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Deuteronomy 32.0:
Deuteronomy 32.1: 32Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak.
Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
Deuteronomy 32.2: 2 My doctrine will drop as the rain.
My speech will condense as the dew,
as the misty rain on the tender grass,
as the showers on the herb.
Deuteronomy 32.3: 3 For I will proclaim Yahweh’s name.
Ascribe greatness to our God!
Deuteronomy 32.4: 4 The Rock: his work is perfect,
for all his ways are just.
A God of faithfulness who does no wrong,
just and right is he.
Deuteronomy 32.5: 5 They have dealt corruptly with him.
They are not his children, because of their defect.
They are a perverse and crooked generation.
Deuteronomy 32.6: 6 Is this the way you repay Yahweh,
foolish and unwise people?
Isn’t he your father who has bought you?
He has made you and established you.
Deuteronomy 32.7: 7 Remember the days of old.
Consider the years of many generations.
Ask your father, and he will show you;
your elders, and they will tell you.
Deuteronomy 32.8: 8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance,
when he separated the children of men,
he set the bounds of the peoples
according to the number of the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 32.9: 9 For Yahweh’s portion is his people.
Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
Deuteronomy 32.10: 10 He found him in a desert land,
in the waste howling wilderness.
He surrounded him.
He cared for him.
He kept him as the apple of his eye.
Deuteronomy 32.11: 11 As an eagle that stirs up her nest,
that flutters over her young,
he spread abroad his wings,
he took them,
he bore them on his feathers.
Deuteronomy 32.12: 12 Yahweh alone led him.
There was no foreign god with him.
Deuteronomy 32.13: 13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth.
He ate the increase of the field.
He caused him to suck honey out of the rock,
oil out of the flinty rock;
Deuteronomy 32.14: 14 butter from the herd, and milk from the flock,
with fat of lambs,
rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats,
with the finest of the wheat.
From the blood of the grape, you drank wine.
Deuteronomy 32.15: 15 But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked.
You have grown fat.
You have grown thick.
You have become sleek.
Then he abandoned God who made him,
and rejected the Rock of his salvation.
Deuteronomy 32.16: 16 They moved him to jealousy with strange gods.
They provoked him to anger with abominations.
Deuteronomy 32.17: 17 They sacrificed to demons, not God,
to gods that they didn’t know,
to new gods that came up recently,
which your fathers didn’t dread.
Deuteronomy 32.18: 18 Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful,
and have forgotten God who gave you birth.
Deuteronomy 32.19: 19 Yahweh saw and abhorred,
because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
Deuteronomy 32.20: 20 He said, “I will hide my face from them.
I will see what their end will be;
for they are a very perverse generation,
children in whom is no faithfulness.
Deuteronomy 32.21: 21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God.
They have provoked me to anger with their vanities.
I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people.
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Deuteronomy 32.22: 22 For a fire is kindled in my anger,
that burns to the lowest Sheol,1
devours the earth with its increase,
and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.
Deuteronomy 32.23: 23 “I will heap evils on them.
I will spend my arrows on them.
Deuteronomy 32.24: 24 They shall be wasted with hunger,
and devoured with burning heat
and bitter destruction.
I will send the teeth of animals on them,
with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.
Deuteronomy 32.25: 25 Outside the sword will bereave,
and in the rooms,
terror on both young man and virgin,
the nursing infant with the gray-haired man.
Deuteronomy 32.26: 26 I said that I would scatter them afar.
I would make their memory to cease from among men;
Deuteronomy 32.27: 27 were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy,
lest their adversaries should judge wrongly,
lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted,
Yahweh has not done all this.’”
Deuteronomy 32.28: 28 For they are a nation void of counsel.
There is no understanding in them.
Deuteronomy 32.29: 29 Oh that they were wise, that they understood this,
that they would consider their latter end!
Deuteronomy 32.30: 30 How could one chase a thousand,
and two put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
and Yahweh had delivered them up?
Deuteronomy 32.31: 31 For their rock is not as our Rock,
even our enemies themselves concede.
Deuteronomy 32.32: 32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom,
of the fields of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are poison grapes.
Their clusters are bitter.
Deuteronomy 32.33: 33 Their wine is the poison of serpents,
the cruel venom of asps.
Deuteronomy 32.34: 34 “Isn’t this laid up in store with me,
sealed up among my treasures?
Deuteronomy 32.35: 35 Vengeance is mine, and recompense,
at the time when their foot slides;
for the day of their calamity is at hand.
Their doom rushes at them.”
Deuteronomy 32.36: 36 For Yahweh will judge his people,
and have compassion on his servants,
when he sees that their power is gone;
that there is no one remaining, shut up or left at large.
Deuteronomy 32.37: 37 He will say, “Where are their gods,
the rock in which they took refuge;
Deuteronomy 32.38: 38 which ate the fat of their sacrifices,
and drank the wine of their drink offering?
Let them rise up and help you!
Let them be your protection.
Deuteronomy 32.39: 39 “See now that I myself am he.
There is no god with me.
I kill and I make alive.
I wound and I heal.
There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.
Deuteronomy 32.40: 40 For I lift up my hand to heaven and declare,
as I live forever,
Deuteronomy 32.41: 41 if I sharpen my glittering sword,
my hand grasps it in judgment;
I will take vengeance on my adversaries,
and will repay those who hate me.
Deuteronomy 32.42: 42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood.
My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives,
from the head of the leaders of the enemy.”
Deuteronomy 32.43: 43 Rejoice, you nations, with his people,
for he will avenge the blood of his servants.
He will take vengeance on his adversaries,
and will make atonement for his land and for his people.2
Deuteronomy 32.44: 44 Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.
Deuteronomy 32.45: 45 Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel.
Deuteronomy 32.46: 46 He said to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy 32.47: 47 For it is no vain thing for you, because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”
Deuteronomy 32.48: 48 Yahweh spoke to Moses that same day, saying,
Deuteronomy 32.49: 49 “Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is across from Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession.
Deuteronomy 32.50: 50 Die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people;
Deuteronomy 32.51: 51 because you trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn’t uphold my holiness among the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 32.52: 52 For you shall see the land from a distance; but you shall not go there into the land which I give the children of Israel.”
Joshua 4.0:
Joshua 4.1: 4When all the nation had completely crossed over the Jordan, Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,
Joshua 4.2: 2 “Take twelve men out of the people, a man out of every tribe,
Joshua 4.3: 3 and command them, saying, ‘Take from out of the middle of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests’ feet stood firm, twelve stones, carry them over with you, and lay them down in the place where you’ll camp tonight.’”
Joshua 4.4: 4 Then Joshua called the twelve men whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, a man out of every tribe.
Joshua 4.5: 5 Joshua said to them, “Cross before the ark of Yahweh your God into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you pick up a stone and put it on your shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel;
Joshua 4.6: 6 that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in the future, saying, ‘What do you mean by these stones?’
Joshua 4.7: 7 then you shall tell them, ‘Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of Yahweh’s covenant. When it crossed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel forever.’”
Joshua 4.8: 8 The children of Israel did as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the middle of the Jordan, as Yahweh spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel. They carried them over with them to the place where they camped, and laid them down there.
Joshua 4.9: 9 Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there to this day.
Joshua 4.10: 10 For the priests who bore the ark stood in the middle of the Jordan until everything was finished that Yahweh commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua; and the people hurried and passed over.
Joshua 4.11: 11 When all the people had completely crossed over, Yahweh’s ark crossed over with the priests in the presence of the people.
Joshua 4.12: 12 The children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spoke to them.
Joshua 4.13: 13 About forty thousand men, ready and armed for war, passed over before Yahweh to battle, to the plains of Jericho.
Joshua 4.14: 14 On that day, Yahweh magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.
Joshua 4.15: 15 Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,
Joshua 4.16: 16 “Command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, that they come up out of the Jordan.”
Joshua 4.17: 17 Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, “Come up out of the Jordan!”
Joshua 4.18: 18 When the priests who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant had come up out of the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet had been lifted up to the dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and went over all its banks, as before.
Joshua 4.19: 19 The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho.
Joshua 4.20: 20 Joshua set up those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, in Gilgal.
Joshua 4.21: 21 He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What do these stones mean?’
Joshua 4.22: 22 Then you shall let your children know, saying, ‘Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
Joshua 4.23: 23 For Yahweh your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you until you had crossed over, as Yahweh your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before us, until we had crossed over,
Joshua 4.24: 24 that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh’s hand is mighty, and that you may fear Yahweh your God forever.’”
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2 Samuel 10.1: 10After this, the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place.
2 Samuel 10.2: 2 David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent by his servants to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.
2 Samuel 10.3: 3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn’t David sent his servants to you to search the city, to spy it out, and to overthrow it?”
2 Samuel 10.4: 4 So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved off one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
2 Samuel 10.5: 5 When they told David this, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, “Wait at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return.”
2 Samuel 10.6: 6 When the children of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth Rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and the king of Maacah with one thousand men, and the men of Tob twelve thousand men.
2 Samuel 10.7: 7 When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of the mighty men.
2 Samuel 10.8: 8 The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entrance of the gate. The Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob, and the men of Tob and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.
2 Samuel 10.9: 9 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.
2 Samuel 10.10: 10 The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and he put them in array against the children of Ammon.
2 Samuel 10.11: 11 He said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will come and help you.
2 Samuel 10.12: 12 Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people, and for the cities of our God; and may Yahweh do what seems good to him.”
2 Samuel 10.13: 13 So Joab and the people who were with him came near to the battle against the Syrians, and they fled before him.
2 Samuel 10.14: 14 When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, and entered into the city. Then Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 10.15: 15 When the Syrians saw that they were defeated by Israel, they gathered themselves together.
2 Samuel 10.16: 16 Hadadezer sent, and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the River: and they came to Helam, with Shobach the captain of the army of Hadadezer at their head.
2 Samuel 10.17: 17 David was told that; and he gathered all Israel together, passed over the Jordan, and came to Helam. The Syrians set themselves in array against David, and fought with him.
2 Samuel 10.18: 18 The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed seven hundred charioteers of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and struck Shobach the captain of their army, so that he died there.
2 Samuel 10.19: 19 When all the kings who were servants to Hadadezer saw that they were defeated before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served them. So the Syrians were afraid to help the children of Ammon any more.
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Ezra 2.1: 2Now 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,1 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,2 and five thousand minas3 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.
Psalms 39.0:
For the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Psalm by David.
Psalms 39.1: 39I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue.
I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”
Psalms 39.2: 2 I was mute with silence.
I held my peace, even from good.
My sorrow was stirred.
Psalms 39.3: 3 My heart was hot within me.
While I meditated, the fire burned.
I spoke with my tongue:
Psalms 39.4: 4 “Yahweh, show me my end,
what is the measure of my days.
Let me know how frail I am.
Psalms 39.5: 5 Behold, you have made my days hand widths.
My lifetime is as nothing before you.
Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.
Psalms 39.6: 6 “Surely every man walks like a shadow.
Surely they busy themselves in vain.
He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.
Psalms 39.7: 7 Now, Lord, what do I wait for?
My hope is in you.
Psalms 39.8: 8 Deliver me from all my transgressions.
Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.
Psalms 39.9: 9 I was mute.
I didn’t open my mouth,
because you did it.
Psalms 39.10: 10 Remove your scourge away from me.
I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
Psalms 39.11: 11 When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity,
you consume his wealth like a moth.
Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.
Psalms 39.12: 12 “Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry.
Don’t be silent at my tears.
For I am a stranger with you,
a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
Psalms 39.13: 13 Oh spare me, that I may recover strength,
before I go away and exist no more.”
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Psalms 105.1: 105Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name!
Make his doings known among the peoples.
Psalms 105.2: 2 Sing to him, sing praises to him!
Tell of all his marvelous works.
Psalms 105.3: 3 Glory in his holy name.
Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
Psalms 105.4: 4 Seek Yahweh and his strength.
Seek his face forever more.
Psalms 105.5: 5 Remember his marvelous works that he has done:
his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
Psalms 105.6: 6 you offspring of Abraham, his servant,
you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
Psalms 105.7: 7 He is Yahweh, our God.
His judgments are in all the earth.
Psalms 105.8: 8 He has remembered his covenant forever,
the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,
Psalms 105.9: 9 the covenant which he made with Abraham,
his oath to Isaac,
Psalms 105.10: 10 and confirmed it to Jacob for a statute;
to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
Psalms 105.11: 11 saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan,
the lot of your inheritance,”
Psalms 105.12: 12 when they were but a few men in number,
yes, very few, and foreigners in it.
Psalms 105.13: 13 They went about from nation to nation,
from one kingdom to another people.
Psalms 105.14: 14 He allowed no one to do them wrong.
Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
Psalms 105.15: 15 “Don’t touch my anointed ones!
Do my prophets no harm!”
Psalms 105.16: 16 He called for a famine on the land.
He destroyed the food supplies.
Psalms 105.17: 17 He sent a man before them.
Joseph was sold for a slave.
Psalms 105.18: 18 They bruised his feet with shackles.
His neck was locked in irons,
Psalms 105.19: 19 until the time that his word happened,
and Yahweh’s word proved him true.
Psalms 105.20: 20 The king sent and freed him,
even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.
Psalms 105.21: 21 He made him lord of his house,
and ruler of all of his possessions,
Psalms 105.22: 22 to discipline his princes at his pleasure,
and to teach his elders wisdom.
Psalms 105.23: 23 Israel also came into Egypt.
Jacob lived in the land of Ham.
Psalms 105.24: 24 He increased his people greatly,
and made them stronger than their adversaries.
Psalms 105.25: 25 He turned their heart to hate his people,
to conspire against his servants.
Psalms 105.26: 26 He sent Moses, his servant,
and Aaron, whom he had chosen.
Psalms 105.27: 27 They performed miracles among them,
and wonders in the land of Ham.
Psalms 105.28: 28 He sent darkness, and made it dark.
They didn’t rebel against his words.
Psalms 105.29: 29 He turned their waters into blood,
and killed their fish.
Psalms 105.30: 30 Their land swarmed with frogs,
even in the rooms of their kings.
Psalms 105.31: 31 He spoke, and swarms of flies came,
and lice in all their borders.
Psalms 105.32: 32 He gave them hail for rain,
with lightning in their land.
Psalms 105.33: 33 He struck their vines and also their fig trees,
and shattered the trees of their country.
Psalms 105.34: 34 He spoke, and the locusts came
with the grasshoppers, without number,
Psalms 105.35: 35 ate up every plant in their land,
and ate up the fruit of their ground.
Psalms 105.36: 36 He struck also all the firstborn in their land,
the first fruits of all their manhood.
Psalms 105.37: 37 He brought them out with silver and gold.
There was not one feeble person among his tribes.
Psalms 105.38: 38 Egypt was glad when they departed,
for the fear of them had fallen on them.
Psalms 105.39: 39 He spread a cloud for a covering,
fire to give light in the night.
Psalms 105.40: 40 They asked, and he brought quails,
and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.
Psalms 105.41: 41 He opened the rock, and waters gushed out.
They ran as a river in the dry places.
Psalms 105.42: 42 For he remembered his holy word,
and Abraham, his servant.
Psalms 105.43: 43 He brought his people out with joy,
his chosen with singing.
Psalms 105.44: 44 He gave them the lands of the nations.
They took the labor of the peoples in possession,
Psalms 105.45: 45 that they might keep his statutes,
and observe his laws.
Praise Yah!
Psalms 119.0:
ALEPH
Psalms 119.1: 119Blessed are those whose ways are blameless,
who walk according to Yahweh’s law.
Psalms 119.2: 2 Blessed are those who keep his statutes,
who seek him with their whole heart.
Psalms 119.3: 3 Yes, they do nothing wrong.
They walk in his ways.
Psalms 119.4: 4 You have commanded your precepts,
that we should fully obey them.
Psalms 119.5: 5 Oh that my ways were steadfast
to obey your statutes!
Psalms 119.6: 6 Then I wouldn’t be disappointed,
when I consider all of your commandments.
Psalms 119.7: 7 I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart,
when I learn your righteous judgments.
Psalms 119.8: 8 I will observe your statutes.
Don’t utterly forsake me.
BET
Psalms 119.9: 9 How can a young man keep his way pure?
By living according to your word.
Psalms 119.10: 10 With my whole heart, I have sought you.
Don’t let me wander from your commandments.
Psalms 119.11: 11 I have hidden your word in my heart,
that I might not sin against you.
Psalms 119.12: 12 Blessed are you, Yahweh.
Teach me your statutes.
Psalms 119.13: 13 With my lips,
I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.
Psalms 119.14: 14 I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies,
as much as in all riches.
Psalms 119.15: 15 I will meditate on your precepts,
and consider your ways.
Psalms 119.16: 16 I will delight myself in your statutes.
I will not forget your word.
GIMEL
Psalms 119.17: 17 Do good to your servant.
I will live and I will obey your word.
Psalms 119.18: 18 Open my eyes,
that I may see wondrous things out of your law.
Psalms 119.19: 19 I am a stranger on the earth.
Don’t hide your commandments from me.
Psalms 119.20: 20 My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.
Psalms 119.21: 21 You have rebuked the proud who are cursed,
who wander from your commandments.
Psalms 119.22: 22 Take reproach and contempt away from me,
for I have kept your statutes.
Psalms 119.23: 23 Though princes sit and slander me,
your servant will meditate on your statutes.
Psalms 119.24: 24 Indeed your statutes are my delight,
and my counselors.
DALED
Psalms 119.25: 25 My soul is laid low in the dust.
Revive me according to your word!
Psalms 119.26: 26 I declared my ways, and you answered me.
Teach me your statutes.
Psalms 119.27: 27 Let me understand the teaching of your precepts!
Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.
Psalms 119.28: 28 My soul is weary with sorrow:
strengthen me according to your word.
Psalms 119.29: 29 Keep me from the way of deceit.
Grant me your law graciously!
Psalms 119.30: 30 I have chosen the way of truth.
I have set your ordinances before me.
Psalms 119.31: 31 I cling to your statutes, Yahweh.
Don’t let me be disappointed.
Psalms 119.32: 32 I run in the path of your commandments,
for you have set my heart free.
HEY
Psalms 119.33: 33 Teach me, Yahweh, the way of your statutes.
I will keep them to the end.
Psalms 119.34: 34 Give me understanding, and I will keep your law.
Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.
Psalms 119.35: 35 Direct me in the path of your commandments,
for I delight in them.
Psalms 119.36: 36 Turn my heart toward your statutes,
not toward selfish gain.
Psalms 119.37: 37 Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things.
Revive me in your ways.
Psalms 119.38: 38 Fulfill your promise to your servant,
that you may be feared.
Psalms 119.39: 39 Take away my disgrace that I dread,
for your ordinances are good.
Psalms 119.40: 40 Behold, I long for your precepts!
Revive me in your righteousness.
WAW
Psalms 119.41: 41 Let your loving kindness also come to me, Yahweh,
your salvation, according to your word.
Psalms 119.42: 42 So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me,
for I trust in your word.
Psalms 119.43: 43 Don’t snatch the word of truth out of my mouth,
for I put my hope in your ordinances.
Psalms 119.44: 44 So I will obey your law continually,
forever and ever.
Psalms 119.45: 45 I will walk in liberty,
for I have sought your precepts.
Psalms 119.46: 46 I will also speak of your statutes before kings,
and will not be disappointed.
Psalms 119.47: 47 I will delight myself in your commandments,
because I love them.
Psalms 119.48: 48 I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love.
I will meditate on your statutes.
ZAYIN
Psalms 119.49: 49 Remember your word to your servant,
because you gave me hope.
Psalms 119.50: 50 This is my comfort in my affliction,
for your word has revived me.
Psalms 119.51: 51 The arrogant mock me excessively,
but I don’t swerve from your law.
Psalms 119.52: 52 I remember your ordinances of old, Yahweh,
and have comforted myself.
Psalms 119.53: 53 Indignation has taken hold on me,
because of the wicked who forsake your law.
Psalms 119.54: 54 Your statutes have been my songs
in the house where I live.
Psalms 119.55: 55 I have remembered your name, Yahweh, in the night,
and I obey your law.
Psalms 119.56: 56 This is my way,
that I keep your precepts.
CHET
Psalms 119.57: 57 Yahweh is my portion.
I promised to obey your words.
Psalms 119.58: 58 I sought your favor with my whole heart.
Be merciful to me according to your word.
Psalms 119.59: 59 I considered my ways,
and turned my steps to your statutes.
Psalms 119.60: 60 I will hurry, and not delay,
to obey your commandments.
Psalms 119.61: 61 The ropes of the wicked bind me,
but I won’t forget your law.
Psalms 119.62: 62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you,
because of your righteous ordinances.
Psalms 119.63: 63 I am a friend of all those who fear you,
of those who observe your precepts.
Psalms 119.64: 64 The earth is full of your loving kindness, Yahweh.
Teach me your statutes.
TET
Psalms 119.65: 65 Do good to your servant,
according to your word, Yahweh.
Psalms 119.66: 66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge,
for I believe in your commandments.
Psalms 119.67: 67 Before I was afflicted, I went astray;
but now I observe your word.
Psalms 119.68: 68 You are good, and do good.
Teach me your statutes.
Psalms 119.69: 69 The proud have smeared a lie upon me.
With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.
Psalms 119.70: 70 Their heart is as callous as the fat,
but I delight in your law.
Psalms 119.71: 71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted,
that I may learn your statutes.
Psalms 119.72: 72 The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
YUD
Psalms 119.73: 73 Your hands have made me and formed me.
Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.
Psalms 119.74: 74 Those who fear you will see me and be glad,
because I have put my hope in your word.
Psalms 119.75: 75 Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous,
that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
Psalms 119.76: 76 Please let your loving kindness be for my comfort,
according to your word to your servant.
Psalms 119.77: 77 Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live;
for your law is my delight.
Psalms 119.78: 78 Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully.
I will meditate on your precepts.
Psalms 119.79: 79 Let those who fear you turn to me.
They will know your statutes.
Psalms 119.80: 80 Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees,
that I may not be disappointed.
KAF
Psalms 119.81: 81 My soul faints for your salvation.
I hope in your word.
Psalms 119.82: 82 My eyes fail for your word.
I say, “When will you comfort me?”
Psalms 119.83: 83 For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke.
I don’t forget your statutes.
Psalms 119.84: 84 How many are the days of your servant?
When will you execute judgment on those who persecute me?
Psalms 119.85: 85 The proud have dug pits for me,
contrary to your law.
Psalms 119.86: 86 All of your commandments are faithful.
They persecute me wrongfully.
Help me!
Psalms 119.87: 87 They had almost wiped me from the earth,
but I didn’t forsake your precepts.
Psalms 119.88: 88 Preserve my life according to your loving kindness,
so I will obey the statutes of your mouth.
LAMED
Psalms 119.89: 89 Yahweh, your word is settled in heaven forever.
Psalms 119.90: 90 Your faithfulness is to all generations.
You have established the earth, and it remains.
Psalms 119.91: 91 Your laws remain to this day,
for all things serve you.
Psalms 119.92: 92 Unless your law had been my delight,
I would have perished in my affliction.
Psalms 119.93: 93 I will never forget your precepts,
for with them, you have revived me.
Psalms 119.94: 94 I am yours.
Save me, for I have sought your precepts.
Psalms 119.95: 95 The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me.
I will consider your statutes.
Psalms 119.96: 96 I have seen a limit to all perfection,
but your commands are boundless.
MEM
Psalms 119.97: 97 How I love your law!
It is my meditation all day.
Psalms 119.98: 98 Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies,
for your commandments are always with me.
Psalms 119.99: 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers,
for your testimonies are my meditation.
Psalms 119.100: 100 I understand more than the aged,
because I have kept your precepts.
Psalms 119.101: 101 I have kept my feet from every evil way,
that I might observe your word.
Psalms 119.102: 102 I have not turned away from your ordinances,
for you have taught me.
Psalms 119.103: 103 How sweet are your promises to my taste,
more than honey to my mouth!
Psalms 119.104: 104 Through your precepts, I get understanding;
therefore I hate every false way.
NUN
Psalms 119.105: 105 Your word is a lamp to my feet,
and a light for my path.
Psalms 119.106: 106 I have sworn, and have confirmed it,
that I will obey your righteous ordinances.
Psalms 119.107: 107 I am afflicted very much.
Revive me, Yahweh, according to your word.
Psalms 119.108: 108 Accept, I beg you, the willing offerings of my mouth.
Yahweh, teach me your ordinances.
Psalms 119.109: 109 My soul is continually in my hand,
yet I won’t forget your law.
Psalms 119.110: 110 The wicked have laid a snare for me,
yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.
Psalms 119.111: 111 I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever,
for they are the joy of my heart.
Psalms 119.112: 112 I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever,
even to the end.
SAMEKH
Psalms 119.113: 113 I hate double-minded men,
but I love your law.
Psalms 119.114: 114 You are my hiding place and my shield.
I hope in your word.
Psalms 119.115: 115 Depart from me, you evildoers,
that I may keep the commandments of my God.
Psalms 119.116: 116 Uphold me according to your word, that I may live.
Let me not be ashamed of my hope.
Psalms 119.117: 117 Hold me up, and I will be safe,
and will have respect for your statutes continually.
Psalms 119.118: 118 You reject all those who stray from your statutes,
for their deceit is in vain.
Psalms 119.119: 119 You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross.
Therefore I love your testimonies.
Psalms 119.120: 120 My flesh trembles for fear of you.
I am afraid of your judgments.
AYIN
Psalms 119.121: 121 I have done what is just and righteous.
Don’t leave me to my oppressors.
Psalms 119.122: 122 Ensure your servant’s well-being.
Don’t let the proud oppress me.
Psalms 119.123: 123 My eyes fail looking for your salvation,
for your righteous word.
Psalms 119.124: 124 Deal with your servant according to your loving kindness.
Teach me your statutes.
Psalms 119.125: 125 I am your servant. Give me understanding,
that I may know your testimonies.
Psalms 119.126: 126 It is time to act, Yahweh,
for they break your law.
Psalms 119.127: 127 Therefore I love your commandments more than gold,
yes, more than pure gold.
Psalms 119.128: 128 Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right.
I hate every false way.
PEY
Psalms 119.129: 129 Your testimonies are wonderful,
therefore my soul keeps them.
Psalms 119.130: 130 The entrance of your words gives light.
It gives understanding to the simple.
Psalms 119.131: 131 I opened my mouth wide and panted,
for I longed for your commandments.
Psalms 119.132: 132 Turn to me, and have mercy on me,
as you always do to those who love your name.
Psalms 119.133: 133 Establish my footsteps in your word.
Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.
Psalms 119.134: 134 Redeem me from the oppression of man,
so I will observe your precepts.
Psalms 119.135: 135 Make your face shine on your servant.
Teach me your statutes.
Psalms 119.136: 136 Streams of tears run down my eyes,
because they don’t observe your law.
TZADI
Psalms 119.137: 137 You are righteous, Yahweh.
Your judgments are upright.
Psalms 119.138: 138 You have commanded your statutes in righteousness.
They are fully trustworthy.
Psalms 119.139: 139 My zeal wears me out,
because my enemies ignore your words.
Psalms 119.140: 140 Your promises have been thoroughly tested,
and your servant loves them.
Psalms 119.141: 141 I am small and despised.
I don’t forget your precepts.
Psalms 119.142: 142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness.
Your law is truth.
Psalms 119.143: 143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me.
Your commandments are my delight.
Psalms 119.144: 144 Your testimonies are righteous forever.
Give me understanding, that I may live.
KUF
Psalms 119.145: 145 I have called with my whole heart.
Answer me, Yahweh!
I will keep your statutes.
Psalms 119.146: 146 I have called to you. Save me!
I will obey your statutes.
Psalms 119.147: 147 I rise before dawn and cry for help.
I put my hope in your words.
Psalms 119.148: 148 My eyes stay open through the night watches,
that I might meditate on your word.
Psalms 119.149: 149 Hear my voice according to your loving kindness.
Revive me, Yahweh, according to your ordinances.
Psalms 119.150: 150 They draw near who follow after wickedness.
They are far from your law.
Psalms 119.151: 151 You are near, Yahweh.
All your commandments are truth.
Psalms 119.152: 152 Of old I have known from your testimonies,
that you have founded them forever.
RESH
Psalms 119.153: 153 Consider my affliction, and deliver me,
for I don’t forget your law.
Psalms 119.154: 154 Plead my cause, and redeem me!
Revive me according to your promise.
Psalms 119.155: 155 Salvation is far from the wicked,
for they don’t seek your statutes.
Psalms 119.156: 156 Great are your tender mercies, Yahweh.
Revive me according to your ordinances.
Psalms 119.157: 157 Many are my persecutors and my adversaries.
I haven’t swerved from your testimonies.
Psalms 119.158: 158 I look at the faithless with loathing,
because they don’t observe your word.
Psalms 119.159: 159 Consider how I love your precepts.
Revive me, Yahweh, according to your loving kindness.
Psalms 119.160: 160 All of your words are truth.
Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever.
SIN AND SHIN
Psalms 119.161: 161 Princes have persecuted me without a cause,
but my heart stands in awe of your words.
Psalms 119.162: 162 I rejoice at your word,
as one who finds great plunder.
Psalms 119.163: 163 I hate and abhor falsehood.
I love your law.
Psalms 119.164: 164 Seven times a day, I praise you,
because of your righteous ordinances.
Psalms 119.165: 165 Those who love your law have great peace.
Nothing causes them to stumble.
Psalms 119.166: 166 I have hoped for your salvation, Yahweh.
I have done your commandments.
Psalms 119.167: 167 My soul has observed your testimonies.
I love them exceedingly.
Psalms 119.168: 168 I have obeyed your precepts and your testimonies,
for all my ways are before you.
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Psalms 119.169: 169 Let my cry come before you, Yahweh.
Give me understanding according to your word.
Psalms 119.170: 170 Let my supplication come before you.
Deliver me according to your word.
Psalms 119.171: 171 Let my lips utter praise,
for you teach me your statutes.
Psalms 119.172: 172 Let my tongue sing of your word,
for all your commandments are righteousness.
Psalms 119.173: 173 Let your hand be ready to help me,
for I have chosen your precepts.
Psalms 119.174: 174 I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh.
Your law is my delight.
Psalms 119.175: 175 Let my soul live, that I may praise you.
Let your ordinances help me.
Psalms 119.176: 176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep.
Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.
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Psalms 150.1: 150Praise Yah!
Praise God in his sanctuary!
Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power!
Psalms 150.2: 2 Praise him for his mighty acts!
Praise him according to his excellent greatness!
Psalms 150.3: 3 Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet!
Praise him with harp and lyre!
Psalms 150.4: 4 Praise him with tambourine and dancing!
Praise him with stringed instruments and flute!
Psalms 150.5: 5 Praise him with loud cymbals!
Praise him with resounding cymbals!
Psalms 150.6: 6 Let everything that has breath praise Yah!
Praise Yah!
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Proverbs 20.1: 20Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler.
Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
Proverbs 20.2: 2 The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion.
He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.
Proverbs 20.3: 3 It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife,
but every fool will be quarreling.
Proverbs 20.4: 4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter;
therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Proverbs 20.5: 5 Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water,
but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Proverbs 20.6: 6 Many men claim to be men of unfailing love,
but who can find a faithful man?
Proverbs 20.7: 7 A righteous man walks in integrity.
Blessed are his children after him.
Proverbs 20.8: 8 A king who sits on the throne of judgment
scatters away all evil with his eyes.
Proverbs 20.9: 9 Who can say, “I have made my heart pure.
I am clean and without sin?”
Proverbs 20.10: 10 Differing weights and differing measures,
both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
Proverbs 20.11: 11 Even a child makes himself known by his doings,
whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.
Proverbs 20.12: 12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye,
Yahweh has made even both of them.
Proverbs 20.13: 13 Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty.
Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
Proverbs 20.14: 14 “It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer;
but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
Proverbs 20.15: 15 There is gold and abundance of rubies,
but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.
Proverbs 20.16: 16 Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger;
and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.
Proverbs 20.17: 17 Fraudulent food is sweet to a man,
but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.
Proverbs 20.18: 18 Plans are established by advice;
by wise guidance you wage war!
Proverbs 20.19: 19 He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets;
therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.
Proverbs 20.20: 20 Whoever curses his father or his mother,
his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
Proverbs 20.21: 21 An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning,
won’t be blessed in the end.
Proverbs 20.22: 22 Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.”
Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.
Proverbs 20.23: 23 Yahweh detests differing weights,
and dishonest scales are not pleasing.
Proverbs 20.24: 24 A man’s steps are from Yahweh;
how then can man understand his way?
Proverbs 20.25: 25 It is a snare to a man to make a rash dedication,
then later to consider his vows.
Proverbs 20.26: 26 A wise king winnows out the wicked,
and drives the threshing wheel over them.
Proverbs 20.27: 27 The spirit of man is Yahweh’s lamp,
searching all his innermost parts.
Proverbs 20.28: 28 Love and faithfulness keep the king safe.
His throne is sustained by love.
Proverbs 20.29: 29 The glory of young men is their strength.
The splendor of old men is their gray hair.
Proverbs 20.30: 30 Wounding blows cleanse away evil,
and beatings purge the innermost parts.
Jeremiah 12.0:
Jeremiah 12.1: 12You are righteous, Yahweh,
when I contend with you;
yet I would like to reason the cause with you.
Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?
Jeremiah 12.2: 2 You have planted them. Yes, they have taken root.
They grow. Yes, they produce fruit.
You are near in their mouth,
and far from their heart.
Jeremiah 12.3: 3 But you, Yahweh, know me.
You see me, and test my heart toward you.
Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter,
and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
Jeremiah 12.4: 4 How long will the land mourn,
and the herbs of the whole country wither?
Because of the wickedness of those who dwell therein,
the animals and birds are consumed;
because they said,
“He won’t see our latter end.”
Jeremiah 12.5: 5 “If you have run with the footmen,
and they have wearied you,
then how can you contend with horses?
Though in a land of peace you are secure,
yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?
Jeremiah 12.6: 6 For even your brothers, and the house of your father,
even they have dealt treacherously with you!
Even they have cried aloud after you!
Don’t believe them,
though they speak beautiful words to you.
Jeremiah 12.7: 7 “I have forsaken my house.
I have cast off my heritage.
I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
Jeremiah 12.8: 8 My heritage has become to me as a lion in the forest.
She has uttered her voice against me.
Therefore I have hated her.
Jeremiah 12.9: 9 Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey?
Are the birds of prey against her all around?
Go, assemble all the animals of the field.
Bring them to devour.
Jeremiah 12.10: 10 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard.
They have trodden my portion under foot.
They have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
Jeremiah 12.11: 11 They have made it a desolation.
It mourns to me, being desolate.
The whole land is made desolate,
because no one cares.
Jeremiah 12.12: 12 Destroyers have come on all the bare heights in the wilderness;
for the sword of Yahweh devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land.
No flesh has peace.
Jeremiah 12.13: 13 They have sown wheat,
and have reaped thorns.
They have exhausted themselves,
and profit nothing.
You will be ashamed of your fruits,
because of Yahweh’s fierce anger.”
Jeremiah 12.14: 14 Yahweh says, “Concerning all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.
Jeremiah 12.15: 15 It will happen that after I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them. I will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
Jeremiah 12.16: 16 It will happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, ‘As Yahweh lives;’ even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will be built up in the middle of my people.
Jeremiah 12.17: 17 But if they will not hear, then I will pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it,” says Yahweh.
Ezekiel 13.0:
Ezekiel 13.1: 13Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 13.2: 2 “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy out of their own heart, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word:
Ezekiel 13.3: 3 The Lord Yahweh says, “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
Ezekiel 13.4: 4 Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places.
Ezekiel 13.5: 5 You have not gone up into the gaps or built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in Yahweh’s day.
Ezekiel 13.6: 6 They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say, ‘Yahweh says;’ but Yahweh has not sent them. They have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed.
Ezekiel 13.7: 7 Haven’t you seen a false vision, and haven’t you spoken a lying divination, in that you say, ‘Yahweh says;’ but I have not spoken?”
Ezekiel 13.8: 8 “‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have spoken falsehood and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you,” says the Lord Yahweh.
Ezekiel 13.9: 9 “My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who utter lying divinations. They will not be in the council of my people, neither will they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither will they enter into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”
Ezekiel 13.10: 10 “‘Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, “Peace;” and there is no peace. When one builds up a wall, behold, they plaster it with whitewash.
Ezekiel 13.11: 11 Tell those who plaster it with whitewash that it will fall. There will be an overflowing shower; and you, great hailstones, will fall. A stormy wind will tear it.
Ezekiel 13.12: 12 Behold, when the wall has fallen, won’t it be said to you, “Where is the plaster with which you have plastered it?”
Ezekiel 13.13: 13 “‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath. There will be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.
Ezekiel 13.14: 14 So I will break down the wall that you have plastered with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be uncovered. It will fall, and you will be consumed in the middle of it. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
Ezekiel 13.15: 15 Thus I will accomplish my wrath on the wall, and on those who have plastered it with whitewash. I will tell you, ‘The wall is no more, neither those who plastered it;
Ezekiel 13.16: 16 to wit, the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace,’” says the Lord Yahweh.’”
Ezekiel 13.17: 17 You, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy against them,
Ezekiel 13.18: 18 and say, “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Woe to the women who sew pillows on all elbows, and make kerchiefs for the head of persons of every stature to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of my people, and save souls alive for yourselves?
Ezekiel 13.19: 19 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.’
Ezekiel 13.20: 20 “Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I am against your pillows, with which you hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms. I will let the souls go, even the souls whom you hunt to make them fly.
Ezekiel 13.21: 21 I will also tear your kerchiefs, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they will be no more in your hand to be hunted. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
Ezekiel 13.22: 22 Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive.
Ezekiel 13.23: 23 Therefore you shall no more see false visions, nor practice divination. I will deliver my people out of your hand. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.’”
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Ezekiel 24.1: 24Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 24.2: 2 “Son of man, write the name of the day, this same day. The king of Babylon drew close to Jerusalem this same day.
Ezekiel 24.3: 3 Utter a parable to the rebellious house, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says,
“Put the cauldron on the fire.
Put it on,
and also pour water into it.
Ezekiel 24.4: 4 Gather its pieces into it,
even every good piece:
the thigh and the shoulder.
Fill it with the choice bones.
Ezekiel 24.5: 5 Take the choice of the flock,
and also a pile of wood for the bones under the cauldron.
Make it boil well.
Yes, let its bones be boiled within it.”
Ezekiel 24.6: 6 “‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says:
“Woe to the bloody city,
to the cauldron whose rust is in it,
and whose rust hasn’t gone out of it!
Take out of it piece after piece.
No lot is fallen on it.
Ezekiel 24.7: 7 “‘“For her blood is in the middle of her.
She set it on the bare rock.
She didn’t pour it on the ground,
to cover it with dust.
Ezekiel 24.8: 8 That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance,
I have set her blood on the bare rock,
that it should not be covered.”
Ezekiel 24.9: 9 “‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says:
“Woe to the bloody city!
I also will make the pile great.
Ezekiel 24.10: 10 Heap on the wood.
Make the fire hot.
Boil the meat well.
Make the broth thick,
and let the bones be burned.
Ezekiel 24.11: 11 Then set it empty on its coals,
that it may be hot,
and its bronze may burn,
and that its filthiness may be molten in it,
that its rust may be consumed.
Ezekiel 24.12: 12 She is weary with toil;
yet her great rust,
rust by fire, doesn’t leave her.
Ezekiel 24.13: 13 “‘“In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed you and you weren’t cleansed, you won’t be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.
Ezekiel 24.14: 14 I, Yahweh, have spoken it. It will happen, and I will do it. I won’t go back. I won’t spare. I won’t repent. According to your ways, and according to your doings, they will judge you,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”
Ezekiel 24.15: 15 Also Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 24.16: 16 “Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.
Ezekiel 24.17: 17 Sigh, but not aloud. Make no mourning for the dead. Bind your headdress on you, and put your sandals on your feet. Don’t cover your lips, and don’t eat mourner’s bread.”
Ezekiel 24.18: 18 So I spoke to the people in the morning; and at evening my wife died. So I did in the morning as I was commanded.
Ezekiel 24.19: 19 The people asked me, “Won’t you tell us what these things are to us, that you do so?”
Ezekiel 24.20: 20 Then I said to them, “Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 24.21: 21 ‘Speak to the house of Israel, “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword.
Ezekiel 24.22: 22 You will do as I have done. You won’t cover your lips or eat mourner’s bread.
Ezekiel 24.23: 23 Your turbans will be on your heads, and your sandals on your feet. You won’t mourn or weep; but you will pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.
Ezekiel 24.24: 24 Thus Ezekiel will be a sign to you; according to all that he has done, you will do. When this comes, then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.’”’”
Ezekiel 24.25: 25 “You, son of man, shouldn’t it be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart, their sons and their daughters,
Ezekiel 24.26: 26 that in that day he who escapes will come to you, to cause you to hear it with your ears?
Ezekiel 24.27: 27 In that day your mouth will be opened to him who has escaped, and you will speak, and be no more mute. So you will be a sign to them. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”
Amos 4.0:
Amos 4.1: 4Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”
Amos 4.2: 2 The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that behold,
“The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks,
and the last of you with fish hooks.
Amos 4.3: 3 You will go out at the breaks in the wall,
everyone straight before her;
and you will cast yourselves into Harmon,” says Yahweh.
Amos 4.4: 4 “Go to Bethel, and sin;
to Gilgal, and sin more.
Bring your sacrifices every morning,
your tithes every three days,
Amos 4.5: 5 offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened,
and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them:
for this pleases you, you children of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh.
Amos 4.6: 6 “I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
and lack of bread in every town;
yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
Amos 4.7: 7 “I also have withheld the rain from you,
when there were yet three months to the harvest;
and I caused it to rain on one city,
and caused it not to rain on another city.
One place was rained on,
and the piece where it didn’t rain withered.
Amos 4.8: 8 So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water,
and were not satisfied:
yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
Amos 4.9: 9 “I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards;
and the swarming locusts have devoured your fig trees and your olive trees;
yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
Amos 4.10: 10 “I sent plagues among you like I did Egypt.
I have slain your young men with the sword,
and have carried away your horses;
and I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp,
yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
Amos 4.11: 11 “I have overthrown some of you,
as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire;
yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
Amos 4.12: 12 “Therefore thus I will do to you, Israel;
because I will do this to you,
prepare to meet your God, Israel.
Amos 4.13: 13 For, behold, he who forms the mountains,
and creates the wind,
and declares to man what is his thought;
who makes the morning darkness,
and treads on the high places of the earth:
Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”
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Obadiah 1.1: 1The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord1 Yahweh2 says about Edom. We have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, “Arise, and let’s rise up against her in battle.
Obadiah 1.2: 2 Behold,3 I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised.
Obadiah 1.3: 3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’
Obadiah 1.4: 4 Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.
Obadiah 1.5: 5 “If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, what disaster awaits you—wouldn’t they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn’t they leave some gleaning grapes?
Obadiah 1.6: 6 How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!
Obadiah 1.7: 7 All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him.”
Obadiah 1.8: 8 “Won’t I in that day”, says Yahweh, “destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau?
Obadiah 1.9: 9 Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.
Obadiah 1.10: 10 For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.
Obadiah 1.11: 11 In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them.
Obadiah 1.12: 12 But don’t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don’t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress.
Obadiah 1.13: 13 Don’t enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don’t look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity.
Obadiah 1.14: 14 Don’t stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don’t deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress.
Obadiah 1.15: 15 For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.
Obadiah 1.16: 16 For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been.
Obadiah 1.17: 17 But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions.
Obadiah 1.18: 18 The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them, and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau.” Indeed, Yahweh has spoken.
Obadiah 1.19: 19 Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead.
Obadiah 1.20: 20 The captives of this army of the children of Israel, who are among the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the Negev.
Obadiah 1.21: 21 Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be Yahweh’s.
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Zechariah 1.0:
Zechariah 1.1: 1In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, Yahweh’s1 word came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,
Zechariah 1.2: 2 “Yahweh was very displeased with your fathers.
Zechariah 1.3: 3 Therefore tell them: Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
Zechariah 1.4: 4 Don’t you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Yahweh of Armies says, ‘Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;’ but they didn’t hear, nor listen to me, says Yahweh.
Zechariah 1.5: 5 Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
Zechariah 1.6: 6 But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers?
“Then they repented and said, ‘Just as Yahweh of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.’”
Zechariah 1.7: 7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, Yahweh’s word came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,
Zechariah 1.8: 8 “I had a vision in the night, and behold,2 a man riding on a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in a ravine; and behind him there were red, brown, and white horses.
Zechariah 1.9: 9 Then I asked, ‘My lord, what are these?’”
The angel who talked with me said to me, “I will show you what these are.”
Zechariah 1.10: 10 The man who stood among the myrtle trees answered, “They are the ones Yahweh has sent to go back and forth through the earth.”
Zechariah 1.11: 11 They reported to Yahweh’s angel who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, “We have walked back and forth through the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and in peace.”
Zechariah 1.12: 12 Then Yahweh’s angel replied, “O Yahweh of Armies, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?”
Zechariah 1.13: 13 Yahweh answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.
Zechariah 1.14: 14 So the angel who talked with me said to me, “Proclaim, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
Zechariah 1.15: 15 I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”
Zechariah 1.16: 16 Therefore Yahweh says: “I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and a line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.”’
Zechariah 1.17: 17 “Proclaim further, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and Yahweh will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem.”’”
Zechariah 1.18: 18 I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four horns.
Zechariah 1.19: 19 I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are these?”
He answered me, “These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”
Zechariah 1.20: 20 Yahweh showed me four craftsmen.
Zechariah 1.21: 21 Then I asked, “What are these coming to do?”
He said, “These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head; but these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.”
Zechariah 2.0:
Zechariah 2.1: 2I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.
Zechariah 2.2: 2 Then I asked, “Where are you going?”
He said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length.”
Zechariah 2.3: 3 Behold, the angel who talked with me went out, and another angel went out to meet him,
Zechariah 2.4: 4 and said to him, “Run, speak to this young man, saying, ‘Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it.
Zechariah 2.5: 5 For I,’ says Yahweh, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the middle of her.
Zechariah 2.6: 6 Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,’ says Yahweh; ‘for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky,’ says Yahweh.
Zechariah 2.7: 7 ‘Come, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.’
Zechariah 2.8: 8 For Yahweh of Armies says: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.
Zechariah 2.9: 9 For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they will be a plunder to those who served them; and you will know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me.
Zechariah 2.10: 10 Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell within you,’ says Yahweh.
Zechariah 2.11: 11 Many nations shall join themselves to Yahweh in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell among you, and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.
Zechariah 2.12: 12 Yahweh will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.
Zechariah 2.13: 13 Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”
Zechariah 3.0:
Zechariah 3.1: 3He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before Yahweh’s angel, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.
Zechariah 3.2: 2 Yahweh said to Satan, “Yahweh rebuke you, Satan! Yes, Yahweh who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn’t this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?”
Zechariah 3.3: 3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel.
Zechariah 3.4: 4 He answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, “Take the filthy garments off him.” To him he said, “Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with rich clothing.”
Zechariah 3.5: 5 I said, “Let them set a clean turban on his head.”
So they set a clean turban on his head, and clothed him; and Yahweh’s angel was standing by.
Zechariah 3.6: 6 Yahweh’s angel protested to Joshua, saying,
Zechariah 3.7: 7 “Yahweh of Armies says: ‘If you will walk in my ways, and if you will follow my instructions, then you also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you a place of access among these who stand by.
Zechariah 3.8: 8 Hear now, Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows who sit before you; for they are men who are a sign: for, behold, I will bring out my servant, the Branch.
Zechariah 3.9: 9 For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave its engraving,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
Zechariah 3.10: 10 In that day,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘you will invite every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree.’”
Zechariah 4.0:
Zechariah 4.1: 4The angel who talked with me came again, and wakened me, as a man who is wakened out of his sleep.
Zechariah 4.2: 2 He said to me, “What do you see?”
I said, “I have seen, and behold, a lamp stand all of gold, with its bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps on it; there are seven pipes to each of the lamps, which are on the top of it;
Zechariah 4.3: 3 and two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl, and the other on the left side of it.”
Zechariah 4.4: 4 I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, “What are these, my lord?”
Zechariah 4.5: 5 Then the angel who talked with me answered me, “Don’t you know what these are?”
I said, “No, my lord.”
Zechariah 4.6: 6 Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is Yahweh’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
Zechariah 4.7: 7 Who are you, great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you are a plain; and he will bring out the capstone with shouts of ‘Grace, grace, to it!’”
Zechariah 4.8: 8 Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
Zechariah 4.9: 9 “The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house. His hands shall also finish it; and you will know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.
Zechariah 4.10: 10 Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are Yahweh’s eyes, which run back and forth through the whole earth.”
Zechariah 4.11: 11 Then I asked him, “What are these two olive trees on the right side of the lamp stand and on the left side of it?”
Zechariah 4.12: 12 I asked him the second time, “What are these two olive branches, which are beside the two golden spouts, that pour the golden oil out of themselves?”
Zechariah 4.13: 13 He answered me, “Don’t you know what these are?”
I said, “No, my lord.”
Zechariah 4.14: 14 Then he said, “These are the two anointed ones who stand by the Lord 1 of the whole earth.”
Zechariah 5.0:
Zechariah 5.1: 5Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a flying scroll.
Zechariah 5.2: 2 He said to me, “What do you see?”
I answered, “I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits,1 and its width ten cubits.”
Zechariah 5.3: 3 Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side.
Zechariah 5.4: 4 I will cause it to go out,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the middle of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones.”
Zechariah 5.5: 5 Then the angel who talked with me came forward, and said to me, “Lift up now your eyes, and see what this is that is appearing.”
Zechariah 5.6: 6 I said, “What is it?”
He said, “This is the ephah2 basket that is appearing.” He said moreover, “This is their appearance in all the land
Zechariah 5.7: 7 (and behold, a talent3 of lead was lifted up); and this is a woman sitting in the middle of the ephah4 basket.”
Zechariah 5.8: 8 He said, “This is Wickedness;” and he threw her down into the middle of the ephah basket; and he threw the weight of lead on its mouth.
Zechariah 5.9: 9 Then I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, there were two women, and the wind was in their wings. Now they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah basket between earth and the sky.
Zechariah 5.10: 10 Then I said to the angel who talked with me, “Where are these carrying the ephah basket?”
Zechariah 5.11: 11 He said to me, “To build her a house in the land of Shinar. When it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place.”
Zechariah 6.0:
Zechariah 6.1: 6Again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four chariots came out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of bronze.
Zechariah 6.2: 2 In the first chariot were red horses; in the second chariot black horses;
Zechariah 6.3: 3 in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot dappled horses, all of them powerful.
Zechariah 6.4: 4 Then I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are these, my lord?”
Zechariah 6.5: 5 The angel answered me, “These are the four winds of the sky, which go out from standing before the Lord of all the earth.
Zechariah 6.6: 6 The one with the black horses goes out toward the north country; and the white went out after them; and the dappled went out toward the south country.”
Zechariah 6.7: 7 The strong went out, and sought to go that they might walk back and forth through the earth: and he said, “Go around and through the earth!” So they walked back and forth through the earth.
Zechariah 6.8: 8 Then he called to me, and spoke to me, saying, “Behold, those who go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country.”
Zechariah 6.9: 9 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
Zechariah 6.10: 10 “Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah; and come the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, where they have come from Babylon.
Zechariah 6.11: 11 Yes, take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest;
Zechariah 6.12: 12 and speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: and he shall grow up out of his place; and he shall build Yahweh’s temple;
Zechariah 6.13: 13 even he shall build Yahweh’s temple; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule on his throne; and he shall be a priest on his throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
Zechariah 6.14: 14 The crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in Yahweh’s temple.
Zechariah 6.15: 15 Those who are far off shall come and build in Yahweh’s temple; and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you. This will happen, if you will diligently obey Yahweh your God’s voice.”’”1
Zechariah 7.0:
Zechariah 7.1: 7In the fourth year of king Darius, Yahweh’s word came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev.
Zechariah 7.2: 2 The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech, and their men, to entreat Yahweh’s favor,
Zechariah 7.3: 3 and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Armies, and to the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?”
Zechariah 7.4: 4 Then the word of Yahweh of Armies came to me, saying,
Zechariah 7.5: 5 “Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?
Zechariah 7.6: 6 When you eat, and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
Zechariah 7.7: 7 Aren’t these the words which Yahweh proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?’”
Zechariah 7.8: 8 Yahweh’s word came to Zechariah, saying,
Zechariah 7.9: 9 “Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.
Zechariah 7.10: 10 Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’
Zechariah 7.11: 11 But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
Zechariah 7.12: 12 Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies.
Zechariah 7.13: 13 It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen,” said Yahweh of Armies;
Zechariah 7.14: 14 “but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate.”
Zechariah 8.0:
Zechariah 8.1: 8The word of Yahweh of Armies came to me.
Zechariah 8.2: 2 Yahweh of Armies says: “I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.”
Zechariah 8.3: 3 Yahweh says: “I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the middle of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called ‘The City of Truth;’ and the mountain of Yahweh of Armies, ‘The Holy Mountain.’”
Zechariah 8.4: 4 Yahweh of Armies says: “Old men and old women will again dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age.
Zechariah 8.5: 5 The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.”
Zechariah 8.6: 6 Yahweh of Armies says: “If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my eyes?” says Yahweh of Armies.
Zechariah 8.7: 7 Yahweh of Armies says: “Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;
Zechariah 8.8: 8 and I will bring them, and they will dwell within Jerusalem; and they will be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.”
Zechariah 8.9: 9 Yahweh of Armies says: “Let your hands be strong, you who hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who were in the day that the foundation of the house of Yahweh of Armies was laid, even the temple, that it might be built.
Zechariah 8.10: 10 For before those days there was no wages for man, nor any wages for an animal; neither was there any peace to him who went out or came in, because of the adversary. For I set all men everyone against his neighbor.
Zechariah 8.11: 11 But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days,” says Yahweh of Armies.
Zechariah 8.12: 12 “For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.
Zechariah 8.13: 13 It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you shall be a blessing. Don’t be afraid. Let your hands be strong.”
Zechariah 8.14: 14 For Yahweh of Armies says: “As I thought to do evil to you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I didn’t repent;
Zechariah 8.15: 15 so again I have thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Don’t be afraid.
Zechariah 8.16: 16 These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,
Zechariah 8.17: 17 and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate,” says Yahweh.
Zechariah 8.18: 18 The word of Yahweh of Armies came to me.
Zechariah 8.19: 19 Yahweh of Armies says: “The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.”
Zechariah 8.20: 20 Yahweh of Armies says: “Many peoples, and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come;
Zechariah 8.21: 21 and the inhabitants of one shall go to another, saying, ‘Let’s go speedily to entreat the favor of Yahweh, and to seek Yahweh of Armies. I will go also.’
Zechariah 8.22: 22 Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek Yahweh of Armies in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of Yahweh.”
Zechariah 8.23: 23 Yahweh of Armies says: “In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, ‘We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”
Zechariah 9.0:
Zechariah 9.1: 9A revelation.
Yahweh’s word is against the land of Hadrach,
and will rest upon Damascus;
for the eye of man
and of all the tribes of Israel is toward Yahweh;
Zechariah 9.2: 2 and Hamath, also, which borders on it;
Tyre and Sidon, because they are very wise.
Zechariah 9.3: 3 Tyre built herself a stronghold,
and heaped up silver like the dust,
and fine gold like the mire of the streets.
Zechariah 9.4: 4 Behold, the Lord will dispossess her,
and he will strike her power in the sea;
and she will be devoured with fire.
Zechariah 9.5: 5 Ashkelon will see it, and fear;
Gaza also, and will writhe in agony;
as will Ekron, for her expectation will be disappointed;
and the king will perish from Gaza,
and Ashkelon will not be inhabited.
Zechariah 9.6: 6 Foreigners will dwell in Ashdod,
and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
Zechariah 9.7: 7 I will take away his blood out of his mouth,
and his abominations from between his teeth;
and he also will be a remnant for our God;
and he will be as a chieftain in Judah,
and Ekron as a Jebusite.
Zechariah 9.8: 8 I will encamp around my house against the army,
that no one pass through or return;
and no oppressor will pass through them any more:
for now I have seen with my eyes.
Zechariah 9.9: 9 Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion!
Shout, daughter of Jerusalem!
Behold, your King comes to you!
He is righteous, and having salvation;
lowly, and riding on a donkey,
even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
Zechariah 9.10: 10 I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim,
and the horse from Jerusalem;
and the battle bow will be cut off;
and he will speak peace to the nations:
and his dominion will be from sea to sea,
and from the River to the ends of the earth.
Zechariah 9.11: 11 As for you also,
because of the blood of your covenant,
I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.
Zechariah 9.12: 12 Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope!
Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.
Zechariah 9.13: 13 For indeed I bend Judah as a bow for me.
I have filled the bow with Ephraim;
and I will stir up your sons, Zion,
against your sons, Greece,
and will make you like the sword of a mighty man.
Zechariah 9.14: 14 Yahweh will be seen over them;
and his arrow will go flash like lightning;
and the Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet,
and will go with whirlwinds of the south.
Zechariah 9.15: 15 Yahweh of Armies will defend them;
and they will destroy and overcome with sling stones;
and they will drink, and roar as through wine;
and they will be filled like bowls,
like the corners of the altar.
Zechariah 9.16: 16 Yahweh their God will save them in that day as the flock of his people;
for they are like the jewels of a crown,
lifted on high over his land.
Zechariah 9.17: 17 For how great is his goodness,
and how great is his beauty!
Grain will make the young men flourish,
and new wine the virgins.
Zechariah 10.0:
Zechariah 10.1: 10Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time,
Yahweh who makes storm clouds,
and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.
Zechariah 10.2: 2 For the teraphim1 have spoken vanity,
and the diviners have seen a lie;
and they have told false dreams.
They comfort in vain.
Therefore they go their way like sheep.
They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.
Zechariah 10.3: 3 My anger is kindled against the shepherds,
and I will punish the male goats;
For Yahweh of Armies has visited his flock, the house of Judah,
and will make them as his majestic horse in the battle.
Zechariah 10.4: 4 From him will come the cornerstone,
from him the nail,
from him the battle bow,
from him every ruler together.
Zechariah 10.5: 5 They shall be as mighty men,
treading down muddy streets in the battle;
and they shall fight, because Yahweh is with them;
and the riders on horses will be confounded.
Zechariah 10.6: 6 “I will strengthen the house of Judah,
and I will save the house of Joseph,
and I will bring them back;
for I have mercy on them;
and they will be as though I had not cast them off:
for I am Yahweh their God, and I will hear them.
Zechariah 10.7: 7 Ephraim will be like a mighty man,
and their heart will rejoice as through wine;
yes, their children will see it, and rejoice.
Their heart will be glad in Yahweh.
Zechariah 10.8: 8 I will signal for them, and gather them;
for I have redeemed them;
and they will increase as they have increased.
Zechariah 10.9: 9 I will sow them among the peoples;
and they will remember me in far countries;
and they will live with their children, and will return.
Zechariah 10.10: 10 I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt,
and gather them out of Assyria;
and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon;
and there won’t be room enough for them.
Zechariah 10.11: 11 He will pass through the sea of affliction,
and will strike the waves in the sea,
and all the depths of the Nile will dry up;
and the pride of Assyria will be brought down,
and the scepter of Egypt will depart.
Zechariah 10.12: 12 I will strengthen them in Yahweh;
and they will walk up and down in his name,” says Yahweh.
Zechariah 11.0:
Zechariah 11.1: 11Open your doors, Lebanon,
that the fire may devour your cedars.
Zechariah 11.2: 2 Wail, cypress tree, for the cedar has fallen,
because the stately ones are destroyed.
Wail, you oaks of Bashan,
for the strong forest has come down.
Zechariah 11.3: 3 A voice of the wailing of the shepherds!
For their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions!
For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.
Zechariah 11.4: 4 Yahweh my God says: “Feed the flock of slaughter.
Zechariah 11.5: 5 Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;’ and their own shepherds don’t pity them.
Zechariah 11.6: 6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land,” says Yahweh; “but, behold, I will deliver the men everyone into his neighbor’s hand, and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.”
Zechariah 11.7: 7 So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor”, and the other I called “Union”, and I fed the flock.
Zechariah 11.8: 8 I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
Zechariah 11.9: 9 Then I said, “I will not feed you. That which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let those who are left eat each other’s flesh.”
Zechariah 11.10: 10 I took my staff Favor, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.
Zechariah 11.11: 11 It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was Yahweh’s word.
Zechariah 11.12: 12 I said to them, “If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them.” So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.
Zechariah 11.13: 13 Yahweh said to me, “Throw it to the potter, the handsome price that I was valued at by them!” I took the thirty pieces of silver, and threw them to the potter, in Yahweh’s house.
Zechariah 11.14: 14 Then I cut apart my other staff, even Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
Zechariah 11.15: 15 Yahweh said to me, “Take for yourself yet again the equipment of a foolish shepherd.
Zechariah 11.16: 16 For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those who are cut off, neither will seek those who are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound; but he will eat the meat of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in pieces.
Zechariah 11.17: 17 Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!”
Zechariah 12.0:
Zechariah 12.1: 12A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:
Zechariah 12.2: 2 “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding peoples, and it will also be on Judah in the siege against Jerusalem.
Zechariah 12.3: 3 It will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it.
Zechariah 12.4: 4 In that day,” says Yahweh, “I will strike every horse with terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open my eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.
Zechariah 12.5: 5 The chieftains of Judah will say in their heart, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in Yahweh of Armies their God.’
Zechariah 12.6: 6 In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they will devour all the surrounding peoples, on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem.
Zechariah 12.7: 7 Yahweh also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of David’s house and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah.
Zechariah 12.8: 8 In that day Yahweh will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He who is feeble among them at that day will be like David, and David’s house will be like God, like Yahweh’s angel before them.
Zechariah 12.9: 9 It will happen in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
Zechariah 12.10: 10 I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me1 whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
Zechariah 12.11: 11 In that day there will be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
Zechariah 12.12: 12 The land will mourn, every family apart; the family of David’s house apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
Zechariah 12.13: 13 the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart;
Zechariah 12.14: 14 all the families who remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
Zechariah 13.0:
Zechariah 13.1: 13“In that day there will be a spring opened to David’s house and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.
Zechariah 13.2: 2 It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they will be remembered no more. I will also cause the prophets and the spirit of impurity to pass out of the land.
Zechariah 13.3: 3 It will happen that, when anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, ‘You must die, because you speak lies in Yahweh’s name;’ and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies.
Zechariah 13.4: 4 It will happen in that day, that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision, when he prophesies; neither will they wear a hairy mantle to deceive:
Zechariah 13.5: 5 but he will say, ‘I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a bondservant from my youth.’
Zechariah 13.6: 6 One will say to him, ‘What are these wounds between your arms?’ Then he will answer, ‘Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.’
Zechariah 13.7: 7 “Awake, sword, against my shepherd,
and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
“Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered;
and I will turn my hand against the little ones.
Zechariah 13.8: 8 It shall happen that in all the land,” says Yahweh,
“two parts in it will be cut off and die;
but the third will be left in it.
Zechariah 13.9: 9 I will bring the third part into the fire,
and will refine them as silver is refined,
and will test them like gold is tested.
They will call on my name, and I will hear them.
I will say, ‘It is my people;’
and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’”
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Zechariah 14.1: 14Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your plunder will be divided within you.
Zechariah 14.2: 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.
Zechariah 14.3: 3 Then Yahweh will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
Zechariah 14.4: 4 His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very great valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
Zechariah 14.5: 5 You shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azel; yes, you shall flee, just like you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Yahweh my God will come, and all the holy ones with you.1
Zechariah 14.6: 6 It will happen in that day, that there will not be light, cold, or frost.
Zechariah 14.7: 7 It will be a unique day which is known to Yahweh; not day, and not night; but it will come to pass, that at evening time there will be light.
Zechariah 14.8: 8 It will happen in that day, that living waters will go out from Jerusalem: half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea. It will be so in summer and in winter.
Zechariah 14.9: 9 Yahweh will be King over all the earth. In that day Yahweh will be one, and his name one.
Zechariah 14.10: 10 All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up, and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin’s gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses.
Zechariah 14.11: 11 Men will dwell therein, and there will be no more curse; but Jerusalem will dwell safely.
Zechariah 14.12: 12 This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the peoples who have fought against Jerusalem: their flesh will consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume away in their sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth.
Zechariah 14.13: 13 It will happen in that day, that a great panic from Yahweh will be among them; and they will each hold onto the hand of his neighbor, and his hand will rise up against the hand of his neighbor.
Zechariah 14.14: 14 Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered together: gold, and silver, and clothing, in great abundance.
Zechariah 14.15: 15 A plague like this will fall on the horse, on the mule, on the camel, on the donkey, and on all the animals that will be in those camps.
Zechariah 14.16: 16 It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, and to keep the feast of booths.
Zechariah 14.17: 17 It will be, that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn’t go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, on them there will be no rain.
Zechariah 14.18: 18 If the family of Egypt doesn’t go up, and doesn’t come, neither will it rain on them. This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of booths.
Zechariah 14.19: 19 This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of booths.
Zechariah 14.20: 20 In that day there will be on the bells of the horses, “HOLY TO YAHWEH”; and the pots in Yahweh’s house will be like the bowls before the altar.
Zechariah 14.21: 21 Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to Yahweh of Armies; and all those who sacrifice will come and take of them, and cook in them. In that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of Yahweh of Armies.
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Mark 14.1: 14It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.
Mark 14.2: 2 For they said, “Not during the feast, because there might be a riot among the people.”
Mark 14.3: 3 While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard—very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head.
Mark 14.4: 4 But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, “Why has this ointment been wasted?
Mark 14.5: 5 For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, 1 and given to the poor.” So they grumbled against her.
Mark 14.6: 6 But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me.
Mark 14.7: 7 For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.
Mark 14.8: 8 She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying.
Mark 14.9: 9 Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News may be preached throughout the whole world, that which this woman has done will also be spoken of for a memorial of her.”
Mark 14.10: 10 Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might deliver him to them.
Mark 14.11: 11 They, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. He sought how he might conveniently deliver him.
Mark 14.12: 12 On the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the Passover, his disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go and prepare that you may eat the Passover?”
Mark 14.13: 13 He sent two of his disciples, and said to them, “Go into the city, and there you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him,
Mark 14.14: 14 and wherever he enters in, tell the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says, “Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?”’
Mark 14.15: 15 He will himself show you a large upper room furnished and ready. Get ready for us there.”
Mark 14.16: 16 His disciples went out, and came into the city, and found things as he had said to them, and they prepared the Passover.
Mark 14.17: 17 When it was evening he came with the twelve.
Mark 14.18: 18 As they sat and were eating, Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, one of you will betray me—he who eats with me.”
Mark 14.19: 19 They began to be sorrowful, and to ask him one by one, “Surely not I?” And another said, “Surely not I?”
Mark 14.20: 20 He answered them, “It is one of the twelve, he who dips with me in the dish.
Mark 14.21: 21 For the Son of Man goes, even as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”
Mark 14.22: 22 As they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had blessed, he broke it, and gave to them, and said, “Take, eat. This is my body.”
Mark 14.23: 23 He took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave to them. They all drank of it.
Mark 14.24: 24 He said to them, “This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many.
Mark 14.25: 25 Most certainly I tell you, I will no more drink of the fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it anew in God’s Kingdom.”
Mark 14.26: 26 When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
Mark 14.27: 27 Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’a
Mark 14.28: 28 However, after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee.”
Mark 14.29: 29 But Peter said to him, “Although all will be offended, yet I will not.”
Mark 14.30: 30 Jesus said to him, “Most certainly I tell you, that you today, even this night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.”
Mark 14.31: 31 But he spoke all the more, “If I must die with you, I will not deny you.” They all said the same thing.
Mark 14.32: 32 They came to a place which was named Gethsemane. He said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I pray.”
Mark 14.33: 33 He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed.
Mark 14.34: 34 He said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch.”
Mark 14.35: 35 He went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him.
Mark 14.36: 36 He said, “Abba,2 Father, all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me. However, not what I desire, but what you desire.”
Mark 14.37: 37 He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn’t you watch one hour?
Mark 14.38: 38 Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Mark 14.39: 39 Again he went away, and prayed, saying the same words.
Mark 14.40: 40 Again he returned, and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy, and they didn’t know what to answer him.
Mark 14.41: 41 He came the third time, and said to them, “Sleep on now, and take your rest. It is enough. The hour has come. Behold, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
Mark 14.42: 42 Arise! Let’s get going. Behold: he who betrays me is at hand.”
Mark 14.43: 43 Immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, came—and with him a multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders.
Mark 14.44: 44 Now he who betrayed him had given them a sign, saying, “Whomever I will kiss, that is he. Seize him, and lead him away safely.”
Mark 14.45: 45 When he had come, immediately he came to him, and said, “Rabbi! Rabbi!” and kissed him.
Mark 14.46: 46 They laid their hands on him, and seized him.
Mark 14.47: 47 But a certain one of those who stood by drew his sword, and struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.
Mark 14.48: 48 Jesus answered them, “Have you come out, as against a robber, with swords and clubs to seize me?
Mark 14.49: 49 I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me. But this is so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled.”
Mark 14.50: 50 They all left him, and fled.
Mark 14.51: 51 A certain young man followed him, having a linen cloth thrown around himself over his naked body. The young men grabbed him,
Mark 14.52: 52 but he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.
Mark 14.53: 53 They led Jesus away to the high priest. All the chief priests, the elders, and the scribes came together with him.
Mark 14.54: 54 Peter had followed him from a distance, until he came into the court of the high priest. He was sitting with the officers, and warming himself in the light of the fire.
Mark 14.55: 55 Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witnesses against Jesus to put him to death, and found none.
Mark 14.56: 56 For many gave false testimony against him, and their testimony didn’t agree with each other.
Mark 14.57: 57 Some stood up, and gave false testimony against him, saying,
Mark 14.58: 58 “We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.’”
Mark 14.59: 59 Even so, their testimony didn’t agree.
Mark 14.60: 60 The high priest stood up in the middle, and asked Jesus, “Have you no answer? What is it which these testify against you?”
Mark 14.61: 61 But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?”
Mark 14.62: 62 Jesus said, “I am. You will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of the sky.”
Mark 14.63: 63 The high priest tore his clothes, and said, “What further need have we of witnesses?
Mark 14.64: 64 You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?” They all condemned him to be worthy of death.
Mark 14.65: 65 Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, “Prophesy!” The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.
Mark 14.66: 66 As Peter was in the courtyard below, one of the maids of the high priest came,
Mark 14.67: 67 and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him, and said, “You were also with the Nazarene, Jesus!”
Mark 14.68: 68 But he denied it, saying, “I neither know, nor understand what you are saying.” He went out on the porch, and the rooster crowed.
Mark 14.69: 69 The maid saw him, and began again to tell those who stood by, “This is one of them.”
Mark 14.70: 70 But he again denied it. After a little while again those who stood by said to Peter, “You truly are one of them, for you are a Galilean, and your speech shows it.”
Mark 14.71: 71 But he began to curse, and to swear, “I don’t know this man of whom you speak!”
Mark 14.72: 72 The rooster crowed the second time. Peter remembered the word, how that Jesus said to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” When he thought about that, he wept.
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John 17.1: 17Jesus said these things, then lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;
John 17.2: 2 even as you gave him authority over all flesh, so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
John 17.3: 3 This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
John 17.4: 4 I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.
John 17.5: 5 Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.
John 17.6: 6 I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.
John 17.7: 7 Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you,
John 17.8: 8 for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.
John 17.9: 9 I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
John 17.10: 10 All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.
John 17.11: 11 I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.
John 17.12: 12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
John 17.13: 13 But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.
John 17.14: 14 I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
John 17.15: 15 I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.
John 17.16: 16 They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.
John 17.17: 17 Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.a
John 17.18: 18 As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.
John 17.19: 19 For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
John 17.20: 20 Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who will believe in me through their word,
John 17.21: 21 that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
John 17.22: 22 The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one;
John 17.23: 23 I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.
John 17.24: 24 Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.
John 17.25: 25 Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.
John 17.26: 26 I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
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John 20.1: 20Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.
John 20.2: 2 Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have laid him!”
John 20.3: 3 Therefore Peter and the other disciple went out, and they went toward the tomb.
John 20.4: 4 They both ran together. The other disciple outran Peter, and came to the tomb first.
John 20.5: 5 Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he didn’t enter in.
John 20.6: 6 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and entered into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying,
John 20.7: 7 and the cloth that had been on his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself.
John 20.8: 8 So then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also entered in, and he saw and believed.
John 20.9: 9 For as yet they didn’t know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
John 20.10: 10 So the disciples went away again to their own homes.
John 20.11: 11 But Mary was standing outside at the tomb weeping. So as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb,
John 20.12: 12 and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
John 20.13: 13 They asked her, “Woman, why are you weeping?”
She said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don’t know where they have laid him.”
John 20.14: 14 When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, and didn’t know that it was Jesus.
John 20.15: 15 Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?”
She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.”
John 20.16: 16 Jesus said to her, “Mary.”
She turned and said to him, “Rabboni!”1 which is to say, “Teacher!”2
John 20.17: 17 Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
John 20.18: 18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her.
John 20.19: 19 When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”
John 20.20: 20 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the Lord.
John 20.21: 21 Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”
John 20.22: 22 When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit!
John 20.23: 23 If you forgive anyone’s sins, they have been forgiven them. If you retain anyone’s sins, they have been retained.”
John 20.24: 24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, wasn’t with them when Jesus came.
John 20.25: 25 The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord!”
But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”
John 20.26: 26 After eight days again his disciples were inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the middle, and said, “Peace be to you.”
John 20.27: 27 Then he said to Thomas, “Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don’t be unbelieving, but believing.”
John 20.28: 28 Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”
John 20.29: 29 Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen me,3 you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed.”
John 20.30: 30 Therefore Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book;
John 20.31: 31 but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
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2 Peter 2.1: 2But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
2 Peter 2.2: 2 Many will follow their immoral1 ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.
2 Peter 2.3: 3 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
2 Peter 2.4: 4 For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus,2 and committed them to pits of darkness to be reserved for judgment;
2 Peter 2.5: 5 and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;
2 Peter 2.6: 6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live in an ungodly way;
2 Peter 2.7: 7 and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked
2 Peter 2.8: 8 (for that righteous man dwelling among them was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds):
2 Peter 2.9: 9 the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,
2 Peter 2.10: 10 but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;
2 Peter 2.11: 11 whereas angels, though greater in might and power, don’t bring a railing judgment against them before the Lord.
2 Peter 2.12: 12 But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,
2 Peter 2.13: 13 receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;
2 Peter 2.14: 14 having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;
2 Peter 2.15: 15 forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;
2 Peter 2.16: 16 but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man’s voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.
2 Peter 2.17: 17 These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
2 Peter 2.18: 18 For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
2 Peter 2.19: 19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
2 Peter 2.20: 20 For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
2 Peter 2.21: 21 For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
2 Peter 2.22: 22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns to his own vomit again,”a and “the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.”
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The Letter from Jude
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Jude 1.1: 1Jude,1 a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:
Jude 1.2: 2 Mercy to you and peace and love be multiplied.
Jude 1.3: 3 Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
Jude 1.4: 4 For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Jude 1.5: 5 Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.
Jude 1.6: 6 Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
Jude 1.7: 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having in the same way as these given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
Jude 1.8: 8 Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.
Jude 1.9: 9 But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”
Jude 1.10: 10 But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.
Jude 1.11: 11 Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.
Jude 1.12: 12 These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
Jude 1.13: 13 wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
Jude 1.14: 14 About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold,2 the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,
Jude 1.15: 15 to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
Jude 1.16: 16 These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
Jude 1.17: 17 But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jude 1.18: 18 They said to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”
Jude 1.19: 19 These are those who cause divisions and are sensual, not having the Spirit.
Jude 1.20: 20 But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
Jude 1.21: 21 Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
Jude 1.22: 22 On some have compassion, making a distinction,
Jude 1.23: 23 and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.
Jude 1.24: 24 Now to him who is able to keep them3 from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,
Jude 1.25: 25 to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.
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Sirach 4.1: 4My son, don’t deprive the poor of his living.
Don’t make the needy eyes wait long.
Sirach 4.2: 2 Don’t make a hungry soul sorrowful,
or provoke a man in his distress.
Sirach 4.3: 3 Don’t add more trouble to a heart that is provoked.
Don’t put off giving to him who is in need.
Sirach 4.4: 4 Don’t reject a suppliant in his affliction.
Don’t turn your face away from a poor man.
Sirach 4.5: 5 Don’t turn your eye away from one who asks.
Give no occasion to a man to curse you.
Sirach 4.6: 6 For if he curses you in the bitterness of his soul,
he who made him will hear his supplication.
Sirach 4.7: 7 Endear yourself to the assembly.
Bow your head to a great man.
Sirach 4.8: 8 Incline your ear to a poor man.
Answer him with peaceful words in humility.
Sirach 4.9: 9 Deliver him who is wronged from the hand of him that wrongs him;
Don’t be faint-hearted in giving judgement.
Sirach 4.10: 10 Be as a father to the fatherless,
and like a husband to their mother.
So you will be as a son of the Most High,
and he will love you more than your mother does.
Sirach 4.11: 11 Wisdom exalts her sons,
and takes hold of those who seek her.
Sirach 4.12: 12 He who loves her loves life.
Those who seek to her early will be filled with gladness.
Sirach 4.13: 13 He who holds her fast will inherit glory.
Where 1 he enters, the Lord will bless.
Sirach 4.14: 14 Those who serve her minister to the Holy One.
The Lord loves those who love her.
Sirach 4.15: 15 He who gives ear to her will judge the nations.
He who heeds her will dwell securely.
Sirach 4.16: 16 If he trusts her, he will inherit her,
and his generations will possess her.
Sirach 4.17: 17 For at the first she will walk with him in crooked ways,
and will bring fear and dread upon him,
and torment him with her discipline,
until she may trust his soul, and try him by her judgments.
Sirach 4.18: 18 Then she will return him again to the straight way,
and will gladden him, and reveal to him her secrets.
Sirach 4.19: 19 If he goes astray, she will forsake him,
and hand him over to his fall.
Sirach 4.20: 20 Observe the opportunity, and beware of evil.
Don’t be ashamed of your soul.
Sirach 4.21: 21 For there is a shame that brings sin,
and there is a shame that is glory and grace.
Sirach 4.22: 22 Don’t show partiality against your soul.
Don’t revere any man to your falling.
Sirach 4.23: 23 Don’t refrain from speaking when it is for safety.
2Don’t hide your wisdom for the sake of seeming fair.
Sirach 4.24: 24 For wisdom will be known by speech,
and instruction by the word of the tongue.
Sirach 4.25: 25 Don’t speak against the truth
and be shamed for your ignorance.
Sirach 4.26: 26 Don’t be ashamed to confess your sins.
Don’t fight the river’s current.
Sirach 4.27: 27 Don’t lay yourself down for a fool to tread upon.
Don’t be partial to one that is mighty.
Sirach 4.28: 28 Strive for the truth to death,
and the Lord God will fight for you.
Sirach 4.29: 29 Don’t be rough hasty with your tongue,
or slack and negligent in your deeds.
Sirach 4.30: 30 Don’t be like a lion in your house,
or suspicious of your servants.
Sirach 4.31: 31 Don’t let your hand be stretched out to receive,
and closed when you should repay.
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Sirach 13.1: 13He who touches pitch will be defiled.
He who has fellowship with a proud man will become like to him.
Sirach 13.2: 2 Don’t take up a burden above your strength.
Have no fellowship with one that is mightier and richer than yourself.
What fellowship would the earthen pot have with the kettle?
The kettle will strike, and the pot will be dashed in pieces.
Sirach 13.3: 3 The rich man does a wrong and threatens.
The poor is wronged and apologizes.
Sirach 13.4: 4 If you are profitable, he will make merchandise of you.
If you are in lack, he will forsake you.
Sirach 13.5: 5 If you own something, he will live with you.
He will drain you bare and will not be sorry.
Sirach 13.6: 6 Does he need you? Then he will deceive you,
smile at you, and give you hope.
He will speak kindly to you and say, “What do you need?”
Sirach 13.7: 7 He will shame you by his meats
until he has made you bare twice or thrice,
and in the end he will laugh you to scorn.
Afterward he will see you, will forsake you,
and shake his head at you.
Sirach 13.8: 8 Beware that you are not deceived
and brought low in your mirth.
Sirach 13.9: 9 If a mighty man invites you, be reserved,
and he will invite you more.
Sirach 13.10: 10 Don’t press him, lest you be thrust back.
Don’t stand far off, lest you be forgotten.
Sirach 13.11: 11 Don’t try to speak with him as an equal,
and don’t believe his many words;
For he will test you with much talk,
and will examine you in a smiling manner.
Sirach 13.12: 12 He who doesn’t keep secrets to himself is unmerciful.
He won’t hesitate to harm and to bind.
Sirach 13.13: 13 Keep them to yourself and be careful,
for you walk 1 in danger of falling.
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Sirach 13.15: 15 Every living creature loves his own kind,
and every man loves his neighbor.
Sirach 13.16: 16 All flesh associates with their own kind.
A man will stick to people like himself.
Sirach 13.17: 17 What fellowship would the wolf have with the lamb?
So is the sinner to the godly.
Sirach 13.18: 18 What peace is there between a hyena and a dog?
What peace is there between a rich man and the poor?
Sirach 13.19: 19 Wild donkeys are the prey of lions in the wilderness;
likewise poor men are feeding grounds for the rich.
Sirach 13.20: 20 Lowliness is an abomination to a proud man;
likewise a poor man is an abomination to the rich.
Sirach 13.21: 21 When a rich man is shaken, he is supported by his friends,
but when one of low degree is down, he is pushed away even by his friends.
Sirach 13.22: 22 When a rich man falls, there are many helpers.
He speaks things not to be spoken, and men justify him.
A man of low degree falls, and men rebuke him.
He utters wisdom, and is not listened to.
Sirach 13.23: 23 A rich man speaks, and all keep silence.
They extol what he says extol to the clouds.
A poor man speaks, and they say, “Who is this?”
If he stumbles, they will help to overthrow him.
Sirach 13.24: 24 Riches are good if they have no sin.
Poverty is evil in the mouth of the ungodly.
Sirach 13.25: 25 The heart of a man changes his countenance,
whether it is for good or for evil. 3
Sirach 13.26: 26 A cheerful countenance is a sign of a prosperous heart.
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1 Maccabees 0.0:
THE FIRST BOOK OF THE
MACCABEES
The First Book of the Maccabees is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Russian Orthodox Churches.
1 Maccabees 1.0:
1 Maccabees 1.1: 1It came to pass, after that Alexander the Macedonian, the son of Philip, who came out of the land of Chittim, and struck Darius king of the Persians and Medes, it came to pass, after he had struck him, that he reigned in his stead, in former time, over 1 Greece.
1 Maccabees 1.2: 2 And he fought many battles, and won many strongholds, and killed the kings of the earth,
1 Maccabees 1.3: 3 and went through to the ends of the earth, and took spoils of a multitude of nations. And the earth was quiet before him, and he was exalted, and his heart was lifted up,
1 Maccabees 1.4: 4 and he gathered together an exceedingly strong army, and ruled over countries and nations and principalities, and they became tributary to him.
1 Maccabees 1.5: 5 And after these things he fell sick, and perceived that he should die.
1 Maccabees 1.6: 6 And he called his servants, which were honorable, which had been brought up with him from his youth, and he divided to them his kingdom, while he was yet alive.
1 Maccabees 1.7: 7 And Alexander reigned twelve years, and he died.
1 Maccabees 1.8: 8 And his servants bare rule, each one in his place.
1 Maccabees 1.9: 9 And they did all put diadems upon themselves after that he was dead, and so did their sons after them many years: and they multiplied evils in the earth.
1 Maccabees 1.10: 10 And there came forth out of them a sinful root, Antiochus Epiphanes, son of Antiochus the king, who had been a hostage at Rome, and he reigned in 2 the hundred and thirty and seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks.
1 Maccabees 1.11: 11 In those days came there forth out of Israel transgressors of the law, and persuaded many, saying, let’s go and make a covenant with the 3 Gentiles that are round about us; for since we were parted from them many evils have befallen us.
1 Maccabees 1.12: 12 And the saying was good in their eyes.
1 Maccabees 1.13: 13 And certain of the people were forward herein and went to the king, and he gave them licence to do after the ordinances of the 4 Gentiles.
1 Maccabees 1.14: 14 And 5 they built a place of exercise in Jerusalem according to the laws of the 6 Gentiles;
1 Maccabees 1.15: 15 and they made themselves uncircumcised, and forsook the holy covenant, and joined themselves to the 7 Gentiles, and sold themselves to do evil.
1 Maccabees 1.16: 16 And the kingdom was well ordered in the sight of Antiochus, and he thought to reign over Egypt, that he might reign over the two kingdoms.
1 Maccabees 1.17: 17 And he entered into Egypt with a 8 great multitude, with chariots, and with elephants, and with horsemen, and with a great 9 navy;
1 Maccabees 1.18: 18 and he made war against Ptolemy king of Egypt; and Ptolemy was put to shame before him, and fled; and many fell wounded to death.
1 Maccabees 1.19: 19 And they got possession of the strong cities in the land of Egypt; and he took the spoils of Egypt.
1 Maccabees 1.20: 20 And Antiochus, after he had struck Egypt, returned in 1 the hundred and forty and third year, and went up against Israel and Jerusalem with a 2 great multitude,
1 Maccabees 1.21: 21 and entered presumptuously into the sanctuary, and took the golden altar, and the candlestick of the light, and all that pertained thereto,
1 Maccabees 1.22: 22 and the table of the show bread, and the cups to pour withal, and the bowls, and the golden censers, and the veil, and the crowns, and the adorning of gold which was on the face of the temple, and he peeled it all off.
1 Maccabees 1.23: 23 And he took the silver and the gold and the precious vessels; and he took the hidden treasures which he found.
1 Maccabees 1.24: 24 And when he had taken all, he went away into his own land, and he made a great slaughter, and spoke very presumptuously.
1 Maccabees 1.25: 25 And there came great mourning upon Israel, in every place where they were;
1 Maccabees 1.26: 26 and the rulers and elders groaned, the virgins and young men were made feeble, and the beauty of the women was changed.
1 Maccabees 1.27: 27 Every bridegroom took up lamentation, she that sat in the marriage chamber was in heaviness.
1 Maccabees 1.28: 28 And the land was moved for the inhabitants thereof, and all the house of Jacob was clothed with shame.
1 Maccabees 1.29: 29 And 3 after 4 two full years the king sent a chief collector of tribute to the cities of Judah, and he came to Jerusalem with a 5 great multitude.
1 Maccabees 1.30: 30 And he spoke words of peace to them in subtlety, and they gave him credence: and he fell upon the city suddenly, and struck it very sore, and destroyed much people out of Israel.
1 Maccabees 1.31: 31 And he took the spoils of the city, and set it on fire, and pulled down the houses thereof and the walls thereof on every side.
1 Maccabees 1.32: 32 And they led captive the women and the children, and the cattle they took in possession.
1 Maccabees 1.33: 33 And they built the city of David with a great and strong wall, with strong towers, and it became to them a citadel.
1 Maccabees 1.34: 34 And they put there a sinful nation, transgressors of the law, and they strengthened themselves therein.
1 Maccabees 1.35: 35 And they stored up arms and food, and gathering together the spoils of Jerusalem, they laid them up there, and they became a sore snare:
1 Maccabees 1.36: 36 and it became a place to lie in wait in against the sanctuary, and an evil adversary to Israel continually.
1 Maccabees 1.37: 37 And they shed innocent blood on every side of the sanctuary, and defiled the sanctuary.
1 Maccabees 1.38: 38 And the inhabitants of Jerusalem fled because of them; and she became a habitation of strangers, and she became strange to those who were born in her, and her children forsook her.
1 Maccabees 1.39: 39 Her sanctuary was laid waste like a wilderness, 6 her feasts were turned into mourning, her Sabbaths into reproach, her honor into contempt.
1 Maccabees 1.40: 40 According to her glory, so was her dishonor multiplied, and her high estate was turned into mourning.
1 Maccabees 1.41: 41 And king Antiochus wrote to his whole kingdom, that all should be one people,
1 Maccabees 1.42: 42 and that each should forsake his own laws. And all the nations agreed according to the word of the king;
1 Maccabees 1.43: 43 and many of Israel consented to his worship, and sacrificed to the idols, and profaned the Sabbath.
1 Maccabees 1.44: 44 And the king sent letters by the hand of messengers to Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, that they should follow laws strange to the land,
1 Maccabees 1.45: 45 and should forbid whole burnt offerings and sacrifice and drink offerings in the sanctuary; and should profane the Sabbaths and feasts,
1 Maccabees 1.46: 46 and pollute the sanctuary and those who were holy;
1 Maccabees 1.47: 47 that they should build altars, and temples, and shrines for idols, and should sacrifice swine’s flesh and unclean beasts:
1 Maccabees 1.48: 48 and that they should leave their sons uncircumcised, that they should make their souls abominable with all manner of uncleanness and profanation;
1 Maccabees 1.49: 49 so that they might forget the law, and change all the ordinances.
1 Maccabees 1.50: 50 And whoever shall not do according to the word of the king, he shall die.
1 Maccabees 1.51: 51 According to all these words wrote he to his whole kingdom; and he appointed overseers over all the people, and he commanded the cities of Judah to sacrifice, city by city.
1 Maccabees 1.52: 52 And from the people were gathered together to them many, every one that had forsaken the law; and they did evil things in the land;
1 Maccabees 1.53: 53 and they made israel to hide themselves in every place of refuge which they had.
1 Maccabees 1.54: 54 And on the fifteenth day of Chislev, in 7 the hundred and forty and fifth year, they built an abomination of desolation upon the 8 altar, and in the cities of Judah on every side they built idol 9 altars.
1 Maccabees 1.55: 55 And at the doors of the houses and in the streets they burned incense.
1 Maccabees 1.56: 56 And they tore in pieces the books of the law which they found, and set them on fire.
1 Maccabees 1.57: 57 And wherever was found with any a book of the covenant, and if any consented to the law, the king’s sentence delivered him to death.
1 Maccabees 1.58: 58 Thus did they in their might to Israel, to those that were found month by month in the cities.
1 Maccabees 1.59: 59 And on the five and twentieth day of the month they sacrificed upon the idol 1 altar of God.
1 Maccabees 1.60: 60 And 2 the women that had circumcised their children they put to death according to the commandment.
1 Maccabees 1.61: 61 And they hanged their babes about their necks, and destroyed their houses, and those who had circumcised them.
1 Maccabees 1.62: 62 And many in Israel were fully resolved and confirmed in themselves not to eat unclean things.
1 Maccabees 1.63: 63 And 3 they chose to die, that they might not be defiled with the meats, and that they might not profane the holy covenant: and they died.
1 Maccabees 1.64: 64 And there came exceedingly great wrath upon Israel.
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1 Maccabees 2.1: 2In those days rose up Mattathias the son of John, the son of Simeon, a priest of the sons of Joarib, from Jerusalem; and he lived at Modin.
1 Maccabees 2.2: 2 And he had five sons, 1 John, who was surnamed Gaddis;
1 Maccabees 2.3: 3 Simon, who was called Thassi;
1 Maccabees 2.4: 4 Judas, who was called Maccabaeus;
1 Maccabees 2.5: 5 Eleazar, who was called Avaran; Jonathan, who was called Apphus.
1 Maccabees 2.6: 6 And he saw the blasphemies that were committed in Judah and in Jerusalem,
1 Maccabees 2.7: 7 and he said,
Woe is me! wherefore was I born to see the destruction of my people, and the destruction of the holy city, and to dwell there, when it was given into the hand of the enemy, the sanctuary into the hand of aliens?
1 Maccabees 2.8: 8 Her temple is become as a man 2 that was glorious:
1 Maccabees 2.9: 9 her vessels of glory are carried away into captivity, her infants are slain in her streets, her young men with the sword of the enemy.
1 Maccabees 2.10: 10 What nation has not inherited her palaces, and gotten possession of her spoils?
1 Maccabees 2.11: 11 her adorning is all taken away; instead of a free woman she is become a bond woman:
1 Maccabees 2.12: 12 and, behold, our holy things and our beauty and our glory are laid waste, and the Gentiles have profaned them.
1 Maccabees 2.13: 13 Wherefore should we live any longer?
1 Maccabees 2.14: 14 And Mattathias and his sons tore their clothes, and put on sackcloth, and mourned exceedingly.
1 Maccabees 2.15: 15 And the king’s officers, that were enforcing the apostasy, came into the city Modin to sacrifice.
1 Maccabees 2.16: 16 And many of Israel came to them, and Mattathias and his sons were gathered together.
1 Maccabees 2.17: 17 And the king’s officers answered and spoke to Mattathias, saying, You are a ruler and an honorable and great man in this city, and strengthened with sons and kindred:
1 Maccabees 2.18: 18 now therefore come you first and do the commandment of the king, as all the nations have done, and the men of Judah, and those who remain in Jerusalem: and you and your house shall be in the number of the king’s 3 Friends, and you and your sons shall be honored with silver and gold and many gifts.
1 Maccabees 2.19: 19 And Mattathias answered and said with a loud voice, If all the nations that are in the house of the king’s dominion listen to him, to fall away each one from the worship of his fathers, and have made choice to follow his commandments,
1 Maccabees 2.20: 20 yet I and my sons and my kindred will walk in the covenant of our fathers.
1 Maccabees 2.21: 21 4 Heaven forbid that we should forsake the law and the ordinances.
1 Maccabees 2.22: 22 We will not listen to the king’s words, to go aside from our worship, on the right hand, or on the left.
1 Maccabees 2.23: 23 And when he had left speaking these words, there came a Jew in the sight of all to sacrifice on the altar which was at Modin, according to the king’s commandment.
1 Maccabees 2.24: 24 And Mattathias saw it, and his zeal was kindled, and his reins trembled, and he showed forth his wrath according to judgement, and ran, and killed him upon the altar.
1 Maccabees 2.25: 25 And the king’s officer, who compelled men to sacrifice, he killed at that time, and pulled down the altar.
1 Maccabees 2.26: 26 And he was zealous for the law, even as Phinehas did to Zimri the son of Salu.
1 Maccabees 2.27: 27 And Mattathias cried out in the city with a loud voice, saying, Whosoever is zealous for the law, and maintains the covenant, let him come forth after me.
1 Maccabees 2.28: 28 And he and his sons fled into the mountains, and forsook all that they had in the city.
1 Maccabees 2.29: 29 Then many that sought after justice and judgement went down into the wilderness, to dwell there,
1 Maccabees 2.30: 30 they, and their sons, and their wives, and their cattle; because evils were multiplied upon them.
1 Maccabees 2.31: 31 And it was told the king’s officers, and the forces that were in Jerusalem, the city of David, that certain men, who had broken the king’s commandment, were gone down into the secret places in the wilderness;
1 Maccabees 2.32: 32 and many pursued after them, and having overtaken them, they encamped against them, and set the battle in array against them on the Sabbath day.
1 Maccabees 2.33: 33 And they said to them, Thus far. Come forth, and do according to the word of the king, and you° shall live.
1 Maccabees 2.34: 34 And they said, We will not come forth, neither will we do the word of the king, to profane the Sabbath day.
1 Maccabees 2.35: 35 And they hurried to give them battle.
1 Maccabees 2.36: 36 And they answered them not, neither cast they a stone at them, nor stopped up the secret places,
1 Maccabees 2.37: 37 saying, Let us die all in our innocency: heaven and earth witness over us, that you° put us to death without trial.
1 Maccabees 2.38: 38 And they rose up against them in battle on the Sabbath, and they died, they and their wives and their children, and their cattle, to the number of a thousand 5 souls.
1 Maccabees 2.39: 39 And Mattathias and his friends knew it, and they mourned over them exceedingly.
1 Maccabees 2.40: 40 And one said to another, If we all do as our kindred have done, and fight not against the Gentiles for our lives and our ordinances, they will now quickly destroy us from off the earth.
1 Maccabees 2.41: 41 And they took counsel on that day, saying, whoever shall come against us to battle on the Sabbath day, let’s fight against him, and we shall in no wise all die, as our kindred died in the secret places.
1 Maccabees 2.42: 42 Then were gathered together to them a company of 6 Hasidaeans, mighty men of Israel, every one that offered himself willingly for the law.
1 Maccabees 2.43: 43 And all those who fled from the evils were added to them, and became a stay to them.
1 Maccabees 2.44: 44 And they mustered an army, and struck sinners in their anger, and lawless men in their wrath: and the rest fled to the Gentiles for safety.
1 Maccabees 2.45: 45 And Mattathias and his friends went round about, and pulled down the altars;
1 Maccabees 2.46: 46 and they circumcised by force the children that were uncircumcised, as many as they found in the coasts of Israel.
1 Maccabees 2.47: 47 And they pursued after the sons of pride, and the work prospered in their hand.
1 Maccabees 2.48: 48 And they rescued the law out of the hand of the Gentiles, and out of the hand of the kings, neither 7 suffered they the sinner to triumph.
1 Maccabees 2.49: 49 And the days of Mattathias drew near that he should die, and he said to his sons,
Now have pride and rebuke gotten strength, and a season of overthrow, and wrath of indignation.
1 Maccabees 2.50: 50 And now, my children, be you° zealous for the law, and give your lives for the covenant of your fathers.
1 Maccabees 2.51: 51 And call to remembrance the deeds of our fathers which they did in their generations; and receive great glory and an everlasting name.
1 Maccabees 2.52: 52 Was not Abraham found faithful in temptation, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness?
1 Maccabees 2.53: 53 Joseph in the time of his distress kept the commandment, and became lord of Egypt.
1 Maccabees 2.54: 54 Phinehas our father, for that he was zealous exceedingly, obtained the covenant of an everlasting priesthood.
1 Maccabees 2.55: 55 Joshua for fulfilling the word became a judge in Israel.
1 Maccabees 2.56: 56 Caleb for bearing witness in the congregation obtained a heritage in the land.
1 Maccabees 2.57: 57 David for being merciful inherited the throne of a kingdom forever and ever.
1 Maccabees 2.58: 58 Elijah, for that he was exceedingly zealous for the law, was taken up into heaven.
1 Maccabees 2.59: 59 Hananiah, Azariah, Mishael, believed, and were saved out of the flame.
1 Maccabees 2.60: 60 Daniel for his innocency was delivered from the mouth of lions.
1 Maccabees 2.61: 61 And thus consider you° from generation to generation, that none that put their trust in him shall lack for strength.
1 Maccabees 2.62: 62 And be not afraid of the words of a sinful man; for his glory shall be dung and worms.
1 Maccabees 2.63: 63 To-day he shall be lifted up, and tomorrow he shall in no wise be found, because he is returned to his dust, and his thought is perished.
1 Maccabees 2.64: 64 And you°, my children, be strong, and show yourselves men in behalf of the law; for therein shall you° obtain glory.
1 Maccabees 2.65: 65 And, behold, Simon your brother, I know that he is a man of counsel; give ear to him always: he shall be a father to you.
1 Maccabees 2.66: 66 And Judas Maccabaeus, he has been strong and mighty from his youth: he shall be your captain, and 8 shall fight the battle of the people.
1 Maccabees 2.67: 67 And take you° to you all the doers of the law, and avenge the wrong of your people.
1 Maccabees 2.68: 68 Render a recompense to the Gentiles, and take heed to the commandments of the law.
1 Maccabees 2.69: 69 And he blessed them, and was gathered to his fathers.
1 Maccabees 2.70: 70 And he died in 9 the hundred and forty and sixth year, and his sons buried him in the sepulchres of his fathers at Modin, and all Israel made great lamentation for him.
1 Maccabees 3.0:
1 Maccabees 3.1: 3And his son Judas, who was called Maccabaeus, rose up in his stead.
1 Maccabees 3.2: 2 And all his kindred helped him, and so did all those who clave to his father, and they fought with gladness the battle of Israel.
1 Maccabees 3.3: 3 And he got his people great glory, and put on a breastplate as a giant, and girded his warlike harness about him, and set battles in array, protecting the army with his sword.
1 Maccabees 3.4: 4 And he was like a lion in his deeds, and as a lion’s whelp roaring for prey.
1 Maccabees 3.5: 5 And he pursued the lawless, seeking them out, and he burned up those that troubled his people.
1 Maccabees 3.6: 6 And the lawless shrunk for fear of him, and all the workers of lawlessness were sore troubled, and salvation prospered in his hand.
1 Maccabees 3.7: 7 And he angered many kings, and made Jacob glad with his acts, and his memorial is blessed forever.
1 Maccabees 3.8: 8 And he went about among the cities of Judah, and destroyed the ungodly 1 out of the land, and turned away wrath from Israel:
1 Maccabees 3.9: 9 and he was renowned to the utmost part of the earth, and he gathered together such as were ready to perish.
1 Maccabees 3.10: 10 And Apollonius gathered the Gentiles together, and a great army from Samaria, to fight against Israel.
1 Maccabees 3.11: 11 And Judas perceived it, and he went forth to meet him, and struck him, and killed him: and many fell wounded to death, and the rest fled.
1 Maccabees 3.12: 12 And they took their spoils, and Judas took the sword of Apollonius, and therewith he fought all his days.
1 Maccabees 3.13: 13 And Seron, the commander of the army of Syria, heard say that Judas had gathered a gathering and a congregation of faithful men with him, and of such as went out to war;
1 Maccabees 3.14: 14 And he said, I will make myself a name and get me glory in the kingdom; and I will fight against Judas and those who are with him, that set at nothing the word of the king.
1 Maccabees 3.15: 15 And there went up with him also a mighty army of the ungodly to help him, to take vengeance on the children of Israel.
1 Maccabees 3.16: 16 And he came near to the going up of Bethhoron, and Judas went forth to meet him with a small company.
1 Maccabees 3.17: 17 But when they saw the army coming to meet them, they said to Judas, What? shall we be able, being a small company, to fight against so great and strong a multitude? and we for our part are faint, having tasted no food this day.
1 Maccabees 3.18: 18 And Judas said, It is an easy thing for many to be shut up in the hands of a few; and with 2 heaven it is all one, to save by many or by few:
1 Maccabees 3.19: 19 for victory in battle stands not in the multitude of an army; but strength is from heaven.
1 Maccabees 3.20: 20 They come to us in fullness of insolence and lawlessness, to destroy us and our wives and our children, for to plunder us:
1 Maccabees 3.21: 21 but we fight for our lives and our laws.
1 Maccabees 3.22: 22 And he himself will discomfit them before our face: but as for you, be you° not afraid of them.
1 Maccabees 3.23: 23 Now when he had left off speaking, he leapt suddenly upon them, and Seron and his army were discomfited before him.
1 Maccabees 3.24: 24 And they pursued them in the going down of Bethhoron to the plain, and there fell of them about eight hundred men; but the residue fled into the land of the Philistines.
1 Maccabees 3.25: 25 And the fear of Judas and his kindred, and the dread of them, began to fall upon the nations round about them:
1 Maccabees 3.26: 26 and his name came near even to the king, and every nation told of the battles of Judas.
1 Maccabees 3.27: 27 But when king Antiochus heard these words, he was full of indignation: and he sent and gathered together all the forces of his realm, an exceedingly strong army.
1 Maccabees 3.28: 28 And he opened his treasury, and gave his forces pay for a year, and commanded them to be ready for every need.
1 Maccabees 3.29: 29 And he saw that the money failed from his treasures, and that the tributes of the country were small, because of the dissension and plague which he had brought upon the land, to the end that he might take away the laws which had been from the first days;
1 Maccabees 3.30: 30 and he feared that he should not have enough as at other times for the charges and the gifts which he gave aforetime with a liberal hand, and he abounded above the kings that were before him.
1 Maccabees 3.31: 31 And he was exceedingly perplexed in his mind, and he determined to go into Persia, and to take the tributes of the countries, and to gather much money.
1 Maccabees 3.32: 32 And he left Lysias, an honorable man, and one of the seed royal, to be over the affairs of the king from the river Euphrates to the borders of Egypt,
1 Maccabees 3.33: 33 and to bring up his son Antiochus, until he came again.
1 Maccabees 3.34: 34 And he delivered to him the half of his forces, and the elephants, and gave him charge of all the things that he would have done, and concerning those who lived in Judea and in Jerusalem,
1 Maccabees 3.35: 35 that he should send an army against them, to root out and destroy the strength of Israel, and the remnant of Jerusalem, and to take away their memorial from the place;
1 Maccabees 3.36: 36 And that he should make strangers to dwell on all their coasts, and should divide their land to them by lot.
1 Maccabees 3.37: 37 And the king took the half that remained of the forces, and removed from Antioch, from his royal city, 3 the hundred and forty and seventh year; and he passed over the river Euphrates, and went through the upper countries.
1 Maccabees 3.38: 38 And Lysias chose Ptolemy the son of Dorymenes, and Nicanor, and Gorgias, mighty men of the king’s 4 Friends;
1 Maccabees 3.39: 39 and with them he sent forty thousand footmen, and seven thousand horse, to go into the land of Judah, and to destroy it, according to the word of the king.
1 Maccabees 3.40: 40 And they removed with all their army, and came and pitched near to Emmaus in the plain country.
1 Maccabees 3.41: 41 And the merchants of the country heard the fame of them, and took silver and gold exceedingly much, with 5 fetters, and came into the camp to take the children of Israel for servants: and there were added to them the forces of Syria and of the land of the 6 Philistines.
1 Maccabees 3.42: 42 And Judas and his kindred saw that evils were multiplied, and that the forces were encamping in their borders; and they took knowledge of the king’s words which he had commanded, to destroy the people and make an end of them;
1 Maccabees 3.43: 43 and they said each man to his neighbor, Let’s raise up the ruin of our people, and let’s fight for our people and the holy place.
1 Maccabees 3.44: 44 And the congregation was gathered together, that they might be ready for battle, and that they might pray, and ask for mercy and compassion.
1 Maccabees 3.45: 45 And Jerusalem was without inhabitant as a wilderness, there was none of her offspring that went in or went out; and the sanctuary was trodden down, and the sons of strangers were in the citadel, the Gentiles lodged therein; and joy was taken away from Jacob, and the pipe and the harp ceased.
1 Maccabees 3.46: 46 And they gathered themselves together, and came to Mizpeh, near Jerusalem; for in Mizpeh was there a place of prayer aforetime for Israel.
1 Maccabees 3.47: 47 And they fasted that day, and put on sackcloth, and put ashes upon their heads, and tore their clothes,
1 Maccabees 3.48: 48 and laid open the book of the law, concerning which the Gentiles were wont to inquire, seeking the likenesses of their idols.
1 Maccabees 3.49: 49 And they brought the priests’ garments, and the first fruits, and the tithes: and they stirred up the Nazarites, who had accomplished their days.
1 Maccabees 3.50: 50 And they cried aloud toward heaven, saying, What shall we do with these men, and where shall we carry them away?
1 Maccabees 3.51: 51 And your holy place is trodden down and profaned, and your priests are in heaviness and brought low.
1 Maccabees 3.52: 52 And, behold, the Gentiles are assembled together against us to destroy us: you know what things they imagine against us.
1 Maccabees 3.53: 53 How shall we be able to stand before them, except you be our help?
1 Maccabees 3.54: 54 And they sounded with the trumpets, and cried with a loud voice.
1 Maccabees 3.55: 55 And after this Judas appointed leaders of the people, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens.
1 Maccabees 3.56: 56 And he said to those who were building houses, and were betrothing wives, and were planting vineyards, and were fearful, that they should return, each man to his own house, according to the law.
1 Maccabees 3.57: 57 And the army removed, and encamped upon the south side of Emmaus.
1 Maccabees 3.58: 58 And Judas said, Gird yourselves, and be valiant men, and be in readiness against the morning, that you° may fight with these Gentiles, that are assembled together against us to destroy us, and our holy place:
1 Maccabees 3.59: 59 for it is better for us to die in battle, than to look upon the evils of our nation and the holy place.
1 Maccabees 3.60: 60 Nevertheless, as may be the will in heaven, so shall he do.
1 Maccabees 4.0:
1 Maccabees 4.1: 4And Gorgias took five thousand footmen, and a thousand chosen horse, and the army removed by night,
1 Maccabees 4.2: 2 that it might fall upon the army of the Jews and strike them suddenly: and the men of the citadel were his guides.
1 Maccabees 4.3: 3 And Judas heard thereof, and removed, he and the valiant men, that he might strike the king’s army which was at Emmaus,
1 Maccabees 4.4: 4 while as yet the forces were dispersed from the camp.
1 Maccabees 4.5: 5 And Gorgias came into the camp of Judas by night, and found no man; and he sought them in the mountains; for he said, These men flee from us.
1 Maccabees 4.6: 6 And as soon as it was day, Judas appeared in the plain with three thousand men: however they had not armor nor swords to their minds.
1 Maccabees 4.7: 7 And they saw the camp of the Gentiles strong and fortified, and horsemen compassing it round about; and these were expert in war.
1 Maccabees 4.8: 8 And Judas said to the men that were with him, Fear you° not their multitude, neither be you° afraid of their onset.
1 Maccabees 4.9: 9 Remember how our fathers were saved in the Red sea, when Pharaoh pursued them with an army.
1 Maccabees 4.10: 10 And now let’s cry to heaven, if he will have us, and will remember the covenant of our fathers, and destroy this army before our face today:
1 Maccabees 4.11: 11 and all the Gentiles shall know that there is one who redeems and saves Israel.
1 Maccabees 4.12: 12 And the strangers lifted up their eyes, and saw them coming near them:
1 Maccabees 4.13: 13 and they went out of the camp to battle. And those who were with Judas sounded their trumpets,
1 Maccabees 4.14: 14 and joined battle, and the Gentiles were discomfited, and fled into the plain.
1 Maccabees 4.15: 15 But all the hindmost fell by the sword: and they pursued them to 1 Gazara, and to the plains of Idumaea and Azotus and Jamnia, and there fell of them about three thousand men.
1 Maccabees 4.16: 16 And Judas and his army returned from pursuing after them,
1 Maccabees 4.17: 17 and he said to the people, Be not greedy of the spoils, inasmuch as there is a battle before us;
1 Maccabees 4.18: 18 and Gorgias and his army are near to us in the mountain. But stand you° now against our enemies, and fight against them, and afterwards take the spoils with boldness.
1 Maccabees 4.19: 19 While Judas was yet making an end of these words, there appeared a part of them looking out from the mountain:
1 Maccabees 4.20: 20 and they saw that their army had been put to flight, and that the Jews were burning the camp; for the smoke that was seen declared what was done.
1 Maccabees 4.21: 21 But when they perceived these things, they were sore afraid; and perceiving also the army of Judas in the plain ready for battle,
1 Maccabees 4.22: 22 they fled all of them into the land of the 2 Philistines.
1 Maccabees 4.23: 23 And Judas returned to plunder the camp, and they got much gold, and silver, and blue, and sea purple, and great riches.
1 Maccabees 4.24: 24 And they returned home, and sang a song of thanksgiving, and gave praise 3 to heaven; because his mercy is good, because his mercy endures forever.
1 Maccabees 4.25: 25 And Israel had a great deliverance that day.
1 Maccabees 4.26: 26 But the strangers, as many as had escaped, came and told Lysias all the things that had happened:
1 Maccabees 4.27: 27 but when he heard thereof, he was confounded and discouraged, because neither had such things as he would been done to Israel, nor had such things as the king commanded him come to pass.
1 Maccabees 4.28: 28 And in the next year he gathered together threescore thousand chosen footmen, and five thousand horse, that he might subdue them.
1 Maccabees 4.29: 29 And they came into Idumaea, and encamped at Bethsura; and Judas met them with ten thousand men.
1 Maccabees 4.30: 30 And he saw that the army was strong, and he prayed and said,
Blessed are you, O Savior of Israel, who did quell the onset of the mighty man by the hand of your servant David, and did deliver the army of the 4 Philistines into the hands of Jonathan the son of Saul, and of his armor bearer:
1 Maccabees 4.31: 31 shut up this army in the hand of your people Israel, and let them be ashamed for their army and their horsemen:
1 Maccabees 4.32: 32 give them faintness of heart, and cause the boldness of their strength to melt away, and let them quake at their destruction:
1 Maccabees 4.33: 33 cast them down with the sword of those who love you, and let all that know your name praise you with thanksgiving.
1 Maccabees 4.34: 34 And they joined battle; and there fell of the army of Lysias about five thousand men, and they fell down near them.
1 Maccabees 4.35: 35 But when Lysias saw that his array was put to flight, and the boldness that had come upon those who were with Judas, and how they were ready either to live or to die nobly, he removed to Antioch, and gathered together hired soldiers, that he might come again into Judea with even a greater company.
1 Maccabees 4.36: 36 But Judas and his kindred said, Behold, our enemies are discomfited: let’s go up to cleanse the holy place, and to dedicate it afresh.
1 Maccabees 4.37: 37 And all the army was gathered together, and they went up to mount Sion.
1 Maccabees 4.38: 38 And they saw the sanctuary laid desolate, and the altar profaned, and the gates burned up, and shrubs growing in the courts as in a forest or as on one of the mountains, and the priests’ chambers pulled down;
1 Maccabees 4.39: 39 and they tore their clothes, and made great lamentation, and put ashes upon their heads,
1 Maccabees 4.40: 40 and fell on their faces to the ground, and 5 blew with the 6 solemn trumpets, and cried toward heaven.
1 Maccabees 4.41: 41 Then Judas appointed certain men to fight against those that were in the citadel, until he should have cleansed the holy place.
1 Maccabees 4.42: 42 And he chose blameless priests, such as had pleasure in the law:
1 Maccabees 4.43: 43 and they cleansed the holy place, and bare out the stones of defilement into an unclean place.
1 Maccabees 4.44: 44 And they took counsel concerning the altar of burnt offerings, which had been profaned, what they should do with it:
1 Maccabees 4.45: 45 and there came into their mind a good counsel, that they should pull it down, lest it should be a reproach to them, because the Gentiles had defiled it: and they pulled down the altar,
1 Maccabees 4.46: 46 and laid up the stones in the mountain of the house in a convenient place, until there should come a prophet to give an answer concerning them.
1 Maccabees 4.47: 47 And they took whole stones according to the law, and built a new altar after the fashion of the former;
1 Maccabees 4.48: 48 and they built the holy place, and the inner parts of the house; and they hallowed the courts.
1 Maccabees 4.49: 49 And they made the holy vessels new, and they brought the candlestick, and the altar of burnt offerings and of incense, and the table, into the temple.
1 Maccabees 4.50: 50 And they burned incense upon the altar, and they lighted the lamps that were upon the candlestick, and they gave light in the temple.
1 Maccabees 4.51: 51 And they set loaves upon the table, and spread out the veils, and finished all the works which they made.
1 Maccabees 4.52: 52 And they rose up early in the morning, on the five and twentieth day of the ninth month, which is the month Chislev, in 7 the hundred and forty and eighth year,
1 Maccabees 4.53: 53 and offered sacrifice according to the law upon the new altar of burned offerings which they had made.
1 Maccabees 4.54: 54 At what time and on what day the Gentiles had profaned it, even on that day was it dedicated afresh, with songs and harps and lutes, and with cymbals.
1 Maccabees 4.55: 55 And all the people fell upon their faces, and worshiped, and 8 gave praise to heaven, which had given them good success.
1 Maccabees 4.56: 56 And they kept the dedication of the altar eight days, and offered burned offerings with gladness, and sacrificed a sacrifice of deliverance and praise.
1 Maccabees 4.57: 57 And they decked the forefront of the temple with crowns of gold and small shields, and dedicated afresh the gates and the priests’ chambers, and made doors for them.
1 Maccabees 4.58: 58 And there was exceedingly great gladness among the people, and the reproach of the Gentiles was turned away.
1 Maccabees 4.59: 59 And Judas and his kindred and the whole congregation of Israel ordained, that the days of the dedication of the altar should be kept in their seasons from year to year by the space of eight days, from the five and twentieth day of the month Chislev, with gladness and joy.
1 Maccabees 4.60: 60 And at that season they built up the mount Sion with high walls and strong towers round about, lest perhaps the Gentiles should come and tread them down, as they had done aforetime.
1 Maccabees 4.61: 61 And he set there a force to keep it, and they fortified Bethsura to keep it; that the people might have a stronghold near Idumaea.
1 Maccabees 5.0:
1 Maccabees 5.1: 5And it came to pass, when the Gentiles round about heard that the altar was built, and the sanctuary dedicated as aforetime, they were exceedingly angry.
1 Maccabees 5.2: 2 And they took counsel to destroy the race of Jacob that was in the midst of them, and they began to kill and destroy among the people.
1 Maccabees 5.3: 3 And Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumaea at Akrabattine, because they besieged Israel: and he struck them with a great slaughter, and brought down their pride, and took their spoils.
1 Maccabees 5.4: 4 And he remembered the wickedness of the children of 1 Baean, who were to the people a snare and a stumbling block, lying in wait for them in the ways.
1 Maccabees 5.5: 5 And they were shut up by him in the towers; and he encamped against them, and destroyed them utterly, and burned with fire the towers of the place, with all that were therein.
1 Maccabees 5.6: 6 And he passed over to the children of Ammon, and found a mighty band, and much people, with Timotheus for their leader.
1 Maccabees 5.7: 7 And he fought many battles with them, and they were discomfited before his face; and he struck them,
1 Maccabees 5.8: 8 and got possession of Jazer, and the 2 villages thereof, and returned again into Judea.
1 Maccabees 5.9: 9 And the Gentiles that were in Gilead gathered themselves together against the Israelites that were on their borders, to destroy them. And they fled to the stronghold of Dathema,
1 Maccabees 5.10: 10 and sent letters to Judas and his kindred, saying, The Gentiles that are round about us are gathered together against us to destroy us:
1 Maccabees 5.11: 11 and they are preparing to come and get possession of the stronghold whereunto we are fled for refuge, and Timotheus is the leader of their army.
1 Maccabees 5.12: 12 Now therefore come and deliver us from their hand, for many of us are fallen.
1 Maccabees 5.13: 13 And all our kindred that were in the land of 3 Tubias have been put to death; and they have carried into captivity their wives and their children and their stuff; and they destroyed there about a thousand men.
1 Maccabees 5.14: 14 While the letters were yet reading, behold, there came other messengers from Galilee with their clothes tore, bringing a report after this wise,
1 Maccabees 5.15: 15 saying, That there were gathered together against them those of Ptolemais, and of Tyre, and of Sidon, and all Galilee of the 4 Gentiles to consume them.
1 Maccabees 5.16: 16 Now when Judas and the people heard these words, there assembled together a great congregation, to consult what they should do for their kindred, that were in suffering, and were assaulted of them.
1 Maccabees 5.17: 17 And Judas said to Simon his brother, Choose you out men, and go and deliver your kindred that are in Galilee, but I and Jonathan my brother will go into the land of Gilead.
1 Maccabees 5.18: 18 And he left Joseph the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, as leaders of the people, with the remnant of the army, in Judea, for to keep it.
1 Maccabees 5.19: 19 And he gave commandment to them, saying, Take you° the charge of this people, and fight no battle with the Gentiles until that we come again.
1 Maccabees 5.20: 20 And to Simon were divided three thousand men to go into Galilee, but to Judas eight thousand men to go into the land of Gilead.
1 Maccabees 5.21: 21 And Simon went into Galilee, and fought many battles with the Gentiles, and the Gentiles were discomfited before him.
1 Maccabees 5.22: 22 And he pursued them to the gate of Ptolemais; and there fell of the Gentiles about three thousand men, and he took their spoils.
1 Maccabees 5.23: 23 And they took to them those that were in Galilee, and in Arbatta, with their wives and their children, and all that they had, and brought them into Judea with great gladness.
1 Maccabees 5.24: 24 And Judas Maccabaeus and his brother Jonathan passed over Jordan, and went three days’ journey in the wilderness;
1 Maccabees 5.25: 25 and they met with the Nabathaeans, and these met them in a peaceful manner, and told them all things that had befallen their kindred in the land of Gilead:
1 Maccabees 5.26: 26 and how that many of them were shut up in Bosora, and Bosor, and Alema, 5 Casphor, Maked, and 6 Carnaim; all these cities are strong and great:
1 Maccabees 5.27: 27 and how that they were shut up in the rest of the cities of the land of Gilead, and that tomorrow they have appointed to encamp against the strongholds, and to take them, and to destroy all these men in one day.
1 Maccabees 5.28: 28 And Judas and his army turned suddenly by the way of the wilderness to Bosora; and he took the city, and killed all the males with the edge of the sword, and took all their spoils, and burned the city with fire.
1 Maccabees 5.29: 29 And he removed from thence by night, and went till he came to the stronghold.
1 Maccabees 5.30: 30 And the morning came, and they lifted up their eyes, and, behold, much people which could not be counted, bearing ladders and engines of war, to take the stronghold; and they were fighting against them.
1 Maccabees 5.31: 31 And Judas saw that the battle was begun, and that the cry of the city went up to heaven, with trumpets and a great sound,
1 Maccabees 5.32: 32 and he said to the men of his army, Fight this day for your kindred.
1 Maccabees 5.33: 33 And he went forth behind them in three companies, and they sounded with their trumpets, and cried out in prayer.
1 Maccabees 5.34: 34 And the army of Timotheus perceived that it was Maccabaeus, and they fled from before him: and he struck them with a great slaughter; and there fell of them on that day about eight thousand men.
1 Maccabees 5.35: 35 And he turned away to Mizpeh and fought against it, and took it, and killed all the males thereof, and took the spoils thereof, and burned it with fire.
1 Maccabees 5.36: 36 From thence he removed, and took 7 Casphor, Maked, Bosor, and the other cities of the land of Gilead.
1 Maccabees 5.37: 37 Now after these things Timotheus gathered another army, and encamped near Raphon beyond the brook.
1 Maccabees 5.38: 38 And Judas sent men to espy the army; and they brought him word, saying, All the Gentiles that be round about us are gathered together to them, an exceedingly great army.
1 Maccabees 5.39: 39 And they have hired Arabians to help them, and are encamping beyond the brook, ready to come against you to battle. And Judas went to meet them.
1 Maccabees 5.40: 40 And Timotheus said to the captains of his army, when Judas and his army drew near to the brook of water, If he pass over first to us, we shall not be able to withstand him; for he will mightily prevail against us:
1 Maccabees 5.41: 41 but if he be afraid, and encamp beyond the river, we will cross over to him, and prevail against him.
1 Maccabees 5.42: 42 Now when Judas came near to the brook of water, he caused the scribes of the people to remain by the brook, and gave commandment to them, saying, Suffer no man to encamp, but let all come to the battle.
1 Maccabees 5.43: 43 And he crossed over the first against them, and all the people after him: and all the Gentiles were discomfited before his face, and cast away their arms, and fled to the temple at 8 Carnaim.
1 Maccabees 5.44: 44 And they took the city, and burned the temple with fire, together with all that were therein. And Carnaim was subdued, neither could they stand any longer before the face of Judas.
1 Maccabees 5.45: 45 And Judas gathered together all Israel, those who were in the land of Gilead, from the least to the greatest, and their wives, and their children, and their stuff, an exceedingly great army, that they might come into the land of Judah.
1 Maccabees 5.46: 46 And they came as far as Ephron, and this same city was great, and it was in the way as they should go, exceedingly strong: they could not turn away from it on the right hand or on the left, but must needs pass through the midst of it.
1 Maccabees 5.47: 47 And they of the city shut them out, and stopped up the gates with stones.
1 Maccabees 5.48: 48 And Judas sent to them with words of peace, saying, We will pass through your land to go into our own land, and none shall do you any hurt, we will only pass by on our feet. And they would not open to him.
1 Maccabees 5.49: 49 And Judas commanded proclamation to be made in the army, that each man should encamp in the place where he was.
1 Maccabees 5.50: 50 And the men of the army encamped, and fought against the city all that day and all that night, and the city was delivered into his hands;
1 Maccabees 5.51: 51 and he destroyed all the males with the edge of the sword, and rased the city, and took the spoils thereof, and passed through the city over those who were slain.
1 Maccabees 5.52: 52 And they went over Jordan into the great plain near Bethshan.
1 Maccabees 5.53: 53 And Judas gathered together those that lagged behind, and encouraged the people all the way through, until he came into the land of Judah.
1 Maccabees 5.54: 54 And they went up to mount Sion with gladness and joy, and offered whole burnt offerings, because not so much as one of them was slain until they returned in peace.
1 Maccabees 5.55: 55 And in the days when Judas and Jonathan were in the land of Gilead, and Simon his brother in Galilee before Ptolemais,
1 Maccabees 5.56: 56 Joseph the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, rulers of the army, heard of their exploits and of the war, what things they had done;
1 Maccabees 5.57: 57 and they said, Let’s also get us a name, and let’s go fight against the Gentiles that are around us.
1 Maccabees 5.58: 58 And they gave charge to the men of the army that was with them, and went toward Jamnia.
1 Maccabees 5.59: 59 And Gorgias and his men came out of the city to meet them in battle.
1 Maccabees 5.60: 60 And Joseph and Azarias were put to flight, and were pursued to the borders of Judea; and there fell on that day of the people of Israel about two thousand men.
1 Maccabees 5.61: 61 And there was a great overthrow among the people, because they didn’t listen to Judas and his kindred, thinking to do some exploit.
1 Maccabees 5.62: 62 But they were not of the seed of those men, by whose hand deliverance was given to Israel.
1 Maccabees 5.63: 63 And the man Judas and his kindred were glorified exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and of all the Gentiles, wherever their name was heard of;
1 Maccabees 5.64: 64 and men gathered together to them, acclaiming them.
1 Maccabees 5.65: 65 And Judas and his kindred went forth, and fought against the children of Esau in the land toward the south; and he struck Hebron and the 9 villages thereof, and pulled down the strongholds thereof, and burned the towers thereof round about.
1 Maccabees 5.66: 66 And he removed to go into the land of the 1 Philistines, and he went through 2 Samaria.
1 Maccabees 5.67: 67 In that day certain priests, desiring to do exploits there, were slain in battle, when as 3 he went out to battle unadvisedly.
1 Maccabees 5.68: 68 And Judas turned toward Azotus, to the land of the 4 Philistines, and pulled down their altars, and burned the carved images of their gods with fire, and took the plunder of their cities, and returned into the land of Judah.
1 Maccabees 6.0:
1 Maccabees 6.1: 6And king Antiochus was journeying through the upper countries; and he heard say, that in Elymais in Persia there was a city renowned for riches, for silver and gold;
1 Maccabees 6.2: 2 and that the temple which was in it was rich exceedingly, and that therein were golden shields, and breastplates, and arms, which Alexander, son of Philip, the Macedonian king, who reigned first among the Greeks, left behind there.
1 Maccabees 6.3: 3 And he came and sought to take the city, and to pillage it; and he was not able, because the thing was known to them of the city,
1 Maccabees 6.4: 4 and they rose up against him to battle: and he fled, and removed thence with great heaviness, to return to Babylon.
1 Maccabees 6.5: 5 And there came one bringing him tidings into Persia, that the armies, which went against the land of Judah, had been put to flight;
1 Maccabees 6.6: 6 and that Lysias went first with a strong army, and was put to shame before them; and that they had waxed strong by reason of arms and power, and with store of spoils, which they took from the armies that they had cut off;
1 Maccabees 6.7: 7 and that they had pulled down the abomination which he had built upon the altar that was in Jerusalem; and that they had compassed about the sanctuary with high walls, as before, and Bethsura, his city.
1 Maccabees 6.8: 8 And it came to pass, when the king heard these words, he was astonished and moved exceedingly: and he laid him down upon his bed, and fell sick for grief, because it had not befallen him as he looked for.
1 Maccabees 6.9: 9 And he was there many days, because great grief was renewed upon him, and he made account that he should die.
1 Maccabees 6.10: 10 And he called for all his 1 Friends, and said to them, Sleep departs from my eyes, and my heart fails for care.
1 Maccabees 6.11: 11 And I said in my heart, To what suffering am I come, and how great a flood is it, wherein I now am! for I was gracious and beloved in my power.
1 Maccabees 6.12: 12 But now I remember the evils which I did at Jerusalem, and that I took all the vessels of silver and gold that were therein, and sent forth to destroy the inhabitants of Judah without a cause.
1 Maccabees 6.13: 13 I perceive that on this account these evils are come upon me, and, behold, I perish through great grief in a strange land.
1 Maccabees 6.14: 14 And he called for Philip, one of his 2 Friends, and set him over all his kingdom,
1 Maccabees 6.15: 15 and gave him his diadem, and his robe, and his signet ring, to the end he should bring Antiochus his son, and nourish him up that he might be king.
1 Maccabees 6.16: 16 And king Antiochus died there in 3 the hundred and forty and ninth year.
1 Maccabees 6.17: 17 And Lysias knew that the king was dead, and he set up Antiochus his son to reign, whom he had nourished up being young, and he called his name Eupator.
1 Maccabees 6.18: 18 And those who were in the citadel shut up Israel round about the sanctuary, and sought always their hurt, and the strengthening of the Gentiles.
1 Maccabees 6.19: 19 And Judas thought to destroy them, and called all the people together to besiege them.
1 Maccabees 6.20: 20 And they were gathered together, and besieged them in 4 the hundred and fifties year, and he made mounds to shoot from, and engines of war.
1 Maccabees 6.21: 21 And there came forth some of those who were shut up, and there were joined to them certain ungodly men of Israel.
1 Maccabees 6.22: 22 And they went to the king, and said, How long will you not execute judgement, and avenge our kindred?
1 Maccabees 6.23: 23 We were willing to serve your father, and to walk after his words, and to follow his commandments;
1 Maccabees 6.24: 24 and for this cause the children of our people besieged 5 the citadel, and were alienated from us; but as many of us as they could light on they killed, and plundered our inheritances.
1 Maccabees 6.25: 25 And not against us only did they stretch out their hand, but also against all their borders.
1 Maccabees 6.26: 26 And, behold, they are encamped this day against the citadel at Jerusalem, to take it: and the sanctuary and Bethsura have they fortified.
1 Maccabees 6.27: 27 And if you° are not beforehand with them quickly, they will do greater things than these, and you shall not be able to control them.
1 Maccabees 6.28: 28 And when the king heard this, he was angry, and gathered together all his 6 Friends, even the rulers of his army, and those who were over the horse.
1 Maccabees 6.29: 29 And there came to him from other kingdoms, and from isles of the sea, bands of hired soldiers.
1 Maccabees 6.30: 30 And the number of his forces was a hundred thousand footmen, and twenty thousand horsemen, and two and thirty elephants trained for war.
1 Maccabees 6.31: 31 And they went through Idumaea, and encamped against Bethsura, and fought against it many days, and made engines of war; and they of Bethsura came out, and burned them with fire, and fought valiantly.
1 Maccabees 6.32: 32 And Judas removed from the citadel, and encamped at Bethzacharias, near the king’s camp.
1 Maccabees 6.33: 33 And the king rose early in the morning, and removed his army 7 at full speed along the road to Bethzacharias, and his forces made them ready to battle, and sounded with the trumpets.
1 Maccabees 6.34: 34 And they showed the elephants the blood of grapes and mulberries, that they might prepare them for the battle.
1 Maccabees 6.35: 35 And they divided the beasts among the phalanxes, and they set by each elephant a thousand men armed with coats of mail, and helmets of brass on their heads; and for each beast were appointed five hundred chosen horsemen.
1 Maccabees 6.36: 36 These were ready beforehand, wherever the beast was; and wherever the beast went, they went with him; they departed not from him.
1 Maccabees 6.37: 37 And towers of wood were upon them, strong and covered, one upon each beast, girded fast upon him with cunning contrivances; and upon each beast were two and thirty valiant men that fought upon them, beside his Indian
1 Maccabees 6.38: 38 (and the residue of the horsemen he set on this side and that side at the two parts of the army), striking terror into the enemy, and protected by the phalanxes.
1 Maccabees 6.39: 39 Now when the sun shone upon the shields of gold and brass, the mountains shone therewith, and blazed like torches of fire.
1 Maccabees 6.40: 40 And a part of the king’s army was spread upon the high mountains, and some on the low ground, and they went on firmly and in order.
1 Maccabees 6.41: 41 And all that heard the noise of their multitude, and the marching of the multitude, and the rattling of the arms, did quake: for the army was exceedingly great and strong.
1 Maccabees 6.42: 42 And Judas and his army drew near for battle, and there fell of the king’s army six hundred men.
1 Maccabees 6.43: 43 And Eleazar, who was called Avaran, saw one of the beasts armed with royal breastplates, and he was higher than all the beasts, and the king seemed to be upon him;
1 Maccabees 6.44: 44 and he gave himself to deliver his people, and to get him an everlasting name;
1 Maccabees 6.45: 45 and he ran upon him courageously into the midst of the phalanx, and killed on the right hand and on the left, and they parted asunder from him on this side and on that.
1 Maccabees 6.46: 46 And he crept under the elephant, and thrust him from beneath, and killed him; and the elephant fell to the earth upon him, and he died there.
1 Maccabees 6.47: 47 And they saw the strength of the kingdom, and the fierce onset of the army, and turned away from them.
1 Maccabees 6.48: 48 But they of the king’s army went up to Jerusalem to meet them, and the king encamped toward Judea, and toward mount Sion.
1 Maccabees 6.49: 49 And he made peace with them of Bethsura; and he came out of the city, because they had no food there to endure the siege, because it was a Sabbath to the land.
1 Maccabees 6.50: 50 And the king took Bethsura, and appointed a garrison there to keep it.
1 Maccabees 6.51: 51 And he encamped against the sanctuary many days; and set there mounds to shoot from, and engines of war, and instruments for casting fire and stones, and pieces to cast darts, and slings.
1 Maccabees 6.52: 52 And they also made engines against their engines, and fought for many days.
1 Maccabees 6.53: 53 But there were no food in the sanctuary, because it was the seventh year, and those who fled for safety into Judea from among the Gentiles had eaten up the residue of the store;
1 Maccabees 6.54: 54 and there were but a few left in the sanctuary, because the famine prevailed against them, and they were scattered, each man to his own place.
1 Maccabees 6.55: 55 And Lysias heard say, that Philip, whom Antiochus the king, whiles he was yet alive, appointed to nourish up his son Antiochus, that he might be king,
1 Maccabees 6.56: 56 was returned from Persia and Media, and with him the forces that went with the king, and that he was seeking to take to him the government.
1 Maccabees 6.57: 57 And he made haste, and gave consent to depart; and he said to the king and the leaders of the army and to the men, We decay daily, and our food is scant, and the place where we encamp is strong, and the affairs of the kingdom lie upon us:
1 Maccabees 6.58: 58 now therefore let’s give the right hand to these men, and make peace with them and with all their nation,
1 Maccabees 6.59: 59 and covenant with them, that they shall walk after their own laws, as aforetime: for because of their laws which we abolished they were angered, and did all these things.
1 Maccabees 6.60: 60 And the saying pleased the king and the princes, and he sent to them to make peace; and they accepted thereof.
1 Maccabees 6.61: 61 And the king and the princes sware to them: thereupon they came forth from the stronghold.
1 Maccabees 6.62: 62 And the king entered into mount Sion; and he saw the strength of the place, and set at nothing the oath which he had sworn, and gave commandment to pull down the wall round about.
1 Maccabees 6.63: 63 And he removed in haste, and returned to Antioch, and found Philip master of the city; and he fought against him, and took the city by force.
1 Maccabees 7.0:
1 Maccabees 7.1: 7In 1 the hundred and one and fifties year Demetrius the son of Seleucus came forth from Rome, and went up with a few men to a city by the sea, and reigned there.
1 Maccabees 7.2: 2 And it came to pass, when he would go into the house of the kingdom of his fathers, that the army laid hands on Antiochus and Lysias, to bring them to him.
1 Maccabees 7.3: 3 And the thing was known to him, and he said, show me not their faces.
1 Maccabees 7.4: 4 And the army killed them. And Demetrius sat upon the throne of his kingdom.
1 Maccabees 7.5: 5 And there came to him all the lawless and ungodly men of Israel; and Alcimus was their leader, desiring to be high priest;
1 Maccabees 7.6: 6 and they accused the people to the king, saying, Judas and his kindred have destroyed all your friends, and have scattered us from our own land.
1 Maccabees 7.7: 7 Now therefore send a man whom you trust, and let him go and see all the havock which he has made of us, and of the king’s country, and how he has punished them and all that helped them.
1 Maccabees 7.8: 8 And the king chose Bacchides, one of the king’s 2 Friends, who was ruler in the country beyond the river, and was a great man in the kingdom, and faithful to the king.
1 Maccabees 7.9: 9 And he sent him, and that ungodly Alcimus, and made sure to him the high priesthood, and he commanded him to take vengeance upon the children of Israel.
1 Maccabees 7.10: 10 And they removed, and came with a great army into the land of Judah, and he sent messengers to Judas and his kindred with words of peace deceitfully.
1 Maccabees 7.11: 11 And they gave no heed to their words; for they saw that they were come with a great army.
1 Maccabees 7.12: 12 And there were gathered together to Alcimus and Bacchides a company of scribes, to seek for justice.
1 Maccabees 7.13: 13 And the 3 Hasidaeans were the first among the children of Israel that sought peace of them;
1 Maccabees 7.14: 14 for they said, One that is a priest of the seed of Aaron is come with the forces, and he will do us no wrong.
1 Maccabees 7.15: 15 And he spoke with them words of peace, and sware to them, saying, We will seek the hurt neither of you nor your friends.
1 Maccabees 7.16: 16 And they gave him credence: and he laid hands on threescore men of them, and killed them in one day, according to the word which the psalmist wrote,
1 Maccabees 7.17: 17 4 The flesh of your saints did they cast out,
And their blood did they shed round about Jerusalem;
And there was no man to bury them.
1 Maccabees 7.18: 18 And the fear and the dread of them fell upon all the people, for they said, There is neither truth nor judgement in them; for they have broken the covenant and the oath which they sware.
1 Maccabees 7.19: 19 And Bacchides removed from Jerusalem, and encamped in Bezeth; and he sent and took away many of the deserters that were with him, and certain of the people, and he killed them, and cast them into the great pit.
1 Maccabees 7.20: 20 And he made sure the country to Alcimus, and left with him a force to aid him; and Bacchides went away to the king.
1 Maccabees 7.21: 21 And Alcimus strove for his high priesthood.
1 Maccabees 7.22: 22 And there were gathered to him all those who troubled their people, and they got the mastery of the land of Judah, and did great hurt in Israel.
1 Maccabees 7.23: 23 And Judas saw all the mischief that Alcimus and his company had done among the children of Israel, even above the Gentiles,
1 Maccabees 7.24: 24 and he went out into all the coasts of Judea round about, and took vengeance on the men that had deserted from him, and they were restrained from going forth into the country.
1 Maccabees 7.25: 25 But when Alcimus saw that Judas and his company waxed strong, and knew that he was not able to withstand them, he returned to the king, and brought evil accusations against them.
1 Maccabees 7.26: 26 5 And the king sent Nicanor, one of his honorable princes, a man that hated Israel and was their enemy, and commanded him to destroy the people.
1 Maccabees 7.27: 27 And Nicanor came to Jerusalem with a great army; and he sent to Judas and his kindred deceitfully with words of peace, saying,
1 Maccabees 7.28: 28 Let there be no battle between me and you; I will come with a few men, that I may see your faces in peace.
1 Maccabees 7.29: 29 And he came to Judas, and they saluted one another peaceably. And the enemies were ready to take away Judas by violence.
1 Maccabees 7.30: 30 And the thing was known to Judas, to wit, that he came to him with deceit, and he was sore afraid of him, and would see his face no more.
1 Maccabees 7.31: 31 And Nicanor knew that his counsel was discovered; and he went out to meet Judas in battle beside Capharsalama;
1 Maccabees 7.32: 32 and there fell of Nicanor’s side about 6 five hundred men, and they fled into the city of David.
1 Maccabees 7.33: 33 And after these things Nicanor went up to mount Sion: and there came some of the priests out of the sanctuary, and some of the elders of the people, to salute him peaceably, and to show him the whole burned sacrifice that was being offered for the king.
1 Maccabees 7.34: 34 And he mocked them, and laughed at them, and 7 entreated them shamefully, and spoke haughtily,
1 Maccabees 7.35: 35 and sware in a rage, saying, Unless Judas and his army be now delivered into my hands, it shall be that, if I come again in peace, I will burn up this house: and he went out in a great rage.
1 Maccabees 7.36: 36 And the priests entered in, and stood before the altar and the temple; and they wept, and said,
1 Maccabees 7.37: 37 You did choose this house to be called by your name, to be a house of prayer and supplication for your people:
1 Maccabees 7.38: 38 take vengeance on this man and his army, and let them fall by the sword: remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to live any longer.
1 Maccabees 7.39: 39 And Nicanor went forth from Jerusalem, and encamped in Bethhoron, and there met him the army of Syria.
1 Maccabees 7.40: 40 And Judas encamped in Adasa with three thousand men: and Judas prayed and said,
1 Maccabees 7.41: 41 When those who came from the king blasphemed, your angel went out, and struck among them a hundred and fourscore and five thousand.
1 Maccabees 7.42: 42 Even so discomfit you this army before us today, and let all the rest know that he has spoken wickedly against your sanctuary, and judge you him according to his wickedness.
1 Maccabees 7.43: 43 And on the thirteenth day of the month Adar the armies joined battle: and Nicanor’s army was discomfited, and he himself was the first to fall in the battle.
1 Maccabees 7.44: 44 Now when his army saw that Nicanor was fallen, they cast away their arms, and fled.
1 Maccabees 7.45: 45 And they pursued after them a day’s journey from Adasa until you come to 8 Gazara, and they sounded an alarm after them with the 9 solemn trumpets.
1 Maccabees 7.46: 46 And they came forth out of all the villages of Judea round about, and 1 closed them in; and these turned them back on those, and they all fell by the sword, and there was not one of them left.
1 Maccabees 7.47: 47 And they took the spoils, and the booty, and they struck off Nicanor’s head, and his right hand, which he stretched out so haughtily, and brought them, and 2 hanged them up beside Jerusalem.
1 Maccabees 7.48: 48 And the people were exceedingly glad, and they kept that day as a day of great gladness.
1 Maccabees 7.49: 49 And 3 they ordained to keep this day year by year, to wit, the thirteenth day of Adar.
1 Maccabees 7.50: 50 And the land of Judah had rest 4 a little while.
1 Maccabees 8.0:
1 Maccabees 8.1: 8And Judas heard of the fame of the Romans, that they are valiant men, and have pleasure in all that join themselves to them, and make friends with all such as come to them,
1 Maccabees 8.2: 2 and that they are valiant men. And they told him of their wars and exploits which they do among the Gauls, and how that they conquered them, and brought them under tribute;
1 Maccabees 8.3: 3 and what things they did in the land of Spain, that they might become masters of the mines of silver and gold which were there;
1 Maccabees 8.4: 4 and how that by their policy and persistence they conquered all the place (and the place was exceedingly far from them), and the kings that came against them from the uttermost part of the earth, until they had discomfited them, and struck them very sore; and how the rest give them tribute year by year:
1 Maccabees 8.5: 5 and Philip, and Perseus, king of Chittim, and those who lifted up themselves against them, did they discomfit in battle, and conquered them:
1 Maccabees 8.6: 6 Antiochus also, the great king of Asia, who came against them to battle, having a hundred and twenty elephants, with horse, and chariots, and an exceedingly great army, and he was discomfited by them,
1 Maccabees 8.7: 7 and they took him alive, and appointed that both he and such as reigned after him should give them a great tribute, and should give hostages, and a parcel of land, to wit,
1 Maccabees 8.8: 8 the country of India, and Media, and Lydia, and of the goodliest of their countries; and they took them from him, and gave them to king Eumenes:
1 Maccabees 8.9: 9 and how they of Greece took counsel to come and destroy them;
1 Maccabees 8.10: 10 and the thing was known to them, and they sent against them a captain, and fought against them, and many of them fell down wounded to death, and they made captive their wives and their children, and plundered them, and conquered their land, and pulled down their strongholds, and plundered them, and brought them into bondage to this day:
1 Maccabees 8.11: 11 and the residue of the kingdoms and of the isles, as many as rose up against them at any time, they destroyed and made them to be their servants;
1 Maccabees 8.12: 12 but with their friends and such as relied upon them they stayed friends; and they conquered the kingdoms that were near and those that were far off, and all that heard of their fame were afraid of them:
1 Maccabees 8.13: 13 moreover, whoever they will to help and to make kings, these do they make kings; and whoever they will, do they depose; and they are exalted exceedingly:
1 Maccabees 8.14: 14 and for all this none of them did ever put on a diadem, neither did they clothe themselves with purple, to be magnified by it:
1 Maccabees 8.15: 15 and how they had made for themselves a senate house, and day by day three hundred and twenty men sat in council, consulting always for the people, to the end they might be well ordered:
1 Maccabees 8.16: 16 and how they commit their government to one man year by year, that he should rule over them, and be lord over all their country, and all are obedient to that one, and there is neither envy nor emulation among them.
1 Maccabees 8.17: 17 And Judas chose Eupolemus the son of John, the son of Accos, and Jason the son of Eleazar, and sent them to Rome, to establish friendship and alliance with them,
1 Maccabees 8.18: 18 and that they should take the yoke from them; for they saw that the kingdom of the Greeks did keep Israel in bondage.
1 Maccabees 8.19: 19 And they went to Rome (and the way was exceedingly long), and they entered into the senate house, and answered and said,
1 Maccabees 8.20: 20 Judas, who is also called Maccabaeus, and his kindred, and the people of the Jews, have sent us to you, to make a confederacy and peace with you, and that we might be registered your allies and friends.
1 Maccabees 8.21: 21 And the thing was well-pleasing in their sight.
1 Maccabees 8.22: 22 And this is the copy of the writing which they wrote back again on tables of brass, and sent to Jerusalem, that it might be with them there for a memorial of peace and confederacy:
1 Maccabees 8.23: 23 Good success be to the Romans, and to the nation of the Jews, by sea and by land forever: the sword also and the enemy be far from them.
1 Maccabees 8.24: 24 But if war arise for Rome first, or any of their allies in all their dominion,
1 Maccabees 8.25: 25 the nation of the Jews shall help them as allies, as the occasion shall prescribe to them, with all their heart:
1 Maccabees 8.26: 26 and to those who make war upon them they shall not give, neither supply, food, arms, money, or ships, as it has seemed good to Rome, and they shall keep their ordinances without taking anything therefore.
1 Maccabees 8.27: 27 In the same manner, moreover, if war come first upon the nation of the Jews, the Romans shall help them as allies with all their soul, as the occasion shall prescribe to them:
1 Maccabees 8.28: 28 and to those who are allies with their foes there shall not be given food, arms, money, or ships, as it has seemed good to Rome; and they shall keep these ordinances, and that without deceit.
1 Maccabees 8.29: 29 According to these words have the Romans made a covenant thus with the people of the Jews.
1 Maccabees 8.30: 30 But if hereafter the one party and the other shall take counsel to add or diminish anything, they shall do it at their pleasure, and whatever they shall add or take away shall be established.
1 Maccabees 8.31: 31 And as touching the evils which king Demetrius does to them, we have written to him, saying, Wherefore have you made your yoke heavy upon our friends and allies the Jews?
1 Maccabees 8.32: 32 If therefore they plead any more against you, we will do them justice, and fight with you by sea and by land.
1 Maccabees 9.0:
1 Maccabees 9.1: 9And Demetrius heard that Nicanor was fallen with his forces in battle, and he sent Bacchides and Alcimus again into the land of Judah a second time, and the right wing of his army with them:
1 Maccabees 9.2: 2 and they went by the way that leads to Gilgal, and encamped against Mesaloth, which is in Arbela, and got possession of it, and destroyed much people.
1 Maccabees 9.3: 3 And the first month of 1 the hundred and fifty and second year they encamped against Jerusalem:
1 Maccabees 9.4: 4 and they removed, and went to Berea, with twenty thousand footmen and two thousand horse.
1 Maccabees 9.5: 5 And Judas was encamped at Elasa, and three thousand chosen men with him:
1 Maccabees 9.6: 6 and they saw the multitude of the forces, that they were many, and they feared exceedingly: and many slipped away out of the army; there were not left of them more than eight hundred men.
1 Maccabees 9.7: 7 And Judas saw that his army slipped away, and that the battle pressed upon him, and he was sore troubled in heart, for that he had no time to gather them together, and he waxed faint.
1 Maccabees 9.8: 8 And he said to those who were left, Let’s arise and go up against our adversaries, if perhaps we may be able to fight with them.
1 Maccabees 9.9: 9 And they would have dissuaded him, saying, We shall in no wise be able: but let’s rather save our lives now: let’s return again, we and our kindred, and fight against them: but we are few.
1 Maccabees 9.10: 10 And Judas said, let it not be so that I should do this thing, to flee from them: and if our time is come, let’s die in a manly way for our kindred’s sake, and not leave a cause of reproach against our glory.
1 Maccabees 9.11: 11 And the army removed from the camp, and stood to encounter them, and the horse was parted into two companies, and the slingers and the archers went before the army, and all the mighty men that fought in the front of the battle.
1 Maccabees 9.12: 12 But Bacchides was in the right wing; and the phalanx drew near on the two parts, and they blew with their trumpets.
1 Maccabees 9.13: 13 And the men of Judas’ side, even they sounded with their trumpets, and the earth shook with the shout of the armies, and the battle was joined, and continued from morning until evening.
1 Maccabees 9.14: 14 And Judas saw that Bacchides and the strength of his army were on the right side, and there went with him all that were brave in heart,
1 Maccabees 9.15: 15 and the right wing was discomfited by them, and he pursued after them to the mount Azotus.
1 Maccabees 9.16: 16 And those who were on the left wing saw that the right wing was discomfited, and they turned and followed upon the footsteps of Judas and of those that were with him:
1 Maccabees 9.17: 17 and the battle waxed sore, and many on both parts fell wounded to death.
1 Maccabees 9.18: 18 And Judas fell, and the rest fled.
1 Maccabees 9.19: 19 And Jonathan and Simon took Judas their brother, and buried him in the sepulchre of his fathers at Modin.
1 Maccabees 9.20: 20 And they bewailed him, and all Israel made great lamentation for him, and mourned many days, and said,
1 Maccabees 9.21: 21 How is the mighty fallen, the savior of Israel!
1 Maccabees 9.22: 22 And the rest of the acts of Judas, and his wars, and the valiant deeds which he did, and his greatness, they are not written; for they were exceedingly many.
1 Maccabees 9.23: 23 And it came to pass after the death of Judas, that the lawless put forth their heads in all the coasts of Israel, and all those who did iniquity rose up
1 Maccabees 9.24: 24 (in those days there was an exceedingly great famine), and the country went over with them.
1 Maccabees 9.25: 25 And Bacchides chose out the ungodly men, and made them lords of the country.
1 Maccabees 9.26: 26 And they sought out and searched for the friends of Judas, and brought them to Bacchides, and he took vengeance on them, and used them despitefully.
1 Maccabees 9.27: 27 And there was great suffering in Israel, such as was not since the time that no prophet appeared to them.
1 Maccabees 9.28: 28 And all the friends of Judas were gathered together, and they said to Jonathan,
1 Maccabees 9.29: 29 Since your brother Judas has died, we have no man like him to go forth against our enemies and Bacchides, and among them of our nation that hate us.
1 Maccabees 9.30: 30 Now therefore we have chosen you this day to be our prince and leader in his stead, that you may fight our battles.
1 Maccabees 9.31: 31 And Jonathan took the governance upon him at that time, and rose up in the stead of his brother Judas.
1 Maccabees 9.32: 32 And Bacchides knew it, and he sought to kill him.
1 Maccabees 9.33: 33 And Jonathan, and Simon his brother, and all that were with him, knew it; and they fled into the wilderness of Tekoah, and encamped by the water of the pool Asphar.
1 Maccabees 9.34: 34 And Bacchides knew it on the Sabbath day, and came, he and all his army, over Jordan.
1 Maccabees 9.35: 35 And Jonathan sent his brother, a leader of the multitude, and implored his friends the Nabathaeans, that they might leave with them their baggage, which was much.
1 Maccabees 9.36: 36 And the children of Jambri came out of Medaba, and took John, and all that he had, and went their way with it.
1 Maccabees 9.37: 37 But after these things they brought word to Jonathan and Simon his brother, that the children of Jambri were making a great marriage, and were bringing the bride from Nadabath with a great train, a daughter of one of the great nobles of Canaan.
1 Maccabees 9.38: 38 And they remembered John their brother, and went up, and hid themselves under the covert of the mountain:
1 Maccabees 9.39: 39 and they lifted up their eyes, and saw, and, behold, a great ado and much baggage: and the bridegroom came forth, and his friends and his kindred, to meet them with timbrels, and minstrels, and many weapons.
1 Maccabees 9.40: 40 And they rose up against them from their ambush, and killed them, and many fell wounded to death, and the remnant fled into the mountain, and they took all their spoils.
1 Maccabees 9.41: 41 And the marriage was turned into mourning, and the voice of their minstrels into lamentation.
1 Maccabees 9.42: 42 And they avenged fully the blood of their brother, and turned back to the marsh of Jordan.
1 Maccabees 9.43: 43 And Bacchides heard it, and he came on the Sabbath day to the banks of Jordan with a great army.
1 Maccabees 9.44: 44 And Jonathan said to his company, Let’s stand up now and fight for our lives, for it is not with us today, as yesterday and the day before.
1 Maccabees 9.45: 45 For, behold, the battle is before us and behind us; moreover the water of the Jordan is on this side and on that side, and marsh and wood; and there is no place to escape.
1 Maccabees 9.46: 46 Now therefore cry to heaven, that you° may be delivered out of the hand of your enemies.
1 Maccabees 9.47: 47 And the battle was joined, and Jonathan stretched forth his hand to strike Bacchides, and he turned away back from him.
1 Maccabees 9.48: 48 And Jonathan and those who were with him leapt into the Jordan, and swam over to the other side: and they didn’t pass over Jordan against them.
1 Maccabees 9.49: 49 And there fell of Bacchides’ company that day about a thousand men;
1 Maccabees 9.50: 50 and he returned to Jerusalem. And they built strong cities in Judea, the stronghold that was in Jericho, and Emmaus, and Bethhoron, and Bethel, and Timnath, Pharathon, and Tephon, with high walls and gates and bars.
1 Maccabees 9.51: 51 And in them he set a garrison, to vex Israel.
1 Maccabees 9.52: 52 And he fortified the city Bethsura, and Gazara, and the citadel, and put forces in them, and store of food.
1 Maccabees 9.53: 53 And he took the sons of the chief men of the country for hostages, and put them in ward in the citadel at Jerusalem.
1 Maccabees 9.54: 54 And in 2 the hundred and fifty and third year, in the second month, Alcimus commanded to pull down the wall of the inner court of the sanctuary; he pulled down also the works of the prophets;
1 Maccabees 9.55: 55 and he began to pull down. At that time was Alcimus stricken, and his works were hindered; and his mouth was stopped, and he was taken with a palsy, and he could no more speak anything and give order concerning his house.
1 Maccabees 9.56: 56 And Alcimus died at that time with great torment.
1 Maccabees 9.57: 57 And Bacchides saw that Alcimus was dead, and he returned to the king: and the land of Judah had rest two years.
1 Maccabees 9.58: 58 And all the lawless men took counsel, saying, Behold, Jonathan and they of his part are dwelling at ease, and in security: now therefore we will bring Bacchides, and he shall lay hands on them all in one night.
1 Maccabees 9.59: 59 And they went and consulted with him.
1 Maccabees 9.60: 60 And he removed, and came with a great army, and sent letters privily to all his allies that were in Judea, that they should lay hands on Jonathan and those that were with him: and they could not, because their counsel was known to them.
1 Maccabees 9.61: 61 And those who were of Jonathan’s part laid hands on about fifty of the men of the country, that were authors of the wickedness, and he killed them.
1 Maccabees 9.62: 62 And Jonathan, and Simon, and those who were with him, got them away to Bethbasi, which is in the wilderness, and he built up that which had been pulled down thereof, and they made it strong.
1 Maccabees 9.63: 63 And Bacchides knew it, and he gathered together all his multitude, and sent word to those who were of Judea.
1 Maccabees 9.64: 64 And he went and encamped against Bethbasi, and fought against it many days, and made engines of war.
1 Maccabees 9.65: 65 And Jonathan left his brother Simon in the city, and went forth into the country, and he went with a few men.
1 Maccabees 9.66: 66 And he struck Odomera and his kindred, and the children of Phasiron in their tent.
1 Maccabees 9.67: 67 And they began to strike them, and to go up with their forces. And Simon and those who were with him went out of the city, and set on fire the engines of war,
1 Maccabees 9.68: 68 and fought against Bacchides, and he was discomfited by them, and they afflicted him sore; for his counsel was in vain, and his inroad.
1 Maccabees 9.69: 69 And they were very angry with the lawless men that gave him counsel to come into the country, and they killed many of them. And he took counsel to depart into his own land.
1 Maccabees 9.70: 70 And Jonathan had knowledge thereof, and sent ambassadors to him, to the end that they should make peace with him, and that he should restore to them the captives.
1 Maccabees 9.71: 71 And he accepted the thing, and did according to his words, and sware to him that he would not seek his hurt all the days of his life.
1 Maccabees 9.72: 72 And he restored to him the captives which he had taken aforetime out of the land of Judah, and he returned and departed into his own land, and came not any more into their borders.
1 Maccabees 9.73: 73 And the sword ceased from Israel. And Jonathan lived at Michmash; and Jonathan began to judge the people; and he destroyed the ungodly out of Israel.
1 Maccabees 10.0:
1 Maccabees 10.1: 10And in 1 the hundred and sixties year Alexander Epiphanes, the son of Antiochus, went up and took possession of Ptolemais: and they received him, and he reigned there.
1 Maccabees 10.2: 2 And king Demetrius heard thereof, and he gathered together exceedingly great forces, and went forth to meet him in battle.
1 Maccabees 10.3: 3 And Demetrius sent letters to Jonathan with words of peace, so as to magnify him.
1 Maccabees 10.4: 4 For he said, let’s go beforehand to make peace with them, before he makes peace with Alexander against us:
1 Maccabees 10.5: 5 for he will remember all the evils that we have done against him, and to his kindred and to his nation.
1 Maccabees 10.6: 6 And he gave him authority to gather together forces, and to provide arms, and that he should be his ally: and he commanded that they should deliver up to him the hostages that were in the citadel.
1 Maccabees 10.7: 7 And Jonathan came to Jerusalem, and read the letters in the audience of all the people, and of those who were in the citadel:
1 Maccabees 10.8: 8 and they were sore afraid, when they heard that the king had given him authority to gather together an army.
1 Maccabees 10.9: 9 And they of the citadel delivered up the hostages to Jonathan, and he restored them to their parents.
1 Maccabees 10.10: 10 And Jonathan lived in Jerusalem, and began to build and renew the city.
1 Maccabees 10.11: 11 And he commanded those who did the work to build the walls and the mount Sion round about with 2 square stones for defense; and they did so.
1 Maccabees 10.12: 12 And the strangers, that were in the strongholds which Bacchides had built, fled away;
1 Maccabees 10.13: 13 and each man left his place, and departed into his own land.
1 Maccabees 10.14: 14 Only at Bethsura were there left certain of those that had forsaken the law and the commandments; for it was a place of refuge to them.
1 Maccabees 10.15: 15 And king Alexander heard all the promises which Demetrius had sent to Jonathan: and they told him of the battles and the valiant deeds which he and his kindred had done, and of the toils which they had endured;
1 Maccabees 10.16: 16 And he said, Shall we find such another man? and now we will make him our 3 Friend and ally.
1 Maccabees 10.17: 17 And he wrote letters, and sent them to him, according to these words, saying,
1 Maccabees 10.18: 18 King Alexander to his brother Jonathan, greeting:
1 Maccabees 10.19: 19 We have heard of you, that you are a mighty man of valour, and meet to be our 4 Friend.
1 Maccabees 10.20: 20 And now we have appointed you this day to be high priest of your nation, and to be called the king’s 5 Friend (and he sent to him a purple robe and a crown of gold), and to take our part, and to keep friendship with us.
1 Maccabees 10.21: 21 And Jonathan put on the holy garments in the seventh month of 6 the hundred and sixties year, at the feast of tabernacles, and he gathered together forces, and provided arms in abundance.
1 Maccabees 10.22: 22 And Demetrius heard these things, and he was grieved, and said,
1 Maccabees 10.23: 23 What is this that we have done, that Alexander has been beforehand with us in establishing friendship with the Jews, to strengthen himself?
1 Maccabees 10.24: 24 I also will write to them words of encouragement and of honor and of gifts, that they may be with me to aid me.
1 Maccabees 10.25: 25 And he sent to them according to these words:
King Demetrius to the nation of the Jews, greeting:
1 Maccabees 10.26: 26 Forasmuch as you° have kept your covenants with us, and continued in our friendship, and have not joined yourselves to our enemies, we have heard of this, and are glad.
1 Maccabees 10.27: 27 And now continue you° still to keep faith with us, and we will recompense to you good things in return for your dealings with us,
1 Maccabees 10.28: 28 and will grant you many immunities, and give you gifts.
1 Maccabees 10.29: 29 And now do I free you, and release all the Jews, from the tributes, and from the customs of salt, and from the crowns.
1 Maccabees 10.30: 30 And instead of the third part of the seed, and instead of the half of the fruit of the trees, which falls to me to receive, I release it from this day and henceforth, so that I will not take it from the land of Judah, and from the three governments which are added thereto from the country of Samaria and Galilee, from this day forth and for all time.
1 Maccabees 10.31: 31 And let Jerusalem be holy and free, and her borders; the tenths and the tolls also.
1 Maccabees 10.32: 32 I yield up also my authority over the citadel which is at Jerusalem, and give it to the high priest, that he may appoint in it such men as he shall choose to keep it.
1 Maccabees 10.33: 33 And every soul of the Jews, that has been carried captive from the land of Judah into any part of my kingdom, I set at liberty without price; and let all remit the tributes of their cattle also.
1 Maccabees 10.34: 34 And all the feasts, and the Sabbaths, and new moons, and appointed days, and three days before a feast, and three days after a feast, let them all be days of immunity and release for all the Jews that are in my kingdom.
1 Maccabees 10.35: 35 And no man shall have authority to exact from any of them, or to trouble them concerning any matter.
1 Maccabees 10.36: 36 And let there be enrolled among the king’s forces about thirty thousand men of the Jews, and pay shall be given to them, as belongs to all the king’s forces.
1 Maccabees 10.37: 37 And of them some shall be placed in the king’s great strongholds, and some of them shall be placed over the affairs of the kingdom, which are of trust: and let those that are over them, and their rulers, be of themselves, and let them walk after their own laws, even as the king has commanded in the land of Judah.
1 Maccabees 10.38: 38 And the three governments that have been added to Judea from the country of Samaria, let them be added to Judea, that they may be reckoned to be under one, that they may not obey other authority than the high priest’s.
1 Maccabees 10.39: 39 As for Ptolemais, and the land pertaining thereto, I have given it as a gift to the sanctuary that is at Jerusalem, for the expenses that befit the sanctuary.
1 Maccabees 10.40: 40 And I give every year fifteen thousand shekels of silver from the king’s revenues from the places that are convenient.
1 Maccabees 10.41: 41 And all the overplus, which those who manage the king’s affairs paid not in as in the first years, they shall give from henceforth toward the works of the house.
1 Maccabees 10.42: 42 And beside this, the five thousand shekels of silver, which they received from the uses of the sanctuary from the revenue year by year, this also is released, because it appertains to the priests that minister.
1 Maccabees 10.43: 43 And whoever shall flee to the temple that is at Jerusalem, and be found within all the borders thereof, whether one owe moneys to the king, or any other matter, let them go free, and all that they have in my kingdom.
1 Maccabees 10.44: 44 And for the building and renewing of the works of the sanctuary the expense shall be given also out of the king’s revenue.
1 Maccabees 10.45: 45 And for the building of the walls of Jerusalem, and the fortifying thereof round about, shall the expense be given also out of the king’s revenue, and for the building of the walls in Judea.
1 Maccabees 10.46: 46 Now when Jonathan and the people heard these words, they gave no credence to them, nor received them, because they remembered the great evil which he had done in Israel, and that he had afflicted them very sore.
1 Maccabees 10.47: 47 And they were well pleased with Alexander, because he was the first that spoke words of peace to them, and they were allies with him always.
1 Maccabees 10.48: 48 And king Alexander gathered together great forces, and encamped near Demetrius.
1 Maccabees 10.49: 49 And the two kings joined battle, and the army of Alexander fled; and Demetrius followed after him, and prevailed against them.
1 Maccabees 10.50: 50 And he strengthened the battle exceedingly until the sun went down: and Demetrius fell that day.
1 Maccabees 10.51: 51 And Alexander sent ambassadors to Ptolemy king of Egypt according to these words, saying,
1 Maccabees 10.52: 52 Forasmuch as I am returned to my kingdom, and am set on the throne of my fathers, and have gotten the dominion, and have overthrown Demetrius, and have gotten possession of our country;
1 Maccabees 10.53: 53 yes, I joined the battle with him, and he and his army were discomfited by us, and we sat upon the throne of his kingdom:
1 Maccabees 10.54: 54 now also let’s make friends with one another, and give me now your daughter to wife: and I will be joined with you, and will give both you and her gifts worthy of you.
1 Maccabees 10.55: 55 And Ptolemy the king answered, saying, Happy is the day wherein you did return into the land of your fathers, and did sit on the throne of their kingdom.
1 Maccabees 10.56: 56 And now I will do to you, as you have written: but meet me at Ptolemais, that we may see one another; and I will join with you, even as you have said.
1 Maccabees 10.57: 57 And Ptolemy went out of Egypt, himself and Cleopatra his daughter, and came to Ptolemais in 7 the hundred and threescore and second year:
1 Maccabees 10.58: 58 and king Alexander met him, and he bestowed on him his daughter Cleopatra, and celebrated her wedding at Ptolemais with great pomp, as the manner of kings is.
1 Maccabees 10.59: 59 And king Alexander wrote to Jonathan, that he should come to meet him.
1 Maccabees 10.60: 60 And he went with pomp to Ptolemais, and met the two kings, and gave them and their 8 Friends silver and gold, and many gifts, and found favor in their sight.
1 Maccabees 10.61: 61 And there were gathered together against him certain pestilent fellows out of Israel, men that were transgressors of the law, to complain against him: and the king gave no heed to them.
1 Maccabees 10.62: 62 And the king commanded, and they took off Jonathan’s garments, and clothed him in purple: and thus they did.
1 Maccabees 10.63: 63 And the king made him sit with him, and said to his princes, Go forth with him into the midst of the city, and make proclamation, that no man complain against him of any matter, and let no man trouble him for any manner of cause.
1 Maccabees 10.64: 64 And it came to pass, when those who complained against him saw his glory according as the herald made proclamation, and saw him clothed in purple, they all fled away.
1 Maccabees 10.65: 65 And the king gave him honor, and wrote him among his 9 Chief Friends, and made him a captain, and governor of a province.
1 Maccabees 10.66: 66 And Jonathan returned to Jerusalem with peace and gladness.
1 Maccabees 10.67: 67 And in 1 the hundred and threescore and fifth year came Demetrius, son of Demetrius, out of Crete into the land of his fathers:
1 Maccabees 10.68: 68 and king Alexander heard thereof, and he grieved exceedingly, and returned to Antioch.
1 Maccabees 10.69: 69 And Demetrius appointed Apollonius, who was over Coelesyria, and he gathered together a great army, and encamped in Jamnia, and sent to Jonathan the high priest, saying,
1 Maccabees 10.70: 70 You alone lift up yourself against us, but I am had in derision and in reproach because of you. And why do you vaunt your power against us in the mountains?
1 Maccabees 10.71: 71 Now therefore, if you trust in your forces, come down to us into the plain, and there let’s try the matter together; for with me is the power of the cities.
1 Maccabees 10.72: 72 Ask and learn who I am, and the rest that help us; and they say, Your foot can’t stand before our face; for your fathers have been twice put to flight in their own land.
1 Maccabees 10.73: 73 And now you shall not be able to withstand the horse and such an army as this in the plain, where is neither stone nor flint, nor place to flee to.
1 Maccabees 10.74: 74 Now when Jonathan heard the words of Apollonius, he was moved in his mind, and he chose out ten thousand men, and went forth from Jerusalem, and Simon his brother met him for to help him.
1 Maccabees 10.75: 75 And he encamped against Joppa: and they of the city shut him out, because Apollonius had a garrison in Joppa:
1 Maccabees 10.76: 76 and they fought against it. And they of the city were afraid, and opened to him: and Jonathan became master of Joppa.
1 Maccabees 10.77: 77 And Apollonius heard, and he gathered an army of three thousand horse, and a great army, and went to Azotus as though he were on a journey, and therewithal drew onward into the plain, because he had a multitude of horse, and trusted therein.
1 Maccabees 10.78: 78 And he pursued after him to Azotus, and the armies joined battle2.
1 Maccabees 10.79: 79 And Apollonius had left a thousand horse behind them privily.
1 Maccabees 10.80: 80 And Jonathan knew that there was an ambushment behind him. And they compassed round his army, and cast their darts at the people, from morning until evening:
1 Maccabees 10.81: 81 but the people stood still, as Jonathan commanded them: and their horses were wearied.
1 Maccabees 10.82: 82 And Simon drew forth his army, and joined battle with the phalanx (for the horsemen were spent), and they were discomfited by him, and fled.
1 Maccabees 10.83: 83 And the horsemen were scattered in the plain, and they fled to Azotus, and entered into Beth-dagon, their idol’s temple, to save themselves.
1 Maccabees 10.84: 84 And Jonathan burned Azotus, and the cities round about it, and took their spoils; and the temple of Dagon, and those who fled into it, he burned with fire.
1 Maccabees 10.85: 85 And those who had fallen by the sword, with those who were burned, were about eight thousand men.
1 Maccabees 10.86: 86 And from thence Jonathan removed, and encamped against Ascalon, and they of the city came forth to meet him with great pomp.
1 Maccabees 10.87: 87 And Jonathan, with those who were on his side, returned to Jerusalem, having many spoils.
1 Maccabees 10.88: 88 And it came to pass, when king Alexander heard these things, he honored Jonathan yet more;
1 Maccabees 10.89: 89 and he sent to him a buckle of gold, as the use is to give to such as are of the kindred of the kings: and he gave him Ekron and all the coasts thereof for a possession.
1 Maccabees 11.0:
1 Maccabees 11.1: 11And the king of Egypt gathered together great forces, as the sand which is by the sea shore, and many ships, and sought to make himself master of Alexander’s kingdom by deceit, and to add it to his own kingdom.
1 Maccabees 11.2: 2 And he went forth into Syria with words of peace, and they of the cities opened to him, and met him; For king Alexander’s commandment was that they should meet him, because he was his father-in-law.
1 Maccabees 11.3: 3 Now as he entered into the cities of Ptolemais, he set his forces for a garrison in each city.
1 Maccabees 11.4: 4 But when he came near to Azotus, they showed him the temple of Dagon burned with fire, and Azotus and the pasture lands thereof pulled down, and the bodies cast abroad, and those who had been burned, whom he burned in the war, for they had made heaps of them in his way.
1 Maccabees 11.5: 5 And they told the king what things Jonathan had done, that they might cast blame on him: and the king held his peace.
1 Maccabees 11.6: 6 And Jonathan met the king with pomp at Joppa, and they saluted one another, and they slept there.
1 Maccabees 11.7: 7 And Jonathan went with the king as far as the river that is called Eleutherus, and returned to Jerusalem.
1 Maccabees 11.8: 8 But king Ptolemy became master of the cities upon the sea coast, to Selucia which is by the sea, and he devised evil plans concerning Alexander.
1 Maccabees 11.9: 9 And he sent ambassadors to king Demetrius, saying, Come! Let’s make a covenant with one another, and I will give you my daughter whom Alexander has, and you shall reign over your father’s kingdom;
1 Maccabees 11.10: 10 for I have repented that I gave my daughter to him, for he sought to kill me.
1 Maccabees 11.11: 11 And he cast blame on him, because he coveted his kingdom.
1 Maccabees 11.12: 12 And taking his daughter from him, he gave her to Demetrius, and was estranged from Alexander, and their enmity was openly seen.
1 Maccabees 11.13: 13 And Ptolemy entered into Antioch, and put on himself the diadem of Asia; and he put two diadems upon his head, the diadem of Egypt and that of Asia.
1 Maccabees 11.14: 14 But king Alexander was in Cilicia at that season, because they of those parts were in revolt.
1 Maccabees 11.15: 15 And Alexander heard of it, and he came against him in war: and Ptolemy led forth his army, and met him with a strong force, and put him to flight.
1 Maccabees 11.16: 16 And Alexander fled into Arabia, that he might be sheltered there; but king Ptolemy was exalted.
1 Maccabees 11.17: 17 And Zabdiel the Arabian took off Alexander’s head, and sent it to Ptolemy.
1 Maccabees 11.18: 18 And king Ptolemy died the third day after, and those who were in his strongholds were slain by those who were in the strongholds.
1 Maccabees 11.19: 19 And Demetrius reigned in 1 the hundred and threescore and seventh year.
1 Maccabees 11.20: 20 In those days Jonathan gathered together them of Judea, to take the citadel that was at Jerusalem: and he made many engines of war against it.
1 Maccabees 11.21: 21 And certain that hated their own nation, men that transgressed the law, went to the king, and reported to him that Jonathan was besieging the citadel.
1 Maccabees 11.22: 22 And he heard, and was angered; but when he heard it, he set forth immediately, and came to Ptolemais, and wrote to Jonathan, that he should not besiege it, and that he should meet him and speak with him at Ptolemais with all speed.
1 Maccabees 11.23: 23 But when Jonathan heard this, he commanded to besiege it still: and he chose certain of the elders of Israel and of the priests, and put himself in peril,
1 Maccabees 11.24: 24 and taking silver and gold and raiment and various presents besides, went to Ptolemais to the king. And he found favor in his sight.
1 Maccabees 11.25: 25 And certain lawless men of those who were of the nation made complaints against him,
1 Maccabees 11.26: 26 and the king did to him even as his predecessors had done to him, and exalted him in the sight of all his 2 Friends,
1 Maccabees 11.27: 27 and confirmed to him the high priesthood, and all the other honors that he had before, and gave him preeminence among his 3 Chief Friends.
1 Maccabees 11.28: 28 And Jonathan requested of the king, that he would make Judea free from tribute, and the three 4 provinces, and the country of Samaria; and promised him three hundred talents.
1 Maccabees 11.29: 29 And the king consented, and wrote letters to Jonathan concerning all these things after this manner:
1 Maccabees 11.30: 30 King Demetrius to his brother Jonathan, and to the nation of the Jews, greeting:
1 Maccabees 11.31: 31 The copy of the letter which we wrote to Lasthenes our kinsman concerning you, we have written also to you, that you° may see it.
1 Maccabees 11.32: 32 King Demetrius to Lasthenes his father, greeting:
1 Maccabees 11.33: 33 We have determined to do good to the nation of the Jews, who are our friends, and observe what is just toward us, because of their good will toward us.
1 Maccabees 11.34: 34 We have confirmed therefore to them the borders of Judea, and also the three governments of Aphaerema and Lydda and Ramathaim (these were added to Judea from the country of Samaria), and all things appertaining to them, for all such as do sacrifice in Jerusalem, instead of the king’s dues which the king received of them yearly aforetime from the produce of the earth and the fruits of trees.
1 Maccabees 11.35: 35 And as for the other things that pertain to us from henceforth, of the tenths and the tolls that pertain to us, and the salt pits, and the crowns that pertain to us, all these we will bestow upon them.
1 Maccabees 11.36: 36 And not one of these things shall be annulled from this time forth and forever.
1 Maccabees 11.37: 37 Now therefore be careful to make a copy of these things, and let it be given to Jonathan, and let it be set up on the holy mount in a meet and conspicuous place.
1 Maccabees 11.38: 38 And king Demetrius saw that the land was quiet before him, and that no resistance was made to him, and he sent away all his forces, each man to his own place, except the foreign forces, which he had raised from the isles of the Gentiles: and all the forces of his fathers hated him.
1 Maccabees 11.39: 39 Now Tryphon was of those who aforetime had been of Alexander’s part, and he saw that all the forces murmured against Demetrius, and he went to Imalcue the Arabian, who was nourishing up Antiochus the young child of Alexander,
1 Maccabees 11.40: 40 and pressed sore upon him that he should deliver him to him, that he might reign in his father’s stead: and he told him all that Demetrius had done, and the hatred wherewith his forces hated him; and he abode there many days.
1 Maccabees 11.41: 41 And Jonathan sent to king Demetrius, that he should cast out of Jerusalem them of the citadel, and those who were in the strongholds; for they fought against Israel continually.
1 Maccabees 11.42: 42 And Demetrius sent to Jonathan, saying, I will not only do this for you and your nation, but I will greatly honor you and your nation, if I find fair occasion.
1 Maccabees 11.43: 43 Now therefore you shall do well, if you send me men who shall fight for me; for all my forces are revolted.
1 Maccabees 11.44: 44 And Jonathan sent him three thousand valiant men to Antioch: and they came to the king, and the king was glad at their coming.
1 Maccabees 11.45: 45 And they of the city gathered themselves together into the midst of the city, to the number of a hundred and twenty thousand men, and they were minded to kill the king.
1 Maccabees 11.46: 46 And the king fled into the court of the palace, and they of the city seized the passages of the city, and began to fight.
1 Maccabees 11.47: 47 And the king called the Jews to help him, and they were gathered together to him all at once, and they dispersed themselves in the city, and killed that day to the number of a hundred thousand.
1 Maccabees 11.48: 48 And they set the city on fire, and got many spoils that day, and saved the king.
1 Maccabees 11.49: 49 And they of the city saw that the Jews had made themselves masters of the city as they would, and they waxed faint in their hearts, and they cried out to the king with supplication, saying,
1 Maccabees 11.50: 50 Give us your right hand, and let the Jews cease from fighting against us and the city.
1 Maccabees 11.51: 51 And they cast away their arms, and made peace; and the Jews were glorified in the sight of the king, and before all that were in his kingdom; and they returned to Jerusalem, having many spoils.
1 Maccabees 11.52: 52 And king Demetrius sat on the throne of his kingdom, and the land was quiet before him.
1 Maccabees 11.53: 53 And he lied in all that he spoke, and estranged himself from Jonathan, and recompensed him not according to the benefits with which he had recompensed him, and afflicted him exceedingly.
1 Maccabees 11.54: 54 Now after this Tryphon returned, and with him the young child Antiochus; and he reigned, and put on a diadem.
1 Maccabees 11.55: 55 And there were gathered to him all the forces which Demetrius had sent away with disgrace, and they fought against him, and he fled and was put to the rout.
1 Maccabees 11.56: 56 And Tryphon took the elephants, and became master of Antioch.
1 Maccabees 11.57: 57 And the young Antiochus wrote to Jonathan, saying, I confirm to you the high priesthood, and appoint you over the four governments, and to be one of the king’s 5 Friends.
1 Maccabees 11.58: 58 And he sent to him golden vessels and furniture for the table, and gave him leave to drink in golden vessels, and to be clothed in purple, and to have a golden buckle.
1 Maccabees 11.59: 59 And his brother Simon he made captain from the Ladder of Tyre to the borders of Egypt.
1 Maccabees 11.60: 60 And Jonathan went forth, and took his journey beyond the river and through the cities; and all the forces of Syria gathered themselves to him for to be his allies. And he came to Ascalon, and they of the city met him honorably.
1 Maccabees 11.61: 61 And he departed thence to Gaza, and they of Gaza shut him out; and he laid siege to it, and burned the pasture lands thereof with fire, and plundered them.
1 Maccabees 11.62: 62 And they of Gaza made request to Jonathan, and he gave them his right hand, and took the sons of their princes for hostages, and sent them away to Jerusalem; and he passed through the country as far as Damascus.
1 Maccabees 11.63: 63 And Jonathan heard that Demetrius’ princes were come to Kedesh, which is in Galilee, with a great army, purposing to remove him from his office;
1 Maccabees 11.64: 64 and he went to meet them, but Simon his brother he left in the country.
1 Maccabees 11.65: 65 And Simon encamped against Bethsura, and fought against it many days, and shut it up:
1 Maccabees 11.66: 66 and they made request to him that he would give them his right hand, and he gave it to them; and he put them out from thence, and took possession of the city, and set a garrison over it.
1 Maccabees 11.67: 67 And Jonathan and his army encamped at the water of Gennesareth, and early in the morning they got them to the plain of Hazor.
1 Maccabees 11.68: 68 And, behold, an army of strangers met him in the plain, and they laid an ambush for him in the mountains, but themselves met him face to face.
1 Maccabees 11.69: 69 But those who lay in ambush rose out of their places, and joined battle; and all those who were of Jonathan’s side fled:
1 Maccabees 11.70: 70 not one of them was left, except Mattathias the son of Absalom, and Judas the son of Chalphi, captains of the forces.
1 Maccabees 11.71: 71 And Jonathan tore his clothes, and put earth upon his head, and prayed.
1 Maccabees 11.72: 72 And he turned again to them in battle, and put them to the rout, and they fled.
1 Maccabees 11.73: 73 And they of his side that fled saw it, and returned to him, and pursued with him to Kedesh to their camp, and they encamped there.
1 Maccabees 11.74: 74 And there fell of the strangers on that day about three thousand men: and Jonathan returned to Jerusalem.
1 Maccabees 12.0:
1 Maccabees 12.1: 12And Jonathan saw that the time served him, and he chose men, and sent them to Rome, to confirm and renew the friendship that they had with them.
1 Maccabees 12.2: 2 And to the Spartans, and to other places, he sent letters after the same manner.
1 Maccabees 12.3: 3 And they went to Rome, and entered into the senate house, and said, Jonathan the high priest, and the nation of the Jews, have sent us, to renew for them the friendship and the confederacy, as in former time.
1 Maccabees 12.4: 4 And they gave them letters to the men in every place, that they should bring them on their way to the land of Judah in peace.
1 Maccabees 12.5: 5 And this is the copy of the letters which Jonathan wrote to the Spartans:
1 Maccabees 12.6: 6 Jonathan the high priest, and the senate of the nation, and the priests, and the rest of the people of the Jews, to their kindred the Spartans, greeting:
1 Maccabees 12.7: 7 Even before this time were letters sent to Onias the high priest from 1 Arius, who was reigning among you, to signify that you° are our kindred, as the copy written below shows.
1 Maccabees 12.8: 8 And Onias entreated honorably the man that was sent, and received the letters, wherein declaration was made of confederacy and friendship.
1 Maccabees 12.9: 9 Therefore we also, albeit we need none of these things, having for our encouragement the holy books which are in our hands,
1 Maccabees 12.10: 10 have assayed to send that we might renew our brotherhood and friendship with you, to the end that we should not become estranged from you altogether: for long time is passed since you° sent to us.
1 Maccabees 12.11: 11 We therefore at all times without ceasing, both in our feasts, and on the other convenient days, do remember you in the sacrifices which we offer, and in our prayers, as it is right and meet to be mindful of kindred:
1 Maccabees 12.12: 12 and moreover are glad for your glory.
1 Maccabees 12.13: 13 But as for ourselves, many afflictions and many wars have encompassed us, and the kings that are round about us have fought against us.
1 Maccabees 12.14: 14 We were not minded therefore to be troublesome to you, and to the rest of our allies and friends, in these wars;
1 Maccabees 12.15: 15 for we have the help which is from heaven to help us, and we have been delivered from our enemies, and our enemies have been brought low.
1 Maccabees 12.16: 16 We chose therefore Numenius the son of Antiochus, and Antipater the son of Jason, and have sent them to the Romans, to renew the friendship that we had with them, and the former confederacy.
1 Maccabees 12.17: 17 We commanded them therefore to go also to you, and to salute you, and to deliver you our letters concerning the renewing of friendship and our brotherhood.
1 Maccabees 12.18: 18 And now you° shall do well if you° give us an answer thereto.
1 Maccabees 12.19: 19 And this is the copy of the letters which they sent to Onias:
1 Maccabees 12.20: 20 Arius king of the Spartans to Onias the chief priest, greeting:
1 Maccabees 12.21: 21 It has been found in writing, concerning the Spartans and the Jews, that they are kindred, and that they are of the stock of Abraham:
1 Maccabees 12.22: 22 and now, since this is come to our knowledge, you° shall do well to write to us of your 2 prosperity.
1 Maccabees 12.23: 23 And we moreover do write on our part to you, that your cattle and goods are ours, and ours are yours. We do command therefore that they make report to you on this wise.
1 Maccabees 12.24: 24 And Jonathan heard that Demetrius’ princes were returned to fight against him with a greater army than before,
1 Maccabees 12.25: 25 and he removed from Jerusalem, and met them in the country of Hamath; for he gave them no respite to set foot in his country.
1 Maccabees 12.26: 26 And he sent spies into his camp, and they came again, and reported to him that they were appointed in such and such a way to fall upon them in the night season.
1 Maccabees 12.27: 27 But as soon as the sun was down, Jonathan commanded his men to watch, and to be in arms, that all the night long they might be ready for battle: and he put forth sentinels round about the camp.
1 Maccabees 12.28: 28 And the adversaries heard that Jonathan and his men were ready for battle, and they feared, and trembled in their hearts, and they kindled fires in their camp 3
1 Maccabees 12.29: 29 But Jonathan and his men knew it not till the morning; for they saw the lights burning.
1 Maccabees 12.30: 30 And Jonathan pursued after them, and overtook them not; for they were gone over the river Eleutherus.
1 Maccabees 12.31: 31 And Jonathan turned toward the Arabians, who are called Zabadaeans, and struck them, and took their spoils.
1 Maccabees 12.32: 32 And he came out from thence, and came to Damascus, and took his journey through all the country.
1 Maccabees 12.33: 33 And Simon went forth, and took his journey as far as Ascalon, and the strongholds that were near to it. And he turned toward Joppa, and took possession of it;
1 Maccabees 12.34: 34 for he had heard that they were minded to deliver the stronghold to the men of Demetrius; and he set a garrison there to keep it.
1 Maccabees 12.35: 35 And Jonathan returned, and called the elders of the people together; and he took counsel with them to build strongholds in Judea,
1 Maccabees 12.36: 36 and to make the walls of Jerusalem higher, and to raise a great mound between the citadel and the city, for to separate it from the city, that so it might be all alone, that men might neither buy nor sell.
1 Maccabees 12.37: 37 And they were gathered together to build the city, and there fell down part of the wall of the brook that is on the east side, and he repaired that which is called Chaphenatha.
1 Maccabees 12.38: 38 And Simon also built Adida in the 4 plain country, and made it strong, and set up gates and bars.
1 Maccabees 12.39: 39 And Tryphon sought to reign over Asia and to put on himself the diadem, and to stretch forth his hand against Antiochus the king.
1 Maccabees 12.40: 40 And he was afraid lest perhaps Jonathan should not suffer him, and lest he should fight against him; and he sought a way how to take him, that he might destroy him. And he removed, and came to Bethshan.
1 Maccabees 12.41: 41 And Jonathan came forth to meet him with forty thousand men chosen for battle, and came to Bethshan.
1 Maccabees 12.42: 42 And Tryphon saw that he came with a great army, and he was afraid to stretch forth his hand against him:
1 Maccabees 12.43: 43 and he received him honorably, and commended him to all his 5 Friends, and gave him gifts, and commanded his forces to be obedient to him, as to himself.
1 Maccabees 12.44: 44 And he said to Jonathan, Why have you put all this people to trouble, seeing there is no war between us?
1 Maccabees 12.45: 45 And now send them away to their homes, but choose for yourself a few men who shall be with you, and come you with me to Ptolemais, and I will give it up to you, and the rest of the strongholds and the rest of the forces, and all the king’s officers: and I will return and depart; for this is the cause of my coming.
1 Maccabees 12.46: 46 And he put his trust in him, and did even as he said, and sent away his forces, and they departed into the land of Judah.
1 Maccabees 12.47: 47 But he reserved to himself three thousand men, of whom he left two thousand in Galilee, but one thousand went with him.
1 Maccabees 12.48: 48 Now as soon as Jonathan entered into Ptolemais, they of Ptolemais shut the gates, and laid hands on him; and all those who came in with him they killed with the sword.
1 Maccabees 12.49: 49 And Tryphon sent forces and horsemen into Galilee, and into the great plain, to destroy all Jonathan’s men.
1 Maccabees 12.50: 50 And they perceived that he was taken and had perished, and those who were with him; and they encouraged one another, and went on their way close together, prepared to fight.
1 Maccabees 12.51: 51 And those who followed upon them saw that they were ready to fight for their lives, and turned back again.
1 Maccabees 12.52: 52 And they all came in peace into the land of Judah, and they mourned for Jonathan, and those who were with him, and they were sore afraid; and all Israel mourned with a great mourning.
1 Maccabees 12.53: 53 And all the Gentiles that were round about them sought to destroy them utterly: for they said, They have no ruler, nor any to help them: now therefore let’s fight against them, and take away their memorial from among men.
1 Maccabees 13.0:
1 Maccabees 13.1: 13And Simon heard that Tryphon had gathered together a mighty army to come into the land of Judah, and destroy it utterly.
1 Maccabees 13.2: 2 And he saw that the people trembled and was in great fear; and he went up to Jerusalem, and gathered the people together;
1 Maccabees 13.3: 3 and he encouraged them, and said to them, You° yourselves know all the things that I, and my kindred, and my father’s house, have done for the laws and the sanctuary, and the battles and the distresses which we have seen:
1 Maccabees 13.4: 4 by reason of this all my kindred have perished for Israel’s sake, and I am left alone.
1 Maccabees 13.5: 5 And now be it far from me, that I should spare my own life in any time of affliction; for I am not better than my kindred.
1 Maccabees 13.6: 6 However I will take vengeance for my nation, and for the sanctuary, and for our wives and children; because all the Gentiles are gathered to destroy us of very hatred.
1 Maccabees 13.7: 7 And the spirit of the people revived, as soon as they heard these words.
1 Maccabees 13.8: 8 And they answered with a loud voice, saying, You are our leader instead of Judas and Jonathan your brother.
1 Maccabees 13.9: 9 Fight you our battles, and all that you shall say to us, that will we do.
1 Maccabees 13.10: 10 And he gathered together all the men of war, and made haste to finish the walls of Jerusalem, and he fortified it round about.
1 Maccabees 13.11: 11 And he sent Jonathan the son of Absalom, and with him a great army, to Joppa: and he cast out those who were therein, and abode there in it.
1 Maccabees 13.12: 12 And Tryphon removed from Ptolemais with a mighty army to enter into the land of Judah, and Jonathan was with him in ward.
1 Maccabees 13.13: 13 But Simon encamped at Adida, near the plain.
1 Maccabees 13.14: 14 And Tryphon knew that Simon was risen up instead of his brother Jonathan, and meant to join battle with him, and he sent ambassadors to him, saying,
1 Maccabees 13.15: 15 It is for money which Jonathan your brother owed to the king’s treasure, by reason of the offices which he had, that we hold him fast.
1 Maccabees 13.16: 16 And now send a hundred talents of silver, and two of his sons for hostages, that when he is set at liberty he may not revolt from us, and we will set him at liberty.
1 Maccabees 13.17: 17 And Simon knew that they spoke to him deceitfully; and he sends the money and the children, lest perhaps he should procure to himself great hatred of the people,
1 Maccabees 13.18: 18 and they should say, Because I sent him not the money and the children, he perished.
1 Maccabees 13.19: 19 And he sent the children and the hundred talents. And he dealt falsely, and didn’t set Jonathan at liberty.
1 Maccabees 13.20: 20 And after this Tryphon came to invade the land, and destroy it, and he went round about by the way that leads to Adora: and Simon and his army marched near him to every place, wherever he went.
1 Maccabees 13.21: 21 Now they of the citadel sent to Tryphon ambassadors, hastening him to come to them through the wilderness, and to send them food.
1 Maccabees 13.22: 22 And Tryphon made ready all his horse to come: and on that night there fell a very great snow, and he came not by reason of the snow. And he removed, and came into the country of Gilead.
1 Maccabees 13.23: 23 But when he came near to Bascama, he killed Jonathan, and he was buried there.
1 Maccabees 13.24: 24 And Tryphon returned, and went away into his own land.
1 Maccabees 13.25: 25 And Simon sent, and took the bones of Jonathan his brother, and buried him at Modin, the city of his fathers.
1 Maccabees 13.26: 26 And all Israel made great lamentation over him, and mourned for him many days.
1 Maccabees 13.27: 27 And Simon built a monument upon the sepulchre of his father and his kindred, and raised it aloft to the sight, with polished stone behind and before.
1 Maccabees 13.28: 28 And he set up seven pyramids, one near another, for his father, and his mother, and his four kindred.
1 Maccabees 13.29: 29 And for these he made cunning devices, setting about them great pillars, and upon the pillars he fashioned 1 all manner of arms for a perpetual memory, and beside the 2 arms ships carved, that they should be seen of all that sail on the sea.
1 Maccabees 13.30: 30 This is the sepulchre which he made at Modin, and it is there to this day.
1 Maccabees 13.31: 31 Now Tryphon dealt deceitfully with the young king Antiochus, and killed him,
1 Maccabees 13.32: 32 and reigned in his stead, and put on himself the diadem of Asia, and brought a great calamity upon the land.
1 Maccabees 13.33: 33 And Simon built the strongholds of Judea, and fenced them about with high towers, and great walls, and gates, and bars; and he laid up food in the strongholds.
1 Maccabees 13.34: 34 And Simon chose men, and sent to king Demetrius, to the end he should give the country an immunity, because all that Tryphon did was to plunder.
1 Maccabees 13.35: 35 And king Demetrius sent to him according to these words, and answered him, and wrote a letter to him, after this manner:
1 Maccabees 13.36: 36 King Demetrius to Simon the high priest and 3 Friend of kings, and to the elders and nation of the Jews, greeting:
1 Maccabees 13.37: 37 The golden crown, and the palm branch, which you° sent, we have received: and we are ready to make a 4 steadfast peace with you, yes, and to write to our officers, to grant immunities to you.
1 Maccabees 13.38: 38 And whatever things we confirmed to you, they are confirmed; and the strongholds, which you° have built, let them be your own.
1 Maccabees 13.39: 39 As for any oversights and faults committed to this day, we forgive them, and the crown which you° owed us: and if there were any other toll exacted in Jerusalem, let it be exacted no longer.
1 Maccabees 13.40: 40 And if there be any among you meet to be enrolled in our court, let them be enrolled, and let there be peace between us.
1 Maccabees 13.41: 41 In 5 the hundred and seventies year was the yoke of the heathen taken away from Israel.
1 Maccabees 13.42: 42 And the people began to write in their instruments and contracts, In the first year of Simon, the great high priest and captain and leader of the Jews.
1 Maccabees 13.43: 43 In those days he encamped against 6 Gazara, and compassed it round about with armies; and he made an engine of siege, and brought it up to the city, and struck a tower, and took it.
1 Maccabees 13.44: 44 And those who were in the engine leaped forth into the city; and there was a great uproar in the city:
1 Maccabees 13.45: 45 and they of the city tore their clothes, and went up on the walls with their wives and children, and cried with a loud voice, making request to Simon to give them 7 his right hand.
1 Maccabees 13.46: 46 And they said, Deal not with us according to our wickednesses, but according to your mercy.
1 Maccabees 13.47: 47 And Simon was reconciled to them, and didn’t fight against them: and he put them out of the city, and cleansed the houses wherein the idols were, and so entered into it with singing and giving praise.
1 Maccabees 13.48: 48 And he put all uncleanness out of it, and placed in it such men as would keep the law, and made it stronger than it was before, and built therein a dwelling place for himself.
1 Maccabees 13.49: 49 But they of the citadel in Jerusalem were hindered from going forth, and from going into the country, and from buying and selling; and they hungered exceedingly, and a great number of them perished through famine.
1 Maccabees 13.50: 50 And they cried out to Simon, that he should give them his right hand; and he gave it to them: and he put them out from thence, and he cleansed the citadel from its pollutions.
1 Maccabees 13.51: 51 And he entered into it on the three and twentieth day of the second month, in 8 the hundred and seventy and first year, with praise and palm branches, and with harps, and with cymbals, and with viols, and with hymns, and with songs: because a great enemy was destroyed out of Israel.
1 Maccabees 13.52: 52 And he ordained that they should keep that day every year with gladness. And the hill of the temple that was by the citadel he made stronger than before, and there he lived, himself and his men.
1 Maccabees 13.53: 53 And Simon saw that John his son was a valiant man, and he made him leader of all his forces: and he lived in Gazara.
1 Maccabees 14.0:
1 Maccabees 14.1: 14And in 1 the hundred and seventy and second year king Demetrius gathered his forces together, and went into Media, to get him help, that he might fight against Tryphon.
1 Maccabees 14.2: 2 And Arsaces, the king of Persia and Media, heard that Demetrius was come into his borders, and he sent one of his princes to take him alive:
1 Maccabees 14.3: 3 and he went and struck the army of Demetrius, and took him, and brought him to Arsaces; and he put him in ward.
1 Maccabees 14.4: 4 And the land had rest all the days of Simon: and he sought the good of his nation; and and his authority and his glory was well-pleasing to them all his days.
1 Maccabees 14.5: 5 And amid all his glory he took Joppa for a haven, and made it an entrance for the isles of the sea;
1 Maccabees 14.6: 6 and he enlarged the borders of his nation, and got possession of the country;
1 Maccabees 14.7: 7 and he gathered together a great number of captives, and got the dominion of Gazara, and Bethsura, and the citadel, and he took away from it its uncleannesses; and there was none that resisted him.
1 Maccabees 14.8: 8 And they tilled their land in peace, and the land gave her increase, and the trees of the plains their fruit.
1 Maccabees 14.9: 9 The ancient men sat in the streets, they communed all of them together of good things, and the young men put on glorious and warlike apparel.
1 Maccabees 14.10: 10 He provided food for the cities, and furnished them with 2 all manner of munition, until the name of his glory was named to the end of the earth.
1 Maccabees 14.11: 11 He made peace in the land, and Israel rejoiced with great joy:
1 Maccabees 14.12: 12 and they sat each man under his vine and his fig tree, and there was none to make them afraid:
1 Maccabees 14.13: 13 and there ceased in the land any that fought against them: and the kings were discomfited in those days.
1 Maccabees 14.14: 14 And he strengthened all those of his people that were brought low: the law he searched out, and every lawless and wicked person he took away.
1 Maccabees 14.15: 15 He glorified the sanctuary, and the vessels of the temple he multiplied.
1 Maccabees 14.16: 16 And it was heard at Rome that Jonathan was dead, and even to Sparta, and they were exceedingly sorry.
1 Maccabees 14.17: 17 But as soon as they heard that his brother Simon was made high priest in his stead, and ruled the country, and the cities therein,
1 Maccabees 14.18: 18 they wrote to him on tables of brass, to renew with him the friendship and the confederacy which they had confirmed with Judas and Jonathan his kindred;
1 Maccabees 14.19: 19 and they were read before the congregation at Jerusalem.
1 Maccabees 14.20: 20 And this is the copy of the letters which the Spartans sent:
The rulers of the Spartans, and the city, to Simon the high priest, and to the elders, and the priests, and the residue of the people of the Jews, our kindred, greeting:
1 Maccabees 14.21: 21 The ambassadors that were sent to our people made report to us of your glory and honor: and we were glad for their coming,
1 Maccabees 14.22: 22 and we did register the things that were spoken by them in the 3 public records after this manner: Numenius son of Antiochus, and Antipater son of Jason, the Jews’ ambassadors, came to us to renew the friendship they had with us.
1 Maccabees 14.23: 23 And it pleased the people to entertain the men honorably, and to put the copy of their words in the 4 public records, to the end that the people of the Spartans might have a memorial thereof: moreover they wrote a copy of these things to Simon the high priest.
1 Maccabees 14.24: 24 After this Simon sent Numenius to Rome with a great shield of gold of a thousand pound weight, in order to confirm the confederacy with them.
1 Maccabees 14.25: 25 But when the people heard these things, they said, What thanks shall we give to Simon and his sons?
1 Maccabees 14.26: 26 for he and his kindred and the house of his father have made themselves strong, and have chased away in fight the enemies of Israel from them, and confirmed liberty to 5 Israel.
1 Maccabees 14.27: 27 And they wrote on tables of brass, and set them upon pillars in mount Sion: and this is the copy of the writing:
On the eighteenth day of Elul, in 6 the hundred and seventy and second year, and this is the third year of Simon the high priest,
1 Maccabees 14.28: 28 7 in Asaramel, in a great congregation of priests and people and princes of the nation, and of the elders of the country, 8 was it notified to us:
1 Maccabees 14.29: 29 Forasmuch as oftentimes there have been wars in the country, but Simon the son of Mattathias, the son of the sons of Joarib, and his kindred, put themselves in jeopardy, and withstood the enemies of their nation, that their sanctuary and the law might be established, and glorified their nation with great glory:
1 Maccabees 14.30: 30 and Jonathan assembled their nation together, and became their high priest, and was gathered to his people:
1 Maccabees 14.31: 31 and their enemies purposed to invade their country, that they might destroy their country utterly, and stretch forth their hands against their sanctuary:
1 Maccabees 14.32: 32 then rose up Simon, and fought for his nation, and spent much of his own substance, and armed the valiant men of his nation, and gave them wages:
1 Maccabees 14.33: 33 and he fortified the cities of Judea, and Bethsura that lies upon the borders of Judea, where the arms of the enemies were aforetime, and set there a garrison of Jews:
1 Maccabees 14.34: 34 and he fortified Joppa which is upon the sea, and Gazara which is upon the borders of Azotus, wherein the enemies lived aforetime, and placed Jews there, and set therein all things convenient for their restoration:
1 Maccabees 14.35: 35 and the people saw the 9 faith of Simon, and the glory which he thought to bring to his nation, and they made him their leader and high priest, because he had done all these things, and for the justice and the faith which he kept to his nation, and for that he sought by all means to exalt his people:
1 Maccabees 14.36: 36 and in his days things prospered in his hands, so that the Gentiles were taken away out of their country, and they also that were in the city of David, those who were in Jerusalem, who had made themselves a citadel, out of which they issued, and polluted all things round about the sanctuary, and did great hurt to its purity;
1 Maccabees 14.37: 37 and he placed Jews therein, and fortified it for the safety of the country and the city, and made high the walls of Jerusalem:
1 Maccabees 14.38: 38 and king Demetrius confirmed to him the high priesthood according to these things,
1 Maccabees 14.39: 39 and made him one of his 1 Friends, and honored him with great honor;
1 Maccabees 14.40: 40 for he had heard say, that the Jews had been called by the Romans friends and allies and kindred, and that they had met the ambassadors of Simon honorably;
1 Maccabees 14.41: 41 and that the Jews and the priests were well pleased that Simon should be their leader and high priest forever, until there should arise a faithful prophet;
1 Maccabees 14.42: 42 and that he should be captain over them, and should take charge of the sanctuary, to set them over their works, and over the country, and over the arms, and over the strongholds; and that he should take charge of the sanctuary,
1 Maccabees 14.43: 43 and that he should be obeyed by all, and that all instruments in the country should be written in his name, and that he should be clothed in purple, and wear gold;
1 Maccabees 14.44: 44 and that it should not be lawful for any of the people or of the priests to set at nothing any of these things, or to gainsay the words that he should speak, or to gather an assembly in the country without him, or to be clothed in purple, or wear a buckle of gold;
1 Maccabees 14.45: 45 but whoever should do otherwise, or set at nothing any of these things, he should be liable to punishment.
1 Maccabees 14.46: 46 All the people consented to ordain for Simon that he should do according to these words;
1 Maccabees 14.47: 47 and Simon accepted this, and consented to be high priest, and to be captain and 2 governor of the Jews and of the priests, and to be protector of all.
1 Maccabees 14.48: 48 And they commanded to put this writing on tables of brass, and to set them up within the precinct of the sanctuary in a conspicuous place;
1 Maccabees 14.49: 49 and moreover to put the copies thereof in the treasury, to the end that Simon and his sons might have them.
1 Maccabees 15.0:
1 Maccabees 15.1: 15And Antiochus son of Demetrius the king sent letters from the isles of the sea to Simon the priest and 1 governor of the Jews, and to all the nation;
1 Maccabees 15.2: 2 and the contents thereof were after this manner:
King Antiochus to Simon the chief priest and 2 governor, and to the nation of the Jews, greeting:
1 Maccabees 15.3: 3 Forasmuch as certain pestilent fellows have made themselves masters of the kingdom of our fathers, but my purpose is to claim the kingdom, that I may restore it as it was before; and moreover I have raised a multitude of foreign soldiers, and have prepared ships of war;
1 Maccabees 15.4: 4 moreover I am minded to land in the country, that I may punish those who have destroyed our country, and those who have made many cities in the kingdom desolate:
1 Maccabees 15.5: 5 Now therefore I confirm to you all the exactions which the kings that were before me remitted to you, and whatever gifts besides they remitted to you:
1 Maccabees 15.6: 6 and I give you leave to coin money for your country with your own stamp,
1 Maccabees 15.7: 7 but that Jerusalem and the sanctuary should be free: and all the arms that you have prepared, and the strongholds that you have built, which you have in your possession, let them remain to you:
1 Maccabees 15.8: 8 and everything owing to the king, and the things that shall be owing to the king from henceforth and for evermore, let them be remitted to you:
1 Maccabees 15.9: 9 moreover, when we shall have established our kingdom, we will glorify you and your nation and the temple with great glory, so that your glory shall be made manifest in all the earth.
1 Maccabees 15.10: 10 In 3 the hundred and seventy and fourth year went Antiochus forth into the land of his fathers; and all the forces came together to him, so that there were few men with Tryphon.
1 Maccabees 15.11: 11 And king Antiochus pursued him, and 4 he came, as he fled, to Dor, which is by the sea:
1 Maccabees 15.12: 12 for he knew that troubles were come upon him all at once, and that his forces had forsaken him.
1 Maccabees 15.13: 13 And Antiochus encamped against Dor, and with him a hundred and twenty thousand men of war, and eight thousand horse.
1 Maccabees 15.14: 14 And he compassed the city round about, and the ships joined in the attack from the sea; and he vexed the city by land and sea, and suffered no man to go out or in.
1 Maccabees 15.15: 15 And Numenius and his company came from Rome, having letters to the kings and to the countries, wherein were written these things:
1 Maccabees 15.16: 16 Lucius, consul of the Romans, to king Ptolemy, greeting:
1 Maccabees 15.17: 17 The Jews’ ambassadors came to us as our friends and allies, to renew the old friendship and confederacy, being sent from Simon the high priest, and from the people of the Jews:
1 Maccabees 15.18: 18 moreover they brought a shield of gold of a thousand pound.
1 Maccabees 15.19: 19 It pleased us therefore to write to the kings and to the countries, that they should not seek their hurt, nor fight against them, and their cities, and their country, nor be allies with such as fight against them.
1 Maccabees 15.20: 20 Moreover it seemed good to us to receive the shield of them.
1 Maccabees 15.21: 21 If therefore any pestilent fellows have fled from their country to you, deliver them to Simon the high priest, that he may take vengeance on them according to their law.
1 Maccabees 15.22: 22 And the same things wrote he to Demetrius the king, and to Attalus, and to Arathes, and to Arsaces,
1 Maccabees 15.23: 23 and to all the countries, and to 5 Sampsames, and to the Spartans, and to Delos, and to Myndos, and to Sicyon, and to Caria, and to Samos, and to Pamphylia, and to Lycia, and to Halicarnassus, and to Rhodes, and to Phaselis, and to Cos, and to Side, and to Aradus, and Gortyna, and Cnidus, and Cyprus, and Cyrene.
1 Maccabees 15.24: 24 But they wrote this copy to Simon the high priest.
1 Maccabees 15.25: 25 But Antiochus the king encamped against Dor the second day, bringing his forces up to it continually, and making engines of war, and he shut up Tryphon from going in or out.
1 Maccabees 15.26: 26 And Simon sent him two thousand chosen men to fight on his side; and silver, and gold, and instruments of war in abundance.
1 Maccabees 15.27: 27 And he would not receive them, but set at nothing all the covenants which he had made with him aforetime, and was estranged from him.
1 Maccabees 15.28: 28 And he sent to him Athenobius, one of his 6 Friends, to commune with him, saying,
You° hold possession of Joppa and Gazara, and the citadel that is in Jerusalem, cities of my kingdom.
1 Maccabees 15.29: 29 The borders thereof you° have wasted, and done great hurt in the land, and got the dominion of many places in my kingdom.
1 Maccabees 15.30: 30 Now therefore deliver up the cities which you° have taken, and the tributes of the places whereof you° have gotten dominion without the borders of Judea:
1 Maccabees 15.31: 31 or else give me for them five hundred talents of silver; and for the harm that you° have done, and the tributes of the cities, other five hundred talents: or else we will come and subdue you.
1 Maccabees 15.32: 32 And Athenobius the king’s 7 Friend came to Jerusalem; and he saw the glory of Simon, and the cupboard of gold and silver vessels, and his great attendance, and he was amazed; and he reported to him the king’s words.
1 Maccabees 15.33: 33 And Simon answered, and said to him,
We have neither taken other men’s land, nor have we possession of that which appertains to others, but of the inheritance of our fathers; however, it was had in possession of our enemies wrongfully for a certain time.
1 Maccabees 15.34: 34 But we, having opportunity, hold fast the inheritance of our fathers.
1 Maccabees 15.35: 35 But as touching Joppa and Gazara, which you demand, they did great harm among the people throughout our country, we will give a hundred talents for them.
And he answered him not a word,
1 Maccabees 15.36: 36 but returned in a rage to the king, and reported to him these words, and the glory of Simon, and all that he had seen: and the king was exceedingly angry.
1 Maccabees 15.37: 37 But Tryphon embarked on board a ship, and fled to Orthosia.
1 Maccabees 15.38: 38 And the king appointed Cendebaeus chief captain of the sea coast, and gave him forces of foot and horse:
1 Maccabees 15.39: 39 and he commanded him to encamp before Judea, and he commanded him to build up Kidron, and to fortify the gates, and that he should fight against the people: but the king pursued Tryphon.
1 Maccabees 15.40: 40 And Cendebaeus came to Jamnia, and began to provoke the people, and to invade Judea, and to take the people captive, and to kill them.
1 Maccabees 15.41: 41 And he built Kidron, and set horsemen there, and forces of foot, to the end that issuing out they might make outroads upon the ways of Judea, according as the king commanded him.
1 32:22 Sheol is the place of the dead.
2 32:43 For this verse, LXX reads: Rejoice, you heavens, with him, and let all the angels of God worship him; rejoice you Gentiles, with his people, and let all the sons of God strengthen themselves in him; for he will avenge the blood of his sons, and he will render vengeance, and recompense justice to his enemies, and will reward them that hate him; and the Lord shall purge the land of his people.
1 2:59 or, seed
2 2:69 a daric was a gold coin issued by a Persian king, weighing about 8.4 grams or about 0.27 troy ounces each.
3 2:69 A mina is about 600 grams or 1.3 U. S. pounds, so 5,000 minas is about 3 metric tons.
1 1:1 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”
2 1:1 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.
3 1:2 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.
1 1:1 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.
2 1:8 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.
1 4:14 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”
1 5:2 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.
2 5:6 An ephah is a measure of volume of about 22 liters, 5.8 U. S. gallons, or about 2/3 of a bushel.
3 5:7 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds.
4 5:7 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel
1 6:15 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).
1 10:2 teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.
1 12:10 After “me”, the Hebrew has the two letters “Aleph Tav” (the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet), not as a word, but as a grammatical marker.
1 14:5 Septuagint reads “him” instead of “you”.
1 14:5 300 denarii was about a year’s wages for an agricultural laborer.
a 14:27 Zechariah 13:7
2 14:36 Abba is a Greek spelling for the Aramaic word for “Father” or “Daddy” used in a familiar, respectful, and loving way.
a 17:17 Psalm 119:142
1 20:16 Rabboni is a transliteration of the Hebrew word for “great teacher.”
2 20:16 or, Master
3 20:29 TR adds “Thomas,”
1 2:2 TR reads “destructive” instead of “immoral”
2 2:4 Tartarus is another name for Hell
a 2:22 Proverbs 26:11
1 1:1 or, Judah
2 1:14 “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.
3 1:24 TR and NU read “you”
1 4:13 Or, she
2 4:23 Some manuscripts omit this line.
1 13:13 Gr. along with.
2 13:14 The remainder of verse 13, and verse 14, are omitted by the best authorities.
3 13:25 The remainder of this verse is omitted by the best authorities.
1 1:1 That is, the Greek Empire. Compare 1 Maccabees 1:10 and 1 Maccabees 6:2.
2 1:10 circa B.C. 176.
3 1:11 Or, nations: and so throughout this book.
4 1:13 Or, nations: and so throughout this book.
5 1:14 See 2 Maccabees 4:9, 12.
6 1:14 Or, nations: and so throughout this book.
7 1:15 Or, nations: and so throughout this book
8 1:17 Gr. heavy.
9 1:17 Or, armament
1 1:20 circa B.C. 170. See 2 Maccabees 5:11-16.
2 1:20 Gr. heavy.
3 1:29 See 2 Maccabees 5:24.
4 1:29 Gr. two years of days.
5 1:29 Gr. heavy.
6 1:39 See 2 Maccabees 6:6.
7 1:54 circa B.C. 168. See 2 Maccabees 5:11.
8 1:54 The two words rendered altar are different in the Greek: and so in 1 Maccabees 1:59.
9 1:54 The two words rendered altar are different in the Greek: and so in 1 Maccabees 1:59.
1 1:59 The two words rendered altar are different in the Greek: and so in 1 Maccabees 1:59.
2 1:60 See 2 Maccabees 6:10.
3 1:63 See 2 Maccabees 6:19 and 7:1, etc.
1 2:2 Gr. Joannes.
2 2:8 Some authorities read inglorious.
3 2:18 See 1 Maccabees 3:38; 10:10, etc.; Compare 1 Maccabees 10:65; 11:27; 2 Maccabees 8:9.
4 2:21 Gr. May he be propitious. Compare 2 Samuel 23:17 (Septuagint).
5 2:38 Gr. souls of men.
6 2:42 That is, Chasidim.
7 2:48 Gr. gave they a horn to the sinner.
8 2:66 Some ancient authorities read you° shall fight.
9 2:70 circa B.C. 167.
1 3:8 Gr. out of it.
2 3:18 Some ancient authorities read the God of heaven.
3 3:37 circa B.C. 166.
4 3:38 See 1 Maccabees 2:18.
5 3:41 Most of the authorities read servants.
6 3:41 Gr. strangers.
1 4:15 Gr. Gazera.
2 4:22 Gr. strangers.
3 4:24 Or, looking up to heaven
4 4:30 Gr. strangers.
5 4:40 Compare Numbers 31:6.
6 4:40 Gr. trumpets of signals.
7 4:52 circa B.C. 165.
8 4:55 Or, gave praise, looking up to heaven, to him which
1 5:4 Compare 2 Maccabees 10:18-23.
2 5:8 Gr. daughters. Compare Numbers 21:25.
3 5:13 Compare 2 Maccabees 12:17.
4 5:15 Gr. strangers.
5 5:26 Compare 2 Maccabees 12:13.
6 5:26 compare 2 Maccabees 12:21.
7 5:36 See 1 Maccabees 5:26
8 5:43 See 1 Maccabees 5:26.
9 5:65 Gr. daughters. Compare Numbers 21:25.
1 5:66 Gr. strangers.
2 5:66 Or, Marisa See Josephus, Antiquities 12:8. 6, and 2 Maccabees 12:35.
3 5:67 Some ancient authorities read they.
4 5:68 Gr. strangers.
1 6:10 See 1 Maccabees 2:18.
2 6:14 See 1 Maccabees 2:18.
3 6:16 Circa B.C. 164.
4 6:20 circa B.C. 163.
5 6:24 Gr. it.
6 6:28 See 1 Maccabees 2:18.
7 6:33 Or, itself eager for the fight
1 7:1 circa B.C. 162.
2 7:8 See 1 Maccabees 2:18.
3 7:13 That is, Chasidim.
4 7:17 Psalm 79:2, 3.
5 7:26 See 2 Maccabees 14:12.
6 7:32 Some ancient authorities read five thousand.
7 7:34 Gr. polluted them.
8 7:45 Gr. Gazera.
9 7:45 Gr. trumpets of signals.
1 7:46 Gr. outflanked them.
2 7:47 Gr. stretched them out.
3 7:49 See 2 Maccabees 15:36.
4 7:50 Gr. a few days.
1 9:3 circa B.C. 161.
2 9:54 circa B.C. 160.
1 10:1 circa B.C. 153.
2 10:11 So the versions and Josephus. Gr. four-foot stones.
3 10:16 See 1 Maccabees 2:18. Compare 1 Maccabees 10:65.
4 10:19 See 1 Maccabees 2:18. Compare 1 Maccabees 10:65.
5 10:20 See 1 Maccabees 2:18. Compare 1 Maccabees 10:65.
6 10:21 circa B.C. 153.
7 10:57 circa B.C. 151.
8 10:60 See 1 Maccabees 2:18. Compare 1 Maccabees 10:65.
9 10:65 See 1 Maccabees 11:27; 2 Maccabees 8:9. Compare 1 Maccabees 2:18; 10:16, etc.
1 10:67 circa B.C. 148.
2 10:78 Most of the authorities here repeat after him.
1 11:19 circa B.C. 146.
2 11:26 See 1 Maccabees 2:18.
3 11:27 See 1 Maccabees 10:65.
4 11:28 Gr. toparchies
5 11:57 See 1 Maccabees 2:18.
1 12:7 So the old Latin versions and Josephus: compare also ver. 20. All the other authorities read Darius in this place.
2 12:22 Gr. peace
3 12:28 Some authorities add and departed.
4 12:38 Gr. Sephela.
5 12:43 See 1 Maccabees 2:18.
1 13:29 Gr. panoplies.
2 13:29 Gr. panoplies.
3 13:36 See 1 Maccabees 2:18.
4 13:37 Gr. great.
5 13:41 circa B.C. 143.
6 13:43 See 1 Maccabees 13:53 (compare 1 Maccabees 13:48); 1 Maccabees 14:7, 34; 15:28; 16:1: also Josephus. All the authorities read Gaza in this verse.
7 13:45 Gr. right hands.
8 13:51 circa B.C. 142.
1 14:1 circa B.C. 141.
2 14:10 Gr. implements of munition.
3 14:22 Gr. counsels of the people.
4 14:23 Gr. books that are appointed for the people.
5 14:26 Gr. him.
6 14:27 circa B.C. 141.
7 14:28 Perhaps a Hebrew title of Simon underlies these words.
8 14:28 Gr. he made known.
9 14:35 Some authorities read acts.
1 14:39 See 1 Maccabees 2:18.
2 14:47 Gr. ethnarch.
1 15:1 Gr. ethnarch.
2 15:2 Gr. ethnarch.
3 15:10 circa B.C. 139
4 15:11 Or, he came to Dor, fleeing by the way which is by the sea
5 15:23 Some authorities read Sampsaces: the Latin versions have Lampsacus.
6 15:28 See 1 Maccabees 2:18.
7 15:32 See 1 Maccabees 2:18.