Deuteronomy 25.0: 25 Deuteronomy 25.1: 1 If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment and the judges judge them, then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked. Deuteronomy 25.2: 2 It shall be, if the wicked man is worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number. Deuteronomy 25.3: 3 He may sentence him to no more than forty stripes. He shall not give more, lest if he should give more and beat him more than that many stripes, then your brother will be degraded in your sight. Deuteronomy 25.4: 4 You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain. Deuteronomy 25.5: 5 If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. Deuteronomy 25.6: 6 It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel. Deuteronomy 25.7: 7 If the man doesn’t want to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.” Deuteronomy 25.8: 8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him. If he stands and says, “I don’t want to take her,” Deuteronomy 25.9: 9 then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his sandal from off his foot, and spit in his face. She shall answer and say, “So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.” Deuteronomy 25.10: 10 His name shall be called in Israel, “The house of him who had his sandal removed.” Deuteronomy 25.11: 11 When men strive against each other, and the wife of one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts out her hand, and grabs him by his private parts, Deuteronomy 25.12: 12 then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity. Deuteronomy 25.13: 13 You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light. Deuteronomy 25.14: 14 You shall not have in your house diverse measures, one large and one small. Deuteronomy 25.15: 15 You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you. Deuteronomy 25.16: 16 For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God. Deuteronomy 25.17: 17 Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came out of Egypt; Deuteronomy 25.18: 18 how he met you by the way, and struck the rearmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn’t fear God. Deuteronomy 25.19: 19 Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky. You shall not forget. 2 Kings 13.0: 13 2 Kings 13.1: 1 In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria for seventeen years. 2 Kings 13.2: 2 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. He didn’t depart from it. 2 Kings 13.3: 3 Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, continually. 2 Kings 13.4: 4 Jehoahaz begged Yahweh, and Yahweh listened to him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria oppressed them. 2 Kings 13.5: 5 (Yahweh gave Israel a savior, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians; and the children of Israel lived in their tents as before. 2 Kings 13.6: 6 Nevertheless they didn’t depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin, but walked in them; and the Asherah also remained in Samaria.) 2 Kings 13.7: 7 For he didn’t leave to Jehoahaz of the people any more than fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing. 2 Kings 13.8: 8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 2 Kings 13.9: 9 Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria; and Joash his son reigned in his place. 2 Kings 13.10: 10 In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah, Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz began to reign over Israel in Samaria for sixteen years. 2 Kings 13.11: 11 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight. He didn’t depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin; but he walked in them. 2 Kings 13.12: 12 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might with which he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 2 Kings 13.13: 13 Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat on his throne. Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. 2 Kings 13.14: 14 Now Elisha became sick with the illness of which he died; and Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over him, and said, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” 2 Kings 13.15: 15 Elisha said to him, “Take bow and arrows;” and he took bow and arrows for himself. 2 Kings 13.16: 16 He said to the king of Israel, “Put your hand on the bow;” and he put his hand on it. Elisha laid his hands on the king’s hands. 2 Kings 13.17: 17 He said, “Open the window eastward;” and he opened it. Then Elisha said, “Shoot!” and he shot. He said, “Yahweh’s arrow of victory, even the arrow of victory over Syria; for you will strike the Syrians in Aphek, until you have consumed them.” 2 Kings 13.18: 18 He said, “Take the arrows;” and he took them. He said to the king of Israel, “Strike the ground;” and he struck three times, and stopped. 2 Kings 13.19: 19 The man of God was angry with him, and said, “You should have struck five or six times. Then you would have struck Syria until you had consumed it; whereas now you will strike Syria just three times.” 2 Kings 13.20: 20 Elisha died, and they buried him. Now the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year. 2 Kings 13.21: 21 As they were burying a man, behold, they saw a band of raiders; and they threw the man into Elisha’s tomb. As soon as the man touched Elisha’s bones, he revived, and stood up on his feet. 2 Kings 13.22: 22 Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz. 2 Kings 13.23: 23 But Yahweh was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect for them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, and he didn’t cast them from his presence as yet. 2 Kings 13.24: 24 Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son reigned in his place. 2 Kings 13.25: 25 Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Joash struck him three times, and recovered the cities of Israel.