.37: 37 I take to witness the grace of the people that shall come, whose little ones rejoice with gladness: and though they see me not with bodily eyes, yet in spirit they shall believe the thing that I say.
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.38: 38 And now, O father, behold with glory; and see the people that come from the east:
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.39: 39 to whom I will give for leaders, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Oseas, Amos, and Micheas, Joel, Abdias, and Jonas,
2 Esdras (Latin) 1.40: 40 Nahum, and Abacuc, Sophonias, Aggaeus, Zachary, and Malachy, which is called also the angel of the Lord.
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2 Esdras (Latin) 2.1: 1 The Lord says, I brought this people out of bondage, and I gave them my commandments by my servants the prophets; whom they would not hear, but set my counsels at nothing.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.2: 2 The mother that bare them says to them, go your way, O my children; for I am a widow and forsaken.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.3: 3 I brought you up with gladness, and with sorrow and heaviness have I lost you: for you° have sinned before the Lord God, and done that which is evil before me.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.4: 4 But what shall I now do to you? for I am a widow and forsaken: go your way, O my children, and ask mercy of the Lord.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.5: 5 As for me, O father, I call upon you for a witness over the mother of these children, because they would not keep my covenant,
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.6: 6 that you bring them to confusion, and their mother to a plunder, that there may be no offspring of them.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.7: 7 Let them be scattered abroad among the heathen, let their names be blotted out of the earth: for they have despised my covenant.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.8: 8 Woe to you, Assur, you that hide the unrighteous with you! O you wicked nation, remember what I did to Sodom and Gomorrah;
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.9: 9 whose land lies in clods of pitch and heaps of ashes: even so I will also do to those who have not listened to me, says the Lord Almighty.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.10: 10 The Lord says to Esdras, Tell my people that I will give them the kingdom of Jerusalem, which I would have given to Israel.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.11: 11 I will also take their glory me, and give these the everlasting tabernacles, which I had prepared for them.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.12: 12 They shall have the tree of life for an ointment of sweet savor; they shall neither labor, nor be weary.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.13: 13 Ask, and you° shall receive: pray for few days to you, that they may be shortened: the kingdom is already prepared for you: watch.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.14: 14 Take heaven and earth to witness, take them to witness; for I have given up the evil, and created the good: for I live, says the Lord.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.15: 15 Mother, embrace your children; I will bring them out with gladness like a dove; establish their feet; for I have chosen you, says the Lord.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.16: 16 And I will raise those who are dead up again from their places, and bring them out from their tombs: for I have known my name in them.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.17: 17 Don’t be afraid, you mother of the children: for I have chosen you, says the Lord.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.18: 18 For your help I will send my servants Esaias and Jeremy, after whose counsel I have sanctified and prepared for you twelve trees laden with various fruits,
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.19: 19 and as many springs flowing with milk and honey, and seven mighty mountains, whereupon there grow roses and lilies, whereby I will fill your children with joy.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.20: 20 Do right to the widow, judge the fatherless, give to the poor, defend the orphan, clothe the naked,
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.21: 21 heal the broken and the weak, laugh not a lame man to scorn, defend the maimed, and let the blind man come to the sight of my glory.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.22: 22 Keep the old and young within your walls.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.23: 23 Wherever you find the dead, set a sign upon them and commit them to the grave, and I will give you the first place in my resurrection.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.24: 24 Stay still, O my people, and take your rest, for your quietness shall come.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.25: 25 Nourish your children, O you good nurse, and establish their feet.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.26: 26 As for the servants whom I have given you, there shall not one of them perish; for I will require them from among your number.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.27: 27 Be not careful overmuch: for when the day of suffering and anguish comes, others shall weep and be sorrowful, but you shall be merry and have abundance.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.28: 28 The nations shall envy you, but they shall be able to do nothing against you, says the Lord.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.29: 29 My hands shall cover you, so that your children see not hell.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.30: 30 Be joyful, O you mother, with your children; for I will deliver you, says the Lord.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.31: 31 Remember your children that sleep, for I shall bring them out of the secret places of the earth, and show mercy to them: for I am merciful, says the Lord Almighty.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.32: 32 Embrace your children until I come, and proclaim mercy to them: for my wells run over, and my grace shall not fail.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.33: 33 I Esdras received a charge from the Lord upon the mount Horeb, that I should go to Israel; but when I came to them, they would none of me, and rejected the commandment of the Lord.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.34: 34 And therefore I say to you, O you° nations, that hear and understand, look for your shepherd, he shall give you everlasting rest; for he is near at hand, that shall come in the end of the world.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.35: 35 Be ready to the rewards of the kingdom, for the everlasting light shall shine upon you for evermore.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.36: 36 Flee the shadow of this world, receive the joyfulness of your glory: I call to witness my savior openly.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.37: 37 O receive that which is given you of the Lord, and be joyful, giving thanks to him that has called you to heavenly kingdoms.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.38: 38 Arise up and stand, and behold the number of those that be sealed in the feast of the Lord;
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.39: 39 those who withdrew them from the shadow of the world have received glorious garments of the Lord.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.40: 40 Look upon your number, O Sion, and make up the reckoning of those of your that are clothed in white, which have fulfilled the law of the Lord.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.41: 41 The number of your children, whom you long for, is fulfilled: beseech the power of the Lord, that your people, which have been called from the beginning, may be hallowed.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.42: 42 I Esdras saw upon the mount Sion a great multitude, whom I could not number, and they all praised the Lord with songs.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.43: 43 And in the midst of them there was a young man of a high stature, taller than all the rest, and upon every one of their heads he set crowns, and was more exalted. I marveled greatly at this.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.44: 44 So I asked the angel, and said, What are these, my Lord?
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.45: 45 He answered and said to me, These be those who have put off the mortal clothing, and put on the immortal, and have confessed the name of God: now are they crowned, and receive palms.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.46: 46 Then said I to the angel, What young man is he that sets crowns upon them, and gives them palms in their hands?
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.47: 47 So he answered and said to me, It is the Son of God, whom they have confessed in the world. Then began I greatly to commend those who stood so stiffly for the name of the Lord.
2 Esdras (Latin) 2.48: 48 Then the angel said to me, Go your way, and tell my people what manner of things, and how great wonders of the Lord God you have seen.
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2 Esdras (Latin) 3.1: 1 In the thirties year after the ruin of the city, I Salathiel (also called Esdras) was in Babylon, and lay troubled upon my bed, and my thoughts came up over my heart:
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.2: 2 for I saw the desolation of Sion, and the wealth of those who lived at Babylon.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.3: 3 And my spirit was sore moved, so that I began to speak words full of fear to the Most High, and said,
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.4: 4 O Lord that bear rule, did you not not speak at the beginning, when you did fashion the earth, and that yourself alone, and command the dust.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.5: 5 and it gave you Adam, a body without a soul? yet it was the workmanship of your hands, and you did breathe into him the breath of life, and he was made living before you.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.6: 6 And you led him into paradise, which your right hand did plant, before ever the earth came forward.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.7: 7 And to him you gave your one commandment: which he transgressed, and immediately you appointed death for him and in his generations; and there were born of him nations and tribes, peoples and kindred, out of number.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.8: 8 And every nation walked after their own will, and did ungodly things before you, and despised your commandments, and you didn’t forbid them.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.9: 9 Nevertheless again in process of time you brought the flood upon those that lived in the world, and destroyed them.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.10: 10 And it came to pass that the same hap befell them; like as death was to Adam, so was the flood to these.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.11: 11 Nevertheless one of them you left, Noah with his household, even all the righteous men that came of him.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.12: 12 And it came to pass, that when those who lived upon the earth began to multiply, they multiplied also children, and peoples, and many nations, and began again to be more ungodly than the first.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.13: 13 And it came to pass, when they did wickedly before you, you did choose you one from among them, whose name was Abraham;
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.14: 14 and him you loved, and to him only you showed the end of the times secretly by night:
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.15: 15 and made an everlasting covenant with him, promising him that you would never forsake his seed.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.16: 16 And to him you gave Isaac, and to Isaac you gave Jacob and Esau. And you did set apart Jacob for yourself, but did put by Esau: and Jacob became a great multitude.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.17: 17 And it came to pass, that when you led his seed out of Egypt, you brought them up to the mount Sinai.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.18: 18 You bowed the heavens also, and did shake the earth, and movedst the whole world, and made the depths to tremble, and troubled the course of that age.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.19: 19 And your glory went through four gates, of fire, and of earthquake, and of wind, and of cold; that you might give the law to the seed of Jacob, and the commandment to the generation of Israel.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.20: 20 And yet took you not away from them their wicked heart, that your law might bring forth fruit in them.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.21: 21 For the first Adam bearing a wicked heart transgressed, and was overcome; and not he only, but all they also that are born of him.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.22: 22 Thus disease was made permanent; and the law was in the heart of the people along with the wickedness of the root; so the good departed away, and that which was wicked abode still.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.23: 23 So the times passed away, and the years were brought to an end: then did you raise you up a servant, called David,
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.24: 24 whom you commanded to build a city to your name, and to offer oblations to you therein of your own.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.25: 25 When this was done many years, then those who inhabited the city did evil,
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.26: 26 in all things doing even as Adam and all his generations had done: for they also bare a wicked heart:
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.27: 27 and so you gave your city over into the hands of your enemies.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.28: 28 And I said then in my heart, are their deeds any better that inhabit Babylon? and has she therefore dominion over Sion?
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.29: 29 For it came to pass when I came here, that I saw also impieties without number, and my soul saw many evil-doers in this thirties year, so that my heart failed me.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.30: 30 For I have seen how you suffer them sinning, and have spared the ungodly doers, and have destroyed your people, and have preserved your enemies; and you have not signified
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.31: 31 to any how your way may be comprehended. Are the deeds of Babylon better than those of Sion?
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.32: 32 Or is there any other nation that knows you beside Israel? or what tribes have so believed your covenants as these tribes of Jacob?
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.33: 33 And yet their reward appears not, and their labor has no fruit: for I have gone here and there through the nations, and I see that they abound in wealth, and think not upon your commandments.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.34: 34 Weigh you therefore our iniquities now in the balance, and theirs also that dwell in the world; and so shall it be found which way the scale inclines.
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.35: 35 Or when was it that they which dwell upon the earth have not sinned in your sight? or what nation has so kept your commandments?
2 Esdras (Latin) 3.36: 36 You shall find that men who may be reckoned by name have kept your precepts; but nations you shall not find.
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2 Esdras (Latin) 4.1: 1 And the angel that was sent to me, whose name was Uriel, gave me an answer,
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.2: 2 and said to me, your heart has utterly failed you in regarding this world, and think you to comprehend the way of the Most High?
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.3: 3 Then said I, Yes my Lord.
And he answered me, and said, I am sent to show you three ways, and to set forth three similitudes before you:
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.4: 4 whereof if you can declare me one, I also will show you the way that you desire to see, and I will teach you wherefore the heart is wicked.
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.5: 5 And I said, say on, my Lord.
Then said he to me, Go to, weigh me a weight of fire, or measure me a measure of wind, or call me again the day that is past.
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.6: 6 Then answered I and said, who of the sons of men is able to do this, that you should ask me of such things?
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.7: 7 And he said to me, If I had asked you, saying, How many dwellings are there in the heart of the sea? or how many springs are there at the fountain head of the deep? or how many ways are above the firmament? or which are the exits of hell? or which are the paths of paradise?
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.8: 8 perhaps you would say to me, I never went down into the deep, nor as yet into hell, neither did I ever climb up into heaven.
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.9: 9 Nevertheless now have I asked you but only of the fire and wind, and of the day, things wherethrough you have passed, and without which you can not be, and yet have you given me no answer of them.
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.10: 10 He said moreover to me, Your own things, that are grown up with you, can you not know;
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.11: 11 how then can your vessel comprehend the way of the Most High? and how can he that is already worn out with the corrupted world understand incorruption?
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.12: 12 And when I heard these things I fell upon my face, and said to him, It were better that we were not here at all, than that we should come here and live in the midst of ungodliness, and suffer, and not know wherefore.
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.13: 13 He answered me, and said, The woods of the trees of the field went forth, and took counsel together,
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.14: 14 and said, Come! Let’s go and make war against the sea, that it may depart away before us, and that we may make us more woods.
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.15: 15 The waves of the sea also in like manner took counsel together, and said, Come! Let’s go up and subdue the wood of the plain, that there also we may make us another country.
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.16: 16 The counsel of the wood was in vain, for the fire came and consumed it:
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.17: 17 likewise also the counsel of the waves of the sea, for the sand stood up and stopped them.
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.18: 18 If you were judge now between these two, whom would you justify, or whom condemn?
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.19: 19 I answered and said, it is a foolish counsel that they both have taken, for the ground is given to the wood, and the place of the sea is given to bear his waves.
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.20: 20 Then answered he me, and said, You have given a right judgement, and why judge you not in your own case?
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.21: 21 For like as the ground is given to the wood, and the sea to his waves, even so those who dwell upon the earth may understand nothing but that which is upon the earth: and he only that dwells above the heavens may understand the things that are above the height of the heavens.
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.22: 22 Then answered I and said, I beseech you, O Lord, wherefore is the power of understanding given to me?
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.23: 23 For it was not in my mind to be curious of the ways above, but of such things as pass by us daily; because Israel is given up as a reproach to the heathen, and the people whom you have loved is given over to ungodly nations, and the law of our forefathers is made of none effect, and the written covenants are nowhere regarded,
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.24: 24 and we pass away out of the world as grasshoppers, and our life is as a vapor, neither are we worthy to obtain mercy.
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.25: 25 What will he then do for his name whereby we are called? Of these things have I asked.
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.26: 26 Then he answered me, and said, if you be alive you shall see, and if you live long, you shall marvel; for the world hastens fast to pass away.
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.27: 27 For it is not able to bear the things that are promised to the righteous in the times to come: for this world is full of sadness and infirmities.
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.28: 28 For the evil whereof you asked me is sown, but the gathering thereof is not yet come.
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.29: 29 If therefore that which is sown be not reaped, and if the place where the evil is sown pass not away, there can’t come the field where the good is sown.
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.30: 30 For a grain of evil seed was sown in the heart of Adam from the beginning, and how much wickedness has it brought forth to this time! and how much shall it yet bring forth until the time of threshing come!
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.31: 31 Ponder now by yourself, how great fruit of wickedness a grain of evil seed has brought forth.
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.32: 32 When the ears which are without number shall be sown, how great a floor shall they fill!
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.33: 33 Then I answered and said, How long? and when shall these things come to pass? wherefore are our years few and evil?
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.34: 34 And he answered me, and said, You do not hasten more than the Most High: for your haste is for your own self, but he that is above hastens on behalf of many.
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.35: 35 Did not the souls of the righteous ask question of these things in their chambers, saying, How long are we here? when comes the fruit of the threshing time of our reward?
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.36: 36 And to them Jeremiel the archangel gave answer, and said, Even when the number is fulfilled of those who are like to you. For he has weighed the world in the balance;
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.37: 37 and by measure has he measured the times, and by number has he counted the seasons; and he shall not move nor stir them, until the said measure be fulfilled.
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.38: 38 Then answered I and said, O Lord that bear rule, yet even we all are full of impiety:
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.39: 39 and for our sakes perhaps it is that the threshing time of the righteous is kept back, because of the sins of those who dwell upon the earth.
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.40: 40 So he answered me, and said, Go your way to a woman with child, and ask of her when she has fulfilled her nine months, if her womb may keep the birth any longer within her.
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.41: 41 Then said I, no, Lord, that can it not.
And he said to me, in the grave the chambers of souls are like the womb:
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.42: 42 for like as a woman that travails makes haste to escape the anguish of the travail: even so do these places haste to deliver those things that are committed to them from the beginning.
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.43: 43 Then shall it be showed you concerning those things which you desire to see.
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.44: 44 Then answered I and said, if I have found favor in your sight, and if it be possible, and if I be meet therefore,
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.45: 45 show me this also, whether there be more to come than is past, or whether the more part is gone over us.
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.46: 46 For what is gone I know, but what is for to come I know not.
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.47: 47 And he said to me, Stand up upon the right side, and I shall expound the similitude to you.
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.48: 48 so I stood, and saw, and, behold, a hot burning oven passed by before me: and it happened, that when the flame was gone by I looked, and, behold, the smoke remained still.
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.49: 49 After this there passed by before me a watery cloud, and sent down much rain with a storm; and when the stormy rain was past, the drops remained therein still.
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.50: 50 Then said he to me, Consider with yourself; as the rain is more than the drops, and the fire is greater than the smoke, so the quantity which is past did more exceed; but the drops and the smoke remained still.
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.51: 51 Then I prayed, and said, May I live, think you, until that time? or who shall be in those days?
2 Esdras (Latin) 4.52: 52 He answered me, and said, As for the tokens whereof you asked me, I may tell you of them in part: but as touching your life, I am not sent to show you; for I do not know it.
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2 Esdras (Latin) 5.1: 1 Nevertheless as concerning the tokens, behold, the days shall come, that they which dwell upon earth shall be taken with great amazement, and the way of truth shall be hidden, and the land shall be barren of faith.
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.2: 2 But iniquity shall be increased above that which now you see, or that you have heard long ago.
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.3: 3 And the land, that you see now to have rule, shall be waste and untrodden, and men shall see it desolate.
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.4: 4 But if the Most High grant you to live, you shall see that which is after the third kingdom to be troubled; and the sun shall suddenly shine forth in the night, and the moon in the day:
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.5: 5 and blood shall drop out of wood, and the stone shall give his voice, and the peoples shall be troubled; and their goings shall be changed:
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.6: 6 and he shall rule, whom those who dwell upon the earth look not for, and the fowls shall take their flight away together:
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.7: 7 and the Sodomite sea shall cast out fish, and make a noise in the night, which many have not known: but all shall hear the voice thereof.
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.8: 8 There shall be chaos also in many places, and the fire shall be often sent out, and the wild beasts shall change their places, and women shall bring forth monsters:
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.9: 9 and salt waters shall be found in the sweet, and all friends shall destroy one another; then shall wit hide itself, and understanding withdraw itself into its chamber;
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.10: 10 and it shall be sought of many, and shall not be found: and unrighteousness and incontinency shall be multiplied upon earth.
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.11: 11 One land also shall ask another, and say, Is righteousness, is a man that does righteousness, gone through you? And it shall say, No.
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.12: 12 And it shall come to pass at that time that men shall hope, but shall not obtain: they shall labor, but their ways shall not prosper.
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.13: 13 To show you such tokens I have leave; and if you will pray again, and weep as now, and fast seven days, you shall hear yet greater things than these.
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.14: 14 Then I awaked, and an extreme trembling went through my body, and my mind was troubled, so that it fainted.
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.15: 15 So the angel that was come to talk with me held me, comforted me, and set me up upon my feet.
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.16: 16 And in the second night it came to pass, that Phaltiel the captain of the people came to me, saying, Where have you been? and why is your countenance sad?
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.17: 17 or know you not that Israel is committed to you in the land of their captivity?
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.18: 18 Up then, and eat some bread, and forsake us not, as the shepherd that leaves in the hands of cruel wolves.
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.19: 19 Then said I to him, Go your ways from me, and come not near me for seven days, and then shall you come to me. And he heard what I said, and went from me.
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.20: 20 And so I fasted seven days, mourning and weeping, like as Uriel the angel commanded me.
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.21: 21 And after seven days, so it was, that the thoughts of my heart were very grievous to me again,
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.22: 22 and my soul recovered the spirit of understanding, and I began to speak words before the Most High again,
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.23: 23 and said, O Lord that bear rule, of all the woods of the earth, and of all the trees thereof, you have chosen you one vine:
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.24: 24 and of all the lands of the world you have chosen you one country: and of all the flowers of the world you have chosen you one lily:
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.25: 25 and of all the depths of the sea you have filled you one river: and of all built cities you have hallowed Sion to yourself:
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.26: 26 and of all the fowls that are created you have named you one dove: and of all the cattle that are made you have provided you one sheep:
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.27: 27 and among all the multitudes of peoples you have gotten you one people: and to this people, whom you loved, you gave a law that is approved of all.
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.28: 28 And now, O Lord, why have you given this one people over to many, and have dishonored the one root above others, and have scattered your only one among many?
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.29: 29 And they which did gainsay your promises have trodden them down that believed your covenants.
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.30: 30 If you do so much hate your people, they should be punished with your own hands.
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.31: 31 Now when I had spoken these words, the angel that came to me the night before was sent to me,
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.32: 32 and said to me, Hear me, and I will instruct you; listen to me, and I shall tell you more.
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.33: 33 And I said, Speak on, my Lord. Then said he to me, You are sore troubled in mind for Israel’s sake: love you that people better than he that made them?
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.34: 34 And I said, No, Lord: but of very grief have I spoken: for my reins torment me every hour, while I labor to comprehend the way of the Most High, and to seek out part of his judgement.
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.35: 35 And he said to me, You can not. And I said, Wherefore, Lord, or whereunto was I born? or why was not my mother’s womb then my grave, that I might not have seen the travail of Jacob, and the wearisome toil of the stock of Israel?
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.36: 36 And he said to me, Number me those who are not yet come, gather me together the drops that are scattered abroad, make me the flowers green again that are withered,
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.37: 37 open me the chambers that are closed, and bring me forth the winds that in them are shut up, or show me the image of a voice: and then I will declare to you the travail that you asked to see.
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.38: 38 And I said, O Lord that bear rule, who may know these things, but he that has not his dwelling with men?
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.39: 39 As for me, I am unwise: how may I then speak of these things whereof you asked me?
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.40: 40 Then said he to me, Just as you can do none of these things that I have spoken of, even so can you not find out my judgement, or the end of the love that I have promised to my people.
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.41: 41 And I said, But, behold, O Lord, you have made the promise to those who be in the end: and what shall they do that have been before us, or we that be now, or those who shall come after us?
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.42: 42 And he said to me, I will liken my judgement to a ring: like as there is no slackness of those who are last, even so there is no swiftness of those who be first.
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.43: 43 So I answered and said, Couldest you not make them to be at once that have been made, and that be now, and that are for to come; that you might show your judgment the sooner?
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.44: 44 Then answered he me, and said, The creature may not haste above the creator; neither may the world hold them at once that shall be created therein.
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.45: 45 And I said, How have you said to your servant, that you will surely make alive at once the creature that you have created? If therefore they shall be alive at once, and the creature shall sustain them: even so it might now also support them to be present at once.
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.46: 46 And he said to me, Ask the womb of a woman, and say to her, If you bring forth ten children, why do you it at several times? pray her therefore to bring forth ten children at once.
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.47: 47 And I said, she can’t: but must do it by distance of time.
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.48: 48 Then said he to me, Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown therein in their several times.
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.49: 49 For like as a young child may not bring forth, neither she that is grown old bring forth any more, even so have I disposed the world which I created.
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.50: 50 And I asked, and said, Seeing you have now showed me the way, I will speak before you: Is our mother, of whom you have told me, still young? or does she now draw near to age?
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.51: 51 He answered me, and said, Ask a woman that bears children, and she shall tell you.
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.52: 52 Say to her, wherefore are not they whom you have now brought forth like those that were before, but less of stature?
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.53: 53 And she also shall answer you, They that be born in the strength of youth are of one fashion, and those who are born in the time of age, when the womb fails, are otherwise.
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.54: 54 Consider therefore you also, how that you° are less of stature than those that were before you.
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.55: 55 And so are those who come after you less than you°, as born of the creature which now begins to be old, and is past the strength of youth.
2 Esdras (Latin) 5.56: 56 Then said I, Lord, I beseech you, if I have found favor in your sight, show your servant by whom you visit your creature.
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2 Esdras (Latin) 6.1: 1 And he said to me, In the beginning, when the earth was made, before the portals of the world were fixed, or ever the gatherings of the winds blew,
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.2: 2 before the voices of the thunder sounded and before the flashes of the lightning shone, or ever the foundations of paradise were laid,
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.3: 3 before the fair flowers were seen, or ever the powers of the earthquake were established, before the innumerable army of angels were gathered together,
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.4: 4 or ever the heights of the air were lifted up, before the measures of the firmament were named, or ever the footstool of Sion was established,
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.5: 5 and before the present years were sought out, and or ever the imaginations of those who now sin were estranged, before they were sealed that have gathered faith for a treasure:
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.6: 6 then did I consider these things, and they all were made through me alone, and through none other: as by me also they shall be ended, and by none other.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.7: 7 Then answered I and said, what shall be the parting asunder of the times? or when shall be the end of the first, and the beginning of it that follows?
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.8: 8 And he said to me, From Abraham to Abraham, inasmuch as Jacob and Esau were born of him, for Jacob’s hand held the heel of Esau from the beginning.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.9: 9 For Esau is the end of this world, and Jacob is the beginning of it that follows.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.10: 10 The beginning of a man is his hand, and the end of a man is his heel; between the heel and the hand seek you nothing else, Esdras.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.11: 11 I answered then and said, O Lord that bear rule, If I have found favor in your sight,
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.12: 12 I beseech you, show your servant the end of your tokens, whereof you showed me part the last night.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.13: 13 So he answered and said to me, Stand up upon your feet, and you shall hear a mighty sounding voice;
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.14: 14 and if the place you stand on is greatly moved,
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.15: 15 when it speaks be you not afraid: for the word is of the end, and the foundations of the earth shall understand,
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.16: 16 that the speech is of them: they shall tremble and be moved: for they know that their end must be changed.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.17: 17 And it happened, that when I had heard it I stood up upon my feet, and listened, and, behold, there was a voice that spoke, and the sound of it was like the sound of many waters.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.18: 18 And it said, Behold, the days come, and it shall be that when I draw near to visit those who dwell upon the earth,
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.19: 19 and when I shall make inquisition of those who have done hurt unjustly with their unrighteousness, and when the affliction of Sion shall be fulfilled,
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.20: 20 and when the seal shall be set upon the world that is to pass away, then I will show these tokens: the books shall be opened before the firmament, and all shall see together:
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.21: 21 and the children of a year old shall speak with their voices, the women with child shall bring forth untimely children at three or four months, and they shall live, and dance.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.22: 22 And suddenly shall the sown places appear unsown, the full storehouses shall suddenly be found empty:
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.23: 23 and the trumpet shall give a sound, which when every man hears, they shall be suddenly afraid.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.24: 24 At that time shall friends make war one against another like enemies, and the earth shall stand in fear with those that dwell therein, the springs of the springs shall stand still, so that for three hours they shall not run.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.25: 25 And it shall be that whoever remains after all these things that I have told you of, he shall be saved, and shall see my salvation, and the end of my world.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.26: 26 And they shall see the men that have been taken up, who have not tasted death from their birth: and the heart of the inhabitants shall be changed, and turned into another meaning.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.27: 27 For evil shall be blotted out, and deceit shall be quenched;
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.28: 28 and faith shall flourish, and corruption shall be overcome, and the truth, which has been so long without fruit, shall be declared.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.29: 29 And when he talked with me, behold, by little and little the place I stood on rocked to and fro.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.30: 30 And he said to me, These things came I to show you this night.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.31: 31 If therefore you will pray yet again, and fast seven days more, I shall yet tell you greater things than these.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.32: 32 For your voice has surely been heard before the Most High: for the Mighty has seen your righteous dealing, he has seen aforetime also your chastity, which you have had ever since your youth.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.33: 33 And therefore has he sent me to show you all these things, and to say to you, Be of good comfort, and fear not.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.34: 34 And be not hasty in regard of the former times, to think vain things, that you may not hasten in the latter times.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.35: 35 And it came to pass after this, that I wept again, and fasted seven days in like manner, that I might fulfill the three weeks which he told me.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.36: 36 And in the eighth night was my heart vexed within me again, and I began to speak before the Most High.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.37: 37 For my spirit was greatly set on fire, and my soul was in distress.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.38: 38 And I said, O Lord, of a truth you spoke at the beginning of the creation, upon the first day, and said thus; Let heaven and earth be made; and your word perfected the work.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.39: 39 And then was the spirit hovering, and darkness and silence were on every side; the sound of man’s voice was not yet.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.40: 40 Then command you a ray of light to be brought forth of your treasures, that then your works might appear.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.41: 41 Upon the second day again you made the spirit of the firmament and commanded it to part asunder, and to make a division between the waters, that the one part might go up, and the other remain beneath.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.42: 42 Upon the third day you did command that the waters should be gathered together in the seventh part of the earth: six parts did you dry up, and keep them, to the intent that of these some being both planted and tilled might serve before you.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.43: 43 For as soom as your word went forth the work was done.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.44: 44 For immediately there came forth great and innumerable fruit, and manifold pleasures for the taste, and flowers of inimitable color, and odors of most exquisite smell: and this was done the third day.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.45: 45 Upon the fourth day you commanded that the sun should shine, and the moon give her light, and the stars should be in their order:
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.46: 46 and gave them a charge to do service to man, that was to be made.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.47: 47 Upon the fifth day you said to the seventh part, where the water was gathered together, that it should bring forth living creatures, fowls and fishes: and so it came to pass,
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.48: 48 that the mute water and without life brought forth living things as it was told, that the peoples might therefore praise your wondrous works.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.49: 49 Then did you preserve two living creatures, the one you calledst Behemoth, and the other you calledst Leviathan:
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.50: 50 and you did separate the one from the other: for the seventh part, namely, where the water was gathered together, might not hold them both.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.51: 51 To Behemoth you gave one part, which was dried up on the third day, that he should dwell in it, wherein are a thousand hills:
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.52: 52 but to Leviathan you gave the seventh part, namely, the moist; and you have kept them to be devoured of whom you will, and when.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.53: 53 But upon the sixth day you gave commandment to the earth, that it should bring forth before you cattle, beasts, and creeping things:
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.54: 54 and over these Adam, whom you ordain lord over all the works that you have made: of him come we all, the people whom you have chosen.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.55: 55 All this have I spoken before you, O Lord, because you have said that for our sakes you made this world.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.56: 56 As for the other nations, which also come of Adam, you have said that they are nothing, and are like to spittle: and you have likened the abundance of them to a drop that falls from a vessel.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.57: 57 And now, O Lord, behold these nations, which are reputed as nothing, be lords over us, and devour us.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.58: 58 But we your people, whom you have called your firstborn, your only begotten, and your fervent lover, are given into their hands.
2 Esdras (Latin) 6.59: 59 If the world now be made for our sakes, why do we not possess for an inheritance our world? How long shall this endure?
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2 Esdras (Latin) 7.1: 1 And when I had made an end of speaking these words, there was sent to me the angel which had been sent to me the nights before:
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.2: 2 and he said to me, Up, Esdras, and hear the words that I am come to tell you.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.3: 3 And I said, Speak on, my Lord. Then he said to me, There is a sea set in a wide place, that it might be broad and vast.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.4: 4 But the entrance thereof shall be set in a narrow place so as to be like a river;
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.5: 5 whoso then should desire to go into the sea to look upon it, or to rule it, if he went not through the narrow, how could he come into the broad?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.6: 6 Another thing also: There is a city built and set in a plain country, and full of all good things;
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.7: 7 but the entrance thereof is narrow, and is set in a dangerous place to fall, having a fire on the right hand, and on the left a deep water:
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.8: 8 and there is one only path between them both, even between the fire and the water, so small that there could but one man go there at once.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.9: 9 If this city now be given to a man for an inheritance, if the heir pass not the danger before him, how shall he receive his inheritance?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.10: 10 And I said, It is so, Lord. Then said he to me, Even so also is Israel’s portion.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.11: 11 Because for their sakes I made the world: and when Adam transgressed my statutes, then was decreed that now is done.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.12: 12 Then were the entrances of this world made narrow, and sorrowful and toilsome: they are but few and evil, full of perils, and charged with great toils.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.13: 13 For the entrances of the greater world are wide and sure, and bring forth fruit of immortality.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.14: 14 If then those who live enter not these strait and vain things, they can never receive those that are laid up for them.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.15: 15 Now therefore why you disquiet yourself, seeing you are but a corruptible man? and why are you moved, whereas you are but mortal?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.16: 16 and why have you not considered in your mind that which is to come, rather than that which is present?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.17: 17 Then answered I and said, O Lord that bear rule, behold, you have ordained in your law, that the righteous should inherit these things, but that the ungodly should perish.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.18: 18 The righteous therefore shall suffer strait things, and hope for wide: but those who have done wickedly have suffered the strait things, and yet shall not see the wide.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.19: 19 And he said to me, You are not a judge above God, neither have you understanding above the Most High.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.20: 20 Yes, rather let many that now be perish, than that the law of God which is set before them be despised.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.21: 21 For God straitly commanded such as came, even as they came, what they should do to live, and what they should observe to avoid punishment.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.22: 22 Nevertheless they were not obedient to him; but spoke against him, and imagined for themselves vain things;
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.23: 23 and framed cunning plans of wickedness; and said moreover of the Most High, that he is not; and knew not his ways:
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.24: 24 but they despised his law, and denied his covenants; they have not been faithful to his statutes, and have not performed his works.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.25: 25 Therefore, Esdras, for the empty are empty things, and for the full are the full things.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.26: 26 For behold, the time shall come, and it shall be, when these tokens, of which I told you before, shall come to pass, that the bride shall appear, even the city coming forth, and she shall be seen, that now is withdrawn from the earth.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.27: 27 And whoever is delivered from the aforesaid evils shall see my wonders.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.28: 28 For my son Jesus shall be revealed with those that be with him, and shall rejoice those who remain four hundred years.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.29: 29 After these years shall my son Christ die of those who, and all that have the breath of life.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.30: 30 And the world shall be turned into the old silence seven days, like as in the first beginning: so that no man shall remain.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.31: 31 And after seven days the world, that yet awakens not, shall be raised up, and that shall die that is corruptible.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.32: 32 And the earth shall restore those that are asleep in her, and so shall the dust those that dwell therein in silence, and the secret places shall deliver those souls that were committed to them.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.33: 33 And the Most High shall be revealed upon the seat of judgement, and compassion shall pass away, and patience shall be withdrawn:
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.34: 34 but judgement only shall remain, truth shall stand, and faith shall wax strong:
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.35: 35 and the work shall follow, and the reward shall be showed, and good deeds shall awake, and wicked deeds shall not sleep.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.36: 36 And the pit of torment shall appear, and near it shall be the place of rest: and the furnace of shall be showed, and near it the paradise of delight.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.37: 37 And then shall the Most High say to the nations that are raised from the dead, See you° and understand whom you° have denied, or whom you° have not served, or whose commandments you° have despised.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.38: 38 Look on this side and on that: here is delight and rest, and there fire and torments. Thus shall he speak to them in the day of judgement:
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.39: 39 This is a day that has neither sun, nor moon, nor stars,
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.40: 40 neither cloud, nor thunder, nor lightning, neither wind, nor water, nor air, neither darkness, nor evening, nor morning,
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.41: 41 neither summer, nor spring, nor heat, nor winter, neither frost, nor cold, nor hail, nor rain, nor dew,
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.42: 42 neither noon, nor night, nor dawn, neither shining, nor brightness, nor light, save only the splendor of the glory of the Most High, whereby all shall see the things that are set before them:
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.43: 43 for it shall endure as it were a week of years.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.44: 44 This is my judgement and the ordinance thereof; but to you only have I showed these things.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.45: 45 And I answered, I said even then, O Lord, and I say now: blessed are those who are now alive and keep the statutes ordained of you.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.46: 46 But as touching them for whom my prayer was made, what shall I say? for who is there of those who are alive that has not sinned, and who of the sons of men that has not transgressed your covenant?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.47: 47 And now I see, that the world to come shall bring delight to few, but torments to many.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.48: 48 For an evil heart has grown up in us, which has led us astray from these statutes, and has brought us into corruption and into the ways of death, has showed us the paths of perdition and removed us far from life; and that, not a few only, but well near all that have been created.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.49: 49 And he answered me, and said, Listen to me, and I will instruct you; and I will admonish you yet again:
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.50: 50 for this cause the Most High has not made one world, but two.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.51: 51 For whereas you have said that the just are not many, but few, and the ungodly abound, hear the answer thereto.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.52: 52 If you have exceedingly few choice stones, will you set for you near them according to their number things of lead and clay?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.53: 53 And I said, Lord, how shall this be?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.54: 54 And he said to me, Not only this, but ask the earth, and she shall tell you; entreat her, and she shall declare to you.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.55: 55 For you shall say to her, You bring forth gold and silver and brass, and iron also and lead and clay:
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.56: 56 but silver is more abundant than gold, and brass than silver, and iron than brass, lead than iron, and clay than lead.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.57: 57 Judge you therefore which things are precious and to be desired, what is abundant or what is rare.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.58: 58 And I said, O Lord that bear rule, that which is plentiful is of less worth, for that which is more rare is more precious.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.59: 59 And he answered me, and said, Weigh within yourself the things that you have thought, for he that has what is hard to get rejoices over him that has what is plentiful.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.60: 60 So also is the judgement which I have promised: for I will rejoice over the few that shall be saved, inasmuch as these are those who have made my glory now to prevail, and of whom my name is now named.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.61: 61 And I will not grieve over the multitude of those who perish; for these are those who are now like to vapor, and are become as flame and smoke; they are set on fire and burn hotly, and are quenched.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.62: 62 And I answered and said, O you earth, wherefore have you brought forth, if the mind is made out of dust, like as all other created things?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.63: 63 For it were better that the dust itself had been unborn, so that the mind might not have been made therefrom.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.64: 64 But now the mind grows with us, and by reason of this we are tormented, because we perish and know it.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.65: 65 Let the race of men lament and the beasts of the field be glad; let all that are born lament, but let the four-footed beasts and the cattle rejoice.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.66: 66 For it is far better with them than with us; for they look not for judgement, neither do they know of torments or of salvation promised to them after death.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.67: 67 For what does it profit us, that we shall be preserved alive, but yet be afflicted with torment?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.68: 68 For all that are born are defiled with iniquities, and are full of sins and laden with offences:
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.69: 69 and if after death we were not to come into judgement, perhaps it had been better for us.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.70: 70 And he answered me, and said, When the Most High made the world, and Adam and all those who came of him, he first prepared the Judgement and the things that pertain to the judgement.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.71: 71 And now understand from your own words, for you have said that the mind grows with us.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.72: 72 They therefore that dwell upon the earth shall be tormented for this reason, that having understanding they have done iniquity, and receiving commandments have not kept them, and having obtained a law they dealt unfaithfully with that which they received.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.73: 73 What then will they have to say in the judgement, or how will they answer in the last times?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.74: 74 For how great a time has the Most High been patient with those who inhabit the world, and not for their sakes, but because of the times which he has foreordained!
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.75: 75 And I answered and said, if I have found grace in your sight, O Lord, show this also to your servant, whether after death, even now when every one of us gives up his soul, we shall be kept in rest until those times come, in which you shall renew the creation, or whether we shall be tormented forthwith.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.76: 76 And he answered me, and said, I will show you this also; but join not yourself with those who are scorners, nor count yourself with those who are tormented.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.77: 77 For you have a treasure of good works laid up with the Most High, but it shall not be showed you until the last times.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.78: 78 For concerning death the teaching is: When the determinate sentence has gone forth from the Most High that a man should die, as the spirit leaves the body to return again to him who gave it, it adores the glory of the Most High first of all.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.79: 79 And if it be one of those that have been scorners and have not kept the way of the Most High, and that have despised his law, and that hate those who fear God,
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.80: 80 these spirits shall not enter into habitations, but shall wander and be in torments forthwith, ever grieving and sad, in seven ways.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.81: 81 The first way, because they have despised the law of the Most High.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.82: 82 The second way, because they can’t now make a good returning that they may live.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.83: 83 The third way, they shall see the reward laid up for those who have believed the covenants of the Most High.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.84: 84 The fourth way, they shall consider the torment laid up for themselves in the last days.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.85: 85 The fifth way, they shall see the dwelling places of the others guarded by angels, with great quietness.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.86: 86 The sixth way, they shall see how forthwith some of them shall pass into torment.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.87: 87 The seventh way, which is more grievous than all the aforesaid ways, because they shall pine away in confusion and be consumed with shame, and shall be withered up by fears, seeing the glory of the Most High before whom they have sinned while living, and before whom they shall be judged in the last times.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.88: 88 Now this is the order of those who have kept the ways of the Most High, when they shall be separated from the corruptible vessel.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.89: 89 In the time that they lived therein they painfully served the Most High, and were in jeopardy every hour, that they might keep the law of the lawgiver perfectly.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.90: 90 Wherefore this is the teaching concerning them:
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.91: 91 First of all they shall see with great joy the glory of him who takes them up, for they shall have rest in seven orders.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.92: 92 The first order, because they have labored with great effort to overcome the evil thought which was fashioned together with them, that it might not lead them astray from life into death.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.93: 93 The second order, because they see the perplexity in which the souls of the ungodly wander, and the punishment that awaits them.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.94: 94 The third order, they see the witness which he that fashioned them bears concerning them, that while they lived they kept the law which was given them in trust.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.95: 95 The fourth order, they understand the rest which, being gathered in their chambers, they now enjoy with great quietness, guarded by angels, and the glory that awaits them in the last days.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.96: 96 The fifth order, they rejoice, seeing how they have now escaped from that which is corruptible, and how they shall inherit that which is to come, while they see moreover the straitness and the painfulness from which they have been delivered, and the large room which they shall receive with joy and immortality.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.97: 97 The sixth order, when it is showed to them how their face shall shine as the sun, and how they shall be made like to the light of the stars, being henceforth incorruptible.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.98: 98 The seventh order, which is greater than all the aforesaid orders, because they shall rejoice with confidence, and because they shall be bold without confusion, and shall be glad without fear, for they hasten to behold the face of him whom in their lifetime they served, and from whom they shall receive their reward in glory.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.99: 99 This is the order of the souls of the just, as from henceforth is announcer to them, and aforesaid are the ways of torture which those who would not give heed shall suffer from henceforth.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.100: 100 And I answered and said, shall time therefore be given to the souls after they are separated from the bodies, that they may see that whereof you have spoken to me?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.101: 101 And he said, Their freedom shall be for seven days, that for seven days they may see the things whereof you have been told, and afterwards they shall be gathered together in their habitations.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.102: 102 And I answered and said, if I have found favor in your sight, show further to me your servant whether in the day of judgment the just will be able to intercede for the ungodly or to entreat the Most High for them,
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.103: 103 whether fathers for children, or children for parents, or kindred for kindred, or kinsfolk for their next of kin, or friends for those who are most dear.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.104: 104 And he answered me, and said, Since you have found favor in my sight, I will show you this also: The day of judgement is a day of decision, and displays to all the seal of truth; even as now a father sends not his son, or a son his father, or a master his slave, or a friend him that is most dear, that in his stead he may be sick, or sleep, or eat, or be healed:
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.105: 105 so never shall anyone pray for another in that day, neither shall one lay a burden on another, for then shall everyone will each bear his own righteousness or unrighteousness.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.106: 106 And I answered and said, How do we now find that first Abraham prayed for the people of Sodom, and Moses for the fathers that sinned in the wilderness:
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.107: 107 and Joshua after him for Israel in the days of Achar:
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.108: 108 and Samuel in the days of Saul; and David for the plague: and Solomon for those who should worship in the sanctuary:
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.109: 109 and Elijah for those that received rain; and for the dead, that he might live:
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.110: 110 and Hezekiah for the people in the days of Sennacherib: and many for many?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.111: 111 If therefore now, when corruption is grown up, and unrighteousness increased, the righteous have prayed for the ungodly, wherefore shall it not be so then also?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.112: 112 He answered me, and said, This present world is not the end; the full glory remains not therein: therefore have they who were able prayed for the weak.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.113: 113 But the day of judgement shall be the end of this time, and the beginning of the immortality for to come, wherein corruption is passed away,
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.114: 114 intemperance is at an end, infidelity is cut off, but righteousness is grown, and truth is sprung up.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.115: 115 Then shall no man be able to have mercy on him that is cast in judgement, nor to thrust down him that has gotten the victory.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.116: 116 I answered then and said, this is my first and last saying, that it had been better that the earth had not given you Adam: or else, when it had given him, to have restrained him from sinning.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.117: 117 For what profit is it for all that are in this present time to live in heaviness, and after death to look for punishment?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.118: 118 O you Adam, what have you done? For though it was you that sinned, the evil is not fallen on you alone, but upon all of us that come of you.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.119: 119 For what profit is it to us, if there be promised us an immortal time, whereas we have done the works that bring death?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.120: 120 And that there is promised us an everlasting hope, whereas ourselves most miserably are become vain?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.121: 121 And that there are reserved habitations of health and safety, whereas we have lived wickedly?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.122: 122 And that the glory of the Most High shall defend them which have led a pure life, whereas we have walked in the most wicked ways of all?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.123: 123 And that there shall be showed a paradise, whose fruit endures without decay, wherein is abundance and healing, but we shall not enter into it,
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.124: 124 for we have walked in unpleasant places?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.125: 125 And that the faces of them which have used abstinence shall shine above the stars, whereas our faces shall be blacker than darkness?
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.126: 126 For while we lived and committed iniquity, we considered not what we should have to suffer after death.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.127: 127 Then he answered and said, This is the condition of the battle, which man that is born upon the earth shall fight;
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.128: 128 that, if he be overcome, he shall suffer as you have said: but if he get the victory, he shall receive the thing that I say.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.129: 129 For this is the way whereof Moses spoke to the people while he lived, saying, Choose you life, that you may live.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.130: 130 Nevertheless they believed not him, nor yet the prophets after him, no, nor me which have spoken to them;
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.131: 131 so that there shall not be such heaviness in their destruction, as there shall be joy over those who are persuaded to salvation.
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.132: 132 I answered then and said, I know, Lord, that the Most High is now called merciful, in that he has mercy upon them which are not yet come into the world;
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.133: 133 and compassionate, in that he has compassion upon those that turn to his law;
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.134: 134 and patient, for that he long suffers those that have sinned, as his creatures;
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.135: 135 and bountiful, for that he is ready to give rather than to exact;
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.136: 136 and of great mercy, for that he multiplies more and more mercies to those who are present, and that are past, and also to them which are to come;
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.137: 137 (for if he multiplied not his mercies, the world would not continue with those who dwell therein;)
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.138: 138 and one that forgives, for if he didn’t forgive of his goodness, that they which have committed iniquities might be eased of them, the ten thousandth part of men would not remain living;
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.139: 139 and a judge, for if he didn’t pardon those who were created by his word, and blot out the multitude of offences,
2 Esdras (Latin) 7.140: 140 there would perhaps be very few left in an innumerable multitude.
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2 Esdras (Latin) 8.1: 1 And he answered me, and said, The Most High has made this world for many, but the world to come for few.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.2: 2 I will tell you now a similitude, Esdras; As when you asks the earth, it shall say to you, that it gives very much mold whereof earthen vessels are made, and little dust that gold comes of: even so is the course of the present world.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.3: 3 There be many created, but few shall be saved.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.4: 4 And I answered and said, Swallow down understanding then, O my soul, and let my heart devour wisdom.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.5: 5 For you are come here without your will, and depart when you would not: for there is given you no longer space than only to live a short time.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.6: 6 O Lord, that are over us, suffer your servant, that we may pray before you, and give us seed to our heart, and culture to our understanding, that there may come fruit of it, whereby every one shall live that is corrupt, who bears the likeness of a man.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.7: 7 For you are alone, and we all one workmanship of your hands, like as you have said.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.8: 8 Forasmuch as you quicken the body that is fashioned now in the womb, and give it members, your creature is preserved in fire and water, and nine months does your workmanship endure your creature which is created in her.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.9: 9 But that which keeps and that which is kept shall both be kept by your keeping: and when the womb gives up again that which has grown in it,
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.10: 10 you have commanded that out of the parts of the body, that is to say, out of the breasts, be given milk, which is the fruit of the breasts,
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.11: 11 that the thing which is fashioned may be nourished for a time, and afterwards you shall order it in your mercy.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.12: 12 Yes, you have brought it up in your righteousness, and nurtured it in your law, and corrected it with your judgement.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.13: 13 And you shall mortify it as your creature, and quicken it as your work.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.14: 14 If therefore you shall lightly and suddenly destroy him which with so great labor was fashioned by your commandment, to what purpose was he made?
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.15: 15 Now therefore I will speak; touching man in general, you know best; but touching your people I will speak, for whose sake I am sorry;
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.16: 16 and for your inheritance, for whose cause I mourn; and for Israel, for whom I am heavy; and for the seed of Jacob, for whose sake I am troubled;
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.17: 17 therefore I will begin to pray before you for myself and for them: for I see the falls of us that dwell in the land;
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.18: 18 but I have heard the swiftness of the judgment which is to come.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.19: 19 Therefore hear my voice, and understand my saying, and I will speak before you.
The beginning of the words of Esdras, before he was taken up. And he said,
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.20: 20 O Lord, you who remain forever, whose eyes are exalted, and whose chambers are in the air;
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.21: 21 whose throne is inestimable; whose glory may not be comprehended; before whom the army of angels stand with trembling,
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.22: 22 at whose bidding they are changed to wind and fire; whose word is sure, and sayings constant; whose ordinance is strong, and commandment fearful;
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.23: 23 whose look dries up the depths, and whose indignation makes the mountains to melt away, and whose truth bears witness:
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.24: 24 hear, O Lord, the prayer of your servant, and give ear to the petition of your handiwork;
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.25: 25 attend to my words, for so long as I live I will speak, and so long as I have understanding I will answer.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.26: 26 O look not upon the sins of your people; but on those who have served you in truth,
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.27: 27 Regard not the doings of those who deal wickedly, but of those who have kept your covenants in affliction.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.28: 28 Think not upon those that have walked feignedly before you; but remember them which have willingly known your fear.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.29: 29 Let it not be your will to destroy them which have lived like cattle; but look upon those who have clearly taught your law.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.30: 30 Take you no indignation at them which are deemed worse than beasts; but love those who have always put their trust in your glory.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.31: 31 For we and our fathers have passed our lives in ways that bring death: but you because of us sinners are called merciful.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.32: 32 For if you have a desire to have mercy upon us, then shall you be called merciful, to us, namely, that have no works of righteousness.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.33: 33 For the just, which have many good works laid up with you, shall for their own deeds receive reward.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.34: 34 For what is man, that you should take displeasure at him? or what is a corruptible race, that you should be so bitter toward it?
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.35: 35 For in truth there is no man among those who are born, but he has dealt wickedly; and among them that have lived there is none which have not done amiss.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.36: 36 For in this, O Lord, your righteousness and your goodness shall be declared, if you be merciful to them which have no store of good works.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.37: 37 Then answered he me, and said, Some things have you spoken aright, and according to your words so shall it come to pass.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.38: 38 For indeed I will not think on the fashioning of them which have sinned, or their death, their judgement, or their destruction;
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.39: 39 but I will rejoice over the framing of the righteous, their pilgrimage also, and the salvation, and the reward, that they shall have.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.40: 40 Like therefore as I have spoken, so shall it be.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.41: 41 For as the husbandman sows much seed upon the ground, and plants many trees, and yet not all that is sown shall come up in due season, neither shall all that is planted take root: even so those who are sown in the world shall not all be saved.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.42: 42 I answered then and said, if I have found favor, let me speak before you.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.43: 43 Forasmuch as the husbandman’s seed, if it come not up, seeing that it has not received your rain in due season, or if it be corrupted through too much rain, so perishes;
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.44: 44 likewise man, which is formed with your hands, and is called your own image, because he is made like to you, for whose sake you have formed all things, even him have you made like to the husbandman’s seed.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.45: 45 Be not angry with us, but spare your people, and have mercy upon your inheritance; for you have mercy upon your own creation.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.46: 46 Then answered he me, and said, Things present are for those who now be, and things to come for such as shall be hereafter.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.47: 47 For you come far short that you should be able to love my creature more than I. But you have brought yourself full near to the unrighteous. Let this never be.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.48: 48 Yet in this shall you be admirable to the Most High;
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.49: 49 in that you have humbled yourself, as it becomes you, and have not judged yourself worthy to be among the righteous, so as to be much glorified.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.50: 50 For many grievous miseries shall fall on those who in the last times dwell in the world, because they have walked in great pride.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.51: 51 But understand you for yourself, and of such as be like you seek out the glory.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.52: 52 For to you is paradise opened, the tree of life planted, the time to come is prepared, plenteousness is made ready, a city is built, and rest is allowed, goodness is perfected, wisdom being perfect beforehand.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.53: 53 The root of evil is sealed up from you, weakness is done away from you, and [death] is hidden; hell and corruption are fled into forgetfulness:
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.54: 54 sorrows are passed away, and in the end is showed the treasure of immortality.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.55: 55 Therefore ask you no more questions concerning the multitude of them that perish.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.56: 56 For when they had received liberty, they despised the Most High, thought scorn of his law, and forsook his ways.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.57: 57 Moreover they have trodden down his righteous,
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.58: 58 and said in their heart, that there is no God; yes, and that knowing they must die.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.59: 59 For as the things aforesaid shall receive you, so thirst and pain which are prepared shall receive them: for the Most High willed not that men should come to nothing:
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.60: 60 but they which be created have themselves defiled the name of him that made them, and were unthankful to him which prepared life for them.
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.61: 61 And therefore is my judgement now at hand,
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.62: 62 which I have not showed to all men, but to you, and a few like you.
Then answered I and said,
2 Esdras (Latin) 8.63: 63 Behold, O Lord, now have you showed me the multitude of the wonders, which you will do in the last times: but at what time, you have not showed me.
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2 Esdras (Latin) 9.1: 1 And he answered me, and said, Measure you diligently within yourself: and when you see that a certain part of the signs are past, which have been told you beforehand,
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.2: 2 then shall you understand, that it is the very time, wherein the Most High will visit the world which was made by him.
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.3: 3 And when there shall be seen in the world earthquakes, disquietude of peoples, plans of nations, wavering of leaders, disquietude of princes,
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.4: 4 then shall you understand, that the Most High spoke of these things from the days that were aforetime from the beginning.
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.5: 5 For like as of all that is made in the world, the beginning is evident, and the end manifest;
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.6: 6 so also are the times of the Most High: the beginnings are manifest in wonders and mighty works, and the end in effects and signs.
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.7: 7 And everyone that shall be saved, and shall be able to escape by his works, or by faith, whereby he has believed,
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.8: 8 shall be preserved from the said perils, and shall see my salvation in my land, and within my borders, which I have sanctified for me from the beginning.
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.9: 9 Then shall they be amazed, which now have abused my ways: and those who have cast them away despitefully shall dwell in torments.
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.10: 10 For as many as in their life have received benefits, and yet have not known me;
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.11: 11 and as many as have scorned my law, while they had yet liberty, and, when as yet place of repentance was open to them, understood not, but despised it,
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.12: 12 must know it after death by torment.
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.13: 13 And therefore be you no longer curious how the ungodly shall be punished; but inquire how the righteous shall be saved, they whose the world is, and for whom the world was created.
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.14: 14 And I answered and said,
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.15: 15 I have said before, and now do speak, and will speak it also hereafter, that there be more of them which perish, than of the which will be saved:
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.16: 16 like as a wave is greater than a drop.
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.17: 17 And he answered me, saying, Just as the field is, so also the seed; and as the flowers be, such are the colors also; and such as the work is, such also is the judgement on it; and as is the husbandman, so is his threshing floor also. For there was a time in the world,
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.18: 18 even then when I was preparing for those who now live, before the world was made for them to dwell in; and then no man spoke against me,
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.19: 19 for there was not any: but now they which are created in this world that is prepared, both with a table that fails not, and a law which is unsearchable, are corrupted in their manners.
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.20: 20 So I considered my world, and, behold, it was destroyed, and my earth, and, behold, it was in peril, because of the plans that had come into it.
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.21: 21 And I saw, and spared them, but not greatly, and saved me a grape out of a cluster, and a plant out of a great forest.
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.22: 22 Let the multitude perish then, which was born in vain; and let my grape be saved, and my plant; for with great labor have I made them perfect.
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.23: 23 Nevertheless if you will cease yet seven days more, (however you shall not fast in them,
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.24: 24 but shall go into a field of flowers, where no house is built, and eat only of the flowers of the field; and you shall taste no flesh, and shall drink no wine, but shall eat flowers only;)
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.25: 25 and pray to the Most High continually, then I will come and talk with you.
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.26: 26 So I went my way, like as he commanded me, into the field which is called Ardat; and there I sat among the flowers, and did eat of the herbs of the field, and its meat satisfied me.
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.27: 27 And it came to pass after seven days that I lay upon the grass, and my heart was vexed again, like as before:
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.28: 28 and my mouth was opened, and I began to speak before the Lord Most High, and said,
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.29: 29 O Lord, you did show yourself among us, to our fathers in the wilderness, when they went forth out of Egypt, and when they came into the wilderness, where no man treads and that bears no fruit;
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.30: 30 and you did say, Hear me, you Israel; and mark my words, O seed of Jacob.
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.31: 31 For, behold, I sow my law in you, and it shall bring forth fruit in you, and you° shall be glorified in it forever.
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.32: 32 But our fathers, which received the law, kept it not, and observed not the statutes: and the fruit of the law didn’t perish, neither could it, for it was your;
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.33: 33 yet those who received it perished, because they kept not the thing that was sown in them.
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.34: 34 And, behold, it is a custom, that when the ground has received seed, or the sea a ship, or any vessel meat or drink, and when it comes to pass that that which is sown, or that which is launched,
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.35: 35 or the things which have been received, should come to an end, these come to an end, but the receptacles remain: yet with us it has not happened so.
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.36: 36 For we that have received the law shall perish by sin, and our heart also which received it.
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.37: 37 Notwithstanding the law perishes not, but remains in its honor.
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.38: 38 And when I spoke these things in my heart, I looked about me with my eyes, and upon the right side I saw a woman, and, behold, she mourned and wept with a loud voice, and was much grieved in mind, and her clothes were tore, and she had ashes upon her head.
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.39: 39 Then let I my thoughts go wherein I was occupied, and turned me to her,
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.40: 40 and said to her, Why do you weep? and why are you grieved in your mind?
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.41: 41 And she said to me, Let me alone, my Lord, that I may bewail myself, and add to my sorrow, for I am sore vexed in my mind, and brought very low.
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.42: 42 And I said to her, What ails you? Tell me.
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.43: 43 She said to me, I your servant was barren, and had no child, though I had a husband thirty years.
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.44: 44 And every hour and every day these thirty years did I make my prayer to the Most High day and night.
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.45: 45 And it came to pass after thirty years that God heard me your handmaid, and looked upon my low estate, and considered my trouble, and gave me a son: and I rejoiced in him greatly, I and my husband, and all my neighbors: and we gave great honor to the Mighty.
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.46: 46 And I nourished him with great travail.
2 Esdras (Latin) 9.47: 47 So when he grew up, and I came to take him a wife, I made him a feast day.
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2 Esdras (Latin) 10.1: 1 And it so came to pass, that when my son was entered into his wedding chamber, he fell down, and died.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.2: 2 Then we all overthrew the lights, and all my neighbors rose up to comfort me: and I remained quiet to the second day at night.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.3: 3 And it came to pass, when they had all left off to comfort me, to the end I might be quiet, then rose I up by night, and fled, and came here into this field, as you see.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.4: 4 And I do now purpose not to return into the city, but here to stay, and neither to eat nor drink, but continually to mourn and to fast until I die.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.5: 5 Then left I the meditations wherein I was, and answered her in anger, and said,
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.6: 6 You foolish woman above all other, see you not our mourning, and what has happened to us?
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.7: 7 how that Sion the mother of us all is full of sorrow, and much humbled.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.8: 8 It is right now to mourn very sore, seeing we all mourn, and to be sorrowful, seeing we are all in sorrow, but you sorrowest for one son.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.9: 9 For ask the earth, and she shall tell you, that it is she which ought to mourn for so many that grow upon her.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.10: 10 For out of her all had their beginnings, and others shall come; and, behold, they walk almost all into destruction, and the multitude of them is utterly rooted out.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.11: 11 Who then should make more mourning, she, that has lost so great a multitude, or you, which are grieved but for one?
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.12: 12 but if you say to me, My lamentation is not like the earth’s, for I have lost the fruit of my womb, which I brought forth with pains, and bare with sorrows:
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.13: 13 but it is with the earth after the manner of the earth; the multitude present in it is gone, as it came:
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.14: 14 then say I to you, Just as you have brought forth with sorrow; even so the earth also has given her fruit, namely, man, ever since the beginning to him that made her.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.15: 15 Now therefore keep your sorrow to yourself, and bear with a good courage the adversities which have befallen you.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.16: 16 For if you shall acknowledge the decree of God to be just, you shall both receive your son in time, and shall be praised among women.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.17: 17 Go your way then into the city to your husband.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.18: 18 And she said to me, “I won’t do that. I will not go into the city, but I will die here.”
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.19: 19 So I proceeded to speak further to her, and said,
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.20: 20 Do not so, but suffer yourself to be prevailed on by reason of the adversities of Sion; and be comforted by reason of the sorrow of Jerusalem.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.21: 21 For you see that our sanctuary is laid waste, our altar broken down, our temple destroyed;
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.22: 22 our lute is brought low, our song is put to silence, our rejoicing is at an end; the light of our candlestick is put out, the ark of our covenant is plundered, our holy things are defiled, and the name that is called upon us is profaned; our freemen are despitefully treated, our priests are burned, our Levites are gone into captivity, our virgins are defiled, and our wives ravished; our righteous men carried away, our little ones betrayed, our young men are brought into bondage, and our strong men are become weak;
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.23: 23 and, what is more than all, the seal of Sion—for she has now lost the seal of her honor, and is delivered into the hands of those who hate us.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.24: 24 You therefore shake off your great heaviness, and put away from you the multitude of sorrows, that the Mighty may be merciful to you again, and the Most High may give you rest, even ease from your travails.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.25: 25 And it came to pass, while I was talking with her, behold, her face upon a sudden shined exceedingly, and her countenance glistered like lightning, so that I was sore afraid of her, and mused what this might be;
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.26: 26 and, behold, suddenly she made a great cry very fearful; so that the earth shook at the noise.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.27: 27 And I looked, and, behold, the woman appeared to me no more, but there was a city built, and a place showed itself from large foundations: then was I afraid, and cried with a loud voice, and said,
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.28: 28 Where is Uriel the angel, who came to me at the first? for he has caused me to fall into this great trance, and my end is turned into corruption, and my prayer to rebuke.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.29: 29 And as I was speaking these words, behold, the angel who had come to me at the first came to me, and he looked upon me:
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.30: 30 and, behold, I lay as one that had been dead, and my understanding was taken from me; and he took me by the right hand, and comforted me, and set me upon my feet, and said to me,
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.31: 31 What ails you? and why are you so disquieted? and why is your understanding troubled, and the thoughts of your heart?
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.32: 32 And I said, Because you have forsaken me: yet I did according to your words, and went into the field, and, behold, I have seen, and yet see, that which I am not able to express.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.33: 33 And he said to me, Stand up like a man, and I will advise you.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.34: 34 Then said I, Speak on, my Lord; only forsake me not, lest I die frustrate of my hope.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.35: 35 For I have seen that I knew not, and hear that I do not know.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.36: 36 Or is my sense deceived, or my soul in a dream?
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.37: 37 Now therefore I beseech you to show your servant concerning this trance.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.38: 38 And he answered me, and said, Hear me, and I shall inform you, and tell you concerning the things whereof you are afraid: For the Most High has revealed many secret things to you.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.39: 39 He has seen that your way is right: for that you sorrowest continually for your people, and make great lamentation for Sion.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.40: 40 This therefore is the meaning of the vision.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.41: 41 The woman which appeared to you a little while ago, whom you saw mourning, and began to comfort her:
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.42: 42 but now see you the likeness of the woman no more, but there appeared to you a city in building:
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.43: 43 and whereas she told you of the death of her son, this is the solution:
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.44: 44 This woman, whom you saw, is Sion, whom you now see as a city built;
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.45: 45 and whereas she said to you, that she has been thirty years barren, it is, because there were three thousand years in the world wherein there was no offering as yet offered in her.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.46: 46 And it came to pass after three thousand years that Solomon built the city, and offered offerings: then it was that the barren bare a son.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.47: 47 And whereas she told you that she nourished him with travail: that was the dwelling in Jerusalem.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.48: 48 And whereas she said to you, My son coming into his marriage chamber died, and that misfortune befell her: this was the destruction that came to Jerusalem.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.49: 49 And, behold, you saw her likeness, how she mourned for her son, and you began to comfort her for what has befallen her; these were the things to be opened to you.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.50: 50 For now the Most High, seeing that you are grieved unfeignedly, and suffer from your whole heart for her, has showed you the brightness of her glory, and the attractiveness of her beauty:
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.51: 51 and therefore I bade you remain in the field where no house was built:
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.52: 52 for I knew that the Most High would show this to you.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.53: 53 Therefore I commanded you to come into the field, where no foundation of any building was.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.54: 54 For in the place wherein the city of the Most High was to be showed, the work of no man’s building could stand.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.55: 55 Therefore fear you not, nor let your heart be affrighted, but go your way in, and see the beauty and greatness of the building, as much as your eyes be able to see:
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.56: 56 and then shall you hear as much as your ears may comprehend.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.57: 57 For you are blessed above many, and with the Most High are called by name, like as but few.
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.58: 58 But tomorrow at night you shall remain here;
2 Esdras (Latin) 10.59: 59 and so shall the Most High show you those visions in dreams, of what the Most High will do to those who dwell upon earth in the last days. So I slept that night and another, like as he commanded me.
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2 Esdras (Latin) 11.1: 1 And it came to pass the second night that I saw a dream, and, behold, there came up from the sea an eagle, which had twelve feathered wings, and three heads.
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.2: 2 And I saw, and, behold, she spread her wings over all the earth, and all the winds of heaven blew on her, and the clouds were gathered together against her.
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.3: 3 And I saw, and out of her wings there grew other wings near them; and they became little wings and small.
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.4: 4 But her heads were at rest: the head in the midst was greater than the other heads, yet rested it with them.
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.5: 5 Moreover I saw, and, behold, the eagle flew with her wings, to reign over the earth, and over those who dwell therein.
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.6: 6 And I saw how all things under heaven were subject to her, and no man spoke against her, no, not one creature upon earth.
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.7: 7 And I saw, and, behold, the eagle rose upon her talons, and uttered her voice to her wings, saying,
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.8: 8 Watch not all at once: sleep every one in his own place, and watch by course:
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.9: 9 but let the heads be preserved for the last.
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.10: 10 And I saw, and, behold, the voice went not out of her heads, but from the midst of her body.
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.11: 11 And I counted her wings that were near the other, and, behold, there were eight of them.
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.12: 12 And I saw, and, behold, on the right side there arose one wing, and reigned over all the earth;
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.13: 13 and so it was, that when it reigned, the end of it came, and it appeared not, so that the place thereof appeared no more: and the next following rose up, and reigned, and it ruled a great time;
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.14: 14 and it happened, that when it reigned, the end of it came also, so that it appeared no more, like as the first.
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.15: 15 And, behold, there came a voice to it, and said,
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.16: 16 Hear you that have borne rule over the earth all this time: this I proclaim to you, before you shall appear no more,
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.17: 17 There shall none after you attain to your time, neither to the half thereof.
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.18: 18 Then arose the third, and had the rule as the others before, and it also appeared no more.
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.19: 19 So went it with all the wings one after another, as that every one bare rule, and then appeared no more.
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.20: 20 And I saw, and, behold, in process of time the wings that followed were set up upon the right side, that they might rule also; and some of them ruled, but within a while they appeared no more:
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.21: 21 some also of them were set up, but ruled not.
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.22: 22 After this I saw, and, behold, the twelve wings appeared no more, nor two of the little wings:
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.23: 23 and there was no more left upon the eagle’s body, but the three heads that rested, and six little wings.
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.24: 24 And I saw, and, behold, two little wings divided themselves from the six, and remained under the head that was upon the right side: but four remained in their place.
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.25: 25 And I saw, and, behold, these under wings thought to set up themselves, and to have the rule.
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.26: 26 And I saw, and, behold, there was one set up, but within a while it appeared no more.
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.27: 27 A second also, and it was sooner away than the first.
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.28: 28 And I saw, and, behold, the two that remained thought also in themselves to reign:
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.29: 29 and while they so thought, behold, there awaked one of the heads that were at rest, namely, it that was in the midst; for that was greater than the two other heads.
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.30: 30 And I saw how it joined the two other heads with it.
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.31: 31 And, behold, the head was turned with those who were with it, and did eat up the two under wings that thought to have reigned.
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.32: 32 But this head held the whole earth in possession, and bare rule over those that dwell therein with much oppression; and it had the governance of the world more than all the wings that had been.
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.33: 33 And after this I saw, and, behold, the head also that was in the midst suddenly appeared no more, like as the wings.
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.34: 34 But there remained the two heads, which also in like sort reigned over the earth, and over those that dwell therein.
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.35: 35 And I saw, and, behold, the head upon the right side devoured it that was upon the left side.
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.36: 36 Then I heard a voice, which said to me, Look before you, and consider the thing that you see.
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.37: 37 And I saw, and, behold, as it were a lion roused out of the wood roaring: and I heard how that he sent out a man’s voice to the eagle, and spoke, saying,
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.38: 38 Hear you, I will talk with you, and the Most High shall say to you,
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.39: 39 Are not you it that remain of the four beasts, whom I made to reign in my world, that the end of my times might come through them?
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.40: 40 And the fourth came, and overcame all the beasts that were past, and held the world in governance with great trembling, and the whole compass of the earth with grievous oppression; and so long time lived he upon the earth with deceit.
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.41: 41 And you have judged the earth, but not with truth.
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.42: 42 For you have afflicted the meek, you have hurt the peaceful, you have hated those who speak truth, you have loved liars, and destroyed the dwellings of those who brought forth fruit, and cast down the walls of such as did you no harm.
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.43: 43 Therefore is your insolent dealing come up to the Most High, and your pride to the Mighty.
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.44: 44 The Most High also has looked upon his times, and, behold, they are ended, and his ages are fulfilled.
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.45: 45 And therefore appear no more, you eagle, nor your horrible wings, nor your evil little wings, nor your cruel heads, nor your hurtful talons, nor all your vain body:
2 Esdras (Latin) 11.46: 46 that all the earth may be refreshed, and be eased, being delivered from your violence, and that she may hope for the judgement and mercy of him that made her.
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2 Esdras (Latin) 12.1: 1 And it came to pass, whiles the lion spoke these words to the eagle, I saw,
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.2: 2 and, behold, the head that remained appeared no more, and the two wings which went over to it arose and set themselves up to reign, and their kingdom was small, and full of uproar.
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.3: 3 And I saw, and, behold, they appeared no more, and the whole body of the eagle was burned, so that the earth was in great fear: then awaked I by reason of great ecstasy of mind, and from great fear, and said to my spirit,
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.4: 4 Behold, this have you done to me, in that you search out the ways of the Most High.
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.5: 5 Behold, I am yet weary in my mind, and very weak in my spirit; nor is there the least strength in me, for the great fear wherewith I was affrighted this night.
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.6: 6 Therefore I will now beseech the Most High, that he will strengthen me to the end.
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.7: 7 And I said, O Lord that bear rule, if I have found favor in your sight, and if I am justified with you above many others, and if my prayer indeed be come up before your face;
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.8: 8 strengthen me then, and show me your servant the interpretation and plain meaning of this fearful vision, that you may perfectly comfort my soul.
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.9: 9 For you have judged me worthy to show me the end of time and the last times.
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.10: 10 And he said to me, This is the interpretation of this vision which you saw:
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.11: 11 The eagle, whom you saw come up from the sea, is the fourth kingdom which appeared in vision to your brother Daniel.
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.12: 12 But it was not expounded to him, as I now expound it to you or have expounded it.
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.13: 13 Behold, the days come, that there shall rise up a kingdom upon earth, and it shall be feared above all the kingdoms that were before it.
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.14: 14 Twelve kings will reign in it, one after another:
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.15: 15 whereof the second shall begin to reign, and shall have a longer time than any of the twelve.
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.16: 16 This is the interpretation of the twelve wings, which you saw.
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.17: 17 And whereas you heard a voice which spoke, not going out from the heads, but from the midst of the body thereof, this is the interpretation:
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.18: 18 That after the time of that kingdom there shall arise no small contentions, and it shall stand in peril of falling: nevertheless it shall not then fall, but shall be restored again to its first estate.
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.19: 19 And whereas you saw the eight under wings sticking to her wings, this is the interpretation:
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.20: 20 That in it there shall arise eight kings, whose times shall be but small, and their years swift.
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.21: 21 And two of them shall perish, when the middle time approaches: four shall be kept for a while until the time of the ending thereof shall approach: but two shall be kept to the end.
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.22: 22 And whereas you saw three heads resting, this is the interpretation:
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.23: 23 In the last days thereof shall the Most High raise up three kingdoms, and renew many things therein, and they shall bear rule over the earth,
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.24: 24 and over those that dwell therein, with much oppression, above all those that were before them: therefore are they called the heads of the eagle.
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.25: 25 For these are those who shall accomplish her wickedness, and that shall finish her last end.
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.26: 26 And whereas you saw that the great head appeared no more, it signifies that one of them shall die upon his bed, and yet with pain.
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.27: 27 But for the two that remained, the sword shall devour them.
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.28: 28 For the sword of the one shall devour him that was with him: but he also shall fall by the sword in the last days.
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.29: 29 And whereas you saw two under wings passing over to the head that is on the right side,
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.30: 30 this is the interpretation: These are they, whom the Most High has kept to his end: this is the small kingdom and full of trouble, as you saw.
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.31: 31 And the lion, whom you saw rising up out of the wood, and roaring, and speaking to the eagle, and rebuking her for her unrighteousness, and all her words which you have heard;
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.32: 32 this is the anointed one, whom the Most High has kept to the end [of days, who shall spring up out of the seed of David, and he shall come and speak] to them and reprove them for their wickedness and unrighteousness, and shall heap up before them their contemptuous dealings.
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.33: 33 For at the first he shall set them alive in his judgement, and when he has reproved them, he shall destroy them.
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.34: 34 For the rest of my people shall he deliver with mercy, those that have been preserved throughout my borders, and he shall make them joyful until the coming of the end, even the day of judgment, whereof I have spoken to you from the beginning.
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.35: 35 This is the dream that you saw, and this is the interpretation thereof:
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.36: 36 and you only have been meet to know the secret of the Most High.
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.37: 37 Therefore write all these things that you have seen in a book, and put them in a secret place:
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.38: 38 and you shall teach them to the wise of your people, whose hearts you know are able to comprehend and keep these secrets.
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.39: 39 But wait you here yourself yet seven days more, that there may be showed to you whatever it pleases the Most High to show you. And he departed from me.
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.40: 40 And it came to pass, when all the people saw that the seven days were past, and I had not come again into the city, they gathered them all together, from the least to the greatest, and came to me, and spoke to me, saying,
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.41: 41 What have we offended you? and what evil have we done against you, that you have utterly forsaken us, and sit in this place?
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.42: 42 For of all the prophets you only are left us, as a cluster of the vintage, and as a lamp in a dark place, and as a haven for a ship saved from the tempest.
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.43: 43 Are not the evils which are come to us sufficient?
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.44: 44 If you shall forsake us, how much better had it been for us, if we also had been consumed in the burning of Sion!
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.45: 45 For we are not better than those who died there. And they wept with a loud voice. And I answered them, and said,
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.46: 46 Be of good comfort, O Israel; and be not sorrowful, you house of Jacob:
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.47: 47 for the Most High has you in remembrance, and the Mighty has not forgotten you forever.
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.48: 48 As for me, I have not forsaken you, neither am I departed from you: but am come into this place, to pray for the desolation of Sion, and that I might seek mercy for the low estate of your sanctuary.
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.49: 49 And now go your way every man to his own house, and after these days I will come to you.
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.50: 50 So the people went their way into the city, like as I said to them:
2 Esdras (Latin) 12.51: 51 but I sat in the field seven days, as the angel commanded me; and in those days I did eat only of the flowers of the field, and had my meat of the herbs.
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2 Esdras (Latin) 13.1: 1 And it came to pass after seven days, I dreamed a dream by night:
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.2: 2 and, behold, there arose a wind from the sea, that it moved all the waves thereof.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.3: 3 And I saw, and, behold, [this wind caused to come up from the midst of the sea as it were the likeness of a man, and I saw, and, behold,] that man flew with the clouds of heaven: and when he turned his countenance to look, all things trembled that were seen under him.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.4: 4 And whenever the voice went out of his mouth, all they burned that heard his voice, like as the wax melts when it feels the fire.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.5: 5 And after this I saw, and, behold, there was gathered together a multitude of men, out of number, from the four winds of heaven, to make war against the man that came out of the sea.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.6: 6 And I saw, and, behold, he carved himself a great mountain, and flew upon it.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.7: 7 But I sought to see the region or place whereout the mountain was graven, and I could not.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.8: 8 And after this I saw, and, behold, all they which were gathered together to fight against him were sore afraid, and yet dared fight.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.9: 9 And, behold, as he saw the assault of the multitude that came, he neither lifted up his hand, nor held spear, nor any instrument of war:
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.10: 10 but only I saw how that he sent out of his mouth as it had been a flood of fire, and out of his lips a flaming breath, and out of his tongue he cast forth sparks of the storm.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.11: 11 And these were all mixed together; the flood of fire, the flaming breath, and the great storm; and fell upon the assault of the multitude which was prepared to fight, and burned them up every one, so that upon a sudden of an innumerable multitude nothing was to be perceived, but only dust of ashes and smell of smoke: when I saw this I was amazed.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.12: 12 Afterward I saw the same man come down from the mountain, and call to him another multitude which was peaceful.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.13: 13 And there came much people to him, whereof some were glad, some were sorry, some of them were bound, and other some brought of those who were offered: then through great fear I awaked, and prayed to the Most High, and said,
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.14: 14 You have showed your servant these wonders from the beginning, and have counted me worthy that you should receive my prayer:
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.15: 15 and now show me moreover the interpretation of this dream.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.16: 16 For as I conceive in my understanding, woe to those who shall be left in those days! and much more woe to those who are not left!
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.17: 17 for those who were not left shall be in heaviness,
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.18: 18 understanding the things that are laid up in the latter days, but not attaining to them.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.19: 19 But woe to them also that are left, for this cause; for they shall see great perils and many necessities, like as these dreams declare.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.20: 20 Yet is it better for one to be in peril and to come into these things, than to pass away as a cloud out of the world, and not to see the things that shall happen in the last days.
And he answered to me, and said,
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.21: 21 The interpretation of the vision shall I tell you, and I will also open to you the things whereof you have made mention.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.22: 22 Whereas you have spoken of those who are left behind, this is the interpretation:
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.23: 23 He that shall endure the peril in that time shall keep those who are fallen into danger, even such as have works, and faith toward the Almighty.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.24: 24 Know therefore, that they which be left behind are more blessed than those who are dead.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.25: 25 These are the interpretations of the vision: Whereas you saw a man coming up from the midst of the sea,
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.26: 26 this is he whom the Most High has kept a great season, which by his own self shall deliver his creature: and he shall order those who are left behind.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.27: 27 And whereas you saw, that out of his mouth there came wind, and fire, and storm;
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.28: 28 and whereas he held neither spear, nor any instrument of war, but destroyed the assault of that multitude which came to fight against him; this is the interpretation:
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.29: 29 Behold, the days come, when the Most High will begin to deliver those who are upon the earth.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.30: 30 And there shall come astonishment of mind upon those who dwell on the earth.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.31: 31 And one shall think to war against another, city against city, place against place, people against people, and kingdom against kingdom.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.32: 32 And it shall be, when these things shall come to pass, and the signs shall happen which I showed you before, then shall my Son be revealed, whom you saw as a man ascending.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.33: 33 And it shall be, when all the nations hear his voice, every man shall leave his own land and the battle they have one against another.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.34: 34 And an innumerable multitude shall be gathered together, as you saw, desiring to come, and to fight against him.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.35: 35 But he shall stand upon the top of the mount Sion.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.36: 36 And Sion shall come, and shall be showed to all men, being prepared and built, like as you saw the mountain graven without hands.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.37: 37 And this my Son shall rebuke the nations which are come for their wickedness, with plagues that are like to a tempest;
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.38: 38 and shall taunt them to their face with their evil thoughts, and the torments wherewith they shall be tormented, which are likened to a flame: and he shall destroy them without labor by the law, which is likened to fire.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.39: 39 And whereas you saw that he gathered to him another multitude that was peaceful;
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.40: 40 these are the ten tribes, which were led away out of their own land in the time of Osea the king, whom Salmananser the king of the Assyrians led away captive, and he carried them beyond the River, and they were carried into another land.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.41: 41 But they took this counsel among themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go forth into a further country, where never mankind lived,
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.42: 42 that they might there keep their statutes, which they had not kept in their own land.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.43: 43 And they entered by the narrow passages of the river Euphrates.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.44: 44 For the Most High then did signs for them, and stayed the springs of the River, till they were passed over.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.45: 45 For through that country there was a great way to go, namely, of a year and a half: and the same region is called Arzareth.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.46: 46 Then lived they there until the latter time; and now when they begin to come again,
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.47: 47 the Most High stays the springs of the River again, that they may go through: therefore saw you the multitude gathered together with peace.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.48: 48 But those that be left behind of your people are those who are found within my holy border.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.49: 49 It shall be therefore when he shall destroy the multitude of the nations that are gathered together, he shall defend the people that remain.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.50: 50 And then shall he show them very many wonders.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.51: 51 Then said I, O Lord that bear rule, show me this: wherefore I have seen the man coming up from the midst of the sea.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.52: 52 And he said to me, like as one can neither seek out nor know what is in the deep of the sea, even so can no man upon earth see my Son, or those that be with him, but in the time of his day.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.53: 53 This is the interpretation of the dream which you saw, and for this you only are enlightened herein.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.54: 54 For you have forsaken your own ways, and applied your diligence to mine, and have sought out my law.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.55: 55 Your life have you ordered in wisdom, and have called understanding your mother.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.56: 56 And therefore have I showed you this; for there is a reward laid up with the Most High: and it shall be, after other three days I will speak other things to you, and declare to you mighty and wondrous things.
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.57: 57 Then went I forth and passed into the field, giving praise and thanks greatly to the Most High because of his wonders, which he did from time to time;
2 Esdras (Latin) 13.58: 58 and because he governs the time, and such things as fall in their seasons. And there I sat three days.
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2 Esdras (Latin) 14.1: 1 And it came to pass upon the third day, I sat under an oak, and, behold, there came a voice out of a bush near me, and said, Esdras, Esdras.
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.2: 2 And I said, Here am I, Lord. And I stood up upon my feet.
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.3: 3 Then said he to me, In the bush I did manifestly reveal myself, and talked with Moses, when my people were in bondage in Egypt:
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.4: 4 and I sent him, and he led my people out of Egypt; and I brought him up to the mount of Sinai, where I held him by me for many days;
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.5: 5 and told him many wondrous things, and showed him the secrets of the times, and the end of the seasons; and commanded him, saying,
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.6: 6 These words shall you publish openly, and these shall you hide.
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.7: 7 And now I say to you,
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.8: 8 Lay up in your heart the signs that I have showed, and the dreams that you have seen, and the interpretations which you have heard:
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.9: 9 for you shall be taken away from men, and from henceforth you shall remain with my Son, and with such as be like you, until the times be ended.
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.10: 10 For the world has lost its youth, and the times begin to wax old.
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.11: 11 For the world is divided into twelve parts, and ten parts of it are gone already, even the half of the tenth part:
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.12: 12 and there remain of it two parts after the middle of the tenth part.
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.13: 13 Now therefore set your house in order, and reprove your people, comfort the lowly among them, and instruct such of them as be wise, and now renounce the life that is corruptible,
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.14: 14 and let go from the mortal thoughts, cast away from you the burdens of man, put off now your weak nature,
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.15: 15 and lay aside the thoughts that are most grievous to you, and haste you to remove from these times.
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.16: 16 For yet worse evils than those which you have seen happen shall be done hereafter.
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.17: 17 For look, how much the world shall be weaker through age, so much the more shall evils increase upon those who dwell therein.
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.18: 18 For the truth will withdraw itself further off, and falsehood will be hard at hand: for now hastens the eagle to come, which you saw in vision.
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.19: 19 Then answered I and said, I will speak before you, O Lord.
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.20: 20 Behold, I will go, as you have commanded me, and reprove the people that now be: but those who shall be born afterward, who shall admonish them? for the world is set in darkness, and those who dwell therein are without light.
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.21: 21 For your law is burned, therefore no man knows the things that are done of you, or the works that shall be done.
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.22: 22 But if I have found favor before you, send the Holy Spirit to me, and I shall write all that has been done in the world since the beginning, even the things that were written in your law, that men may be able to find the path, and that they which would live in the latter days may live.
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.23: 23 And he answered me and said, Go your way, gather the people together, and say to them, that they seek you not for forty days.
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.24: 24 But look you prepare you many tablets, and take with you Sarea, Dabria, Selemia, Ethanus, and Asiel, these five, which are ready to write swiftly;
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.25: 25 and come here, and I shall light a lamp of understanding in your heart, which shall not be put out, till the things be ended which you shall write.
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.26: 26 And when you have done, some things shall you publish openly, and some things shall you deliver in secret to the wise: tomorrow this hour shall you begin to write.
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.27: 27 Then went I forth, as he commanded me, and gathered all the people together, and said,
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.28: 28 Hear these words, O Israel.
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.29: 29 Our fathers at the beginning were strangers in Egypt, and they were delivered from thence,
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.30: 30 and received the law of life, which they kept not, which you° also have transgressed after them.
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.31: 31 Then was the land, even the land of Sion, given you for a possession: but you° yourselves, and your fathers, have done unrighteousness, and have not kept the ways which the Most High commanded you.
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.32: 32 And forasmuch as he is a righteous judge, he took from you for a while the thing that he had given you.
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.33: 33 And now you° are here, and your kindred are among you.
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.34: 34 Therefore if so be that you° will rule over your own understanding, and instruct your hearts, you° shall be kept alive, and after death you° shall obtain mercy.
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.35: 35 For after death shall the judgement come, when we shall live again: and then shall the names of the righteous be manifest, and the works of the ungodly shall be declared.
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.36: 36 Let no man therefore come to me now, nor seek after me these forty days.
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.37: 37 So I took the five men, as he commanded me, and we went forth into the field, and remained there.
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.38: 38 And it came to pass on the next day that, behold, a voice called me, saying, Esdras, open your mouth, and drink what I give you to drink.
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.39: 39 Then opened I my mouth, and, behold, there was reached to me a full cup, which was full as it were with water, but the color of it was like fire.
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.40: 40 And I took it, and drank: and when I had drunk of it, my heart uttered understanding, and wisdom grew in my breast, for my spirit retained its memory:
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.41: 41 and my mouth was opened, and shut no more.
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.42: 42 The Most High gave understanding to the five men, and they wrote by course the things that were told them, in characters which they knew not, and they sat forty days: now they wrote in the day-time, and at night they ate bread.
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.43: 43 As for me, I spoke in the day, and by night I held not my tongue.
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.44: 44 So in forty days were written fourscore and fourteen books.
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.45: 45 And it came to pass, when the forty days were fulfilled, that the Most High spoke to me, saying, The first that you have written publish openly, and let the worthy and unworthy read it:
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.46: 46 but keep the seventy last, that you may deliver them to such as be wise among your people:
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.47: 47 for in them is the spring of understanding, the fountain of wisdom, and the stream of knowledge.
2 Esdras (Latin) 14.48: 48 And I did so.
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2 Esdras (Latin) 15.1: 1 Behold, speak you in the ears of my people the words of prophecy, which I will put in your mouth, says the Lord:
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.2: 2 and cause you them to be written in paper: for they are faithful and true.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.3: 3 Don’t be afraid of their imaginations against you, don’t let the unbelief of them that speak against you trouble you.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.4: 4 For all the unbelievers shall die in their unbelief.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.5: 5 Behold, says the Lord, I bring evils upon the whole earth; sword and famine, and death and destruction.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.6: 6 For wickedness has prevailed over every land, and their hurtful works are come to the full.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.7: 7 Therefore says the Lord,
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.8: 8 I will hold my peace no more as touching their wickedness, which they profanely commit, neither will I suffer them in these things, which they wickedly practice: behold, the innocent and righteous blood cries to me, and the souls of the righteous cry out continually.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.9: 9 I will surely avenge them, says the Lord, and will receive to me all the innocent blood from among them.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.10: 10 Behold, my people is led as a flock to the slaughter: I will not suffer them now to dwell in the land of Egypt:
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.11: 11 but I will bring them out with a mighty hand and with a high arm, and will strike Egypt with plagues, as aforetime, and will destroy all the land thereof.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.12: 12 Let Egypt mourn, and the foundations thereof, for the plague of the chastisement and the punishment that God shall bring upon it.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.13: 13 Let the farmers that till the ground mourn: for their seeds shall fail and their trees shall be laid waste through the blasting and hail, and a terrible star.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.14: 14 Woe to the world and those who dwell therein!
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.15: 15 for the sword and their destruction draws near, and nation shall rise up against nation to battle with weapons in their hands.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.16: 16 For there shall be sedition among men; and waxing strong one against another, they shall not regard their king nor the chief of their great ones, in their might.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.17: 17 For a man shall desire to go into a city, and shall not be able.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.18: 18 For because of their pride the cities shall be troubled, the houses shall be destroyed, and men shall be afraid.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.19: 19 A man shall have no pity upon his neighbor, but shall make an assault on their houses with the sword, and plunder their goods, because of the lack of bread, and for great suffering.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.20: 20 Behold, says God, I call together all the kings of the earth, to stir up those who are from the rising of the sun, from the south, from the east, and Libanus; to turn themselves one against another, and repay the things that they have done to them.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.21: 21 Just as they do yet this day to my chosen, so I will do also, and recompense in their bosom. The Lord God says:
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.22: 22 My right hand shall not spare the sinners, and my sword shall not cease over those who shed innocent blood upon the earth.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.23: 23 And a fire is gone forth from his wrath, and has consumed the foundations of the earth, and the sinners, like the straw that is kindled.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.24: 24 Woe to those who sin, and keep not my commandments! says the Lord.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.25: 25 I will not spare them: go your way, you° rebellious children, defile not my sanctuary.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.26: 26 For the Lord knows all those who trespass against him, therefore has he delivered them to death and destruction.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.27: 27 For now are the evils come upon the whole earth, and you° shall remain in them: for God shall not deliver you, because you° have sinned against him.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.28: 28 Behold, a vision horrible, and the appearance thereof from the east!
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.29: 29 And the nations of the dragons of Arabia shall come out with many chariots, and from the day that they set forth the hissing of them is carried over the earth, so that all they which shall hear them may fear also and tremble.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.30: 30 Also the Carmonians raging in wrath shall go forth as the wild boars of the wood, and with great power shall they come, and join battle with them, and shall waste a portion of the land of the Assyrians with their teeth.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.31: 31 And then shall the dragons have the upper hand, remembering their nature; and if they shall turn themselves, conspiring together in great power to persecute them,
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.32: 32 then these shall be troubled, and keep silence through their power, and shall turn and flee.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.33: 33 And from the land of the Assyrians shall the lier in wait besiege them, and consume one of them, and upon their army shall be fear and trembling, and sedition against their kings.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.34: 34 Behold, clouds from the east and from the north to the south, and they are very horrible to look upon, full of wrath and storm.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.35: 35 They shall dash one against another, and they shall pour out a plentiful storm upon the earth, even their own star; and there shall be blood from the sword to the horse’s belly,
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.36: 36 and to the thigh of man, and to the camel’s hough.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.37: 37 And there shall be fearfulness and great trembling upon earth: and they that see that wrath shall be afraid, and trembling shall take hold upon them.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.38: 38 And after this shall there be stirred up great storms from the south, and from the north, and another part from the west.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.39: 39 And strong winds shall arise from the east, and shall shut it up, even the cloud which he raised up in wrath; and the star that was to cause destruction by the east wind shall be violently driven toward the south and west.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.40: 40 And great clouds and mighty and full of wrath shall be lifted up, and the star, that they may destroy all the earth, and those who dwell therein; and they shall pour out over every high and eminent one a terrible star,
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.41: 41 fire, and hail, and flying swords, and many waters, that all plains may be full, and all rivers, with the abundance of those waters.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.42: 42 And they shall break down the cities and walls, mountains and hills, trees of the wood, and grass of the meadows, and their corn.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.43: 43 And they shall go on steadfastly to Babylon, and destroy her.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.44: 44 They shall come to her, and compass her about; the star and all wrath shall they pour out upon her: then shall the dust and smoke go up to the heaven, and all those who are about her shall bewail her.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.45: 45 And those who remain shall do service to those who have put her in fear.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.46: 46 And you, Asia, that are partaker in the beauty of Babylon, and in the glory of her person:
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.47: 47 woe to you, you wretch, because you have made yourself like to her; you have decked your daughters in whoredom, that they might please and glory in your lovers, which have always desired you to commit whoredom withal!
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.48: 48 You have followed her that is hateful in all her works and inventions: therefore says God,
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.49: 49 I will send evils upon you; widowhood, poverty, famine, sword, and pestilence, to waste your houses to destruction and death.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.50: 50 And the glory of your power shall be dried up as a flower, when the heat shall arise that is sent over you.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.51: 51 You shall be weakened as a poor woman with stripes, and as one chastened with wounds, so that your mighty ones and your lovers you shall not be able to receive.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.52: 52 Would I with jealousy have so proceeded against you, says the Lord,
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.53: 53 if you had not always slain my chosen, exalting the stroke of your hands, and saying over their dead, when you were drunken,
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.54: 54 Set forth the beauty of your countenance?
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.55: 55 The reward of a prostitute shall be in your bosom, therefore shall you receive recompense.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.56: 56 Just as you shall do to my chosen, says the Lord, even so shall God do to you, and shall deliver you into mischief.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.57: 57 And your children shall die of hunger, and you shall fall by the sword: and your cities shall be broken down, and all your shall perish by the sword in the field.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.58: 58 And those who are in the mountains shall die of hunger, and eat their own flesh, and drink their own blood, for very hunger of bread, and thirst of water.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.59: 59 You unhappy above all shall come and shall again receive evils.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.60: 60 And in the passage they shall rush on the idle city, and shall destroy some portion of your land, and mar part of your glory, and shall return again to Babylon that was destroyed.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.61: 61 And you shall be cast down by them as stubble, and they shall be to you as fire;
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.62: 62 and shall devour you, and your cities, your land, and your mountains; all your woods and your fruitful trees shall they burn up with fire.
2 Esdras (Latin) 15.63: 63 They shall carry your children away captive, and shall plunder your wealth, and mar the glory of your face.
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2 Esdras (Latin) 16.1: 1 Woe to you, Babylon, and Asia! woe to you, Egypt, and Syria!
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.2: 2 Gird up yourselves with sackcloth and garments of hair, and bewail your children, and lament; for your destruction is at hand.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.3: 3 A sword is sent upon you, and who is he that may turn it back?
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.4: 4 A fire is sent upon you, and who is he that may quench it?
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.5: 5 Evils are sent upon you, and who is he that may drive them away?
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.6: 6 May one drive away a hungry lion in the wood? or may one quench the fire in stubble, when it has once begun to burn?
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.7: 7 May one turn again the arrow that is shot of a strong archer?
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.8: 8 The Lord God sends the evils, and who shall drive them away?
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.9: 9 A fire shall go forth from his wrath, and who is he that may quench it?
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.10: 10 He shall cast lightning, and who shall not fear? he shall thunder, and who shall not tremble?
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.11: 11 The Lord shall threaten, and who shall not be utterly broken in pieces at his presence?
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.12: 12 The earth quakes, and the foundations thereof; the sea arises up with waves from the deep, and the waves of it shall be troubled, and the fishes thereof also, at the presence of the Lord, and before the glory of his power:
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.13: 13 for strong is his right hand that bends the bow, his arrows that he shoots are sharp, and shall not miss, when they begin to be shot into the ends of the world.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.14: 14 Behold, the evils are sent forth, and shall not return again, until they come upon the earth.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.15: 15 The fire is kindled, and shall not be put out, till it consume the foundations of the earth.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.16: 16 Just as an arrow which is shot of a mighty archer returns not backward, even so the evils that are sent forth upon earth shall not return again.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.17: 17 Woe is me! woe is me! who will deliver me in those days?
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.18: 18 The beginning of sorrows, and there shall be great mourning; the beginning of famine, and many shall perish; the beginning of wars, and the powers shall stand in fear; the beginning of evils, and all shall tremble! what shall they do in all this when the evils shall come?
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.19: 19 Behold, famine and plague, suffering and anguish! they are sent as scourges for amendment.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.20: 20 But for all these things they shall not turn them from their wickedness, nor be always mindful of the scourges.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.21: 21 Behold, food shall be so good cheap upon earth, that they shall think themselves to be in good case, and even then shall evils grow upon earth, sword, famine, and great confusion.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.22: 22 For many of those who dwell upon earth shall perish of famine; and the other, that escape the famine, shall the sword destroy.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.23: 23 And the dead shall be cast out as dung, and there shall be no man to comfort them: for the earth shall be left desolate, and the cities thereof shall be cast down.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.24: 24 There shall be no husbandman left to till the earth, and to sow it.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.25: 25 The trees shall give fruit, and who shall gather them?
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.26: 26 The grapes shall ripen, and who shall tread them? for in all places there shall be a great forsaking:
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.27: 27 for one man shall desire to see another, or to hear his voice.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.28: 28 For of a city there shall be ten left, and two of the field, which have hidden themselves in the thick groves, and in the clefts of the rocks.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.29: 29 As in an orchard of olives upon every tree there be left three or four olives,
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.30: 30 or as when a vineyard is gathered there be some clusters left by those who diligently seek through the vineyard;
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.31: 31 even so in those days there shall be three or four left by those who search their houses with the sword.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.32: 32 And the earth shall be left desolate, and the fields thereof shall be for briers, and her ways and all her paths shall bring forth thorns, because no sheep shall pass therethrough.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.33: 33 The virgins shall mourn, having no bridegrooms; the women shall mourn, having no husbands; their daughters shall mourn, having no helpers.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.34: 34 In the wars shall their bridegrooms be destroyed, and their husbands shall perish of famine.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.35: 35 Hear now these things, and understand them, you° servants of the Lord.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.36: 36 Behold, the word of the Lord, receive it: disbelieve not the things whereof the Lord speaks.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.37: 37 Behold, the evils draw near, and are not slack.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.38: 38 Just as a woman with child in the ninth month, when the hour of her delivery draws near, within two or three hours doleful pains surround her womb, and when the child comes forth from the womb, there shall be no waiting for a moment:
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.39: 39 even so shall not the evils be slack to come upon the earth, and the world shall groan, and sorrows shall take hold of it on every side.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.40: 40 O my people, hear my word: make you ready to the battle, and in those evils be even as pilgrims upon the earth.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.41: 41 He that sells, let him be as he that flees away: and he that buys, as one that will lose:
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.42: 42 he that occupies merchandise, as he that has no profit by it: and he that builds, as he that shall not dwell therein:
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.43: 43 he that sows, as if he should not reap: so also he that prunes the vines, as he that shall not gather the grapes:
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.44: 44 those who marry, as those who shall get no children; and those who marry not, as the widowed.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.45: 45 Inasmuch as those who labor labor in vain;
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.46: 46 for strangers shall reap their fruits, and plunder their goods, overthrow their houses, and take their children captive, for in captivity and famine shall they beget their children:
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.47: 47 and those who traffick traffick to become a plunder: the more they deck their cities, their houses, their possessions, and their own persons,
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.48: 48 the more I will hate them for their sins, says the Lord.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.49: 49 Just as a right honest and virtuous woman hates a prostitute,
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.50: 50 so shall righteousness hate iniquity, when she decks herself, and shall accuse her to her face, when he comes that shall defend him that diligently searches out every sin upon earth.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.51: 51 Therefore be you° not like thereto, nor to the works thereof.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.52: 52 For yet a little while, and iniquity shall be taken away out of the earth, and righteousness shall reign over us.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.53: 53 Let not the sinner say that he has not sinned: for he shall burn coals of fire upon his head, which says, I have not sinned before God and his glory.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.54: 54 Behold, the Lord knows all the works of men, their imaginations, their thoughts, and their hearts.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.55: 55 Who said, Let the earth be made; and it was made: Let the heaven be made; and it was made.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.56: 56 And at his word were the stars established, and he knows the number of the stars.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.57: 57 Who searches the deep, and the treasures thereof; he has measured the sea, and what it contains.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.58: 58 Who has shut the sea in the midst of the waters, and with his word has he hanged the earth upon the waters.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.59: 59 Who spreads out the heaven like a vault; upon the waters has he founded it.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.60: 60 Who has made in the desert springs of water, and pools upon the tops of the mountains, to send forth rivers from the height to water the earth.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.61: 61 Who framed man, and put a heart in the midst of the body, and gave him breath, life, and understanding,
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.62: 62 yes, the spirit of God Almighty. He who made all things, and searches out hidden things in hidden places,
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.63: 63 surely he knows your imagination, and what you° think in your hearts. Woe to those who sin, and would fain hide their sin!
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.64: 64 Forasmuch as the Lord will exactly search out all your works, and he will put you all to shame.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.65: 65 And when your sins are brought forth before men, you° shall be ashamed, and your own iniquities shall stand as your accusers in that day.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.66: 66 What will you° do? or how will you° hide your sins before God and his angels?
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.67: 67 Behold, God is the judge, fear him: leave off from your sins, and forget your iniquities, to meddle no more with them forever: so shall God lead you forth, and deliver you from all suffering.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.68: 68 For, behold, the burning wrath of a great multitude is kindled over you, and they shall take away certain of you, and feed you with that which is slain to idols.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.69: 69 And those who consent to them shall be had in derision and in reproach, and be trodden under foot of them.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.70: 70 For there shall be in various places, and in the next cities, a great insurrection upon those that fear the Lord.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.71: 71 They shall be like mad men, sparing none, but spoiling and destroying those who still fear the Lord.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.72: 72 For they shall waste and take away their goods, and cast them out of their houses.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.73: 73 Then shall be manifest the trial of my elect; even as the gold that is tried in the fire.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.74: 74 Hear, O you° my elect, says the Lord: behold, the days of suffering are at hand, and I will deliver you from them.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.75: 75 Be you° not afraid, neither doubt; for God is your guide:
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.76: 76 and you° who keep my commandments and precepts, says the Lord God, don’t let your sins weigh you down, and don’t let your iniquities lift up themselves.
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.77: 77 Woe to those who are fast bound with their sins, and covered with their iniquities, like as a field is fast bound with bushes, and the path thereof covered with thorns, that no man may travel through!
2 Esdras (Latin) 16.78: 78 It is even shut off, and given up to be consumed of fire.