Bible

Judges 1.1: 1After the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked of Yahweh, 1 saying, “Who should go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?”

Judges 1.2: 2 Yahweh said, “Judah shall go up. Behold,2 I have delivered the land into his hand.”

Judges 1.3: 3 Judah said to Simeon his brother, “Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with you into your lot.” So Simeon went with him.

Judges 1.4: 4 Judah went up, and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand. They struck ten thousand men in Bezek.

Judges 1.5: 5 They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek, and they fought against him. They struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

Judges 1.6: 6 But Adoni-Bezek fled. They pursued him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.

Judges 1.7: 7 Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God3 has done to me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

Judges 1.8: 8 The children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, took it, struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

Judges 1.9: 9 After that, the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, and in the South, and in the lowland.

Judges 1.10: 10 Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron. (The name of Hebron before that was Kiriath Arba.) They struck Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.

Judges 1.11: 11 From there he went against the inhabitants of Debir. (The name of Debir before that was Kiriath Sepher.)

Judges 1.12: 12 Caleb said, “I will give Achsah my daughter as wife to the man who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it.”

Judges 1.13: 13 Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it, so he gave him Achsah his daughter as his wife.

Judges 1.14: 14 When she came, she got him to ask her father for a field. She got off her donkey; and Caleb said to her, “What would you like?”

Judges 1.15: 15 She said to him, “Give me a blessing; because you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water.” Then Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

Judges 1.16: 16 The children of the Kenite, Moses’ brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.

Judges 1.17: 17 Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they struck the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. The name of the city was called Hormah.

Judges 1.18: 18 Also Judah took Gaza with its border, and Ashkelon with its border, and Ekron with its border.

Judges 1.19: 19 Yahweh was with Judah, and drove out the inhabitants of the hill country; for he could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.

Judges 1.20: 20 They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said, and he drove the three sons of Anak out of there.

Judges 1.21: 21 The children of Benjamin didn’t drive out the Jebusites who inhabited Jerusalem, but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.

Judges 1.22: 22 The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and Yahweh was with them.

Judges 1.23: 23 The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (The name of the city before that was Luz.)

Judges 1.24: 24 The watchers saw a man come out of the city, and they said to him, “Please show us the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with you.”

Judges 1.25: 25 He showed them the entrance into the city, and they struck the city with the edge of the sword; but they let the man and all his family go.

Judges 1.26: 26 The man went into the land of the Hittites, built a city, and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day.

Judges 1.27: 27 Manasseh didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shean and its towns, nor Taanach and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.

Judges 1.28: 28 When Israel had grown strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn’t utterly drive them out.

Judges 1.29: 29 Ephraim didn’t drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, but the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.

Judges 1.30: 30 Zebulun didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites lived among them, and became subject to forced labor.

Judges 1.31: 31 Asher didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Acco, nor the inhabitants of Sidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob;

Judges 1.32: 32 but the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, for they didn’t drive them out.

Judges 1.33: 33 Naphtali didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth Anath; but he lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land. Nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh and of Beth Anath became subject to forced labor.

Judges 1.34: 34 The Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill country, for they would not allow them to come down to the valley;

Judges 1.35: 35 but the Amorites would dwell in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim. Yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became subject to forced labor.

Judges 1.36: 36 The border of the Amorites was from the ascent of Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.

Galatians 3.1: 3Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?

Galatians 3.2: 2 I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

Galatians 3.3: 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?

Galatians 3.4: 4 Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?

Galatians 3.5: 5 He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you and does miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

Galatians 3.6: 6 Even as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”a

Galatians 3.7: 7 Know therefore that those who are of faith are children of Abraham.

Galatians 3.8: 8 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”b

Galatians 3.9: 9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

Galatians 3.10: 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”c

Galatians 3.11: 11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”d

Galatians 3.12: 12 The law is not of faith, but, “The man who does them will live by them.”e

Galatians 3.13: 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”f

Galatians 3.14: 14 that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Galatians 3.15: 15 Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void or adds to it.

Galatians 3.16: 16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring.1 He doesn’t say, “To descendants2”, as of many, but as of one, “To your offspring”,g which is Christ.

Galatians 3.17: 17 Now I say this: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

Galatians 3.18: 18 For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.

Galatians 3.19: 19 Then why is there the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

Galatians 3.21: 21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

Galatians 3.22: 22 But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

Galatians 3.23: 23 But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

Galatians 3.24: 24 So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Galatians 3.26: 26 For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 3.27: 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Galatians 3.28: 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 3.29: 29 If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.

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 14.20: 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.

Psalm 151 is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox Churches.

1 1:1 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

2 1:2 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

3 1:7 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

a 3:6 Genesis 15:6

b 3:8 Genesis 12:3; 18:18; 22:18

c 3:10 Deuteronomy 27:26

d 3:11 Habakkuk 2:4

e 3:12 Leviticus 18:5

f 3:13 Deuteronomy 21:23

1 3:16 or, seed

2 3:16 or, seeds

g 3:16 Genesis 12:7; 13:15; 24:7

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.