1 Samuel 18.0: 18 1 Samuel 18.1: 1 When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. 1 Samuel 18.2: 2 Saul took him that day, and wouldn’t let him go home to his father’s house any more. 1 Samuel 18.3: 3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul. 1 Samuel 18.4: 4 Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him, and gave it to David, and his clothing, even including his sword, his bow, and his sash. 1 Samuel 18.5: 5 David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely; and Saul set him over the men of war. It was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul’s servants. 1 Samuel 18.6: 6 As they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tambourines, with joy, and with instruments of music. 1 Samuel 18.7: 7 The women sang to one another as they played, and said, “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.” 1 Samuel 18.8: 8 Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, “They have creditd David with ten thousands, and they have only credited me with thousands. What can he have more but the kingdom?” 1 Samuel 18.9: 9 Saul watched David from that day and forward. 1 Samuel 18.10: 10 On the next day, an evil spirit from God came mightily on Saul, and he prophesied in the middle of the house. David played with his hand, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand; 1 Samuel 18.11: 11 and Saul threw the spear, for he said, “I will pin David to the wall!” David escaped from his presence twice. 1 Samuel 18.12: 12 Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and had departed from Saul. 1 Samuel 18.13: 13 Therefore Saul removed him from his presence, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people. 1 Samuel 18.14: 14 David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and Yahweh was with him. 1 Samuel 18.15: 15 When Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood in awe of him. 1 Samuel 18.16: 16 But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them. 1 Samuel 18.17: 17 Saul said to David, “Behold, my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh’s battles.” For Saul said, “Don’t let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him.” 1 Samuel 18.18: 18 David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my life, or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?” 1 Samuel 18.19: 19 But at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as wife. 1 Samuel 18.20: 20 Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. 1 Samuel 18.21: 21 Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, “You shall today be my son-in-law a second time.” 1 Samuel 18.22: 22 Saul commanded his servants, “Talk with David secretly, and say, ‘Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore be the king’s son-in-law.’” 1 Samuel 18.23: 23 Saul’s servants spoke those words in the ears of David. David said, “Does it seem to you a light thing to be the king’s son-in-law, since I am a poor man, and little known?” 1 Samuel 18.24: 24 The servants of Saul told him, saying, “David spoke like this.” 1 Samuel 18.25: 25 Saul said, “Tell David, ‘The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies.’” Now Saul thought he would make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. 1 Samuel 18.26: 26 When his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son-in-law. Before the deadline, 1 Samuel 18.27: 27 David arose and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines. Then David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him Michal his daughter as wife. 1 Samuel 18.28: 28 Saul saw and knew that Yahweh was with David; and Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him. 1 Samuel 18.29: 29 Saul was even more afraid of David; and Saul was David’s enemy continually. 1 Samuel 18.30: 30 Then the princes of the Philistines went out; and as often as they went out, David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly esteemed. Jeremiah 14.0: 14 Jeremiah 14.1: 1 This is Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought. Jeremiah 14.2: 2 “Judah mourns, and its gates languish. They sit in black on the ground. The cry of Jerusalem goes up. Jeremiah 14.3: 3 Their nobles send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns, and find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads. Jeremiah 14.4: 4 Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed. They cover their heads. Jeremiah 14.5: 5 Yes, the doe in the field also calves and forsakes her young, because there is no grass. Jeremiah 14.6: 6 The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights. They pant for air like jackals. Their eyes fail, because there is no vegetation. Jeremiah 14.7: 7 Though our iniquities testify against us, work for your name’s sake, Yahweh; for our rebellions are many. We have sinned against you. Jeremiah 14.8: 8 You hope of Israel, its Savior in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night? Jeremiah 14.9: 9 Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can’t save? Yet you, Yahweh, are in the middle of us, and we are called by your name. Don’t leave us. Jeremiah 14.10: 10 Yahweh says to this people, “Even so they have loved to wander. They have not restrained their feet. Therefore Yahweh does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish them for their sins.” Jeremiah 14.11: 11 Yahweh said to me, “Don’t pray for this people for their good. Jeremiah 14.12: 12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.” Jeremiah 14.13: 13 Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, the prophets tell them, ‘You will not see the sword, neither will you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.’” Jeremiah 14.14: 14 Then Yahweh said to me, “The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I didn’t send them. I didn’t command them. I didn’t speak to them. They prophesy to you a lying vision, divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart. Jeremiah 14.15: 15 Therefore Yahweh says concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, but I didn’t send them, yet they say, ‘Sword and famine will not be in this land.’ Those prophets will be consumed by sword and famine. Jeremiah 14.16: 16 The people to whom they prophesy will be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. They will have no one to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters, for I will pour their wickedness on them. Jeremiah 14.17: 17 “You shall say this word to them: “‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound. Jeremiah 14.18: 18 If I go out into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! If I enter into the city, then, behold, those who are sick with famine! For both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.’” Jeremiah 14.19: 19 Have you utterly rejected Judah? Has your soul loathed Zion? Why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay! Jeremiah 14.20: 20 We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you. Jeremiah 14.21: 21 Do not abhor us, for your name’s sake. Do not disgrace the throne of your glory. Remember, and don’t break your covenant with us. Jeremiah 14.22: 22 Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things. Jeremiah 39.0: 39 Jeremiah 39.1: 1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem, and besieged it. Jeremiah 39.2: 2 In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city. Jeremiah 39.3: 3 All the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, Nergal Sharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag, with all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon. Jeremiah 39.4: 4 When Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah. Jeremiah 39.5: 5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. When they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he pronounced judgment on him. Jeremiah 39.6: 6 Then the king of Babylon killed Zedekiah’s sons in Riblah before his eyes. The king of Babylon also killed all the nobles of Judah. Jeremiah 39.7: 7 Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon. Jeremiah 39.8: 8 The Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem. Jeremiah 39.9: 9 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the residue of the people who remained in the city, the deserters also who fell away to him, and the residue of the people who remained. Jeremiah 39.10: 10 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, who had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time. Jeremiah 39.11: 11 Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon commanded Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard concerning Jeremiah, saying, Jeremiah 39.12: 12 “Take him, and take care of him. Do him no harm; but do to him even as he tells you.” Jeremiah 39.13: 13 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, with Nebushazban, Rabsaris, and Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag, and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon; Jeremiah 39.14: 14 they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guard, and committed him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home. So he lived among the people. Jeremiah 39.15: 15 Now Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the guard, saying, Jeremiah 39.16: 16 “Go, and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will bring my words on this city for evil, and not for good; and they will be accomplished before you in that day. Jeremiah 39.17: 17 But I will deliver you in that day,” says Yahweh; “and you will not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid. Jeremiah 39.18: 18 For I will surely save you, and you won’t fall by the sword, but you will escape with your life; because you have put your trust in me,” says Yahweh.’” John 4.0: 4 John 4.1: 1 Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John John 4.2: 2 (although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples), John 4.3: 3 he left Judea and departed into Galilee. John 4.4: 4 He needed to pass through Samaria. John 4.5: 5 So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph. John 4.6: 6 Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. John 4.7: 7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” John 4.8: 8 For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. John 4.9: 9 The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) John 4.10: 10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” John 4.11: 11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water? John 4.12: 12 Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his children and his livestock?” John 4.13: 13 Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, John 4.14: 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.” John 4.15: 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw.” John 4.16: 16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” John 4.17: 17 The woman answered, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You said well, ‘I have no husband,’ John 4.18: 18 for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly.” John 4.19: 19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. John 4.20: 20 Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.” John 4.21: 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father. John 4.22: 22 You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews. John 4.23: 23 But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers. John 4.24: 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” John 4.25: 25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah comes, he who is called Christ. When he has come, he will declare to us all things.” John 4.26: 26 Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who speaks to you.” John 4.27: 27 At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, “What are you looking for?” or, “Why do you speak with her?” John 4.28: 28 So the woman left her water pot, went away into the city, and said to the people, John 4.29: 29 “Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?” John 4.30: 30 They went out of the city, and were coming to him. John 4.31: 31 In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” John 4.32: 32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.” John 4.33: 33 The disciples therefore said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?” John 4.34: 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. John 4.35: 35 Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest?’ Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already. John 4.36: 36 He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. John 4.37: 37 For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’ John 4.38: 38 I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.” John 4.39: 39 From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I did.” John 4.40: 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days. John 4.41: 41 Many more believed because of his word. John 4.42: 42 They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.” John 4.43: 43 After the two days he went out from there and went into Galilee. John 4.44: 44 For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. John 4.45: 45 So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast. John 4.46: 46 Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. John 4.47: 47 When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. John 4.48: 48 Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe.” John 4.49: 49 The nobleman said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” John 4.50: 50 Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. John 4.51: 51 As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported, saying “Your child lives!” John 4.52: 52 So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him.” John 4.53: 53 So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” He believed, as did his whole house. John 4.54: 54 This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee. John 10.0: 10 John 10.1: 1 “Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber. John 10.2: 2 But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. John 10.3: 3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. John 10.4: 4 Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. John 10.5: 5 They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers.” John 10.6: 6 Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them. John 10.7: 7 Jesus therefore said to them again, “Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door. John 10.8: 8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them. John 10.9: 9 I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture. John 10.10: 10 The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. John 10.11: 11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. John 10.12: 12 He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them. John 10.13: 13 The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn’t care for the sheep. John 10.14: 14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own; John 10.15: 15 even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep. John 10.16: 16 I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd. John 10.17: 17 Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. John 10.18: 18 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.” John 10.19: 19 Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words. John 10.20: 20 Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?” John 10.21: 21 Others said, “These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn’t possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?” John 10.22: 22 It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem. John 10.23: 23 It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch. John 10.24: 24 The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, “How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.” John 10.25: 25 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me. John 10.26: 26 But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you. John 10.27: 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. John 10.28: 28 I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. John 10.29: 29 My Father who has given them to me is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand. John 10.30: 30 I and the Father are one.” John 10.31: 31 Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him. John 10.32: 32 Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?” John 10.33: 33 The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God.” John 10.34: 34 Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’ John 10.35: 35 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken), John 10.36: 36 do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’ John 10.37: 37 If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me. John 10.38: 38 But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.” John 10.39: 39 They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand. John 10.40: 40 He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and he stayed there. John 10.41: 41 Many came to him. They said, “John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true.” John 10.42: 42 Many believed in him there. Revelation 16.0: 16 Revelation 16.1: 1 I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the earth!” Revelation 16.2: 2 The first went, and poured out his bowl into the earth, and it became a harmful and evil sore on the people who had the mark of the beast, and who worshiped his image. Revelation 16.3: 3 The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man. Every living thing in the sea died. Revelation 16.4: 4 The third poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood. Revelation 16.5: 5 I heard the angel of the waters saying, “You are righteous, who are and who were, O Holy One, because you have judged these things. Revelation 16.6: 6 For they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this.” Revelation 16.7: 7 I heard the altar saying, “Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments.” Revelation 16.8: 8 The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire. Revelation 16.9: 9 People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn’t repent and give him glory. Revelation 16.10: 10 The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain, Revelation 16.11: 11 and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores. They didn’t repent of their works. Revelation 16.12: 12 The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates. Its water was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the kings that come from the sunrise. Revelation 16.13: 13 I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, something like frogs; Revelation 16.14: 14 for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty. Revelation 16.15: 15 “Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.” Revelation 16.16: 16 He gathered them together into the place which is called in Hebrew, “Megiddo”. Revelation 16.17: 17 The seventh poured out his bowl into the air. A loud voice came out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, “It is done!” Revelation 16.18: 18 There were lightnings, sounds, and thunders; and there was a great earthquake, such as has not happened since there were men on the earth, so great an earthquake, and so mighty. Revelation 16.19: 19 The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. Revelation 16.20: 20 Every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. Revelation 16.21: 21 Great hailstones, about the weight of a talent, came down out of the sky on people. People blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for this plague is exceedingly severe.